Big Brother 11 Live Feeds Saturday Daytime 8/15

These two photos below are an update (10:30 PM ET) -- Lydia has put on her red unitard. Hers comes with night vision goggles and a cape, plus the words "Captain Unitard" across the front.

Kevin tries to make nicey-nice with Michele.

Natalie and Jeff mend those burnt bridges ... or something like that.

Lots of happenings, lots and lots. Here's the latest news from inside that Big Brother House of Hamsters Doing Their Own Fast Forwards:

• Almost immediately on wake-up call this morning, they were summoned to the Diary Room one by one.
• Hmm.
• Lydia denied messing with the belongings of others and said it must have been Chima.
• Lydia claimed that if she is evicted, she won't scream. She'll just say goodbye to the people she likes and walk out the door.
• But I bet she'll put a lot of effort into her look for the night!
• We began the beginning of several feeds blockages for the day.
• Even the hamsters are confused.
• "Aren't we supposed to pick the veto players today?"
• No! It's a new HOH comp in the making!
• Michele loses all of her stuff early and cannot compete for HOH.
• Chima's photo on the Memory Wall didn't go black and white until afternoon.
• Lots of tension going into the comp.
• Jordan won HOH! How's that for karma working overtime?
• Um ... one of you is paying that Karma Dude, right? He earned his money this week.
• Lydia got the unitard, but thus far is refusing to wear it.
• Natalie won a call from home (which she's fussing about wanting it in private and soon as she says she'll be going home Thursday).
• Lydia claims that she'll give everyone enough grief so they vote her out and she will wear the unitard then.
• Michele hurt her arm in the comp.
• I'm sure she'll live.
• The miniature golf practice for POV ended up being the theme of the HOH comp.
• The final two in the comp were Jeff and Jordan. It sounds like he threw it to her.
• He claimed he wanted the Hawaii trip instead of the HOH key.
• Nah, I think he's smitten and Jordan in HOH is pretty much the same as Jeff there.
• Michele got into a brouhaha (I use the word so much this season!) with Lydia about wearing the unitard. Actually, Michele was out of line with her vulgar language. I would have just tattletaled to the DR and fussed about it.
• Lydia dumped all of Michele's HOH beers.
• Jeff tried to calm Lydia down.
• But she's a woman possessed. Perhaps with the spirit of the man, the myth, the legend.
  
• Michele hit with the most vulgar word for female anatomy (one in no way do I want on this blog).
• Well, now I'm getting a bit ticked at Michele.
• True, Lydia dumped her champagne, but geez ... get her for breaking rules, don't sink to her level.
• Then as the fires built up, we had feed blockage after feed blockage.
• On for 20 seconds ... then blocked.
• Now they've been back a while.
• Kevin is trying distance himself from Lydia without really distancing himself.
• Jeff told him they have no hard feelings against him but advised him to try to keep Lydia calm.
• It was almost the same talk with Jeff and Natalie.
• Michele and Kevin talked, too.
• It's all one big happy yet totally dysfunctional family!
• Well, except for the pink sheep of the family.
• Lydia is still refusing to wear her unitard and has dyed her hair bright pink.
• Kevin looks outright miserable.
• I don't know when the nominations will be. But I did notice CBS is already touting a huge happening which shook up the house.
• Jordan told Jeff and Michele that she wants to put Natalie and Lydia on the block.
• However, Natalie and Lydia have both pretty much figured out they're going up.
• From watching, I think Natalie will let Lydia play the crazy card and try to float on through.
  
  
  

Big Brother 11 Live Feeds - Friday Into Saturday 8/15 or Ding Dong, the Wicked Witch

Russell, the plain old non-terrorist yet perhaps imperfect dude, is pining over the loss of Chima from the Big Brother house. (Sure he is!)


Before it all went down, the mood of the house was obviously bothering Jordan.


All of Jeff's clothes were removed from the drawers and tossed around. He put them back and was more ticked each minute.

But the big news of the house from the overnight hours is ...

CHIMA HAS LEFT THE HOUSE

You heard me. She's gone, outta there, never to darken my live feeds again. She couldn't take the heat, so she's out of that kitchen!

Here's how the night went down in that Big Brother House of Parting Princesses:

• Oh, it was so boring for so long. Natalie was reading the BB rules book, others were talking small talk.
• Chima was in hiding under her blankets.
• I really don't understand why the ex-Jessie crew was in such turmoil. They had their days at the top of the heap, didn't they know that tables can turn? I guess it's time they all learned a life lesson, eh?
• Jeff finally got to eat. It's a wonder he hasn't lost his appetite with all of the hate going around in the house.
• Natalie and Lydia, obviously over past differences and united in their blind worship of Jessie the Magnificent, bonded.
• Chima hid from life.
• When Jeff got called to the Diary Room, Natalie made a comment to the effect of "yeah, go find out how to #@$# with Chima, Natalie, and Lydia some more."
• It's a GAME, gals! Sheesh! When they were on the top, the others didn't make snide comments all the time! What is up with these people?
• Natalie said she's going to dump water all over their beds.
• When their indoor lockdown was done, they went to the back yard to find a miniature golf type set-up.
• Jeff wanted to keep on eating. He's one hungry guy after a week on slop!
• Kevin went to Jeff and said he had nothing to do with messing with his belongings. He said he saw the girls move his own stuff into Jeff's drawers, so he took it out as he didn't want to get involved.
• I think Kevin, who's remained alone most of the evening, is regretting his allegiance to Chima and the gals. He could have declared the other side long ago.
• Chima finally emerged at Kevin's request.
• Production told Chima to put on her microphone.
• She flipped them off and ignored them.
• Chima decided that she wouldn't let the others practice -- the golf game is obviously some sort of practice for the POV.
• Chima threw her microphone into the hot tub.
• Russell talked about his family coming here from Lebanon.
• I don't think that makes him a terrorist.
  
• Jeff got irked by the Goony Gals because they were deliberately hogging the washer/dryer when he wanted to do his clothes.
• As Michele tried waiting her turn to practice golf, Natalie said they could hog it all night.
• Didn't Cappy and Crew do something like that before one of the big brouhahas in that season? Try to intimidate the others during a comp practice scenario?
• Of the two nominated, Jordan told Michele she'd like Natalie to go because Natalie wants to go after Jeff.
• Little did she know ...
• Chima gathered laundry, then went to go sit on the washing machine so she could put hers in before Jeff (who was already not so patiently waiting for the machine).
• Chima and Natalie talked -- Natalie admitted she was the one who messed with Jeff's clothes. No surprises there for me as Chima was in hiding under covers and feeling sorry for herself.
  
• Jordan told her men (Russell and Jeff) that she heard the others were going to pour hot sauce on all of their clothes. She thinks everyone should put their stuff up in the HOH room to keep it safe.
• Chima kept making nasty comments to the camera. She's either being nasty to us (America's fault she's in the predicament she is) or to production (it's their fault, too!).
• Lydia brought up that Russell hit her with a ball (a few weeks ago) and BB "let it go and didn't do anything."
• BB once again told Chima to put her microphone on.
• Jeff told Jordan he didn't want to have to hide his clothes and act like he's scared.
• Jeff said, "This is the most miserable cast ever with the biggest bitch on reality TV ever."
  
• He said it, not me. But I must agree. Not the whole cast, but ...!
• Chima told Natalie that even though she hates Russell, she would vote for him to win over Michele, Jordan, or Jeff.
• I guess she just can't understand why people aren't in love with the princess?
• Every time they talked about production (unfair, picking on them, taking Jeff's side, etc.), we got blocked feeds.
• The Battle of the Laundry continued.
• Chima took Russell's hat and hid it.
• Lydia said that Jordan is "dumb as a box of hair."
• Chima said that she shouldn't be called the 5th HOH, just call her the 6th nominee to be evicted thanks to production. Then she gave the finger to said production. Or to me.
  
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• Kevin told Michele that the three girls (Lydia, Natalie, Chima) are acting like they're a cult and their beloved leader (Jessie) died.
• I think it's too little too late for ya, Kevin. You chose your gal Chima. It's going to be hard to switch sides now, don't you think?
• Then came a loooong feeds blockage.
• What? The feeds are back and Chima is nowhere to be seen? Could she be hiding under the covers again?
• What? They're talking about possibly no eviction this week? They're talking about replacing a houseguest?
• Oh my. Whatever in the world can be going on? Where's Waldo Chima?
• Russell said her first meeting will be with the legal department.
• Ohhhh!
• Jeff said, "And then there were seven. They're going to black that out!"
• Ohhhh!
• Then they worried that Chima may have taken some of their belongings.
• Russell told Michele that Chima was trying to bait him in the morning, almost like she wanted him to go after her with the knife he was using in the kitchen.
• It wouldn't surprise me. She wanted to get him mad enough to hit her before so he could get the boot.
• Meanwhile, there seems to be a loose cannon (okay, maybe a firecracker in perspective) in the Jeff, Michele, Jordan, and Russell faction.
• Russell seems to be trying to work Michele against Jeff a bit.
• It's not working. Michele said that she never had any intention to vote Jeff out.
• Jordan, Jeff, Russell, and Michele talked about Chima's anger issues. Jordan hadn't heard the rape story.
• They all agree she needs professional help.
• Natalie is now not only in worship of Jessie, she's agog with Chima, too.
• "That was HUGE! She threw her microphone in the hot tub!"
• False idols, I say.
• Apparently Allison Grodner herself came out during whatever the final straw was.
• We don't know for sure if Chima got the boot or if she DOR'd (voluntary exit).
• But we know that ...

DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD
WHICH OLD WITCH?
THE WICKED WITCH!

BUH-BYE, CHIMA
DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU ON THE WAY OUT!

Big Brother 11 Live Feeds Bulletin - Nominations 8/14

The feeds have been blocked for a long time. They came on briefly ... Jeff was saying "they" better not ruin his things. Then it flashed to Natalie saying she read the rule book and Michele can't do that -- "tell her she's going to put her on the block."

It's sure that Natalie is on the block. I think, from what Jeff said, Chima's up there with her.

Feeds back on ... Natalie is reading the rules book, Jeff and Russell are talking about food. Natalie just read out loud that you can't cover up cameras, feeds blocked again.

Natalie says that "she" is going to get karma or some kind of disease for what she did to Chima. Natalie expected it for herself because she never got along with Michele. Hmmm ... it's Natalie and Chima on the block. Chima is hiding under the Jessie covers.

You go with your bad BB-playing self, Michele!

Big Brother 11 Live Feeds Through Friday Daytime 8/14

It's so sticky humid here that I don't want to think of leather pants. I don't even want to think of pleather pants. And, if they're latex, that's just kinky.

Here are the happenings from inside that Big Brother House I'm a Teensy Woman, But Hear Me Roar:

• Chima about Russell, "He's not even Catholic. He's some extreme Muslim terrorist."
• Love how those kind of comments got edited so nicely for the show, don't you?
• For some reason, I would think the BB house is way low on the priority list for terrorists.
• With feeds blocked, they held the Have/Have Not comp. Jeff remains a Have Not for another day due to a penalty. Lydia is a fresh Have Not as is Kevin.
  
• Russell thinks Chima and Kevin should go on the block. It just dawned on him that Kevin isn't on his side.
• As Jeff walked by Chima, she commented on how it's been proven time and time again that America votes for [bleep].
  
• Michele asked Russell why he voted to keep Jessie. He told her that he had given Jessie his word he wouldn't vote him out. He kept his word.
• Russell gave Michele his word that he won't put her on the block.
• Despite his quick trigger temper, I've noticed that he does keep his word in this kind of situation -- he kept it to Jeff, to Jessie.
• Michele has pretty much made it known to everyone that she will not be putting Russell on the block.
• Chima and Natalie keep working on her -- they know people from their little group will go on the block.
• I say ... didn't they say last night they missed Jessie? They could think of it as alone time with the man, the myth, the legend.
• Chima reminded Michele that Russell recently did and said awful things to her.
• Michele told Natalie other people in the house have treated her worse.
• Michele said she's running out of people to nominate -- she likes everyone.
• Yeah, right.
• Chima is sure that Russell and Jeff had some kind of deal with the mystery power.
• No, Chima. Your side had a huge advantage in the start of the game and now the tables have turned.
• Jordan and Jegg think Michele could very well put Natalie and Chima on the block.
• Now, that could be fun.
• Nominations should be later tonight!
• They called Michele to the Diary Room and there's now trivia on the feeds ... so noms may be in motion.
  

Big Brother 11 Live Feeds Into Friday Morning 8/14

Maybe I'm just too old or something. I just can't get with the profound feeling of loss that Natalie, Chima, and Lydia have for Jessie. It's not even like he was their exalted leader -- usually people told Jessie what he should do rather than he leading his minions. These girls seem willing to risk their own game acted like spoiled toddlers because they lost their Jessie. Very odd.

Here's the latest from that Big Brother House of Bereft Babes:

• As The Three Lost Ladies sipped wine and spoke eulogies of a Jessie gone by (accompanied by Kevin and Michele), Jeff and Russell talked about how foolish they're acting.
• He didn't get a proper goodbye!
• He didn't get a chance to fight to stay!
• Even Jordan thinks they're being silly.
• Jeff and Russell both spoke of being calm in the house. Russell said he'll try to keep Jeff from losing his temper.
• I think it should be the other way around!
• Russell is still denying being the second vote for Natalie.
• People are messing with other people's property. I blame Chima who started it all by dumping Russell's suitcase earlier in the evening.
• Natalie claims that production doesn't care about them or their goodbye messages.
• Natalie and Lydia talked of plans to mess with Jeff's stuff after nominations.
• Lydia thinks that Michele didn't like Jessie because he didn't flirt with her.
• Russell, Jeff, Jordan, and Michele talked of winning next week and being the final four.
• Michele is actually playing well right now -- Chima thinks she's listening to her and Jordan thinks she's on her side.
• I think Michele is leaning towards the Jeff/Jordan side, but it's hard to tell. She doesn't really trust Russell.
• Lydia said she won't be happy until Jeff and Russell are evicted.
• So much for being appreciative that Jeff saved her, huh?
• When Jeff told Michele to enjoy her HoH week she corrected him -- "OUR week."
• Hmmm. Good acting or ...?
• Natalie thinks that Chima should have gotten to name the replacement noms. Well, that would ruin the idea behind the coup d'etat, methinks.
• Natalie and Lydia are sure that Michele will put Russell on the block.
• But will she? He was horrible to her, but if she sticks with the Jeff/Jordan bunch, he's a number.
• Natalie pledges to sleep all the time.
• Jeff commented that Natalie was drinking and she's 18? Food for thought, Jeff.
• Michele said BB said to drink all her HoH liquor before the end of the week.
• Michele also said that BB told her not to let boys in her bed and to talk about her husband more.
• She invited Jordan to sleep in the HoH room with her.
• Jordan is better off there than with Chima and her Chumps. Although ... Jordan gets along with everyone.
  
• It's a slumber party! Jeff and Russell talk of sleeping on the floor in the HOH room with Jordan and Michele.
• That may be more comfortable than being with the others.
• And, it also keeps Michele to themselves. But it's not to be ... Jeff still has one day more of being a Have Not due to the evil Gatorade.
  
• Lydia talked of causing trouble and doing things to get BB mad. Chima warned her against it as they would take damages out of her stipend.
• Michele kind of hinted to Kevin that Chima may be going on the block. Hmm ...
• Michele told Kevin she has no intention of putting him on the block, but she can't make any promises about the rest of his alliance.
• Jordan told Jeff that winning the coup d'etat is great because it means America likes him. Well, yeah.
• The Michele/Russell relationship seems to have turned a new page. They talked of final two and hugged.
• Russell wanted to sleep in the Have Not room with Jeff, but BB said no.
• He has to be in with the wolves.
• Michele and Jordan talked about Russell. Jordan thinks it's odd that Russell doesn't want Michele to put Natalie on the block.
  
• From all of the conversations, it seems that Michele is leaning towards putting Chima and either Natalie/Lydia on the block.
• But it's hard to tell.
• For all I know, she could be playing Jeff and Jordan. But she does seem more sincere when she's with them.
• Jeff is way uncomfortable in his Have Not room as the Chima Chumps stole most of the bedding.
• Later!
  

Big Brother 11 Live Feeds Into the Evening Thursday 8/13

Thanks, BB! By cutting the feeds for most of the day and then the "not so" live eviction, we missed all the brouhahas! The feeds returned to boredom. Blech.

The Chima contingent plans their strategy. Alas, no fireworks.

I wonder how long Natalie is going to wear that hat?

Here's the skinny from that Big Brother House of Unicorn Love:

• Jordan told Kevin that she was upset when she saw him and Lydia scheming with Jessie and Natalie this morning. But she's "Gucci" with him now.
• Natalie, Chima, and Lydia all went whining to BB that they wanted to go home and were going through the stages of grief over losing Jessie.
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• BB gave them beauty products to make them leave them alone.
• Kevin, Jeff, Russell, Michele, and Jordan hung out in the back yard quite a while while Natalie, Lydia, and Chima were apparently in mourning.
• They're getting Chinese food tonight.
• Chima is still trash-talking Russell.
• Natalie, Chima, and Kevin schemed their best approaches to Michele.
• Meanwhile, Jordan and Michele seem to have hit it off. Jordan warned Michele the others will be kissing her butt. Michele said that must want to go home, huh?
  
• Jordan doesn't quite trust Russell.
• Natalie said she expected Lydia to vote for her to leave, but is mad that Russell did.
• Chima dumped Russell's suitcase all over.
• When Russell told Michele he didn't think it was right for someone to throw his stuff around, she told him it was the same people who plotted to throw water on her.
• Chima said she might throw the Have-Have Not and then eat to get a penalty eviction.
  
• Natalie wants Jeff and Jordan on the block/evicted.
• Natalie thinks that it was unfair for Jeff to be given such a huge power without competing for it.
• I think it was unfair for a previous BB loser to be brought back in the house and handed the power of HOH without competing for it. I also think that tainted the first half of this season.
• They talked about loving their chicken suits and wanting them.
• Lydia whined that it wasn't fair that Jessie couldn't play for PoV to save himself.
• When called for Michele's HOH room, Natalie made a face and gesture to the camera and said she didn't want to go.
• But, of course, they all went. Very bored crowd looking at fake lab rats and cooing over pictures. Michele's husband wrote her a novella.
• He loves her.
• He misses her.
• Chima, then both Chima and Natalie, went to work on Michele trying to sway her their way.
• Michele's hard to read -- she could go either way.
• The food arrived and they have wine, too.
  
• Ack, Chima, Lydia, and Natalie just made a toast to Jessie Goddarz, the man, the myth, the legend.
• I believe I'm sick now.
  

Big Brother 11 Not So Live Eviction Show Blog Party

The show has started here on the East Coast. This post will be updated as it airs, but the real fun is in the comments section. Everyone is welcome, bring your own snacks and beverages! Later tonight my show review will be posted on TV Squad.

This live eviction is actually taped tonight. The TVGuide.com site confirmed it was taped because of possible brouhahas if the coup d'etat is used. Although the show always runs on a "so many seconds" delay so they can censor language if needed, apparently they were worried this might be intense or really throw them off their timing. The feeds have been blocked for a good portion of the day. The rumors have been flying on Twitter.

But, we're about to see ...

So far a lot of recapping, rehashing. Julie is wearing the black and white polka dot dress mentioned in Twitter rumors, though.

Chima's grandmother and her friend had a segment. Still no BIG news!

Jeff uses the coup d'etat!

Takes Lydia off, puts up Natalie.
Takes Russell off, puts up Jessie.

The voting to evict:
Lydia --> Natalie
Jordan --> Jessie
Kevin --> Jessie
Michele --> Jessie
Russell --> Natalie

Jessie is GONZO!

Chima claimed "America did it to him again." When talking to Julie, Jessie also blamed America.

You're welcome, Jessie.
:D

Michele is the new HOH!

Double eviction coming up next week!

Big Brother 11 Live Feeds Late Night, Overnight into Thursday 8/13

Last night was the big season halfway point party for the hamsters. They got a few hours of camera free living ... and we got blocked feeds with BB trivia. BTW - I always get the trivia questions right. I'm not sure what that says about me. If only I had done that well in geometry back in my school days, eh?

Here's what's been happening (that we could see) in that Big Brother House of Trifling Troubles:

• I liked this BB announcement: "Natalie, please treat your microphone with respect."
• In a Kevin and Chima talk, Kevin mentioned that they're getting warnings about behavior during the live show.
• Chima thinks it's because she made threats to go wild.
• Chima and Kevin are sure that Jeff has the power as he was called to the diary room in the middle of the party.
• Lydia thinks that Jeff should go before Michele. She thinks that Jeff "doesn't have much up there" and doesn't really play the game.
• Lydia and Chima miss Ronnie.
• I don't.
• Chima would like the next evictions to be in this order: Jeff, Jordan, Michele.
• I don't want them that way.
• Russell is quasi-talking with others other than Jordan and Jeff.
• He talked to Michele (civilly) and Jessie came along to throw him under that bus.
• Russell then told Michele about Jessie backing up the Ronnie idea of dousing her with water.
• Fun, fun, fun.
• Jessie taunted Russell that it's going to be his last night in the house, he should enjoy his bed.
• Meanwhile, Jessie is still paranoid that he himself is going home.
• But he's not telling Russell that.
• Eventually both silly boys realized how silly they were being with their fight.
  
• They didn't kiss and make up, but they giggled a lot.
• Natalie was eavesdropping on them. I get the feeling she would say she was "easedropping" on them.
• When Russell told Natalie and Jessie he felt the odd man out in their alliance, they claimed he didn't get backdoored because they stood up for him.
• Meanwhile, Jessie is a bit worried that Russell might have the votes to stay over Lydia.
• Jeff is still avoiding most of any drama going down in the house.
• Jordan knows that Jeff supports Russell, but she's not so sure of Russell herself.
• Chima continued to bash Russell. But we all expected that, right?
• Several in the HOH room said "I have the power" just to show they don't have the power.
• Russell tried talking to America through the cameras. He claims bad things he's been saying about a Michele weren't the houseguest Michele, but a production Michelle in the diary room. I took it upon myself to spell the second Michelle with two "l's."
• Kevin thinks that Russell will eventually land in jail for domestic abuse.
• Russell hasn't hit anyone in the house. As for shouting, Chima is right up there with him.
• I don't want either of them mad at me.
• Jeff wants to win HOH so he can wear the bathrobe and be like Hugh Hefner.
• They all headed to bed fairly early (for them).
• I expect a lot of blocked feeds today going into the earlier not live live eviction show. I guess we'll see.
  

Big Brother 11 Live Feeds Wednesday Daytime 8/12

Heading towards eviction day, the biggest news isn't from actually inside the house this week. For the first time I can remember, tomorrow's eviction will NOT be live. It doesn't seem to have been planned all along to be taped, either. Something is up. According to various sources, the live audience has been asked to show up three hours earlier than usual.

A lot of speculation is floating around about the non-live eviction. Are they expecting trouble with Chima if Jeff uses the coup d'etat? That seems to be the popular notion. But we just don't know. I don't think another endurance HOH is due quite yet. I guess we'll find out tomorrow.

Here's what's been happening in that Big Brother House of Dealing Demon Dogs:

• Jessie, Kevin, and Natalie all tried to sleep in. If they didn't stay awake until dawn every night, they'd be getting up on time. It's not like BB wakes them up early. This morning the first wake-up announcements were past 9:30 AM.
• Lydia thinks Natalie likes her now after their female bonding wrestling stint last night.
• Chima thinks people should only do cocaine to get skinny.
• Huh? I don't think she thinks of the long term ramifications of the drug, how many lives it's ruined, and the fact that it's illegal.
• Getting skinny is just a teensy bit of what the drug does to a person.
• They could hear people working in the yard.
• A big section of the backyard has been covered with a tarp and barricaded.
  
• Jessie is still paranoid.
• As he should be.
• Everyone except Russell had fun with the HOH camera. He was off by himself somewhere.
• The Natalie/Jessie/Chima/Kevin/Lydia group's plan in the case of a "majority rules" type comp is to all answer "B" even if that's the wrong answer.
  

Big Brother 11 Live Feeds Into Dawn Wednesday 8/12

Natalie is spouting off Biblical references to marriage to a captive audience -- Lydia and Kevin. Okaay ...


Is it that cold in the house that everyone keeps wearing hoods, hats, and wrapping themselves in comforters? I do welcome the fact that most aren't really exhibitionists this season (cough, Jessie, cough). But it's like the house is kept at 60 degrees or something.

Here's what's been happening in that Big Brother House of Paranoid Pups:

• Chima continues to focus on getting Russell out of the house. She admits that it's personal, but claims it's a strategical move, too.
• I can see that. However, the real power teams are Jessie and Natalie, Jeff and Jordan, and to a lesser extent -- Lydia and Kevin. If I were a single player in the house, I'd be trying to break up a duo.
• Michele said they aren't allowed to name the rats at her lab. I guess that would make them too much like pets before they torture them.
• They complained about being bored.
• Bad Jeff. He drank some Gatorade and ended up be punished with an extra day of slop.
• Jordan trimmed Jeff's hair. He now has a bitty bald spot in the back. He tried to touch up the trim.
• They played with the modeling clay. Woohoo.
  
• Russell said that Chima complained in the first week that she was cast on the wrong show. She felt she should have made America's Top Model. (Isn't she too teensy for that one?) He thinks she should be on Discovery Channel as a chia pet. Okay, that made me smile.
• Jessie is forlorn because he can't grow facial hair.
• Lydia worked on Jeff for his favor. Russell worked on him, too.
• Poor Jeff.
• Chima thinks Michele is really playing the game. If she is, I think she's playing it poorly. She's way too transparent.
• Natalie wants Michele out before Jeff. So much for the girls alliance, eh?
• Kevin seriously thinks Michele might have the wizard power ... and it scares him.
• I think the world at large scares Kevin.
• Natalie and Jessie kept snapping at each other while wrestling about. But I think it's not serious -- it's more like a boy and his dog. His pit bull, to be precise. Chima got ticked at them, though.
  
• They talked more about being bored. They came up with questions and answers to occupy themselves.
• I found it all boring.
• As I get this typed up, Natalie, Jessie, Lydia, and Kevin are still wide awake. Natalie denied (almost a bit too strongly) that she is, ever will be, or ever has had a sexual relationship with a woman.
• Then Lydia attacked Natalie to wrestle, possibly kiss, while Jessie and Kevin watched.
• They fell off the bed wrestling.
• Okay.
• Now Natalie is talking about her NSYNC posters and stuffed animals of teen years. I can't take this anymore.
• Posting ...
  

Big Brother 11 August 11 Show Blog Party

The show has started here on the East Coast. This post will be updated as it airs, but the real fun is in the comments section. Everyone is welcome, bring your own snacks and beverages! Later tonight my show review will be posted on TV Squad.

Kevin won PoV. He chose not to use it so he can stay in Chima's good graces.

Big Brother 11 Live Feeds Into Tuesday Dawn 8/11

I'm going to start this off with a gripe. Y'see it's hot here and I'm cranky. Now, the flashback function on the RealPlayer live feeds is indeed a cool function. But in the house itself where they boast four feeds ... it's still just two different views of the same happenings and, a lot of time, all four feeds are on the same thing at different angles. Not once in the history of BB have I seen all four feeds on entirely different rooms. What's up with that?

Anyway ... here's what's been happening inside that Big Brother House of Pitiable Pigs in a Poke:

• Lydia and Jordan went on a cleaning spree. There's some excitement, eh?
• They also talked about how boring the house is this week.
• You don't say.
• Chima told Natalie and Jessie they're boring after they awakened from yet another nap.
• 'Tis true.
• When Jessie told the story of being pulled over by the police while in a Cadillac, Chima told him they must have thought he was black because he was "in a black man's car."
• Oh my.
• Jeff gave Jordan grief about eating (because he can't).
• Russell asked Jordan to save him with her "wizard powers."
  
• Chima still wants Russell out, claiming she doesn't like being terrorized by him.
• I don't know. I think the chia pet bit was funny. I know. I'm mean.
• Chima told Michele that if she (Michele) is the worst human being Ronnie has ever met, he needs to get out more.
• She has a point there. Michele is odd, but not a horrible human being.
• Ohhh ... you know the house is in the doldrums when BB gives them modeling clay. Next up will be the dollar store toys!
• Michele says Lydia got together with Jessie to lie, so Chima suggested that maybe Lydia should leave next (after Russell).
• Hey! What happened to the all powerful girls alliance?
• Jeff, the best chef, thinks everyone has gone to town cooking this week while he can't eat. Why, even Jordan who doesn't cook prepared a banquet.
• But Jeff can have fresh basil. Go to town with it, Jeff.
• Russell worked on Jessie for the vote, telling him if he gets evicted, no way can Jessie win the game.
• Jessie fussed on about Russell picking Jeff to play for PoV and not himself.
• Russell told Natalie he didn't think the midwest would vote for Kevin, a gay guy, to get the "wizard power."
• It's possible that a mouse has gotten into their bread.
• They played with the clay, they're still talking small talk.
• They need to go to bed.
• And I need to go to work.
  

Big Brother 11 Live Feeds Through Monday Daytime 8/10

Finger-lickin' good slop!

This house needs some shaking up. I want a brouhaha! I want a cat fight! Fisticuffs would be a welcome respite from the doldrums. Hey, throw in a unicorn and I'm so there.

Here are the day's happenings from that Big Brother House of Acrimonious Anti-Allies:

• After getting up, Kevin was directed to the diary room where there was a brief audio leak. He was receiving instructions on how to do the PoV. Not whether to use it or not, mind you.
• Then, when the time came (blocked feeds and all) ... he did NOT use the veto to save Lydia. He's going on the promises that she's definitely safe.
• Lydia isn't a happy camper. Nor would I be if my best friend in the house won the veto and didn't save me with it.
  
• Ah, something new and different -- Michele trash-talked Russell to Kevin. Russell's a terrorist, y'know.
• Chima told Kevin she's angry that Natalie never follows the direction of BB and thinks she can do whatever she wants. I'm paraphrasing there, but you get the general idea. BB tells Natalie to get up, she doesn't -- that kind of thing.
• Natalie apparently didn't cooperate when BB told her to "look alive" just before the PoV meeting.
• Chima thinks that Jeff has the "wizard power" because he's always getting called to the diary room and hasn't started any drama.
• Huh? Jeff has never been one to start drama in the house. He tries to avoid drama.
• Jeff made a slop concoction; Jordan made a fruit salad.
• And life goes on.

Today's song lyrics:
There was green alligators and long-necked geese,
Some humpty-backed camels and some chimpanzees.
Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born,
The loveliest of all was the unicorn.
-- As sung by The Irish Rovers

Big Brother 11 LIve Feeds Overnight Into Monday 8/10

Yep! Open that champagne and celebrate! At 2:48 AM this blog had its 2,000,000th visitor. Someone using Comcast and Mac out of Atlanta, Georgia. Whoohoo! Unfortunately, Russell is opening wine and it's just because BB is letting them drink alcohol once again last night. Here are the happenings from that Big Brother House of Whirling Dervishes:

• Russell polished off that bottle and some beers, too.
• Russell teased Jeff because Jeff is a have not this week and couldn't have any.
• Jeff is probably the lucky one.
• Russell told Jeff that if Lydia gets removed from the block and he (Jeff) goes up, he won't trash talk him.
• Russell says he plans to redeem Braden's name and call out people when he's evicted.
• The secret of the wizard remains safe. Although Jessie, Chima, and Natalie think Jeff has it, Russell thinks it's either Kevin or Michele.
• Russell thinks his father's letter to him during his HOH reign had secret code telling him to befriend Jeff.
• Those letters are written at the start of the season.
• Russell admitted to Jordan that he was the vote for Casey to stay.
• Chima is still going around calling Russell a terrorist. Y'know, she really should stop that. These days that's akin to calling someone a murderer or rapist.
• Jessie is sure that Jeff must have the wizard power. He thinks that Jeff will take Lydia and Russell off the block and he and Natalie will go up. Then that unicorn will come gore him ... er, cart him off on Thursday.
• Russell apologized to his father for losing the game. Well, he spoke into the cameras. I don't know if his father actually heard it.
• Michele told Jeff she's worried about herself or Jeff going up as replacements.
• Jeff told her he can't be a sheep any longer and needs to play the game.
• There ya go. Nothing earthshaking and Russell will probably have a hangover later.
  

Big Brother 11 Live Feeds Into Sunday Evening 8/09

EEK! Russell has a Dustin v-neck shirt on! But he fills it out just a bit differently.


Now Jeff is looking like the Hank Azaria character who walked the dog on Mad About You.

Here's what's been happening in that Big Brother House of Pride and Prejudice:

• Lots and lots of fish tank (blocked feeds) today due to conversations about production, conversations about people who haven't signed releases, and the movie in the HOH room.
• In between feed blocks, Chima talked about how she wants to provoke Russell into hitting her so he gets booted from the show.
• I don't think Russell would ever hit a woman. He's got a temper, but he also knows how strong he is.
• Jessie drank way too much (for him) last night. He felt it today.
• Russell started singing that Chima was a chia pet. Chi-chi-chia.
• I snickered.
• They all reaped the benefits of the candy from the movie. Er, not the have-nots. But these folks really have had tons of candy, they should still have a lot left over from the margarita party pinatas.
• I wonder if BB has a dentist under contract.
• Oh my gosh ... so much of NOTHING today.
• And you might have wondered why I didn't post before this.
• Bad hamsters! Boring hamsters!
  

Big Brother 11 Nominations Show Blog Party 8/09

The show has started here on the East Coast. This post will be updated as it airs, but the real fun is in the comments section. Everyone is welcome, bring your own snacks and beverages! Later tonight my show review will be posted on TV Squad. Sometime tonight this blog should hit 2 million unique visits (about twice that in page views). I might miss it, but I hope to catch the rough location of the 2,000,000th visitor in my Sitemeter (bottom of the blog). All it tells is sometimes location in the country and through what ISP ... nothing really personal.

I want to thank those special people who made a tremendously generous offer for Wednesday. Hopefully I'll know more tomorrow or Tuesday at the latest.

Later tonight I'll post the live feeds happenings for the day. It hasn't been really eventful. On with the show ...

Whoa ... they're doing the bath tub rapist story/Chima from WEEKS ago as filler. I wonder if the old margarita party is next.

Jeremy Piven is in the house and a luxury comp is starting. The winning team sees his new movie and one member wins a large prize. The team of Jessie, Natalie, Russell, and Jordan won. Russell won $10,000.

Nominations - key order:
Natalie, Jessie, Kevin, Michele, Jordan, Jeff.

Russell and Lydia are on the block.

Off Topic: That Was the Week It Was 8/09

Another week done and over with. I guess I should be happy that I have the rather all-encompassing Big Brother live feeds and the blog to concentrate on. I've been having extreme troubles sleeping -- I'll sleep three or four hours tops a day, then crash for eight on about the third day. I'm ending up a bit fuzzy-minded at work (which isn't a good thing) and definitely much too "emo." Well, that's what the kids call it.

Things may be changing. I met a cat, a cat who needs a home, a cat who really seemed to take to me. I can't replace Scherzo, but I know that each cat is special in his own way. I stopped in at PetSmart during my lunch hour from work yesterday. Each week they have a volunteer group -- Second Chance for Animals -- doing pet adoptions for the Franklin (Somerset) Animal Shelter. I got there just as they were packing up the cats. There were mostly kittens, but one cat attracted my attention.

If I hadn't been at work without a cat carrier and such, I think I would have snagged him right then and there. They've named him Dudley (which might end up being a middle name as I don't want to call a cat "Dud"). He's actually on the Petfinder.com website, so you can check him out. He's two years old, neutered, microchipped, has all his shots, and is feline leukemia/aids negative. He licked my hand and purred as I petted him. The volunteer there said he didn't do that for anyone else all day. He's very sweet.

I'll be calling the shelter on Tuesday when they're next open. If I can get a ride there on Wednesday, I'll pick him up then. If I can't get there Wednesday on my day off (they're open for two hours a day Tuesday-Friday), I'm going to have them bring him back to PetSmart on Saturday. I'll bring my small carrier and if he has to ride the train home with me, so be it. The trains do allow pets in carriers. I honestly think I'll be a whole lot better with a friend in my apartment again.

Then there's my weekly photography. It was an odd week there, too. I think my best shot was a huge unidentified black bug. I seemed to be having a bee week rather than a bird week, too. Clicking on any of the images will open them larger in a new window.

My, what big alien eyes you have

Yep, this is my shot of the week. Albeit a very scary huge bug (insect?), it has the coolest alien eyes I've ever seen. This guy was sitting on a bridge overpass. At first I thought he was dead, but he started moving as I shot him and eventually flew away. I'd say he measures an inch and a half to near two inches long ... the size of a mouse. I've never seen a bug like this before. I'm not even sure what classification it is. But, dang, way cool eyes. You NEED to click on this one to get a good look at the eyes.

UPDATE: Ding, ding, ding -- we have a winner! Delee identified this as a horse fly. It was bigger than any horse fly I've ever seen, but it is indeed a black horse fly - Tabanus atratus - the largest of the species. Ohh ... they slash the hides of animals and then drink the blood. But they still have cool eyes.

Sign of the times, Plainfield, New Jersey

Commercial reprographics? Whatever it is, I like this weathered sign.

Eek. A wasp.

Or, maybe it's a hornet ... a yellow-jacket or a mud-dauber. I only know that I'm deathly allergic and would probably go into anaphalactic shock if stung. Ah, putting my life on the line for the sake of one good shot. To be honest, he wasn't interested in me at all.

In which I continue to risk my life.

I believe this is a carpenter bee rather than a bumble bee. Its abdomen didn't seem to be hairy. Of course, I didn't tickle his tummy to explore the matter. These bees are out in full force this week, but most of my shots are fuzzy because they just don't stay still.

Frolicking in the graveyard

The quality isn't too good as this was a one-shot deal. The squirrel jumped down from the headstone right after this was taken. But I liked the image anyway. This is at the old Friends Quaker Cemetary in Plainfield, NJ -- taken through the fence.

Used tire for sale

I guess they keep a single used tire in stock at all times. Plainfield, NJ.

Do I have a death wish?

I continue to bug the bees with my camera.

I don't think I want an Aztec car, thank you.

Parked in front of Custom Underground in Plainfield, NJ.

We're talking classic car now.

I found this gem parked in front of the Plainfield Police Department/Municipal Court. I used layers to make the background black and white while keeping the car its brilliant blue. Like my bug shot, I have no clue what kind of car it is. But it is indeed on my Cool Meter.

Big Brother 11 Live Feeds Into Sunday Dawn 8/09

I spent a part of last night in anticipation of a house falling on Natalie. Those ARE the wicked witch's socks, right? Of course, Natalie being Natalie, the ruby slippers were more along the lines of huge quasi-fuzzy slip-on slippers which looked utterly ridiculous. Top the foot attire with baggy yellow gym shorts of one shade, an ASU sweatshirt of another yellow hue with the hood up ... and you have the Natalie fashion statement. I'm sure the look will take off all over the country.

Here's what's been going down in that Big Brother House of Unconditional Love and Respect:

• Chima is still leading her boot Russell movement. She says she wouldn't have taken the $10,000 prize because she knew the others would be mad at her.
• Chima also thinks they should have a maid. Um ... um ... aren't there several healthy young people with nothing to do most of time who are perfectly capable of cleaning up after themselves?
• Jessie is very worried that Jeff might have the power. He's not being calm, cool, and collected about it all, either.
• Jeff thinks Natalie is going around bullying people to not use the power.
• Well, we know Natalie is one of the ones who won the movie because she's already making special candy and wine requests.
• Chima, Natalie, and Jessie want to make sure that Lydia knows she's not going home this week and Kevin needn't use the PoV to save her.
• Jessie is still going on about Russell picking Jeff to play for PoV instead of him. I guess it's one of those ultimate disrespect things.
• While most think Jeff has the power, Kevin thinks it's Michele.
• Russell, despite being told not to worry by Jeff, is planning his exit speech. He says it will be more explosive than any Chima tirade.
• Lydia told Russell that Kevin won't be using the veto on her. (He told Chima he won't because they guaranteed that Lydia was safe this week.)
• Chima had told everyone not to tell Russell or Jeff or Jordan that the veto won't be used.
• But Lydia will be Lydia. Although they told her she's safe, she still would love to not be on the block at all. And, her best bud Kevin has the power.
• Chima said Southerners can barely speak English. Oh my.
• Jessie tried to convince Jeff that he and Natalie have their best interests at heart.
• Yep, anyone want to buy the Brooklyn Bridge?
• Jeff is upset that Jordan didn't tell him that Russell said he stood a better chance on the block against Jeff. Jordan doesn't remember Russell saying that. (Neither do I, but I might have missed it.)
• Who told Jeff that? Why, Jessie did.
• Jessie told Jordan he's never lied to her while Russell is constantly lying.
• Lydia fussed more with Kevin about not using the veto to save her. He says that not using it ensures that she'll stay.
• Huh. I'd say using it would do that!
• Russell told Jessie that he got Lydia and Kevin to fight over the veto and that if they (Natalie, Jessie, Jeff, and Jordan) stick to the plan, they have the votes.
• Say what? Could it all be a scheme? Or is it alcohol and wishful thinking? Jessie's not a big drinker and he was imbibing.
  
• In passing time, Jeff said he'd love to see Jessie on the block with Natalie.
• Of course, he could make that happen.
• Jessie said he thinks he's going home on Thursday.
• Of course, that could happen.
• In his drunken state, Jessie said someone will ride in on a unicorn Thursday to evict him.
• Of course, I doubt that could happen.
  
• And we thought Michele is the quirky one.
• Jessie and Kevin rode bikes around the house. BB Voice: "I said, STOP THAT! DON'T DO IT AGAIN!"
• They're all asleep as I get this posted.
  

Big Brother 11 Live Feeds Through Saturday Daytime (POV) 8/08

At this time, a normal person would be asking herself, "Where am I? And, what am I doing in this handbasket?" But the people who go in the Big Brother house know the job is dangerous when they take it. They're not normal. Even if they seem normal, they're not.

Here's the latest scuttlebutt from that Big Brother House of Wayward Girls and Boys:

• Late last night Michele once again put her foot in her mouth. She needs to understand her jokes, perhaps made to say something/anything, alienate her.
• In the newly formed (will probably implode) girls alliance, Michele is the iffy one who doesn't quite fit in.
• What else is new?
• Michele told Jordan that Jeff is treating her differently now and she blames Russell.
• She says Jeff is calling her crazy. To be honest, I think at one time or another, all have been called crazy by someone.
• Including me. They're all nutjobs, I tell ya!
• Jeff, Natalie, and Kevin were chosen to play for the veto with Chima, Lydia, and Russell.
• Lydia and Kevin think that Jeff has the wizard power as he's been very quiet and hasn't been talking about said wizard power.
• Lots of sleeping going on today. Maybe if they slept at night, they wouldn't feel the need to take power naps so much.
• After an extensive feeds block for the PoV, the feeds returned ... and Kevin won the PoV.
  
• Lydia and Kevin did a happy dance together. Aww, sunshine and lollipops for all.
• Kevin told Lydia he wants to check with Chima to see if it's okay to save her.
• Huh? What's up with that? Lydia reminds him that Chima can't play for HOH next week and can't put him on the block if she's mad.
• Kevin told Chima he wants to respect her nominations, but needs to make sure Natalie and Jessie will vote to evict Russell.
• Chima said that if Jeff has the wizard power, she'd end up having to put Natalie and Jessie on the block and she doesn't want to do that.
• Chima insists that Lydia is the pawn and reminded them that Russell won $10,000 yesterday in the Have Have Not comp.
• Kevin agreed not to use the PoV.
  
• Jessie and Russell had a bit of a spat. Jessie pretty much told Russell he screwed him over twice before and he can't trust him not to do it again. Russell actually picked Jeff to play PoV when he could have chosen Jessie.
  
• Russell is way worried about leaving.
• Back to power naps...