This idea of which countries vote for which other countries has always been the compelling aspect of Eurovision for me. The music is unrelentingly agonizing, but the socio-political implications are fascinating. Unfortunately, I missed seeing it this year... and I really should have, since Greece won, and now I can't go anywhere without hearing that idiotic song.

Does inclusion of this link here mean that Viewropa is officially dead?
(I keed, I keed.)

See this post and this post at CT.

no way, wendell! (Actually... I have an amazing site I want to post there, but suddenly all the images are down - and it's an art site, so I'm waiting to see if that one comes back.)