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Found a couple more references to Al being at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show on the ‘net lately, so I figure I’d post about it here.

I was listening to the Diggnation podcast and on their most recent episode, about 3 minutes into it, one of them mentions seeing Weird Al on the flight in. No real earth-shattering news or anything, but here’s a rough transcript on the matter…

A = Alex Albrecht
K = Kevin Rose

A: Weird Al was on my flight!
K: No way!
A: Yeah! Weird Al Yankovic!
K: Did you talk to him?
A: No, he’s a little weird. *laugh* Seriously he’s, like, an odd human being. He was sitting in coach, so at first I was like “Nah, it’s just some crazy guy with long hair.” You know what I mean? ‘Cause it was like “He’s not sitting in coach!”
K: Well dude, how much money has he made recently?
A: *pause* He’s got to have invest[ed], he’s smart. Seems it. I dunno.
K: Yeah, well he IS a smart guy. I like that “It’s All About the Pentiums Baby” song.
A: Aw dude, that was awesome! Aww!!! Then I saw him with some guy with an XM radio sign and he was talking with him, so I was like “Yeah, that was Weird Al” ’cause he’s probably doing something for XM.
K: Yeah that’s interesting.

So yeah, that’s about it. I say we should form a “Help Weird Al Into First Class” foundation. Do you see what illegal music downloading has done to Al?!? He’s forced to fly COACH. Oh, the humanity!

The other thing I found recently are some pictures of Al at the XM booth for the previous year. They’re a little dark, but it was new to me. Here ya go: Enjoy these pics