Drum kit that can be seen from space? Check.
Six cases of Aqua Net hair spray? Check.
Live tiger? Check.
Phyllis Diller? Check.

Then without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, I hereby present "Hungry For Your Love" by Luis Cardenas:

Thriller, schmiller...no latex-coated "zombie" scares me like Diller!

Sure, everyone knows the new junior senator from Minnesota used to be on SNL (including the roughly 4.5 trillion people yesterday who Tweeted a "good enough, smart enough, and doggone it, people like him" joke after the news broke.)

But did you know that in the early '80s Al Franken also co-founded the Franken & Davis School of Rock Star Impersonators?

(I originally wanted to do a retrospective of some of my favorite Franken & Davis sketches from back in the day, but my searches for embeddable SNL videos came up short...this was a pretty fantastic consolation prize, though, one I couldn't believe I'd missed until now.)

During all the non-stop Michael Jackson montages the past couple days, as I found myself automatically singing lines like, "don't want no Captain Crunch, don't want no Raisin Bran," and "don't you know that other kids are starving in Japan," it made me realize how much I've been jonesing for a dose of Weird Al. A big, fat, double-dose even.

Perhaps now, more than ever, we need the soothing tones of "Eat It" (click image above to play video in a new window) and "Fat" (after the jump, same deal.)

The King of Pop's premature death was indeed tragic. But there's still more tragedy going on half a world away -- a fact that the maker of this surprisingly effective and inspiring video mashup doesn't want us to forget.

His friends were a little mad about the prank. They were really mad about being sold to an art gallery.

Give 'em a minute -- they start out with your fairly standard slumber party shenanigans...but then they really do get pretty clever.