I am not going to live-blog American Idol this year, for a number of reasons, the most compelling of which is that most people who read and enjoyed the live-blogging are now seeing the show three hours before me (even if I don’t timeshift, and I probably will), so it wouldn’t really be live.
But that’s [...]

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Is it just me, or were they REALLY pushing Archuleta for the win? I pretty much picked Cook over Archuleta every round, and then Simon did the opposite. Not that the judges and I usually agree, it just seemed like both Simon and Randy were giving Archuleta more praise than he deserved. His first song [...]

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There are a couple of month-old posts over on Gene Edward Veith’s blog that I’ve been thinking about for, well, a month. Not constantly, of course. And I haven’t commented on them, and probably won’t, because of the amount of time that’s passed, but still. I’m thinking about them.  It started when he posted briefly [...]

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Random Thoughts.
1) I’m getting a little annoyed that pretty much all the themes are a person rather than a genre. Okay, so each person sort of represents a genre (Mariah Carey = pop, Dolly Parton = country, Beatles = classic rock, Andrew Lloyd Webber = Broadway, Neil Diamond = rock), but limiting it to that [...]

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Oh, joy, an entire night of singing Mariah Carey songs. *eyeroll* And most of the singers aren’t really Mariah-style singers – which I think actually turned out well. It meant they had to come up with their own takes on the songs because they didn’t have a chance of singing her version.
David Archuleta – "When [...]

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And the liveblog’s back. [Feedreader/Facebook/Livejournal readers click through to see embedded liveblog].

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We got back from spring break last night, but I just got around to watching last week’s American Idol tonight. And let me just say, I’ve been clammering for a Beatles-themed night for the past two years (i.e., all the years I’ve been watching), and I WAS NOT WRONG. I didn’t love everyone’s [...]

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You know the worst thing about watching American Idol live? I have to tune to Fox a few minutes before seven, and Two and a Half Men reruns are on, and it sucks. Why can’t they have, say, Arrested Development reruns, or Family Guy reruns, or something good reruns? No. Two [...]

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