So You Think You Can Dance Finale Bulletin

Sigh. My favorite for the win came in second -- Brandon. Janine won the season. Sniffle.

Big Brother 11 Live Eviction Show Blog Party 8/06

The show has started here on the East Coast. As it airs, this post will be updated with the major events. Later on tonight, my full review of the episode will be up on TV Squad. But ... (and here's where you come in) ... the real fun is in the comments! Everyone's welcome to participate, snack, and imbibe. Just clean up your own messes! Please remember the houseguests are fair game for criticism, but your fellow commenters aren't. Merci!

A huge thank you goes to Zoetawny for the Ronnie is a Rat graphic!

Jeff won the coup d'etat. :-) He wisely chose to leave tonight's nominations stand.

The voting to evict:
Kevin --> Ronnie
Natalie --> Lydia
Chima --> Lydia
Jessie --> Lydia
Michele --> Ronnie
Jeff --> Ronnie
Jordan --> Ronnie

By a vote of 4-3, Ronnie is evicted.

CHIMA won HOH based on the calls from last night memory.

Big Brother 11 Live Feeds Into the Dawn Thursday 8/06

It's the wee hours of the morning. It's in the vicinity of 3:00 AM there in the Big Brother house. And, once again, they're still up and not drunk.

• Natalie took a shower. I know. I'm in shock, too.
  
• Russell bashed Michele to Lydia, told her about the PhD. Now, there's a big bash, eh?
• Chima, Lydia, and Russell got into another brouhaha rehashing the previous brouhaha.
• Ronnie said he'll bash Michele in his speech on the live eviction show.
• Natalie, in particular, is coming up with scheme after scheme to save Ronnie. Most are off in left field.
  
• Everyone thinks their dire enemy in the house has the "wizard power." I've seen nothing which indicates anyone in particular has it.
  
• Ah, interesting. Ronnie, Jessie, his pit bull, and Russell are talking. Ronnie said if he makes it through and wins HOH, he'll nominate Jeff and they'd vote him out.
• "I can't do that," Russell told them. The man has some scruples although he's allowing the bunch to use him.
  
• I wonder if Natalie would ever use her harebrained schemes to save her own butt. Some of them are outright ludicrous.
  
• I expect today to be rather uneventful in the house as we gear for the live eviction and coup d'etat reveal.
• But Natalie will surely keep scheming for Ronnie.
• Ronnie is walking around in his underwear waking people up.
  

Big Brother 11 Live Feeds Into the Evening Wed. 8/05

Well, I last posted about the brouhaha. We haven't had another major one yet, just some skirmishes. But that's not saying than nothing has been going down in that Big Brother House of Deceptive DIngbats.

• Lydia is all down, wants to hurt herself, and had to pack. Earlier she mentioned that she was told in the DR that if she does anything to hurt herself, they'll remove her from the house.
• Again, I say better psychological testing is needed.
• Chima and Michele blame Russell for all the stress in the house.
• I blame the pit bull and buddies.
• Lydia screamed at Natalie.
• What else is new?
• Chima tried telling Lydia that Kevin through her under the bus.
• Lydia had Kevin write the word "perspective" on her forearm with make-up.
• I recall the first season, there was no make-up other than Jamie's infamous lip gloss. She'd hide behind the sink to apply it.
• Ronnie is still trying to work Jordan and Jeff. It ain't working. They blatantly told him they don't trust him and never will.
• Natalie claims to not know how to use a tampon.
• Maybe she doesn't know the mechanics of a washcloth, either.
• They were all in and out of the Diary Room recording goodbye messages.
• There have been no hints on the coup d'etat. I keep hoping someone will look up at the cameras while alone and thank America.
• Natalie told Jordan and Jeff that she will be the sole vote to evict Ronnie, just a sympathy vote, just wanted them to know.
• That's part of the scheme she hatched with Jessie.
• The annoying phone calls started coming in and they're running every fifteen minutes as I type this report.
• I know a song that really gets on your nerves. Yes, yes it does. Make it stop.
  
• Lydia thinks Jessie is behind trying to destroy her relationship with Kevin.
• She loves him, she hates him. He hurt her, she wants to hurt herself. Lydia talked a long time with Jessie.
• He claims that he hasn't cast his vote yet, so she has no case to complain that he's voting against her.
  
• A common theme to the calls is calling for Natalie to bathe. Heh.
• They think they have to memorize the calls.
  
• Right now it's not looking like a solid exit for Ronnie.
• I'm irked. But if Lydia is so unstable that she's talking about cutting herself and stuff ... it might be in her best interest to get her out of there.
• I'd still rather Ronnie leave.
• Now Michele is crying to Jordan and Jeff about Russell.
  

Big Brother 11 Live Feeds Daytime Wednesday 8/05

Jessie pulling his pit bull off during the confrontation they organized.

Jordan in shock during the confrontation Jessie, Natalie, and Ronnie instigated between Russell and Michele.

Wash your hair pit bull. Now. Not tomorrow.

Today was relatively boring in the house until ... brouhaha! They took HOH photographs and everything was going kind of hunky-dory. But then Natalie (the main instigator), Jessie, and Ronnie filled Russell's head with lies and exaggerations about things Michele may or may not have said.

The Russell/Chima rift, the Michele supposed lies ... it all came to a screaming match mainly between Natalie and Michele. Gee, how did that happen? Ronnie sat silently, at times picking his nose, throughout. Jeff tried to stay totally out of it although he knew that Michele had made a comment about sexual dysfunction and Russell to Chima. She claims she said it jokingly and then Russell was called to the DR so she never explained it. I agree with Jeff that it was a stupid thing for her to say and not funny.

But this is all blown out of proportion and all orchestrated by the Jessie Contingent. Russell fell for it, Kevin's stuck in the middle, but the Chima and Michele faction seems to be healing as I get this written up.

Michele thinks Russell was behind the meeting. But that's not the case at all. He was duped. It won't affect the eviction this week, but it casts a really horrible suspicion on Michele right now. True, she's fumbled her moves and has played both sides ... but no more than Russell.