Behind The Weird Music

This is fun. Seventeen minutes of “Weird Al” Yankovic telling stories about his songs and videos.

He even explains what the deal is with “Albuquerque”. He decided to make an extremely long, annoying song pretty much as a troll job. Nobody could possibly like this or ever want to hear it more than once, he thought. Aaaaaaand now he’s been playing it live ever since because people keep asking for it.

How Bout I Take You Out, Ya Little Punk

As someone who can never look at the labels on anything, I can’t understand how this happened. You either know what something is or you don’t. If you order something and you don’t know what it looks like, why are you going to town on it before you’ve talked to the others? One of them probably does. Or maybe I’m giving all of these people too much credit. Given that things went as far as they did, I probably am.

And what is the sister so mad about? Nobody ate her food.

As detailed in a Wildwood Police Department arrest report, the Schell family had “ordered Chinese food but the takeout containers were not labeled,” which upset Schell since he did not know “which container of food was his.”
Schell’s son, police reported, said that he argued with his father and sister over the Chinese food “due to the fact that the victim had eaten [his father’s] food unknowingly.” The dispute turned violent, the victim said, when his sister began punching him in the face. Schell then allegedly joined the fracas, putting his son in a chokehold.
Schell’s wife told cops she was in her bedroom when she heard “crashing and yelling in the kitchen area.” When she entered the kitchen, the woman recalled, she saw Atlantis, 25, pummeling the victim, who was being choked by Schell. The battering, the woman added, ended only after she called 911 for help.
The victim had “visible red marks on the front side of his neck” and “fresh bruising/redness on his left eye,” noted police, who added that neither defendant “appeared to have any marks or bruises from this incident.”

Everything Is On The Table Doesn’t Mean Go Ahead And Eat The Candles

Over the years I’ve become, for the most part, the sort of sports fan that tries not to get super worked up or bent out of shape about every decision that a manager or a coach does or doesn’t make. Sometimes I get a little hot because this or that wasn’t what I would have done, but it’s usually pretty easy to let it go and get on with it. It annoys me, for example, when a pitcher is absolutely dealing and he gets pulled before he can get his no-hitter or complete game. It annoys me, but I can often see the bigger picture. It sucks to be robbed of witnessing an accomplishment like that, but it sucks more to have a guy’s arm explode. So I get mad for a minute and then it’s over. But sometimes, there’s this. What in the screaming hell was this!?

Toronto Blue Jays right-hander José Berríos was removed despite pitching three dominant innings in a must-win Game 2 of their wild-card series against the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday.
Berríos, who allowed three hits with five strikeouts and one walk on 47 pitches, was replaced by Yusei Kikuchi.

If you didn’t see the game or were fortunate enough to have been too drunk to remember it, go on and guess what happened next.

The left-hander allowed two runs – with one charged to Berríos – on two hits, including an RBI single to Carlos Correa, which ended up being the difference in a 2-0 win for the Twins.

Of course he did.

I want to be clear here. In no way do I blame Kikuchi for giving up those runs. He’s been a consistently good arm for us all year, far beyond anything that I think anyone could have reasonably expected going into this season. Had he come into the game at almost literally any other time, that would have been fine. It even would have been fine if he had coughed up those same two runs in the end, because that’s sports sometimes. You win some, you lose some. the blame for this lies 100% with John Schneider, who for whatever damn reason just could not resist managing for the sake of managing and wound up managing us right out of the playoffs.

“We had a few different plans in place,” Blue Jays manager John Schneider said when asked if that was the spot in the game the team wanted to transition from Berríos to Kikuchi, according to Sportsnet. “José was aware of it. He had electric stuff. It was tough to take him out.

I will grant you that I am not a professional baseball man, but as a haver of common sense I will still put forward the suggestion that maybe if it’s tough to take him out because he’s doing his job so well, that perhaps you don’t fucking do that, because it would be dumb if you did. Might throw off the entire momentum of the game, even. Maybe use one of those other plans instead, like the one where you leave well enough alone until there is any evidence at all that it might no longer be well enough. You did have that one, didn’t you?

“I think with the way they (the Twins) are constructed you want to utilize your whole roster.

You do, but you want to do so at the right times. Lifting Berríos for Kikuchi early in a game is something you do if Berríos is getting Clayton Kershawed, not in the fourth inning of a scoreless tie when he’s thrown less than 50 rather effective pitches.

It didn’t work out. … You can sit here and second-guess me, second-guess the organization, second-guess anybody.

Believe me, I will. It’s been nearly a week and I’m still not over it. This one’s going to take a while. Probably going to paint a lot of what you do next year in a different light, if I’m being honest. Maybe that’s not fair because most of the time you’re pretty ok, but when you screw up something so obvious so much when it counts, it’s hard not to have you wear it.

I get that. It’s tough. It didn’t work out for us today or yesterday.”
Schneider also lamented the decision since Berríos’ stuff was outstanding.
“It’s tough. José arguably (had) the best stuff he’s had all year,” the 43-year-old skipper said, according to ASAP Sports. “And coming in to (play) his former team and a place that he’s familiar with, it was tough to watch it unfold a little bit.”

I can empathize, John. It really is hard to watch the consequences of one’s needless foolishness play out so publicly and immediately. It hurts, but I’m glad you’re feeling it. What I need you to do now is remember this feeling next year come playoff time and resolve not to feel it again.

KW Concerts: An Easy Way To Find Out About Upcoming Shows In Waterloo Region

Thanks to one handy website (the TL;WR weekly Waterloo Region events guide), I’ve just discovered another handy website, kw concerts.ca. There’s a lot of music around here, happening in places big and small. This is one person’s attempt to gather up as much of it as possible in one place so that it’s easy to find out what’s going on where. I already know I’ll be making it a regular stop. All I need now is a site like it for comedy shows and I’ll be set.

I Think You Missed A Step


Do you ever wonder if uSave Flooring has a shoplifting problem? With a slogan like “Prices so low, just take it and go!” they’re pretty much asking for one, aren’t they? They do sell a lot of product that wouldn’t be the easiest to sneak off with, which probably helps. But if someone did, would they even be able to complain? All the ads are flat out saying yeah, go ahead, so if you do, aren’t you just taking them up on an offer?

A Very Good Cover Of Ripple

I suppose it maybe isn’t that much of a stretch to think of the Grateful Dead’s “Ripple” as a country song, but apparently when you really lean into that style it works rather well.

This is Logan Ledger, who as often happens with these covers I had never heard of until right this moment.

According to Ledger, he was recording his album with Jennings at Sunset Sound in L.A. when he began singing “Ripple” in the booth. Jennings encouraged him to cut it, and they did.

“I’m very fond of the recording we made together — the way Shooter’s piano weaves in gracefully just for that one little section, Nick Bockrath’s tremolo part which evokes David Grisman’s mandolin on the original, Russ Pahl’s blanket of hippie steel, Frank Rische’s beautiful harmony. It reminds me of home,” Ledger says.

Plumbing Issue…Exhibition…This Post May Not Need Me

“What kind of creep has cameras in his bedroom,” this guy probably asked?

Guelph police said a man went to a house to repair a plumbing issue in the Exhibition Park area on April 7.
Once inside the home, they said the maintenance worker looked in the fridge before going into the homeowner’s bedroom.
Then, police allege the man took out personal lubrication from a bedside table and lay down on the bed.
Investigators said he was unaware of several surveillance cameras inside the home, including one in the bedroom.
The homeowner then activated the voice feature on the camera and asked the man to leave. He quickly stood up and appeared to pull up his pants.

But did he get his pipes fixed?

No, not him, ya weirdos.

The Fail Must Go Through


Canada Post found that guy’s lost inheritance cheque. It was behind a drawer.

I don’t want to accuse anyone of anything because lord knows we’ve all had situations where we’ve lost something and only found it after we check the same place for like the 15th time, but it’s hard not to find it just a little odd that the thing had been missing for months and then miraculously turned up right after the news came to visit.

Louis Kavaratzis was in shock when he got a phone call from Canada Post Monday telling him that a piece of registered mail — which contained a certified cheque for $301,560 — turned up weeks after it had gone missing.
“I felt a big sense of relief, yet I’m still frustrated, very much. Last night I didn’t sleep one bit,” Kavaratzis said Tuesday. “[But] I won’t rest until the cash is actually in the bank.”

After CBC News reported on his story last week, Kavaratzis says the local post office in Ayer’s Cliff rang him up at 6:30 p.m. on Monday saying they had searched the office again and had found the missing envelope behind a drawer reserved for registered mail.
“When they removed the drawer, they found my registered mail … [that] supposedly had fallen on the back of the drawer,” Louis said.
He says he rushed to the post office as soon as he received the call to retrieve the envelope.
“I was in shock, I didn’t know what to say. I looked at it, I opened it in front of them to make sure it was the cheque.”

And get a load of this quality customer service.

His brother, George, says while he is happy to learn that the cheque had been located, he wondered why it wasn’t spotted in the initial searches of the facilities.
“Unbelievable, what a relief,” he told CBC News Tuesday. “I am extremely happy for my brother, that he’s getting his money.
“It seems a little fishy to me to be honest. Why didn’t they look there before?”

Before finding out the cheque had been found, he said Canada Post sent him a cheque refunding him $12.22.
“I guess that was their way of apologizing.”

I don’t even know what to say.