King's Knight To A Square Not On The Chessboard (It's An Odd Little Knight)

Cain, Pete Townsend and Abel



Image on Left:
from 3/28/11 "The Regular Show"
Image on Right:
"The Electric Guitar Before The
Discovery of Electricity" 7/27/92
from my self-published book (copyright 1993),
"Go Eyes, Go!" (posted at Archive.Org)

Before I begin speaking on the subject of this image, I want to state in the most unequivocal terms that I am a huge fan of "The Regular Show," and if it should someday prove to be the case that I have influenced that show in any way, I feel honored, privileged, and not mad.

I recently indicated on Facebook that "The Regular Show" is among my favorite TV shows. At that same moment of indicating this there, I was already half-aware, based on my past experiences as a secret super influence on the most important, etc., etc., that this could reach "The Regular Show", resulting in my influencing them. So I think I may possibly have influenced them in this instance, though of course it is not the sort of image that could only come from one person, and would not have bothered mentioning it if that was the whole reason behind my thinking this could reflect my influence.

To Continue
I've tried to make this videoclip 38% self-explanatory, accompanied by a separate, additional explanation here designed to fill in the other 62%. Initially I only wanted it to be 25% self-explanatory, and then fill in 75% of the explanation in print. However, though a separate, additional explanation is essential in order to appreciate this teeny-tiny, itsy-bitsy, scarcely real clue that I'm pointing at in the videoclip (so that you can see how they're still keeping a chair warm for me up there at the top), yet it gets more and more tedious to follow it all so people are only gonna watch the videoclip (if that) and think they're done (right, sure you'd be done). So here I will just suggest that you may possibly maybe also want to look up my blogs where I discuss (accompanied by evidence when available, if you're up for connecting dots) that:

• A conversation I once had with someone led to the premise of Tom Hanks' weekly TV sitcom, which was his first really big breakthrough

• I am a significant influence on Steven Spielberg, who is often associated with Tom Hanks

• With few exceptions over the past decade or so, I have been able to identify where Saturday Night Live has incorporated fragments from what I forwarded in (through "intermediaries") into the very next show, or the show after that. My influence prior to the past decade was significant as well.
  

Honk If You Like Cars

I've been accumulating no small number of things to describe of considerable significance, at least by certain standards, however, for this blog installment I will limit myself to addressing something of potentially great significance.  It could regard the automobile accident (that may have been no accident) experienced yesterday by the wife of Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader.

However I lay out the basis for this statement, it requires a little time, a little research follow-through on the part of the reader.  So please get the bleep out of here you tedious know-it-alls who entitle yourselves to opinions without any sense of the importance of arriving at an opinion in a responsible, intelligent manner.  This isn't the place for you.

• As I describe in my July 3, 2009 blog (and elsewhere in various other blogs of mine), the weekly TV sitcom that was Tom Hanks' first really big break, "Bosom Buddies", resulted from a conversation I had with someone.  

• In my December 26, 2009 video, "Steven Spielberg And The Mall Man Factor" (posted at archive.org), I show how the Spielberg/Hanks movie, "The Terminal," was very significantly influenced by my 1993 "Mall Man" video (also viewable at archive.org).  

• It therefore did not come out of left-field when Hanks' image on the cover of Time Magazine a week or so ago bore a strong similarity to a recurring image in "Mall Man":

In both instances, the photographic efffect is to use a very pronounced concentration of light on the face of the subject, in contrast with everything else in the image.  This isn't to say that no one else has ever used this effect - of course it is something we see from time to time.  Rather, the significance lies in the alignment of the previously described details in combination with the usage of this effect in this instance.  The fact that it was only recently (Dec. 26, 2009) that I pointed out the relationship between Hanks and "Mall Man".  I suppose, if you are very young, something that happened two and a half months ago was not recent.  If you are Tom Hanks, my December 26th video should have been an event containing a degree of significance.  One would not be surprised to find a reaction - a reaction in this form.  One may also wish to read (or reread) my January 23, 2010 blog.

• A day or so before the appearance of this Time Magazine cover, I saw for the first time in years (driving by me on my way to work) a woman I knew, or a look-alike of a woman I knew, whose family was close to mine when we were young (including going on a vacation together).  Her late father became Senior Editor of Money Magazine.  Money Magazine is part of the same company as Time Magazine.

• A number of years ago, while her father was Senior Editor of Money Magazine, her brother, Woody, who was also a friend, was killed in an automobile accident (that may not have been an accident).  His car suddenly got a flat tire, he had to suddenly pull off the freeway onto the shoulder to fix it, which was when he was run over and killed.  This could have been a set-up.  One has to consider this possibility, if one is realistic about the nature of the position his father held.  The Senior Editor of Money Magazine makes decisions that can affect how people invest billions (collectively), and we all know that when that kind of money is involved, shady doings designed to gain influence/control can occur.  As is also true if you are the Senate Majority Leader.

• Yesterday, the same day as this "accident" experienced by Reid's wife, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg were guests of President Obama at The White House, a "movie night" for the screening of something they jointly produced, entitled, "Pacific".

This would not be the first time that someone performing an insidious act threaded it through matters that connected in some way to me, nor would it be the first time that the perpetrator(s) threaded into it matters connected in some way to Steven Spielberg at the same time as myself.  As an example, one may wish to read my blog of March 23rd (and others) regarding the death of Natasha Richardson, whose husband, Liam Neeson, was working with Spielberg at the time of her death.

Just As Long As They Spell Your Nickname Right

Was I in any way "included" in the January 22nd Conan O'Brien (aka "Coco") farewell to "The Tonight Show"? Not as much (or at least, not in the same way) as when Craig Kilborn (who may or may not have driven by me January 22, 2010) and Johnny Carson included me in their farewells to their late night television shows (see my May 30, 2009 blog, which can also be found posted with a solid timestamp in November 2009 at Archive.Org in the first volume of the blogs I've timestamp posted there), and not in a manner I would ever have chosen.... but yes, I was "included".

1. An Eric Clapton phone commercial, excerpted here with Eric Clapton saying "Buddy", debuted January 20, 2010 (according to a published article), just two days before Conan's finale (and which aired on Conan each night since its debut):




In the context of the commercial, "Buddy" is meant to refer to Buddy Guy. However, I believe it was worked out that he would simultaneously be saying "Buddy" in a different context altogether. I also believe walking and chewing gum are things Eric Clapton is capable of doing simultaneously. The man ain't stupid, and neither are you.

2. Excerpts from my April 18, 2009 and July 3, 2009 blogs (which also contain solid timestamps from having also been posted in November 2009 at Archive.Org):

April 18, 2009
"....It was a conversation I had with this girl that resulted in Tom Hanks' situation comedy, 'Bosom Buddies'. Furthermore, an Eric Clapton inside album cover once made another such inside reference (that suggest that girl in relation to myself)...."

July 3, 2009
"....I should add that the aforementioned personal conversation that found its way into 'Baker Street' was in relation to the girl with whom I had the conversation that resulted in Tom Hanks’ sitcom. She went through a period when everyone was this or that kind of buddy: her laundry buddy, her pool buddy, her clothes buddy – she once called me her Sudafed Buddy, because I once gave her some Sudafed sinus tablets. Hence, 'Bosom Buddies'....."

3. Tom Hanks was the guest on the final Conan O'Brien "Tonight Show," which aired yesterday. The actual ending of the show (last moment) had Conan playing lead on electric guitar.

4. I also refer to Eric Clapton (aka "Slow Hand") in my January 17, 2010 blog, which does not yet have a solid Archive.Org timestamp.

5. Pee Wee Herman (aka Paul Reubens, aka Paul Reubenfeld), who I also encountered at CalArts during the '70s, back when I "knew" the "referenced" girl (aka Sudafed Buddy), appeared on the January 21, 2010 Conan show (aka Conan's second-to-last "Tonight Show"), where Pee also made an inside-reference to something that happened regarding myself in relation to this woman, as well as an inside-reference to my 1978 video, "How Did The Future Learn To Play Monopoly." I also believe that it is Peter Beckman (CalArts alum, narrator's voice in my 1978 "Steinhoff's Monster") whose voice we hear as the announcer in the current TV commercials for Pee Wee's show at Nokia. (I emphasize the word "show" here for the obvious reason, obvious at least to those who have seen those commercials, that "show" is the "secret" word.)

I shall now place a big, black cork in it all. That is.... until the next exciting thing happens to me!

Seeing Through

Firstly, I am pleased to announce that I have posted a new film idea, "Whispers of the Nasty Ghost". (I may or may not have been influenced by sitting next to the stepmother of the author of the screenplay for the recent movie, "Haunting In Connecticut" during my nephew's bar mitzvah in Houston last weekend.)

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE SEASON FINALE
Secondly, the season finale of SNL. In describing how the May 16, 2009 season finale of “Saturday Night Live” made inside-references to me/my material, I must put forward a number of facts for which I have no evidence, unless one could call forward witnesses (which of course one cannot). As always in such circumstances, I nevertheless find value in making a record, my silly reason being that what I have to say is the truth. I would prefer confining myself to references to things for which I can provide proof without need of witnesses, but life does not offer us everything on that particular silver platter, just some things. The reader might wish to look at blogs where I do prove my points, and consider that I just might be entitled to some credit. One might even consider it idiotic (rather than healthy skepticism or cynicism) to withhold credit under certain circumstances.

Background Information
1. Tom Hanks, for a while only an occasional guest on various sitcoms during the 70s, became the star of his own sitcom, “Bosom Buddies”, in consequence of a conversation I had with someone who attended my college, CalArts. Among other effects this had on me, it caused me to associate Tom Hanks with Steven Spielberg, this despite the fact that it wasn’t until years later that Tom Hanks became associated as one of the people Steven Spielberg used repeatedly as the star of his movies, and one of the people who did joint appearances/side projects with Steven Spielberg. The person with whom I had the conversation that led to Hanks’ TV show is from Houston, and it was during last weekend, when SNL had its season finale that featured surprise appearances by Hanks, and when Hanks’ movie, “Angels And Demons”, was released and became the number 1 movie in the country, that I made a rare trip to Houston for my nephew’s bar mitzvah. There I spoke with a long-time Houston friend of my sister and her husband, who knows this same person from both CalArts and Houston. Those familiar with how secretly important I am would have to consider whether the release of the Hanks film was deliberately designed to coincide with when the bar mitzvah occurred.

2. I am responsible for the creation of the sitcom, “My Name Is Earl”. Several episodes ago that show gave a character a slightly rare last name, which also happens to be the last name of someone with whom I work at my 9-5, the chair of a committee for which I take minutes at their monthly meetings. The June meeting will be this person’s last, as she is being deployed to Afghanistan (though a Kaiser Permanente employee, she is also “on call” or whatever the official term is).

3. For a while I was throwing around the idea that one could devise special gloves that, when worn, would make it possible to operate the tiny keyboards one finds on PDA devices as easily as a normal-size keyboard, two-handed speed typing. The idea involved things extruding from the fingertips of the gloves that would be comparatively small on the keyboard in contrast with normal-size fingers. Shortly thereafter, in October 2008, SNL did a sketch featuring someone on the Lawrence Welk Show with tiny fingers. I became nervous that, if there was a possibility that my idea would ever amount to anything, I should want to get something down on paper instead of just talking about it (though others could simultaneously have the same idea independent of knowing of my idea). I sent in to one of those places that solicit inventions, and took a step or two with the idea. I also tried to build a prototype, but the best I could do was these scary looking gloves with golf tees sticking out of each finger like claws. I gave up on it as an invention, but used the idea for my sketch comedy idea, “Teddy Tinyfingers”, where someone blows off his own hands on purpose so that artificial hands with tiny fingers could be worn for operating PDAs. The following week SNL referred to the idea that a good excuse for not going to work would be to say that your arms were blown off.

4. For two years I would send in sketch comedy ideas to several people connected to SNL, and for three years the following SNL would include some fragment from the idea submitted for that week (occasionally pieces would wind up within a few days on The Colbert Report or The Daily Show). The one time this didn’t happen, it turned out that someone proceeded to write a best-seller based on the idea, which was followed by one of the several people I had originally sent it to purchasing rights to develop the best-seller into a TV show. This past SNL season, however, my sketch comedy ideas have also been used at a higher level, leading to an important aspect of CNN’s election night coverage; a much-talked about occurrence at the second presidential debate hosted by Tom Brokaw; a much quoted statement by the President after his first week in office.

The 5.16.09 SNL Season Finale In Relation To Me/My Material

• On the SNL season finale, their first sketch following the monologue (not counting the replaying of a sketch clip from when Will Ferrell, the guest host, was a cast member) brought back the Lawrence Welk sketch idea with the lady with tiny fingers (see Item 3, above), of all things.

• The second sketch following the monologue featured a surprise appearance by Tom Hanks (see Item 1) experiencing difficulty in removing his hand from inside a jar, bringing to mind the idea of a person whose hand is too big (ala Winnie The Pooh). Tom Hanks then bumped his head in such a way as to produce a distinct nubbin in the center of his forehead. There is a person on the committee at my 9-5 that meets monthly and for which I take minutes (see Item 2, above) who has an extremely distinct nubbin in the center of her forehead, who without a doubt was brought to mind by all who know her and saw SNL (she is also in line to become chair as replacement for the person on that committee who is leaving for Afghanistan).

• A nationally played commercial on the SNL season finale contained something which, in this context, is an inside-reference to something between myself and the CalArts / Houston person (see Item 1).

Hanging Onto Guitar Picks In A Difficult Economy

Responses To My April 13th Blog
A few brief notes regarding what I consider "responses" to my April 13th blog, "Take Your Pick", which focused on a movie character having a guitar pick presumably owned by Mick Jagger, and also on the movie, "Tenacious D And The Pick Of Destiny".

Firstly, I find that Paul McCartney's appearance at Coachella yesterday, April 17th, involved him responding to a call for his guitar pick:

"(McCartney).... dismissed signs held by front-row fans _ including one that asked for his guitar pick. 'No! It's mine!' McCartney said."

If you read my blogs you will see that I have found there to be numerous occasions for construing an action by McCartney as being appropos of something that started with me.

Second, in my December 2, 2008 blog I referred to seeing Jimmy Kimmel (or a Jimmy Kimmel look-alike) in traffic, which I described as likely having occurred in relation to something Sarah Silverman-ish (Sarah Silverman was Kimmel's ex-girlfriend; the Colbert Christmas special made major use of my material; Silverman is among a handful of people with their own shows on Comedy Central). My April 13th blog, "Take Your Pick", in including as part of its main focus the movie, "Tenacious D And The Pick Of Destiny", identified that Liam Lynch directed that movie (as part of the closing statement of that section of the blog). Liam Lynch, it so happens, directed Sarah Silverman's movie, "Jesus Is Magic". Sure enough, on the morning of April 14th (the day following my blog), at the same place along my daily commute to work as before, Jimmy Kimmel (or a Jimmy Kimmel look-alike) and myself looked at each other in traffic.

A Separate Note
At one point I considered including in a blog an explanation of my belief that I had something to do with Tom Hanks' appearance at the April 14th ceremony regarding the new George Harrison sidewalk star in Hollywood. I am reluctant to note things that would seem to come out of left field to those who haven't much information about who I am in relation to "things". I do tend to feel more loyal to conveying the truth than to aligning myself with a bunch of ignoramuses' perception of the truth. Okay, perhaps they're not ignormasuses, perhaps there has been an expensive effort by certain people to cover-up who I am in this world, i.e., some ignorance is promoted. Then again, perhaps there are so-called ignoramuses who are actually part of the cover-up. Perhaps part of me is part of the cover-up too, as I do not wish to be in the spotlight regarding just anything.

As for the Tom Hanks thing: from time to time SNL, McCartney (not to mention McCartney's daughter), and others have made inside references to things that suggest to me a girl I knew during the 1970s, or to be more specific, things that suggest that girl in relation to myself. A recent reference of this variety on SNL made sense in that a movie opened that weekend that made such references more relevant. Last week's SNL made another such reference, but I was left in a quandary as to where the relevance was. The Tom Hanks appearance in relation to George Harrison, however, seems to have made SNL's reference relevant. It was a conversation I had with this girl that resulted in Tom Hanks' situation comedy, "Bosom Buddies". Furthermore, an Eric Clapton inside album cover once made another such inside reference, and Clapton is considered very important in relation to the story of George Harrison. And finally, one of the lines in Harrison's song about the loss of John Lennon, "All Those Years Ago" resulted from something I said to this girl (there were other lines in that song I was an influence on as well). I believe that the last time I saw this girl was when she was driving next to me on the freeway, a week before Harrison died. My understanding is that she is a friend of Paul McCartney's.