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Remember that RiffTrax Christmas Shorts-Stravanganza that had Weird Al extol the virtues of pork?  Well, now it’s available for purchase as a DVD or for download over at RiffTrax.com. Now you don’t have to go back in time to when this was only viewable in theaters.  Now you can go back in time and buy me that winning lottery ticket you’ve been promising me.  Hey, why haven’t you done that yet?

[Thanks Greg for the reminder]

Weird Al has earned a 2010 Streamy Awards nomination for Best Guest  Star in a Web Series for his appearance on Know Your Meme (explaining the phenomenon of Auto-tune).  Congratulations Al!  Winners will be announced via a live broadcast on April 11.

(Thanks  Greg)

Well everybody’s heard about the bird !

Bird bird bird, the bird is the word!

On this very day FIFTY years ago, Alfred Matthew Yankovic opened his eyes for the first time and the world hasn’t been the same ever since. Holy cow, FIFTY?!?  The roman numeral L?!? One squared plus seven squared?!?  Five squared plus five squared?!?!?  Two squared factorial times two plus two?!?  Wow!

What will the quintessentially quirky quinquagenarian do to mark this occassion?  Parody “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover”?  Something by 50 cent?  Get himself put on the $50 bill?

Happy Birthday Weird Al from all of us at Yank Blog!

Got this heads-up by a fellow named Greg:

Just FYI,
MC Lars’ video for “True Player for Real” is the free video on iTunes right now.

I did have trouble with the link he sent me, but was able to search for MC Lars and found the free video featuring Weird Al on the accordion on iTunes easily enough. Thanks Greg!

Happy Birthday Bermuda!

photo credit: hfb

Behind the scenes of CNR

JibJab.com just put out a Facebook Album filled with lots of behind the scenes photos of the making of the CNR video.  See early concept art, ideas that were eventually cut, and my favorite:  Al reacting to something scary.   Looks like you do NOT need a Facebook account to view these:

BTS of Weird Al’s CNR!

If you’re a paying member of JibJab.com, then they can make your dream come true… put you in a Weird Al video.

We teamed up with Weird Al to produce the first music video that you can star in! Cast yourself and star along side Al in the hilarious, fast paced video. You may think you know Charles Nelson Reilly, the comedian and frequent “Match Game” panelist, but you don’t know jack about Chuck until you’ve seen this!

Go here to be a star!

Cost: $16 for a year’s membership, $8 for 30-days. Both auto-renews.

From the California news source Daily Pilot, a description of the Al’s Brain exhibit in a nutshell.   I bet it’s saying “Help! Help! Get me out of here! I can’t breathe!”

Fair gets Weird (Al)

(Source: WOWAY)

Oh and if you don’t keep track of Al’s twitter, he’s been at the OC SuperFair for the “Al’s Brain World Premiere” party and meeting up with lots of friends.  Since you’re probably reading this and not there, you can pretend like you’re standing there taking pictures of them by looking at Al’s twitpic account.  Look!  It’s Judy Tenuta, John K, Laraine Newman, Drew Carey, Robert Ben Garant, and many more.