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"First, sorry about the absence of new posts lately. Plenty has been going on, I've just been too tired to write about it. Anyway... on to the review! The Rocky series is sort of a guilty pleasure for me. The first"
Review: Rocky II

"Corporate Training & e-Learning Blog: Corporate Learning Forum is HERE! In the blog above, Jenna Sweeney talks about a new listserv for corporate training professionals - the Corporate Learning Forum. I received an "invitation" to this forum at work. Maybe I'm being"
Corporate Learning Forum - why?

"It's over. For four years of my life (which, oddly enough, took six years), I've been watching Battlestar Galactica weekly. This redesigned joy from my childhood became an engaging, exciting, and dramatic story in my adulthood. As with any other TV"
Review: Battlestar Galactica finale

"SCI FI Wire | The News Service of the SCI FI Channel Warner Brothers announced that its upcoming sequel to 2005's hit Batman Begins will be called The Dark Knight and will feature Heath Ledger as the Joker. I will be there."
The Dark Knight - Batman sequel

"I should have known. I made the mistake, and I paid for it (literally). I saw Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen in the theater. One of the biggest wastes of my time I've ever spent money on. It taught me"
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra - Review

"Slice of Scifi - Science Fiction TV / Movie, News, Interviews & more - Jay's Doctor Who Update Well, Doctor Who's second season will air on Sci-Fi in October, as previously rumored. That's all good news. On the other hand, the"
Future Imperfect: Doctor Who on Sci-Fi

"This is a follow-up to my previous, spoiler-free post. I have a few observations about continuity problems in Superman Returns. Spoilers below! If you want to read it, take your mouse and click & drag from here until the end of"
Review: Superman Returns :: Spoilers!!

"Over on The COA we've been talking about gaming experiences. To us geeks, that typically means video games, in case there's any confusion. Though this wasn't planned, throughout the articles and comments there has been a thread about the social"
The myth of the solitary gamer

"I just caught up on my JMSNews reading and found a few items I thought I'd point out. First, we have a tentative release time for Babylon 5: The Lost Tales (which I previously posted about in more detail): they're shooting"
Babylon 5 / JMS updates

"I'm pretty impressed with the CommonCraft videos. They've found a way to make YouTube a marketing and profit center for themselves, and a lot of their work is in the training and marketing industries. They've found a nice niche for"
Tips from CommonCraft

"(Well, I assume that the cost of internet access is taxed everywhere, but maybe not. If you don't get taxed for that... congratulations.) I was doing my taxes this weekend, so I figured now was as good a time as any"
Tuesday TubeWatch: You are being taxed to watch this

"I mentioned in a previous post that I was experimenting with [tag]Podcasting[/tag] for [tag]training[/tag] purposes at work. I thought it might be nice to share what I've learned so far, the process I went through, and for better or worse,"
Podcasting for corporate training example - how I did it

"I don't understand. NBC Universal is canceling three of the best Sci-Fi shows in recent memory. Journeyman, The 4400, and The Dead Zone are all goners. What's the deal?! All three of those shows were good and getting better! The last I"
NBC Universal nailing the coffin shut on Sci-Fi

"Apple - Trailers - Iron Man - Trailer - Large Hey, the trailer for the May 2008 movie is out! Looks good, but I'm not totally sold yet. I'm a little unclear on the story. Seems like this trailer just focused"
Iron Man - Movie Trailer

"Silence. That's all I was after. Just make the screaming stop (and prevent me from adding to it) - nothing else mattered. While the challenge presented by my youngest child today may not be unusual for some families (unfortunately), for"
The Silence of the Lamb

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Weird Al Tube

The YouTube Weird Al list

Weird Al Yankovic is the undisputed king of music parody. People have said his career is dead about a year after almost every album he put out, but he keeps proving them wrong for 20 years running. The guy is a master at turning pop-culture on its ear.
The songs are funny on their own, but adding the video element brings his art to a new level. Almost any video you pick from that list will have you laughing, but here are a few of my favorites:

  • White and Nerdy (“MC Escher, that’s my favorite MC” – and look for the Star Wars Holiday Special)
  • Amish Paradise (“We haven’t even paid the phone bill in 300 years!”)
  • The Saga Begins (the Emporer on piano… brilliant.)
  • It’s all about the Pentiums (this one grew on me. Best line: “You’re just about as useless as JPEG’s to Helen Keller”)
  • UHF (This one’s for Mike, the only other person I know who’s seen the movie. The video’s not quite as funny unless you’ve seen the movie. Teaching Poodles to Fly… the firehose… nature’s suction cup… lol… you just gotta see it.)

Post your favorites in the comments!

[tags]Weird Al Yankovic, music, parody, humor, pop culture[/tags]

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2 comments to Weird Al Tube

  • Chris Palmer

    Jeff, I just watched Amish Paradise and loved it! It really surprised me to see a Florence Henderson cameo!

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    Jeff says:

    Yeah, I was surprised at the time too.

    There’s a radio station out here that played that song for 24 hours straight as a gimmick back when it came out. The DJ was pretending to be held hostage.

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