Something Ridiculous: The Weezer Snuggie Or "Wuggie"

11/03/09 5:04pm

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

I've gotten in trouble for using the word "ridiculous" on this website in the past, but this time I'm going to do it with abandon. ...OK, maybe not abandon, but here's the idea:

This is the first installment of a new series on my blog which will be called... Something Ridiculous.

(For the record, the word "ridiculous" doesn't always necessarily mean what I am discussing is "bad." Silliness, as Monty Python have repeatedly shown us in the past, is often quite awesome.)

My goal is to make it a daily thing (for now it will probably be a whenever-the-hell-I-remember thing until I manage to scour the Interwebs for enough content) of sorts wherein I'll post something that's music related and just plain silly, preferably in video format.

Today we examine the Weezer Snuggie, or "Wuggie," as the band have dubbed it. The Wuggie (I cannot even believe I have now written that word twice) is being released in tandem with Weezer's seventh studio album, the also ridiculously titled Raditude, which is out as of Tuesday (Nov. 3).

The Weezer Snuggie costs you $30 through the Weezer website, but for now it comes with Raditude. If you buy a deluxe copy of Weezer's Raditude from the website, you'll get that and a ZEBRA-patterned Wuggie and photo-book for $50.

(Or you could just do youself a favour and spend less money by buying Raditude for $3.99 on Amazon MP3 and just sew a bunch of blankets together or go to the fabric store and buy enough fleece to make your own Snuggie.)

Wait, why is there no leopard-patterned Wuggie?

There's even a commercial for the Wuggie, which kind of makes me love Weezer a tiny bit more, even though I think Raditude is totally stinky (like those feet Brian Bell is massaging). Here's the commercial:

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