BB19: HoH Finish, Nominations Show Blog Party - July 16

It seems like so long ago! After all, the live feeds already have Power of Veto done and over with. As tonight's show airs, I'll be live-blogging and updating this entry -- refresh the page to get the latest. As always, the real party is in the comments area. I hope to see you there!

And, just to let you know ... I will have a live feeds report up late tonight. Not a heck of a lot happening in there today.

Let's start off with a recap for a change! 

Okay, the HoH comp is on. Jessica knows she'll go on the block if she doesn't win this one. Paul tells us that Cody left him some ammunition in the form of targets that will protect him after his protection is gone. Also known as Dominique, in particular and Mark to a lesser extent.

It's pretty much a typical wall comp, perhaps not as rough as some. Josh is out first. Mark is second down. These endurance comps are hard for larger people.

Back to Paul asking/telling Kevin to vote Ramses to cause chaos.

Back to the wall. Raven goes down. They don't mention she has stitches in her foot. Ramses out. Kevin down. Matt out. 

Dominique tells us she needs to protect her team and stay up longer than Jessica. Whoops ... Jessica down! Dominique drops.

Alex suggests deals. No go from Jason or Elena ... right away. 

Jason tells us he has to stay up until after Elena falls. He's not worried about his ally Alex winning. The three remaining -- Jason, Elena and Alex -- agree none of the three will go on the block. Jason drops, thinking Elena would drop after him. She deals safety with Alex, then drops. Alex is the new HoH! 

Alex wants to not step on toes and get someone good out this week. Paul, of course, has been covering his bases and getting close with her this past week. Jessica wants to unify the floaters to get out the rest of the house. 

Jason talks to Jessica about taking out either Matt or Dominique.  

Alex tells Kevin and Jason she will be putting Jessica on the block. Jason isn't thrilled -- they can use Jessica as an ally. Alex says she HAS to be on the block, backdoor someone else if needed. She's thinking the others would be happy because of the Jessica nom, but she'll convince the house that one of the hamsters is actually a rat. 

Paul knows that Alex is likely to nominate someone from his side of the house. He goes to Alex and tells her that Mark and Dominique are sketchy. Then he tells Mark and Dom that Cody told him the two people working with him (Cody) are Mark and Dominique. Paul's out to create chaos.

Alex talks to Elena because she had made a deal to keep her people safe. Elena is not okay with Mark being on the block! 

Paul continues to work the Dominique/Mark agenda on Alex. Paul would prefer Dominique out over Mark. 

Time for a humorous Kevin/Ramses segment. 

Jessica and Jason get to take off their frog costumes. Into a bit on Raven's health issues. Christmas returns from the hospital -- ten broken bones, four dislocated and needed tendon surgery. Jason feels horrible. She won't get full mobility back. Very sad.

Mark tells Alex he doesn't want to go on the block.  She tells us that although Paul wanted Dominique out, she still wants to go after the showmances. 

Dominique goes to Alex and tells her she thinks there's an undercurrent targeting her or Mark. Alex thinks that Dom is referring to Elena. Alex thinks it's a red flag that Dom is throwing her own people under the bus.

Nominations ceremony time. 

Alex nominates Jessica, then Dominique. Jessica, no connection. Dominque, set up red flags in our talk. 

Alex tells us she wants herself and Paul in the final two.

Off Topic: That Was the Week It Was - July 16, 2017

Good morning! Since it's a SUNDAY morning, this is my weekly off television topic post taking a look at the week gone by in both words and photographs I've taken along the way. This weekly post is done year in, year out. Big Brother, the main draw for so many of you, only lasts about three months -- although sometimes it seems to be a lifetime. If you're here solely for the BB posts, please feel free to skip this post. You can find my latest BB19 posts by using this link.

Some random notes on this past week:

• Yesterday morning at 6:27am, the dude upstairs turned on his stereo. No, not full blast. But it has to be up pretty loud for me to hear it in my apartment. Well, at least the beat. I hear and feel the bass. Then, at 7:05am, the neighbor's landscapers started making all kinds of blower and mower noise. Now, I was already awake, but it's a Saturday morning. Don't normal people sleep in a bit?
• I'll admit I'm not a normal person, mind you. But I don't make all kinds of racket that can annoy others!
• When I came home from work last night, the cylinder on the front building door lock was sideways. Because of that, the key wouldn't work in the lock, just spinning and spinning. I took my back door key which fits in that lock but won't unlock it and turned the cylinder back to its proper position. I then unlocked the door with the right key and entered. Someone was in the hallway and asked how I got the door open. Okay, landlord, you can pay me what you would have paid the locksmith to come fix it.
• As I expected, I returned to chaos and disaster after my staycation from work. I don't want to talk about it. It's bad mojo, I tell you!
• I'm ready for autumn. I'm tired of being sweaty while just existing. Inside my apartment, I'm fine due to air conditioning, my new tower fan and all. But they make me go out in the world just about daily. Gah.
• It's hard to believe it's been 50 years since the Newark and Detroit riots (1967). I was living in Saratoga County in New York at that time. They made the national news. I didn't know that, within the same time period, there was a Plainfield riot -- that didn't make national news at the time. But it was quite the incident here and still affects the city to this day. But Plainfield has made tremendous strides ahead during the last several years. Let's all keep on working together!

Onto the photos I took this past week. No real masterpieces, but a slice of life here in what they call the Greater NYC Metropolitan Area in New Jersey. Sometimes they call it North Jersey; sometimes Central Jersey. It's all Jersey to me ... 

Clicking on an image will open a larger version.

More utility box art

This one is on East 4th Street at the corner of Watchung Avenue by the police station. I don't think it's finished as the other sides only have the green base paint.  I'll watch it to see if more is added than this side. The adjacent town of North Plainfield has shrink-wrapped art on their boxes. I prefer Plainfield's efforts, using actual artists to paint them. We have a lot of talent here in Plainfield and these are great!

Bunny resting in the sun

More on this bunny a bit later in the post.

The Keyboard Man

Summer sounds at the Plainfield Train Station. While I don't care for the regular bums who hang out at the station day and night, this guy really improves the atmosphere there. I've also seen him there playing a trumpet. Sometimes a few others join him with guitars.  Nah, neither he nor they would ever win a talent contest, but it's always good to see and hear him at the station playing away.

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BB19: Live Feeds into Saturday Night and a Kerfuffle - July 15

Sleep while you can

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Slithering Snakes:

• Shortly after I posted my last report, at about half-past stupid o'clock in the morning, there was a major kerfuffle.
• It didn't really rise to the level of an outright brouhaha.
• Y'see, Alex backed up with Paul, has been saying that Dominique was the hinky vote to save Cody. (They are aware of Christmas and it's not a big issue.)
• We know Paul knows it was Kevin. Alex thought it might be Kevin, but didn't know. But, hey, blame it on Dominique. After all, the purpose in having Kevin vote that was was to create chaos.
• And, it did.
• Tie in the hinky vote with the Dominique Show interview of Cody which ended up being a platform for Cody to call out and name names, some truths, some fiction.
• Then, you tie in all of the questioning in an interrogation kind of format ... KERFUFFLE AHEAD!  
• Call in everyone!
• Everyone except Jessica, Kevin and Ramses ended up in the room.
• Toss in that Alex (who wanted Dominique out even before she teamed up with Paul on the cause) told Paul that Dominique said there was a snake and a tempter in the house ... implying it was Paul.
• Dominique has "implied" much too much and it blew up on her.
• Dominique thinks because she didn't outright say Paul is the snake and tempter, he has no case.
• It just went back and forth.
• And back and forth.
• There were no fisticuffs.
• She kept saying One Team, One Fight.
• He kept saying infiltrator, snake and tempter. (Things he believes she's either called him or implied about him.)
• Just on and on.
• Forever. 
• In the end, she didn't help her cause any. 
• Elena and Mark denied ever talking about Paul to her.
• Josh said he just came because he doesn't know what's going on.
• Heh.
• And, both Paul and Dominique made a few valid points in the verbal kerfuffle.
• A good part of it is her own fault due to the way she interrogated people yesterday. Her style of questioning, condescending and all, has given a mindset in the others and this whole thing didn't help her.
• As the day wore on, the others kept talking about her ... even worse than yesterday.
• In other news, Alex told Mark that if Jason takes Jessica off the block, she will be putting him up as a pawn, a true pawn. She thinks the vote will be unanimous to evict Dominque.
• He doesn't want to do it, but will for the team if he has to. 
• I think Jason will take Jessica off the block and Mark will go up.
• But I'm almost willing to bet Dominique will go home.
• Oh, Paul will have his day when they turn on him. There have been some rumbles. But it's too early and he's too protected to go up against him this early. 

Giggling at Ramses

Better than she thought ...

But I don't WANT to be a pawn!

What have I created?

"You called me a snake."

"There is a snake and tempter in here."

Dominique's meeting didn't help her

BB19: Live Feeds into Saturday Morning, PoV - July 15

Being questioned by Dominique

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Distrusting Dolts:

• The Power of Veto comp, blocked to the live feeds (and apparently causing BBAD to show an episode rerun), played out last night.
• Surprise, surprise ... we have a new veto winner in the house.
• And, this one will surely do whatever HoH Alex wants him to do -- because it's her close ally, Jason.
• I think Dominique's reaction to being nominated and campaigning method of operation is sure to sink her if she's not already sunk.
• She went from person to person (hamster to hamster) with a line of questions and commentary.
• I really don't know how they feel.
• But, in watching it go down, it comes across as condescending and patronizing.
• If I were in her line of fire, I think I'd want her gone because it's annoying and I'm tired of hearing her.
• While claiming her loyalty, she's planting enough seeds to grow an acre of doubt.
• She might have Jason convinced to use the veto to save her -- telling him that both she and Mark have been targets of Cody's agenda.
• But, then again, he might do whatever Alex wants.
• And she wants Dominique out.
• I don't know. If I were in there, thinking there may be a Battle Back (which they were thinking before it was announced to us), I'd still go for Jessica to go.
• However, Dominique is somewhat sketchy. She tries Paul's manipulation social game but falls short of the mark. 
• Hmm ... 
• Meanwhile, the HoH bunch is talking about taking Jessica down and putting Mark up as a pawn against Dominique.
• He doesn't want to do that. Not at all. 
• I don't blame him.
• This is all just a bit odd. But I'll admit, the more I see Dominique, the more underhanded and sneaky she seems.
• That's probably what's doing her in.
• Hmm ... 
• On a side note -- I find it interesting that Cody, in his Jeff interview, said if he comes back he wants to work with Paul.

Being questioned by Dominique

PoV garb

Being questioned by Dominque

The V-Toad has the Veto

BB19: Live Feeds into Friday Evening, Nominations - July 14

The game is afoot*

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Boisterous Boobs:

• First, to explain the * in the screen cap caption above -- Survivor fans should remember the line coming from Tarzan. It fits the return of Christmas and the state of the house here. 
• Well, well, well ... I left you this morning saying that it would go without saying that Jessica would be on the block and, at the end of the update, I told you Alex told the camera (us) she'd be making a big move and nominating Dominique.
• How did that work out?
• Read on.
• Hmm ... Alex told Jason that she (Alex) went on the block to save their side. She tells him that her target will be Dominque, but will understand if he wants to vote Jessica out.
• Um. Okay.
• Kevin is considered on her side.
• But Josh isn't. They look on him as some sort of buffoon who they can talk into voting their way.
• Alex, Jason and Kevin all trust Paul. That's not to say he's necessarily on that side, but ...!
• Meanwhile, Dominque trash talks about Elena.
• And Elena trash talks about Christmas.
• Paul and Elena talked about how Dominique's show actions put her in the spotlight.
• Dominque really interrogated Ramses. He wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition.
• No ONE expects the Spanish Inquisition!*
• * My apologies to Monty Python. I guess I'm full of odd pop culture quotes tonight.
• Now, Ramses isn't really in with Alex. But, then again, he's not all that in with anyone in the house no matter how much he tries. He ends up being treated like the pesky little brother who always wants to tag along.  This coming from a guy who thought he was going in with such a great social game.
• The frog-toads are no more.
• Alex talked to Jessica, telling her that if she goes on the block, she's not the target and other people know it.
• Hmm.
• Jessica guesses the other nom would be Dominque, but Alex won't confirm it.
• In the end, Jessica agreed to trust and work with Alex and Jason if all goes down as planned.
• Jessica then ratted out Raven for stealing Alex's cat ears.
• Alex told Jessica to act upset and surprised at the nominations ceremony.
• Alex told Ramses that she thinks that Dominque is the one spreading rumors about him.
• Tired of the summer heat? Well, it's Christmas time! Yep, she's back.
• With a huge cast, might I add.
• Quite a serious injury this has turned out to be. The doctor told her she'll never have full mobility of her foot and, as with many breaks, it will eventually develop arthritis. She will also need more surgery down the road. She's quite upset about that.
• Well, hopefully CBS has big health care pockets. It sounds like they will have some huge bills to pay.
• All this over tomfoolery.
• Jason feels bad about it, but she told him she doesn't blame him.
• She had to be filled on the Dominque show and all that's gone down in her absence. She says she had no TV, no magazines, no word of anything in the hospital.
• Puppy cam for the nominations.
• Lo and behold, Dominque and Jessica are on the block. 

Frog's legs

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

The big and small of things

What happened to targeting showmances?

Kevin and the ex-Frog