Sunny & clear

I rode my bike to work this morning ...

Sunny and clear. 80 degrees. Riding along the shore of Lake Michigan. Nice breeze in my face. Marveling at all the old lake shore mansions. Listening to the Grey's Anatomy playlist on my iPod ...

I can't think of a better way to start my morning ...

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So Jordin won American Idol last night ... Good for her.

Going in, I was hardly excited for the two-hour tearfest, but it wasn't so bad.

Good performances. I've enjoyed Ryan Seacrest's comic bits all season long. And bringing back some of the eccentric non-idols who bombed in their tryouts was a nice touch ...

My favorite performance of the night? That Take 6/Smokey Robinson medley with the top six guys was pretty sweet. Man, they sounded (and looked) good ...



The top six girls looked good too in their white dresses. I thought they sounded just ok on their Gladys Knight tribute, though ... That was until they did "Midnight Train to Georgia." With Knight singing the lead, the girls gave some sweet, sweet background vocals (So good they made my eyes water!)



The Beatles tribute featuring past Idol winners also was pretty awesome ...

It wouldn't have been an Idol finale without Sanjaya and his hair bouncing around the stage once more (and the crying girl!) ...

And Bette Midler just sounded flat old singing "Wind Beneath My Wings." Or as Kates put it simply, "She can't sing anymore" ...

But hey, congrats to Jordin!

... you never would have caught me saying this a year ago, but it's been a heckuva ride. Six months ago, I'd never seen an episode. Now, I think I might actually miss it over the summer ...

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But really, how 'bout that Lost finale last night!

Probably one of the best, most gripping episodes since the first season ...

Finally, finally! we got to see the castaways fighting back and taking down The Others. The explosives blew the camp away, then Jack slugged the snot out of Ben, and Hurley saved the day by plowing through the trees with that VW. Wam bam thank you man! ...

And Locke's alive!

And the plotline surrounding Charlie and Desmond taking over the underwater hatch was just as enthralling ... Never mind that it sucked to see Charlie die.

As for that flash-forward of Jack, I caught on the moment we first saw Jack back on a plane and drinking up. No. 1, he had a beard. We've seen a lot of Jack in flashbacks and he never had a beard. I figured immediately that it was an after-the-island, more-deranged Jack. No. 2, when Sara came to see Jack in the hospital (because she was "still" listed as his emergency contact), she was very pregnant. If my memory's right, their break-up happened not too long before the plane crash; she wasn't even an ounce pregnant. And No. 3, Jack was always using a cell phone that didn't exist at the time the plane crashed ... Ah, but what about that hospital confrontation when he mentioned his father, you ask? I shrugged it off to Jack flipping out. After all, he followed that line with "you don't know what I've been through!"

Now if only we knew whose death he kept referring to!?!?!

... As for that whole Naomi/phone/rescue freighter thing? Here's my theory: That freighter arrives and it's not really a rescue ship. It's another tribe of bad people and we're going to get a whole new chapter of trials and tribulation on the island in Season Four...

We've still got three more seasons to go, baby!