Big Brother 13 Live Feeds Into Wednesday Morning 8/24

Eating the forbidden apple (cookie)?

This season is getting very perplexing. I demand a do-over with no returning hamsters! What? It's too late for that? Sigh.

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Nervous Ne'er-do-wells:

• Starting Monday night, it was time for BB to start bringing out the badminton set and dollar store arts and crafts.
• Whoopee.
• They did make neat little bendy people. Surprise, surprise ... Porsche is good at something!
• Yesterday was another day of extreme pleading and pawing the walls for Daniele.
• I personally would rather Daniele stay than Kalia, but it's not anything related to the game.
• Sure, Daniele does make the game a bit more competitive.
• But that's not it.
• On the feeds, Kalia drives me up the wall with a host of odd little things she does.
• She's already been threatened by BB with a penalty nom for her incessant singing.
• If she isn't singing, she's whistling.
• If she isn't singing or whistling, she's tapping or practicing making odd faces.
• When she's not doing any of those things, she's pulling loose hairs from her head and tossing them on the floor. I'm not talking one strand, mind you.
• Atop of all those habits, she talks all the time and at about 100 MPH.
• But enough of that.
  
• Daniele has managed to sway Shelly, but will it stick?
• Shelly worked and worked on Adam to no avail.
• He wants to stick to Jeff and Jordan.
• Shelly even tried to work on Rachel.
• Yes, you heard me.
• More along the lines of keeping Daniele over Kalia, not jumping alliance ship, that is.
• There was EGG DRAMA in the house when BB gave them an Easter egg coloring kit.
• Um ... wouldn't that have expired by now?
• Rachel wanted to decorate some of the lots and lots of already hard-boiled eggs the Have Nots have.
• Kalia didn't want her to. She claims the dye seeps into the eggs and wanted Rachel to make her own boiled eggs.
• @@
• It was all but a brouhaha!
• They ended up using Have Not eggs, but not without resentment and discontent.
• As things stand right now, it looks like Daniele will not have the votes to stay.
• If Shelly is smart, she'll vote with her alliance rather than expose herself as a target sleeping with the enemy.
• I should mention that Daniele was sneaking a cookie under the covers last night.
  
• That's my top screen cap.
• That, of course, technically should be a penalty vote.
• Wanna bet BB won't do anything about it?
  

Jeff surrounded by melon and blue

Getting one of those tans which will turn to leather.

In the shade

Being craftsy

Adam chugs, Jeff and Jordan hug.

Rachel's glass is more full, but not of optimism.

Big Brother 13 Live Feeds Into Monday Night 8/22

Not a good birthday week!

After such a boring yesterday full of haircuts, hair dyes and "what if" scenarios, the doodoo hit the fan today. Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Swirling Dervishes:

• As I posted earlier, Jeff saved Porsche and put Daniele up in her place.
• He kept Kalia up there mainly due to his earlier vow that if she put him on the block, he'd put her up.
• Although Kalia and Daniele had worked on Jeff to put Rachel up, we knew that wouldn't happen.
• This is a good game move for Jeff, especially if the votes hang in and Daniele actually goes. She's probably the strongest and most driven competitor in the house.
• However, she's also a shrewd manipulator.
• She's already working on Adam and Shelly, not only for the vote but to get them to see that they don't stand a chance with Jeff and Jordan in the end.
• Adam is always hard to read, but I think he's just thinking now with no clear promises to anyone.
• Meanwhile, Shelly told Daniele she would vote for her to stay.
• Daniele worked up the previous Jordan winnings, Jeff's won money already this season and more.
• Shelly once again said she wasn't there for the money although she'd like the win.
• In the past she has mentioned she doesn't receive her stipend, then production cut the feeds.
• This time she got the whole bit out ...
• ... she gives her stipend to HER COMPANY every week as a "thank you for letting her be on the show"!!!
• (And I'm NOT a multiple exclamation point user!)
• What the heck is up with that?
• Is that even legal?
• Of course, this is from a woman in this day and age who hasn't heard of pita chips. @@
  
• Kalia is working on Adam and Shelly, too.
• But she doesn't quite have the power of persuasion that Daniele does.
• While ten days ago, they were thinking this week would be the double eviction, now they think it's next week.
• Oopsie!
• Unrelated I know, but Adam's standing moving back and forth from one foot to the other while everyone else sits, bugs me.
• Either stand still or sit! It's as bad as Shelly zooming around cleaning when they're on lockdown.
• Right now, there's mistrust all over the house.
• Rachel, unfortunately, is sitting pretty with Jeff and Jordan.
• Shelly and Adam might flip, it's hard to tell.
• Actually they might do better teaming up with Kalia or Daniele and Porsche, numberswise.
• But they still suck at comps.
• That's where we stand for now -- a ball of confusion in a spool of lies.
• Good.
  

Sit down already!

How to change your clothes on the Internet

PLEASE get her out before the final two!

Big Brother 13 Live Feeds Power of Veto Meeting Bulletin

Jeff took Porsche off the block ...

... and replaced her with Daniele.

Big Brother 13 HoH Completion/Nominations Show Blog Party

Tonight's show won't air here in the NYC viewing area until after the Jets game (which started at 7 PM). So, they're saying 10 PM, but who knows? There are sites online with the east coast feed, so that might work. Anyway, I'm getting this post itself up on time and ask folks to give brief updates if the show is airing on time in your area.

Jeff won HoH,
Kalia and Porsche are on the block.

Off Topic - That Was the Week It Was - August 21, 2011

It's Sunday morning, time for my weekly off television topic look at the week gone by in both words and photos I've taken. If you're looking for BB13 content, check out the post before this one and the one after it (once I get that one written!).

I've not had a good week. I realize the week before wasn't great either with injuring my knee and setting back the recovery. Well, this past week was even worse ... starting last Sunday afternoon. I had the most awful stomach virus I've ever had in my life. I'm still not quite over it.

I had to cancel my orthopedic surgeon's appointment I had for Monday. So I scheduled it for Friday as surely I would be better. Well, I lived through the trip, but that's about it. I was weak, sweaty and shaky all the time I was outside. The good news is that he checked out the knee without all of its swelling from the week before and declared it well enough to go back to physical therapy.

So I only left the house one day this week. I actually got a few decent photos (I think). Clicking on an image will open it larger in a new window.

Mushroom

Bees in a flower

I have no clue what kind of bees these are -- they're very small with green heads.

Whazzat?

Hmm ... is that a vintage Rolls Royce sitting at the traffic light of Union and Mountain Avenues in Bound Brook? The driver is on the wrong side!

Why yes, yes it is.

I wonder what year it is?

Oh 49 Rolls

Thank you, sir.

Bingo neon

I keep trying to get a decent shot of this sign from the bus. It's on West 7th Street (if it's still West 7th) in Plainfield or maybe just over the border into Piscataway. I love old neon.

A pet peeve of mine

PLURALS DON'T HAVE APOSTROPHES. Unless Saturday is possessive, there should be NO apostrophe. Who started that apostrophe stuff? I see it all over the Internet. That was drilled into me in grammar school. You don't want to get me going on it's and its.

Sad closing

What? Two Fish and Five Loaves is closed? They've been a fixture for years in downtown Plainfield. I've had their fried whiting sandwiches on more than a few occasions. Sad.

Sprouting fungi at the base of a tree

We've had so much rain this past week that I'm surprised they're not sprouting on people who stay still too long.

A carpenter bee is looking at me!

Slithery creepy bug

As long as YOU are comfortable, Vincent!

I have this set-up next to my computer chair so I can elevate my knee(s). You see, if I sit with my legs down for any long periods of time, the healing knee swells and gets painful. Of course, Vincent thinks it means he can sprawl over both of my legs. He's lucky he's so darn cute!