Clay's...

... gay. Compare: Apparently, "yep" is the special lesbian way to say yes.

"Malakar is the rare male performer who relies so utterly on styling."

Robin Givhan on Sanjaya Malakar. (She's the WaPo fashion writer. He's the "American Idol" guy with the smile and the hair...

"Americal Idol" -- the results, I mean, really, the results!

It's the big night. It's gonna take two hours. But we will have an end. And it's not like you even have to bother. Because you k...

"American Idol" -- the last 8 guys.

Okay, I'm really, really tired, as you know if you read the last post, but today is one of the great TV nights of the year: "Americ...

"American Idol" -- Boston.

I feel like I owe you an "American Idol" post. I know you're dying to talk about the Boston episode. Personally, I'm a lit...

"American Idol" -- San Francisco.

Heidi Fairbanks: She looks like Jessica Simpson, and she sings opera! But she's awful on the pop, and they reject her. "I've be...

"Why does the first African-American 'Apprentice' have to come with controversy?"

Asks Les Haughton , the president of a consulting company that specializes in corporate diversity, talking about Randal Pinkett's win on...

Carving down to the final three.

Nice results show tonight on "American Idol." We saw the original audition of each of the final four, which was quite charming. Vo...

Remember your birthday?

Oh, it's that time again! Another round of "American Idol." I pick up the TiVo controller with trepidation. Ryan Seacrest act...

Some TV thoughts.

Matt at Throwing Things convinces me to buy the " Wonderfalls " DVD collection: "a snarkier and agnostic variant of 'Joa...

Oh no! TiVo is making me watch commercials!

Here's some important technology research, reported by Mediapost : [R]esearch concludes that DVRs "recapture" TV commercial ex...

The American Idol finale.

Well, I found that all quite ugly and boring. I thought it was just mean to show over and over that the judges preferred Fantasia, especiall...

What, no opinion about American Idol?

Hmm... yeah, I said last night that I watched it, and then I didn't say a thing about it. I'll say: that was the longest sustained n...

First, a word or two about American Idol... and then I'm going to approach the reticulated Cuban iguana I was too tired to talk about l...

"I remember when rock was young." They probably never play Speedy Gonzales on the radio anymore--it's absurdly politically in...

American Idol mostly drove home for me how great a singer Elton John is, as the contestants bungled or oversang his songs. It was pretty mu...

Solving the Jon Peter Lewis mystery. Prof. Yin wrote : I actually kind of like Jon Peter Lewis' performance, but I don't think ther...

More evidence for my American Idol conspiracy theory. Last night's show gives me more reason to think that the producers, faced with wa...