Live Idol chat again tonight
Sean Daly is a blue-caped, donut-wielding villain, able to sweet-talk anyone into doing an American Idol chat.
And so it goes that I'll once again be hosting a live chat tonight on his Pop Life blog during American Idol's auditions from Atlanta.
So if you're so inclined to read my running commentary and chat along between adult beverages, come find me there at 8 p.m. I'll be the one with the speech impediment. (Who am I kidding? We're still in the Deep South, y'all.)
TOP 5 THINGS TO EXPECT FROM IDOL IN ATLANTA:
5. Obligatory shot of the Varsity Restaurant, and those bedeviling chili dogs that haunt my dreams ... and my keg-sized gut.
4. At least a dozen really painful references to peaches and "Gone With The Wind." Maybe Paula pulling a Vivien Leigh and saying, "Rhett, you big stud, take me to bed or lose me forever." Wait, wrong movie.
3. More explosive self-loathing from Simon. But that's OK in Atlanta. Just ask the Braves, Falcons, Hawks and Georgia Tech fans.
2. Randy will arrange for Georgia State Troopers to administer a sobriety test for Paula after she mistakenly votes to send her folding chair to Hollywood.
1. Ryan Seacrest opening the show outside the Georgia Dome and the statue honoring Michael Vick. Well, maybe not.
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As long as we're spared some sort of horrible montage set to "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia", I guess I can survive another hour.
Any bets on what song they'll make everyone sing so they can splice together the usual train-wreck, drivers-ed-movie, freakshow geek horror movie? I fear for "Georgia On My Mind".
Somebody walk over to Ray Charles' tombstone and tell him to get ready to spin.
Posted by: Jeff in Cuba | February 05, 2008 at 01:51 PM
Jeff -- you've cursed us now. Thanks.
Posted by: Spears | February 05, 2008 at 02:25 PM
Mmmm... the Varsity. You can have the chili dogs, Mr. Spears -- just pass me the onion rings. A little slice of deep-fried greasy heaven. Oh -- and a chocolate shake.
My money's also on "Georgia on My Mind" as the ubiquitous location-related sing-a-long song.
Should be fun, y'all.
Posted by: jane | February 05, 2008 at 04:30 PM
Wow, for a moment there I thought you were talking about a live chat with Billy Idol! Now I would have tuned in for that!
As for American Idol, eh, not my thing.
Posted by: Christina | February 06, 2008 at 11:38 PM