Monday, March 17

Whistling Dixie - Uh oh, adult contemporary radio's favorite country divas, the Dixie Chicks, are in hot water over lead singer Natalie Maines' comments to a London audience that "Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas." Even though she's since retracted her statement, radio stations and fans are vowing to boycott the Chicks. Note this tidbit from TV Guide:
Several hundred Bush supporters in Louisiana on Saturday used a 33,000 pound tractor to destroy Dixie Chicks CDs and other items after band member Natalie Maines lashed out at America's commander-in-chief. Word has it that some of the protestors also tossed copies of Kelly Osbourne's new disc under the tractor, because, well, it's awful.

I hope this doesn't mean anyone is going to boycott the new celebrity episodes of Trading Spaces since Maines and her mother were the first celebs to make the switcheroo.