Introducing...
That's right. Stacy and I bitch, moan and gossip about American Idol.
Don't lie. You watch the show. You want to talk about. And jeebus help anyone who prefaces a comment with "well, I don't usually watch that crap, but I just happen to be channel surfing and I stopped on Fox for a minute and...."
Bullshit. Man up, people. Admit to doing something that's not hip and cool for once in your lives.
Comments
One minor quibble - but a line break between the comment and the "Posted by" line would make things much more readable.
Posted by: Jay Reding | January 20, 2005 12:41 PM
Man, I needed that blog during season 2 over at ATPTB!
Posted by: robyn | January 20, 2005 01:47 PM
I really DON'T watch AI, but something infinitely less cool (to the oh-so-hip):
Nashville Star. It's a red-state thing.
Posted by: Slartibartfast | January 20, 2005 01:59 PM
I hate reality shows and the like. Which is why my penchant for the Real World confounds me so! I wallow in self-hatred.
Posted by: shank | January 20, 2005 03:00 PM
I stopped watching after my home town guy Rueben Studdard won it. Just couldn't get interested in it. My wife however, still loves it.
Posted by: Rusty | January 20, 2005 04:05 PM
Nope. Never seen it. Not once.
I also haven't seen any CSI, Law and Order, or Seinfeld.
I tried to watch Friends once. Didn't make it through the whole show.
Posted by: Roxanne | January 20, 2005 04:10 PM
I'll cop to being hooked on Bravo's "Runway". Great stuff: Flighty models, catty judging, train-wrecks and talent, and a nazi in a miniskirt.
Posted by: SarahW | January 20, 2005 04:12 PM
I've never seen AI. I've also never seen an episode of The X-Files (or ANY sci-fi show, including the original Star Trek), Buffy and/or Angel, or The Simpsons.
Really.
Zero geek cred, that's me.
Posted by: Lisa | January 20, 2005 04:38 PM
I don't watch the show, but I do watch the extreme makeover home edition.
Actually, I was in a doctoral seminar wednesday, and the professor (an Idol addict) had to tell the students about the woman with voices in her head. (It's a media theory class).
Posted by: bryan | January 20, 2005 04:46 PM
...um, I tend to watch things like CSI repeats on Spike. Otherwise, it's SF geek TV for me. :-)
Posted by: Patrick Chester | January 20, 2005 05:09 PM
Bryan,
Isn't EHM a stange phenomenon ? I never miss it. But it's strange to find myself openly weeping over the fact that someone got a double-sink. But weep, I do.
Posted by: Slartibartfast | January 20, 2005 05:55 PM
I don't watch American Idol. I hate American Idol. I hate reality shows.
Posted by: Big Brother | January 20, 2005 06:22 PM
What you hate about what we like is really not up for discussion here.
Posted by: michele | January 20, 2005 06:26 PM
Well, hey, you said to admit that I like AI. I can't... it'd be a lie, and every time someone lies an angel dies.
Or is that fairy? I forget.
Posted by: Big Brother | January 20, 2005 06:30 PM
I love it! My husband loves it! We call the kids in and we all watch it together.
Which only makes me hope that someday, my children don't look back on AI the way I look back at the Lawrence Welk show.
Posted by: Dakota Pundit | January 20, 2005 06:35 PM
But I didn't say admit it if you don't like it.
You just killed ten angels, dude. The baby jeebus is hysterical.
Posted by: michele | January 20, 2005 06:35 PM
Fair enough. Although I feel somewhat bad about killing ten angels. Oh well, it's not like God can't make more.
I'd feel terrible if I killed ten fairies, though. Tinkerbell is cute.
Posted by: Big Brother | January 20, 2005 06:38 PM
I watch. I admit it, dammit. The first few shows are disturbingly fascinating...
Posted by: Amy | January 20, 2005 07:08 PM
Actually I don't watch the show. Never have. What's the big deal?
Posted by: boz | January 20, 2005 07:35 PM
I don't watch the show. Heck, I'VE NEVER watched the show. (And to top it off, I've never even tried tobacco, of any kind.) Now I'll go hide in the corner for being mean to Michele.
Posted by: Sorge | January 20, 2005 09:12 PM
Watched for the first time last night...sad, funny, scary! Liked the farmer chick...she was good!
Posted by: ReaderMom | January 20, 2005 11:41 PM
Extreme Makeover Home Edition is like a reality Touched by an Angel. I'm with Startibartfast on that. I think it's just because I know that the people who are getting these things really couldn't get it otherwise, and it's really gracious.
Posted by: bryan | January 21, 2005 11:07 PM