By: Kent McCarty
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After eight seasons of American Idol, everyone’s getting tired of it, myself included. For eight years the American public has watched the same kind of singers take the stage and belt out the same kind of songs over and over again. With the exception of Carrie Underwood and a few others, the contestants are generally so uninteresting that they fade back into obscurity as soon as the finale airs. This season, however, the show has given us a full set of interesting voices and personalities that might keep America’s attention for the first time in years. One of the contestants is a glassblowing apprentice. I mean, how many of those exist in the world? Very few.
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I’m not trying to knock the Olympics as a whole. I enjoy a good round of curling just as much as the next guy. But why does every other show on television go on hold just because the Winter Olympics roll into town? I’m one of those people that require at least one good TV show per night each week, and when each of my favorite shows goes on hold, the balance of my life no longer exists. For example, my favorite show, Fringe, was just getting good when the Winter Olympics ice skated its way onto my TV, putting Fringe on the back burner until mid-March. Even worse, Fringe was not the only prime-time casualty the Olympics brought on; my other favorites including House, V, FlashForward, The Office, Parks and Recreation, and Human Target were also benched until the Olympics decided to wrap things up.
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Throughout all 88 of her years on earth, everyone’s favorite grandmother, Betty White, has never hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live. Why the show’s producers have invited the likes of Icelandic singer Bjork and American annoyance Taylor Swift before the queen of comedy is beyond me. It may have taken a Facebook group (Betty White to host SNL- Please?) with 500,000 members and millions of tear-stained letters to the NBC headquarters, but fans will finally get their wish when White teams up with Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Molly Shannon for a special edition of Saturday Night Live next year. Suggestion: For her 90th birthday in 2012, why not give her her very own episode of SNL?
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I’m not lying when I say that the cafeteria’s cheesy chicken is too good for words. I’m also not exaggerating when I say that I would choose a good bowl of cheesy chicken over a full course meal from 97% of the restaurants in Hattiesburg. However, I, along with hundreds of other cheesy chicken enthusiasts, have been extremely disturbed by the use of what appears to be ham in place of chicken in the last few batches of the cafeteria’s signature dish. Let us not forget the wise words of our elders: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” So with that said, GIVE US CHICKEN.
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