The Simpsons creates a market for messenger pigeons; Oddities a market for oddities
(part of my ongoing Unexpected Literary References series)
Last night’s The Simpsons struck me as especially coincidental. Not only have I posted about the show twice in the past week (11/26/10 and 11/24/10), but the episode shares subject matter with my upcoming novel, Stranger Will. Of all things, messenger pigeons. Random.
What makes it even stranger (no pun intended…unless you laughed; then, pun intended) is that literally ten minutes before the episode aired, I was doing some messenger pigeon related research online.
Fingers crossed that The Simpsons starts a cultural demand for messenger pigeon paraphernalia.
UPDATE: Making this an official night of stringed coincidences, I happened upon a Science channel show called Oddities, which features a museum/store full of specimens meant for the morbid (mummified cats, taxidermied two-headed cows, and so much more). This could possibly be my new favorite show.
But the coincidental part; the shop featured in this show has the same morbid interest factor as the World of Human Oddities featured in my forthcoming novel I Didn’t Mean to Be Kevin.
The takeaways here are:
- If you like The Simpsons, you will automatically love Stranger Will.
- If you like The Science Channel, you will automatically love I Didn’t Mean to Be Kevin.
I think thees are fair conclusions.
