Okay, by now, everyone on the face of God's green earth has auditioned for one season of American Idol or another. Enough! Please!!! This stupid show is wrecking my programming schedule. They keep flopping shows around each week, playing reruns, and generally pissing me off.

Tuesday used to be one of my favorite days for prime time television. I would watch NCIS on CBS at 7pm and then House MD on Fox at 8. But stupid American Idol has to take up two freakin' hours to show us that most of these singers are karaoke champs at best.

Don't get me wrong... I watched the first three weeks of psychos and screw ups. But the fun is over, and the sub-par talent has taken over. I can't stand it.

Thankfully, Wednesday evenings just became my favorite evenings for prime time tv. Now I can switch from Bones to Crossing Jordan to LOST in one fell swoop. Heroes appears to have disappeard (did the season end when I wasn't paying attention?), but I can deal with that as long as I get one or two days a week of my favorite shows. Grey's Anatomy still rocks Thursday, and I'm waiting to see on Friday if Raines will be a hit. I'm a HUGE Jeff Goldblum fan. The kind of wit I like comes from guys like Goldblum, John Cusak, and Robert Downey Jr. They rock.

March Madness is in full swing, so we're going to miss NUMB3RS for at least one week.

Am I the only one irritated by the total prime time domination of American Idol?

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Texas represents big time in this year's NCAA Men's College Basketball Tournament. Five Texas teams will enter the Division One Tournament this week. Let's take a quick look:

Texas A&M CC - As the second biggest underdogs in the Midwest bracket, the 26-6 Corpus Christi Islanders will take on #2 Wisconsin. I've never heard of the Islanders, but I have seen pictures of their campus (it looks like a paradise under Texas standards). They're obviously a long shot, but we're gonna wish them the best and hope they get to play UNLV or Georgia Tech in Round 2.

North Texas - This is one of the teams that I want most to win. They're playing an extremely talented Memphis in Round One, so it will take a near miracle for them to pull it off. For those of you who don't know, I spent an entire summer working on the football stadium at North Texas. We replaced every stinkin' bleacher in the stadium, waterproofed all the concrete steps in the stands, and patched concrete cracks underneath the bowl where the concession stands are located. It was a miserable summer in some respects, but I put my mark on the campus and I want to see them win.

Texas Tech - The Red Raiders have a fair chance to defeat Boston College in Round One. If they do manage to pull through, they'll face a difficult Georgetown team in Round 2. But wouldn't it be cool to see them make it to face Texas for the East? Yeah, but let's not start sippin' the tequila just yet.

Texas - The UT Longhorns have a really good chance to make it to the Sweet 16. There they will have to defeat North Carolina or Michigan State in order to face Georgetown, Texas Tech, or Washington State in the Elite 8. I don't know how good this freshman is that everyone's cooing over. I've only seen him play in two games. His legs look like toothpicks out there on the court. But he's apparently one of the best, so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.

Texas A&M - The highest ranked Texas team in the tournament, the Aggies should have an easy first round against Penn. Louisville could play a close game in Round 2, but they won't likely face a major challenge until the Sweet 16 against Memphis. Of course, if they were to make it to the Elite 8, they'll likely face the best team in the country, Ohio State. So we'll keep our fingers crossed for the Aggs.

Another team I'd like to recognize is this year's tournament is Tulsa team, ORU. The Oral Roberts Golden Eagles have a tough first round with Washington State. This is a small private school that usually makes it to the NIT, but rarely to the big dance. I'm rooting for ORU all the way.

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While there are more free wi-fi access points in Addison than most cities, I’ve found that you are still likely to find huge gaps that don’t. Have no fear. You can still get unlimited wi-fi access throughout Addison for a better price than T-Mobile, Sprint, or Verizon.

MoonOverAddison.com offers unlimited wi-fi access throughout the city for $16.95 per month, $9.95 per day, or $5.95 per hour. If I were spending more than half an hour online, I would have paid the fees. As it stands, though, I’m typing this blog in Word and will post it when I get back home (or Panera Bread). I had the wi-fi access on my smartphone once upon a time, but it was too expensive and I didn’t use it very often (I really don’t care to view the Internet from a 2” wide screen).

I just thought it was cool that there is a city-wide solution to Internet access. Addison is the coolest city around by far. All the coolest restaurants are nearby. They have plenty of coffee shops, cafes, and bars. It’s the business Mecca of DFW. The Galleria Shopping Mall is nearby. Addison has free movie and concert nights during the summer. And to top it all off, they have their own wi-fi network. If more cities put this much thought into their identities, we’d have a much cooler metroplex.

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According to a recent article in The Independent, the ideal female body shape can be best represented by Naomi Campbell. Some researchers from Poland studied the body types of beauty contestants and compared them with other women to discern what body part sizes are considered most attractive. They looked at bust to height, thigh to height, and waist to hip ratios to help determine what the ideal attractive person would look like.

A little surprising that they chose Naomi Campbell, since she hasn't been the most popular fashion model in the last few years. I didn't know that models were really so different that she would be singled out. Bale's an obvious choice, though. As long as you can keep images of American Psycho out of your mind, you should be able to see why he's tops (sorry Brad).

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In a blog last month about Generation Y and Blogging, Des Walsh shows his age when he writes about MySpace. First off, in an ad:tech session led by a panel of teenagers, he writes, "one of the most striking pieces of information was that these young people spend a lot of time on MySpace and that is kind of their default 'location' online."

This is surprising? Seriously? I mean, I'm no teenager, but this is still common knowledge. Walsh is showing that despite his finger on the pulse of the professional blogging community, he really has no clue about who is leading the future of technology. The question is ultimately, "what sells?" The answer is based on teenagers. Teenagers are the top consumers in today's absent-parent culture.

What good does it do to be a professional blogger if you have to go to a conference to learn that teenagers use MySpace? It is the most popular site for teenagers without exception. It is their homepage, their email, their blog, their calendar, their photo book, their chat room, their forum, their mp3 player, their games system, their video player...

Joke all you want about MySpace being for kids. I know plenty of adults who are too proud to join because of their misguided judgments. Not that everyone should join MySpace. No way. I can barely stand it due to the inappropriate advertising by True.com. I've already canceled my MySpace account once, only to return despite the advertising because it's still simply the best way to connect with other people. I don't care what purposeweb says, Facebook is not the future of social media and could never be unless it receives a total faceLIFT.

Sure, the older you are, the less you may find a reason to use MySpace. I can give you that without laughing at you. Something about being young gives you endless amounts of things to say and the burning desire to communicate all of them with the world. There's just something appealing to teenagers about having 300+ friends (most of whom you cannot possibly communicate with and still have time to sleep) whom you can flaunt like popularity badges.

I get it. A reasonable adult may look at MySpace and think, this is a waste of my time. I can respect that. Were I not addicted to my own computer and Internet access, I would wholeheartedly agree. There are plenty of things to do with your life that do not revolve around MySpace. If you are content living apart from MySpace, however, I will ask one special resquest of you: don't show your age by talking about it.

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There are two totally hip communities for writers which have sprung out of MySpace communities: Urbis and WritersCafe. I'm a member of both, but I spend more time on Urbis. Writer'sCafe has done what every good community should do: they created buttons for members to post on their blogs/websites that both advertise the site and link back. Lots of people like to boast or show off their memberships like gold stars.

Visit Urbis.com and you'll see what I mean. The participation concept is brilliant. You earn credits for every time you write a review of someone else's writing. You can post your own writings as well, but you can't view reviews of your work without spending some of your credits. Everyone wants feedback, and this encourages writers to consistently review others in order to earn the feedback they want.

There is still room for improvement on the site. In order to keep visitors longer, the site will have to eventually incorporate additional community features. That's okay. It's a relatively new community.

Check it out today. Tell when you post your own writings and I'll review them for you.

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If you haven't jumped on the Pegasus bandwagon, you're likely to be one of those poor, pitiful souls who wishes they had. For anyone interested in local news, this is your one-stop shop. But don't just read! Write!

Pegasus News is the future of local news. It is largely user generated content, which means that you submit the stories, and you can learn from those in the know what is happening near you.

And after reabsorbing EPpy Award winning Texasgigs.com, Pegasus News is now a major player in the local arts and culture scene. And then there's me, of course! While not an official member of the Pegasus News team, you will start to see more of me around the site with comments, stories, etc. What else could you ask for?

Pegasus News has the potential of becoming THE Dallas / Fort Worth website. It all depends on how they sell it, whether you buy it, and how often you contribute to it. Do you realize that you can become the leading expert on your neighborhood? Or your company? Or you school? Or your coffee shop? You can be the fair and biased voice of reason (like our beloved friend, Mr. Randy Galloway) in your community.

That's the hook. The influence. The power of influence will draw people every time. Just sell it right, Pegasus News, and they will come. You've already built it... now give them a reason to use it.

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