It’s hard to imagine the esteemed editors of Detroit Buzz putting up with my rants and raves for ten articles, or maybe even 50 articles. But last week I realized something: This article will be the 100th installment of the Art Hates You column, and after two plus years, the column is still going very strong.

As I reach this milestone, I’ve decided not to rant on a particular subject and spit venom at that one topic all day. Believe me, with the new Paris Hilton album imminent, it was hard not to go off on something focused this week.

Rather than focusing on some other person, I want to tell you something you may not be aware of. In my articles there is an underlying person I like to take shots at more than any famous person. Now, now, its not Corey Feldman or Britney Spears…. The person I like to take a stab at more than anyone is just plain old me. Its fun to make light of people, but if you can’t laugh and roast yourself from time to time, life gets too serious and pretty boring.

So, in my 100th article, I am taking a look at past articles I have written and wondering “what the hell was I thinking” when I wrote these things. These are items I was certain about, but like most things in my life, failed to come to fruition. Without further adieu then, here are some of my finer moments in the past Art Hates You columns:

Art’s Blunders:

• Blunder Statement #1: “The Darkness Are the New Great Rock Hope” (Jan. 23, 2004). It looked as if this might be coming true for about four months in early 2004, and I thought my psychic skills were blossoming. But, like my great fantasy football team on draft day, The Darkness could not live up to the hype. The second album sold about as many records as Russell Crowe’s band did, and made me look like a real schmuck in the process.

• Blunder Statement #2: “Who the hell still cares about Green Day?” (Sept. 9, 2004): Well Art, obviously about FIVE million people pissed off with the government cared enough to buy “American Idiot” after I predicted it would be their death knell. To be honest, I hadn’t listened to the album before writing that preview. When I finally got around to listening to the album, I knew that I was going to look really stupid once again.

• Blunder Statement #3: “Please Beck, no one cares about you, just give up!” (Same Issue): My anger was at an all time high around September of 2004, and I didn’t put much faith in some of the stars of the mid-90’s. Beck was about to release “Guero”, and after the dismal “Sea Change”, I didn’t give him a chance. Well, “Guero” surprised me and proved that Beck still had some fight left in him.

• Blunder Statement #4: “The Motley Crue reunion tour won't make it a month” (Feb. 24, 2005): I’ll give myself this: the “Art’s House of Odds” was one of the most entertaining articles I felt I wrote. Unfortunately, none of the predictions I made even came close to be true. Tommy Lee is still with the Crue, and they are planning on touring with Aerosmith this fall. I only hope I can be as initially wrong with the rumored Rage Against the Machine tour next year as I was with the Crue last year.

• Blunder Statement #5: “The Wings and Pistons will give us a summer to remember” (April 18, 2006): It’s August, and the Wings and Pistons gave us a summer of misery, and not a summer to rejoice. In even more shocking fashion, the Tigers have the best record of baseball. I’m wasting no time on this one, as I see the Tigers joining the Wings and Pistons and giving the Detroit fans another headache come this fall. Please Dear God, let this be a blunder I can write about next year.

Take it from me, there are plenty more miscalculations I’ve made in my articles over the past few years. But there are sometimes where I am on the money, and other times where I think someone upstairs was listening to me:

• Somebody upstairs must have been listening when I prayed for Creed to breakup, and they did. I didn’t expect the Scott Stapp tailspin that we are seeing now. That’s just funny…

• I predicted that the Lollapalooza 04 edition would fall flat on its face, which it did. Even though Lollapalooza recovered quite nicely, I was still right about the 04 tour.

Even though I am pointing out a few things that I got right, I am wrong way more often. Perhaps I am too quick to judge something, but as a Z-list entertainment pundit, you have to do those sorts of things once in a while.

If there is any lesson you’ve learned through 100 articles of Art Hates You, it’s this: The articles may be entertaining, but never bet on anything I say. The odds makers in Vegas will make sure you’ll lose a vast majority of the time….