Was on the road early this morning when this song came on the Nineties station on satellite radio. And now I can’t get it out of my head just like 35 years ago!
“I’m Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred got a LOT of airplay during my high school senior year. Were we supposed to take this song seriously or was it meant to be a gag? I’ve no idea and I don’t think anyone else does either but back in the day I could do a spot-on rendition of it 😛...
It was fifty years ago tonight, on March 14th, 1976, that radio personality Doctor Demento played a song that had been submitted by one of his listeners. “Belvedere Cruisin'” was composed and performed by a sixteen-year-old young man with an accordion from Lynwood, California. His name was Alfred Yankovic.
Doctor Demento could not have known it then, but he was premiering the music of one of the greatest artists that has ever come in the history of pop culture.
Happy fiftieth anniversary to “Weird Al” Yankovic!
Here is the recording of that fateful evening:
There is another Weird Al anniversary this week. March 12th marked the thirtieth anniversary of the release of the album Bad Hair Day. For a number of reasons that is one of my favorite albums by Yankovic.
Here’s looking forward to many more years of Weird Al music!...
Come midnight tonight, for the second year in a row, I will have made it through the entire holiday season without once hearing Mariah Carey singing “All I Want For Christmas Is You”.
See? It is possible after all!
It wasn’t easy sometimes. Like whenever I went inside a grocery store and had to brace myself for hearing that song over the supermarket’s music system. I made very sure that I ducked in and quickly got my stuff and then ran out
Allow me the opportunity to once again state that Christmas music does not belong anywhere before Thanksgiving. As always around here, there were radio stations that began playing holiday songs on the morning after Halloween. That is damn too early!! Just as Christmas decor doesn’t belong in stores even before Labor Day. When the radio stations and retailers do things like that, all it does is make the ...
The second season of Fallout premiered a few days ago on Amazon Prime. I haven’t seen it yet but I’ll probably watch it later this evening. Have had a few things on my plate lately. Although at the recommendation of a friend last night I did watch Wake
Remember…
A bit of classic humor from good friend of this blog Lee Shelton who first created this pic in 2009 🙂
(In case anyone’s wondering, I will sadly not be deep frying a Thanksgiving turkey this year. Maybe for Christmas though…)...
There is a lot on my plate right now. I’m having to figure some things out. Time is not on my side. But sometimes things percolate to the surface of my mind that I haven’t thought about in years, or even decades. And that’s what happened today.
Waaaay back in 2001 and thereabouts I was on the staff of TheForce.net, which at the time was the biggest website devoted to Star Wars on the whole heapin’ web. It wasn’t long after I came onboard that I volunteered to take the vacant position of humor editor. That was my main job for the next two and a half years, and it was a lot of fun! I got to see quite a bit of reader-generated funny stuff that almost always left me smiling.
One of the things that I got to curate as humor editor was song parodies. And they ...
I’ve waited decades for tonight, to post this song…
“In The Year 2525” by Zager and Evans.
May 2025 be a good year for all of us....
Right when the world needs laughter the most, Weird Al comes through for us.
The last time that “Weird Al” Yankovic released a new song, other than “The Hamilton Polka” or the end credits tune from his movie, was ten years ago this week when his Mandatory Fun album dropped. That was the final album he was contracted to produce and he said at the time that he’d probably release singles via digital platforms from now on. But that hasn’t happened yet…
Until today.
This morning Yankovic unleashed “Polkamania” upon the world. It’s one of his polka medleys of other artists’ songs. It shows how out of the loop I am though in that I can’t recognize any of these tunes that Al incorporated. And I was kind of hoping his new song would be something like a straight-up parody or a style parody… but maybe it’s true, that modern ...
Earlier today I was going through a bunch of photos and came upon one showing me with “Weird Al” Yankovic: arguably the most successful recording artist in the history of pop culture. I say that because not only has Al earned multiple gold albums and several Grammy awards for his work, he has also been part of many other endeavors throughout a career now going back more than forty years. And awhile back he said that he might still give us a song parody or two every year from now on (but I’m hoping he produces at least one more full album 🙂
I could have met Weird Al in October of 1996. My best friends in college were driving four hours each way between Elon College and Asheville to see a concert on the Bad Hair Tour. Ed and Gary tried their best to get me to come ...
Yes, at 12:01 this morning a lot of radio stations began their playing two entire months of Christmas music. Something which I have never liked.
Good friend of this blog Lee Shelton made this graphic several years ago. He said that it’s time to bring it back out and I agree wholeheartedly…
Wow. The original pic is from 2004. A few months before I began this blog. I weigh about 30 pounds more now. A lot of that I gained in a very short period of time beginning in late 2008, after going on some medication for treatment mostly of depression. I lost most of that but some of it still lingers. I think that twenty years later I’m looking pretty healthy.
That’s my father you see behind me. I remember exactly which cap it is that he’s wearing.
Okay well anyhoo, you have all been duly notified. Look, ...