It appears I have once again misjudged the American public and they have some sense of musical taste after all.

Congratulations, Fantasia!!!!
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I think I’m gonna break ranks for once and talk about something everyone else is talking about… American Idol.

I gotta admit, after hearing some of the most awesome performers this year, I got hooked. Normally I loathe these “Star Search”-like shows.
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Heh… I once heard that a human will go insane after seven days with no sleep. That is SO not true. Probably propaganda by Serta or one of those mattress companies or something.

It’s just like quitting smoking… sure it’s rough for a few weeks (like I swore I kept seeing Brad Pitt and we were going INTO the soapmaking business together?)…

But after a month, you realize you don’t need it.

Oh, and the Bush administration? I’m totally sick of them. Is it November yet?
If the guarantee of a gay marriage ban, or the draft coming back in the next term isn’t enough of an excuse… how about the fact that Americans aren’t safe anywhere on the planet?

Nobody ever hated Russian tourists. We always pitied them for being poor saps for not knowing all of the sucky things their commie government was doing. Of course they weren’t loud, fat and obnoxious…

Did we get Osama yet?
I think you get the point.

Don’t get me wrong, if I were to ever actually meet President Bush, of course I would SHOW him the respect you’d give to a president.

Much like the way you give respect to your boss or some other suit in the office, and then remark what an asshole he is once they were out of earshot?

No, really. I can’t stand him and what he’s done to our country. If I had any more contempt for him I’d have the Secret Service at my door asking me to “chill out”. You know, it’s like if I worked in McDonalds, you’d hear over the intercom “Hello. Welcome to McDonalds… how may I hate Bush for you today?”

Oh, and there’s a new element in the William Hung nightmares now…
After the show, he moves in with me and the familiy…

…WITH A KARAOKE MACHINE.

Holee shit!

You ever have a day where, like, EVERYTHING is going wrong? One of those black-cat-follows-you-under-a-ladder-with a broken-mirror kind of day?

My day starts at 3AM (because I haven’t slept since, well, March.) with me accidentally spamming the shit out of friends and loved ones (and my landlords and in-laws too) while testing this new mailing list script I whipped up.

So what EXACTLY do you do after something like that…
…write out a mass email apologizing for the mass emails?

Then I get to work and my computers are crashing for one reason or another…

This Wednesday was supposed to be the Pennsylvania Music awards at the Mt. Laurel Arts Center but that all fell apart, didn’t it?

I’ve been HAVING this recurring nightmare (while I’m awake, because I haven’t slept since March, remember?) that only two people showed up for the awards…

Me and William Hung.

Since he was the only one who showed up, he won everything and I had to deal with him singing for two straight hours.

I don’t even WANT that dream analyzed.

Anyone else HAVING a shitty day?

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Almost three years ago, I took a stand against showing any photos of people jumping to their deaths FROM the World Trade Center.

Not out of weakness, or the inability to face life at its most gruesome… but out of consideration and sympathy. New York City is an hour away FROM here. I can’t think of anything crueler than watching someone you love face their final moments on this earth.

Over and over… and over.

I did the same today with the video of Nicholas Berg being beheaded.
His family lives here in Pennsylvania. An hour away or so in the other direction.

I don’t see politics here, I don’t see business. I certainly don’t see the “public’s right to know”.

I see a family in a great deal of pain right now, and a kind of torment I can’t possibly imagine.

My tears go out to Michael Berg and his family tonight. And my heart truly breaks for you.

God bless… :*(