Tidbits 7/28

• TVGasm's Big Brother blog mentions Clay: "Then again, I should have known better than to think favorably of a man who still flat-irons his hair. Not even Seacrest and Clay Aiken flat-iron anymore."
• Pittsburgh Tribune Review: stacking the Idols up... (sales stats)
• Deadbolt: AI/AI5 article... "Since its U.S. inception in 2001 on Fox, American Idol has turned a variety of everyday "average Joe" types into household names, including such singers as Kelly Clarkson, Justin Guarini, Clay Aiken"
  
• Wizbang (has been negative to Clay in the past) -- AI5 finalists visiting White House. Mentions Clay:

  I was excited about this season of American Idol because there were three NC finalists this time. Past finalists, Clay Aiken and Fantasia Barrino, both of NC, finished in second and first places in previous seasons. This time, though, none of the NC three, Bucky Covginton, Kellie PIckler or my favorite, Chris Daughtry, made it to the season finale. They made it to the White House though.

• Hey! It's not Christmas, but Idle-wandering is asking you to caption the above photo (THUD)
• Idle-wandering also recaps all the sophomore album news we've been getting. Fantastic read. Some of the stuff there is new. It's best to treat everything you read there as a rumour.
• Several different posts from the blogs about Clay's plea for help:
• Southern Girl: Clay Aiken & UNICEF neeed help;
• Idle-wandering: Children in need;
• Taking A Moment: UNICEF in urgent need of $24 million;
  
• There Was A Man: UNICEF needs help;
• Invisible Kingdom: UNICEF needs help for Lebanese children;
• It's Friday... time for another Friday photo from Southern Girl. Remember last year's TV Guide cover which had us all drooling in front of the computer screen?
• Invisible Kingdom: reasons I LOVE WDC... "The moooooves. Clay has always said he can't dance. I humbly beg to differ." (includes video)
• There Was A Man blogs about Claymate's UNICEF donations (topping over $47,000 as of 5 PM EDT today)
  

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