Comments on: Shepard’s Mystery Clues, Part 3

By: Evan Williams

Evan Williams — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:06:02 +0000

For Earth shoes toon you may need to speak to Wayne because it seems as though those are sent to specific people that would assumably understand the reference (i.e. fairy mutant for matthew)

By: Clint

Clint — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:29:38 +0000

I was just looking over all the comments on parts 1 and 2, and I realized that I never posted my thoughts on the “It’s hot but it’s cool!” line. The first time I read it, I took this as a reference to Pop-Tarts. They had a memorable ad jingle in the 80s that included the lyrics, “So hot they’re COOL, so cool they’re HOT!”

I’m pretty sure that Shepard ate a lot of Pop-Tarts growing up. Well, at least a lot more than me, since I ate zero.

By: Clint

Clint — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:31:26 +0000

Here’s a quicknote that Aunt Joan submitted through my contact form last Tuesday. I had been meaning to get it posted:

I am looking at two websites
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Writers_Journey:_Mythic_Structure_For_Writers
and
http://www.morewords.com/word/ogler/
I don’t know if they hold some help, but they are interesting…
Only reply if you want to reply at this time.
I will still look things over and think about them.
Joan

The Christopher Vogler link is very interesting. Vogler connects to Joseph Campbell, who in turn connects to George Lucas. All of whom are very much in the realm of plausible targets for Shepard. And, of course, Vogler looks like a good match for the oglerworld.com clue. Hmmmmmm.

By: Clint

Clint — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:25:06 +0000

I don’t see how it could be important, but each of the new clues intentionally uses a different type of quote marks to set off the word at the end of the first line. For #15 it’s double curved quotes, for #16 it’s single curved quotes, and for #17 it’s straight double quotes.