Happy Leap Year!

Or something. I just wanted to post today since it will be another 4 years until I can do it again. Hmmm. I wonder what the blizzog will look like in 4 years? I wonder what I will look like in 4 years? Yikes.

Denied By Tivo

So I sat down tonight to watch ESPN’s Dream Job, which I Tivo’d last Sunday. I spent an hour and 15 minutes watching the whole thing. Well, almost the whole thing. It must’ve ran long because it cut off before the final segment where they announced the voting and who got cut. I had to go to the ESPN site to find out.

I’m so pissed. There should be a word for when Tivo leaves you hanging like that.

Closed Encounters of the Funny Kind

Okay, so this comes to me fourth-hand, but it is well worth it. It seems that the snow closing system for News 14, Time Warner’s all-news station in Raleigh, was hacked during the storm yesterday and a bunch of fake closings ended up on the air. You can see an archive of some of them here. Big thanks to JT for tipping me off to this on his brother’s site who found it on his buddy Wade’s site. The internet rulez.

Gay Googling (NTTAWWT…)

Many thanks to jt.net for pointing out the blizzog’s latest grand Internet achievement. While some people crack the Google top spot for their miserable failures, there are those of us that gain renown for, well, other reasons.

I guess I will have to modify my “Claim To Fame” list - thanks to the 3 of you who participated, by the way - to include: “At one point in time, a Google search for “Sir Gay-Porns-A-Lot” returned my name at the very top. To boot, I’ve scored a true Googlewhack by having my name be the only result for said query. Or should I say queery?

This is quite a day for me. I’m sure Mom is very proud. Again.

Snowstorm Schmostorm

Well, after all the weather people around here spent the last day and a half spazzing about this “massive snow storm”, I find myself somewhat disappointed. As I sit here looking across the grounds at Casa del Blizzog, I would say that we got at most 3.5 inches total. That’s nothing to sneeze at here in NC, but it’s a far cry from the 6 to 8 inches we were all so heartily warned about over the past few days.

It appears that other areas around us did get a ton of snow, but we seemed to miss out on the heavy action. Oh well, hopefully that will do it for winter around these parts. Bring on the spring!

Idol Scoreboard: blizzog 5 of 6

Looks like I was right, though I didn’t see that Hobbit dude sneaking into the Top 3.

Important Matters

We’re not just all fluff here on the blizzog. We realize that there are other things going on in the world besides American Idol that deserve our attention. You know, like The Bachelorette?

As you all know tonight is the big finale. Who will Meredith pick? Will it be Matthew the down-home protective type from Texas or Ian the slightly weird but interesting guy from New York?

The blizzog thinks that despite Ian’s weirdness and his 80s-TV-Drama-Bad-Guy hair, he will get the final rose tonight. We think that Meredith is more into him than she is into Matt.

I’m pretty sure that AG is picking Matt, but I’ll have to let her confirm that.

Is anyone else watching this show, or are we the only ones carrying the torch for cheezy reality TV?

Idol Recap - Week 3 Is Much Better

Some delayed Idol ramblings after suffering through a painful Heels loss tonight.

Elizabeth LeTendre - We are already off to a better start this week. At least she didn’t make the song sound too “Whitney” like all of the others who sing Houston songs. Nice job.

Eric Yoder - This was the guy from the qualifying rounds whose group really sucked. I remember thinking he was lucky to get through. “Still of the Night”? This was BOOORRRRRINGGG. He’s a good singer but I don’t think that this is really all that neat. I dig the falsetto. I think Eric’s nut-hugger jeans might have helped with that.

Amy Adams - I keep getting her confused with the chick last year that kinda looks like her. I remember liking her in the qualifying rounds. A Celine song. Pretty ballsy. This usually goes one of two ways: really good or really not. This was not either to me, but definitely closer to the really good side. She has good presence. Forget all that though, I want to know what cradle her mom’s been robbing. Did you see her “boyfriend”?

Suh-weet! William Hung is going to be on the show!!! That rules. She Bangs! She Bangs!!

Jon Peter Lewis - It’s the pen salesman guy. Tiny Dancer. Good song. I love this song. I kinda liked his version okay, though at times it seemed like he was channeling Kermit the Frog. The biggest thing to me is that he looked very uncomfortable on stage, almost like somebody was abouut to punch him in the stomach. Next!

Charly Lowry - This is our second North Carolina girl in the competition. She had a pretty awesome voice in the early round. And she’s a Tar Heel!!!!! Yeah. I’m not really digging this song though. I’m also not digging her prom dress. She has a good voice though. She could get the “Matt, The Football Guy” personality vote like last week.

Jonah Moananu - This guy was pretty cool in the early rounds, though his title as Hawaii State Freestyle Rap champion doesn’t say much for the state of hip-hop on the big island. This performance is just not good. I have no idea what this song is. It has way too many words. I feel like he was telling me a story that I didn’t want to hear. Aloha, dude.

Leah Labelle - This is the girl who’s parents are the ABBA of Bulgaria. How many times do I have to say this? Do not sing Whitney or Mariah on this show unless you have some serious game. This is just not good. She’s missing a lot of notes and her posture is terrible.

And then the craziness started. I don’t understand the praise she’s getting from Paula and Randy and Simon. Is this Bulgarian Idol? I wasn’t feeling this performance at all. I do think that she has potential to be much better, but I certainly don’t think that she was the best tonight like Simon said. She won’t get through tonight but Simon will end up putting her back in with his “judge’s choice” like he did last year with that annoying Mormon girl, Carmen. Leah’s mom’s friend is pretty hot. Looks like she’s been robbing the cradle too.

Latoya London - Talk about the surprise of the night. I don’t remember anything about her from the previous rounds. That was a pretty powerful performance. I don’t know that she had great control over everything top to bottom, but it was still very good and definitely the best tonight. Much better than Olga, or Leah, or whatever.

the blizzog picks….
1.) Latoya London
2.) Amy Adams (this is a toughy, as I think our NC girl could sneak in)

AG picks…
1.) Latoya London
2.) Amy Adams
3.) Charly Lowry (Go Heels!)

America picks…
1.) Latoya London
2.) Charly Lowry

What’s Your Claim To Fame?

I saw this topic posted on the Carolina message boards the other day and thought it might be a fun one here. What’s your claim to fame?

Mine is that Dicky V told me that I could shoot the rock when I participated in a Diet Pepsi 3-point shootout at the Final Four in Minneapolis in 1992.

My other claim to fame is that on several occasions during the summer of 1994 I played the arcade basketball game “Run and Gun” with newly-minted Detroit Piston Rasheed Wallace. Most of the time I was not on his team. Me and some other random guy would get beat by Ra and his buddy, and ‘Sheed would talk smack to us the whole time. Every now and then we would beat him, but I was too scared to talk any junk.

That’s about all I’ve got right now. What is your claim to fame?

Iron Man?

Ozzy Osbourne is afraid he might never be able to perform again after his recent ATV accident. At the risk of sounding insensitive, does anyone really believe this? I obviously don’t have access to his medical charts or know the full extent of his injuries, but he seemed to have no problem walking on stage for the Grammys last week. Why should we be expected to believe that the metal rod in his shoulder is going to prevent him from ever singing again?

I think this all smacks of yet more media whoring from a family that seems to have re-written the book on it in recent years. I wonder if Ozzy might make a miraculous recovery by the summer in time for “one more Ozzfest”? Wouldn’t that be courageous? Please.

(Now watch this Primetime thing come on tomorrow night and tell us that he’s really messed up and I’ll look like a big jerk….again. )