Superpower or Band Name?...And an Idol Update

I had a delightful lunch today with Leggo my Greggo, Hypersensitive Steele, and Jigga Janine. We came up with a pretty sweet new game. It was inspired by this week's How I Met Your Mother, where Marshall leads the group in a game called "Drunk or Kid," where he tells them a story, and they have to guess whether he was drunk or a kid.

Our version is called "Superpower or Band Name." When someone says something, you have to decide whether it would be a better Superpower or a better name for a band. Now it doesn't work with just anything, it has to be something that could conceivably be either. But it comes up more often than you would imagine.

Our first example was "questionable analogies." There wasn't a lot of argument here. While it would me a pretty lame superpower, questionable analogies is actually a pretty awesome band name. I'm going to go ahead and reserve it now for when the aforementioned lunch bunch start our band.

The lunch went on, and a few other good ones came up. The most came at the very end. It was pretty clear that "Sexual Innuendo" was a lame band name, and a better-than-lame superpower. However, changing the words can be crucial, as shown by our next example. "Double Entendre" came out as a better band name.

Anyway, it's pretty fun. Give it a shot at your next social gathering.

Note: The rest of this post is about American Idol. If you are an Idol hater, you can stop reading now.

For any Idol fans, tonight finally saw the end of the Tim Urban Roller Coaster Experience. Tim made it to Hollywood, but was not originally chosen to be in the Top 24. However, after someone who had made the cut couldn't compete, Tim was called up and invited back. After a string of horrible performances, he managed to get enough votes to keep himself in the competition, eventually making the top 12.

Then, out of nowhere, about 3 weeks ago, he actually started being decent. During Elvis week, his rendition of Can't Help Falling in Love was excellent, and he was out of the bottom 3 for the second week in a row. Then, just as it looked like he might be close to a legit contender, he came out with another lackluster performance this week, which ended up being his last. Fare thee well, Mr. Urban. I think it truly was finally your time.

For me, this show has been a two-horse race for a while now between Lee and Crystal. Crystal is the deserved front runner, and the competition appears to be hers to lose. But don't count Lee out. Crystal's position is very similar to Season 7, where it appeared David Archuleta could kick a kitten on stage and still avoid the bottom 3. But David Cook came on strong, and out-dueled him in what was in my opinion the best Idol finale to date. Also, sometimes actual talent has absolutely nothing to do with picking a winner (See generally Season 5 and Taylor Hicks). Anyway, Lee is a great singer, with a unique voice, he is consistently good week to week, and finally seems to be showing some personality. In other words, he's Kris Allen without the bad weeks (All she wants to do is dance? What were you thinking?) And Allen ended up winning season 8.

Don't get me wrong, I've been on the Crystal bandwagon since Hollywood, but all I'm saying is it's not quite as over as some people may choose to believe. Either way, more great performances are still to come for sure.