Comments on: Response to American Idol post

By: Michael Hussey

Michael Hussey — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:12:34 +0000

People need to see the Youtube videos to understand what the joke is about. WARNING: Do not eat shortly before you watch these videos. I'm serious.

By: Wade Tatangelo

Wade Tatangelo — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:50:30 +0000

Michael: Come on, don’t mess with my man, Snider, the Dean of Local Music Critics, my friend and mentor.

By: Michael Hussey

Michael Hussey — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:21:43 +0000

Wade, I gave Sean that out in another comment thread. I think AI is a guilty pleasure of Sean's. Sean did judge an AI tryout. Gina and Sean are both better critics than that Snider guy the Times had. Last I heard, Snider was eating strange food on Youtube. I wonder whatever happened to him.

By: Wade Tatangelo

Wade Tatangelo — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:46:11 +0000

Michael: I respect both Gina and Sean as people and journalists. I read everything Sean writes, just like I read everything Gina wrote, and was very flattered when, as a senior at USF eight years ago, she got me doing CD reviews for her at the Times, a favor for which I will always be grateful. But in Sean’s defense, AI is popular, Daly writes for a “family newspaper,” he pretty much has to cover it, y’know? Daly could be snarky and cynical if that’s what he got paid to do. (Remember, we all have bosses.) Daly used to write for CL’s relatively new sister paper the alt-weekly Washington City Paper.

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By: Michael Hussey

Michael Hussey — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:36:12 +0000

Who wants to be Sean Daly? There are 1,560 Google pages related to Daly and American Idol. The St. Petersburg Times hasn't had a good critic since Gina Vivinetto. She never reviewed Miley Cyrus.