elizabeth: “I also realized this season that while I love discovering, supporting and nurturing young talent, it was hard for me to judge 
people and sometimes hurt their feelings.” Now this last part sounds like me (when the evil twin is napping), but Ellen DeGeneres announced the other day that she is no longer going to be a judge on American Idol. Some people speculate that she got booted out. I believe she just had had it with making ratings by playing it cruel.
Laurie: Surely Ms. DeGeneres didn’t think she was joining a youth glee club. Her job as an American Idol judge is to crush dreams, pop unrealistic bubbles, discourage useless efforts, and if at all possible, do it as cruelly as possible. Anybody who doesn’t know that has been living in a cave without cable.
elizabeth: Don’t get me wrong, some of the contestants were bloody awful. Their parents should be slapped for mixing their genes together, but no one deserves to be slammed in front of millions of people. Now this only goes for American Idol hopefuls. Certain politicians, TV and Radio hosts and the cast from the Jersey Shore do have it coming to them. What really upsets me about the “Shore Whores” group is that some of them are from the area I live in. Gives me another reason to get off this island! And just for the record, if I sounded like any of them, I would volunteer to have my tongue removed.
Laurie: I stopped watching Ellen (but would start again if she had Coaches on the Edge as her guests) when I turned on the television one day and she was hysterically crying. Like someone had swooped in and massacred her family and made her watch. And then I find that the flowing tears were about a dog that was adopted by one family and had to be given to another. Sad for one family I’m sure. Worthy of five minutes of television crying time? Not mine. Touching but maybe a bit over the top.
elizabeth: So kudos to Ellen and thanks for setting an example about what how we should treat each other. The bottom line is that we need to be able to get up in the morning and face ourselves without a lot of regret.
And Ellen, if you are as nice as I think you are, Coaches on the Edge would be great guests for your new fall season. Just don’t tell Oprah. She is starting to see the wisdom in having us on the cover of O. We won’t stop you if you want to put a good word in for us.
And not to worry. There is a New York State law that prohibits me from singing within 500 yards of anything with a pulse. Sadly, Laurie has to cross state lines or face arrest.
Laurie: Luckily I still have a pulse so I’m loving the sounds of silence.
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ashtrays or my personal favorite which was the dreaded chapel veil that the dreaded nuns made us make. I think it was for the missionaries. All I know is that I never mastered the fine art of sewing without stabbing myself and taking the Lord’s name in vain. Oh, yeah. The nuns loved me. Feelings were mutual. So I am thinking after you made something for your entire staff in your arts and crafts class (I would like a toothbrush holder) that the issue of putting us on the cover of O would come up again. And again. And again.
magazine? Pretty impressive tenacity if you ask me. Now I don’t want to criticize, but just as impressive as 34 weeks of begging/cajoling/manipulating are, so is the bewilderment of a lack of response from you. No one can be that resolved to ignore 34 wildly clever, slightly brown-nosy, and always polite attempts to win you over to our point of view.
The Secret? In fact, yOu had all thOse grOOvy peOple On yOur shOw. And accOrding tO them, visiOning is what it’s all abOut. Well, I figure if we put capital O’s in Our pleas, that’s a form of visiOning. O’s all over the place and COaches On the Edge On yOur back (nOt frOnt, we’ve given that up) cOver. What dO yOu think?
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