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Thursday, May 21, 2009

American Eye-Hole, Finally, er, Finale

I lost any shred of interest in Eye-Hole when the actually talented right-on youngster Allison Iraheta got booted by the speed-dialing teenyboppers who do the actual voting. Sure, homophobia likely had some impact on the final voting (since right wing scum bags like Bill O'Reilly made something of an issue of Lambert's sexuality with that ever less relevant noise machine of theirs), but it actually seems a bit of a stretch in my view to pretend axiomatic certainty that only homophobia could account for those same speed-dialing teenyboppers voting for Kris Allen's white bread in white under pants over Adam Lambert's eye-rolling Broadway histrionics. Those who bemoan Eye-Hole's loss last night of its last bid for "relevance" in handing the victory to Allen must be using a different definition of "relevance" than any I've ever heard before. These must be the same people who think Tyra Banks would ever coronate a person other than herself as America's Top Model. These must be the same people who think all the Ultimate Fighters grappling in the Octagon with boners in their boxer briefs (bless them) are paragons of heterosexual rectitude. Those who want to find actually representative actually relevant actually talented creative young people on mainstream tee vee striving for the limelight would do better to watch America's Best Dance Crew and, it would appear from the pilot, the very charming Glee.

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