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I read something in the newspaper this week that drove me up the tree that wasn’t cut down to print it on (since it was on their Web site, natch).  I can’t say exactly what, because it would amplify the jerk factor of this rant by a factor of, oh, I don’t know, 4 or so.  It’s also sort of a controversial issue, and I don’t need the headache.

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It seems this non-controversy won’t go away, so I thought I’d put Jon Stewart’s eviscerating of the “issue” up in one more place for people to find. And ignore, but, whatever…

Once upon a time, there was a pop star named Madonna.  (She was mostly a pop star back then.  The baby snatching didn’t come until much later.)  Anyway, she was giving an interview, and in response to some question (I dunno what it was) she said something to the effect of, “Yeah, Weird Al will probably do ‘Like A Surgeon.’”

Weird Al heard the interview, though, “well, okay,” and a funny song (iTunes, Amazon MP3) was born.

Flash-forward to 2001, when The Onion runs this article on one Brian Warner, aka Marilyn Manson: Marilyn Manson Now Going Door-To-Door Trying To Shock People

“Look at me, suburban dung,” Manson told Wesley. “Does this shock you?”

When Wesley replied no, he said Manson became “petulant.” Recalled Wesley: “He started stamping his feet and shaking his fists, saying, ‘What do you mean no? Aren’t your uptight, puritanical sensibilities offended? Don’t you want to censor me so you don’t have to confront the ugly truth I represent?’”

Flash-forward again to 2009, and  Mr. Warner has distilled that article in song form with his new single: Arma-g*****n-motherf***in-geddon (iTunes, Amazon MP3).

The tune is actually kinda catchy, but the lyrics make no real sense at all. He’s trying to be shocking and edgy, but he never quite gets beyond sad.    Unless he’s using self-parody as a way of preventing Weird Al from covering his songs, in which case he’s more clever than you and I.

So I wanted to say something snarky about singer* Kevin Rudolf on Twitter the other day, but I couldn’t fit it in 140 characters.  All I needed was a Fat Albert episode guide to link to, but to my surprise I couldn’t find one.  Now that I know you can’t find everything on the Internet, I’m not sure what to believe in.

Anyway, I once saw an episode of Fat Albert where his friend becomes a rock star with a song that consists solely of singing “I’m a rock ‘n roll star” over and over again.  Things are going great, till she plays Fat Albert her second single, which is the exact same song, only this time the lyric is “She’s a real cool kid.”

I was subjected to Kevin Rudolf’s second single by some radio station or another the other day.  It’s the same damn song.  I dare you to tell them apart: Let It Rock, Welcome To The World.  (Links require iTunes.) Kevin Rudolf and Fat Albert’s friend — could they be the same person (with a little gender reassignment surgery thrown in)?

* – I use the term singer loosely.  Anybody who saw his performance at halftime of the NBA All Star game would probably concur.