Slezak is doing better than I am.

Lambert’s guy-liner: pro or con?

(Me: Pro, I guess, though that could explain the tracks of his tears.)

Alexis?!?! NOOOOOOOOOOO!

Therapy: Watch Carrie and Randy over and over and over.

P.S. The “fix” is out.

BG is loving the single moms on American Idol right now (thanks to all-time fave Fantasia — and Nikki McKibbin, too — for paving the way!). I also just happened to e-meet this single momma, who (a) moved to Kentucky for love, but (b) hasn’t forgotten where she came from; she founded and runs the social network i heart single parents, which you should definitely check out. Searching in New Hampshire, I’m talking to you!

It’s a Crisis On Infinite Earths! Earth-4 Idol Carrie Underwood teams-up with Earth-7 Idol David Cook to battle Fleetwood Mac; The resulting rip in the AI multi-verse creates so much anti-matter, the caustic “Go Your Own Way” becomes a sexy crowd pleaser!

Carrie ditches her hits to perform the concert show-stopper, I Know You Won’t, at last night’s People’s Choice Awards. Waiting by the phone never sounded so good! (After a nervous start.)

Repetitive? Sure. But so is misery.

Nothing says “I’m sorry I exerted artistic control over my previous, disappointing album and it won’t happen again” like the cover of Kelly Clarkson’s next single.

(It also says “Photoshop disaster!“)

Simon Cowell and Terri Seymour: What is it with American Idol and text-message breakups?

(And with calling me “The [sic] BreakUp [sic] Girl“?)

We read (and write) gossip about celebrities because they’re celebrities, but we like and care about a much more select few because they’re, you know, real. Perhaps this leads, in certain grisly cases — even just terrible celebrity breakups — to overly frenzied TMI coverage of someone’s very real pain. But I think the instinct, somewhere, is sincere. All of which is to say that BG has been terribly saddened by the unfolding Hudson family tragedy, but just hasn’t known how to express it. Now, finally, Mark Caro at the Chicago Trib reminds us of exactly what, and all, there is to say.

Update: People Magazine on JH and her mom. Read/weep.

BG loves David Archuleta, but she LURRRVVES David Cook! Yeehaw!