saltwaterdog

I'm SO not a polls person, but this a new poll up on the AI home page. Question "Which is your favorite past movie week performance?" Choices are Ruben, Clay and Fantasia. Nice to see Clay there. http://www.americanidol.com/

Thank you,merryclay for the link to the Oprah video. I had forgotten about that performance. What a beautiful version!

Yeah, that. This picture gave me the biggest smile this morning. What a pleasure to wake up to all this gorgeous Clack! ETA: Hi AnnaBear! (Recalling lovely memories of Spam closing night!)

Clay looked much better than Marty in the white pants. No dis to Marty - it just would be hard to top Clay's closing night white pants. Shame on you! I'm telling Mr. Random Cute Guy. Damn, I love me some Closing Night White Pants. It's okay. He already knows.

Clay looked much better than Marty in the white pants. No dis to Marty - it just would be hard to top Clay's closing night white pants.

A fun surprise: I just turned on The O'Reilly Factor (which I hardly ever watch) and there was Clay! There were doing an Idols' quiz and he was in the first question and they showed a nice clip from Idol. It's about five or ten minutes from the end of the show.

What election? What stock market? We've got fresh Clack!! Great pictures - so good to see Clay so happy. He looks soooo young!

I wear socks with sandals this time of year - in this transition between the glory sandal days of summer and the cozy-furry-boots of winter. Horror of horrors I even wore socks with sandals in town yesterday. I've been totally out of the loop here. Is Clay posing for pictures all the time now or just on quiet nights? Looks like the crowd was small. Love that picture, btw - what a man!

Ahhhhhh, life is good! Stage door pictures! I got a big ole' grin when I saw this one.

I can identify with the feeling of the shock wearing off. Having said that, just like with the baby story, I won't really be surprised either way. Fantasy Clay is still that - my fantasy of what Clay would be like "if". The fact that I think Clay is hott really has more to do with me than with him, in many ways, since I can only know what he allows the public to see. From everything that Clay has shown in his public life, he's a man to admire (and drool over). There is something about seeing Clay in person, whether in Spam, concerts, CD signings or whatever, that just makes me happy, and it's not really sexual. I have a hard time explaining that to my DH (also a Clay fan). Clay has brought many good things into my life just by being who he is. Yes, I do think he's hott, but when I see him in person, I'm mostly just thinking, "He's Clay!" Off to OFC to give my support.

Love, love, love the pictures! Love, love, love the pants! DH told me to wipe the drool off my chin.

I'm so glad I came here to lurk this afternoon - I saw AI2 and ran to the TV. I'd forgotten about it - and I was just in time to see Mack the Knife. I loved that performance! Plus Clay looked HOTT. The mic-tossing thing used to drive me nuts! I hoped that someone would work with him on it. So distracting. Interesting discussion on the picture. My first reaction was "familiar", as in very familiar with each other. In what way, I wouldn't hazard a guess. Cotton, I love, love, love your avatar!

Y'all are grossing me out with the Twinkle and Ding Dong talk! Here's my kind of sweet, stolen from others because my photobucket is pathetic.

Cha cha, I have a Mac and just googled "Mac lost data" or something similar until I came up with some software. It took about a week, came from India and was about $175. I was crossing my fingers that it was a real program, for one, and that it would work - and it did! I'm not sure about a hard drive, but it couldn't hurt to google the brand, or even hard drives in general, and see what comes up. I've had 3 hard drives and had trouble with two - one a Maxtor and the other a Seagate - both made by the same company. I haven't tried very hard to get the info back because I backed up all on CDs as well. With all the problems I've had I've started to back up my back ups. Such a pain. Good luck! :F_05BL17blowkiss:

I used to save a lot of Clack and then never watch it! Now I prefer You Tube to downloading, by far. It is fun to catch some old stuff now and then. I watch AYSTAFG this weekend while I was doing chores - fun. As for Clay's career I look at it sort of like mine - I've had goals but life has brought me to far different places. Good for the most part. I do hope he hangs around for awhile because, like the thread says, he simply makes me smile.