Big Brother 13 Aug. 17 PoV Show Blog Party

My apologies to all for my absence -- I had a severe stomach virus which has still got me a bit down.

The show is about to start here on the east coast. As it airs, I'll update this post with major events. However, the real fun is in the comments. I hope to see you there!

Adam won the PoV. Daniele told Jeff he's safe, plan is to backdoor Brendon.

Adam saved himself, Brendon is on the block.

Big Brother 13 Live Feeds Bulletin - PoV Meeting

Adam saved himself, Brendon is on the block with Shelly.

Big Brother 12 Aug. 14 HoH/Nominations Show Blog Party

The show is delayed here on the East Coast, but I setting this up to post at 8 PM ET. I'm feeling quite sick tonight and won't be able to update the post as the show airs. I ask all to update in the comments section!

Off Topic - That Was the Week It Was - August 14, 2011

It's Sunday morning, time for my weekly off television topic trip through the week gone by in both words and photos I've taken. If you're looking for the latest Big Brother 13 news, check out the post before this one. Nothing earth-shattering has happened since I posted that -- I still don't really know what Daniele will do.

Sigh. This has not been a good week with the knee replacement recovery. I had recovered (I thought) from straining the quad muscle a couple of weeks ago. Maybe not so much.

In physical therapy on Tuesday, while doing a balance exercise and having had the best day ever in PT ... it happened. My new knee actually bent backwards with a loud pop and I crumbled to the floor. The pain was the most intense pain I've ever had in my life. I was sure, at the least, that my leg was broken.

After getting caught in torrential thunderstorms on the way home, the knee swelled almost double. I could put weight on it, but it was very unstable. It kept feeling like it was going to go backwards again.

With both crutches (sigh), I went to my orthopedic surgeon on Wednesday. He did the tendon tests to make sure they were okay and put me through a series of x-rays. I was very scared that where the femur was drilled and the spike for the implant was might have broken as the pain is mostly above the knee and in the thigh. But the x-rays were negative, good!

He told me to ice, elevate, don't go to PT and to return on Monday. He also put the leg in an immobilizer for stability. He thinks that I had a patella subluxation -- which is roughly a partial dislocation of the kneecap. When I looked it up online, the first article scared me to death -- saying it was the most common cause for a failed knee replacement. GAH!

But, while my doctor seemed very concerned, he seemed to be just as sure that with time and rest, the knee will be back to normal. And, in reading more sites, it sounds like repeated subluxation is the failure cause. I guess I'll see. I walked to the local bodega with one crutch and no immobilizer yesterday. The knee is still acting unstable, but I was very slow and careful.

With the additional pain, I started taking more pain meds. So now my stomach is all whacky once again. It really hasn't been a good week. Yet I did get some decent photos! Clicking on an image will open it larger in a new window ...

When it pours

I no sooner left PT in agony on Tuesday and a tremendous thunderstorm hit with torrential street flooding rainfall. I took shelter in the gazebo for a while. Scotch Plains.

Bored in the rain

Rainy day cleaners

Park Avenue, Scotch Plains

Flying mice!

I swear these carpenter bees were the size of flying mice! Bound Brook.

HUGE mushroom

This was also on Maple Street in Bound Brook on Wednesday as I went to the doctor's office.

Huge mushroom next to my huge foot

Another bee on Maple Street

Maple Street moth

Excuse me, could you turn around?

Um. Okay. Stop looking at me!

Could you give me a hand?

Same moth?

Waiting on NJ Transit

Watchung Avenue, Plainfield.

Vincent is floored!

He's not quite sure what to make of the immobilizer. I told him it's NOT a cat scratching post!

Big Brother 13 Live Feeds Bulletin - PoV

Jordan has to wear this

Lawon left his wig behind
Adam doesn't have to wear this.

After a very long feeds block, they came back on to Kalia, Porsche, Jeff and Adam playing a game of 20 Questions about celebrities. @@

Finally two cameras went to Brendon and Rachel. They are SO not happy. From the whisperings, it sounds like Jordan has to wear an outfit and Jeff seems to have won money. Brendon and Rachel are wondering what sort of deal Jeff and Jordan have with Daniele because she doesn't want to put Jeff up. Neither Shelly nor Daniele have been on camera since the feeds returned.

Okay, there's Shelly all alone in the have not room eating a roll or donut. She doesn't look happy. Looks like she got solitary confinement as there's a toilet set-up behind a curtain.

Adam told Jordan that Daniele told him Jeff would be safe when there were three left in the comp. AHA! Finally, an hour and a half after the feeds return, Jordan said something to the effect of, "Who do you think she'll put up when you take yourself off the block?"

:::collapse:::

Adam won the Power of Veto.

Shelly has the phone call from home after her solitary.
Daniele has a veto ticket allowing her to play in next week's PoV.
Kalia has a Caribbean trip.

Big Brother 13 Live Feeds Through Saturday Morning 8/13

Phillip

Sure, I like drama. You know I enjoy a good brouhaha. However, one thing folks who don't have the live feeds don't realize -- while we have four separate camera views, it might just as well be two (sometimes one!). Feeds 1 & 2 are usually just two different angles of the same location, with 3 & 4 covering a different location.

Into the night last night after nominations, we could have had four cameras on four different tiffs at times! I had to use the flashback option to go back and find things I missed. Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of All Heck Breaks Loose:

• Okay, Daniele did nominate Shelly and Adam, telling them that she wants the veto used to backdoor Brendon.
• Daniele has said before that she doesn't like the backdoor bit as the person never gets a chance to stay.
• Daniele has deals with both Jordan and Jeff and Brendon and Rachel -- separate deals, that is.
• I'm honestly not sure which deal she's sticking to. She even told Kalia the backdoor Brendon bit.
• At this time, if the veto saves someone, I think only Daniele knows what she'll do.
  
• If the veto isn't used, it looks like Shelly is history.
• After nominations, all heck broke out.
• Rachel, now that she has her bestest fiance in the world back at her beckon and cry, threw everyone under the bus.
• She said Jeff was mean to her, Shelly was running around telling every conversation they had to the other side and no one helped her.
• That's after me watching HOURS of Jeff and Jordan (and sometimes Shelly) consoling and catering to Rachel's mentally unstable behaviors last week!
• Jordan once again pushed for a "house meeting." I don't know why she keeps suggesting those things. Of course, as a feeds watcher, I like them because they usually turn into screaming matches.
• But, as a hamster, they just tend to stir up more problems.
• As this one did.
• Rachel kept screaming at Shelly and it got to the point where even Brendon wouldn't support her in her exaggerations and sometimes outright lies.
• Shelly screamed back.
• Jeff lit into Jordan calling her dumb for calling the meeting.
• :-( So not nice, Jeff!
• Rachel went running around to everyone saying how she's been telling everyone for three weeks that Shelly has been playing both sides of the house.
• She's right, but I really didn't need to hear her say it 756 times!
• Shelly freaked. Shelly cried. Shelly wanted to quit.
• "I've always just tried to help these girls," Shelly cried.
• Well, it's one thing to clean things and offer worldly advice, but Shelly does take things too far.
• Neither Porsche nor Rachel need to be told by her that they need to wear something so their "hoo-hahs" don't show.
• Darn it, Shelly ... they obviously WANT to be exhibitionists! Leave them alone about that stuff. If they want to look like tramps, let 'em. No skin off your nose!
• You can play the 42-year-old mommy card without giving them that advice.
• The only comedy relief of the night was the new houseguest Phillip.
• Okay, Phillip is only Adam wearing Woody Allen-esque eyeglasses.
• Actually the character itself is a neurotic, OCD, weirdo momma's boy ... kind of like an old Woody Allen movie character.
• Another fight(ish) started when Brendon and Rachel wanted Porsche's bed. She's had the same bed all season and doesn't want to give it up.
• Kalia doesn't think it fair to be asked to give her bed to them either.
• Face it, Brenchel ... no one wants your bodily fluids in their bed!
• No one is on slop this week, no food comp.
• The veto players were picked: Daniele, Shelly, Adam, Jeff, Jordan and Kalia.
• Brendon and Rachel are very upset that their names weren't picked.
• They, Adam and Daniele think it's odd that Jeff and Jordan or, at least Jeff, have played in every veto comp so far.
• Right now, the veto competition hasn't started.
• I'll let you know when I know.
  

Shelly's 19th nervous breakdown

Jeff complains that California is cold.

Big Brother 13 Live Feeds Friday August 12 (Nominations!)

Big Brother doesn't let Daniele into her HoH room.

It's been quite a day in the house. I'm not feeling too well, so this is going to be a real abbreviated list o' happenings. Yet, I've watched just about all the conversations and, as of right now, I'm a bit dismayed as I get this typed up during the feeds block for nominations. Here's the skinny from inside that Big Brother House of Drinking the Kool-Aid:

• Before last night's HoH, Rachel and Brendon (as well as most of the house) were loud and boisterous about Brendon's return.
• Of course, Kalia and Daniele (and to a much less extent, Porsche) knew they were in deep doo-doo.
• Then Daniele won the HoH and the tables turned once again.
• Today a lot of the talks were Shelly Mojo talks -- she talked with Daniele and Kalia, getting into a minor brouhaha with Kalia.
• Daniele and Shelly spoke alone, all came up hunky-dory.
• Shelly and Kalia talked alone, all ended up not only hunky-dory, but peachy-keen.
• They hugged and cried.
  
• Of course, everyone is pleading their case to stay to Daniele.
• That goes without saying.
• So I just typed it and didn't say it out loud.
• Then, Shelly even worked some of her mojo on Porsche.
• Remember Porsche? Yeah, she's still lurking about the house being for the most part a non-entity.
• Jeff's meeting with Daniele was the only brief one. He brought her into the Have Not room, said, "We still on?" Daniele told him, "Yes!" They bumped fists and split.
• Then came Brendon and Rachel.
• Sigh.
• Daniele at first kept not committing to deals they were proposing.
• After all, they're her main targets.
• What they're proposing (and taking forever to do so) is that they work with Daniele to the final three.
  
• They want Daniele to put up two other people this week and tell everyone that she plans on backdooring Brendon.
• Brendon told her that further on, he'd be willing to backdoor Jeff.
• The deal is that NO ONE knows (or would suspect) that they're working together.
• They would protect her if they have power next week.
  
• They would all three talk like they have about wanting to nominate/backdoor/throw out each other.
• Well, Brendon and Rachel wouldn't turn on each other, of course.
• They kept pushing for a Shelly/Adam nomination saying that Shelly would have a chance to get letters and photos from home in the jury house.
• Daniele told them that they definitely gave her something to think about and, in the beginning of their talk, she was sure she was going to put them on the block.
• Finally Adam came up and "rescued" Daniele from the Dastardly Duo.
• She told Adam that if she puts him on the block, he's a pawn.
• He said he's okay with that.
• THEN ... just before the feeds cut for nominations ...
• ... Daniele grabbed Kalia to the storage room.
• Kalia started in on a long (anything she says is LONG) tirade about her Shelly talk and how it ended with them hugging and crying.
• "You're going to hate me," Daniele said.
• She gave Kalia a brief "what if?" talk about putting Adam and Shelly on the block to backdoor Brendon or, if the veto isn't used, get Shelly out.
• Argh. She drank the Kool-Aid.
  
• ... then the feeds cut for nominations.
• Gah.
• Adam and Shelly are on the block.
  

Kalia gets animated in a confrontation with Shelly.

Shelly and Kalia talk things out, hug and make up.

Useless waste of space in the house.

Big Brother 13 Live Feeds - New HoH - August 12

Daniele is the new HoH.

Big Brother 13 Live Feeds Post-Show 8/11

This is just a quick update ...

• Kalia, with her phobia about hairs, needs to stop tugging on her own hair and throwing the shedding hairs on the floor in the purple room. Disgusting!
• As expected -- Daniele, Kalia and Porsche aren't happy campers.
• Porsche is asleep.
• Daniele and Kalia have basically exiled themselves from everyone else.
• The crew of six -- Jeff, Jordan, Brendon, Rachel, Shelly and Adam are celebrating.
• Daniele told Adam that Jeff and Jordan wanted him out and she saved him twice.
• @@
• As expected -- Brendon and Rachel are attached to each other.
• Ew.
• The HoH comp is expected sometime tonight.
• I have no clue what time.
• They're in an indoor lockdown.
• I'll hang as long as I can. I'm sure the HoH will be blocked to the feeds, but we'll know way before it's aired Sunday!

UPDATE - 11:54 PM ET, Kalia just got out of the Diary Room and asked who's ready to play for HoH. Nobody moved. They thought she was kidding. She's not. She said they all have to go to the backyard and the feeds have vanished. So, HoH comp is starting.

Big Brother 13 Aug. 11 Live Eviction/HoH Show Blog Party

The show is about to start here on the East Coast. As it airs, I'll update this entry with major events. But the real fun is in the comments and I hope you all join in!

Tonight is probably THE most anticipated of the season thus far! Who will be voted out? (We probably know that one ...) Who will return? (Anyone but Brendon, I hope!) Hamsters ready?

Ah, Rachel's enemies from last season get a segment -- Ragan! Rats, he's going to be in the wedding party and are friends now.

Voting time! Rachel's speech is perky and reminds them of the twist. Lawon in love with all. He doesn't make much sense otherwise.

Votes to evict:
Jordan -- Lawon
Jeff -- Lawon
Commercial break.
Porsche -- Lawon
Daniele -- Lawon
Shelly -- Lawon
Adam -- Lawon

Lawon is out, the only surprise is that it's unanimous.

Before he can leave, Julie makes them all sit back down. She tells them the list of who might come back. Rachel looked like a bigmouth bass. In talking to "the four" Julie told them that Lawon and Rachel had been nominated for eviction this week. When she said that Lawon was evicted, Brendon definitely looked surprised.

America voted for BRENDON. Idiots!

Gah. Brendon won. [BLEEPIN' BLEEP!]

The next HoH comp will air Sunday. Hmmm ... not sure if it's live. Probably not.


Brief live feeds update: Brendon, Rachel, Jeff, Jordan, Adam and Shelly formed an alliance to go against Kalia, Daniele and Porsche. No surprises there!

Big Brother 13 Live Feeds Into Wednesday Evening 8/10

Jeff and Lawon thug ... mug for the HoH camera

Another day in the house x'd off the calendar, eh? Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Confused Critters:

• The upcoming twist hint to the hamsters has them going bonkers.
• Well, more bonkers than they already were, that is.
• Rachel and Lawon are both sure that in all probability whomever is evicted will return.
• Daniele and Kalia figured think that someone else might return ... like Brendon!
• Oh my.
• Jeff and Jordan want Rachel to stay even though she's driving them up the wall.
• Most of the hamsters think Rachel needs to be on some kind of drug to calm her down.
• They think she has the record for running off to the Diary Room crying or fussing.
• Shelly seems to be with Jordan and Jeff -- already told Kalia and Daniele she will be voting to save Rachel.
• Adam seems to be with Jordan and Jeff, agreeing to vote to keep Rachel.
• J, J, A, S think the vote will be 4-2 to evict Lawon.
• They think only Porsche and Daniele will vote to evict Rachel.
• Jeff and Jordan told Adam that the others think it's going to be a tie vote and they can imply that Porsche was the hinky vote to keep Rachel.
• Adam's not too keen on that.
• He likes to get along with everyone.
• When Daniele and Kalia asked him about the vote, he told them he hadn't made up his mind yet.
• That was after he agreed with Jeff and Jordan to keep Rachel.
• It's a ball of confusion.
• Or, perhaps it's all just a spool of lies (Copyright: Howie)
• They got the HoH camera, so fun was had by all.
• Yippee yahoo.
• Earlier in the evening, the feeds went down for two hours so the hamsters could celebrate the halfway mark with a private party.
• Watching Shelly on the feeds is driving me crazy.
• If she was a waitress, she'd be cleaning the table while you're in mid-bite. Maybe it's nervous energy, but the darting around cleaning everything and looking for a napkin set down so she can run it to the trash ... it's all very distracting.
• She doesn't cook, though.
• Jeff and Adam are the big cooks this season.
• Well, I can ramble no longer.

Speaking of which ...

Rachel is really wearing on Jordan

Adam does the funky chicken

Rachel puts on her face
@@

What's that Jeff is smoking?

Big Brother 13 August 10 Power of Veto Episode Blog Party

The show is about to start here on the East Coast. As it airs, I'll update this entry with major events. But the real fun is in the comments and I hope you all join in!

So much for that party with Blogger down for the exact time of the show. Sigh. At least we know what happened from the live feeds ...

Big Brother 13 Live Feeds Through Tuesday 8/09

Shelly picks at her toes in public. Ew.

Yes, I realize I haven't really posted on Tuesday. There are a few reasons. The MAIN reason is that there has been very little going on. Yeah, there were cute moments, a bit of game talk, some trashtalk, but nothing ground-shaking. The second reason is an issue where I messed up my knee in PT today. That's physical therapy, not Dominic (nicknamed PT for Pre-Teen). Pain and pain meds don't make for great typing or thinking skills.

So I decided to post odd screen caps of each hamster instead of a lot of words. Here's some of what I've gleaned from inside that Big Brother House of Boring Beasties:

• I noticed in the previous post comments that someone thinks Lawon "saved Jordan" by volunteering to go up.
• That's totally wrong.
• Kalia told everyone she would not put Jordan on the block, nor backdoor her. Jordan and Kalia made a promise long ago.
• I'm not a big fan of Kalia's, but she gave her word and she kept it.
• Of course, she made sure that Jeff and Jordan knew she was keeping it -- for brownie points, I'm sure.
• The plan is to vote out Lawon this week, not Rachel.
• Amazing, eh?
• They really think with the new twist that Lawon might come back and automatically be HoH.
• They don't want Rachel to be HoH.
• And I'm the one on pain meds messing up my mind, eh?
• Porsche is getting talked about by everyone.
• She's trying to hang with Kalia and Daniele.
• But they both trashtalk her when she's not around.
• Shelly, meanwhile, is still working her mojo for the most part.
• She has dreams of being in the final three with Jeff and Jordan.
• I've decided I want Jeff in my place not only for the eye candy factor, but to be my own personal chef. He's very domesticated!
• Rachel has calmed down and, for the most part, not causing any issues.
• She did wear Daniele's hat, though. Daniele had lent the hat to Porsche. She's probably going to burn it now.
• Nothing to see here, folks.
• Tomorrow and Thursday until the show will probably be just as non-eventful.
• Sigh.
  

Did Rachel cut herself shaving and
stick bits of toilet tissue on it?
(Actually pimple cream, but ...!)

Kalia relives her hysterics at seeing the HoH room.

Jordan does a Donald Duck/Chipmunk version
of "When the Saints Come Marching In"

Uncle Fester Adam sleeps with his mouth open.

Not a great look, Lawon.

Daniele whispers to Kalia in front of Rachel.
This was to demonstrate her silent clicky
whispering technique I hate so much.

Jeff refused to let me find him in a bad shot.

And then there's Porsche ... still just there.

Big Brother 13 Live Feeds Monday/PoV Meeting

Now things are getting way confusing. Here's what's happened since I last updated the scoop from inside that Big Brother House of Hilarious Hijinks:

• We last left with Shelly working her mojo on Kalia to put up Porsche and Kalia trying to get Daniele aboard the plan.
• So what happens?
• We need another screw thrown into the works ...
• Lawon told Kalia he's VOLUNTEERING to go on the block against Rachel.
• Say what?
• Has he EVER watched the show?
• You NEVER give up your PoV (unless you're Brendon to Rachel).
  
• You NEVER volunteer to be a pawn.
• You NEVER spit into the wind.
• You NEVER tug on Superman's cape.
• Okay, you get the point.
• Lawon is figuring he won't get voted out or, if he does, he will be coming back with the twist.
• So, sure enough ... the PoV meeting went down. Jeff saved himself and Kalia put Lawon on the block with Rachel.
• Now, I can understand why she's doing it -- if Rachel gets voted out (and/or comes back), she can claim she tried and really thought Rachel had the votes to stay over Lawon.
• This way she can save face with all sides of the house. She should get what she wants yet have no one gunning for her.
• It's Lawon whose thinking I'm just not getting.
• Has someone slapped him upside the head with a silly stick?
• Lawon is putting on a big pouting act over the nominations.
• Rachel is thinking she has a chance to stay.
• Hmmm ....
  

Big Brother 13 Live Feeds Into Sunday Night 8/07

Eek! Stranger in the house!

I realize that I didn't update much today. However, little of real game interest happened until this evening. Sure, Adam had his birthday, but they hid that from us. Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Shelly Blue Persuasion:

• So much for the arrival of their grill. First off, it came on a Have/Have Not week, not the best choice.
• Then they had to wait out the lockdown inside as BB cleaned the yard from the PoV comp.
• So they finally got outside and ready to play with their new playtoy when music started wafting into the compound.
• Yeah, I know it's a yard.
• But compound always sounds so much more official.
• It turns out that there was a wedding or something nearby the house. Can't have that noise!
• So they ended up lockdowned again inside the house.
• Yes, I know lockdowned isn't a word. But in the BB house it is!
• They finally got to cook at about 2:45 AM their time.
• Of course, that means that they sleep late and Sunday's usually kind of a nothing day anyway.
• The big daytime event was Adam shaving.
• Oh my. Now he looks like the principal on Room 222.
• Yes, I dated myself with that reference. Live with it, please.
• Okay ... remember Rachel gave Kalia a big long (and civil) talk about putting someone on the block who would pretty much guarantee her (Rachel's) safety this week.
• Kalia (and Daniele) had been leaning towards putting Adam on the block with Rachel to clinch Rachel getting evicted.
• Rachel didn't come out and mention names, but it's Porsche she wants as Jeff's replacement.
• And, Kalia knows that. Porsche is the most likely to be voted out of the remaining hamsters.
• So what happens tonight?
• Shelly went to Kalia with just about the same talk albeit naming names.
• She pointed out that Porsche can't be trusted by either side and, if she were to return in the twist, she isn't as big a threat.
• Shelly, using her mind persuasion mojo, worked just about every angle.
• Kalia sat there mesmerized, almost to the point of being in a daze.
• The rough part would be convincing Daniele it was in their best interest and, if Porsche goes, there could be a truce ... for a week or so.
• Kalia went over the "idea" with Jeff who was agreeable, but said he didn't really want to commit to any deals until he sees that Porsche is indeed on the block.
• When she talked it over with Daniele, Daniele (of course) didn't like it.
• But Kalia also wants to show she makes her own decisions and isn't merely Daniele's puppet.
• Nah, but it could be Shelly pulling those strings.
• Once again, I really am impressed by Shelly's gameplay. She went to Jeff to let her know she set it up.
• If all works and Kalia is happy with the results, she knows it was Shelly's doing.
• As a viewer, I'm a bit concerned.
• The hamsters only know that the person evicted might come back.
• They don't know that there is a possibility of one already evicted coming back.
• Now, if the house sends Porsche packing this week, it's guaranteed that Cassi, Dominic or Brendon could beat her.
• We might as well leave Keith out of things. I don't think America has him in mind at all.
• Hmmm ...
• We won't know until tomorrow (today) who Kalia will nominate to replace Jeff.
  

Jeff in his cool boy cap.

Rachel has never seen a bad feeds shot of herself.

Shelly worked her mojo on Kalia.

Big Brother 13 - Aug. 7 Nominations Episode Blog Party

The show is about to start here on the East Coast. As it airs, I'll update this entry with major events. But the real fun is in the comments and I hope you all join in!

Ready for drama?

Okay, Rachel cried a lot, then tried to suck up to Kalia. Adam de-elfed.

Have Have Not -- Bad food gone bad drinking game. You know, the disgusting challenge!

Jordan, Jeff, Shelly and Rachel are the Have Nots. America voted coconut and catfish to accompany slop.

Sidenote: If fools vote Brendon back in, this week will be anti-climactic. They would make a deal, Brendon would come back in the house, Rachel to jury, they both get the full stipend for the summer. Anyone but Brendon, PLEASE.

Nominations - Key order - Happy birthday Adam, Porsche, Daniele, Jordan, Lawon, Shelly. Jeff and Rachel are nominated. Kalia says it's her own decision.