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Here’s an amusing Flash animation entitled “Wacky Paintballing” that tells the tale of DarkLemur’s very first game of paintball (more or less). This was also his first Flash animation, created back in September 2003. Of course, DarkLemur chose the most appropriate theme music to help accompany this dark, sordid story: “Trigger Happy” from Weird Al’s “Off the Deep End” album. Couldn’t have picked a better song myself!

You can view the animation at Newgrounds, FlashPlayer, or at DarkLemur.com.

From the artist’s comment on Newgrounds.com:

And for those of you who are having trouble realizing it (you know who you are), it’s NOT MEANT to be realistic! I know there’s no such thing as a nuclear paint bomb, I know know you should never take off your mask, and I also know that the majority of people don’t pull guns out of their ass. It’s called FICTION. With that said…

After many long weeks of teaching myself flash, I finally finished my first movie. It’s more or less a reenactment of the first time I went paintballing last summer. I hope you enjoy it!

(thanks to someone who simply goes by the name “A fan” for bringing this to my attention)

Featured Site of the Moment: BargleNawdleZouss.com by Weird Joe

Named after a line in “Smells Like Nirvana”, Bargle Nawdle Zouss is chock-full of great Al content like pictures, lyrics, midi files, trivia bits, games, and even create your very own “Behind the Fans” page to let the world know about your uber-cool obsession. Very nifty indeed!

Time to bring back the ol’ “Featured Site of the Moment” segment. The most recent site to be added to Yankovic! is The Great Weird Al Word Count by “Lunatic Lee” Seitz. How many times has this happened to you?

“Mom!!! I really need to know how many times Weird Al has used the word ‘pitchfork‘ in all of his songs.”
“Take out the trash like I told you, and THEN I’ll tell you.”

Well kids, now you’ll NEVER have to take out the trash again! Simply type in the word and you’ll instantly know the exact number of times Al has used it in his works. So why not give it try?

Happy February! It’s a new month and so a new Desktop Calendar Wallpaper from Al-oholics Anonymous. This months calendar is brought to us by MarlinsGirl. A nice grab of Al from the partial video for “Livin’ in the Fridge” which was shown on “The Weird Al Show” a few years ago. See, it’s just that easy to make a calendar wallpaper of your own and submit for our monthly contest. Just make sure you know what you’re getting into before you submit your own calendar for March or any other month. Good luck!