Tidbits 8/16

• Postcard from the Pug Bus -- not sure whether I should laugh or cry at this stupid piece of satire... Katharine McPhee & Clay???
• Reality TV Mag - ATDW article (actually, it's just the RCA PR)
• Planet Out - Reality TV competitions -- "Winning doesn't always mean success and losing doesn't necessarily mean the end of a career. Clay Aiken certainly proved that."
• Foxes On Idol article about Canadian Idol asks why Canadians sent home Clay Aiken-esque Keith McPherson... "You send him home. After he gives the best performance he ever has. No one will ever confuse his voice with Clay Aiken’s, but it was a nice functional voice."
• MSNBC - who will win So You Think You Can Dance? Will it be "Benji the exuberant, eerily Clay-Aiken-ish ham"? Goes on to say:

  Benji's Aikenesque appeal — he's skinny, nonthreatening, and almost adolescent in appearance, and his style is cheery and conventional — bodes well. In keeping with that tradition, he has been a darling of the fangirls who make up a large chunk of the audience on a show like this. On the other hand, fangirls can be overestimated in number because they shriek at such a high volume. Justin Guarini didn't win the first "Idol," and Clay Aiken didn't actually win either, despite his post-show success as his generation's Pat Boone.

• Raleigh News & Observer picks up the New York Times Celebs in Africa article from the weekend.
• Monster And Critics - ATDW article (derived almost entirely from the RCA PR)
• The full version of Measure of a Man is now back at Apple's iTunes music store. It was removed in July due to legal issues and re-instated partially last week.

• Southern Girl - blog about the ET poll and InStyle magazine poll results. (More info here)
• The ClayBlog- Anticipation for ATDW.
• Southern Girl has another blog about today's posting of the full version of Without You.
• There Was A Man's thoughts on Clay's upcoming Jimmy Kimmel Live appearance -- "Jimmy and Clay have great chemistry together, so the appearance is highly anticipated."
  

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