Tidbits 4/12

• To our Jewish friends: Happy Passover!
• Today's tidbits is quite long, so get comfortable before going through all this stuff.
• My sister is a Claymate! Read this PotatoFinger blog entry.
  
• FYI: As the Page Six scandal continues to unfold over at the New York Post, the New York Times today announced the discontinuation of it's own gossip column.
• Advance Titan: I don't really get this mention. Draw your own conclusions.
• Antimusic article... small Clay mention.
• Baseball Toast blog: nominate bargain CD 'hall of fame' "No Clay Aiken. Come on, it's too easy."
• San Antonio Business Journal: CEO inspired by Idol to created better music education for at risk youth
• Projo.com: Idol article... Clay runner-up success.
• This was in today's Dallas Morning Star:

  Shouldn't there be a clear Idol champ emerging at this point? Instead, we're faced with eight maybes, a gang of pretty-goods. The masses who are giving the show the highest rating in the history of the world deserve better. We deserve a Clarkson, a Fantasia or, for God's sake, a Clay.

• Entertainment Weekly: All successful idols have memorable Idol song... "Think about it: Every successful Idol alumnus has had one: Fantasia's ''Summertime,'' Carrie's ''Alone,'' Clay's ''Solitaire,'' and so on."
• The Soko: "Top 10: Reasons You Have Trouble Finding A Date 10. Your favorite singer is Clay Aiken."
• FOX Sports: Comparing AI to football
  
• Another one from FOX Sports: Worst case scenario for NC State basketball:

  Offended that even someone from the Entertainment industry turned them down, N.C. State offers the job to Raleigh native (and hometown hero) recording star Clay Aiken. He graciously accepts. Aiken signs on the project to play himself, and the movie is turned into an old-timey musical. It is originally scheduled to open Thanksgiving 2009, but Disney sells the rights, and the movie gets shot on a rushed schedule, for airing on the Oxygen Network three months later.

• Center of NJ life blog.. small Clay mention.
• Huffington Post: Weird article about politics and AI... John McCain, Clay, Kelly and Fantasia? Being Canadian, I'm confused.
• Coyote Press Idol article - AI2...Ruben won, Clay had more success.
• Media Fiends: Big no-no for Idol contestants -- repeat a successful performance, such as Clay's BOTW.