American Idol: El Fin

Okay, so American Idol was last night and I missed it again! As mentioned, we're moving next week, and I spent yesterday evening with my dad, brother, and brother-in-law playing games. In the other room, my mom--who has never watched American Idol until halfway through this season--voted for Little Davey ninety-two times. I'm like an American Idol missionary, spreading the good word and changing lives.

Anyway, since I can't comment on the show, I thought I'd share with you a couple predictions I made back in the day. Sure, my weekly predictions have been as prescient as in past years, but overall I think I did quite nicely.

This quote is taken from March 12th, which was all the way back at Week One:

As for long-range predictions: if we follow AI tradition, a guy will win this year . . . right now that would look like either David Archuleta or maybe David Cook. I hope it's neither.

But, the week before, back when they first named the top twelve, I made the following prediction, and I stand by it:

My current pick to win it all? No idea. My current pick to lose as #2? David Archuleta.

I hear that Davey did a lot better than David Cook last night, but I still think Cook has it in the bag. And I'm glad. I fully and completely admit that Davey is a great singer and extremely talented, but I've been bored with him since March, and I'd probably change the channel if he came on the radio. Blah.