People are peeved at American Idol and not just because they went and broke the heart of that one homeless kid

But because San Diego's own Carly Smithson (AKA Hennessey) made it to the Top 24 and low and behold she's a "professional singer."

From overthelimit.com:

American Idol contestant Carly Smithson had a record deal in 2001 with MCA Records under the name of Carly Hennessy. She produced a CD that only sold about 300 copies, after MCA invested a ton of money in marketing.

Yep, she may be a San Diegan, with a San Diego husband, owner of a San Diego tattoo parlor, bartender at a San Diego bar, but she also once had a record deal that went sour and therefore we should all hate her and send negative thoughts her way.

Or we should just chalk it up to American Idol and it's "controversies."

I don't care either way, if she sold 300 copies or if she's just off the farm in Kentucky. But come on, why don't people just flat out mention or ask her about it? I'm talking to you, reporters over on Sign On San Diego's Street Blog? Don't spoon feed us some kind of "just a girl making her way to the top" tell us the truth.

I'll still vote for her because she's the only one I remember out of the 24, unless you count the other professional singer who they are trying to pass off as just some guy from Australia who none of them have ever heard of before.

Bring back homeless, sporadic British accent kid.

Can we do write ins?

Why the Hiatus?

Oh faithful readers, for shame, for shame, I have been on hiatus in solidarity with the writers strike. But you may or may not have heard, they done reached a deal, so now I can shave the beard I forced my husband to grow and get back down to reporting really important stuff.

(or I was moving, taking care of some things and job interviewing... but I like the writers strike excuse better).

Say You Want to Freak People Out About How Bad a Conservative McCain is

Compare him to Hillary (who is apparently the WORST conservative ever).

"None of the candidates are perfect, they never are, but McCain is the least perfect of the viable candidates," Mark Levin, a former senior Reagan administration Justice Department official now a nationally syndicated radio talk show host, wrote on the Web site of the conservative magazine National Review. Levin described McCain as "an intemperate, stubborn individual, much like Hillary Clinton." "Those are not good qualities to have as a president," Levin wrote.

Touche Mr. Levin, touche.

Oh yeah, McCain was in San Diego rallying today. Don't think Mr. Levin was there...

San Diego County Anticipates Taking Forever To Tell You Who Won California Even Though News Outlets Will Probably Have Already Called It

Because news outlets are psychic like that. Be prepared to wait and wait for a final answer (people going to the watch the primary's on TV parties). It's all the Secretary of State's fault, by the way. From KPBS:

Seiler says that is because the Secretary of State de-certified electronic voting machines, and San Diego only has about 100 optical scanners to count the paper ballots.

So they plan to be counting from 8:00pm tonight to 8:00am the next morning. That's A LOT of open bar...

Attendee of Hillary Speech Confirms She Has No Visible Horns or Tail

Cannot confirm if she was or was not wearing Prada.

It's Super Tuesday folks (I'm sure you already knew, as if you randomly got here it was because you probably googled something like "Super Tuesday" and "Hillary" and "Devil Wears Prada" for which I say, WELCOME), so get to stepping to your booth and a votin' for Ron Paul if you took the advice of my father in law and switched parties.

Check out Hillary's San Diego visit here.

Pay no attention to the empty seats behind the curtain...

I had to read through basically the ENTIRE article to get to this quote which for some reason I think is hilarious:

“Obama is arrogant,” said Duffy Fitzpatrick, 54, who brought her young son to see Clinton in San Diego. “My daughter was on his bandwagon until she really started watching him and decided that he was full of himself.”

Just in case you were still on the fence about who to vote for.

Oh yeah, Hillary was all up in San Diego's junk the other day. Although, article is quick to point out:

On closer inspection, the Aztecs’ stadium was not as full as it looked for Clinton. Half the hall was closed off by a black curtain. On the one side were 5,000 cheering supporters - 80% of whom were women, and 100% of whom were Democrats. The good news for Clinton is that her admirers are the rock-solid party loyalists most likely to vote on Tuesday.

Just in case you were there and you were like "Oh man Hillary is so popular, look at how full this stadium is!"

Tomorrow is the Super Bowl

I will be watching it from the comfort of my Husband's Friends' house, complete with homemade beer and panini sandwiches (because, yes, we're yuppie like that).

Perhaps I will get all "bloggy" with it and write a little something about it, or perhaps I'll come home, pass out on the bed and dream of better, non stormy days, where bbq-ing wasn't such a far off idea on Super Bowl Sunday.

Any way you cut it, I'm eating lots of chips tomorrow, calling it a meal.

I suggest you find a nice, comfy space to watch and stay inside as well.

My San Diego: Artist Elizabeth Zaikowski likes her sunny, fun, exciting San Diego.

Elizabeth Zaikowski

Artist

Lives: South Park

My San Diego is beautiful, sunny, fun and exciting. I love waking up everyday to the sunshine, the beaches and all that there is to do in San Diego.

I work outside at Sea World as an artist and love meeting all the people that travel here from other places as well as being able to enjoy the outdoors. I have sold many paintings in San Diego and feel it is becoming even more of a place with an artistic community.

I received my degree at SDSU in art education and I have taught art at many levels at the SD Children's Museum and Coronado High School. I enjoy painting in many styles and mediums, I have shown my own work here for over ten years. You can visit my website at http://www.elizabethzaikowski.com/

But Does the City Council Also Hate People Who Recreationally Vehicle?

The City Council may be adding to the list of things they hate. They are going to look at the numbers and see how much they hate RV loving people.

From SignonSanDiego:

San Diego residents fed up for years with recreational vehicles, trailers and campers cluttering streets left City Hall encouraged yesterday.

The City Council decided to study the costs of a proposal to ban overnight parking of these vehicles without a permit.

By a 7-0 vote, with Councilman Tony Young absent, council members asked the Mayor's Office to return in 60 days with a report on how the proposal would work in a pilot area, as well as citywide.

Passaportes! Passaportes!

If you've never been to TJ for a quick shopping trip and some tacos, then you've never had the chance to have the "border crossing experience."

There's going in to Mexico, which consists of a gate and a walkway, then a long winding path and you're right where you need to be, club and shopping central.

And then there's the coming back in to the U.S. way, which consists of a really long line, a whole bunch of border guards, people dividing you by what you have, a quick shuffle, lots of orders, people trying to rent you bikes (because apparently that gets you through quicker), mass confusion and finally a light at the end of the tunnel (literally, it's quite dark in there and when the doors open... light).

Sometimes get the feeling U.S. is a lot like Bungalow 8 (or any other hip and trendy club I read about Lindsay Lohan getting faced at). You put a lot of people at the door, long lines, soem bouncers with short fuses and some arbitrary rules of what you have to be to get in, so everybody wants in.

And now it's going to be harder to get in.

From Fox 6 News:

Anyone wanting to cross will need to show government-issued photo identification, such as a driver's license or military ID card, and one other proof of citizenship, such as a birth certificate or passport.

New rules begin Thursday, pull out your fancy club clothes and huge purse to fit your passport. No more border jumping, 18 year old kids just trying to have a good time, you'll have to wait till you're 21 to do overpriced shots with the rest of us!