Entries Tagged as ‘all my words come back to me in shades of mediocrity’

April 2, 2007

Apparently my crystal ball was broken, or, I’m definitely a false prophet..

The Salem’s Lots Department of Accountability informs me that I need to come clean about some predictions I made a few weeks ago. It seems that I fearlessly predicted that Florida would NOT repeat as the NCAA Men’s basketball champions. D’oh!
On the other hand, I’m still sticking to my prediction that Michael Silence will [...]

March 1, 2007

You think cursing is bad…you oughta hear these people sing!

These two painfully weak singers* made it through tonight on American Idol. Further proof that either democracy is overrated or that teenagers shouldn’t be allowed to vote for anything.
*The guy is Sanjaya Malakar and I guess he has interesting hair, but his voice is as colorful as a McDonald’s vanilla milk-like shake. The [...]

February 27, 2007

Oedipus welcomes back Cotter, or, America Idles

Ok..if you are going to dedicate a song to your parents, is Marvin Gaye’s ‘Lets Get it On’ really really the choice you wanna make? I don’t know anyone who even wants to THINK about their parents having sex, much less encourage such a thing.
Weirdly, at least to me, Jared Cotter, one of ten [...]

February 26, 2007

Stacey Campfield ushers us in…into the nanny state.

I always thought that true conservatives eschewed the use of government to enforce so-called ‘personal virtues’.  Representative Campfield, who I’m sure would be honored to be called conservative, has sponsored Nanny Bill 981 (aka House Bill 981) to help shepherd poor people into the tent of financial responsibility.  If he isn’t shepherding, then he’s just [...]

February 21, 2007

American I-Dull

The last time I wrote about AI, I touted wonder-singer Tami Gosnell and predicted she would go far. Naturally, she didn’t even make the ’round of 24′. So much for my prognostication skills. I still think she was a stand-out. In fact, if she had been able to sing with the [...]