Big Brother 11 Live Feeds Overnight Into Monday 8/24

Jordan and Jeff talk while watching the spy screen.

Here are the happenings since I last posted about the hamsters in the Big Brother House of Dudes and Dudettes:

• It was not a thrill a minute. Don't expect excitement over your morning coffee.
• Jordan and Michele worked out. Unlike many in the house, Michele has lost weight.
• Michele asked Jordan if she and Jeff thought something was up with her.
• Jordan told her they did.
• Michele claimed that Russell is just getting on her nerves.
• Kevin thinks Russell will play the "bro card" on Jeff -- he's hanging out with him doing guy kind of stuff.
• Kevin told Natalie he thinks she's going overboard by being too nice. He thinks they'll catch on because she's overdoing it.
• Jeff and Jordan memorized house facts for comps.
• Michele told Jeff that Russell needs to go.
• Michele told Jeff that she often felt that Russell wasn't on her team. He questioned what team that was -- going after the final two deal between Russell and Michele.
• Russell walked in on them.
• More card playing. I'm SO tired of watching them play cards. Take the cards away!
• Jeff once again talked with Russell. Russell claimed that things get twisted and what Jeff hears isn't what really happened.
• Jeff and Jordan went back to quizzing each other on house counts and facts ... all the while watching the spy screen.
• Natalie and Kevin played pool and continued to scheme away.
• Russell's been laying low and Michele refuses to take a cold shower before bed.
  
• The indicators are that Jeff is likely to use the veto tonight to save Kevin and put Russell on the block with Natalie.
• If that happens, we'll have some sort of excitement with Russell's reaction.
• We'll know by tonight.
  

Big Brother 11 Live Feeds Sunday Into the Evening 8/23

Blech. Sundays are the most boring day of the week in the BB house. Natalie said she likes them because they let them sleep in. Personally, I call getting up at 9:30 or 10:00 AM every morning sleeping in. Here's the non-events of today in the Big Brother House of Dreadful Doldrums:

• Michele's eyeglasses are broken. She thinks they were first damaged when the giant diploma in the HOH comp hit them. I'm wondering why she wore them for that.
• Jordan told Michele that she's always worried that Jeff might evict her similar to what Drew did to Diane that season. Showmances vs. money, money usually wins.
• Michele told Jordan she trusts her and Jeff 100%.
• Jordan told Michele that if Russell wins HOH next week, it would give him the perfect opportunity to get rid of Jeff.
• Jordan also told her she doesn't trust Russell, nor does she think he's all that grateful that Jeff saved him with the "wizard" power.
• Well, he's more grateful than Lydia was!
• Jordan reported her talk to Jeff. They think Russell will go berserk when backdoored.
• Natalie and Kevin continued to suck up to Jeff and Jordan.
• Michele is grouchy -- her glasses are broken, she thinks her partner in crime might be in danger, she thinks she herself might be in danger, and she's on slop.
• Kevin is scared that Jeff won't use the veto and the backdoor plan will be thrown out the door.
• Jordan would like Jeff to try to control his use of the f-bomb.
• That's just about it. Nothing but doldrums today.
• We need a brouhaha!
  

Big Brother 11 Sunday 8/23 Show Blog Party Post

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.

Jeff wins the HOH while the two in last place -- Michele and Russell -- are the have nots for the week. Kevin and Natalie continue to plants seeds of suspicion with Jeff and Jordan about Michele and Russell -- more specifically Russell.

Jeff nominated Kevin and Natalie, but plans to backdoor Russell. He had told Kevin and Natalie that he would be putting them up.

Off Topic: That Was the Week It Was 8/23/09

Welcome to my weekly off TV topic look at the week behind me and what caught my attention (and my camera's attention) here in um ... I guess it's called north central New Jersey. If you're looking for Big Brother live feeds news, just head to my BB posts here. If you want a ramble through the week and a peek at some things I saw and experienced this past week, read on.

We started the week with the first official heat wave of the summer -- highs in the 90s and high humidity levels. When it went down into the 80s, the humidity went up even more. That is, when it wasn't storming. Some terrific storms came through, but it's still just hot and sticky. I don't like sweating. Make it stop.

I actually saw Roofus the Cat from the Plainfield Train Station two separate mornings this week. One day was overcast, the other was horribly hot. I don't blame him for staying off the hot tar roof in the summer.

My week isn't much to write about:

• Write up BB11 live feeds reports and show posts for here and TV Squad.
• Watch BB11 live feeds.
• Work.
• Eat.
• Sleep a bit.
• Sweat a lot.
• Turn up my air conditioning in my apartment.
• Rinse and repeat.

Here's some of what I saw during the week -- clicking on an image will open it larger in a new window:

Roofus and the people below him

Yep, people are in three of the four windows below our beloved Roofus the Cat ... and they don't even know he's up there! I messed around with editing this photo to highlight the windows a bit more. Since Roofus is a black and white cat, there's not much I can do to highlight him. This photo is probably best viewed larger.

Hey! He buzzed me!

Cicadas do NOT belong indoors. This one was in the laundry room. Eek. He came out of nowhere and I thought it was a teeny helicopter attacking me. You know, with teeny aliens and all.

When good sunflowers go bad.

This one is the size of a dinner plate. Some of those leaves are longer than my forearm. East Front Street in Plainfield.

It must be love -- the US Open

I prefer this normal NJ Transit bus advertising over their tendency to shrink-wrap advertise. When they do that, it's hard to tell if it's an NJT bus and, if you sit looking out the window, you're looking through dots. I hate looking through dots. I'm a window sitter and observer and dots make me go dotty! Plainfield, NJ

Roofus the Cat before the roof gets hot.

Obviously, this was the sunny morning I saw him. North Street, Plainfield.

Goldfinch in flight

I really need more shutter speed. Bridgewater, NJ

Goldfinch on the rocks

Sounds like a tasty beverage, eh? Just mix it in the blender ... heehee! I also need a better zoom. One of these days, when I win the Mega Millions, I'll get a fancy-shmancy camera with all those cool lenses. Bridgewater, NJ

Walking in black and white

Urban image I took as I sweated in Plainfield, NJ.

What? The Yellow Cab Company went yellow?

The Plainfield Yellow Cab Company has always had puke neon green cabs. Well, they have all new yellow yellow cabs now. Yikes! They compete with orange, red, blue and other cab companies in town. Taking a cab here is very different from taking one in the city (NYC). About the only thing in common is that you might share a cab with strangers these days.

Red sky at night

This was no sailor's delight as it was Friday evening over Westfield, NJ, after a tremendous storm passed through. It rained all day Saturday.

Two in the door!

A friend and I went to the new Five Guys burger place in Westfield, NJ. I could never work there. They're all too energetic for me! But they do have good burgers and great fries.

Yay! A bat in Bridgewater!

I know the image quality isn't the best, but this is important to me. For years there have always been several bats up in the corners and eaves here from May until October. I've taken some amazing photos of them in the past right at eye level. This week I saw not one, but two, back at home. I feared white nose syndrome had gotten to them all. Yes, I like bats. I don't like them in my apartment, no. But they're really neat animals who eat evil insects and they have cute little faces.

The pit bull is waiting for the train

Sigh. This poor dirty pit bull was hanging around the Plainfield Train Station the other day. He's either lost or abandoned. While he wasn't vicious, he was very shy. Another commuter and I tried to give him water, but he slunk away from us and hid behind a trash can.

I got very nervous when he was on the platform as the train was arriving. However, he just waited amongst the crowd and tried to board the train. The conductor said he didn't have a ticket, so he couldn't ride. Maybe he just wants to get out of town. I hope the poor doggie finds his way home or some kind of help.

Get your minds out of the gutter!

It's a MUSHROOM. I think it's a stinkhorn or, as it's more officially noted, a member of the phallus family of mushrooms. I'm not kidding.

Reflective bling on the train

I actually wanted more from this photo when I took it. It does look a bit like the giant watch is over the Dunellen NJ Train Station, eh? What got me was the guy with the bling watch had the dirty t-shirt and jeans of a day laborer. The bling was so incongruous!

Roofus' downstairs neighbor at the window again

I'm not sure why this woman is always looking out the window. The apartments in the building tend to be seasonal migrant sort of folks. No screens, no air conditioning, and across the street from the Plainfield Train Station. I couldn't live there. But I bet some nights it's better than watching TV ... but I wouldn't be hanging out the window!

Big Brother 11 Live Feeds Into Sunday Dawn 8/23

Talking, talking ...

Kevin works his matchmaking mojo guessing Jeff's type of gal.

Okay, it's official. I would like Natalie's head to blow up the next time she calls someone, especially a woman, "dude." I've had it! If someone called me "dude," I'd probably go into my Robert DiNiro Taxi Driver character mode ... "Are you talkin' to me? Are YOU talkin' to ME?" Bam!

I live in a very urban mean streets kind of area (well, not so much right in my neighborhood) and I don't hear the women her age call other woman "dude." I saw a guy address an NYPD cop as "dude" once. I thought the cop was going to go all Taxi Driver, but he just lectured him.

Here's what's been happening in that Big Brother House of Underlying Psychosis:

• Jordan didn't realize the "90210" part of Bevery Hills 90210 was the zip code.
• Jordan and Jeff are seriously considering backdooring Russell.
• Jeff said he'd take Kevin off the block and put up Russell. He didn't tell Kevin, of course.
• Jeff, Jordan, Kevin, and Natalie trashtalked about Jessie.
• Kevin said that Jessie was the hated fool last season and should have expected it this season.
• Russell and Michele are both bothered that Kevin and Natalie are spending so much time with Jeff and Jordan.
• Jeff brought up Russell's vote to keep Jessie. Russell once again said he promised him.
• Russell told Jeff that he keeps his word.
• Jeff told Jordan he's a bit worried about trusting Kevin and Natalie because he really hasn't talked to them much since the start. He thinks they'll owe him big time if he saves them and backdoors Russell.
• Kevin and Natalie are already talking about knocking Jeff out next week if one of them get HOH.
• But Jeff doesn't know this.
• Of course, Russell and Michele are talking about taking Jeff out, too.
• The only one not talking about taking Jeff out is Jordan.
• Bless her heart.
• Jordan feels uncomfortable around Russell. She thinks he used them to get Chima out of the house.
• Jeff made a deal with the devil ... er, Natalie. Oh, and Kevin.
• Yep, the final four deal is that he saves them this week by backdooring Russell. Natalie promised not to put him on the block.
• Kevin said (if he won HOH), he'd put up Natalie and Michele and they'd vote Michele out.
• Jeff is doing this thinking they'll honor the deal as he would have saved them twice now.
• I don't think honor is a part of the BB backstabbing greed.
• Then, after all that, Jeff told Jordan he's not 100% sure he'll use the veto.
• Waffles, anyone?
• Ohh ... Natalie and Kevin discussed game strategy in Spanish and got busted for a rules violation.
• Heh.
• BB apparently went as far as to tell them they could be expelled from the house for the violation. Oh, big time crime! They're both mad and Kevin is blaming Natalie.
• Natalie wants to find it in the rule book.
• Kevin said just not to do it again.
  
• Kevin told Natalie she should work on being more positive around Jeff. He pointed out that he's stopped doing things he know annoy Jeff like complaining about things in the house, etc.
• Then Natalie and Kevin once again schemed to get rid of Jeff next week.
• In English, mind you.
• Lots of small talk and laundry doing ... apparently the PoV comp really did a job on their clothes.
• Jordan was surprised when Russell referred to her and Jeff as the showmance of the season. She thinks they're good friends who hang out a lot together.
• Kevin still seems to think Natalie's older than she says she is. He's right, of course. The only people who knew her real age are gone (Chima and Jessie).
• Russell and Michele talked some more. Russell claims he likes Jeff and Jordan but feels they're (Russell and Michele) getting played.
• Russell and Michele think Jeff wanted Kevin to win the PoV so he would have "no blood on his hands."
• Jordan thinks Natalie sounds sincere.
• I think Natalie is only sincere when she's sleeping.
• Russell told Michele he'll unleash holy hell if he gets backdoored.
• Oh, my. Russell is so ... so ... Chima-esque!
• Jeff told Jordan that he thinks Russell would keep him (Jeff) next week, but not Jordan. He thinks Jordan is more safe with keeping Natalie and Kevin.
• Yikes!
  
• To be honest, I think at this point, any scenario is dangerous for Jeff and Jordan. I think Russell may actually have Jeff's back to a point due to giving his word. But all bets are off with the others -- Michele, Kevin, and Natalie.
  
• Jeff and Jordan are going to have to keep having the power as they're the main targets in the game now.
  
• No one wants to be with Jordan in the final two (except Jeff). Her niceness paints the bullseye smack dab on her back. Since Jeff has started winning, it's all that much more important to get him out.
  

Russell worries. As he should.

Michele takes off her slippers and puts on her socks to go to bed with Russell. I don't think her husband has any worries.