Day: February 3, 2009

Noted author John Updike died last week.  In 2000 he was a guest star in that excruciatingly bad episode where Krusty finds out he has a daughter and proceeds to get into a mob war over her violin.  (It didn’t make any sense then, either.)  In April of 2001 Updike discussed his guest spot at a “meet the author” type event in Cincinnati; he also said this: I used to watch The Simpsons faithfully until they changed the hour when it was shown, and it suddenly no longer fit with my domestic rhythm.  So I can’t claim to be a morbidly avid…