Haines His Way

I can already pretty much say what i got for my birthday, since i mostly end up always picking my own gifts.

I love what my aunt and uncle got me.  It's a purse. Well i don't know exactly what you call those money packs that go around your waist. But this one is Guess (i love that brand).  It's sort of a taupe color.  And it is so beautiful!  It was way too expensive (i'm more of a sale kind of person). But i really wanted to get one of those for the summer, and they really wanted me to have the one i wanted.

I found this interesting statement over at zabasearch.com :

"Phil, LaKisha and Chris are bottom three, Period!  
 
"This is the accurate outcome of votes cast. American Idol's network and call capture systems not capable of accurately counting votes in this volume. Accurate voting results can only be achieved by vote samplings. Phil, LaKisha and Chris received the fewest votes this week, Period.

"No one is going home because American Idol does not know the accurate vote count. Domestic phone network trunks not able to handle the volume of calls accurately. Traffic congestion shuts down and overruns switches resulting in wildly inaccurate voting counts.

"Sooner or later, this truth will surface in the media. This is not American Idol's fault or their intention. Local exchange carrier phone networks simply not able to handle the volume of calls accurately. The show has become more popular than U.S. phone systems can handle.

"*Sanjaya did not get the fewest votes last week. He may have gotten the least votes counted, but not the least votes cast."

I am all caught up and now I am off to a dance recital.  It's a long trek up to the Bronx.

Applaud regularly, DR ELMORE.

And yes DR RP - I would guess in five years, you survived SEVERAL.....

Quiet day at World of Wisdom except for the weather.

In any event, I'm glad I saw Legally Blonde twice before the family audience discovered it.  Some of the humor is just not necessarily family-friendly.  I was sure that the lawyer/MBA/investment banker crowd would catch on to it, since it's so up and positive about being in professions where you can potentially make a difference, and the charcatres are 22-25, not teens - that may yet happen, but it seems the pre-teen and teen girls have gottne there first.  But I wish them well with the reviews no matter what.

Lucille Ball.

Just thought I would say that to make everyone smile.

Because you KNOW if I was there with DRMBARNUM in Hollywood, John Wayne's footprints would be gone from the forecourt at Grauman's Chinese Theater!

Today is the anniversary of her death.  I forget the year.

Good Afternoon!

Well, since it's still a nice sunny day outside, I think I'm gonna head to midtown for a bit of walking around and window shopping, and then grab the train back up to Westport at Grand Central a little after 5:00.  So...

Laters...

RODGERS AND HARTSDALE - my new film about something or other

Good up to there....who is doing the music, Mr Producer?

BK already established in the notes that the score would remain intact.

The thing that bothers me most about not eliminating someone last night or letting us see who was in danger was that often, people get complacent if they think their favorite is safe and either don't vote or vote for someone else who seems to be unsafe. Once it becomes known that the person is in danger often gets those fans to really pump up their voting. How many times have we seen someone in the bottom group jump back up to the top once their fans were made aware they weren't immune to being eliminated.

Remember that Fantasia was next to the bottom the week that Jennifer Hudson was eliminated three years ago. After that, Fantasia was never in the bottom again.

What if Melinda's fans have no idea that she's really in danger of being eliminated. They might be voting for others or simply not voting for Melinda.

Making the bottom three known is the LEAST they could have done.

Lunch ran long again today, so I didn't get as much viewing accomplished that I was expecting to.

I did begin with MEDIUM, and it was a good episode. I pretty much figured it out before the resolution, but that was a great moment in the apartment when Allison was taking to the "ghost."

And Ariel's anger about the summer camp seemed very real to me. Funny, though. As a kid, I had a savings account and a small stock portfolio given to me by my uncle, but I knew that was money not to be touched, and it wasn't until I needed a down payment when I bought my home.

I had about fifteen minutes left (afternoon interrupted by some phone calls), so I continued with A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS. Still not quite an hour into the movie, so I have about 80 minutes to go.

Things have slowed to a crawl.  Is everyone taking a siesta?