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>It is Thursday morning!!! Which means the results are announced for the Canadian Blog Awards!!!!

Or so we thought.

Like an amazing episode of Lost there was an unexpected twist in the announcement procedure and it looks like we’ll have to wait a couple of days to know ALL the results.

The following message is posted on their website:

As of midnight January 31, 2008, the polls for our 27 categories, have closed.
Our nerve center of super computers and statisticians are working through the night to bring you results. And what they will tell you is this:

The winners are being announced a little bit differently this year. Some of you were expecting to find out everyone who won an award as of January 31, 2008. In our instant gratification society it would make sense to tell you all of the winners at once. However, in the interest of building suspense and giving more winning blogs a longer 15 minutes of fame, the CBAs are going to present the winners over the course of the next week!


Expect to see the following categories announced right here on canadianblogawards.ca, Thursday night:
-Best Military Blog
-Best Media/Celebrity Blog (Yipee!)
-Best Non-Partisan Blog

And more will come, so stay tuned.

Sooooooo dramatic!

If you want to follow the results yourself you can find them here

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Finally LOST returns to TV on Thursday night and it couldn’t come sooner. There is absolutely nothing on TV and what do they TV god decide to do? They over compensate by giving the BEST show on TV during the middle of a long cold winter.

Thank goodness!

If you haven’t started watching LOST, I’m not going to try to convince you. There is no point. There is so much story in each episode it would be too complicated to try to catch you up. But what you should do is go rent/buy the DVDs and catch up. I mean really, what else are you going to watch.

The LOST team were able to film 8 episodes of the show before the strike hit, which means we have about 2 months to enjoy what we can. And enjoy we will. Who can forget the season finale that revealed that Jack and Kate eventually make it off the island in a mind blowing flash-forward!

And don’t be confused by the ads, tonight’s episode isn’t actually 2 hours. There is an hour episode that will try to catch you up which leads to the brand spanking new episode. Hence why they call it a “2 hour event”, not a “two hour episode!”

After LOST premieres at 10pm, stick around on ABC for the series premiere of Eli Stone. If you haven’t seen previews for this show. It looks like a quirky show that will easily fill the void left by great shows like 30 Rock, The Office and Pushing Daisies. From what I can tell he gets visions that will help him solve cases. But I could totally be wrong. However, at this point, kinda like Prom Night, I’ll take what I can get.

Last year, I was actually lucky enough to visit the LOST set! you can see those pics here!

You can also check out a preview of Eli Stone below:

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I have never been to Miami. Seems like a cool place. So I’ve decided to use tonight’s episode of American Idol in Miami as the deciding factor on whether or not I should chose to visit Miami as my next vacation destination.

9:01 Using the Miami Vice opening as American Idol? Genius. Where do I buy my ticket?

9:02 While the number of auditioners (10,000) is impressive. Have you ever noticed that they always say 10,000? A nice round number.

9:03 The only thing scarier than Shannon McGough’s singing was her belching. Her voice had the potential of being good but instead she became a victim of just a bad audition.

9:05 Ohhh look. Ryan is trying to be a badass as by wearing a cross and bones t-shirt. How bad ass Ryan. Give me your job.

9:10 Dear Ghaleb Emachah, While your parents may tell you that you are only 27. I feel like you should know that you are actually 42. Well at least that’s how old you look. Trust me, I know how you feel.

9:13 Oh Paula makes the first racial comment of the year. Awesome. “You can really sing, but your accent is too strong.”

9:20 Did Corliss make Randy blush!?!? Hmm..interesting. I actually don’t know anything about Randy. He is married right? Ahh it’s Hollywood, what difference does it make. Both Corliss and her BFF Brittany Wescott gave me tingles too. Great voices. It will be another awkward separation in Hollywood when they are inevitably get broken up.

9:27 Yes it has been a whole 24 hours since we heard a “heartbreaking” single mother story. Didn’t Fantasia already win this thing? But Suzanne Toon and has cool last name and a unique voice so we’ll Golden Ticket her and wish her luck in Hollywood. But can she get a babysitter? Stay tuned.

9:29 Um. Did they just reference Jasmine Trias? Wow. That’s a stretch. Here’s hoping that Ramiele Malubay finds a little more success than Jasmine, who is apparently huge in Hawaii in the Philippines!!!! Score.

9:31 Syesha Mercado is prime Top 10 material. But she is going to have to turn off all that happiness…..oh wait they just hauled out the recovering addict dad. That is pretty much a golden ticket to Hollywood in itself. I mean really who says no to that!??!

9:38 Lots of girls are making it through this season, which seems to be a little bit of a trend. Maybe because they realized that the two guys that have won this competition have already lost their record deals. Year of the women indeed!

9:47 Holy Shit! American Juniors!!! I totally forgot about that crazyily awful show!!!! Did you also notice that Ryan seemed a little concerned about how he knew her….Careful Ryan.

9:57 I am seriously sick of American Idol giving people like Brandon Black screen time. Why would they show this over the actual good singers? Yeah yeah yeah, another guy in a costume, thinking he’s funny. Has someone in a costume ever made it through?!?! No. Is this episode done yet?

My TIVO cut out the last minute of American Idol but maybe that is a good thing.
I don’t know where we are off to next week, but hopefully there won’t be costumes.

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>Quick Question:

How are we supposed to take news networks like CNN seriously when they call Meteorologists “weather guys” on their website? I took a screen shot of it below.

>I just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone that has voted for Mike’s Bloggity Blog Blob for the 2007 Canadian Blog Awards!

I still can’t believe I made it past the first round, let alone in 5 different categories!

I also want to thank all those people that emailed their friends and families to let them know about this little blog and told them about the competition!

The voting closes at midnight on January 30th (Wednesday).

If you haven’t voted yet (or maybe you are now on a different computer, thus you are able to vote again) you can just swing by the blog site and make your vote count in the following categories.

Best Blog
Best Blog Post
Best Celebrity/Media Blog
Best Entertainment Blog
Best Humor Blog

vote here:
http://cdnba.wordpress.com/vote/round-2/

Thank again everyone!

>So here is the infamous Marie Osmond story.

Two years ago, some friends and I went to cheer for Chris Jericho at the taping of Celebrity Duets. Chris is my friends cousin so we got some preemo VIP access, which allowed us to stick around after the taping to meet and shmooze with the celebrities.

I don’t know if you remember this show but it was basically dancing with the stars in singing form and one of the judges was Marie Osmond.

So after the show, while Chris was being interviewed by the press, Marie Osmond was milling about. My friend Tanya and I went and asked for a picture with the former teen idol. I thought I was looking pretty good, but I guess under the cruel studio lights Marie thought differently. Thus setting up the following awkward conversation:

me: “Oh hey marie, how are you?”
marie:”I’m fine. And you?”
me:”Oh I’m great! I used to watch your talk show all the time when I was home sick.” (meaning with a cold or any illness kids in middle school fake.)
marie:”Oh wow. That’s so nice. You are really brave. How are you feeling now?”

It becomes obvious at this time that she is refering to my bald head and pale complextion.

me:”Oh, I meant with a cold. Like the flu.”
marie:”oh. Um. Well…should we take the picture?”
me: “sure”

Said awkward pose is captured below:

You can check out more pictures from backstage at the taping here.

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Bucked from the crowd?
Have they been harvested?
Too corny? I thought the writers were on strike, surely Ryan can’t be coming up with these Nebraska themed puns on his own!

Aww man. No Paula? I would lose it if I made it that far and didn’t get to see that crazy bitch! Of course, she knows I mean that in a good way!

9:04 And you thought my editing was bad? Ryan told us that the nasally Kelly Clarkson obsessed Chris Bernheisel was 25 years old. But on the screen it showed 24. Hmmm….Wait.a.minute. That guy gets to be the next Seacrest!?!?! What about me? I feel burned Seacrest. Watch your back.

9:10 Holy shit, Jason’s audition was probably one of the most stressful auditions we’ve seen. He’s a great singer but for a while there he couldn’t even get by the first line. It’s lucky they finally came to him, because let’s be honest: Who doesn’t know the lyrics to “When you say it best, you say nothing at all!? See ya in LA farm boy.

9:17 Paula finally shows up after being delayed on a plane. Of course, we “Hey Paula” fans know that that means she was probably huddled in a corner crying out for Emilio Estivez. They should show that stuff!

9:19 Quick, who knew Ryan had a muscle?

9:20 It will be great to see Rachael Wicker in Hollywood. She’ll be able to protect that sissy farm boy.

9:23 I have no problems with Goths or Sarah Whitaker, but does being a goth mean that you can’t brush your teeth?

9:30 And now Ryan gets to be a judge? I kinda felt bad for Samantha Sidley though (who is from Los Angeles?!) because her audition turned into a joke with Paula and Ryan switching places. Hey guys, she didn’t stand in line for two hours for audition to be turned into a joke! See you in Hollywood Samantha!

9:42 Best quote ever after receiving a golden ticket: “I can’t wait to make it to Hollywood and prove it to Simon that I am America’s Next Top Model…I mean…..” Thanks Elizabeth Erkert, tell Tyra I say hello!

9:48 Why do people share their personal family trauma’s with Ryan on national television? I know I have a daily blog, but that is kinda embarrassing Angelica Puente. But not everyone can pull of a Celine, so congrats now off to Dr. Phil with you!

9:56 For some reason or another Paula just assumed the “position”. I’m not sure I care to know why.

9:59 Leo Marlowe wraps up our time in Omaha. He was great and quite frankly so was American Idol tonight. Did you notice they focused more on the good people than the bad!

This is the American Idol we need and love!!!

Where are we off to tomorrow night? Miama! I wonder if Perez will be there?

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