Category: Lloyd Lofthouse

  • Originally posted on EnteRvrexWorld: Jessica Sanchez finished in second place on season 11 of American Idol, and she’s okay with that. A day after losing out to fellow hopeful Phillips Phillips, the 16-year old powerhouse singer from Chula Vista, California, talked to reporters on a conference call about her experience on the show and her future plans. What was it like being able to…

  • The True Value of American Idol – Part 2/2

    Idol voters aren’t thinking like record producers… Instead, we have this alliance between young girls and grandmas and they see it, not necessarily as a contest to create a pop star competing on the contemporary radio, but as…who’s the nicest guy in a popularity contest.

  • The True Value of American Idol – Part 1/2

    Vote for the Worst.com launched in 2004 with the goal to support contestants on American Idol that the producers would hate to see win (according to the Worsters)…

  • Sunday Hike – May 13, 2012

    An average Sunday morning hike in the high country of a local regional park — three hours, five miles and hundreds of feet of elevation gain.

  • The Value of Subjective Opinions

    “The Concubine Saga” earns an honorable mention in general fiction at the 2012 San Francisco Book Festival

  • Authors Finding Readers – Viewed as Single Page

    If an avid reader reads ten books a year and there are several million titles to choose from, what do you consider the odds are that your work will be one of those books?

  • Ginmar: alleged Cyber Bully, Troll and Stalker? (Viewed as Single Page)

    Ginmar says: “Some authors have been having temper tantrums over bad reviews and now they’re stalking reviewers.”

  • The True Value of American Idol – Viewed as Single Page

    To discover the real winners that compete on American Idol, we have to wait and see how many albums these artists that landed in the so-called losers’ circle sell to their fans.

  • The Need to Edit – (Viewed as Single Page)

    Most authors may have editing skills similar to Thomas Wolfe, who wrote longhand without the use of punctuation in addition to other mistakes that his editor, Max Perkins, fixed as he edited Wolfe’s work.