Tidbits 4/19

Syracuse.com - Clay Aiken creating buzz as fans from "as far away at Alberta, Canada, and Oregon" flock to buy tickets to the July 18 concert.

• You don't want to miss 1inNebraska4Clay's beautiful photo essay titled "Can You Imagine?" CLICK HERE TO SEE IT.
  
• LBFCA is back in business - check out their new post -- "The PPs are Broken"
  
• MLive - Grand Rapids Symphony conductor tells us why he brought Clay Aiken to the Symphony in December -

  In December we brought Clay Aiken to perform with the symphony. It is a way for us to do something a little different and bring people who normally wouldn't attend symphony performances in. It is basically a rock concert inside DeVos Hall, presented by the Symphony.

• Houston Press - Claymates and non-Claymates clash ... one visitor says: ""If you've never been to a Clay concert, you don't know what you are missing. My guess is you only say these kinds of things about Clay to get hits in your blog. Okay, you got mine. Happy?"
  
• Express - random Clay mention in this article about a play - "He abandons his job and family to follow her on tour in a manner usually reserved for Clay Aiken fans."
• Washington City Paper on the elimination of AI6 contestant Sanjaya Malakar - "Anybody who gets enough exposure will eventually become a sex symbol. To wit: Clay Aiken and Sanjaya leave women weeping despite exuding less testosterone than a tutu."
• A few more tour mentions:
• Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
• Star Gazette
• Entertainment Weekly - a future of no more critics?

  Personally, I'm scared of a day when my giant corporate overlords decide my skills are no longer necessary, and they can make more money by just posting a giant scribble board with a sentence at the top of it like "RASCAL FLATTS SUX" or "CLAY AIKEN RULZ" and letting people go to town.

• Kinston Free Press- article about a girl who performed with Clay - "She recently performed a duet with American Idol star Clay Aiken in Raleigh." (was this at the BAF gala?)
• Yahoo News - bizarre article about an American Idol contest for lawyers... small Clay mention:

  "American Idol," spawned from the U.K. reality hit "Pop Idol," debuted in summer 2002. The program has become a cultural and ratings juggernaut (an estimated 28 million viewers tuned in Wednesday night to watch the departure of much-mocked contestant Sanjaya Malakar) and has launched the music careers of such Billboard chart-toppers as Kelly Clarkson, Clay Aiken and Carrie Underwood.
  

• A few updates on the UNICEF fundraising efforts:
• Casper Lives
• Something That Really Happened