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Kellie Pickler signs with 19 Recordings/BNA, follows through on diabolical plan to publicly annoy Jess for all eternity. (WebWire)

Katharine McPhee co-produces play for the New York Fringe Festival. Jess and Curly buy tickets. Mejack mocks them. In other news, one shouldn't play sick to get out of an 'Idol' tour and expect that no one will notice they're co-producing a play. Just sayin'. (Playbill)

It's a good thing our economy is so stable and we have no wars to worry about, otherwise how would our president ever have time to hang out with the 'Idol' finalists? (USA Today)

Does anyone else think it's weird to play yourself in a movie about yourself? Fantasia Barrino doesn't, obviously. Personally, when Lifetime makes a movie about my life, I'm hoping for Kellie Martin. But that may just be me. (Hartford Courant)

An interview with Bo Bice. Apparently, you don't have to be a fucking potty mouth to throw a kickass rock n' roll show. (The Sun News)

Taylor Hicks visits sick woman. Jess refrains from making any jokes about Taylorepsy or what it means when Taylor Hicks is the person someone most wants to meet. (13 WHAM-TV)

Katharine McPhee will also brave illness to co-host 'The View' on Thursday. DVR that shit, Curly! (Reality TV Magazine)

Cingular Wireless had a hell of a fourth quarter thanks to 'Idol.' If you're into that sort of boring financial stuff (nerd), you can read the whole release, which comes to us courtesy of The Captain, our PR Whiz. For the rest of you slackers and illiterates, here's the important part:

Cingular shattered its own record for wireless text messaging during the fifth season of "American Idol." The company recorded more than 64.5 million text messages throughout the show's most recent season, breaking last year's record of 41.5 million text messages.