"Or check out 'Bob,' his recasting of 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' entirely in palindromes. The song is worth a whole library of faux-scholarly Dylan criticism. It manages to reproduce all of Dylan's lyrical signatures—gnomic aphorisms ('Do geese see God?'), fragments of dialogue ('"Do nine men interpret?" "Nine men," I nod'), dislocated historical figures ('O Geronimo, no minor ego')."
Sam Anderson ponders "Weird Al" Yankovic's oeuvre in Slate.
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This article made me feel that I was intelligent for liking Weird Al instead of just thinking I have a silly sense of humor
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