as far as guilty pleasures go… in addition to my all time most guiltiest guilty pleasure… “karma chameleon”… i gotta say i’ve become, along with love-of-my-life karen, a bit of a fan of the american idol… it all started out innocently enough… saw a few commercials… the interest was piqued… watched the first few episodes of the season and experienced a mix of decent talent and semi-humorous suckage… then somehow i got hooked… now i must admit i kinda dig it…

although i think they’re a tad hard on the not-so-talented, and for the first little while i felt a tad bad about finding humor in their sometimes utter lack of skills on national tv, i’ve come to realize that a) these folks most likely have seen the show before, b) they’ve most likely signed a release of some sort saying that it’s ok for the show to exploit ‘em if they blow, and c) unless they live in a cave or under a rock they should’ve had access to some sort of family- or friend-based sounding board that most certainly could have stopped ‘em long before they ever stood in front of these three judges… so i guess i don’t feel so bad whilst gigglin’ at the train wrecks that are highlighted during the first couple of weeks of the season anymore…

all things considered my most favouritest part of the proceedings are the judges… especially paula abdul… who appears, to me anyway, to be somewhat in the bag more often than not…

having said and admitted to all this… i was very excited to see that last night’s broadcast was from my former home and most favouritest city ever, seattle, and it was being bandied about as the most incredibly lame and talent-less bunch o’ weak-ass contestants ever encountered… good tv was promised for sure… and i suppose they didn’t disappoint… there sure were a load of less-than-stellar performances… along with a few good ones… and paula looked kinda looped for a good portion of it… so that made me happy…

the best part of the whole deal though was being alerted to this video of the aforementioned laker girl in action being interviewed on a local seattle morning newscast… evidently paula starts early… wheee…

looking forward to next week already…

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