Big Brother 14: Live Feeds Overnight Into Sunday - Aug. 25-26

It looks like Dan's days are numbered

It's crunch time for the hamsters. They know it. Yesterday's reward/punishment comp results are in full bloom. Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of You Wanted to be a Hamster:

• Previously on Jackie's TV Blog ...
• Jenn won PoV, but has to be on slop for the remainder of her time in the house. She also had to burn the skirt she's been wearing all season.
• Frank got disqualified (thus allowing Jenn to win), supposedly for some sort of cheating. He said he was sorry and shouldn't have said anything to her. (?) He has to wear a carrot costume for a week and take chum baths at BB request for 24 hours. He also can't compete for HoH this week or next. This week as he's outgoing, next week due to the comp.
• Britney has to be shackled to Danielle for 24 hours. She could choose the hamster and they're leg shackles with perhaps three feet between them.
• Danielle got "painted" and, of course, is shackled to Britney.
• Dan is in solitary confinement with industrial/techno disco beats and music pumping. He has cake, matzo and water. The music stops now and again, but the disco lights keep going.
• Shane apparently did absolutely nothing in the comp. He has no punishments, he won no veto.
• There. That's your recap. Onto the newest happenings ...
• In between music blasts and through the door, Dan apologized to Britney for letting her down in the comp. Danielle thinks he's mad at her. Huh. He didn't even respond to her, so maybe he is.
• He also said the Diary Room called him "emotional." That's not like Dan.
• Loud, animated, perhaps. Emotional, rarely if ever.
• The ONLY reward in the comp was the veto. No prizes for anyone. It worked on a point system for what they agreed to do.
• Frank told Danielle and Britney that Jenn won't be using the veto.
• He also told them he wants Joe and Dan out.
• Meanwhile, both Joe and Jenn are not surprisingly floating to Frank.
• Whichever way the wind blows for those two, eh?
• Through the door, Dan told Joe that he was okay with how things went down. He didn't think Frank should have been disqualified and wouldn't have felt right winning it that way.
• Joe told Frank he has his support through his two weeks of no HoH comp playing.
• Frank and Joe had a long talk about Ian. Frank is already pondering "when to cut him loose" and Joe likes Ian just about as much as Ian likes Joe.
• One thing which bothers me when Frank talks game with others -- he always projects himself as the winner. Others just talk final two and don't go there.
• He says that no one should be able to win against him in the final two.
• Joe encouraged that and said he'd be happy with the 50 grand.
• Joe confronted Ian about all the "cuss words" he said on the live show.
• Now, that's the pot calling the kettle black.
• The only ones WITHOUT potty mouths in the house are Britney, Danielle, Dan and Shane. I'm talking current hamsters.
• Frank and Ian, it's about every other word.
• Not cool, I say. I realize it's a habit, but they need to drop that bad habit like a hot potato.
• Speaking of speech patterns, it annoys me every time Frank calls another guy "son." He called Boogie that and Boogie is older than him. I find it condescending. You might call a small boy son, but not your co-workers or fellow hamsters. Knock it off, Frank.
• There's no time pattern I can discern with Frank's chum baths, unlike Brendon's hourly ones last year.
• This year the chum is red smelly goop.
• Joe's been hoarding his beers thinking he could use them as a bribe to stay off the block or for a vote.
• He was the one who wanted to trade his vote to JoJo for cigarettes.
• Dan started ignoring people at the door. I feel sad for him.
• Ian needs to calm his ego down, go back to rocking on the hammock. He's attracting too much gaming attention.
• Frank thinks that once Dan is gone, the target will be off him.
• Um. No. Everyone will want him out because if he does make it to the final two after the game he's been through, he'd probably unanimously win.
• At one point, Britney and Danielle were unshackled at the table. Danielle said something about having to go back to the Diary Room to be reshackled before the live feeders blow up.
• Hmm.
• Joe seems to think he's getting buff. Yet he doesn't work out with the boys.
• Nor does Ian, per se. He walks with the girls.
• Britney told Danielle she doesn't think Frank could win in the final two.
• True, if they're not voting for who played the game best, he couldn't. 
• Although I'm not really a Frank fan, I'd say if he made it to the final two, he'd deserve to win. The guy has really been up against all kinds of odds and beat them all.
• But if BB had not interfered and let him stay when he was voted out the week of the coaches into the game, he wouldn't be here today.
• Aha, now Britney is agreeing with me -- he'd be the most deserving.
• I feel redeemed.
• Joe thinks he's safe this week. I'm not as sure about that as he is.
• Joe told Frank he's worried about Ian winning another HoH. "The boy's got Hitler in him. The boy's got the devil in him."
• Frank went through nearly five hours without the chum signal. But then it got fairly rapid.
• He begged BB to let him rest an hour without it going off.
• He should have slept during the first rest, eh?
• Unbelievably, Dan looks like he's actually sleeping with that music and the lights.
• Not well, but at least napping.
• There ya go ... 

Shackle Mates

In many primate species, grooming is done for fleas

Time for a chum bath!

Yes, Jenn is still in the house

The comp turned Danielle into a cute little doggie

Cruel and unusual punishment, for sure!

Off Topic: That Was the Week It Was - August 26, 2012

Good Sunday morning to you! Since it's Sunday morning, it's time for my weekly off television topic reflection on the week gone by in both words and photographs I've taken. If you're looking for the latest on Big Brother, you can see all of those posts using this link. I'll be writing up the overnight events soon. If you want to stick around, feel free to do so. If you're not interested, I totally understand.

The weather has been what summer should be instead of tropical. But we really can't forget (in this area) that we're coming up on the anniversary of the Hurricane Irene hit. Last year I was recovering from my knee surgery and, other than being without power for a few days, the hurricane didn't personally affect me so much after the waters on my street receded. I hope this hurricane season goes easy on everyone. 

A side thought -- who was the genius who planned the Republican Convention in Florida at what's usually the height of the hurricane season? Duh!

Although we've had little rain this past week, the mosquitos are out and about. I haven't been bit by one for a good ten years locally (in the Outer Banks last year, I was their daily meal), then a bite on the wrist a few weeks back. Now, in one evening, I have a bite below the elbow and one on my butt. Yes, you read that right! I seem to be having really bad reactions to the bites as far as inflammation and swelling go. Not cool. It's like I have a second elbow! And ...

"Does this mosquito bite make my butt look big?"

Couple that with the fact that I saw a dead bird on the sidewalk by the Union County College Campus, I'm leery of the mosquitos. Supposedly, dead birds can be indicative of West Nile Virus. This bird didn't look like it suffered any trauma from an automobile or hawk. I was on my way to the train station and hope that, since it's a college, they had it tested. Since there has been nothing in the news, I'm guessing they just threw it away or did have it tested and it tested negative. No, I'm not feeling ill. I'm fine. I just have a second elbow on my right arm and a big butt.

Other than that, it's been life as usual -- work, BB live feeds reports, sleep very little, eat (probably more than I should), rinse and repeat. For some reason, most of my photos are bugs this week. They gave me the best fodder. I met two different butterflies in the same spot two days in a row, thus I have two butterfly series in this post. 

Eastern Swallowtail

I met this male Eastern Swallowtail butterfly yesterday on my way to work. I know it's a male as it has very little blue on the wings. Yes, I Googled them. Bridgewater, NJ.

Monarch

The day before (Friday), I met a Monarch butterfly in just about the same spot on the same bush. 

**HIT THE 'READ MORE' LINK TO SEE THE REST OF THE PHOTOS**

Big Brother 14: Live Feeds PoV Bulletin - Aug. 25

Frank is a carrot

The feeds finally came back after the PoV comp block. It was the reward/punishment comp.

• Frank is a carrot.
• Dan has to be in solitary for 24 hours in the Have Not room
• Britney and Danielle have to be shackled together for 24 hours.
• Dan's Have Not has an electronic "solitary" techno music thing pumping a beat, industrial techno music and disco lights.
• He's not allowed to talk to anyone ... but us and BB. He has cake. He has a portable toilet.
• He told himself (and us) he has 24 hours to figure out how he's going to spin this (stay).
• OMG.
• JENN won the Power of Veto.
• :::fainting:::
• Jenn says she will NOT be using the veto.
• Frank won't play in the next two HoH comps (first one because he's HoH, second due to the comp).
• Jenn is on slop for the rest of her time in the house.
• Frank also had to take chum baths.
• Frank was disqualified (cheating?), so Jenn won.

 

Dan in his techno industrial disco digs

Big Brother 14: Live Feeds Friday Evening/Saturday Dawn - Aug. 24-25

Eek! She sleeps in those eyes!

As he said earlier in the evening, Frank nominated Dan and Danielle for eviction this week. Not a surprise at all, I must say. Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Dysfunctional Decadence:

• Dan is worried that Joe and Jenn might have picked up on what he said to Ian during the Pandora's Box comp (re: ratting him out).
• He's also regretting acting out badly, unlike himself.
• Britney noticed that Ian's barely talked to Dan since the comp, if at all.
• They kept encountering messes they made while ripping the house apart looking for quarters for the ball machine.
• Frank told Britney he could work with her and Shane, maybe Danielle.
• Oh, please. Not Danielle.
• Ian and Dan did end up talking.
• Ian told Dan he didn't want to use his Veto ball to save anyone as Frank would put Britney up.
• Ian is definitely the most loyal with Britney.
• Ian told him he doesn't want to rock the boat more.
• Yeah, Ian's been rocking the boat and vote for weeks now. He probably could use a break.
• Britney tried to point out to Frank how "schemy" Joe has been and how he can't be trusted.
• Frank still thinks Dan tried to take his "dream" (winning the show) away from him.
• Yeah, like no one in that house has that same dream.
• Perhaps many were recruits and not show fans to begin with, but now that they're in the %#$ deep, they ALL have the "dream."
• I bet no one has the "dream" any more than Ian who's faithfully watched the show since he was ten years old.
• What's a ten year old doing watching this show?
• Never mind, I digress.
• Dan had a talk with Frank, pre-nom. He told him he understood totally that Frank will probably put him on the block. But, if he survives the week, no hard feelings -- he won't go after Frank.
• As a matter of fact, if he survives, he'd like to work with him and no one would suspect a thing if they kept up the enemies act.
• Dan is good. He knows he won't be able to talk Frank out of nominating him. But he's preparing for survival if he makes it through next Thursday, covering his bases.
• Britney told Frank she doesn't want to make any long term (final two) deals until she sees how the week pans out.
• Frank thinks Ian trusts Britney more than he trusts him.
• Ian does.
• That worries Frank.
• It should.
• Dan thinks that the Diary Room has been hinting to Ian that he shouldn't use the veto ball.
• Perhaps. But we also know that Frank threatened to put Britney on the block if Ian uses it.
• Britney is Ian's strongest ally in the game.
• Ian told both Britney and Dan the DR tried to talk him out of using the ball.
• Made up or fact? We really don't know, I guess.
• Jenn told Dan that she wants Danielle to stay.
• Sigh.
• Dan hasn't tried much to work his social game on Jenn. Now it's coming back to bite him.
• Britney complained that they never get any new choices in their groceries, same old stuff every week.
• Oh, too bad. I look at her put away the junk food and wished I could remain under 100 pounds with that appetite.
• Frank just about passed out in the HoH room. He's had a rough week, y'know. BB even let him ignore/sleep through Diary Room calls and skipped to the next hamster.
• Ian told the Quack Pack that the Diary Room wants him and Frank to work together.
• Fact or fiction?
• It could be an Ian lie to cover working with Frank or appearing to do so. 
• Or it could be real interference.
• Either way, we got the fish cam.
• Ian told Britney that Frank is entertaining the thought of putting up Joe or Jenn if Dan wins veto -- thus showing a good faith gesture.
• Ian and Britney don't think it would be horrible if Dan does go this week as it would allow the Quack Pack to work more with Frank without the huge Dan Target focused on them.
• Kind of like the witch cackling, "I'll get you and your little doggie, too." -- Frank wants Dan out and focuses his target on the group to hurt Dan if he doesn't get him.
• Joe told Britney he thinks Frank is going to backdoor Shane.
• Um. Okay, Joe.
• Shane and Danielle talked, decided they want Dan out, then put Ian and Joe on the block if one of them got HoH.
• Oh my.
• Danielle thinks that if Britney lasts until the end, she'll win because she has good personal relationships with everyone.
• It's called a good social game.
• Not that it helped Britney win in her own season, but ...!
• Britney told Danielle she has a deal with Frank to keep her (Britney) and Shane safe.
• Danielle ran and told Dan.
• Dan and Danielle agreed they need to get Shane and Britney out.
• Will it go 'round in circles?
• Dan said that if he doesn't win PoV, he's out this week.
• I'd prefer Danielle go.
• Please!
• They think the PoV comp might be rewards/punishment.
• In the wee hours, Jenn was up to some sort of strategical doings, using the balls from the Pandora's Box and studying the Memory Wall.
• "It will be a bloodbath and no one will know what hit them," she murmured before settling in to sleep.
• Hmm.

Duh. I'm still here. I can win comps!

Danielle's bookends

Britney is on game this season

We could have been adopted by NORMAL people!

Floaters conference

Big Brother 14: Friday Live Feeds Quick Update - Aug. 24

He has a ball

Okay, the feeds were blocked too long to be early nominations. Instead, it was Pandora's Box.

• Dan yelled at Ian or threatened to "rat his ass out."
• Britney and Frank said Dan was only interested in himself.
• They searched for quarters for the machine (with the ? cube) in the arcade room.
• Ian has a ball which says VETO and will not be eligible to play in the veto comp tomorrow.
• Frank got $3,000.
• Frank says he's going to put Dan and Danielle on the block and, if Ian saves one with the veto, Britney goes up.
• Ian said he won't use it.
• Dan is embarrassed because, as he told Danielle, he's never acted like that.
• Ian is upset because he's been such a liar and deceitful for 48 hours.
• Nominations should be later.
• Jenn and Joe seem to be floating through this one.
• Danielle can go home. 
• That's okay with me.
• :-)