There’s a small, dedicated group of weirdoes somewhere sniffing Scotchgard right now. After already hinting at an extended hiatus last month, Aaron “Gene Ween” Freeman has gone on the record with Rolling Stone stating that it’s time to move on, that twenty five years with Mickey “Dean Ween” Melchiondo was a good enough run. Gene, fresh out of rehab, has been promoting his first solo album, a collection of Rod McKuen covers, and after much pushing by music journalists, has stopped being elusive about the state of his childhood band. “I’m retiring Gene Ween,” he says. Could this really be happening? Apparently, Dean is asking himself the same question. Gene’s public breakup was also news to the guitarist, who has yet to respond in an equally public manner. So until we get more info, maybe the best we can do is drink a beer tonight and sing the Blarney Stone/pray. And if it does all come to an end, concluding with a sober, wrinkly Gene Ween crooning easy listening covers, well then, it’ll just be us Ween fans’ responsibility to paint the town brown from now on.