Big Brother 13 - July 27 Power of Veto 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!

On another note: There actually was a big brouhaha in the house today and I wasn't home at the time. I'm catching up on it with Flashback on the live feeds and will be posting a full report later tonight.

Let the show begin ...

So far, lots of talk about backdooring Jeff (and Jordan by default), started by Daniele, but continued by Dominic. Brendon and Rachel are definitely seriously considering it as an option. They told Dominic, who has a deal with them, to throw the veto.

The third duo chosen for veto is Jeff and Jordan. Porsche is the host.

Uh-oh, the couples are onto Daniele!

Veto Comp -- giant woman with hairy legs in bubble bath. Playing as individuals. Pluck a hair, each has a letter, gather letters, spell longest word you can.

Jordan - little
Dom - standings
Rachel - mousturizing!
Adam - fractions
Jeff - expresses
Brendon - understanding

Brendon wins (Rachel's was spelled wrong)

There is another Have Not food vote on the website - Black Licorice & Blue Cheese, Parsnips & Prunes, and Seaweed & Sardines!

Veto meeting -- Adam didn't even speak! Veto not used, won't go against Rachel's nominations. Another twist is promised Thursday. I haven't been too keen on the first twist this season!

Big Brother 13 Live Feeds Into Monday Night 7/26

Maybe mind control will make them keep me.

Instead of "expect the unexpected" this season, I think we're going to have to expect the expected. The only big thing going on this season is Daniele going for a power move way too early and poorly thought out. It should have been expected she'd use DomiNIC(k), right?

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Woulda Coulda Shoulda:

• After last night's talk with Brendon, Lawon is totally on the "Get Rid of Dominic" train.
• The votes are in, might as well cancel Thursday's show.
• I'll be happy when Daniele goes because her whispering is driving me crazy.
• Oh ... and on the driving me crazy line ... BB, stop giving these hamsters crunchy snacks in crinkly bags. Half of them chew with their mouths open -- CRUNCHITY CRUNCH CRUNCH and they keep rustling the bags CRINKLETY CRINK RUSTLE.
• Knock it off. Only give them soft cookies, please.
• Thank you.
• Dominic thinks that Jeff and Brendon think the whole backdoor Jeff plan came from him.
• Daniele told him that they know it's her, they're just not saying it and acting like they're all on board with her again.
• She has their number; they have hers.
• Daniele, Kalia and Dominic spent a ton of time trying to think of various ways to save Dominic.
• Kalia thinks she can last forever in an endurance comp.
• Yeah, right.
• The only endurance comp she could win would be CRUNCHITY CRUNCHING snacks in a CRINKLETY CRINKLY RUSTLING bag.
• Dominic went up to the HoH for a long talk with Brendon and Jeff, later joined in by Rachel.
• He pleaded his case. He promised them the head of Daniele Donato.
• Okay, I exaggerated a bit about the head.
• At first he wouldn't even mention her name and just alluded to her, not him, as the one starting the backdoor Jeff movement.
• It went on forever.
• They pumped him for information.
• He swore he'd be totally on their side from now on.
• No good. His ship is sunk.
• He can thank his own stupidity for falling in with Daniele on an incredibly stupidly timed game move.
• It's a shame. They do all like him. I like the kid.
  
• But it would be just as stupid if they left him in the house to possibly team up with Daniele once again.
• If they could get Daniele out instead of him, they would.
• But they can't.
• It's guilt by association perhaps, but it's enough. He doesn't have to be ousted without a reasonable doubt of guilt, just a preponderance of the evidence.
• Yeah, I've been watching too many daytime court shows.
• He later went to Daniele, told her he didn't throw her under the bus and didn't talk about anything they didn't bring up or already know.
• She looked incredibly sad.
• As she should be.
• She screwed up the kid's one chance to go far in Big Brother. And, not only that, he's one of the few on the newbie side who had any promise.
• Good going, Daniele.
• So now Dominic knows his game is doomed and that it might even be unanimous that he go.
• Meanwhile, Adam, who I wanted to like because of the fellow NJ connection, is totally worthless to me as a feeds watcher. He does seem to be a nice guy, but he's boring and will just follow the power.
• I can't see anything changing Dominic-wise between now and Thursday.
• But maybe we'll have a good brouhaha in between.
• One can only hope.
  

Just call him DomiNICK

At least Daniele still has Kalia.
Er, wait. Is that worth anything?

Don't even try telling me that, Dominic!

Big Brother 13 Live Feeds Into Late Monday Night 7/25

Who dat?

This is really a perplexing season so far. Don't get me wrong ... I'm still watching hoping for a few gems here and there. Actually the biggest drama (because I don't really care anything about Brenchel drama) has been the fact that Daniele has screwed up her game so early and so badly by making premature moves. She didn't have any target on her back before in or out of her alliance because the moves would be to break up the couples first. Oops, Daniele.

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Misguided Manatees:

• Pre-veto meeting, Kalia went to Brendon with a deal -- take Dominic and Adam off, put her and Lawon up with Lawon going home because she can't stand him.
• Ah, but was this something she hatched to protect Dominic and be in good graces with Daniele?
• Wanna bet?
• I'm not really getting Kalia's gameplay strategy.
• But she does sure snack a lot.
• As does Adam.
• Brendon and Jeff are totally upset with Daniele. Rachel ranges from confused to angry over her betrayal. Jordan is mad, but says "she's a nice girl."
• But Jordan says that about just about everyone.
• Well, at least she says it about the girls, that is.
• Brendon and Rachel told Lawon about Kalia's offer and that Daniele has also pushed for him to be nominated.
• He didn't seem surprised at all.
• Daniele told Brendon she'll be mad if Dominic goes.
• Get ready, mad woman!
• Brendon and Rachel told Daniele that if Jeff goes, it will only make the targets on their (his and Rachel's) backs bigger.
• She snapped and said it's okay, keep Jeff forever!
• That's fine by me.
• Daniele promised that if Dominic stays this week, he won't put up members of either couple if he wins HoH.
• Daniele told Brenchel to keep an eye on Shelly.
• Rachel later told Brendon that she does have doubts about Shelly.
• But I think Brendon is totally sold on Shelly.
• Then the veto meeting went down -- veto not used, Dominic and Adam remain on the block.
• Brendon and Rachel got Porsche to promise she won't put them on the block if she wins HoH this week (gold key winners will be in the comp).
• They also told her that they're sure Daniele is no longer in the alliance. Porsche didn't seem to care, said that Daniele hasn't talked game with her but once in the house. That was two days ago.
• Grr, Jeff. Be cool, dude -- he confronted Dominic telling him he (Dom) had made a stupid move in the game.
• Then he pressed Dominic to tell him who has been talking about backdooring him (Jeff).
• Now, I do know that it's been both Dominic and Daniele for the most part. However, the thought has probably crossed everybody's mind but Jordan's.
• Dominic claimed he was innocent and thinks they should have a house meeting to clear the air.
• I love house meetings -- they usually turn into brouhahas!
• A good solid brouhaha makes this all worthwhile.
• Meanwhile, Brendon enlists Adam's ear in a "we need to get Daniele out as quietly and quickly as possible" discussion.
• Adam, who's still coming across as a bit of a buffoon gamewise to me despite his superfan status, is agreeable.
• But then, the dude is agreeable to just about anything that doesn't have him going out the door.
• Brendon said that Daniele told him right in the beginning that she'd be fine with getting out her father the first week.
• Oh my.
• Of course, the feeds weren't on then, so I don't know if it's true or not.
• Instead of a good brouhaha, conversations turned to exciting stuff like yeast infections.
• Ew.
• The house meeting never happened.
• Dominic seemed more resigned as the evening went on. He's sure he's out the door this week.
• I'm kind of sad to see him go. If he hadn't hooked up with Daniele, he'd be one of the more interesting newbies.
• They all decided they (entire house) would do what they call a "skit" and I call a game.
• All of the guys were blindfolded except Lawon. He was dressed with a huge Afro wig and 70s superfly polyester as the host.
• It was a Bachelorette game -- He would ask a question and one of the girls would whisper the answer to him, then the guys had to guess which girl from the answer.
• Fun, fun, fun.
• So not a good bathroom duck puppets show or even the sock puppets from a few seasons back.
• Right now the veterans (all of them) are having a big meeting in the HoH room. So far it's mainly Jeff and Daniele talking. Daniele is pretty much defending herself while Jeff is pushing to get admissions about talk to backdoor him,
• The rest are basically just sitting there.
• Neither Daniele or Jeff are overly angry at the moment. Jeff wants the veterans to be the final five and can't understand why she'd split off from the group.
• He says he's baffled.
• Rachel takes up the cause and is actually handling it well.
• Daniele claims that she's loyal to the five.
• Liar liar pants on fire.
• I notice neither Brendon nor Rachel are bringing up the fact that Daniele approached them trying to get them to backdoor Jeff.
• So this isn't really clearing the air, nor will it be a good brouhaha unless that comes out.
• Ah, this is just going around in circles.
• I'll report any changes or brouhahas if indeed they occur.
• They didn't buy Daniele's act.
  
• There ya go.
  

When Brendon met Rachel

Smokin' hot

Pre-"skit"

Better than palm trees or fish
You can actually see the people move around!

Big Brother 13 Live Feeds Bulletin - PoV Meeting

After a feeds block for the veto meeting, the news is out -- Brendon did NOT use the veto. Dominic and Adam remain on the block.

Dominic and Daniele still think Adam will go.

But he won't.

At least not this week.

Big Brother 13 Live Feeds Into Monday Dawn 7/25

Daniele is screwing her game up big time.

Another day in the house, another nail in Daniel's game coffin. Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Harried Hamsters:

• What a shame Dick left, if for no other reason than to keep Daniele's game intact.
• She's making big moves way too soon, alienating her original alliance who are indeed the strongest game players in a weak house.
• True, she teamed up with the best of the weak hamsters (Dominic), but now it appears she's sunk his game as well as her own.
• Daniele is still running around pushing the backdoor Jeff plan.
• Alas, Jeff knows she's doing it. So does Jordan ... and Brendon and Rachel, too.
• Oh yeah, Daniele's betrayal to the alliance has created rifts at first between Jeff/Jordan and Rachel/Brendon.
  
• But they seem to be on the same page realizing that Daniele has basically turned on them all thinking if she's next to Brendon or Rachel at the end, she'd win.
• Well, maybe.
  
• So the four think she's got to go next week if she wins HoH.
• The plan remains for Rachel NOT to use the veto today and they (Brendon, Jeff, Jordan, Shelly and ???) will vote out Dominic.
• They have the tie at four votes, then it's Rachel the tiebreaker coming into play. She'd vote out Dominic.
• Yet the Daniele Camp (Daniele, Dominic, ???) think Brendon and Rachel might actually backdoor Jordan and Jeff with Jeff being the target.
• If the backdoor doesn't happen, they're sure Adam is the target, not Dominic.
• Heh.
• On an annoying note, for a small-chested gal, Daniele is constantly adjusting her bra. Knock that off.
• Porsche, Kalia, Adam and Lawon continue to be almost ghosts in the machinery here. It's hard to tell their game or if they have one at all. Of the three, it's been Adam making lackluster moves to befriend Brenchel.
• Porsche may vote with the veterans, but definitely has a crush on Dominic.
• That doesn't do her any good when Daniele has him wrapped around her little finger.
• Oh. Did I mention that Brendon was condescending and lecturing Rachel again, and even raising his voice?
• And that Rachel got defensive and cried once again?
• And that they had make-up sex again?
• Sorry to ruin your breakfast.
• Jeff is growing more ticked by the minute with Daniele.
• I expect the fur to fly when they have the PoV meeting later today and the nominations remain the same.
• Actually, I'll miss Dominic. I like the kid and he has more game than Adam or Kalia ... but that's the way the hamsters fall.
  

Lawon is sitting pretty in his pink shorts.

Hammock talk

Summit meeting

If there was audio, you'd know why he's exiled.