Letters from Johns.
Letters from Working Girls.
I’ve been reading the Johns website since I found out about it a month or so ago, just found the Working Girls site this morning. Makes for some interesting reading.

I found this at SEB, but it’s so funny I’m going to post it on my bloggy thing as well. Even if you’re easily offended you should watch this, it’s very amusing:

EDIT: and if you need an additional chuckle, go to the actual yoo-toob page and read the comments.

I’ve never gotten into the American Idol phenomenon and outside of a few snippets I’ve never watched an entire episode. I think for me, and I suspect most people, the most entertaining aspect of the series is the auditions where you get to see hopefuls try their luck before the judges. For the most part the cut scenes in the teaser commercials are more than enough to amuse me and I don’t feel a need to subject myself to a full hour of it. But for some reason one evening when Mitsy was at school I found myself sitting on the sofa and watching American freaking Idol.
I admit that since this segment was hosted in Dallas I was curious to see what our “home” crowd had baked up to throw onto the national stage. At this point I remember very little of what I saw, except for this guy:

What can you say, he makes an impression. However, the biggest impression for me was how thankful this gentleman was to receive the opportunity to audition, even after he didn’t make it. It suddenly made the outbursts of all those other untalented, self-absorbed cretins less amusing and more truly sad. This fellow should make them all feel ashamed. My goodness, they all got the chance free of charge to sing before the entire country. What an amazing opportunity that is. And it made me wonder, personally, how many times in life do we look at opportunity and label it catastrophe, or become angered at what we perceive as other’s shortcomings, instead of using the opportunity given us to become better.