For some reason I actually cared about American idol this year, thanks to Shannon. And the one guy I like from his very first audition made it all the way! Yayy!

Ok, back to Pistons basketball now. Go Pistons!

One last time we here at Breathingfire.com will pick who will/should get voted off from Uh-myer-ih-cyan Eye-dul.

Neither Shannon or I watched last night, but I’ve read somewhere that Taylor did better so goodbye again, Katharine!

Now, I’m 1 for 11 in these predictions. So is Shannon. it seems that whoever I vote off is saved by my vote. Well I am not going to tempt fate! Maybe next season, but this time around I’m going to be a straight shooter and we’re going to get Katharine off of that show with honesty and integrity, damn it!

Brad’s been really busy lately, being all productive in other important areas of his life (good job honey!), so this website hasn’t been a priority. However, I didn’t want disgusting Katharine on the front page anymore, so I offered to guest post. And here I am… hi!

By way of introduction, you simply need to know that I’m the love of Brad’s life, and you can learn more about me here.

As for the point of this post (other than to rid poor readers of the loathsome Katharine), well…wait, there’s supposed to be a point? You caught me then. There is no point, I have nothing to say. I’m just bored at work and needed a distraction. Yes, I’m posting from work when I should be working on important work stuff. But I can handle only so much work in a workday, and I’m all worked out.

Work, work, work. Stop saying work.

I wish I had something interesting to talk about, but I exhausted myself already over at my own website. So I guess I’ll get back to work now. Nice to meet you!

Ok, so we’re down to the last week before the big finale. shan’s already given up on the show after last week’s shocker of Chris getting voted off. Thanks a lot, America!

Anyways, I was visiting my grandma last night so I didn’t catch the show, but I’m sure that…

…will be going home. At least i hope.

Hey, you. yeah you, the one who’s reading my website. I know you’re there because I get a substantial amount of traffic. I think you should come out and say hi.

See, I have no idea who visits my website. Maybe you’re people I like. Maybe you’re people i hate. Either way, let’s have some conversation! Click the little comments link down there and let’s have some fun.

Go ahead…

Why Chris Daughtry got voted off of American Idol

So we’re down to the final 4. Hmm, this week wasn’t all that hard though, since 3 out of the 4 delivered spectacular performances. So we’ll have to go with…

Sorry, “Kat”. You just did not impress me at all this week.

Even Elliott, who was definitely the underdog this week, out-performed you in every way. Here’s my top 4 list for the week:

1. Taylor
2. Elliott
3. Chris
4. Katherine

The Nintendo Wii was fully introduced today at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles, and it looks awesome.

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Yes! Just like last year (and 2 years before that, and a year before that…), Ben Wallace has won the NBA’s Defensive Player of the Year award for the fourth time in five years!

I don’t really understand why he won it over Bruce Bowen, who is definitely overdue for some recognition of his own, but hey, I’ll take it. I do know that Ben Wallace has been phenomenal and I can only hope he lives up to his award for the rest of the Playoffs.

Oh my god, I just signed on to MySpace to see what I could find on there. Wow. I was not prepared for what i would find.

See, I make websites sometimes. It’s my business. I try to develop clean looking, professional, easy-to-use, easily upgradeable websites. You can see some of them at Ryanleigh.com (shameless plug, sorry).

So when I stumbled upon MySpace once again (I had seen it back in the day), I was horrified at the amount of nasty background images, neon colors, unreadable text, crazy f’ed up layouts, music that just starts playing, animated GIFs, movies….THAT JUST START PLAYING.

I mean, come on people. Seriously. I understand that 80% of the MySpace population is currently sitting in 5th hour Algebra class writing notes to their boyfriend, but there are some perfectly intelligent college age people on there too. We’re not in the 1990′s anymore. We’re all past the age of Geocities and making our own websites using Frontpage or Word.

Most of this is MySpace’s fault. They allow wayyy too much customization for their own good. Let’s see how it SHOULD be done, shall we?

Google Page Creator

Ahhh. Now that’s better. High levels of customization without needing any prior knowledge of web design. A controlled atmosphere which still allows for a personalized space for all your thoughts and American Idol predictions. “Oh, I love Chris, he’s so dreamy!” See, Google gets it right. Go ahead….snoop around!

But the one thing that will keep everyone from flocking over there (thanks to this entry on Breathingfire.com, of course!) is MySpace’s little ‘friends’ feature. It’s the only thing it has going for it. You search for your friends, and you look at their friends, and their friends, and it’s an endless cascade of torture as you sift through coutnless peoplpe yo udon’t know, only to find one or two people you do.

I found a few people from college and a few from high school, and it was good for a laugh. I even set up a profile on there so I could get the whole experience. I’m now up to 6 friends! Six! It’s amazing.

But i will continue to rant about how horrible of a website it is, and how the high school generation (and a handful of college kids as well) are destroying the internet (and civilization it’s very self) by creating useless, ugly, disgustingly confusing webpages. Stop it! Stop it!!!