Required Reading
- What’s Your Problem with Joe Biden?
- Dirty Rubles: An Introduction to Trump/Russia (My New Book)
- Youth for the President
- A Summary of the Conspiracy Against the United States
- Trump: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 3)
- Postcards from the Resistance, Vol. 8: Mother of All
- From Lance Armstrong to Trump: The Rise & Fall of the Deified Narcissist
- Reading Malcolm X in Texas
- Playing the Donald Trump Game
- President Rapist: Women Under Trump
- An Open Letter to My Fellow Liberals
- The Democrats Can’t Win If They Won’t Fight
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Tag Archives: Weird Al Yankovic
Dare To Be Stupid: Comedy Songs, The Best and the Rest
The ability to make people laugh is even rarer than the ability to make beautiful music. The combination of both, executed well, is cause for celebration. Amanda Nazario gives props to parody progenitors Stan Freberg, Allan Sherman, Tom Lehrer, et al, and the 21st century’s own master of making fun, “Weird Al” Yankovic, still riding high after debuting at number one last year. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciations, Humor, Memoir, Music, The Arts, The Weeklings
Tagged dr demento, parodysongs, stan freberg, tom lehrer, Weird Al Yankovic
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Rock and Roll Coffee: An Interview With “Weird” Al Yankovic
JM Blaine sits down with “Weird” Al Yankovic and talks parodies, Prince and architecture. Wait, what? Continue reading
Posted in Rock and Roll Coffee, Saturday Music
Tagged Eat It, Frank Lloyd Wright, JM Blaine, Music, Prince, rock and roll, song parody, Weird Al The Book, Weird Al Yankovic, writing
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The Enemy of Mediocrity is Hilarity
Sometimes satire is the greatest homage as Amanda Nazario discovers listening to My Dick, which takes her from Ween to Billy Joel. And, back. Continue reading
