Secrets of the City

And here I thought we had all been stunned into silence by the proven existence of Suri Holmes-Cruise.

Dear terrorists;

Please consider flying a plane into the Target Center today. Preferrably a plane full of past AI contestants, we don’t want to kill any innocents here.

Sincerely,
What shred of dignity popular music still has left.

I was stunned into silence by the sight of an infant with sideburns.

I’m telling you, that’s a stunt baby. A cute stunt baby, but a stunt baby nonetheless.

An infant with hair and sideburns like that…..wow!! Ya think it could be Joe Mauer’s love child with Katie Holmes??

I’m in the line right now, blogging from my Blackberry. I’m singing “Smoke Gets in My Eyes,” ala Leon Redbone.

In Dutch.

I’m in the line right now, blogging from my Blackberry. I’m singing “Smoke Gets in My Eyes,” ala Leon Redbone.

In Dutch.

And yet you still manage to post twice.

It’s like “Henry the 8th” by Herman and His Hermits: “Second verse, same as the first.”

Uh, what’s American Idol? Suri who? I guess I need to start watching Entertainment Tonight again… oh, wait, first I need to start watching TV again. But before that, I need to buy a TV. Hmm… maybe I just won’t bother.

It’s so radical to not own a TV!

My faith in MSP has been restored by the unofficial attendance counts @ American Idol Auditions:
Memphis: 30,000
Minneapolis: 6,000

Hey Grote, the auditions don’t actually start until tomorrow. That figure is the number of people who pre-registered during the first day. Pre-registration continues all day and all night through tomorrow morning.

Not to say it’s going to hit 30,000, but it’s going to be more than 6,000. Like it or not, “American Idol” has a huge audience here. This summer’s tour drew the second-biggest crowd (after, I think, Birmingham) here at the Xcel Energy Center.

TV, American Idol and celebrity gossip are for zombified tools of corporations and mainstream society. The world would be a much better place without TVs.

I do so many better things with the time I don’t spend watching TV.

Not owning one is they way to stick it to corporate brainwashing and avoiding a situation like 1984.

What I don’t get about the no-TV thing is how it doesn’t apply to the Internet. Frankly I feel like that sucks way more of my soul then an episode of Flavor of Love.

Which glass tit has better porno?

Dude, what’s your problem with zombies?

Ross, 3 things.

1) It’s 2 words…G Rote…and don’t forget it.
2) Go look @ Target Center. Other than the rent-a-cops & port-a-johns there is no more human traffic than a typical day…poor souls on the way to Harborlight and strippers on the way to the Seville.
3) When are they going to do a open casting call for America’s Top Stripper?

Yeah, Grote, I read MNSpeak. You’re from Detroit, you’re a bad boy, you hate everything. That’s great.

But, again, the auditions haven’t started yet. There was a rush of people when pre-registration opened yesterday, and an off/on trickle ever since. It was open all night so, in theory, people could have walked up at 2 a.m. and registered.

And I would expect there’s going to be a significant amount of people (from outstate Minnesota and out-of-state) who don’t show up at all until Friday morning. You can register right up until the start of auditions at 8 a.m. Friday — there is no requirement saying you had to show up yesterday (or today).

In theory, the pre-registration is meant to make things easier on the actual day of auditions. But, of course, it also gets “AI” two more extra days of free publicity.

So there will be more than 6,000 people there to audition. Will there be 30,000? Probably not. Will it hit 10,000? I dunno, but it wouldn’t surprise me.