Huh.

[jlh]

I'm telling you people right now: you can vote on the poll whenever you want, but you won't get a cookie if you're voting well after the dial idol predictions are available.

So, like, are the black folks just not watching this season? Just not watching any more? I mean, I didn't think Chikezie or Syesha were that interesting, but I thought the whole "quiet storm" crowd would be voting for them.

We hope that being in the bottom three gives Jason a little boot, and also Jason's fans to make sure they vote for him all the time. But if he doesn't seem to be trying hard he's going to lose the grandma vote. However, the thing with Kristy I found to be sort of silly and pointless. No one thought she was in the bottom three.

I think that they're going to keep sending a lot of questions to the judges rather than the singers because the singers don't really know how to answer them in an interesting way yet, while Simon doesn't know any other way to answer them. "You have asked me why the sky is blue? I will find a way to make fun of Ryan in my answer!"

Ryan: love the suit, the skinny tie, the stubble, the fit of the jacket over your cute little ass. But for the love of god, cut your hair before you start looking like a lesbian Top Cheftestant.

I adore Kimberley Locke. She was so classy on Celebrity Fit Club when "Screech" was being such a ginormous prick.

Comments

[dana-kujan.livejournal.com]

Thank you for saying everything I was thinking...

The black folks: WTF, people?

The call-in Q&A: Please, someone, just go ahead and ask if they're screwing, all the answers are all about the Rymon anyway!

The hair: He's starting to look like Tintin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_and_Snowy)!

[amyamy.livejournal.com]

One of the questions was basically that and Ryan skipped it - you could see it on the pop up: "You two flirt all the time anyway, when will you admit you like each other?" was more or less the wording. I thought it was hysterical.

[akari-hayashi.livejournal.com]

O_____O Now that's priceless. They can just eventually be forced to close down the segment coz every single question is Rymon.

[eilujspark.livejournal.com]

Actually that was for Simon and Paula. :p The girl was 15, so I guess she wouldn't know better. ;)

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Oh, heteronormativity. The gift that keeps on giving.

[amyamy.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, I couldn't make out the 'to' field...

[jlh.livejournal.com]

OMG, and how about that endless itunes/ipod infomercial in the middle? I mean, at least with the Ford pimpmercial we can see it coming, and take it for what it is, but the "segment" about itunes—Apple needs to get better integration on that show, because that was some clunky shit. And it needn't have been.

He is starting to look like Tintin, but like, the look is so 2002. He's just not usually so fashion-backward.

Below there's a link to a Shales article in the Washington Post about Ryan, and Ryan says something about how Simon thinks that the plant in the corner wants to fuck him, which I find hilarious.

[zorb]

Okay, so I'm a week behind with my guesses. *g*

Down goes another interesting contestant, alas. Also, I think we should ban the judges from using the term "dark horse" anymore, because who except wee!David hasn't had the term applied at this point?

[akari-hayashi.livejournal.com]

I DON'T GET IT. Chikezie was good. Syesha too. D: Why aren't people voting for them? Maybe I am really Martian.

[eilujspark.livejournal.com]

Well "Ari" was kind of rude. "Hey, how can I steal someone's job?" But she's just a silly teenager so it's okay.
However, I don't think that Ryan took Simon's diss in the usual humor. He had that smile that looks more like a grimace and he wouldn't look at Simon. I wondered what the big deal was this time till he said "I'm aiming for tolerable." That's a quote from this very lukewarm article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/21/AR2008032100950_pf.html

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Nice find, because it didn't sound like his turn of phrase. That's a weird article from Shales, like he's been napping and just woke up 5 years later to find that Ryan owns all the networks or something.

The whole no-talent thing, I don't know. I think being able to herd that many cats is a huge talent, and I realize that every time I watch other live reality shows, where things don't work as well because all those people can't think on their feet. And I'm always surprised that the people who write these articles never bring it back to the radio show, because that's where he got the mad skills in the first place.

Also, old men love him. Larry loves him, Merv loved him, Dick loves him. He's a charmer.

But whatever, these are the same people who say that Paris Hilton is famous for "nothing" when she actually has the oldest fame of all: she's an heiress. She would have been famous in the 1870s, when few knew the names of actresses or singers.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I love it when people talk about being famous for nothing as if fame has always meant doing something worthwhile. As you say, she's an heiress.

I remember years ago, during the OJ trial, Gary Shandling slammed Kato Kailin for not deserving to be on a talk show with him because he was famous for nothing. Um, no, he's famous for being a major player in a notorious violent crime. If given the chance to see Jafsie (a Kato-type figure from the Lindbergh kidnapping story) or Gary Shandling, I'd go with Jafsie. Even if Gary Shandling would no doubt be a funnier interview, there's really nothing inherently more interesting about him as a person.