We're back to only two nights a week. Thank GOD. Anyway, the Top 12 shrank to 11 with the overdue elimination of Brandon Rogers. He will not be missed. Throughout semifinals he hammered home just how boring and awkward a performer he is, and on Tuesday he added insult to injury by forgetting the WORDS. Dude. No. Brandon dealt with it all very well, so that speaks highly of him. And he's a good-looking guy. But he just didn't have it.

Other things of note:

-The pimpomercial was atrocious. We all agree that the guys suck this season, right? That the girls are the only reason to tune in? So why not do a commercial that features ONLY the guys singing, and the girls acting as hangers-on as they do some weird "through the ages" shtick to the tunes of freaking Modest Mouse. Was that an attempt at being relevant? Guys, learn from Blake and Chris Slight's mistakes --- just sing the damn songs.

-The bottom three included Brandon, Phil, and Sanjaya. So all guys. That seems right. Phil was sent back to the stools, leaving Sanjaya in his perennial Vidal Sassoon Memorial ThisClose to Cutting spot. He's starting to look less shocked when he's spared. My irritation at Sanjaya has subsided --- at this point I just find the whole thing hysterical. How far can he go?

-DialIdol.com got it totally wrong. The service claims to predict who's getting booted based on volunteers monitoring what Idol calls get through and what Idol lines are busy. The site listed Chris S. and Stephanie as the bottom 2 going into last night, and put Sanjaya in the top 3.

-Diana Ross performed live, and looked lovely again. But sounded awful. It was screechy and shouty and offkey and behind the tempo. It was a mess. It was like one of the guys' performances from Tuesday. If she'd actually been on the show, she would have gone home this week. Sorry, Diana.