3/15 Results ...sweet tea for everyone!

Bucky's going to grace the stage again next week--thanks for voting, y'all! Not only that, but he seems to be moving up in the Idol world--he wasn't even in the bottom three. (Just for the record, Melissa, Lisa and Ace were, with Melissa going home.)

The results show only ran for a half hour, but that wasn't short enough to spare us some tense moments; Bucky was in the dreaded last spot on the bottom row, which made him the last to be declared safe tonight. At least one bit of suspense was cleared up at the start of the evening--the ponytail is back, ladies and gentlemen. (I hope the stylists will find a non-fluffy way to have him wear it loose sometimes, too--variety is a very good thing.)

By far the most memorable (not to mention surreal) part of this evening's proceedings was a weird, weird Ford ad
featuring our finalists in an obviously soundstaged "forest", with Chris Daughtry strumming and singing "All I Want" to all the stuffed woodland creatures, Bucky popping horizontally out of the back of an SUV to sing along (is this some new Ford audio options package we should know about?) , Ace Young in a furry humanoid/monster suit of some kind, marshmallows, a campfire...um, okay. I get the distinct feeling some strange subliminal message was being attempted there, but it would take a team of expert semioticians to sort it out for us...

Ahem. No theme announced for next week, so the suspense still isn't over. (We'll keep an ear out for any rumors; with any luck, "disco night" will be a no-show this year. ) Congratulations, Bucky!