World of Weird Al Yankovic

Big Spoon wrote:What was the image Al tweeted before reading the news?

Wondering the same. Did anyone see it?

It was a picture of Cecil B Demilles grave with the caption "Im ready for my closeup. Hello?"

They Might Be Giants just tweeted this:

@alyankovic hey is it true you're doing #jococruisecrazy 2014? If so we want to see you there!

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Yeah, I will be doing this if true

Does that mean that TMBG is already "aboard"?

Probably.

"Just started giving my daughter piano lessons. No pressure. http://twitpic.com/c5e3tw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"

So awesomely cute

Wow... look at all those gold and platinum records! Wow!

Wow is right!

I bet Nina is doing great at her lessons though. She has talent in her already.

Al's got a tweet up about what to call short Inuit ("Eskimos"). I think I'll sit this one out if any irate Inuit reply. I have a really bad habit of leaping reflexively (but not reflectively) to Al's Twitter-defense when it would probably be better to just leave such things be. There was the woman who thought Al wasn't being sensitive enough toward prostitutes (I'm sorry, sex workers) after his "dead Hooker" joke. There was the man who thought Al wasn't being sensitive enough to Holocaust victims because he made a Nazi joke (he apparently feels that every joke that references Hitler is a de facto Holocaust joke, and therefore beyond the ken of civilized discourse). There was the other man who thought Al was ridiculing Catholicism because he made a joke about the Pope having a reality show pitched to him (that guy at least was a fan, and not just using Al and his millions of Twitter followers to drum up some exposure for a pet cause). And lastly there was the semi-literate young man who absolutely, positively had to know what Al's position on the Gaza Strip was when, to the best of my knowledge, Al has never come even close to divulging what his position might be. And I have to say, given my lack of self-control when it comes to the "reply" button, i hope he doesn't.