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My Friend Stacie on HGTV

My friend, Stacie Tamaki was on HGTV (Home and Garden TV - it's a cable network, people) a few years ago and they did a feature on Stacie and her amazing minature origami cranes and hand-crafted mini cherry blossom tree.

It's a pretty cool video but, if you know Stacie at all, you'll wonder why the editors of that piece edited the life out of Stacie's personality. Maybe she was camera-shy or maybe she was just really concentrating on her craft, but whatever the reason, meeting Stacie in real-life is a much more exhiliarating experience than what they depicted in the video.

Anyway... check it out!

You can see more of Stacie's stuff at www.tinycranes.com or her regularly-upkept blog, www.theflirtygirl.com (which is where I first saw this video, not coincidentally. Hat tip to Stacie. :-)

American Idol

OK. I will admit it. I watch American Idol pretty faithfully. I'm not proud of it but I'm not ashamed either. Afterall, there aren't a whole lot of shows that are appropriate for my wife and me to watch WITH my kids. (Actually, they don't watch it with me - they're asleep by the time we queue up the DVR for American Idol, but that's not to say I wouldn't let them if they were still awake!)

So last week I decided to drop David Archuletta as my favorite because his style is starting to bore me a little. I decided to go with Michael Johns as my pick to win it all. I don't necessarily think he's more talented than the others; it's just that I can picture myself buying his music from iTunes more than I can picture buying music made by the other contestants.

The most talented contestant this year is clearly David Cook. His rendition of Michael Jackson's "Billy Jean" was brilliant. I would choose him to be my favorite if I didn't hate his hair so much. Oh, and David, what do you mean you used to have a huge skull? Have you looked in the mirror or tried on a hat lately?

Who's your favorite Idol?