Thursday Idol? What-what?

Listening to the First Team on good 'ol 1370 AM this morning and learned there is a third night of Idol audition this week!

I can't wait to get auditions over, but I guess I'll take a minute to talk about them because that's all that has been on. I haven't watched much, but on Tuesday I saw a guy butcher Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get it On" and still get sent to Hollywood. Allie said there were worse performers, but it's hard to imagine.

I think we get to actual competition next week, so get scouting.

--Nate

Week 2 of auditions...still not watching, and I'm not alone

To read some reviews, it was a boring week of Idol. Although if this headline is true, it couldn't have been all bad.

Either way, I missed Tuesday to go to the Terps game and last night was Wisconsin-Iowa and ... so on.

But apparently, I tune out a lot of things that many people watch. For instance, CSI: Insert City Here was the top show because it was some dudes last time on. The Ravens-Steelers was the second most-watched show of the week, but I only missed the first half of that one. (How often are the Portland State Vikings on TV?). Idol finished third in ratings for the past week.

Since I can't talk about Idol, how about other exciting things this week. First, at work, we got in Hennessey bottle honoring the inauguration of our 44th president (see below, sorry it's a camera phone). No word yet on other boozes smart enough to cash in on the hype.




Also, did you know there is a guy who has played a perfect game of Pac-Man. What is a perfect game of Pac-Man. Watch this and you will find out, and enter the world of Billy Mitchell.

One week of Idol is in the books

Well, I didn't take the opportunity to get much advance scouting done this week, although I did catch the judges sending Anoop Dog to Hollywood despite calling him the worst-dressed individual in history.

I opted instead to watch the Caps' rousing win in Pittsburgh last night. But hey, at least I freshened-up the blog this afternoon in between looking for a job as a grocer in this down economy (Maybe I should just marry one) and sorting through the hundreds of e-mail messages in my inbox.

Does this pass as a news item? So far we are up to nine guaranteed participants. Maybe I will write a feature breaking down the competition. Unless the editor of the story I haven't yet finished is reading this. In that case, I'm only working on this story.

--Nate

Full site, stat tracking and more coming soon....

--Nate

Full site, stat tracking and more coming soon....

--Nate