So it seems my sister, who lives on the West Coast, read this blog just moments before tuning into the big Idol finale, and despite my spoiler warning at the top, she couldn\u2019t avoid seeing the lone \u201cI can\u2019t believe David Cook won\u201d sentence sitting there all by itself.<\/p>\n
She was less than pleased.<\/p>\n
Within moments, I received a text message that said, succinctly, \u201cYou suck!\u201d On Facebook, she threw a bowling ball, a fireball, and three wrenches at me, changed her status to \u201cI think my brother sucks,\u201d and then gave me a can of \u201cwhoop a-s.\u201d She also posted the following on our private family blog, which I will reproduce with only minor edits:<\/p>\n
STALLION POSTED THE AMERICAN IDOL RESULTS ON HIS MOIST BLOG BEFORE I WATCHED IT CALIFORNIA TIME. I WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW HOW MUCH HE SUCKS! THE SUCKAGE IS MASSIVE AND IT MUST BE EXCLAIMED FROM THE ROOFTOPS THAT STALLION SUCKS! YOU COULDN’T WAIT UNTIL THE NEXT DAY???!!!!!!????? YOU ARE MY BROTHER AND I LOVE YOU DEARLY, BUT THAT DOES NOT EXCUSE THE SUCKY SUCKY SUCKY THING YOU DID!<\/p>\n
YOU SUCK!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/span><\/p>\n(I responded with an insouciant \u201cI\u2019m not sure how you feel about this.\u201d)<\/p>\n
I also called her last night, and while she was considerably upset, I think the long-term damage to our sibling relationship is negligible. Although she has made it quite clear that I do, in fact, suck.<\/p>\n
I apologize publicly to my sister, who did not deserve to have the Idol moment spoiled for her, and I accept my well-earned suckage.<\/p>\n
Yes, I suck.<\/p>\n
Still, she was not the only family member disappointed by the results.<\/p>\n
My twin boys, Corbin and Cornelius, are only seven years old and aren\u2019t all that interested in American Idol, but they got caught up in the hometown fervor in support of Archuleta. (Murray, Utah, David A.\u2019s hometown, is right next door to where I live \u2013 maybe about two or three miles away.) They went to bed at just after 8:00, right after I\u2019d found the results online and written last night\u2019s blog entry. My two daughters were watching the show and didn\u2019t want to know the outcome, but the boys begged to learn who had won before they went to bed.<\/p>\n
\u201cDavid Cook won,\u201d I told Corbin.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou mean David Archuleta,\u201d Corbin corrected me.<\/p>\n
I shook my head. \u201cNo, David Cook.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDavid Archuleta<\/span>,\u201d he insisted, trying to bend the world to conform to his will.<\/p>\n
\u201cSorry, no. David Cook.\u201d<\/p>\n
There was much weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth after that. In his bedtime prayers, Cornelius even asked his Heavenly Father to \u201cbless David Archuleta to win American Idol.\u201d I don\u2019t want to damage the kid\u2019s faith, but it\u2019s a little misguided to ask God to change the results after the fact.<\/p>\n
The girls took the news a little easier, but Chloe did ask, in her prayers, that \u201cDavid Archuleta won\u2019t be sad.\u201d Sorry, but that\u2019s not going to work, either. Of course he\u2019s going to feel lousy. It sucks to lose. But this, too, shall pass. Archuleta has a bright, exciting career ahead of him. And Mrs. Cornell pointed out that Cook, at age 25, probably needed this a lot more than Archuleta did. She also thinks Cook is pretty sexy, even though I\u2019ve pointed out that he\u2019s probably going to be bald by the end of the decade.<\/p>\n
As for me, with a night to think about it, I\u2019m still okay with it. This isn\u2019t the travesty of justice that knocked Melinda Doolittle out before the Season 6 finals. Cook is talented, gracious, and an appropriate winner. All is right with the world.<\/p>\n
I still suck, though.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Soit seems my sister, who lives on the West Coast, read this blog just moments before tuning into the big Idol finale, and despite my spoiler warning at the top, she couldn\u2019t avoid seeing the lone \u201cI can\u2019t believe David Cook won\u201d sentence sitting there all by itself. She was less than pleased. Within moments, ... Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4873,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/4873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}