Yank Blog

In January 1995 Al-oholics Anonymous became the first webpage on the Internet fully devoted to Weird Al. It has now been on the net for over 10 years. In honor of this anniversary, some changes have taken place.

1. Al-oholics Anonymous has been moved to a faster server. No more slow downloads of your favorite video clips, sound bytes and desktop calendars. They’re all nice and speedy. Even for dialup users you’ll probably notice some sort of increase.

2. “You Don’t Know Al” the trivia game launched in 1997 has finally been retired. Thanks to everyone who has played over the years. The game served over 17 MILLION questions and there nearly 150,000 complete games played.

3. Replacing the vacancy left by YDKA is the new Al merchandise page. This is no ordinary merch page with albums. This has a VERY extensive list including movies Al has appeared in, all the books he’s appeared in and some other goodies. Did you forget to pick up a copy of “Tenacity of the Cockroach” with Al’s interview or never found time to see him in the Judy Tenuta film “Desparation Boulevard”? Well, now you have a good reminder to buy it any time. You can purchase with confidence since it is all run by Amazon.com and it’s affiliates.

4. OOPS! Ok, fine! You folks were right! The video clip of “Patterns” that was donated to my site years ago apparently DID become corrupt at some point, as so many of you have emailed about. Sorry about that. To make it up, a newer cleaner copy of the Patterns video clip has now replaced the old one. HOPEFULLY more videos AND cleaner versions of the existing ones will come soon. Then again, that claim gets made alot and well, it doesn’t happen much.

5. This is just for fun! Shortly after “Poodle Hat” was released, there was discussion by long time fans saying, “Wow, I have no idea what any of these songs are in the polka medley. I wish I knew how the originals sounded.” Well, a de-polkafied medley was quickly created and now, you can listen to it too! Just look for it in the Sound Bytes seciton.

There will be some other updates as the year continues.

Thanks for the fun over the years, and here’s to the next 10 or 17.