Big Brother 15: Live Feeds Into the Evening, 4th of July

He's a grand old flag ...

First, I hope everyone reading this has had a fine 4th of July holiday! However, I'm sure you've been waiting with bated breath wondering what mischief  those rascally hamsters have been up to today. Right? Right?

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Broken Dreams and Half-hashed Schemes:

• I announced it on my Facebook page for the show, but I'll tell you here, too. Due to popular response, for the rest of the time Howard is in the house, I'll be posting a Howard-a-Day screencap of him at least daily, perhaps in more than one live feed report of the day.
• I do have two shots of Howard in tonight's report. One was because I found it interesting, one is classified as a Howard-a-Day.
• Speaking of Howard, he also told Aaryn he voted to evict Elissa.
• Dang, if all the people who told Aaryn they voted to evict Elissa did, David would have been super-safe!
• Aaryn didn't dispute it with Howard, but told Jeremy she doesn't believe Howard voted to evict Elissa.
• Aaryn thinks her alliance is a powerhouse.
• Yeah. Really. She thinks that! Heehee!
• She and Jeremy think Nick voted to evict David. Of course, he has said he hasn't. But he did!
• Aaryn is blaming all the problems on Elissa.
• GinaMarie told Elissa that Nick and her are just friends -- he's here to play the game, not hook up.
• She apologized for being mean to Elissa. Like that apology means anything!
• Elissa told her that she'd like for Aaryn to stop personally attacking her.
• But, if Aaryn is personally attacking Elissa, she has less time to come up with hate speech!
• McCrae told Amanda she has to work her way in better with Aaryn and the bunch as, if she (Amanda) goes on the block, she'll probably go home.
• Aaryn thinks it's fitting that she's the HoH on the 4th of July because she's "the All American Girl."
• Oh, gag me now. Please.
• Andy reported to McCrae that Aaryn and Kaitlin are getting skeptical about Nick and think he's playing them.
• Aaryn is also skeptical of her buddy, GinaMarie.
• GinaMarie tired to worm her way in with Helen and Elissa.
• They're a bit skeptical of her, too.
• I'm skeptical about practically everyone in the habitrail. Don't I count?
• Amanda told Aaryn she's worried about going up on the block.
• Aaryn and Kaitlin told her both her and McCrae are safe -- their names hadn't even really come up as any kind of target.
• Aaryn and Jeremy are both still big on an Elissa ouster.
• Oh gee, Aaryn had to run to the bathroom because she's ill.
• I feel so bad for her.
• See. I can lie, too!
• McCrae tried to work his way in with Aaryn, claiming that everyone threw him under the bus by voting David out.
• Since he didn't have a vote, his hands are indeed clean on this one.
• As far as she knows, anyway.
• Using makeup, Amanda painted a flag on McCrae's face.
• Since it's the 4th of July (and there's a big thing going on at the CBS lot), the hamsters are on indoor lockdown for the evening. 
• The good news is that BB is giving them a holiday feast.
• The even better news is that the Have Nots will be able to eat at the feast!
• Jeremy told Aaryn that Candice told him that Amanda was the mastermind of the plan to get out David.
• Y'know, he reminds me a bit of Russell Hantz wanting to stir the pot.
• He wants Aaryn to nominate Elissa and Amanda, with Elissa being the main target.
• Kaitlin got sick and supposedly had blood in her urine. Now, that's a bit concerning. Aaryn was just throwing up sick, possibly nerves or stress.
• Kaitlin went off to the Diary Room.
• Elissa told Judd she will nominate Jeremy if she gets MVP.
• Aaryn is worried that she'll get death threats for messing with Elissa.
• She should be more worried about having enough quarters to collect unemployment.
• Helen had a long talk with Aaryn, trying for a "do-over."
• Aaryn wants Helen to make Elissa stop picking on her.
• Oh geez.
• Aaryn and Kaitlin think Jessie told Amanda that she was being considered for nomination.
• Oh, yeah. Kaitlin seems to have lived.
• Candice cried, telling Helen she thinks Spencer set her up with the Elissa vote snafu.
• Judd told McCrae that Nick has physically threatened him over nominations.
• Hmm.
• Spencer and Howard think GinaMarie should go on the block.
• One thing I've noticed in all of this ring around the rosy nominations possibilities ... no one is throwing Howard's name in there.
• Howard-a-Day goes on!

Still annoying

Golly gee, I AM a doofus!

Private bible study

Aw, she's sick. Too bad, so sad.

Howard-a-Day

The start

Big Brother 15: Rob Has a Podcast (featuring Ian Terry)

Although quite long, I really enjoyed Rob Cesternino's podcast from after last night's show. I love getting Ian's take on the house happenings! My one real fuss is the live-feeder. Albeit very knowledgeable, could he be any more monotone? Yikes!

Check it out!

Big Brother 15: Live Feeds Overnight into the 4th of July

The new HoH ... WAH!

Yeah, Aaryn cried a lot after getting the Hoh-dom. I'm sure there were tears across the nation. Or, perhaps just frustration. If you haven't already, go read my last post about the HoH comp, then come back. I'll wait.

You're back? Good! Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Hateful Hamsters:

• Just to recap a bit -- Jeremy and Aaryn won the HoH comp. Jeremy gave the HoHship to Aaryn. That's probably a fairly smart move on his part. He can still "advise" her on nominations, yet his hands remain clean.
• Or, as clean as they can be when he wipes hats belonging to other people on his butt.
• Aaryn got to choose the Have Nots. She chose Helen, Andy, Candice and Elissa.
• McCrae apparently volunteered to be a Have Not, but she didn't take him up on the offer. All of the Have Not choice stuff was blocked to the feeds.
• Aaryn said that Jeremy and Kaitlin can spend the first night up in the HoH room.
• As per the MC plan, the "hinky" votes have the house in an uproar.
• Both Spencer and David repeatedly lie and even embellish some on how loyal they were to voting out Elissa.
• Aaryn cried. She has no clue who can be trusted and who betrayed her.
• Poor hateful little baby. My heart goes out to her. Not.
• Andy admitted to Aaryn he voted to send David home. She respects that (she says) because he's being honest with her.
• Candice, on the other hand, did vote to oust Elissa yet is one of Aaryn's chief suspects in voting David out.
• Aaryn cried some more.
• Candice told her that she wanted to vote with the house and was told by (will not tell Aaryn) that someone would come to her and tell her how to vote. (That someone who told her someone would come was Helen.)
• The someone who came to her was Spencer. He told her they were all voting Elissa out. So, because she wanted to be with the house vote, she voted to keep David in, get Elissa out.
• Aaryn told Candice she believes her.
• But she really doesn't.
• Yet Aaryn is so sure that both Nick and Spencer voted to evict Elissa! So, those two votes in her mind had to be others betraying her!
• Jessie ran into the photo booth crying that she was sure she was going home.
• GinaMarie fussed with her paw, saying she hurt it in the comp when she fell. It turned out she sprained her claw finger.
• I think they're all bearing new bruises and scrapes when they already had some starting out in the comp.
• Helen told Howard that Spencer told Candice to evict Elissa. Howard told her he was supposed to tell her to evict David. They both think Spencer is playing them all.
• He is.
• Helen told Elissa they need to put on brave fronts and not let Aaryn get any satisfaction about making them Have Nots once again.
• Elissa told Helen that if they're together on the block, she'll volunteer to go home so Helen can stay.
• Hmm. Not QUITE like her sister although the editing on the show makes her seem very much like Rachel.
• Of all people, Jeremy seems to be running around trying to do damage control with crying women.
• GinaMarie told Aaryn that she's sure Nick voted with them to keep David in the house.
• Once again, the shocker is that Jeremy kept saying "That was last week. It's over. This is this week we need to think about."
• Oh my. I'm not going to let him worm into my mind that he might have a lick of common sense. The last time I thought that he stole wine and wiped Elissa's hat on his naked butt.
• Candice told Andy and McCrae that she knows Spencer had to vote to evict David despite his act.
• She's right.
• Aaryn thinks if she weren't HoH this week, she'd be going home.
• She's probably right. Little does she know her mouth has cost her not one, but two jobs. Oopsie!
• Aaryn is worried that if she puts Elissa on the block and Elissa is once again MVP, she'll put someone weak up that she can beat in PoV.
• Jeremy tried to tell Aaryn they should all sleep on things overnight and make nominations decisions when everything has calmed a bit.
• Hmm.
• Oh, but then he claimed that McCrae got "Jew'd" because Elissa stayed.
• Okay, he's still a jerk. I feel better now.
• Candice told Helen she heard the audience boo when she made her vote.
• Helen told Candice that she thinks Spencer and Jeremy might be working together and having them (Helen, Candice) do their dirty work by giving them conflicting voting target information.
• They then end up thinking it's Spencer, Nick and Jeremy ... perhaps Howard in on it.
• Smart cookies, those gals. Now, what are they going to do with their suspicions? What can they do?
• Spencer told Helen he told Candice IF ASKED to say she voted for Elissa to go, not to actually vote for Elissa to go.
• Yeah, right.
• Who wants to see my HoH?
• No one. Go away.
• Er. Ahem.
• They all put on the traditional fake act.
• Her letter started out with "My dear little princess ..."
• No wonder she's so whacked.
• GinaMarie cried because Elissa is still in the house. Now she's saying she has an eating disorder and BB is making it worse. @@
• Jeremy told Aaryn she could put him on the block because he'll surely win PoV. He pushes her for a Helen/Elissa nomination.
• I thought he said "sleep on it" before?
• Kaitlin told Aaryn the fact that the audience boo'd her when she voted to evict Elissa is scary.
• They really should soundproof that place a bit better, I say!
• Heh. Aaryn thinks she "better get a good job" after all this. BWAHAHAHA!
• BB gave them booze. There was no wine-gate this time.
• (Sidenote: Argh. My upstairs neighbor is either running in place or jump-roping up there. Who does he think he is? Helen?)
• Kaitlin is sure that if Elissa wins MVP again, she'll put her on the block because she (Elissa) called her a "whore" on national television.
• Um. Okay. I think Elissa might have bigger fish to fry. But maybe.
• Aaryn called America "stupid" and tossed out an expletive at us.
• How to win friends and influence people, eh?
• Aaryn also said that GinaMarie doesn't even realize that Nick is a "queer."
• Now, in my mind, I see her flitting about singing, "Pretty, I'm so pretty ..." But she'd probably gag when the line about "Pretty, and witty, and gay" came up.
• Aaryn is a bad example of today's youth. I don't know what else to say about her. A pretty package, but ugly within.
• They're all sleeping as I get this posted.

Howard-a-Day

GinaMarie has an ouchie

Why did I do this? I'm not her!

I'm surrounded by weirdos, must smile

Big Brother 15: First Endurance HoH Comp of the season - 7/03

Well, it's actually more like a slip and slide than an actual endurance. It's going to be a LONG comp ... so, it's endurance on our part!

As I type this, the feeds are still blocked. But when they come back up, I'll keep up with the comp posting screencaps and the eventual winner. It's going to be a long night, for sure.

The feeds are still blocked at 9:14pm ET, but here are the pairs:

Nick/Judd
Spencer/Helen
Andy/Elissa 
Kaitlin/Amanda
Jeremy/Aaryn
Jessie/Howard
Candice/GinaMarie

9:25pm ET and still no feeds for the comp. What's up with that?

9:29 and we have audio ...!

9:32pm ET and we lost the audio. We never had video except for trivia. Someone (Nick?) said something about "exactly halfway." But since we had trivia, I don't know.

Up and running at 9:34pm ET

Amanda/Kaitlin doing well

Nick and Judd filled the smaller jug to get the bigger scoops. But will they catch up?

Nick and Judd

We're back to blocked feeds and trivia. I couldn't see all the hamsters. But it appeared that Amanda and Kaitlin were doing quite well.

9:49pm ET - Feeds back. Andy and Elissa also doing very well! Uh-oh, so are Aaryn and Jeremy. Eep.

9:53pm ET

9:55pm ET - Feeds are blocked with trivia again. Grr.

OH NOES! 10:01pm ET -- JEREMY GOT THE BALL. Rats. Andy was SO close! Either Jeremy or Aaryn will be the new HoH. When I know, you'll know.

ARGH!

There's bound to be some controversy because Jeremy used his hands instead of a cup, but I imagine they'll remain the winners.

Wah.

Aaryn, who's almost lost her voice, is trying to get people to confess to voting out David. Jeremy, for once showing smarts, says that was last week, this is this week; time to move on.

Somehow, Elissa, Helen, Andy and Candice are Have Nots. McCrae volunteered to be one, but didn't get chosen. I guess Jeremy or Aaryn named the Have Nots.
Spencer is denying voting for David to leave way too much.

I just heard Jeremy say "if I got HoH." Uh-oh. I think he gave it to Aaryn.

Yes, CONFIRMED ... AARYN is HoH.

Big Brother 15: Live Eviction Show Blog Party - 7/03

If you're following the scorecard, by the end of this evening, it will be one evicted, two fired. If you're unaware of what I'm talking about, check out my last post.

As the show airs here on the East Coast, I'll update this post with major happenings -- refresh the page to get the latest news!

But, as always, the real party is in the comments area. Come join us!

The pool picks are (if you've forgotten your hamster or want to forget your hamster:

Aaryn - QuixoticElf, Isabelle, April Weaver, Donna in FL

Amanda - Petals, JimmyB, Barb S., PDX Granny

Andy - Nickelpeed, jessica Underwood, Patti, Brent McKee

Candice - Terry is a Texan!, Shannon (purrbal), cloverandthetwins, Michelle C

David - Sally, DebbieD, Sharon S, SSW

Elissa - theresa jordan, Caela, jo, Ninboh

GinaMarie - Merrlee, Jackie, Cheryl, EileenM

Helen - Dr_Celine, Sasha, Buzzmaam, RBennie

Howard - Glenn, Jennasmom, ORKMommy, Aya

Jeremy - Tami, JonMD1267, lynn1, Delee, JOKATS

Jessie - Margo, Janice from GA, Pearlgarden, Dave B.

Judd - Lili, SueGee, Karen in CaliforniaHer, Ed in Ohio, Marlol

Kaitlin - DKNYNC, Jillian's mom, BloggyMom, Billy

McCrae - Tammy, gaylos, Chacha, Joey

Nick - Witt, MikesGirl, Brian, poodlepam, Brenda

Spencer - Becky, monty924, Chris (chrob61), Carrie

Ah, they're going to show part of the brouhaha over the wine. Showing the showmances and the idea of keeping Elissa to "weaponize" her with the power of the MVP nom each week.

The three noms get a brief statement. Jessie, happy birthday dad, great week. Elissa - target since day one, keep target around, no one comes between me and my BB game. David - stand up guy, will wear pink dress again.

The vote:
Amanda - David
Aaryn - Elissa
Nick - David
Candice - Elissa
Spencer - David
Kaitlin - Elissa

More after commercial ...

Helen - David
Howard - David
GinaMarie - Elissa
Judd - David
Jeremy - Elissa
Andy - David

Julie tells them David is evicted ... Aaryn is stunned. She looks like a zombie.

David did his interview with Julie. The dude is SO clueless.

BBMVP voting is announced.

HoH comp time! Tomorrow is the 4th of July -- BB BBQ, picked balls out of a bag to pick a partner. Fill cup of BBQ sauce, down lane to partner, first one to remove ping pong ball from jug wins. Small jug has two cups for the team to remove the ball more quickly. The winning pair must decide amongst themselves which will be HoH.

Ah, an endurance. I'll post an update post when the feeds come up and keep you updated!