Survivor: Blood vs. Water - Blog Pool Sign Up!

Next Wednesday evening, September 18, at 8pm ET/PT, we have the Survivor: Blood vs. Water season 90-minute season premiere leading into the finale of Big Brother. Mark your couch potato calendars and start thinking of the snacks and beverages now! It's gonna be a heck of a night!

I'm thrilled to announce that the honorable and esteemed Lifeguard Laurie has once again offered her services to host the blog pool. She rocks like that, y'know. You can sign up for the pool by contacting her at: lifeguardlaurie@gmail.com 
Entries must be in by 6pm ET Tuesday 9/17.

Remember, the pool is all in fun. You will be randomly assigned a castaway to cheer on until they either get ... well, um ... cast away or win. If your castaway wins it all and is the sole Survivor, you win bragging rights until the next season is underway.

On show nights, we'll have blog parties right here on East Coast time. I'll also keep an eye out for newsy items about the show and such to keep us entertained. 

I previously posted on the cast announcement here.

Survivor fans ready?

Big Brother 15: Live Feeds Tuesday Morning until Trivia - Sept. 10

J-U-Double D will go-go

Okay, this isn't going to be my typical live feeds update. We'll get a bit newsy with it!

All we really saw today other than the trivia blocking the feeds was the fake night filming for BBAD tonight. They were given dollar store arts and crafts and had to pretend it's night because the eviction is set for 5pm their time today, but won't air until tomorrow night. This happened about 9am to 11am this morning their time.

They messed around a lot mocking the fake night. One of the things they did were to make FAKE phone calls about FAKE happenings. Of course, the internet crowds (or many of them) think they're real happenings. Oy.

Spencer's HOH blog is up on the CBS website. I'm kind of surprised -- I think his writing skills might just be the best I've ever seen from a hamster blog. Oh my. I would advise that if you read, don't even bother with the gazillion hate-filled comments. I'm still not getting how people could hate strangers on a TV show that much. I realize that many of the things said and done reflect poorly on them, make a sad statement on society, etc., etc. I don't understand why people are reacting with such hate, though. It seems counterproductive or something. I dunno. I'm tired of all the hate.

Unfortunately, I've known some people like many of the hamsters this season. I avoid them. After this season ends, I can avoid these hamsters as well. I won't have to have them in my life and I can feel better about myself that I'm not like them, nor are any of the people I truly care about.

'Nuff said 'bout that.

I don't expect the live feeds to return until after tomorrow night's eviction show airs on the West Coast ... putting it at midnight here. When I know something, I'll post. But I probably won't know anything until tomorrow night's blog party post. The last I saw indicated that Judd will go home, but (of course) the HoH and veto are up in the air.

GinaMarie packing

Ohh! Dollar store crafts "night" for BBAD

Andy ... Lies R Us, er ... Exterminator

McCrae - could be tortured if we COMBED his hair!

Paint a pretty pink pig and name it Petunia

Big Brother 15: Live Feeds Overnight into Tuesday - Sept. 9-10

Ouch!

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of We're Almost There:

• While they continue to tell Judd he's safe every time he asks them (which is often), he's not.
• The plan is for a unanimous vote of two to vote him out, thus keeping GinaMarie.
• GM has been told she's safe. But then again, so has Judd.
• In watching her, I'm thinking she's not believing it until it happens.
• At least she isn't asking all the time!
• They're not not telling Judd just to be mean and blindside him -- they honestly don't want to have to deal with him being upset. They know how much he wants to be in the house.
• If there's a positive about all those remaining in the house -- none of them were the recruits. All of them were fans of the show who applied.
• The eviction will take place sometime today.
• I expect feeds will be blocked, but I'll update later with whatever I have. 
• This is the earliest all have been to bed all season!

All in bed early

No one wants to tell him he's going

Big Brother 15: Live Feeds Monday into the Afternoon, PoV Meeting - Sept. 9

No pillow to hold?

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of So Many Issues it's a Magazine:

• McCrae and Judd talked about the racial comments made by Aaryn and GinaMarie.
• McCrae thinks Aaryn's comments were due to her parents and friends (nurture, not nature) than due to where she was from.
• Hmm ... almost like he knew she blames it on Texas! Maybe she used that as a defense with him when she was still in the house.
• McCrae also thinks GM's comments are more childlike and not as serious, but that she'll be ripped apart for them once she's outside the house.
• I think McCrae might be right on both counts.
• The PoV ceremony, blocked to the live feeds, went down as expected. 
• McCrae is no Marcellas.
• He took himself off the block and Judd went up in his place, also as expected.
• GM told Spencer that if she stays, she would definitely keep him over Andy.
• Judd tried to plead his case with Spencer that if McCrae wins HoH, he'd go after him (Judd) rather than Spencer because they had a kerfuffle.
• Judd didn't say kerfuffle.
• I did.
• If Judd said kerfuffle, it would come out "mumbleble."
• That kerfuffle was the "doing something crazy" Judd warned McCrae about.
• Apparently he threw a fit at the veto ceremony so it would look like he and McCrae are fighting, not working together.
• Meanwhile ... GM is also working with McCrae, studying for questions on comp dates.
• Judd thinks of Spencer as the big brother he never had.
• And he really adores Andy.
• Oh, gag me now.
• Of course, he's looking for Spencer's tiebreaking promise.
• Spencer promised nothing.
• When the BB voice told them that their (GM, Judd) luggage was in the storage room, it dawned on them there will be an eviction tomorrow.
• Remember, that will be aired on Wednesday.
• Andy is hoping they'll make a gag reel of all of GinaMarie's accidents and injuries.
• Well, yeah. That could be funny, especially when GM tries to make light of it herself.
• When the HoH camera came out, they did their Exterminator spraying poses in front of Elissa's photo on the Memory Wall.
• Judd will NOT give up asking if he's going or staying. He claims he doesn't want to be blindsided like last time.
• Heck, I'd vote him out just because he's like a little kid asking "Are we there yet?" a gazillion times in the car.
• Judd also worked on Andy for the stay.
• Spencer and Andy really haven't had much alone time today.
• Their alone time is the only time I can really tell how the votes might go.
• Spencer was pretty solid that he'd rather keep GM.
• Unless Judd's persistence is swaying them ...

Judd packs his bags

Ew! Food on the floor when they have ants?

GinaMarie and Nicky sitting in a tree ...

Big Brother 15: Live Feeds Into Monday - Sept. 8-9

Oh my gosh ... clean white socks!

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of People You Don't Want Over for Dinner:

• Spencer still wants the vote to be unanimous for someone to go home.
• He wants that someone to be Judd.
• Oh, yeah. If you're not up with the news -- McCrae won Veto, so they'll be putting Judd up in his place.
• Of course, that hasn't happened quite yet. The veto ceremony will be later on today.
• McCrae said (reluctantly) that he would vote for Judd to go.
• Andy said they'd all need to agree that NO ONE tells Judd that he's a target because of his off the wall behaviors.
• Meanwhile, Judd (who tends to be nervous anyway when it comes to evictions) is jumpier than usual. It's like he knows he shouldn't have quit on the veto comp and then had a tantrum.
• But it's too late to take that stuff back.
• Judd told McCrae he has a plan and "might do something crazy." He doesn't want McCrae to get mad at him.
• Hmm.
• McCrae said he doesn't care as long as it doesn't affect his game.
• McCrae actually does want to move in with Amanda.
• Oh, silly boy. Life as he knows it would change immediately.
• Andy hopes that he can get his server job back as the teaching won't be open until January.
• I don't know. I heard that instead of the standard for years stipend of $750 a week, they're getting $13,000 for the season this year. If he doesn't win and has that nest egg upon getting out, he could just take the time off until teaching.
• But then again, I'm older and thinking lazy. ;-)
• GM got busted by the Diary Room for making a necklace cheat sheet for comps dates.
• Andy and Spencer came up with a new idea -- get McCrae to save GM with the veto, convince him they'll vote Judd out. That way the Exterminators can stay intact when they blindside McCrae.
• Oh geez ... they actually think McCrae will fall for that?
• Spencer thinks they would need to convince McCrae that they'd throw HoH to him (including GM) if he goes along.
• Meanwhile, Andy prepped GinaMarie with the plan and what to say.
• McCrae, no BB dummy, thinks that if he uses it on GM, he will be blindsided.
• He's no Marcellas!
• Then he talked to GM.
• Hmm.
• She did talk a great deal and McCrae seemed to buy it.
• But I honestly don't think he's dumb enough to fall for it.
• I personally think that he will save himself, Judd will go up and Judd will go home.
• Doesn't matter ... someone else will be soon to follow.

GinaMarie, wounded knee

At least he didn't give his cat shirt to Amanda