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[handful_ofdust]

Man, I sleep a lot, these days. Mom must be out of town.;)

So: Watched the American Idol results show last night, and yes, the seams/levers and pulleys really are showing hard, these days. I'm not enamoured of this new judges-can-save-one-person-per-season-from-elimination idea, either, though I'm certainly happy they chose not to shoot that wad right away (not least because Jasmine was annoying and Jorge was boring). However, I can't help but note that this means there is now only one black person left on the show overall, and seeing both brown guys immediately drop into the bottom two on Week One was, to say the least, disheartening. Am I registering these statistics more than usual, for (ahem) some reason?

(And, appropos, I find myself agreeing with somebody's recent observation that Watchmen really is "a very white property". Yup: 22 years ago, long before Rap became mainstream/pop; it's pretty hilarious to look at it now and register that it has main characters feeling conflicted about people finding out they're Polish.)

At any rate. Rod today, or at least I've heard nothing to the contrary. New Supernatural tonight. In between, I'm bound and determined to do another 1,000 words, as well as all that laundry and crap. And burn those discs for sovay...

Comments

[sovay]

it's pretty hilarious to look at it now and register that it has main characters feeling conflicted about people finding out they're Polish.)

Wow. I think I missed that as an angst-source . . .

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Juspeczyk! Not Jupiter! "That was just a name my Mom made up, so people wouldn't find out she was Polish." (And oh yeah, there was the Silhouette, who was both lesbian and Jewish, and Hooded Justice, who might have gotten killed for being German [or gay]; did you ever get the feeling maybe the Comedian was the guy who got to take the shot, or maybe lobbied to, with his newfound hero-of-the-South-Pacific status?)

[glamberson.livejournal.com]

Both brown guys were terrible, though. Anoop was just lame singing "BEat it," and as much as my wife loved the Puerto Rican guy, I couldn't look at his face in the close ups. I think the right 2 departed. The teenage girl who left was more talented than either one of them.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I can't disagree about Anoop's performance, though I hope he'll improve. I think the pressure is getting to him.