Last week's episode (Moe'N'A Lisa) parodied Vermont's Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. At a dinner, "Pynchon" was one of the writers on a dais. He didn't say anything, but he was there--or else it was someone else with bag on head. http://biblioklept.wordpress.com/2006/11/19/writers-on-the-simpsons/ d.