Every May when the winner of American Idol is announced, I swear it's the last season I'll watch this piece of garbage. Then January rolls around and it somehow ropes me back in. I lose a part of my soul with every season and I fear that if I keep watching, by season 12 I'll be laughing at prop comics and attending Celine Dion concerts with a fanny pack around my waist. This year, the show is back with a fourth judge, Kara Dioguardi, whose name Simon still can't pronounce correctly. I'm used to people butchering my name and I rarely ...

I spent so much time finishing my travelogue that I haven't talked tv in awhile so here's the season wrap up: Lost- Four seasons and it's as strong as ever. I made nine predictions about the finale and I was thrilled to get eight of them correct. Ok, they weren't exactly tough (Sawyer calls somebody by a nickname, Jack barks orders at someone, Kate gets rescued by either Sawyer or Jack, Hurley drips sweat, Sayid repairs something, Desmond says "brother," Aaron cries, Michael dies and the one I missed, Locke rubs his head) but it always fun to guess anything correctly with this show. Actually, some earlier predictions of mine also came to fruition, namely that Locke was in the casket ...