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Ween is part rock band, part comic circus and part junior-high bus ride. Frontmen Mickey Melchiondo and Aaron Freeman hooked up 15 years ago at age 14, adopted the monikers Dean and Gene Ween, and haven't stopped playing (or grown up) since. Ween had their first major label with 1992's Pure Guava and have since logged a string of studio and live albums. Their 1997 release The Mollusk, with its blatantly thecal cover, will undoubtably go down in the annals of rock as the album that gave NOFX's Heavy Petting Zoo the best competition for most...
...Mickey Edwards, a former member of Congress and Adams Lecturer in Legislative Politics at the Kennedy School of Government, explained this recent phenomenon in an e-mail message. He wrote, "people who have achieved some measure of celebrity sometimes also achieve an over-inflated sense of their own importance...
...When Mickey Mantle died, DiMaggio was still around. Ted Williams remains now that DiMaggio has passed on. But Williams, arguably the best hitter ever, is still mortal, and may not be around much longer...
...exactly the type of story you'd expect to see Mickey Mouse or Bugs Bunny hopping around...
Towards the end of our trip, we visited Captain Blaubar, a blue-bear pirate who, as luck would have it, has his own amusement park. Blaubar's assistant, Heimblud is a tall, lanky weasel--an absurd caricature of Mickey Mouse who proves, once and for all, that all rodents are not created equal. The park itself is an odd collage, including a petting zoo, cow-milking competition, and a half pipe for skateboarding teenagers...