Weird Al

Sometimes the Pop Gods smile down on an unknown band, a huge hit hits the charts from out of nowhere and a star, briefly, crosses the radio into legend. Then...well, that's pretty much it.

Just when you think our man Al couldn't get any cooler or relevant, he does this. Can you just give the guy the Presidency? Like right now?

Oh, the world would be such a poorer place without Alfred Yankovic. It's not a place I would want to be. He's ageless, brilliant and endlessly relevant.

My hands still smell like stuffing.

It's big news. Pop culture mainstay for thirty something years, Al Yankovic is back in under a month with a new full length, possibly his last in a physical medium. So let's do FIVE FROM AL!

Hey Gang, Time for a Big Q Tip.  Few weeks ago my spatula died.  It didn’t line up correctly in the drawer and, as I was “straightening it out”, in broke in two.  After burying it in the back yard and then telling the neighbors that it was visiting its family in Kentucky, I went and bought a new one.

Huey Lewis and the News came to the North Dakota State Fair in 1984.  They were just starting to take off and become one of the biggest groups of the 80's, and to have them come to little old Minot North Dakota was huge.  They drew the most people ever, at that time, for a rock show, and I was there.  I ran into some old friends and they offered me a drink.  They called it everclear.  I said, &quo