Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

The Big Squeeze: Day Thirty-Nine: "One of Those Days" from Polka Party!

Al derives inspiration from The Kinks in this oddly irresistible deep album cut.

The Big SqueezeNathan RabinAugust 3, 2020The Kinks, Polka Party!

The Weird Accordion to Al: Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Edition Book Excerpt: The Compleat Al

In honor of the Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Edition of The Weird Accordion to Al’s publication day we’re running an excerpt from the book on Al’s 1985 longform video The Compleat Al.

Big-ass articles, The Weird Accordion To Al, The Big SqueezeNathan RabinAugust 2, 2020"Weird Al" Yankovic, The Weird Accordion to Al, The Weird Accordion to Al expanded, Michael Jackson, Devo, "Dare To Be Stupid"

The Big Squeeze: Day Thirty-Eight: "Addicted to Spuds"

Some tater tots would blow your mind!

The Big SqueezeNathan RabinJuly 30, 2020Robert Palmer, "Addicted to Love", The Weird Accordion To Al, The Weird Accordion to Al expanded, The Weird Accordion to Al book

The Big Squeeze: Day Thirty-Seven: "Dog Eat Dog" from Polka Party!

This is not my beautiful stapler!

The Big SqueezeNathan RabinJuly 29, 2020The Talking Heads, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Polka Party!, The Weird Accordion to Al book, The Weird Accordion to Al expanded

The Official Release of the Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Edition of The Weird Accordion to Al is Being Postponed For Bullshit Technical Reasons

I spent Monday hyping the publication day of the Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Edition of The Weird Accordion to Al. Then, in an unfortunate turn of events, the book was not published due to a variety of frustrating technical reasons.

The Weird Accordion To Al, The Big Squeeze, The Big WhoopNathan RabinJuly 29, 2020"Weird Al" Yankovic, The Weird Accordion to Al, The Weird Accordion to Al book, The Weird Accordion to Al expanded

The Big Squeeze Day Thirty-Six: "Living With a Hernia" from Polka Party!

Hurts him bad, in a tender location!

The Big SqueezeNathan RabinJuly 28, 2020James Brown, "Living With a Hernia", Rocky IV

The Big Squeeze Day Thirty-Five: "Hooked on Polkas"

Our epic trip BACK through the complete discography returns with a loving exploration of the final track on Dare To Be Stupid and Al’s first parody of exclusively contemporary hits.