So in the course of human events, if you have to choose between Top Chef and the American Idol season finale…choose Idol.  Here’s why. Last night, we had three shows taping on the DVR…one was the American Idol season finale (2 hours long from 7pm-9pm), the Boston Legal season finale (one hour long, 9pm-10pm) and the new episode of Top Chef (one hour long, also from 9pm-10pm).  Because of certain circumstances, we didn’t start watching Idol until around 7:35pm.  We figured we should be able to catch up with it before the show is...

As soon as I saw the microphone descending from the rafters, I said out loud “Please don’t let Michael Buffer be at the end of that mic…” and apparently today is not my day for wish-granting. I have to admit though, instead of the pomp and circumstance of previous shows where all they wanted to do was try and build up the finale to some unreachable height, I thought the intro and the whole mood tonight was one of self-realization and I’m actually very proud of the Idol crew and stars tonight. I’m proud to say I’m...

Friends are hard to come by.  True friends are really hard to come by. So I preface this post with those somewhat ominous words.  But they are heartfelt and sincere.  Christy and I are really blessed to have a good many close friends here in Birmingham.  As most of you know, Rusty and Gina are very good friends of ours (and travel partners) and we were blessed to come across two more such wonderful people and friends this past fall when we embarked on our Mediterranean cruise. Katie and Hani AbuGhazaleh live in Santa Barbara, CA, and we met them along...

As you all know, I’m a huge MMORPG gamer…MMORPG stands for Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game. These are mostly games like Everquest, World of Warcraft, Lord of the Rings Online, etc. Anyway, one of the newer games in development by Cryptic Studios is called Champions Online. Here’s the trailer, so take a look! Pretty impressive stuff!

Well, well, well…where to begin?  I could spend a couple of paragraphs talking about the train wreck that was Fantasia.  My God, I think the judges were even aghast.  Was it me or was she basically running around the stage and studio yelling “Go!  Go!  Go!” over and over while her back-up singers/dancers were doing the actual song?  I could be really ugly right now and compare her to half the black girls I worked with at Cingular, but I won’t do that… And then there were the hometown visit montages…handled well I...