AI crap, another 5 minutes?

American Idol has tweaked various aspects of the show this year during the preliminary stages and for the most part the changes have been fine. However last night during the first “vote” show. a another twist really turned me off. The writers of the show evidently thinks the audience enjoys if they play mind games with the contestants. You’re safe, PYSCH! you aren’t! You are outta here!!!! That is basically what they were doing last night and it was stupid. The contestants are stressed out enough without playing with their heads as well. Then the routine of “Ok we just crushed your dream, so how about you sing the song that got you kicked off one more time?” schtick is ridiculous as well. The show is starting to steer towards not being on my core list of shows anymore.

The local paper posted a request for residents of our area to write in about the traffic nightmare during our commute. Ali jumped right in and wrote a good letter describing what the traffic grind is like out here everyday. It was so good that someone from the paper wrote back saying they wanted to hitch a ride with us next week to ride along and document the misery as part of the article they are writing. We want to do it but I first have to make sure that certain toes wouldn’t be stepped on by participating. Since I am a county employee and the road diaster is a county problem, I need to proceed with caution. But boy, could I give the reporter an earful….