Mmmm...Bacon

You know what keeps me awake at night?

Well, nothing, really; I usually fall asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow. (Yeah, I know everyone has heard the stories about the all-night parties with the Swedish Bikini Team, and about the 2am phone calls from the President requesting advice on National Security -- but those things really don't happen very often.) So perhaps I should rephrase my question: "Do you know what I sometimes think about between brushing my teeth and putting on my pajamas?"

That's correct: It's Kevin Bacon again.

Not the actor, but the process. The connections between things that make me wonder if perhaps R. Daneel Olivaw isn't manipulating the Universe after all. I see those connections and I think about how cool it is that everything is separated by so few degrees.

Last night, for example, I was thinking about these guys:



What do they all have in common? (Um, please ignore Verna Bloom and Paul Michael Glaser; they're not part of it. Thanks.)

If you get that one, then seeing the connection between the guys in the next panel should be pretty easy. After all, their relationship is from the same universe as the grouping above, and they are in the correct order. (I did throw in a couple of extra characters to add a small challenge; the question is only about one person in each frame. Click on the picture if you need to see it more clearly.)



And here's the part that really brings the bacon (so to speak) -- there's an additional extra-bonus relationship between the folks in frames 1 and 2 that connects them with the musician who appears at the very top of this post. I don't know about you, but I find that sort of thing to be very exciting!

I'll tell you all about it tomorrow. In the meantime, I'll list a few other random (very random) thoughts I've had:

• After all the running and riding I did this weekend, I'm surprised to find out that my shoulders are more sore than my legs.


• One of the retro TV stations had a Monkees Marathon over the weekend. Despite my affection for the group, my tolerance for back-to-back episodes of their TV show is fairly thin. And though I appreciate the artistic intentions behind their experimental film "Head", the fact remains that it's a really really terrible movie. You could tell they were trying for something along the lines of "Help" mashed up with "2001", but it might as well have been called "Huh?"


• I saw many ads for Dr. Seuss's "The Lorax" over the weekend. I had been pretty sure I'd read every Dr. Seuss book, but I honestly have no connection whatsoever to these previews. I'm not sure if I never read it, or if I have suppressed it, or if the movie is simply not faithful to the book. In any case, it certainly didn't have the same impact as "Bartholomew Cubbins" or "Green Eggs and Ham".


• Seriously, how would you like to live your known only as the "Deliverance Banjo Boy"? According to Wikipedia, the fellow has spent some of his adult life in the restaurant business, but I'm not sure I'd want him cooking for me any more than any other hillbilly musician.

That's it for now. Have a great day!