Who goes home? For the men, Sanjaya is probably the most deserving of the pink slip. Sundance, on principle, should go home, too, but I would really prefer to see AJ go.

Phil is safe. Chris Slight is safe (phew). Sundance is safe. Blake is safe (and was damn good this week). Jared is safe. Nick, though, is going bye-bye. As I said last night: lounge act or pop star?

Self-aware aside: Damn, I should write something worth reading sometime soon.

Stephanie is safe. Gina is safe. Sabrina is safe.  Melinda is safe (and it would have been wrong otherwise). Alaina is gone. Which makes me feel pretty good inside.

Now, if only Antonella would go home…

Chris Richardson is safe. Brandon is safe. But unless he improves dramatically, he won’t be for long. AJ is gone. You would have to have imagined that Sanjaya was on the bubble--he even thought that he was heading home. Like Brandon, he needs to improve tremendously. AJ wasn’t a bad choice to go home, though.

Chinese food delivery aside. Which isn’t so much an observation of anything as much as it is a physical reality involving a barking dog and some food in a bag.

Leslie is going home and, though not as deserving as Antonella, it’s a decent choice. Antonella, apparently, is getting the coveted “God I love naked pictures of women” vote. And that’s a pretty big constituency.

Update: A very venomous goodbye.