Big Brother 14 : Live Feeds Wednesday Night Into Thursday - Aug. 29-30

Smile now, Carrot. Two weeks ahead, no HoH possibilities

For as much excitement as we've had the past week, it's been a yawn a minute since yesterday. So, I warn you now -- do NOT expect a Pulitzer prize level live feeds report from me this morning! (Although, to liven things up ... there are two Chippendale dudes on the upcoming season of The Amazing Race. Hubba hubba!)

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother house of Dwindling Days:

• Ian kept apologizing even more for his actions while drunk the night before.
• BB did NOT give them any alcohol.
• They have been on an extended inside lockdown while the HoH comp is being built in the yard.
• Or, perhaps, maybe BB just likes to have 'em trapped like flies on flypaper.
• Britney kind of wants to try to talk to Shane and Joe.
• Ian told her it probably wouldn't be worth it.
• Alas, I think he's right.
• Ian cried.
• In a moment of compassion for someone other than himself, Danielle tried to console him.
• He said he deserved it.
• After all, Britney is only going right now because Frank couldn't put Ian on the block due to his PoV ball.
• Ian knows that. He also really seems as non-romantically smitten with Britney as one could be.
• Unlike Matt in Britney's season, Ian never tried to qualify (or paid) to be in Mensa. He knows he's smart, doesn't need to be a member to prove it.
• Good for him. I always sneer at Mensa people myself. After the National Honor Society in high school, let college grades and life decisions speak for your intelligence.
• Smart, unfortunately, doesn't always mean successful or happy. In the long run, it often means little in the game of life. Common sense, on the other hand, is usually better than mere book smarts.
• Oh my. I'm getting all profound here with the live feeds in the background.
• But Britney and Ian had a big talk on who's intelligent or not in the house.
• It's their fault. They led me there.
• They don't think Joe is particularly intelligent.
• Y'think?
• We again suffered all four feeds on sleeping Joe for a while. What's up with that?
• Even the BB voice is bored. When Britney said, "I like to suck on these" about some nuts she was eating, the BB voice replied, "That's what she said."
• Huh. The BB voice hasn't been giving house trivia as it has in past seasons.
• I don't think anyone other than Jenn will truly stick with Frank once the carrot is out of HoH for two weeks.
• I do think that Jenn, the ultimate floater, is probably going to be honest and true to her word now that she's voiced a side.
• She probably won't win. It's rare that honest people make it to the end.
• Ian told Britney that Frank was going "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth and a blond for a blond."
• Britney is angry that Frank is bullying Ian. She wants to tell him that Ian had to do what's best for him, not what's best for Frank.
• Ian told Danielle that Frank only put up Britney as a personal attack against him.
• Danielle told Ian that Dan's treatment of her was just an act.
• She also told him that she would get Frank out.
• I won't hold my breath on that one.
• But if it's a physical endurance tonight, she just might eke out another HoH.
• Despite what has happened, Britney told Ian that Dan really is a good guy.
• She thanked all of her fans on the feeds.
• She said she's going to go crazy with just Ashley as company for a week.
• Whatever will they have to talk about?
• They're talking about reviving the Quack Pack -- Joe and Jenn cannot win the game, they say.
• Danielle also told Shane that the Dan bit was only an act, not the brightest move. Maybe she's a Mensa member.
• There ya go. 

Again, we spent too much time watching Joe sleep

America's youth in action

Has he got a chance in heck to make it?

Britney is someone I could watch EVERY season in the house

Big Brother 14: Power of Veto Show Blog Party - Aug. 29

Hold onto your wigs and keys, hamster watchers! This should be some episode! As the show airs, I'll update this post with the major happenings. So, refresh the page to see the latest.

However, the PARTAY will be in the comments area. Come join us talking about the show!

The veto is Draw Something. The comp earns points with punishments. Frank got eliminated for saying "summer" when Britney didn't know the answer after she buzzed. Jenn burned her clothes. Frank has to wear a carrot suit for a week, bath in avocado once, chum baths for 24 hours. Dan has to spend 24 hours in disco solitary. Danielle got paint splattered on her. Jenn accepted the rest of the game on slop to win veto.

Dan calls a house meeting after he gets out of solitary -- his BB funeral, says nice things about each person, he tells Danielle she's dead to him in the game and she knows what she did.

Dan outs the Quack Pack and everything to Frank, proposes to work with him. Frank needs to have Jenn use the veto on Dan, put Britney up.

Dan tells Danielle he just saved them both.

Veto meeting. Ian doesn't use his won one. Jenn saves Dan. Frank puts Britney on the block.

Big Brother 14: Live Feeds Into Wednesday Afternoon - Aug. 29

Britney seriously needs to stop picking at her face!

Until tomorrow night, things are winding down a bit after the intense roller coaster of the past few days. That's good. I'd hate to break out in hives due to the stress. Here's today's happenings from inside that Big Brother House of Capricious Crazies:

• In his drunken state last night, Ian said he wanted to be on the show since 2001, since before the planes flew into the towers.
• Okay. He was ten or so. Adults, especially in this area, who went through that really don't refer to 9/11 in such an offhand manner. 
• But Ian WAS a child when it happened.
• Jenn got all riled about the comment and blew things way out of proportion.
• Ian said and did a lot last night when he was very drunk.
• Oh. Wait. Who supplied him six beers?
• Jenn?
• Hmm.
• Ian apologized again.
• I hope he learned a lesson about alcohol. Many of us learned lessons about it when we were about his age. Some never learn.
• Today he's repenting. And apologizing.
• Yet Frank and Dan seem to want to keep the animosity over his behavior going. 
• Yep, move that target on over.
• Britney was also encouraged by others and very drunk last night.
• But she didn't say much that would come back and bite her.
• Ian apologized again.
• Nor is it of any use to target her to take the heat off other targets because they've already told her to wear her pretty dress on Thursday.
• They? Well, Ian. He told her that Joe and Shane are voting to keep Danielle.
• I so wish it were Danielle going instead of Britney. Danielle does NOT entertain me.
• Ian supposedly said something about graduating high school when he was 16 last night. I missed that.
• But it turns out he didn't anyway.
• Um. I started college when I was 16. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to do that. You just have to like to learn and have good grades.
• Except for the Ian dissing, today was quite quiet compared to the past week.
• Ian apologized again.
• Britney talked about living in NYC and how she lived very differently from how Wil and Janelle lived in the city. She had little money.
• She also said New Jersey was the most dangerous place to live.
• HEY!
• Danielle's hives are lessening and she says her throat no longer hurts.
• A shame. I was hoping she'd lose her voice.
• Dan told her and she believes that Shane is infatuated with her.
• Oh, just gag me now.
• Ian apologized again. 

Why must we watch Joe sleep on all four feeds?

Who will he knock off next?

Hopefully a life lesson learned about alcohol

Yes, Jenn is still in the house ... sans eye make-up in excess.

Big Brother 14: Wil's YouTube Parody

I put this on my Facebook page for the show and have to share it here, too. Wil was far from my favorite in the house. But this is fun ...

 

Big Brother 14: Live Feeds Tuesday into Early Wednesday - Aug. 28-29

#SleepOftheInnocent / #NoConscience

Grr. Yesterday there were all kinds of live feeds issues. Malware? The live feeds are malware? Well, I suppose if you think of the house and its hamsters on the wider scale of representing humanity ... yep, malware. The utopian world gone awry.

Here's what's been happening inside that Big Brother House of Pernicious Peeps:

• It's getting way confusing.
• They're all lying and it's hard to predict who's actually with whom.
• Dan and Frank are going to be the final two.
• No, wait ... Joe and Frank will be the final two.
• Oh no, I'm in error ... It's Frank and Jenn in a final two deal.
• You see the common denominator there, right?
• All these deals. It's likely to crash right down on him. 
• Frank can't work out in is carrot suit. Aw, too bad.
• Frank thinks Ian needs to be gone before long because many of the later comps are more geared to him -- puzzles and quizzes.
• Frank thinks that by Dan remaining in the house, he's taken the largest target off himself and put it right on Dan.
• Joe has perfected the art of cooking slop cookies -- both Jenn and Dan are loving them.
• Jenn, who's on slop for the remainder of her days in the house, cannot eat the additional foods voted on by the viewers.
• Britney continued being very vocal about Dan's game strategies. She pointed out that Dan and Frank are working together.
• Shh ... that was supposed to be a secret!
• Similar to the nice/evil Dan bit she did Monday, Britney did a hashtag Dan routine.
• #DanGheesling = #noloyalty and so on.
• They got the HoH camera and fun was had by all.
• Or, like the reveal of the HoH room, they tried to make it look like it was all fun and giggles.
• Joe seems to want to lean towards saving Britney. Hmm. She has Ian. If Joe and Shane would come over to her side ...
• Both Joe and Shane really seem to be in a quandary. It might not be an automatic Britney evict.
• Meanwhile, now Danielle is going around talking with a hoarse voice to go with her neck hives.
• Perhaps she has an allergic reaction to not being the center of attention?
• Britney threw around Frank's stuff and beat up Big Ted the stuffed bear.
• She then hugged Ted.
• She didn't hug Frank.
• Frank is a bit worried. He had a long talk with Joe and Shane to reinforce that they need to vote Britney out.
• Danielle is also a bit worried.
• Shane told Britney he's undecided.
• Shane told Danielle that he and Joe will tell Britney tonight that they won't be voting for her (Britney) to stay.
• :-(
• Shane denied to Danielle that he and Joe made a guys final three deal with Frank.
• They did.
• But who can keep track of all of these deals? I need a spreadsheet here!
• Joe is having knee issues and had to be seen by the doctor. Bursa problems. I guess that can scratch him out of physical comps.
• Oh, wait. I'm talking JOE. He can't win comps anyway!
• Shane told Ian he's definitely voting to keep Danielle.
• Ian told Britney that Joe and Shane will be voting to keep Danielle.
• :-(
• BB gave them alcohol.
• The whole bunch kept encouraging Britney (and Ian to a lesser extent) to drink, chugging the booze down.
• Britney got drunk. :-(
• Ian told her that Matt (in her season) called her a succubus.
• Britney said, "I'm not the succubus. Danielle is."
• Danielle: "What's a succubus?"
• Heh.
• Britney finally almost ran to the bedroom and collapsed under the comforter.
• Frank and Joe are still up playing games in the yard as I get this posted.
• It looks like #byebyeBritney on Thursday. 

A future treasured memory

No, Danielle is the succubus

Danielle boring Shane to naps

Drunk Ian almost fell asleep while standing

Big Brother 14: Live Feeds Monday Evening into Tuesday - Aug. 28

What a tangled web we weave ...

As sand through the hourglass, these are the days of their lives. My gosh, better them than me. Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of the Emotionally Damaged:

• Ian told Danielle that she won't have his vote to stay.
• Well, duh. She knew that. She told him she's okay with it.
• Dan told Frank that he needs to make sure he has the votes for Britney to go -- it's not necessarily a done deed.
• He thinks Joe will vote what Frank wants, but feel he might be a wild card.
• Oh, he's a card alright ...
• Frank is sure he has both Joe and Jenn "in his pocket."
• Hmm.
• Britney, in between her Dan attacks (most of which were actually funny), told Frank he was duped.
• Frank hates being duped.
• Ian and Frank made two separate references about keeping up the act that they hate each other.
• Hmm.
• Britney actually heard it one time.
• Dan and Britney had a long talk. She apologized for the hateful things she's been saying in anger, told him it was okay, he made a move to save himself.
• Britney says she has a cute dress she wants to wear if she's going to be voted out on Thursday. She didn't get to wear it on her birthday last Thursday.
• Joe told Britney that Jerry was right when he called Dan "Judas" in his season.
• Well, yeah.
• Joe told Ian he'd really like Britney to stay.
• Ian and Joe know they'd have to talk Shane into it.
• Hmm ... while Shane and Danielle do have a quasi-"thing" going on, that's more her than him.
• But Shane did pinky-swear with her for a final two.
• We all know the importance of the pinky-swear in the BB house and the weight it carries.
• Then again, he has loyalties to Britney, too.
• And she's nowhere near as high maintenance and needy as Danielle.
• Speaking of which, at one point during the evening Danielle claimed she wasn't needy.
• Britney, in the event she goes, reminded Danielle that Ian doesn't really want her (Danielle) out. He just wants Britney to stay and there's a difference.
• Danielle fussed more about the hives on her neck.
• After all, she can't let Britney get all the attention!
• After drinking five beers, Ian went into severe rocking, making noises and mumbling to himself mode.
• It looks like his mind is going a mile a minute trying to piece everything together and plan when he does that.
• Shane misses his dog (at home). Danielle doesn't fill that void.
• Jenn and Ian were the last up, not really talking to each other.
• Jenn looked lost in thought while Ian did his Ian thing.
• I personally would crack if I were in the house. I'd be pushing the panic button.
• But that's just me. 

Can this carrot be stopped?

Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of this hat!

Split ends, split alliances

Pretty, I'm so pretty.

Big Brother 14: Live Feeds Monday Daytime - Aug. 27

Aw, I hate to see Britney sad

I can't say I'm thrilled at how all of it went down. But, I'll admit ... it's what makes watching the live feeds all worthwhile. Not a once last season did we have live feeds as interesting and addicting as they have been for the past week. Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Devious Dan:

• It's no secret that I really enjoy Britney in the game and had hoped she'd make it to the end.
• But, in the end, it's a game. I'm not personally involved. It really doesn't matter to me who wins or loses. It's not like I'm in the running for the half million.
• What Dan did was underhanded.
• But that's how to play the game. It was a shrewd move for him and it saved him this week, if not longer.
• Okay ... to the news of the day ...
• Dan got up early for the first time this season. He sat outside and addressed the live feed watchers.
• He told us why he did what he did and how he was worried that Jenn wouldn't take him down with her veto.
• He said if it didn't work, he'd accept the fact that he'd be walking out the door on Thursday.
• He really wants to WIN the game (again).
• He also said he'd remain true to Jenn, Frank and Shane.
• I reserve judgment on that. He'll do what's best for himself.
• Nothing much happened once the others woke up.
• Oh.
• Except that Danielle thinks she has shingles.
• She's got something, for sure. It's not shingles, though. I've had them. They concentrate along the nerves generally on one half of the body or around the eyes. She has what looks like hives on both sides of her neck. The "I'm not a doctor, don't even play one on TV" in me says that it's probably hives from being so super stressed yesterday. Either that or she ate something to which she's slightly allergic.
• Later Shane and Britney also thought it was stress related or she might have an allergy to the paint used in the veto comp.
• As an afterthought, Dan told Frank about the Headhunter Alliance with Joe, saying he wanted full disclosure.
• As expected, Frank wasn't overly surprised.
• Joe always floated back and forth to the power.
• Then the PoV meeting came down, blocked to the feeds.
• It went down. Dan's Kool-Aid worked. Jenn saved Dan and Frank put Britney in his place.
• Wah.
• After the meeting, Ian tried to suck up to Frank (not knowing Dan outed his Secret Squirrel doings) and tell him he'd work with him until the end.
• It turned into a screaming match.
• Oh well. Ian got a bit too big for his britches there.
• Frank had given Shane a heads up before the meeting as to what would happen.
• After his fight with Frank, Ian grabbed all of his own HoH beers out of the HoH refrigerator.
• And proceeded to start drinking early.
• Frank told Britney she's the target.
• Britney has cried on and off since the meeting.
• :-(
• Danielle has cried and she's not the target.
• But, it is all about her. It always is.
• Ian continued to lie to Frank about being Secret Squirrel which made Frank angrier with him.
• Ian kept saying he had panicked with everybody pulling him in different directions.
• He'd be better to 'fess up.
• Joe told Shane that Frank told him that Ian was the rat.
• So now Joe knows that the Headhunters was just a silly thing.
• At times, Britney seems at peace with going home.
• She told Jenn that Dan told her he felt most comfortable in the house when he's hated.
• He actually said that to us live feeders just this morning, too.
• Britney is outing all of Dan's gameplay, but not blaming Frank or Jenn.
• She says it's just a game.
• But Dan will not get her vote if he makes it to the end.
• She did a bit which I SO hope makes the show ... it had me in giggles. She put on a "nice" voice being Dan, then turned into the wicked witch as Dan changed persona --
• "Thanks Britney for cleaning the Have Not room for me" - Nice Dan
• "Tomorrow I kill you." - Evil Dan
• She gave a good ten examples and I was sitting here giggling. She has such a quick wit. I'm going to miss that in the house.
• Frank, like Ian, has been early drinking.
• Both are a bit buzzed.
• Frank actually went after Britney to get back at Ian. He couldn't go for Ian as he had the veto ball.
• The other outright humorous moment today was the BB piped through the house/yard voice that tells them to go to the Diary Room, get new batteries for their mics, etc.
• This was a new one -- "Ian, are you wearing someone ELSE'S microphone?"
• Um. I guess they're labeled? 

Dan explained everything to the feeders this morning

Then she turned a bad situation into comedy gold

Big Brother 14: Live Feeds Power of Veto Meeting Results - Aug. 27

As expected, Ian did not use his veto. As expected (see recent reports), Jenn saved Dan with hers and Frank put Britney up in his place.

Dan is definitely the Man with a Plan.

A full report on the day will be posted later this evening,

Big Brother 14: Live Feeds Report Sunday Night into Monday - Aug. 26-27

Danielle cries some more

What a night! If you haven't read what came down in the evening, first read this, then read this. Then come right back here and read THIS! So ... what's been happening inside that Big Brother House of Dan Dan the Man with a Plan? Read on.

• Of course, like anything in this house, this latest is subject to change.
• After talking to Frank, Dan went back to Danielle and explained things blow by blow as per his Frank talk.
• He told her he had to say be mean for full effect earlier.
• He admitted to her that he ratted out Ian and threw Britney under the bus to further their game.
• He didn't tell her that he really doesn't trust her like he trusted Memphis.
• He told Frank that, though.
• Ian, Jenn and Joe meanwhile were hating on Dan for what he said to Danielle.
• Oh! I forgot ... when I talked about what he said to her, I didn't mention what he said to Shane.
• He told Shane he'd find a nice girl in Vermont.
• Heh.
• That was yet another part of Danielle's freaking out.
• After Dan left HoH and went to talk to Danielle, the army (Jenn, Joe, Ian) all went to HoH.
• Frank lied to them about his meeting with Dan.
• Frank had bought everything Dan was selling, hook, line and sinker.
• Dan and Danielle are going to go with the story that he apologized to her (citing his mental stress from solitary), but she's still mad at him and the relationship is forever damaged.
• She bought everything Dan is saying -- hook, line and sinker.
• Especially the sinker, I think!
• Frank talked to Jenn alone, telling her Dan's proposal.
• No, Dan didn't ask him to marry him. He just wants him to drink the Kool-Aid.
• And, isn't that beverage mighty tasty?
• Jenn agreed to use the veto to save Dan.
• Then Frank will put Britney up and they will vote her out.
• Next should be Ian.
• My two favorites gone before I wanted ... but I've had a sip of Dan's Kool-Aid myself.
• It's why he's a master.
• And, if he pulls this off and gets to the final two, I daresay he can sit up there with Dr. Will.
• Joe ... remember Joe? ... was all upset when Dan was in his big talk with Frank. He was worried that Dan was outing him and the Headhunters.
• Bwahahaha! Like that was any kind of alliance! Dan never even brought that up! It was the QUACK PACK and Ian that was the big rat out to Frank!
• Britney, not invited to sip Dan's Kool-Aid, is feeling all kinds of sorry for him and his apparent mental breakdown.
• Sigh ... little does she know.
• The PoV meeting should be later today. Ian won't use his golden veto ball, Jenn should save Dan.
• Then Frank will put Britney on the block and she'll be the target.
• Sigh. I have been enjoying Britney this season.
• But it is great gameplay on Dan's part. 

Dan, the man with a plan, might have saved himself

Yes, Jenn is still in the house

Secret Squirrel has been outed and he doesn't know it

Jenn will use the veto to save Dan

Big Brother 14: Live Feeds Special Bulletin: Dan's Funeral at the Game - Aug. 26

What did I do?

Now we know Dan's Plan. He asked for a house meeting after they ate dinner. He said it was his funeral as a gameplayer and that he just wanted to enjoy his last few days in the house. He said he wouldn't have time to address everyone Thursday, so wants to do it tonight.

Oh my.

He went through each houseguest, saying great things about them. He saved Danielle for last. Everyone was teary. Danielle looked with anticipation ...

He said he was looking for someone to have his back like Memphis. She's no Memphis. She's dead to him in the game.

Oh my.

He told Frank he wanted to discuss something privately with him. Danielle is a quivering crying fool right now. Jenn thinks Dan planned it all to hurt Danielle's game.

In the HoH room, Dan is explaining that Ian was in with them. He told him how tight Ian and Britney are. He's obviously working on Frank to get Danielle out and stay. Then get Ian out. If he can turn Frank his way ... which might be possible now that he knows the Ian connection and he might just stay. Apparently what she did was throw the veto comp.

He's telling Frank they would make a good final two.

Hey, Dan may still have the magic in him.

Eek! Now their plan is to have Jenn use the veto, get Britney out and for Dan to explain/apologize to Danielle.

NOOOO!!! Get Danielle out, I beg of you!

Now Dan is telling Danielle it was all a scheme to get them both (Danielle and him) to the finals.

Big Brother 14: Live Feeds Into Sunday Evening - Aug. 26

He thinks he's a cool carrot, eh?

What's been happening today inside that Big Brother House of Carrots and Captives? Read on ...

• Frank had to continue taking chum baths whenever the signal blew. He lost most of his audience as they headed to bed.
• Dan was still bombarded with techno music and flashing lights in his solitary confinement.
• He seemed to actually sleep now and then.
• Frank thinks his only chance to win in a final two is with Shane.
• His "perfect" final five is himself, Shane, Danielle, Joe and Jenn.
• He wants Ian out next.
• Oh noes!
• Meanwhile, Dan kept ignoring people at his door.
• Jenn and Ian told each other they wouldn't use their vetos to save Dan.
• In the Have Not room Dan told us he's not a quitter and plans to take them out one by one.
• Um. Okay. I'm not really seeing a way out here for Dan. But, let him go for it.
• After a round of trivia, the feeds returned to Dan released and Britney and Danielle unshackled.
• They're on indoor lockdown (extended) due to music which can be heard in the yard.
• What's Dan the Man's plan?
• Play psycho. He mumbled, said his head was wrong, laid down with a washcloth over his face.
• Meanwhile, he went into the storage room, smiled at the cameras, gestured that he's fine and gave us a thumbs up.
• From under the washcloth on his face, he grinned and winked at us.
• But he's playing it all up well -- seeing spots, having to go to the Diary Room, possibly seeking professional help.
• I'm really not sure what this will do for the vote, if anything.
• Danielle thinks it's all her fault.
• It is always all about her, y'know.
• Everybody said the Have Not room smelled of vomit.
• Dan said he doesn't remember vomiting.
• I don't remember seeing him sick. But, then again, I couldn't watch long when he was in there because the music drove me crazy.
• Everybody is worried about Dan.
• But I still don't see where the act is going to better his chances of staying Thursday.
• Frank is upset because once the yard opens up, the chum baths will play out as planned.
• Joe made slop cookies for Jenn and Dan.
• I don't think the veto will be used (either one) tomorrow.
• But nothing is written in stone. 

Dan suffering

Dan released and smiling at us

Dan winking at us

Big Brother 14: Second HoH, Nominations and More Show Blog Party - Aug. 26

In the amazing news front ... the show is starting on time here in the NYC viewing area! Woohoo! As it airs, I'll update this post with the major events. So, please refresh the page to see the latest.

However, the real fun (as always) is in the comments area. Come watch the show with us and join the party!

Finally, the recap is done at 8:12pm. Sure, a bit of new footage -- the last minute scheming before the second nominations, Frank blowing up afterwards. But, sheesh.

The HoH game, "Pull Some Strings." It's the upright board with ball holes using strings to raise balls. Dan out first. Jenn out. Britney out. Danielle out. Joe out. Shane out. Frank beat them all in individual rounds. He won HoH.

The new HoH gets to choose one person to be a Have Not. He chose Dan ... someone who's never been on slop in any season.

Frank finds Pandora's Box in the HoH room. He can win up to ten grand. He gets to choose three $ cubes. 1.05, 7.11 and then 3333.33. Now he's trapped while the others go wild. They get a clue that a second veto is somewhere. They need to find 50 cents (to play the game in the arcade room). Dan is bullying and lying through the comp. Oh my. Ian got the golden veto ball.

Britney thinks if he puts up Dan and Danielle up and one of the Quack Pack wins the second veto, they can take them both down. She told Ian if he uses the veto, Frank will put her up instead. She doesn't want to go on the block.

Nominations key order -- Jenn, Ian, Joe, Britney, Shane. Dan and Danielle on the block.

Big Brother 14: Live Feeds Overnight Into Sunday - Aug. 25-26

It looks like Dan's days are numbered

It's crunch time for the hamsters. They know it. Yesterday's reward/punishment comp results are in full bloom. Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of You Wanted to be a Hamster:

• Previously on Jackie's TV Blog ...
• Jenn won PoV, but has to be on slop for the remainder of her time in the house. She also had to burn the skirt she's been wearing all season.
• Frank got disqualified (thus allowing Jenn to win), supposedly for some sort of cheating. He said he was sorry and shouldn't have said anything to her. (?) He has to wear a carrot costume for a week and take chum baths at BB request for 24 hours. He also can't compete for HoH this week or next. This week as he's outgoing, next week due to the comp.
• Britney has to be shackled to Danielle for 24 hours. She could choose the hamster and they're leg shackles with perhaps three feet between them.
• Danielle got "painted" and, of course, is shackled to Britney.
• Dan is in solitary confinement with industrial/techno disco beats and music pumping. He has cake, matzo and water. The music stops now and again, but the disco lights keep going.
• Shane apparently did absolutely nothing in the comp. He has no punishments, he won no veto.
• There. That's your recap. Onto the newest happenings ...
• In between music blasts and through the door, Dan apologized to Britney for letting her down in the comp. Danielle thinks he's mad at her. Huh. He didn't even respond to her, so maybe he is.
• He also said the Diary Room called him "emotional." That's not like Dan.
• Loud, animated, perhaps. Emotional, rarely if ever.
• The ONLY reward in the comp was the veto. No prizes for anyone. It worked on a point system for what they agreed to do.
• Frank told Danielle and Britney that Jenn won't be using the veto.
• He also told them he wants Joe and Dan out.
• Meanwhile, both Joe and Jenn are not surprisingly floating to Frank.
• Whichever way the wind blows for those two, eh?
• Through the door, Dan told Joe that he was okay with how things went down. He didn't think Frank should have been disqualified and wouldn't have felt right winning it that way.
• Joe told Frank he has his support through his two weeks of no HoH comp playing.
• Frank and Joe had a long talk about Ian. Frank is already pondering "when to cut him loose" and Joe likes Ian just about as much as Ian likes Joe.
• One thing which bothers me when Frank talks game with others -- he always projects himself as the winner. Others just talk final two and don't go there.
• He says that no one should be able to win against him in the final two.
• Joe encouraged that and said he'd be happy with the 50 grand.
• Joe confronted Ian about all the "cuss words" he said on the live show.
• Now, that's the pot calling the kettle black.
• The only ones WITHOUT potty mouths in the house are Britney, Danielle, Dan and Shane. I'm talking current hamsters.
• Frank and Ian, it's about every other word.
• Not cool, I say. I realize it's a habit, but they need to drop that bad habit like a hot potato.
• Speaking of speech patterns, it annoys me every time Frank calls another guy "son." He called Boogie that and Boogie is older than him. I find it condescending. You might call a small boy son, but not your co-workers or fellow hamsters. Knock it off, Frank.
• There's no time pattern I can discern with Frank's chum baths, unlike Brendon's hourly ones last year.
• This year the chum is red smelly goop.
• Joe's been hoarding his beers thinking he could use them as a bribe to stay off the block or for a vote.
• He was the one who wanted to trade his vote to JoJo for cigarettes.
• Dan started ignoring people at the door. I feel sad for him.
• Ian needs to calm his ego down, go back to rocking on the hammock. He's attracting too much gaming attention.
• Frank thinks that once Dan is gone, the target will be off him.
• Um. No. Everyone will want him out because if he does make it to the final two after the game he's been through, he'd probably unanimously win.
• At one point, Britney and Danielle were unshackled at the table. Danielle said something about having to go back to the Diary Room to be reshackled before the live feeders blow up.
• Hmm.
• Joe seems to think he's getting buff. Yet he doesn't work out with the boys.
• Nor does Ian, per se. He walks with the girls.
• Britney told Danielle she doesn't think Frank could win in the final two.
• True, if they're not voting for who played the game best, he couldn't. 
• Although I'm not really a Frank fan, I'd say if he made it to the final two, he'd deserve to win. The guy has really been up against all kinds of odds and beat them all.
• But if BB had not interfered and let him stay when he was voted out the week of the coaches into the game, he wouldn't be here today.
• Aha, now Britney is agreeing with me -- he'd be the most deserving.
• I feel redeemed.
• Joe thinks he's safe this week. I'm not as sure about that as he is.
• Joe told Frank he's worried about Ian winning another HoH. "The boy's got Hitler in him. The boy's got the devil in him."
• Frank went through nearly five hours without the chum signal. But then it got fairly rapid.
• He begged BB to let him rest an hour without it going off.
• He should have slept during the first rest, eh?
• Unbelievably, Dan looks like he's actually sleeping with that music and the lights.
• Not well, but at least napping.
• There ya go ... 

Shackle Mates

In many primate species, grooming is done for fleas

Time for a chum bath!

Yes, Jenn is still in the house

The comp turned Danielle into a cute little doggie

Cruel and unusual punishment, for sure!

Off Topic: That Was the Week It Was - August 26, 2012

Good Sunday morning to you! Since it's Sunday morning, it's time for my weekly off television topic reflection on the week gone by in both words and photographs I've taken. If you're looking for the latest on Big Brother, you can see all of those posts using this link. I'll be writing up the overnight events soon. If you want to stick around, feel free to do so. If you're not interested, I totally understand.

The weather has been what summer should be instead of tropical. But we really can't forget (in this area) that we're coming up on the anniversary of the Hurricane Irene hit. Last year I was recovering from my knee surgery and, other than being without power for a few days, the hurricane didn't personally affect me so much after the waters on my street receded. I hope this hurricane season goes easy on everyone. 

A side thought -- who was the genius who planned the Republican Convention in Florida at what's usually the height of the hurricane season? Duh!

Although we've had little rain this past week, the mosquitos are out and about. I haven't been bit by one for a good ten years locally (in the Outer Banks last year, I was their daily meal), then a bite on the wrist a few weeks back. Now, in one evening, I have a bite below the elbow and one on my butt. Yes, you read that right! I seem to be having really bad reactions to the bites as far as inflammation and swelling go. Not cool. It's like I have a second elbow! And ...

"Does this mosquito bite make my butt look big?"

Couple that with the fact that I saw a dead bird on the sidewalk by the Union County College Campus, I'm leery of the mosquitos. Supposedly, dead birds can be indicative of West Nile Virus. This bird didn't look like it suffered any trauma from an automobile or hawk. I was on my way to the train station and hope that, since it's a college, they had it tested. Since there has been nothing in the news, I'm guessing they just threw it away or did have it tested and it tested negative. No, I'm not feeling ill. I'm fine. I just have a second elbow on my right arm and a big butt.

Other than that, it's been life as usual -- work, BB live feeds reports, sleep very little, eat (probably more than I should), rinse and repeat. For some reason, most of my photos are bugs this week. They gave me the best fodder. I met two different butterflies in the same spot two days in a row, thus I have two butterfly series in this post. 

Eastern Swallowtail

I met this male Eastern Swallowtail butterfly yesterday on my way to work. I know it's a male as it has very little blue on the wings. Yes, I Googled them. Bridgewater, NJ.

Monarch

The day before (Friday), I met a Monarch butterfly in just about the same spot on the same bush. 

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Big Brother 14: Live Feeds PoV Bulletin - Aug. 25

Frank is a carrot

The feeds finally came back after the PoV comp block. It was the reward/punishment comp.

• Frank is a carrot.
• Dan has to be in solitary for 24 hours in the Have Not room
• Britney and Danielle have to be shackled together for 24 hours.
• Dan's Have Not has an electronic "solitary" techno music thing pumping a beat, industrial techno music and disco lights.
• He's not allowed to talk to anyone ... but us and BB. He has cake. He has a portable toilet.
• He told himself (and us) he has 24 hours to figure out how he's going to spin this (stay).
• OMG.
• JENN won the Power of Veto.
• :::fainting:::
• Jenn says she will NOT be using the veto.
• Frank won't play in the next two HoH comps (first one because he's HoH, second due to the comp).
• Jenn is on slop for the rest of her time in the house.
• Frank also had to take chum baths.
• Frank was disqualified (cheating?), so Jenn won.

 

Dan in his techno industrial disco digs