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Happy Halloween, kids!    It’s October 31st and you know what that means.  Everybody go out dressed as your favorite “Weird Al” character and demand candy from strangers!  Me?  I’m going as the “Al secretly disguised as Happy Steve” character, my favorite costume!  But enough about me, remember that Yahoo! Music promotion Get Your Freak On?  Well, it’s finally completed and you can view the finished product right now!  So go ahead and fire up  your Internet Explorers and watch the fan-only video to White & Nerdy!

It looks great.  The fans did a hilarious job of recreating scenes from the original video, adding their own personal nerdy traits, and all lip-syncing at the same time, too.

Attention teens! Al will be making a live visit on HABBO today.

“Weird Al” Yankovic will check into HABBO on Monday, October 30th at 3PM PST/ 6PM EST. During the visit, Weird Al will hang out with fans on the Teen People Terrace and answer questions about the release of his newest album “Straight Outta Lynwood.” The interview will be broadcasted over HABBO’s exclusive Internet Radio Stream, Bobba Music hosted by DJ Brena (www.bobbamusic.com).

Teens interested in becoming members of HABBO and participating in this exciting event should go to www.habbo.com and click on the “check in” button.

For more info, click here.

Thanks to commenter “A Fan” for providing this link:

Nerdy Something - This is a fantastic interview from StarWars.com that asks a lot of questions I haven’t seen in other interviews. All of them, as you may have guessed, centered around Star Wars. Al talks about a certain “cutting room floor” segment for The Weird Al Show that unfortunately never came to be, creating the songs “Yoda”, “The Saga Begins”, and the video for “White & Nerdy”. Also mentioned is the few Star Wars memorabilia he’s got such as the life-size Yoda that made a cameo appearance in the video for “The Saga Begins”.

Check out the interview for all the great details!

A couple updates added on WeirdAl.com recently. Stuff that you probably already knew about, but definitely worth repeating:

AL ON THE TONIGHT SHOW!
Yes, Al and the band will be performing on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno this Thursday night (Nov. 2)! It’s their first appearance on the Tonight Show in 21 years, so don’t miss it!

And don’t forget to vote and vote and vote:

W&N ON TRL!
If you want to see “White & Nerdy” claw its way up MTV’s TRL Countdown… well, then you’d better vote for it!

From the Fayetteville Online: Fans get a close look at Weird Al Yankovic - Al spent three hours on Wednesday at North Post PX in Fort Fragg to chat and pose for pictures for hundreds of fans spanning three generations.  (According to the amusing pic in the article, it looks like he was only scheduled for 2 hours.)  And I love this quote about his 3-year-old daughter:

In the car, I’ll start singing along to a CD and she goes, “Daddy, stop! I want to hear real music.”

Ha ha!  How cute.  It’s nice seeing Al supporting the troops, and the troops and families supporting Al as well.

This video seems to be making its rounds on the blogosphere lately. Here’s “Classic Al” appearing on a Japanese TV show to perform “Eat It”.

I kinda I remember seeing a much shorter clip of this on an old AL-TV or something. In this clip, we get a full intro with Al comically flopping on the floor and a pretty surreal ending. Much like Al, I didn’t understand a word any of them were saying. Seriously, what the heck was up with the shrimp guy at the end?

“White & Nerdy” has been nominated in the “Big Download” category for the VH1 Big in ‘06 Awards! The category is for the clip that generated the most Internet buzz. Also nominated are Fergie, OK Go, Lonely Girl Fifteen, and… David Hasselhoff?

The awards will air on VH1 on December 3. The best thing is you get to choose the winners. I think you see where I’m going with this. Vote early! Vote often! Voting is open from now until December 1.

And while you’re stuffing ballot boxes, don’t forget to vote for “White & Nerdy” on the VH1 Top 20 Countdown and “M”TV’s TRL too.

Sirius is offering two-days of free internet radio on October 25 and October 26. You already missed day one, but there’s still time to sign up and listen today. Why would you want to do that, you ask? Because, according to their press release, Weird Al will be hosting a musical comedy special on Laugh Break (channel 105).

The Weird Al Yankovic Musical Comedy Special
Thursday at 3 pm - 5 pm ET & 6 pm - 8 pm ET
Weird Al hosts this two-hour show playing his favorite musical parodies. It’s good clean fun!

Need a step-by-step guide how to make a Twinkie Weiner Sandwich? Who better to tell you how than Al himself. Watch here.

Or, I suppose you could also just watch UHF.

Al has a new blog post up on the his MySpace. Whoa! A lot of very cool news in this one. To summarize, Al…

• thanks you for the kind birthday wishes
• thanks you for the awesome chart numbers!
• will be getting ready to perform “White and Nerdy” live for the first time on The Tonight Show on November 2nd
• will be presenting at the American Music Awards next month
• calls upon you to vote for “White and Nerdy” on TRL. It’ll “debut” tomorrow!
• is not 100% certain, but believes the new tour might start in New Zealand and Australia in March. With the North American tour following in the summer. WOO!
• think there might be another AL-TV special after all. Will let you know.

Wow! There’s lots of awesome news to take in. Definitely read the full entry from the man himself for all the details. Yay!