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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.

Al Yankovic

People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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Get Better People School
My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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Own Personal Song Target Taste
It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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Difficult Friend Player Rock Teenager
Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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Afraid Algebra Animation Boy Flunking Like Lot Nuclear Thing Wolf
So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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Crazy Drive Know Pick Song Try
He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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Better Death Little Long Look Nerdy People Year
I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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Book Career Child Picture Pretty Raed Same Time Want Year
I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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Able Article Bunch Come Couple Friend Magazine Solicit
Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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never Put Velvet Weight
So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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Funny Gotta Know Material Merit Parody Regard Rule Source Write
Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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Honesty Nintendo Pour Salt Snail
I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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Art Humble Know Million Time
I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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History Long Respect Stand Wish
A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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Melody Rap Song Usually
That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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Big Comfort Depth Life Part Prepare Try
It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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Creativity Force Hard Humor

You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.

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