Big Brother 15: Live Feeds Sunday into Monday - Sept. 1-2

It's not FAIR! GM is SO stupid!

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Amanda's Last Stand(a):

• Well, I can only HOPE it will be her last. I'm tired of hearing the same rants over and over again.
• Andy and Spencer don't particularly trust Judd but are willing to see what happens when the Exterminators hit the final four.
• They both think that everyone overestimates Judd, thinking he's some kind of mastermind of the game.
• I do think Judd's game-sense is a bit overestimated. However, his strength lies in the fact that he usually knows when to keep his mouth shut. Sure, he opened it and made himself a bit of a fool when he suggested McCrae save Amanda. But, overall, he has a quieter way of playing than most.
• Which is great because he mumbles so much!
• Amanda kept at campaigning for Elissa to go up as the replacement nominee. It's her new obsession.
• GinaMarie listens sympathetically, yet sticks to her guns. 
• As she promised to tell McCranda whether she'll put up Elissa as the re-nom or not by 10 or 11 on Sunday night, she told them.
• She will NOT be putting Elissa up. 
• Ha!
• GM refused to tell them who she will be putting up, but Amanda guessed (correctly) Spencer.
• Her case is that all will be against GM if she (Amanda) goes home.
• Nope.
• The only one who might be mad would be McCrae.
• Watching his body language, I think he just might think it's best for his own game that Amanda go. He knows that the power duo would have to go in the past. And, unless he and Amanda made it as far as the final three and won, they'd take the game.
• GinaMarie's theory is solid -- it does level out the playing field if everyone is technically on their own. Even the Exterminators basis is founded on that theory.
• GM denied over and over that she's working with Elissa.
• She was telling the truth. She's cooperating with Elissa in this nomination because it's more vital to her game to break up McCranda.
• After that, Elissa and McCrae remain her targets. Which one would she target first? Whichever she can. Same with the rest of the Exterminators ... even though the guys want out Elissa first.
• One of the many reasons Amanda doesn't want to go yet is because the experience is life-changing for her.
• We can only hope.
• McCrae told Spencer he's sure that it's over for Amanda this week.
• He's right.
• One of the many times that Amanda pleaded her case to GM, GM brought up the fact that Amanda wanted her on the block with Aaryn so that Aaryn would stay last week.
• Oopsie. Amanda just went on a different tangent.
• Amanda blames her own demise in the game on Elissa winning HoH and Judd returning to the game.
• Well, then she should have won HoH then, right?
• That's the game of BB ... if you want control, it's best to win comps. It's amazing that Amanda was able to have control of puppets so long so far.
• Dr. Will did that, but people honestly liked him, didn't fear his wrath.
• When you rule by fear, there will be a coup sooner or later.
• And I'm not talking a BB-planned coup d'etat.
• By the end of the night, Amanda seemed to accept she's going. It didn't take McCrae as long to figure it out.
• So, later today, it's fully expected that McCrae will save himself. Unbeknown to McCranda, Spencer has volunteered to go on the block as the re-nom so there will be no anger about him going up.
• Come Thursday, Amanda will be gone. 
• Bells will ring and small children will sing.

Amanda still trusts him

An Exterminator dance

Elissa does backflips

McCrae zones out while picking at his nails

Big Brother 15: Live Feeds Sunday into the evening - Sept. 1

Oh my. It's like she's doing a GM with her hair

Here's what's happened today inside that Big Brother House of Is This Season EVER Gonna End?:

• GinaMarie's foot is still in bad shape. I hope it's in better shape come Thursday for the second HoH comp. I'm thinking that one will be physical and go past air time.
• Judd and Elissa went over some of the comps and dates thinking it might be a memory HoH comp.
• Both also agreed that Andy can now be trusted more as he chose Amanda to do something in the PoV comp (which was blocked to the feeds).
• Elissa told Judd that he's going to have to make McCrae feel safe so he won't try as hard to campaign.
• Elissa can't because she figures McCrae, although he's never said much to her, hates her just because of Amanda.
• Judd told Amanda that if McCrae saved her with the veto and GM put Elissa on the block, people would vote out Elissa rather than McCrae.
• Um.
• No.
• Ain't gonna happen.
• Amanda immediately told McCrae and Andy that Judd was trying to fish for information with that proposal.
• Oh, dear Mandy ... right now Judd is way more in the loop than you are. He's just pulling your chains. That's kind of like pushing your buttons, but a lot quieter.
• The Sunday photo booth came alive. Much of this week was Exterminator poses.
• Amanda and McCrae decided to pretend that McCrae would use the veto to save her in order to make a deal with GinaMarie.
• Andy told McCrae he's distancing himself from him just in case Elissa wins HoH -- so they won't go on the block together for being in Cahoots.
• Have you ever been to Cahoots? I think it must be near Ho-Ho-Kus.
• Now I'm just being silly.
• As you were ...
• Andy told McCrae that if it's a double eviction this week, he wants Elissa out.
• Well, that's no big secret. About the only one not privy to that info is Elissa herself!
• McCrae told GM that he thinks he might have enough votes to stay if he takes Amanda off.
• Okay, that plan is in motion.
• But GM isn't taking the bait.
• Even when Amanda outright begged and promised the world, GM just kept saying that she hasn't decided yet.
• Later she told Elissa that there's no way she'll put up either her or Andy and that Spencer will probably be the re-nom.
• Remember, GM also previously promised Judd she wouldn't put him on the block and Spencer volunteered.
• Despite lots of counterintelligence and dodging and feinting ... it looks like the Exterminators plan is still in effect -- one of them (McCranda) will be going home.
• And it should be Amanda. I don't think McCrae would ever be stupid enough to save her with the veto while he remains on the block.
• Well, I suppose that could happen if he was distracted by his fingernails.
• Once Amanda is out, the second eviction target seems to be McCrae when the Exterminators talk amongst themselves or Elissa when they talk around McCrae. 
• Either one of them is expendable to the Exterminators. Neither one is in their final four plan, so must go.
• We'll see.

Still safe? I think so.

Sunday is photo booth day!

Exterminator chickens

Exterminator HoH with a rat nose

STOP CHEWING YOUR STUPID NAILS!!!

Big Brother 15: Nominations and "Fun Comp" Show Blog Party - September 1

Ah, tonight should be fun to watch. Shh ... I won't spoil it for those that don't follow the live feeds. As the show airs here on the East Coast, I'll update this entry with the major happenings. Refresh the page to get the latest news!

As always, the party is in the comments area. Come join us!

Dang! I forgot that the regular viewing audience (no feeds info) doesn't even know who won HoH. It seems like such old news to me. Oops. I should have put it in the blog entry title.

GM can't even get the name of her own alliance right! She called them the Terminators. It's the EXterminators!

GINAMARIE WON HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD! Spencer and Judd won the honor of wearing chicken suits for being the ones with the least eggs in the basket.

GM tells everyone except McCrae and Amanda that she's putting McCrae and Amanda on the block. Amanda and McCrae want her to put Judd and Elissa up. Ha.

Amanda keeps pushing her agenda on GM. GM keeps nodding, then hams it up for the camera. The HoH room reveal included another Nick photo.

After more Amanda hating on Elissa segment, the HG walk into the downstairs filled with huge balloon. A luxury comp with the winner to get ten grand. Spencer wins the money!

Nominations time. Key order: Andy, Spencer, Elissa, Judd. She kept her word -- McCranda is on the block.

Off Topic: That Was the Week It Was - September 1, 2013

Hey, all! It's Sunday morning, time for my weekly off television topic post reflecting on the week gone by in both words and photographs I've taken along the way. If you're looking for my latest post on the Big Brother show or live feeds, you can find that at this link. This off television topic photo post is something I do every Sunday year 'round. Thankfully, Big Brother isn't year 'round or I just might not survive!

Once again, I don't have all that much to report here. The weather's been muggy most of the week. I don't like muggy. I'd say I don't do muggy but I don't have much choice in the matter.

I do see some rest on the horizon -- I have two four-day work weeks ahead of me, then a staycation for my birthday week, the season finale of Big Brother and the start of Survivor. It's going to be amazing to not cope with only three or four hours of sleep a night. I forgot what that's like. And, today I can actually nap all day if I want as I'm off tomorrow for the holiday! Yay.

On the home front, all is well. No one stole my newspaper this morning, but it was delivered much later than it has been in the past. Usually it's out there by 5:30am. Today I found it on my fourth trip down at about 7:30. Maybe that's what happened last week. I might have given up on it too early and someone eventually did snag it. I don't use the front door of the apartment building, so it might have happened that way. Oh, well. At least during one of the trips I dropped off my rent in the secure mail slot doohickey for the landlord. It had that huge $5 increase for the new lease.

Onto this week's photos ...

Here's lookin' at you, kid

I ended up having a fantastic photo session with a praying mantis this week. More photos of her (I think her) after the jump.

A cacophony of flowers

These are going amok this year at the house on the corner of Richmond and East Front in Plainfield.

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

Big Brother 15: Live Feeds Overnight Saturday into Sunday - August 31 - Sept. 1

The cat hat is looking a bit ratsy

Oh, wait. That's ANDY. Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Unlikeable Rodents:

• McCrae thinks that GM putting them (himself and Amanda) on the block was a good move, but that it would associate GinaMarie with Elissa when it comes to jury. He thinks it would have been better for her to work with them.
• Well, of course he thinks that way.
• Amanda claims she doesn't want to be blindsided, she wants to know if she's going.
• Oh, I think she knows. Whether she really believes it's going to go down is another matter.
• Amanda thinks McCrae let her down because he wasn't on GM every minute the day leading into nominations like she wanted.
• @@
• Her plan now is that they keep at GM to get her to re-nom Elissa when McCrae takes himself down Monday.
• Due to some event which could be heard from the yard, the hamsters were on indoor lockdown for much of the evening.
• Oh, I pine for the days of the early seasons when Miss Kitty, the megaphone lady, would cruise by the house, banner planes flew by, people threw stuff over the fence.
• Ah, BB memories.
• During the course of the evening, I heard Amanda TWICE reference to McCrae's stench (one time it was specifically feet, the other time overall stink).
• Did he go shower?
• Nope.
• Ew.
• Andy, still in his rat mode, told Amanda he threw the PoV to her.
• Hmm.
• What a little suck-up for jury votes.
• You can't throw a comp to someone who doesn't win.
• Oh, wait. Aaryn and McCrae BOTH tried to throw a comp to Amanda before and she screwed it up. Maybe the same kind of thing happened this time.
• Andy told Amanda he wants Elissa out, but Judd doesn't want her (Elissa) out.
• McCrae and Amanda worked on GinaMarie. She acts like she's considering their case.
• But she isn't.
• The plan is for McCrae to stick like glue to GM for the rest of the evening.
• If he doesn't shower, she might have to go out on a medical emergency from the fumes.
• They got booze.
• Amanda started drinking the wine straight from the bottle, then gave Judd a little.
• She refused to give Elissa any.
• @@
• Finally she gave her a glass with maybe a shot's worth of wine (pre-spitted and all) in it.
• @@
• The others watched. No one spoke up for Elissa. But they're sure noting this poor behavior.
• Then things became lighter -- they ALL got together for a card game in the kitchen.
• Elissa and Amanda wore almost matching Fedoras.
• Andy wore GinaMarie's pink cat hat and pink tutu (apparently from the veto comp yesterday). He wanted to wear one of the chicken suits, but BB told him no.
• I think I'd rather see Andy in a pink tutu than Amanda in a yellow tutu.
• Amanda apologized about the wine.
• Like that will make it all better ...
• During the card game, they decided that Andy had to dance every time they heard the BB voice.
• So, they kept breaking rules so BB would speak to them.
• On his last twirl, Andy said, "I'm a little princess." Then he changed back to his normal clothes.
• It was so weird seeing all of them actually getting along and having fun.
• Elissa, not always in game mode, went to bed as the others went out to the yard after it re-opened.
• As they chatted about TV shows, past hamsters this season and previous ones, Amanda did keep chiming in for Elissa to go on the block.
• When they talked of most memorable and recognizable hamsters from this season, GM said people probably won't recognize Helen as "all Chinese people look alike."
• Everyone called out GM at once for that one.
• Plus, I might add, Helen is Korean, not Chinese.
• Amanda and McCrae couldn't last the evening without being all over, McCrae funk or not. They left the Exterminators all by themselves to talk in the backyard.
• Judd, Andy, Spencer and GinaMarie re-confirmed the plan -- Spencer will go on the block, Amanda will go home.
• They feel that they'll probably be safe for the next week (they do think this week MIGHT be a double eviction) as McCrae and Elissa will target each other.
• The Exterminators are still up in the backyard talking. Amanda and McCrae are canoodling in bed. Elissa is sleeping.
• And I need coffee.

Fun was had by ALL

Elissa and Amanda in Fedoras

And then Amanda cried