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This isn’t the cover of the CD set. Just something I came across awhiles back that seemed appropriate for the occasion 🙂

“Weird Al” Yankovic just announced on his blog (yes Al has a blog now, in addition to his website, his Twitter account and his YouTube channel and his Facebook page… quite a technophile this guy is) that The Essential “Weird Al” Yankovic will hit the streets and online retailers on October 27th.

What is The Essential “Weird Al” Yankovic? Two glorious CDs (yes: actual physical media!) of choice goodness from Weird Al’s first twelve studio albums. Check out this track listing!

DISC 1
1. “Another One Rides The Bus”
2. “Polkas On 45”
3. “Eat It”
4. “I Lost On Jeopardy”
5. “Yoda”
6. “One More Minute”
7. “Like A Surgeon”
8. “Dare To Be Stupid”
9. “Dog Eat Dog”
10. “Lasagna”
11. “Melanie”

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This just landed in my e-mail and it’s too hilarious not to share. Those pesky Nigerian scammers are definitely trying a new tactic!

(I’ve made some edits on the profanity and the phone number at the end, which according to the country code is based in Nigeria.)

RANKLE Jones The Golfer “Film Production”

Dear Sir,
I have a full length tragedy movie script title: RANKLE Jones The Golfer. It is a new idea, full of suspense and thrill. I need a production company and financial investment into this movie production as it will make a block buster.
Jones enjoys golf playing, hoping to be a professional golfer like Tiger Woods. Professional golfers play in golf field, ours play at home. No f***ing son of a b**ch will accept correction. The pride of what is yet to be is a destroyer. Jones: Everyone in life have a dream and aspiration to

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Yes, I’m up way early (or is that way late?) awaiting a new song by “Weird Al” Yankovic. But can ya blame me? Especially since Weird Al has bestowed upon us a better summer than we deserve with his “Internet Leaks” collection. A short while ago the fourth and final song from the set was released: “Ringtone”. It’s a Queen-style anthem celebrating/condemning cellular phone ringtones (duh!). And as always, it’s uproariously funny! Can this Al guy make a song about anything or what?

Here’s the video for “Ringtone” on YouTube, directed by Josh Faure-Brac and Dustin McLean of Current TV’s SuperNews. And on the video’s page you can find links where you can purchase the “Ringtone” song or the “Ringtone” video from various online outlets like iTunes. Or you can purchase both and put more coin in Al’s pocket (as sound an investment as anything these ...

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Holy cow!! Now I have seen everything.

Years ago there was a local television station called WGGT Channel 48, broadcasting from Greensboro. This was back when unaffiliated stations were extremely independent in their programming and such. Well, WGGT might have been one of the last to have what many people will fondly remember as a “horror host”: a home-grown character who presented various scary movies and sci-fi flicks on Saturday afternoons.

Except that WGGT did things a little different. It’s “horror” host was a goofy redneck named Billy Bobb, and his show was called Billy Bobb’s Action Theatre.

And believe it or not, someone somewhere has a trove of old recordings of Billy Bobb from WGGT and is now putting them on YouTube.

Here’s a set of promos for Billy Bobb’s Action Theatre…

And here are some commercials featuring Billy Bobb for area businesses…

I wonder whatever happened ...

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Thanks to Phillip Arthur for finding this. And I have not seen the new G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra movie but I have heard that “The Ballad of G.I. Joe” is gads better than that… film. Here it is, starring a lot of famous faces!


And in case you’re wondering who’s who, here’s the cast list:

Laz Alonso as Doc, Alexis Bledel as Lady Jaye, Billy Crudup as Zartan, Zach Galifianakis as Snow Job, Tony Hale as Dr. Mindbender, Frankie Kang as Storm Shadow, Geoff Mann as Buzzer, Andreas Owald as Snake Eyes, Daniel Strange as Torch, Kevin Umbricht as Ripper, Vinnie Jones as Destro, Joey Kern as Tomax, Joey Kern as Xamot, Chuck Liddell as Gung Ho, Julianne Moore as Scarlett, Henry Rollins as Duke, Alan Tudyk as Shipwreck, Olivia Wilde as The Baroness, Jamin Fite as Cobra Commander, Sgt. Slaughter as Himself

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“…and I’m going to give it to them.”

Right now the Intertubes are burning up with heated controversy about this poster appearing around Los Angeles depicting President Barack Obama in Joker-style makeup as Heath Ledger portrayed Batman’s nemesis in last year’s The Dark Knight.

What particularly makes me chuckle are remarks made by Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable (whatever the hell that is) president Earl Ofari Hutchinson: “Depicting the president as demonic and a socialist goes beyond political spoofery. It is mean-spirited and dangerous. We have issued a public challenge to the person or group that put up the poster to come forth and publicly tell why they have used this offensive depiction to ridicule President Obama.”

So let me get this straight: it’s now considered a dire offense, if not an outright sin, to criticize Obama?

I don’t think this is “mean-spirited” at all. Most longtime readers of ...

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If you’re one of “Weird Al” Yankovic‘s many fans you’re no doubt enjoying this summer and Al’s “Internet Leaks” collection (one new song and video a month through September). So far we’ve had “Craigslist” aping Jim Morrison’s style and then a number of weeks ago “Skipper Dan”.

And a short while ago Al released his latest “Internet Leaks” single: “CNR”, spoofing the signature sound of the White Stripes. And it’s a song about Charles Nelson Reilly, of all people!

Mash here for the “CNR” video (created by JibJab) on YouTube. And on the video’s page you can find links to purchase the song and video via iTunes and other online outlets....

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Flicking through channels this evening and happened upon There Will Be Blood. I watched this movie for the first time last month and personally I think it’s one of the finest movies in many years. And right now I’m DVRing it in high-def. Boo-yah!

Anyway, when I first wrote about it my good friend Lee Shelton let me know that there was a rough version of There Will Be Blood‘s brutal ending floating around on YouTube. Here it is…

And by the way, CONGRATULATIONS to Lee and his wife on the new addition to their family: baby Olivia, who they adopted in China! Here’s wishing them all the best 🙂...

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