mousey musings

Eurovision Song Contest -- My reactions to the voting: 1. Others are less fond of Sissel clones than I. Norway didn't do very well. 2. Most of the other top ten match my favorites. The notable exceptions were... 3. Lithuania -- how on Earth did they get so many votes? There must have been a lot of jerks or drunk people dialing in votes. And... 4. Russia -- The guy was off-key, but I suppose being telegenic counts for something. OR: Russia and its neighbors vote for each other. Since Russia has lots of neighbors, it gets lots of votes, regardless of talent. 5. Those former Yugoslav republics sure do vote for each others' songs. It's kind of surprising that people who tried to hard to kill each other are such close allies in ESC. 6. The Cypriot announcer made a crack about having a divided capital city before awarding 12 points to close ally Greece. I oppose the Turkish occupation, but it still seems out of place to snipe at other countries at ESC. 7. States with large immigrant populations always have interesting voting patterns when it comes to the immigrants' mother countries. 8. Finland wasn't the best, but it was pretty good (in my top 5). So when you add talent to the anti-ESC folks who voted for the least family-friendly act, they did very well. And they did it on the basis of their show, rather than political alliances.

posted by Jeffrey # 5/20/2006 03:59:00 PM