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You’ll probably have to register to see it, but there’s a short interview with Al in The Lantern. You can sign up using a fake e-mail address and fake contact info if you don’t want to reveal your real identtity.

There are few genres I haven’t done over the years. I haven’t tried Gregorian chants or Viking music yet.

Well it seems as if you folks were all too stinkin’ busy to bother creating a simple calendar design for the monhtly Al-oholics Anonymous Desktop Calendar contest. Have you seen the past designs? It’s really not that tough. Ya scan a picture, slap the calendar and logo on it and BAM! Instant entry. You could have had all the prestige and fame that comes with being a contest winner. Ya know, it’s concert season again and you’ve probably taken some great pictures. Why not share some of those with everyone? Good luck to next months particpants.

Al’s week 2 comments on “American Idol” are up on the USA Today website.

Here are my extremely mediocre pictures that I took during the Glen Ellyn and Joliet concerts. What they lack in quality, I make up for in quantity.

College of DuPage – Glen Ellyn
Rialto Theatre – Joliet

From the Official Weird Al site:

UPDATED: TV ALERT!
Catch Al and the band performing on the Wayne Brady Show, March 31 (check your local listings.)

It’s good to be weird

What if your young son or daughter walked up to you one day and said they’d like to grow up to be like Weird Al Yankovic?

Weird Al’s not so weird after all these years

But if there’s proof you can never take the adolescent weirdness out of Yankovic, it’s in his music.

Directly from the Official Weird Al site:

Every Tuesday for ten weeks starting March 23, Al will appear in USA Today as one of the panelists discussing their profound thoughts on American Idol.

The tour started up again last night, and already, the reviews are in! Check out what the Akron Beacon Journal had to say about this seriously funny musician.

From Yankovic Slams Simon For Softening Up:

Parody singer ‘WEIRD AL’ YANKOVIC has slammed SIMON COWELL losing his notorious nasty streak in the latest season of TV talent contest AMERICAN IDOL.
Cowell has returned to the show alongside fellow judges PAULA ABDUL and RANDY JACKSON, but Yankovic admits he’s upset to see how inoffensive the British music mogul’s criticisms have become.
He says, “My biggest disappointment so far is Simon Cowell. He just isn’t as nasty as he used to be.
“I think I speak for the entire American viewing audience when I say that we want to see these contestants slitting their wrists as they’re walking off stage.”

Hear what Al has to say about the “American Idol” contestant Jasmine Trias in USA Today. You can find even more analysis by Al in print if you read today’s (March 23) paper.