Time To Vote

After avoiding it for several seasons, I finally somewhat got into American Idol this year. I've watched the last couple of episodes although tonight was the first I watched straight through. Since it first premiered, I thought Idol was "idiot TV" and considered it beneath me. I'm not sure exactly what hooked me this year, but I suspect it was the lack of anything else to watch on TV.

So tonight, I'm watching the show and it's down to Katharine McPhee and Taylor Hicks. Both are very talented but I think Hicks will probably win after tonight's voting.

What really got me though, was the one time Paula Abdul said something that wasn't moronic. I was watching McPhee do a *beautiful* rendition of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" and they kept showing her father who was in the audience. He's got tears running down his face. After a moment, I realize that I'm bawling too. At the end of the song, Abdul noted that everyone was crying, "including every father in America who imagines his daughter being in Katharine McPhee's place". That is PRECISELY what was going through my mind as I was watching that. She totally nailed me.

So tonight, I'm going to place my vote and join the millions of Americans (and beyond?) that spend a buck on a call to make someone's dream come true. Who am I voting for? At the moment, I honestly haven't made up my mind. Maybe someday it'll be my baby.