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Woohoo!  It’s official, the next Weird Al national tour has begun.   The first concert booked is in Costa Mesa, California at the Pacific Amphitheater on August 13th, 2010.   Go to http://tixx1.artistarena.com/weirdal/ to sign up for the special internet pre-sale to get early access to purchasing tickets.

We here at Yank Blog, Inc would like to wish a very happy birthday to Stephen Jay, the best bass guitarist in Weird Al’s band.

Happy Birthday buddy!

“I’ve just signed a production deal with Cartoon Network.”  –Weird Al Yankovic

WHOA!!!  Al just broke news of a new project he’s working on over at his blog:

http://alyankovic.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/this-thing-im-doing/

How cool is that? Although I was really hoping for an action-packed documentary about Winston Churchill starring Jackie Chan.  Oh well, perhaps someday.

Oh, and Al also very casually drops a subtle hint about [MESSAGE REDACTED BY ALIENS].   Wow!!!  I can hardly wait!

This Saturday (Jan 23rd), Weird Al talks with that guy he’s always with.  You know who I’m talking about.  Yeah THAT guy… AGAIN!  You’d think they would have talked about everything there is to talk about by now.  But NOOOOO.  What?  No I’m not jealous… shut up! Well if you’re in the area then head on over to Cobb’s Comedy Club and watch them talk about… um… stuff.  Then Al will introduce a showing of UHF at midnight at the Clay Theatre.  Nice!

http://www.cobbscomedyclub.com/calendar.html#weirdal

Not sure how long this will last, but in honor of Charles Nelson Reilly’s birthday on January 13th, you can insert yourself into the JibJab video for free over at http://sendables.jibjab.com/sendables/203322/weird_al_charles_nelson_reilly

Looks you still have to pay $4.99 to download it and save it on your computer at which point you can burn it to DVD or put it on your iPod, or whatever.  But you can still share the creation for free via email, Facebook, your blogs, etc.  Spiffy!

Just a reminder to catch the Biography channel tonight (Tues Jan 5) for William Shatner’s Raw Nerve at 10pm Eastern.  Also, just before that, they are showing the one hour Biography special on Al.  So tune in 9pm Eastern for the whole thing.