From Homer to Homer

Ken Jennings of Jeopardy fame has a regular column in the magazine Mental Floss. He writes a six degrees of separation thing connecting up two ostensibly unrelated things. In the Sept/Oct issue he connects up Homer with Homer Simpson as follows, and with discussion:

Homer wrote about Achilles who was dipped in > the River Styx > which gave its name to the rock band Styx which had a song titled > Krakatoa, also of course the name of the island whose volcanic ash altered sunsets as far away as Europe, which may have influenced > Edvard Munch's Scream, and screaming aficionados may be familiar with the  > "Wilhelm scream," a frequently used sound effect that was first used in a scene in which a man was bitten by an > alligator, which is the official state reptile of Louisiana, a state that has adopted the deep-friend French beignet as the official state > donut, which is of course the beloved taste treat of > Homer Simpson.