National Public Radio had an interview with Weird Al Yankovic this morning. (Info and replay available on NPR’s site.) Made me stop in my morning routine to take a listen. Even better, this evening I got a chance to hear the EXTENDED version of the interview. Beats listening to the BEA webinar that I tried to connect to – luckily for me, their webinar presenter’s site was down, and I got to hear Weird Al instead.

True confessions: Weird Al’s music was the stuff I can first recall singing out loud while listening to my Walkman in the 80’s. I snatched up each cassette as they came out, and had the great luck in college to get to go a Weird Al concert. At one point, an ex-boyfriend gave me the boxed set of Weird Al, knowing that this was the way to win my heart.

I’ve since given away my boxed set to a young friend who’s captivated by Weird Al’s music, and had decided to pass up his latest release (Poodle Hat) because I was too grown up to buy a Weird Al CD. (Note that I do own Running with Scissors, released in 1999, so this a fairly recent “maturity”.) Hearing him on the radio this morning, and checking out the info on Amazon for it, I think I’m going to have to dive back into my childhood spirit and snag Poodle Hat. Maybe even a Weird Al t-shirt… think I like the anime one best…