Ok, so I got an email from the Aggie Alumni Association today, urging me to vote for Jason Castro. Ok, people, I have to let you in on a secret. Texas A&M breeds cult members. It's a freaking brain washing school. They start the summer before your Freshman year, drag you to the woods, call it camping, and teach you the "cheers" to yell at the Football games. Listen, those cheers are really chants. And they even have some grassy area that touches a special Memorial Building, and you aren't allowed to walk on it. Some might call this a mosque or holy building. Aggies are a cult. With that said, they are a do-good, suck up, syrupy sweet bunch of cult members, and I swear to God Jason Castro is the epitome of what everyone is like there...except he's the hippie version. Most guys there look like Tom Cruise in Top Gun. Seriously, there are like 3500 cadets on campus...it's a military school, atleast 25% of it is. I had a guy collapse and die by my dorm during early morning army drills. Ok, I digress. Back to Castro...Jason, not Fidel, in case I lost you with all the military blah blah blah, top gun, talk. So, here's the point of this blog. They have email blasted the entire A&M community to vote for Jason. Ok, like that's huge. I've pasted the letter below. Basically, if he gets through this week, they will film at A&M this Thursday. Ha. I hope it happens. I'd love to see the old stomping grounds!
Texas A&M student Jason Castro '09, a landscape architecture major from Rockwall, has made it to the final four on the Fox television talent show American Idol. If he receives enough votes tonight to advance to the final three, Jason will come home to Texas A&M to film a segment for the American Idol show, bringing a glimpse of Aggieland to tens of millions of American Idol viewers around the world. But for that to happen, the Aggie Network must join together to vote Jason through to the next round.
Something special happens when the Aggie family unites in support of a fellow Ag—bonds are strengthened, memories are made, and the Aggie story gains another layer. This is where you come in as a former student. Tonight at 7 p.m. Central time, take a moment to watch Jason perform live on American Idol on your local Fox station, then follow the instructions for voting Jason through to the next round. Voting is straightforward: a simple phone call or text message to the number on the screen.
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Here's an article from the College Station local newspaper. Ok, so like read this carefully. Their podcast voting sight is "Vote Jason Home"...meaning, vote him to stay so he gets to come home and see Aggieland. But to the trained Idol eye, it looks like a "get our soldier home where he belongs site...by voting for say one of the Davids." Hilarious. They should have run that one by me.
Jason Castro has an added incentive to perform well Tuesday on American Idol, while local Castro fans have an extra reason to vote for the Texas A&M junior.
If Castro remains after Tuesday's performance and Wednesday's elimination round, the singer and an American Idol production crew will tape a one-hour concert on the steps of the Jack K. Williams Administration Building at the east campus entry at 7 p.m. Thursday.
And A&M officials are inviting everyone to attend.
Aggieland is planning a tradition-filled greeting for the popular Fox television show (Channel 7 on Suddenlink Cable in Bryan-College Station), according to Jason Cook, A&M vice president for marketing and communications.
"This will be an incredible opportunity to showcase Texas A&M for a national television audience of about 33 million viewers," Cook said.
Activities will include a mini yell practice, while a host of campus organizations have been contacted about participating. On hand will be A&M President Elsa Murano, student body president Mark Gold and, of course, the Aggie yell leaders.
"The event continues to evolve and plans are moving quickly," Cook said Monday. "We have started promotion of the event via social networks such as Facebook and already have thousands of people who said they would attend."
A "Vote Jason Home" podcast is available on Texas A&M on iTunes U by clicking http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/tamu-public.1529657407.01529657415.
Whether the campus efforts will go for nought depends to a large degree on the support Castro gets from voters.
"For all this to happen, Jason will have to perform well and get his share of the 45 million votes that will be cast," Cook said. "We're hoping Aggies will boost his numbers."
Castro is studying construction science at A&M. His hometown is Rockwall.
"The biggest thing about this is that Jason's love for Texas A&M is really coming out," Cook said. "The people at American Idol have heard so many good things about A&M, they want to come and see for themselves."
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so that's it. Thought I'd share that hilarity with you.
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