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Sanjaya, the bouncy-haired American Idol un-winner from Federal Way, is releasing a new album and a memoir(!) later this month. If you want a shock to the eyeballs, you should look at Dancing to the Music in my Head's cover art. Here:

While Seattlest Editor Kim prefers this past season's American Idol local train wreck, we'll always have a soft spot for pony-hawked local Sanjaya Malakar. Sanjaya it seems, is taking his AI fame for all it's worth (and more probably) by filming a Nationwide Insurance Commercial. According to the AP report, Sanjaya visits a wise man in the commercial who tells him he needs a retirement plan and a haircut. For once, truth in advertising.

Not that we care anymore ( crushes will be in Tacoma tonight strutting their stuff for the girlies. We can hardly contain our amusement that this tour is being sponsored by Pop Tarts. That's just brilliant.

By now, it's probably not news to you. If you've so much as walked past any place that is selling newspapers, you're unlikely to have missed the giant front-page-sized announcement that Jordin Sparks is the new American Idol.

Adios Lakisha. Did we call it, or what?

Dustin and her racing partner Kandice (Dustin's the blonde...with the nice teeth...the one who doesn't kinda sorta resemble Maggie Gyllenhaal) achieved All-Stardom by coming in fourth place last season on Amazing Race 10, and also by being blonde, perky, upbeat, mutually supportive, and lightning rods for bitterness from other teams. They wanted to be the first all-female team to win the race, though surly long-time rivals "Bama" ended up coming a little bit closer.

Well, in case you missed the paper, the television, and all the blogs in the world last week, Sanjaya is off American Idol. When Ellen Degeneres asked him on her Monday show who his favorite is to win Idol this year, he dodged it awkwardly by saying Ellen is his favorite.

It was bound to happen, but my God, we thought Chris and Phil would go first.

Dammit, she auditioned in Seattle. Can't we claim her?

Haley's gone. Not surprising.

Results of the experiment: Last night 19 teams played the quiz at the Old Pequilar. If we'd been playing under classic $5/team rules, that would've been a pot of $190. Since we expanded the maximum team size to 6 and switched to $1/person, we ended up with a pot of $168 (84 players, pot matched by the OP). We ask you: is the smaller prize pool worth it?

We never thought we'd say this, but Sanjaya eclipsed all the other performers last night with his on-the-brink-of-bad-without-going-over performance of "Besa Me Mucho." We could make a snide comment about his new shorter hairdo (looked a little like the "Soul Glo" guy from ), but it really wouldn't be fair, considering he outdid everyone else on the show except for fellow Puget Sounder Blake "the beatbox" Lewis.

Yeah, we tuned in last night for the elimination round, figuring that, once and for all, our local sweetheart Sanjaya would be among the bottom two. The show started out with the contestants split into groups of three: Blake, Sanjaya and Timberfake; Whatshername, BaldWeirdo, and Gina Glocksen; MindyDoo, J-Sparks, and La-Jones. It was pretty clear who was the bottom three.

Tony Bennett: "I like [Sanjaya] because he dares to be different."

We love Sanjaya. We love Eric Schwarz. And we love YouTube. Happy Friday!

We don't know why we agreed to this. Seattlest has given us another reason to be hopelessly addicted to the weirdness that is American Idol, and we've agreed to keep you updated on all things Fanjaya from here on out. Honestly, the only good thing to ever come from that show was Kelly Clarkson, and it's all been down hill from there. Until now.

Are we going to let the scorn of Simon Cowell and a nation of haters topple the mighty mohawk of fame that is Sanjaya Malakar, or are we going to text our asses off today to ensure that the American Idol-viewing public is subjected to yet another performance from our home-grown star? This guy may die because of your vote, but he's already posted the mustache photo and thus served his purpose on this Earth. Do what you feel is right.

Let's hope Carrie Underwood doesn't have some virulent STD, or the entire NFL season may have to be canceled.