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Isaac Hanson, who with his brothers thingy and the other one Hanson were in the band Hanson, is currently not being in Hanson, as a "potentially life-threatening clot" has put him in hospital in Oklahoma. It's not known yet how serious his pulmonary embolism is; the band pulled their gig in Tulsa last night and, obviously the rest of the tour hangs on how Isaac does.

Try it, and I'll tell you

A few years back, there was an advert for a sherry designed to be used as a mixer which - acknowledging the horrific nature of the idea - was built around the belief that if you didn't know what it was when you tried it, you'd really be able to enjoy it. Like with Oedipus, of course.

A similar approach has been adopted by a Chicago radio station, Q101, which has discovered that people really love the new Hanson material - providing they don't know it's Hanson when they hear it.

It's an interesting social experiment, but Tipo Sherry still failed, and Oedipus didn't see the funny side when he realised it was his Mother.

You hope that Amanda Hugginkiss enters

In a bid to promote their new album, Hanson have come up with a corker of competition: they'll write a special song for the winner:

As part of the special album presale promotion, on Friday June 22 the band is launching a contest offering fans the chance to be the lucky winner of a personalized song written especially about them by Hanson. The contest rewards fans for their efforts in helping drive traffic to the band’s website by placing customized banner ads, click-throughs and links that result in the most hits. A download of the song will be given away for free to anyone who enters.

Of course, it means that Hanson are going to be stuck writing a song about the sort of person who still likes Hanson in 2007, which means the chances are that they're going to be looking for a rhyme for "still live with your parents even though you're nearing menopause".

Wanna feel ancient?

Taylor from Hanson is a dad