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Well, now I've met Weird Al [message #181746] Tue, 01 February 2011 23:50 Go to next message
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That reduces my Joel and Mike social circle numbers to 2, right?

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Re: Well, now I've met Weird Al [message #181747 is a reply to message #181746] Wed, 02 February 2011 10:33 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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In article <iianrg$615$1@reader1.panix.com>,
nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:

> That reduces my Joel and Mike social circle numbers to 2, right?

Details? Pictures?

Judith

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Re: Well, now I've met Weird Al [message #181748 is a reply to message #181747] Thu, 03 February 2011 11:00 Go to previous message
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In <JUJU-62D929.10330702022011@free.teranews.com> Judith <JUJU@withouta.net> writes:

> In article <iianrg$615$1@reader1.panix.com>,
> nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:

>> That reduces my Joel and Mike social circle numbers to 2, right?

> Details? Pictures?

The event was a book-signing at a Princeton (NJ) Barnes & Noble,
for his new children's book, _When I Grow Up_. It was nothing but
signing --- no performance, although what I take to be a best-of album
was playing on the Muzak system --- which was probably for the best.
The line was an hour and a half deep in my position, and I wasn't near
the end.

One woman nearly fainted at meeting Weird Al. He was both
gracious and pleasant to everybody, and posed merrily for pictures,
often with very silly faces on him. I did get a picture, although I
don't know how to get it out of my phone just yet.

Although the line stretched from the front of the store, around
back, to the restrooms, back across the store to the children's section,
and then moving forward again, it was a genial, happy crowd, not as
intense as that at the Rally to Restore Sanity, but awfully similar in
tone.

A lot of the evening was spent seeing people come up to the line
and ask what it was for. Some of them, on being told, even feigned
convincingly having any idea who this Weird Al guy was.

I took my chance meeting him and shaking his hand to thank him
specifically for ``Dare To Be Stupid'', which I heard recently after a
couple years without listening and realizing just how joyful the song
leaves me.

The book's a sweet little one, too.

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