So the kids have discovered Google video, which means that they have been watching two parodies several times daily. One is a fat guy in a wig lip-synching Shakira's "Hips Don't Lie." Not sure why this merits more than one viewing, but, then again, I'm not ten. If you do happen to click over, consider the fact that at least one of the kids cues this up every day and goes, "no, no, please, please, you really have to watch it!"
"Aw, I've seen it a hundred times," I say.
"I know, but watch it again!" This goes on, but it eventually becomes easier to submit. Know this, and pity me.
The other is Weird Al doing a parody of that Ridin' Dirty song that they played so much on Today's Hottest Hip Hop and R&B Station that I heard it several times even though I never listen to that station. Anyway, so Weird Al's version is "White and Nerdy," and I have to say it's kinda brilliant. Because, of course, Weird Al and his fan base actually are white and nerdy, so it's kind of like this affectionate self-parody, and you have to be white and nerdy, or at least nerdy, to get the jokes. So, for example, when Weird Al hands a wad of cash to a guy in an alley and gets a brown paper bag containing...The Star Wars Holiday Special, I am the only one in the house who gets the joke. And I'm damn sure not going to explain it to everybody, because then they'll know exactly what a dork I am.
Having said all this, they discovered this one two days after the Shakira one, so I will probably be ready to kill Weird Al in another day or two.
