It's Not You, It's Us. Really.

Greetings, put-upon and oh-so-patient minions. As you may have noticed, American Midol has been a bit of a ghost town lately, much like that old abandoned town the Bradys drove through on that fateful Grand Canyon vacation. "Booobbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbby! Cinnnnnnnnndddddddddddy!" Was it just me or did you want to eat baked beans out of flashlight too after that episode?

Anyhoo, the lonely old gold prospector, played by Mr. Howell of Gilligan's Island fame, falsely imprisoned the entire clan and then made off with their station wagon. Thank God they were all wearing belts that Mr. Brady could fasten together into a key-grabbing lasso of sorts. What skill! I bet Mr. Brady won tons of stuffed animals and other useless crap in those games-of-skill at amusement parks. Perhaps even Kitty Carryall was part of that booty!

Um, what was I going on about? Oh right... we've kind of sucked this season in that whole daily news reporting and show recapping department. Okay, so that wasn't a seamless or even logical segue but work with me here.

Watching American Idol is a bit of a time suck. There are multiple episodes in a week and the greedy bastards at Fox insist on pummeling us with drawn-out performance and results shows. Our writing "staff" has dwindled so it's really hard to keep up. It sucks for us and it sucks for you guys who have come to count on us for timely and super-bitchy recaps.

Aside from the time restraints, the show kinda blows this season. We blame the revamped format in conjunction with something far more sinister -- Kara's cleavage. It's a very distracting decolletage! Who can concentrate on the singers when THAT looms so large? Not even the baffling physics behind Simon's brush cut nor Paula's alarming sanity level have rendered us this mute in seasons past.

So, we're not going to retire the blog completely but we are going to officially ease up on the regular posting. We'll still chime in from time-to-time if and when the mood strikes. Kindly keep us in your Google Reader and continue to follow us on Twitter, just in case.

Thanks,
Curly and Jess