I read my colleague Lauren Flynn's blog from last week with great interest. Our office went nuts when Snoop did his brilliant cameo on ONE LIFE TO LIVE (I still can't get his cover of the show's theme song out of my head!) and I'm glad to see that although it took some coaxing, her boyfriend (who I love) finally capitulated and treated himself to the fun episodes in which Snoop appeared. (And he even became intrigued by the other stories. Good job, ONE LIFE!) I've been talking up those eps so much that two of the men in my life are coming over to watch them tonight on my DVR!

SMALLVILLE wrapped up its seventh season last night by tying off the ongoing Brainiac storyline. Unfortunately, that meant the end of the line for James Marsters (ex-Spike, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER). The reveal that Brainiac was posing as Clark's cousin, Kara, was supposed to be a surprise, but I knew something was up when "Kara" callously killed three people.

Is it just me or do other GH fans think this way, too? I just don't know how to feel about Claudia. First, I hear Sarah Brown is coming back. Yay! But, she's playing a new character. Well, okay. That's weird, but I don't want Laura Wright to leave. I like her Carly. So, okay, I'll go along with it. Enter Claudia. She immediately sleeps with Sonny.

See, this is why I make a lousy AMERICAN IDOL fan: I really, truly dislike every one of the final three contestants. Choosing among them is definitely a "lesser evil" situation for me. Last night's results show opened with an utterly bland rendition of "Ain't No Stopping Us Now." (Well, not quite; one of them was about to be stopped in her tracks…) David Archuleta — hereafter referred to as "David A." — appeared nervous and so out of his element during his solos that he actually looked pained; David Cook and Syesha fared a little better, but the poor song was just brutalized. The entire performance was just bad elevator music — a freight elevator at that. Not losing the…er, momentum, IDOL returned from a commercial break so the kids could murder "How Far Is Heaven" as part of an in-house Ford commercial. Seriously — these are the final three?!