Did You Help Weird Al?

I’ll bet you did, or many of you did. I did. I shared this video on FB and here. I didn’t know I was part of a savvy media machine.

It made the rounds on many of my friends’ Facebook pages. Al has been around for more than 30 years, and the story linked here (clicky-clicky) is for those who, like me, are media observers as well as consumers.

HemmingPlay

https://hemmingplay.wordpress.com/about/ More at the link. I remember him. He was sitting in the heat on the dock waiting for the ferry to Okracoke, Island in the Outer Banks, NC. It was probably sometime in '72 or '73. He'd driven nearly 12 hours straight and was so tired he couldn't understand the accents of the natives there. I wonder whatever happened to him? I heard a rumor that he married a skinny Irish girl and they settled down somewhere, had a couple of boys, got old. He put on a few pounds. She's still got the girlish shape that caught his eye all those years ago. He probably still has that shirt, though, and still wishes he looked like this. The idiot.

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July 19, 2014

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Weird Al

2 thoughts on “Did You Help Weird Al?”

stillight
July 19, 2014 at 9:56 PM

Hah! I love Weird Al, always have! Was dancing around to this and can’t wait to hear the rest of his musical parodies.

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- HemmingPlay
  July 19, 2014 at 11:43 PM
  
  Good! 🙂
  
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