Augh, we don't know, dawg. It was kind of weird for us, dawg. We don't know, man, she almost kind of worked it out, but not really. It was just alright for us, just alright. We'll stop with the Randy-Jackson-speak now. Kristy Lee Cook came out in a way better outfit. Her hair was a little 1992, but she's hot enough that that's okay. But, given that Amanda Overmeyer (the gal with the chocolate-vanilla swirl......

We're not really nutty about most of the American Idol contestants this year. We're pretty convinced cutiepie David Archuleta will win the whole thing, but he's not from here, so who cares? That kid is so incredible, we wonder what's in the water in his small Utah town. Paula wants to hang him from her rearview mirror, and we don't blame her. However, we're going to keep on keeping our eye on pretty-haired Selma, Ore.,......

Can we just say how glad we are that Hollywood week is finally here!? Ten minutes into the first auditions show, we'd had enough of American Idol auditions, with all their gratuitous fun-poking at less-than stellar singers and people not blessed with good looks. But, we stuck with it, looking for a Seattleite (or anyone, really) worth getting excited about. The closest thing, you may remember, was Selma, Ore., horse girl Kristy Lee Cook.......

Kristy Lee Cook may be the closest we get to a local hand in the American Idol pot this year. Which basically means Blake Lewis might get to keep his crown. (Did he get a crown for coming in second?) Last night, we tuned into the San Diego auditions show, even though this whole AI audition process gets old after the first night. We did appreciate the guy in Dallas who sang that "We Are......

Blues legend Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the devil to get his guitar skills. Kristy Lee Cook--our Northwest hopeful for American Idol--didn't have to sell anything quite so dear to pay for a ticket to the Philly auditions, but parting with a horse she'd trained can't have been fun. (Unless to rural folk like her--she's from Selma, Oregon--training and selling horses is commonplace. We don't know from farm life.) Kristy failed in her......

American Idol Season 7 started last night, in case you've had your head in a hole this week. The first episode recounted the folks and freaks that turned out for auditions in Philadelphia, so we're not surprised that no one from Seattle showed up. There was, however, a glint of hope for our geographical neighborhood in the form of Kristy Lee Cook from Selma, Ore. She's 23. She's a horse girl who camps, fishes and......