Sure, the economy is in the crapper, so why not give celebrities even more money?

Personally, I think all celebrities and athletes should take a pay cut or donate money to the government for the bailout package. People are complaining about those on Capitol Hill spending billions of dollars, but no one's complaining about athletes and celebrities making hundreds of millions. Why is it that celebrities always ask the middle-class to donate for charities?

Anyway, the latest crap-tacular idea is to put Nelly on a tv show called "Nelly's Night in Vegas." It will have the hip-hop artist performing and interacting with celebrities in a talk-show format, and he'll even have a sidekick, houseband and possibly a game show element, as well.

Yeah...I just can't wait for this ratings turd to hit the television fan.

Well, I sure did pick a whole lot of the winners correctly for the Grammys (and I'm including the Latin, Gospel and other categories). I'll have to total it up later... For a complete list of winners, click here. Here are my thoughts on the Grammy Awards broadcast on television:

- U2 kicked off the show. Not a bad song. It sounded a lot like Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" during the verses. Wasn't the best song I've heard U2 do.

- Jennifer Hudson won the Best R&B Album. Really? She's better than Al Green and Raphael Saadiq? I don't think so...

- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson came out and did a few bad jokes. Why is he there?

- Justin Timberlake, thanks for telling me what a general store is. I live in a cave and had no idea.

OK, my original plan was to pick the winners for all of the major categories of this year's Grammys — they air on Sunday night. Then I thought to myself, "What the hell, I'm gonna pick them for all 110 categories!"

Sure, some of them are easier than others... and some of them I know absolutely nothing about, but that's part of the fun. Come back on Monday for my thoughts on the show.

Here are my predictions (you may want to get a snack... this could take a while):

Record of the Year — As much as I don't want them to win, the popular vote would say Coldplay. If I had my pick, I'd go with Alison Krauss and Robert Plant.

Album of the Year — I'd love to say Radiohead for this one. It's the best of the choices. Lil Wayne could surprise people with this one. Coldplay may be the safe pick, but I don't think they'll walk away with Record and Album awards. Of course, Krauss and Plant could take this one if not Record.

Song of the Year — "American Boy" would win the award for "Most Annoying Song of the Year." Ugh, I still can't pick Coldplay. I'd go with Sara Bareilles.

OK, look, I'm not trying to be insensitive here. Jennifer Hudson has gone through a terrible tragedy that no one would wish on anyone, and did an incredible thing by showing up at the Super Bowl and being able to perform. It takes courage to do that.

Now, let's be real. She's not a singer — she's a screamer/oversinger. It starts out ok, but then it just gets loud. I said it during her days on American Idol, I said it when she was in Dreamgirls and I'll say it now:

"Hey! Jennifer! See that microphone in your hands? It makes noises louder. You don't need to scream! Oh, and sorry for all that you've been through..."

Aside from the performance, remember how she's an Oscar-winning actress. Well, she was lip-synching last night.

Here's her screaming the National Anthem last night before the Super Bowl.

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Not in the mood to watch football? There's always the commercials. And if you're a music fan, you can watch Bruce Springsteen during the halftime show.

The safe bet is that he'll play at least one song from his new album that hit stores this week. I'd also guess it's a safe bet that he'll play "Born to Run." Other than that, it's anyone's guess. Maybe "The Rising"?

It's been announced that Paul McCartney, Radiohead, Justin Timberlake and a "quadruple threat" of Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, TI and Kanye West will all perform at the 51st Grammy Awards on Feb. 8

As I read the article at billboard.com, the most interesting part for me was this — McCartney will be backed up by Dave Grohl on the drums. It's not the first time Grohl has played drums since leaving Nirvana — he's played on a bunch of albums, such as Tenacious D's debut — but seeing him back up a Beatle could be something memorable.

OK, I'll admit right off the bat that I'm not too familiar with some of the songs that have received Oscar nominations.

However, I'd say give it to Peter Gabriel on the condition that he reunites the original Genesis.

People all over keep talking about "bikini girl" on American Idol. The scantily clad 21-year-old did an ok job with her audition, but her talking back to the judges got her bad marks on attitude.

The male judges voted her through, the female judges wanted to just show her the door.

Now there's a story talking about how she is a former Hooters girl that didn't have the talent to move up from greeter at the door to waitress. She left work often and was fired after just three months.

One can only hope that she doesn't make it too far in the competition, though it's easy to joke about her...

I don't remember if I said it last season, so I'll share it this season...

Ever wonder how they get all those people to sing the same song during the American Idol auditions? It's not because so many people just happened to pick the same song.

As thousands of contestants wait for endless hours until they are called to sing, the same song is played over and over on the sound system in the waiting rooms. That's right....over and over and over, drilling it into the contestants heads.

So, they get in the audition room, and the judges say - "You know that song you kept hearing? Why don't you try singing it?" And then you get video of plenty of people scrambling the same song that some people have only been hearing for the first time that day.

MSNBC has a story detailing some of the other details of the show.