<div dir="ltr"><font size="4">When the lead singer of Devo worked with Al on a project, he later stated that he had never seen someone so perceptive about music, and one step ahead of everyone else. </font><div><br></div>
<div><br></div><div>From Wikipedia:</div><div><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">"Yankovic began kindergarten a year earlier than most children, and he skipped the second grade. "My classmates seemed to think I was some kind of rocket scientist so I was labeled a nerd early on", he recalls.<sup id="cite_ref-booklet_9-5" class="" style="line-height:1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic#cite_note-booklet-9" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:nowrap;background:none">[9]</a></sup> As his unusual schooling left him two years younger than most of his classmates, Yankovic was not interested in sports or social events at school. He was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valedictorian" title="Valedictorian" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">valedictorian</a> of his senior class.<sup id="cite_ref-booklet_9-6" class="" style="line-height:1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic#cite_note-booklet-9" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:nowrap;background:none">[9]</a></sup> Yankovic was active in his school's extracurricular programs, including the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Forensic_League" title="National Forensic League" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">National Forensic League</a>, a play based upon <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Without_a_Cause" title="Rebel Without a Cause" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">Rebel Without a Cause</a></i>, the yearbook (for which he wrote most of the captions), and the Volcano Worshippers club, "which did absolutely nothing. We started the club just to get an extra picture of ourselves in the yearbook."<sup id="cite_ref-booklet_9-7" class="" style="line-height:1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic#cite_note-booklet-9" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:nowrap;background:none">[9]</a></sup></p>
<p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">Yankovic attended <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Polytechnic_State_University" title="California Polytechnic State University" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">California Polytechnic State University</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Luis_Obispo,_California" title="San Luis Obispo, California" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">San Luis Obispo</a> where he earned a degree in architecture.<sup id="cite_ref-Conrad_8-2" class="" style="line-height:1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic#cite_note-Conrad-8" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:nowrap;background:none">[8]</a>"</sup></p>
<p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><sup class="" style="line-height:1"><br></sup></p></div><div><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">
"Yankovic married Suzanne Krajewski in 2001; their daughter, Nina, was born in 2003.<sup id="cite_ref-NCT_38-0" class="" style="line-height:1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic#cite_note-NCT-38" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:nowrap;background:none">[38]</a></sup> They also have a pet <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockatiel" title="Cockatiel" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">cockatiel</a> named Bo Veaner<sup id="cite_ref-faq_7-5" class="" style="line-height:1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic#cite_note-faq-7" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:nowrap;background:none">[7]</a></sup> and dog named Bambu. They used to have a pet <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poodle" title="Poodle" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">poodle</a>, named Bela (pictured atop Yankovic's head on the cover of his album, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poodle_Hat" title="Poodle Hat" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">Poodle Hat</a></i>). Yankovic identifies as Christian and has stated that a couple from his church appeared on the cover of <i>Poodle Hat</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="" style="line-height:1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:nowrap;background:none">[39]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="" style="line-height:1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:nowrap;background:none">[40]</a></sup></p>
<p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">Yankovic changed his diet to become a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veganism" title="Veganism" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">vegan</a> in 1992, after a former girlfriend gave him the book <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_for_a_New_America" title="Diet for a New America" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">Diet for a New America</a></i> and he felt "it made [...] a very compelling argument for a strict vegetarian diet."<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="" style="line-height:1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:nowrap;background:none">[41]</a></sup> When asked how he can "rationalize" performing at events such as the <i>Great American Rib Cook-Off</i> when he is a vegan, he replied, "The same way I can rationalize playing at a college even though I’m not a student anymore."<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="" style="line-height:1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic#cite_note-42" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:nowrap;background:none">[42]</a></sup></p>
<p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">On April 9, 2004, Yankovic's parents were found dead in their <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallbrook,_California" title="Fallbrook, California" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">Fallbrook, California</a>, home, apparently the victims of accidental <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_monoxide_poisoning" title="Carbon monoxide poisoning" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">carbon monoxide poisoning</a> from their fireplace that had been recently lit. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flue" title="Flue" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">flue</a> was closed, which trapped the carbon monoxide gas inside the house, suffocating them.<sup id="cite_ref-NCT_38-1" class="" style="line-height:1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic#cite_note-NCT-38" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:nowrap;background:none">[38]</a></sup> Several hours after his wife notified him of his parents' death, Yankovic went on with his concert in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mankato,_Minnesota" title="Mankato, Minnesota" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">Mankato, Minnesota</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="" style="line-height:1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:nowrap;background:none">[43]</a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-44" class="" style="line-height:1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic#cite_note-44" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:nowrap;background:none">[44]</a></sup>saying that "since my music had helped many of my fans through tough times, maybe it would work for me as well" and that it would "at least ... give me a break from sobbing all the time." Although Yankovic played the concert as planned, a scheduled meet and greet following the concert was canceled.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="" style="line-height:1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic#cite_note-45" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:nowrap;background:none">[45]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="" style="line-height:1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic#cite_note-46" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:nowrap;background:none">[46]</a>"</sup></p>
<p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></p></div><div>John </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 4:58 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Weird Al Yankovic has released a new album, Mandatory Fun. Life is good!<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">This is a screen grab from one of his older works, White & Nerdy. I had seen this one before and love it, but I noticed something new this time: on the screen in the background Yankovic took the time and effort to write out Schroedinger’s wave equation with expanded Hamiltonian operator, and did it right. His attention to detail was such that he wrote it out correctly instead of just writing some garbage.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">The man is brilliant.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img width="605" height="369" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CFA2A9.788F3E60"><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Excellent!<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
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