American Idol Begone

    I used to watch American Idol faithfully, back when it was new and different and followed the contestants for about 3 months. When the show and I were both much younger than now, I looked forward to viewing it and watching the contestants, even before Adam Lambert made his debut.
    This season I didn't care to watch it, but a week or so ago I caught the episode where the final 14 were all performing so I made a point of watching. I think they  disposed of 4 performers that night alone. Tonight the show came on and they were down to 7, and each performed twice, with the announcement that 2 would be eliminated at the end of the night.
    Ordinarily, as in the past, I would have a favorite or two, and would feel sorry for the loss of the youthful contestants, who were living their dreams. Tonight, not only was I not rooting for a favorite, I wanted them all to go home: the nerdy girl who forgot her lyrics, the pretty girl who has a pleasant enough voice, but her tongue and nose piercings steal attention away from her singing, a pair of blonde girls who sing okay, but nothing special, a blonde boy billed as a teenage heart throb who reminds me of a character in a long-ago comic strip who I believe was called Lard (maybe it was Gasoline Alley?) a long-haired rocker who Katie Perry simulates a deep attraction for, but who to my mind resembles a piece of furniture (maybe an armoire or a vintage sideboard,) and a forcibly contrived charismatically labeled young performer, whose only drawback is that, in my admittedly non-professional opinion, is a remarkably poor singer, almost pitifully so.  And not a single one of them is particularly appealing in the looks department. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
    So the show is down to the final 5, though these last 7 will go on the american Idol tour. Anyway, so they are told, but one may wonder how the ticket sales will go. Could be a lot of cancellations booking that tour.
  The nerdy girl and the pierced girl got booted off tonight.  That leaves 3 boys, the sideboard, Lard and the non-singer,  and the 2 blonde girls who I can't tell apart right now. It's hard to believe that one of them will be the next America Idol.
   (I'm trying to recall that long ago season finale when Marilyn was driving Dorothy and me out to Cape Cod, where the boys (Dave and Joe) already were. I can't remember how that came about, but I know there was a monstrously heavy rainstorm and it was dark and when we got there, Joe had left a message on the door about the 2 finalists that he called Mo'Ice and Scary Underwear. Or something like that. Back in the good old days.