Heading towards eviction day, the biggest news isn't from actually inside the house this week. For the first time I can remember, tomorrow's eviction will NOT be live. It doesn't seem to have been planned all along to be taped, either. Something is up. According to various sources, the live audience has been asked to show up three hours earlier than usual.
A lot of speculation is floating around about the non-live eviction. Are they expecting trouble with Chima if Jeff uses the coup d'etat? That seems to be the popular notion. But we just don't know. I don't think another endurance HOH is due quite yet. I guess we'll find out tomorrow.
Here's what's been happening in that Big Brother House of Dealing Demon Dogs:
- Jessie, Kevin, and Natalie all tried to sleep in. If they didn't stay awake until dawn every night, they'd be getting up on time. It's not like BB wakes them up early. This morning the first wake-up announcements were past 9:30 AM.
- Lydia thinks Natalie likes her now after their female bonding wrestling stint last night.
- Chima thinks people should only do cocaine to get skinny.
- Huh? I don't think she thinks of the long term ramifications of the drug, how many lives it's ruined, and the fact that it's illegal.
- Getting skinny is just a teensy bit of what the drug does to a person.
- They could hear people working in the yard.
- A big section of the backyard has been covered with a tarp and barricaded.
- Jessie is still paranoid.
- As he should be.
- Everyone except Russell had fun with the HOH camera. He was off by himself somewhere.
- The Natalie/Jessie/Chima/Kevin/Lydia group's plan in the case of a "majority rules" type comp is to all answer "B" even if that's the wrong answer.
Natalie is spouting off Biblical references to marriage to a captive audience -- Lydia and Kevin. Okaay ...
Is it that cold in the house that everyone keeps wearing hoods, hats, and wrapping themselves in comforters? I do welcome the fact that most aren't really exhibitionists this season (cough, Jessie, cough). But it's like the house is kept at 60 degrees or something.
Here's what's been happening in that Big Brother House of Paranoid Pups:
- Chima continues to focus on getting Russell out of the house. She admits that it's personal, but claims it's a strategical move, too.
- I can see that. However, the real power teams are Jessie and Natalie, Jeff and Jordan, and to a lesser extent -- Lydia and Kevin. If I were a single player in the house, I'd be trying to break up a duo.
- Michele said they aren't allowed to name the rats at her lab. I guess that would make them too much like pets before they torture them.
- They complained about being bored.
- Bad Jeff. He drank some Gatorade and ended up be punished with an extra day of slop.
- Jordan trimmed Jeff's hair. He now has a bitty bald spot in the back. He tried to touch up the trim.
- They played with the modeling clay. Woohoo.
- Russell said that Chima complained in the first week that she was cast on the wrong show. She felt she should have made America's Top Model. (Isn't she too teensy for that one?) He thinks she should be on Discovery Channel as a chia pet. Okay, that made me smile.
- Jessie is forlorn because he can't grow facial hair.
- Lydia worked on Jeff for his favor. Russell worked on him, too.
- Poor Jeff.
- Chima thinks Michele is really playing the game. If she is, I think she's playing it poorly. She's way too transparent.
- Natalie wants Michele out before Jeff. So much for the girls alliance, eh?
- Kevin seriously thinks Michele might have the wizard power ... and it scares him.
- I think the world at large scares Kevin.
- Natalie and Jessie kept snapping at each other while wrestling about. But I think it's not serious -- it's more like a boy and his dog. His pit bull, to be precise. Chima got ticked at them, though.
- They talked more about being bored. They came up with questions and answers to occupy themselves.
- I found it all boring.
- As I get this typed up, Natalie, Jessie, Lydia, and Kevin are still wide awake. Natalie denied (almost a bit too strongly) that she is, ever will be, or ever has had a sexual relationship with a woman.
- Then Lydia attacked Natalie to wrestle, possibly kiss, while Jessie and Kevin watched.
- They fell off the bed wrestling.
- Okay.
- Now Natalie is talking about her NSYNC posters and stuffed animals of teen years. I can't take this anymore.
- Posting ...
The show has started here on the East Coast. This post will be updated as it airs, but the real fun is in the comments section. Everyone is welcome, bring your own snacks and beverages! Later tonight my show review will be posted on TV Squad.
Kevin won PoV. He chose not to use it so he can stay in Chima's good graces.
I'm going to start this off with a gripe. Y'see it's hot here and I'm cranky. Now, the flashback function on the RealPlayer live feeds is indeed a cool function. But in the house itself where they boast four feeds ... it's still just two different views of the same happenings and, a lot of time, all four feeds are on the same thing at different angles. Not once in the history of BB have I seen all four feeds on entirely different rooms. What's up with that?
Anyway ... here's what's been happening inside that Big Brother House of Pitiable Pigs in a Poke:
- Lydia and Jordan went on a cleaning spree. There's some excitement, eh?
- They also talked about how boring the house is this week.
- You don't say.
- Chima told Natalie and Jessie they're boring after they awakened from yet another nap.
- 'Tis true.
- When Jessie told the story of being pulled over by the police while in a Cadillac, Chima told him they must have thought he was black because he was "in a black man's car."
- Oh my.
- Jeff gave Jordan grief about eating (because he can't).
- Russell asked Jordan to save him with her "wizard powers."
- Chima still wants Russell out, claiming she doesn't like being terrorized by him.
- I don't know. I think the chia pet bit was funny. I know. I'm mean.
- Chima told Michele that if she (Michele) is the worst human being Ronnie has ever met, he needs to get out more.
- She has a point there. Michele is odd, but not a horrible human being.
- Ohhh ... you know the house is in the doldrums when BB gives them modeling clay. Next up will be the dollar store toys!
- Michele says Lydia got together with Jessie to lie, so Chima suggested that maybe Lydia should leave next (after Russell).
- Hey! What happened to the all powerful girls alliance?
- Jeff, the best chef, thinks everyone has gone to town cooking this week while he can't eat. Why, even Jordan who doesn't cook prepared a banquet.
- But Jeff can have fresh basil. Go to town with it, Jeff.
- Russell worked on Jessie for the vote, telling him if he gets evicted, no way can Jessie win the game.
- Jessie fussed on about Russell picking Jeff to play for PoV and not himself.
- Russell told Natalie he didn't think the midwest would vote for Kevin, a gay guy, to get the "wizard power."
- It's possible that a mouse has gotten into their bread.
- They played with the clay, they're still talking small talk.
- They need to go to bed.
- And I need to go to work.
Finger-lickin' good slop!This house needs some shaking up. I want a brouhaha! I want a cat fight! Fisticuffs would be a welcome respite from the doldrums. Hey, throw in a unicorn and I'm so there.
Here are the day's happenings from that Big Brother House of Acrimonious Anti-Allies:
- After getting up, Kevin was directed to the diary room where there was a brief audio leak. He was receiving instructions on how to do the PoV. Not whether to use it or not, mind you.
- Then, when the time came (blocked feeds and all) ... he did NOT use the veto to save Lydia. He's going on the promises that she's definitely safe.
- Lydia isn't a happy camper. Nor would I be if my best friend in the house won the veto and didn't save me with it.
- Ah, something new and different -- Michele trash-talked Russell to Kevin. Russell's a terrorist, y'know.
- Chima told Kevin she's angry that Natalie never follows the direction of BB and thinks she can do whatever she wants. I'm paraphrasing there, but you get the general idea. BB tells Natalie to get up, she doesn't -- that kind of thing.
- Natalie apparently didn't cooperate when BB told her to "look alive" just before the PoV meeting.
- Chima thinks that Jeff has the "wizard power" because he's always getting called to the diary room and hasn't started any drama.
- Huh? Jeff has never been one to start drama in the house. He tries to avoid drama.
- Jeff made a slop concoction; Jordan made a fruit salad.
- And life goes on.
Today's song lyrics:There was green alligators and long-necked geese, Some humpty-backed camels and some chimpanzees. Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born, The loveliest of all was the unicorn. -- As sung by The Irish Rovers 
