Friday, February 17, 2006
Random Thoughts
• Is it okay, please, people, for Bryant Gumbel to have an opinion? And is it okay for him to express it? Yes, it is, we thought so. Thank you. Just checking. Yes, there are very few black people in the Winter Olympics, and he doesn't like that fact.
We at E.K. Nation say "so what if there are few blacks in the Winter Olympics?" We were never bothered by the lack of black people when we would spend our Sunday afternoons skiing at Mt. Hood Meadows or Timberline. And we're not bothered by the lack of black athletes in the "men's pursuit" either.
But Bryant Gumbel doesn't like it, and that's his opinion, and nobody is required to agree with him and he's not required to agree with anybody else.
• So we watch the beginnings of each American Idol season for the bad auditions and the tone-deaf morons who think they are all that but really suck. And once those are over we can't help but get interested in the good singers we saw audition along with the bad ones. And now we're stuck. And we will keep watching, because it's watercooler material. And in reality, for some reason unbeknownst to us, we will remain interested.
We here at E.K. Nation are huge fans of Taylor Hicks, the Joe Cocker-like southern guy with hair as gray as a mouse and a voice with more soul than...ummm...a fish tank full of sole. (We can't spend all day thinking of cute little similes, all right?) We also think that Ace Young has a really good chance to win.
While Hicks is the unofficial male-American-Idol-contestant of E.K. Nation, the Official Babe American Idol Contestant of E.K. Nation is Katharine McPhee. There is not a stack of towels in the world large enough to help us deal with the way we feel about her.
(By the way, people. If you are still referring to William Hung as "tone-deaf", stop immediately. William Hung is not tone-deaf; he just can't sing. English is apprently his second language, he can't dance, and he just simply doesn't have a good singing voice. But he is not tone-deaf. This message brought to you by the E.K. Nation Foundation.)
• We didn't mention this before when it was "news", but here we go anywaywith a belated pronouncement: Who the fuck is James Frey and why thefuck did anyone care that he "conned Oprah"?
We at E.K. Nation say "so what if there are few blacks in the Winter Olympics?" We were never bothered by the lack of black people when we would spend our Sunday afternoons skiing at Mt. Hood Meadows or Timberline. And we're not bothered by the lack of black athletes in the "men's pursuit" either.
But Bryant Gumbel doesn't like it, and that's his opinion, and nobody is required to agree with him and he's not required to agree with anybody else.
• So we watch the beginnings of each American Idol season for the bad auditions and the tone-deaf morons who think they are all that but really suck. And once those are over we can't help but get interested in the good singers we saw audition along with the bad ones. And now we're stuck. And we will keep watching, because it's watercooler material. And in reality, for some reason unbeknownst to us, we will remain interested.
We here at E.K. Nation are huge fans of Taylor Hicks, the Joe Cocker-like southern guy with hair as gray as a mouse and a voice with more soul than...ummm...a fish tank full of sole. (We can't spend all day thinking of cute little similes, all right?) We also think that Ace Young has a really good chance to win.
While Hicks is the unofficial male-American-Idol-contestant of E.K. Nation, the Official Babe American Idol Contestant of E.K. Nation is Katharine McPhee. There is not a stack of towels in the world large enough to help us deal with the way we feel about her.
(By the way, people. If you are still referring to William Hung as "tone-deaf", stop immediately. William Hung is not tone-deaf; he just can't sing. English is apprently his second language, he can't dance, and he just simply doesn't have a good singing voice. But he is not tone-deaf. This message brought to you by the E.K. Nation Foundation.)
• We didn't mention this before when it was "news", but here we go anywaywith a belated pronouncement: Who the fuck is James Frey and why thefuck did anyone care that he "conned Oprah"?
