So, we have been spending way too much time procrastinating on The Oracle of Bacon, a fantastic time-waster of a website that originally was intended to show you that Kevin Bacon is the center of the Hollywood universe. To wit: any actor, it’s theorized, can be linked to Kevin Bacon in six steps or less. Jane Lynch, for example, is only two degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon: she was in Surviving Eden with John Landis, who was in Animal House with Bacon. Bada boom. Because the site’s algorathm links any two actors, we decided to play Six Degrees of Jane Lynch for fun. As it turns out, Jane Lynch might be closer to the center of the Hollywood universe than Kevin Bacon. Degrees of separation between Jane Lynch and…
Sorry and you’re welcome for this. In other news, Jane was on The Simpsons on Sunday; the first clip below is Jane talking about her love for the show, and the second is a clip from the episode. Hulu has the episode online next week in an incredibly archaic arrangement to post episodes a week after they originally aired on network television. Seriously, networks, you do realize that making content immediately available – that was free to the viewer in the first place – only can help you, right?
