World of Weird Al Yankovic

You're awesome.

Get over it, Yankees.

man, of all the celebrities to be racist on christmas who would have thought weird al.

Whatever one thinks of the offensiveness or non-offensiveness of the term "haole," Al himself is obviously a member of the group covered by that word. I'd also mention that practically every time Jim West does a slack key gig, he plays a "hapa haole" song or so, and uses that phrase to describe it.

Orthography Enthusiast wrote:Whatever one thinks of the offensiveness or non-offensiveness of the term "haole," Al himself is obviously a member of the group covered by that word. I'd also mention that practically every time Jim West does a slack key gig, he plays a "hapa haole" song or so, and uses that phrase to describe it.

You put it all real well Helen, I definitely agree with you.
Still, the big thing I hope is that maybe some people will catch the other meaning and at least know both sides to it. Look guys, Im really not offended, I just feel that after growing up in the islands and seeing the damage words can do sometimes - I've been called a haole before, my wife has beencl called a haole before, our parents have been too, and we were all born and raised four generations back. I know what Al meant. Just think things need the back story sometimes

[What Fred Huggins said on the previous page.]

@alyankovic

Years ago my wife thought the prestigious literary award was the “Pulit Surprise”… ‘cause hey, it’d be a real surprise to win it, right?

Right.

Al's twitter videos of his adventures with tech support are becoming little mini movies, quite cenimatic.....


And it's awesome how they made a huge piece of art out of Suzannes fingerprint.

Did you see the comment on the vid from somebody who works in tech support, who said that a coworker of his actually took a call from Al a couple of years ago?

Lots of people seem concerned that Al is trashing a working TV just for a joke, but I think it really was busted. And I'm willing to bet that finding someone to do a service call on a TV in extremely-rural Hawaii just wasn't cost effective.

IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT IS GOOD, DECENT, AND HOLY, PLEASE DON'T DESTROY A WORKING TV!!!