Oh my god. Perry is SUCH a manipulative bastard.

A article claiming that the Irish girl on American Idol has already had a record contract. Is it a rule on AI that the contestants had never recorded an album?

Yeah, I heard about that a couple of weeks ago and I'm curious to know how she qualifies.

Oh my god. Perry is SUCH a manipulative bastard.

I thought I was going to jump through the TV when he was on the phone with his girlfriend. Yuk.

Am I crazy, or did like nothing actually happen on that episode? I feel like usually there are more different activities.

Yeah, last night's was boring, Jesse. And Perry was so icky on the phone. I've lost all my Perry love, even though I still think he'll make it to the finals.

Is it a rule on AI that the contestants had never recorded an album?

I think the rule is you can't have had a record contract in the last 5 years, or something - it's not "never" but there's definitely a time limit.

I thought I was going to jump through the TV when he was on the phone with his girlfriend. Yuk.

Yeah, that was reallly unpleasant.

The Perry situation with his girlfriend was so unpleasant. I don't want to see obnoxious assholes emotionally abusing their significant others on my TV, Bravo. He is foul.

Ben's reaction to his wife's video Valentine was the least enthusiastic thing I've ever seen. As opposed to the happy, happy man hug he laid on Ronnie when he came back from the elimination. Frankie continues to be a tool, but I did give him a grudging chuckle for putting on the Flava Flav clock. I don't know who I want to go home this week. Honestly, I like both Stephanie and Ronnie, and Frankie is so pretty.

(Who is this Lil Mama person?)

She sings that song "Lipgloss" which you may not know unless you spend a lot of time listening to Z100 (substitute your local urban radio station's call numbers here). I think she's actually a really good judge (if a little bit obssessed with arm movements). In fact, I think all three are great because they judge and give real critiques about the dancing. It's not all Paula-fied platitudes or Crazy Mary Murphy screams. If you were good, they give props. And if you were bad, they will call you on it.

I'm in love with that Jabbawocky group (the ones with the masks). Their choreography is insanely difficult and they always pull it off and are super clean and perfectly synchronized. The hair flinging girl group (Femme Five), the skaters, and the group headed up by that guy from the SYTYCD Vegas round (hip-hopper asked to swing dance in Round One audition) can go home any time now. Uninspiring choreography each week and sloppy execution. And of course the skaters don't really dance, so there's that.

I caught a little bit of Perry's call when I was flipping channels and decided I could wait on watching the ep for a while. But it is kind of interesting - is this the first reality show of this type playing out in real time? (BB is real time, but they don't have much (any?) interaction with the outside. Idol is real time, but not this kind of fishbowl reality show.) It does seem to change the dynamic a lot WRT people's outside relationships.

Has anyone watched Last Restaurant Standing on BBCA? I'm watching it right now, and I'm liking it. I'm amazed that anyone ever goes into the restaurant business.