Pop Stand

9:00 p.m.: That roar at the end from a singer in Miami was just like Paula's huge belch!!! See you tomorrow night, same time!!!

8:57 p.m.: "Homecoming queen" Leo Marlowe has a ton of personality and is funny -- he may be this season's Chris Sligh, without the corkscrew curls! Paula slurs: "TOUCHDOWN! I haven't done that in a long time!!" She wants to take Leo home. He could drag her to the couch and pull a blanket up on her after she passes out.

8:49 p.m.: OMG!!!!! Paula burp/hiccups really loud!!!!! She is so drunk! Luckily, the gold-shirt-wearing guy is not a serious auditioner. Simon dropped his paper and said, slowly and almost too quietly to hear, "You .. disgusting .. little .. pig!" I am rolling!!!!!!!

8:46 p.m.: David Cook brought his guitar! He's got a good rock voice. But Randy! If he looked in the mirror, would he have his hair coming up to a point?

8:36 p.m.: A tearful 17-year-old who just wants to make her dad proud -- great story! And Angelica Puente, though she sounds a little SHOUTY to me, can sing. But Simon giving warmhearted advice -- it's not great TV, is it? Luckily we have the gold-shirted guy coming up .., and Paula draped over the table??!!

8:33 p.m.: Paula really twinkles her eyes when a cute guy sings. It's like she ratchets up into a new level of attention.

8:30 p.m.: Ryan takes Paula's place and Samantha Sidley is the unlucky contestant who gets to try out while wide-eyed Ryan is trying to show that the judges get overpaid for doing nothing. "Other door, Ryan!" HA HA HA!!!!

8:26 p.m.: Sarah Whitaker loves the limelight, even though Simon says, "You're just really strange, Sarah!" Did Paula really say "Yes"?

8:23 p.m.: Rachael Wicker could totally beat Simon at arm-wrestling. Paula is slurring her words -- so much for the "missed her plane" story.

8:20 p.m.: Who knew so many people would forget the lyrics?

8:11 p.m.: Jason Rich can sing ... but can't remember the words. It's a real drawback in performing, and sudden death in the Hollywood rounds, as you know. Paula, of course, would have loved him. Luckily, the kinder, gentler Simon and Randy send him through.

8:07 p.m.: Well, at least Chris Bernheisel got on TV, his actual goal, I think. The gifts were bad enough, but the handstand .... and the singing! But he got a gig to report from the finale!!! His dad and grandma looked .. mortified.

Paula's plane was delayed? What kind of idiocy is that? She doesn't fly in the night before????

The official "American Idol" site appears to have 515 photos from the Omaha auditions .. could that POSSIBLY be true? The 10th photo is of a young woman with two hands full of balloon animals, one of them Goofy. There's a goth girl in patent leather, and another singer with a child. And each photo has the SAME caption: "The season seven hopefuls in Omaha did everything in their power to get the attention of the judges." L-A-Z-Y.

-- Anne Neville