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The AP wire story is still making its circulation around ... this one appeared in yesterday's Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, ON, Canada). Thanks to MonicaJuliet at the CB for the scan!

• Entertainment Weekly - Clay is mentioned in an interview with Josh Groban -

  But they're a specific breed. You, Rascal Flatts, Clay Aiken — what is it about you that compels these people to be so overprotective?
  Um... I don't know. They've got my back for sure when it comes to that stuff. It certainly isn't on orders from me. They're very passionate about the music. Maybe it's the fact that it was kind of a slow climb from the beginning. This wasn't something that people wanted to pay much attention to, so my fans were very much grassroots. It spread because they were the ones getting someone else to listen, stomping the sidewalk, because I was never really a press darling. And slowly but surely, we've made our mark. And I wish I could kind of tell them, ''I'm okay now. I can take care of myself. I don't mind a little jab now and then.''

• Winnipeg Free Press - random mention... Canadian football -

  Better if that one guy is football's version of Carrie Underwood. Or even, gulp, Clay Aiken. That would be B.C. Lions quarterback Buck Pierce, who was trolling the web one day a couple years back and found the Lions were holding a tryout camp nearby. Presto, the Lions found themselves a starting quarterback.

• Clay - The Man welcomes international Claymates!
  
• Carolina On My Mind - changes at official fanclub bring steep learning curve -

  Since Tuesday's unveiling of Clay Aiken's new fan club format, I have studied so many links, blogs, and tables trying to unlock the secrets of Textism lingo that the left side of my brain literally aches. Not that I have too much on that side -- after all, I am a musician.
  
  There has been some progress. Translation: several of us now know how to post images, clickables, links, photo links, and make minor bold/italic type adjustments. Nothing like the arsenal of HTML directives normally in hand.
  

• There Was A Man - Clay Aiken gets to work on Broadway's Spamalot... AP interview
• There Was A Man shares some fan comments from Spamalot -

  January 18th made his auspicious Broadway debut. The fandom held its collective breath while Clay sang, danced, yodeled, spoke with an English accent, and hit his comedic marks. After the show more than one bottle of bubbley--real and imaginary was uncorked.
  
  Some comments made by fans:
  
  "I knew Clay would be good, I never thought he would be THAT good -- the joy on his face (and his fellow castmates') at the curtain call lit up my heart!! Sir Galahad hugged his arm and patted him on the back (job well done) and the King gave a little special acknowledgment of Clay ... and that was so sweet .. it was a HUGE hope of mine that Clay would be accepted by the cast ... I think he has been ..."

• Hobbies - Parade Magazine challenges us to raise money for TBAF (read more here at CDD)