Why do they do this to me every year?
Broadway tunes = yuck.
1) David C.
2) David A.
3) Syesha
4) Carly
5) Jason
6) Brooke
Who will go: Boy-girl-boy-girl-boy-girl …. Not this week. Brooke’s start-stop-start will cost her and she will be sent home.
I have never met anyone who doesn’t like pizza. I know people who only like cheese pizza or people who will only eat pepperoni pizza, but I have never met anyone who says “no, thanks” to pizza.
I am of the mind that the more toppings, the better. Pile it on, thick. I love all of the meats (except anchovies) but you can fill it up with some green peppers and mushrooms. I am not a fan of onions or olives, but I am not a picker; if they are there, I will eat them.
I prefer restaurant pizza to frozen pizza, obviously, but I can live with a good Tombstone. For the money, Jack’s is also OK. On oddity with me is that I don’t like frozen pizza in a box. I know, I am weird.
In the Kankakee area, I do have my favorite pizza places.
Aurelio’s is the best overall, but Nancy’s stuffed is sent from heaven. I won free pizza for a year from Nancy’s last year, which amounted to 12 free pizzas. Nice!
Dale’s Pizza is my wildcard pick. It is really tasty with a cold Budweiser product.
The typical delivery joints — Domino’s, Papa John’s — will due in a pinch. When I was in college in Champaign, Pizza World was the place for cheap delivery. That bested Domino’s by light years. I don’t think it exists anymore, probably because I graduated and their sales dropped.
Talk to me, readers. What do you like on your pizza? What are your favorite brands and pizza restaurants? Do you like Hawaiian pizza (pineapple and bacon)?
No, not Kristy Lee.
If David Cook doesn’t win American Idol, then something is really flawed.
The guy took a syrupy Mariah Carey tune and turned into, dare I say, a masterpiece. It was the best performance I have ever seen/heard on American Idol. (Cook has most of the other ones as well.)
Actually, my hope is that he is voted off tonight so his CD will come out sooner. (Melissa G. also brings up a good point that if he wins, they may make him do a pop CD. I think whoever produces (is it still Clive Davis?) will be smarter than that.)
Anway, here are the rankings:
1) David C.
2) David A.
3) Carly
4) Jason
5) Syesha
6) Kristy Lee
7) Brooke
Who will go: Remember our boy-girl, boy-girl theme. Remember Michael Johns went last week. Remember Michael is a boy. Remember Carly has unjustly shown up in the bottom three lately. Remember there is some backlash because she’s already had a recording contract. Remember her sexy Irish accent, because unfortunately, it will be the last time we hear it on Idol. Carly is going home, unjustly so when she should be in the top three.
Be sure to click on over to Diet Pop Culture to wish Jaclyn a happy birthday.
My gender gap cohort hits the big 4-0 this Monday (if it were 2023). Happy Birthday, Jaclyn!!!!
Last year, a group of us went out, threw darts and emptied a keg or three in her honor. I believe I hit stage 3. (Read this for more on that). Jaclyn was well into stage 4.
While the group will be smaller this time, I still vow to do my part on the keg.
Not wanting to sound like an old man, but I remember those good old days when birthdays meant something. I remember being very happy at 21 and depressed at 29.
I didn’t do too badly on No. 30. Of course, two months later I had a heart attack, so that didn’t sit too well, but it did make No. 31 all the happier.
In February, I hit 39 and handled it far better than I handled 29. Maybe I am more grateful. I have a beautiful wife, three great kids at home, one angel in heaven, a mom in good health, an older brother who finally is taking better care of himself, three hounds and a semi-psychotic cat.
What more could I want?
I often ask viewers of American Idol how they vote following Tuesday’s show.
Do they vote for their favorite? Do they vote on what they feel is the best performance of the week? Do they vote against performers?
Most seem to vote for their favorites and not really on the performances at all.
For example, the week David Archuleta stumbled with the lyrics to “We Can Work It Out,” shouldn’t he have, at the very least, been in the bottom three? Shouldn’t he have been punished a little? Even the judges weren’t harsh on the lad.
That being said, I have no idea who should go home. Kristy Lee is the least talented but she’s had a couple of good weeks in a row. It would be sad to see her go after a good showing, when she survived all of those poorer showings.
Bottom three: Kristy Lee, Jason and Syesha — just because they have all spent time there.
Who should go: Kristy Lee is the least talented so logically, she should go.
Who will go: Unlike last year’s Idol Gives Back, someone will be sent home. The pattern is boy, girl, boy, girl and the boy’s turn is now up. Jason will be sent home, although I did enjoy his Hawaiian version of “Over the Rainbow.”
Dolly Parton proved to be a good mentor and good theme for last night’s American Idol.
No one really smacked a home run but there were plenty of doubles and triples.
Michael was the winner of the night but Carly, David C. and David A. were also quite good.
We’ll rank them this way this week:
1) Michael
2) Carly
3) David C.
4) David A.
5) Syesha
6) Brooke
7) Jason
Kristy Lee
9) Ramiele
Who should go: Kristy Lee has almost always been the one that should go but the last two weeks, she has been bearable. Ramiele has been consistently just average, so she should be the one to go.
Who will go: David H., Amanda, Chikezie — Boy, girl, boy … Seems like we have a pattern here.
The bottom three have had some surprises in the past few weeks (Carly, Syesha and Jason) so there’s no reason to think that something surprising won’t happen.
I expect Ramiele, Syesha and Jason to be the bottom three (Kristy seems to be gaining steam) and in an upset, Syesha will be voted off, keeping the pattern.
