Elliotts are always good guys

It was a little heartbreaking to see Elliott Yamin sent home.

The video clip from the visit to his hometown was sweet; throwing out the first pitch in a baseball game, meeting the governor, and his mother, overwhelmed & weeping in the parade car.

Then his lovely, bewildered reaction, in a poignant display of his modesty, to the middle-aged female customer at the pharmacy he once worked for, who squeals and tells him how nervous she is: "Why? I'm the same guy who used to work here, man."

And just when you think you can't like the guy any more, the video concludes and the camera cuts back to Elliott live on stage, and we see his face streaked with tears, touched by the visual reminder of just how much this experience has given him.

Loved that.

He must have sensed he was going home, because, unlike the dead-eyed-stare-of-shock that Chris "too cool for muthafuckin school" Daughtry gave us, Elliott seemed happy and more than satisfied when he went to stand with Ryan after the results were revealed.

In a country where you can't walk 20 feet without encountering some obnoxious jackass who thinks they are The Best! Number One! A Winner!, it's awful damn refreshing to see someone be genuinely grateful and appreciative to have just gotten close enough for a near miss.





As for who will win - I'm sticking with my original prediction that Kat will walk away the winner. For the following reasons:

#1. She is being heavily discounted against Taylor
#2. Taylor has never once been in the bottom two
#3. She seems more pliable, and more "lite-rock-fm" friendly than Taylor
#4. Of the two, I want Taylor to win, and I never get what I want in these matters.

Thus, it's gonna be Katharine.