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If he does San Francisco, I'm SOOOOOOOOO there.

Yeah! We have great reporting skills! Really getting Quiana to starting singing that "hit" note during the All in the Family song. And she's doing it....more than once, no less. Teasing Angela -- we were in California last week. Cheers. Wait a minute....we are in North Carolina now. MORE CHEERS My state can beat your state up! "my hair looks like they just dumped water on me." It sounds like Angela said "they like it though." "peanut butter crackers." CHEERS! "Root canals." Kinda sorta cheers. Hee. Talking about Ruben sweating. I knew this was coming. Ruben in the AI Christmas special, "should have been in the cold air...."

couchie are you thinking of JP or PH? I think it may be the latter, and wasn't the former the one who was supposedly there? What of ours got quoted?

Talk about totally giving up on the planned banter....it sounds like he's giddy to be home. Even with the heat. And his blindingly white legs.

CG supposedly people heard ATD in the soundcheck this afternoon. I know, not your favorite, but heh.... That 5th row scum better meet up with Brett and his friends. *crosses fingers* I can't wait to hear this banter for real....

The Community Theater at Mayo Center for the Performing Arts Presale through the fanclub is Tuesday, August 14, 9:00 a.m. EDT. Tickets on sale to members/subscribers is Monday, August 13; general sales are August 15. Also, according to the fan club email that alerted this to me, the tour will be "Christmas in the Heartland." Heh. I'm not sure I'd call NJ "heartland."

The Community Theater at Mayo Center for the Performing Arts Presale through the fanclub is Tuesday, August 14, 9:00 a.m. EDT. Tickets on sale to members/subscribers is Monday, August 13; general sales are August 15. Also, according to the fan club email that alerted to me, the tour will be "Christmas in the Heartland." More information about Clay's show Online tickets Seating charts Venue capacity is 1270.

And I think Quiana was begging him to put them back on. I think. WISYS. Hard to hear this anymore without thinking of Flat!Clay!

georgia!!!!! :F_05BL17blowkiss: They get really silly at the end of this. I love it! Of course it's Q -- in the Carolina's. Of course. Duh. Asking the audience to blow on him to get rid of the mosquitos and to cool him down. "I've got so much Off on me!" "I just know it's hot as....." and then Poppa finished it off for him! Having family in the front row is depressing because they never stand up!

The longsleeved shirt was for the M&G. The CH cellcert is incredibly clear too. And I LURVE EIH!!!! IWKWLI....who will be the female voice tonight?

[/jk] :F_05BL17blowkiss: CG!

That's great! Love the spirit of that place! EEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! Ansa is back!! :00000441: :00000441: :00000441: Good-ness. He's the only guy I know that would be COLD on a day like today. (Well, except for my dad, who wore undershirts year round....) That's cool. I'd actually love to see that M&G picture. His back is soooooooooo nice.

From muskifest:

laughn... And as much as I would LOVE to suggest her whole post as a thread title, I think this one makes a damn good suggestion.... *off to nominate*

The Asheville Mountain Xpress Forming Clay into Rock

Everyone in Cary tonight -- have fun. Don't forget to wang chung (and drink lots of fluids) too! The Asheville Mountain Xpress Forming Clay into Rock Now, I think there's a LOT to like in this article. For example, the one blogger who talks about the classics medley as picking on the radio hits of today -- that's always how I've seen this portion of the show. (I know of others, though, who see it way differently....) I also liked the Asheville symphony director with his comment about TC being good musicians. I like CarylAnn and her "Clay has it all...." Finally, this writer really found out about the rest of the stuff that Clay is so passionate about -- UNICEF, BAF. OTOH...blogger Kayla makes my blood boil. Once again, it is stated as fact that "Clive forced him into the Manilow box." Someday I'd like to talk to Kayla and find out her source. But....this article does a pretty nice job of doing the "hey, if he has Manilow's career with all his sales and such, is that a bad thing?" Kinda turned the Manilow comparison on its ear, something that more than a few of us have said. :F_05BL17blowkiss: Scarlett. Thanks for trying...I'll be patient. I'm off to an all-day meeting. *sigh*

Ahem. I posted a link to this yesterday. Does no one read my posts? *sob* OTOH... I posted a link to this picture the day before yesterday. However, I'm not complaining one BIT that it got posted. 'Cause I love that little shit. atinal, thanks for the alert on the clack of WTLGD. I saw it -- too funny. BTW, PerusingOne PM'd me and said that Scarlett's flight got delayed, and she probably wouldn't be doing any rendering until tomorrow. Maybe. What IS it with all the flight delays? Glasses!Clay! Yummy. I think for me I like him with glasses because I wear glasses, have since I was a young child. I like to identify with him, what can I say? The SCC song -- I'll be interested in hearing it, we'll have to see if it makes my political skin crawl or not. Went out for dinner this evening, wearing my new Clay Aiken tour shirt. As my husband and I were eating, a lady came up to me and said "so, when did you see him for this tour?" EEEE! I managed to talk to her for a few minutes -- I think I'm still in shock though that someone from my little bitty town is also a Clay fan, because I can't remember what screen name she said she posted as on the OFC. I think it was iloveidol3 or ilikeidol3. Not sure. Also, she was floored when I said that I flew to see him this tour, and with my number of concerts total. Heh. As I said, I think she's online, but not very much. Darn, I should have given her the FCA page. Shoot. Happy birthday jmhmom! Another clack question: which Indio clip has him talking about it being so hawt, and then some guy in the audience talks about how Indians like it hot, where Clay then says "us white boys don't?" Please advise. I'd truly love to download all the clack available, but I simply can't. No time. (Why can't I be paid to watch clack?)

:F_05BL17blowkiss: Scarlett! You're the best! And your travelogues are almost as fun as KAndre's. I was LOL reading it. Ah yes, the season of upgrade fever. I can feel it in the air. (And how sick was it that after reading KAndre's tale, I tried pulling up tickets for Cary too? I'm wondering if I pulled up one of the tickets that lickiest1 just got....) lickiest1, I have a feeling that I'm going to get upgrade fever for Merrillville show at Christmas. The People magazine thing CMSU. Probably very surreal for him too. (But then, I think him singing to Flat!Clay! was probably OTT surreal for him...and I mean that as no offense artquest...)

EEEEEEEEE for lickiest1 and most of the crew being in NC!!!! EEEEEEEEE for KAndre scoring a fantastic ticket! Note to self: have KAndre buy all my concert tickets at the last minute from this point on... Good luck to all in staying cool that night, though. As much as I really want to be there, that weather sounds brutal. YSRN, I actually understand you about "wearing your clothes until they are just threads." When you're raised by a Mom who grew up during the Depression, I just kinda gets ingrained in you. So, in a sense, I understand Clay wearing these shorts. But I'd love it if they wore out so fast, as laughn[ suggested, that we'd get more than we bargained for. *g* ETA: Cool. I'm the "top of the page queen" at the moment.

Ooooo, pretty. Thanks! :F_05BL17blowkiss: That just sounds dirty, you know. *g* Warning: whining ahead. I've been waiting patiently for clack from the Greek show, right before the introduction of WTLGD -- ie., Clay's "surprise" for Angela's parents. Where the hell is that clack?!?!?!? OK, that's out of my system now. My apologies to the clack dealers/collectors. I don't normally whine... CG, I continue to think about you and your father. Keep us posted! Thank you jmh for that Weekly Reader article. Fairly good questions, great answers.

Well, duh. I should have known that. Blame it on the headache and the lack of sleep.

Man, I don't know....if you look at other pictures on this home page....some are dated 7-8-07, some are dated 8-8-07, and there's even one dated 9-8-07 (time travel much?). I think you may be right, though. It just seemed more logical to me for him to be arriving in Manhattan in early July, when he had that week break (and possibly more time to work) vs. arriving in Manhattan yesterday when he's gonna be leaving again probably tonight. I know, that's the life of a pop star -- quick trips and such -- and I've been known to be wrong from time to time.

Good point. With any luck someone on his staff will wash those damn things and put them through the dryer 50 times in a row so to speed up the process. With my luck, I'll be 85 when they finally wear out...which means 1) Clay will be in his early 60's and probably won't be fitting into them anymore, because of his continued mac/cheese and Krispy Kreme diet *g*; and 2) I'll be too old to really care. (Or will I?) couchie, we need to come up with some sort of prize or something to recognize those "top of the page" posters.... Yeah, I think either option is a good thing. Heh. I just knew the low-rider jeans were providing the ILLUSION of him having a butt. (However, I really like that illusion, so I hope he wears those low-riders a few more times....) Good catch on the date. However, if the date truly is 7-8-07, this would have been immediately after the Tulsa show, and before his uncle's wedding. I like bottlecap's ideas about hashing out some details for his TV show or next record. You're probably right. But at the same time, the man does like to recycle his STAGE clothes, let alone his casual duds. I think they are. I've studied the pictures of him in glasses way too much, and these do look different. I like them.

Yes, I'm up. What of it? Actually, it's a combination of me having ANOTHER weather related headache, and my husband being sleepless as well (job stress). Ugh. But.... WENN photos: Clay Aiken arrives at his Manhattan hotel 8-8-07 Dude...WTF is it with the CUTOFF cargo pants? I mean, really -- I know it's casual time and all, but I would think you could afford shorts with hems. Just sayin'. And I do love you dude. OTOH -- and close your ears CG -- EEEEEEEEEE! Glasses!!!!! Glad play made it to NC safe. Thanks jmh for the Cedar Point pictures -- nice avi. *g* And sunburstoflight, that slash/bracket habit can be hard to break. I've been in therapy for a while now because of it. [/snark] See, I told you I had a problem.

I really, really like this idea! Make it a downloadable podcast for $2.50 a pop. I'd love to hear the fantabulous KAndre read these in that fantabulous voice! Good luck, I hope you made it! couchie, your recap was great, and I can see that I'm going to like "the rules." I had a couple of not-just-us next me in Tulsa. Granted this was early in the tour, but I still felt like a bit of the show had to be ruined for them because people already knew what was going to happen next. No thanks to couchie , I FINALLY got to talk to Ansa today on the phone! It was so very cool to actually put a voice to the pictures from earlier today and with the person I've spent a LOT of time chatting with. I told her that we all missed her greatly, and she told me that she misses us too! She MAY be able to be listening to the cellcert on Friday, but also needs to spend quality time with her daughters. She leaves California tomorrow!