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-<h2 id="mp-dyk-h2" style="margin:0; background:#cef2e0; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3bfb1; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Featured article: ''<u>By the Side of the Road</u>''</h2><br>
+<h2 id="mp-dyk-h2" style="margin:0; background:#cef2e0; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3bfb1; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Featured article: ''<u>Mykel and Carli Allan</u>''</h2><br>
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+[[Image:Mykel-Carli-weezer.jpg|250px|right]]
-"'''By the Side of the Road'''" is a poem written by [[Rivers Cuomo]]. An audio recording of Cuomo reading it was released on [[February 4]], [[2009]] on [http://www.daytrotter.com/dt/rivers-cuomo-concert/20030628-40482.html daytrotter.com] as part of their "Bookery" series.
+'''Mykel''' and '''Carli Allan''' were sisters that were friends and supporters of [[Weezer]] early in their career. They are considered the biggest Weezer fans of all time. The Weezer song "[[Mykel & Carli]]" was written for them.
+The Allans became active fans in the early-90s Los Angeles rock club scene.  They were early friends and supporters of Weezer as well as several other, mostly LA-based, unknown or unsigned bands of the time.
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+After befriending Weezer, they were asked to help stuff envelopes full of lyrics and mailing list info for fans who'd written in to the address printed in ''[[The Blue Album]]'' requesting such info.  Their eager help along these lines led to them being the founding members of the [[Weezer Fan Club]].  They would henceforth be considered the band's biggest fans, evidenced by the assignment of membership card numbers 0001 and 0002 to them ad infiniti.
-'''''[http://media.daytrotter.com/audio/96/4823063.mp3 Hear Cuomo's reading of the poem]'''''
-<small><lyrics>I want to stop by the side of the road
+In mid-[[1997]], during the latter portions of the ''[[Pinkerton]]'' tour, the sisters would make a point to show up at as many shows as possible, meeting with fan clubbers.  After a July show in Colorado, the sisters (along with their younger sister Trysta) died in a car accident.  Little has been released in the way of details, likely out of respect for the family's privacy, but it has been suggested that the driver fell asleep at the wheel, or that the Colorado mountains' icy or treacherous roads played a part, or possibly both.  The sisters were expected at the next show or two, but when they failed to meet up at the first show, there was a sense of uneasiness among the Weezer camp.  The band eventually found out on route to the next show.
-I want to throw up all that I've known
-I want to spit it up violent
-Like an exhaust pipe and toxic *gag*
-I just want to fall to my knees and *gag* until there's nothing left but my bones
-And I'll lie in the grass by the side of the road
-And I'll rub my hands in the dirt
-And I'll meet the worms and I'll rub my face in it
-It's not good, it's not bad, it just is
-and boooooy?
-And I'll emace the tree
-And I'll lick the bark and smell the age
-Feel the roots deep in the earth
-And rip it free with one hand
-And swallow it whole
-And I'll sit in this bush for an hour or two
-by the side of the road
-I'll make new friends
-Bush friends
-I'll listen to the crack as I shift my weight
-and it rains
-I'll lie on my back
-The sponge would do
-Going with every drop that falls in my ears, eyes, and nose...</lyrics></small>
-'''''See more of the poem in the full article'''''
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+<span style="float:right; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 80%; padding:0 .5em 0 2em">''[[Mykel and Carli Allan|full article]] | [[Weezerpedia:Featured article|edit]] | [[:Category:Featured article|previous featured articles]]</span>
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