Leftovers: American Idol Edition

* Breaking: American Idol runners-up really are just like everyone else:

Katharine McPhee chats on her phone, feeds her meter, enjoys being stalked by paparazzi:



Katharine, love the shoes!!!

* Breaking: AI-hating dude who just fucking wanted to fucking share his fucking photos with his fucking friends is not fucking interested in fucking being the fucking AI-goto blog:

Eric over at deathbycamera does a post-mortem on his website meltdown as a result of his oh, ya know, collecting MySpace profiles on AI contestants. He says he only did it because he was bored, and he never expected all the extra traffic, because, ya know, the 37 million viewers that tuned in each night last week wouldn't care about such things. In retrospect, maybe it was not the best idea to mail several highly-trafficked music and celebretainment blogs about his posts:

Subject: the myspace accounts of american idol contestants
From: eric.dbc@gmail.com
Date: 1/17/07 2:56 AM
To: tips@stereogum.com; tips@defamer.com; tips@gawker.com; tips@idolator.com; tips@socialitelife.com

I don’t know if anybody is watching the new season of American Idol, I don’t know if anybody really cares. Here’s the thing: I got really fucking bored tonight and started searching for the idiots that were on American Idol on myspace and found 11 of them. Some of them were winners, most of them were losers.

You can check it out here.

http://deathbycamera.com/?p=30

Peace,
Eric
www.deathbycamera.com

Yes, dude actually wrote: "I don’t know if anybody is watching the new season of American Idol, I don’t know if anybody really cares."





Eric, dude, think of all the Adsense revenue you left on the table!!!

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New Year's Leftovers Are Fucking --

A mega-post full of leftovers and quick takes...As always, in no particular order...

* "Livin' in the shadow of someone else's dream...": From the "Great Moments In Contextual Advertising" department...Ashlee Simpson has her first NipSlip-caught-by-the-papz moment, and Google AdSense is still hating on her -- note big sister Jess's ProActiv ad in the top right [SFW; NipSlip cropped out...phtpthtphtht]:



[The NSFW version of this pic can be found, among other places, here]

So far, there is no truth to the rumor that Papa Joe Simpson ordered Ash to flash the goods to goose Jess's page views [what with Jess's career in free-fall these days, and all]...

There's also a "Grey's Anatomy" joke here somewhere, but I'm too lazy to look for it...

* And speaking of Jessica Simpson...no, not really...: Ex-Mr.-Jessica-Simpson Nick Lachey's new sweetie and MTV VJ Vanessa Minnillo used the word "fucking" during MTV's New Year's Eve countdown show. No, not while describing her and Nick's New Year's resolutions. The actual line in context: "But you know what we're going to do right now? We're about to fucking --". It's about 17 seconds into the clip here:



I feel sorry for poor Vanessa, as she's clearly quite embarrassed about her slip-up. But I snicker at the "those teevee people are still corrupting our youth" media coverage of this incident, even among the "new media" types who should know better.

First, let me just clarify that the FCC regulations that got Bono in trouble for saying the same thing a few years ago do not apply to cable networks like MTV. Second, I refuse to believe that any viewer of MTV's MTV Goes Gold: New Year's Eve 2007 -- or for that matter, any show at all on MTV -- would in any way be offended by hearing this.

When this "controversy" first broke a couple of days ago, MTV publicists issued the requisite mea culpa, explaining that, yes, the show was on a "standard industry 5-second delay", but that "due to the censors being drunk on cheap champagne 'human error'" the slip was not caught.

No, Vanessa Minnillo will not be fired over this "incident". And frankly, given MTV's obvious "eh" reaction to the whole thing, and the FCC's lack of jurisdiction over these things, I wonder why MTV feels any obligation at all to keep the f-bombs off the network.

* vh1.com partying like it's 2003: See if you can pick it out...



* There's a whole post's worth of material in this picture alone: Which post I'll probably be writing soon. Is vh1.com saying that the subtext for the "Best CDs of '06" debate is, "Who was the Producer Of The Year -- Timbaland [JT, Nelly] or Danger Mouse [Gnarls]?" And what would Pharrell and will.i.am have to say about that???



ciaobaby

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META: Why Does Google Think DHMBIB Readers Are Interested In Amanda Congdon???

[From the Google Ads banner that appeared on DHMBIB on 12.22]



Well, I can think of a couple of reasons, because I do frequently blog about internet "news" personalities who are famous for their assets. But seriously, feel free to add your thoughts in the comments.

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