BB19: Live Feeds into Wednesday Dawn, Kerfuffles and a Brouhaha - August 9

The Dynamic Duo ... bwahaha!

I think I've done it. I've totally exhausted myself. Last night I fell asleep at 7pm after work and slept for almost ten hours. So, I was up early catching up on the live feeds. Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Lackadaisical Louts:

• Talking with her boy Josh, Christmas thinks that after they get Jessica out this week, Cody needs to go next. Then they can concentrate on ousting Matt and Raven.
• Hmm. What about Mark and Elena?
• Christmas also doesn't buy Paul's claim that a show veteran can't win because Nicole won last season (over Paul, the then newbie).
• Hey, that's what I've been saying!
• Jason and Alex continued to explore the idea of a deal with Cody.
• Josh has actually been on fairly good behavior when it comes to Jessica and Cody. He apologized to Jessica the other day.
• But apparently Jessica and Cody are of the mind that it's "too little, too late."
• Both have been snapping at him and treating him poorly although they're getting along with everyone else without issue. They've been calling him a coward, making fun of how he enunciates words and Cody threatened to "destroy" him outside of the house.
• Well, when they're actually mingling in public they get along with others, that is.
• Josh and Jessica had a loud verbal kerfuffle.
• But he didn't do circus music.
• But he did go up to the HoH room and cry.
• Matt was there to comfort him, but Josh was in tears about all the personal attacks.
• Geez. Pot. Kettle. Black.
• Now, my heart goes out to someone who receives personal attacks out of the blue. But, has Josh forgotten what he's done to them, especially Jessica?
• Cry me a river.
• And, so he did. Christmas and others continued to comfort the poor abused boy.
• @@
• Kevin, while not seeming to have much sympathy over Jessica "personally attacking" Josh, did have issues with Cody's threats of physical violence.
• He thinks Cody needs to be out of the house, that he's dangerous ... not meaning dangerous as a comp beast, dangerous as a physical threat to others.
• Jessica told Cody that if he wins HoH, he needs to go after someone bigger than Josh. She says she made the mistake of going after Josh for personal reasons.
• Oh noes. Josh goes for the pots and pans,
• Maybe BB needs to take them away and give them paper plates, limiting them to using the microwave oven until this season is over.
• Mark ended up on the wrong side of the house when he claimed Josh started the latest kerfuffle.
• Paul says that Cody/Jessica went too far when they called Josh "fat."
• Are we in third grade here?
• Mark says he himself has been bullied (in real life and in the house) and has been gone after with the pots and pans (in the house) and it's harassment. 
• He's right.
• Back in the day, when Evel Dick went about with pots and pans, it was a totally different thing and certainly not repeatedly done whenever he was upset as it is with Josh. Dick's was more of a wake up call!
• Josh's actions are more of a child acting out because he's having a hissy fit.
• Despite Mark claiming that Josh isn't a victim and Paul pushing the case he is, they (Mark and Paul) got over it without resorting to childlike temper tantrums or crying.
• Cody and Jessica exiled themselves again. Cody thinks that the only regrets they really have is when they react to the others. Hmm. Well, reacting with name-calling and threats of physical violence aren't too cool in the long run. 
• Now, despite Josh being a childish jerk, it's Cody in the spotlight again due to his threats of physical violence.
• Oh. And for calling Josh fat.
• I didn't see the actual happening on the feeds -- they blocked some of the Josh/Cody brouhaha -- but a panel in the door was nearly damaged and Cody reportedly was the one who was at fault. Hmm.
• Since I'm older than Kevin, my main thought is ... "Is this the future of America?"
• EEK!
• Raven hopes that she will be recruited to be on The Amazing Race.  
• No. Just no. Please no.
• Elena, the only one on slop this week (heehee), is upset because she has no energy due to being a Have Not and BB won't let her nap.
• Poor Elena.
• Heh.
• Kevin told Paul he's abandoning his hopes/plan to get them working together after Cody's actions. He can't condone them and there's no saving Cody at this point because he's too explosive.
• Kevin said Cody is a nincompoop.
• Paul used more colorful language to describe Cody.
• As he always does.
• I think we need a BB season with fines taken out of the stipends for every time someone uses an F bomb without good cause like stubbing a toe or breaking a foot. How do these people function in the adult world? The corporate world? With their grandparents?
• Paul wants to move to New York City after the show. No, I don't want to run into him on the street even though I think he should have won last year and he's playing the best game in the house this season, too. Believing he's a good BB player is fine with me. Real life stuff? He's SO not someone I want to know!
• They continue to go over the odd piped-in sounds and announcements thinking that might be part of the HoH comp.
• Whatever the comp is, it can't be anything too intense construction-wise because the yard remained open.
• Mark and Elena are back to snugglebunnies.
• Gah.
• And, despite the thoughts that Kevin might work something out to work with Cody and Paul to take over the house, all bets are off now with the kerfuffle/brouhaha.
• Jessica should be going home tomorrow.
• No one will now work with Cody. If he stays in, he'd have to win HoH and/or PoV or the Temptation Challenge.
• I personally don't think I'd want to be in the jury house with him. He's bound to be an unhappy camper sans Jessica in that house.  

She wants to play comps

I'm ready for Hollywood fame!

My boyz

Cody has a facial hair thing goin' on

Just proof they're all bozos on this bus ... Jessica bangs a can with a wooden spoon so hard it broke ... right in Josh's face. This brouhaha between Josh and Jessica was not instigated by Paul. It was all on Josh and Jessica. This was before he got the pots and pans out. I realize that some folks "hate" Paul so much that everything is blamed on him. But these folks can be jerkfaces all on their own without instigation. If Paul told you to jump off the Empire State Building, would you do it? They're supposed to be adults.

BB19: Live Feeds into Tuesday Dawn - August 8

Birthday boy

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Follow the Leader:

• Not a heck of a lot has gone on since I last posted.
• They're sure the sounds and noises they've heard are tied in the the next HoH comp.
• Of course, WE know it's Fright Week (or whatever) this week in the house starting with that spooky comp.
• So, perhaps the noises are just to rattle them.
• Either way, they're studying and quizzing each other on them.
• Except for Jessica and Cody -- they spent as much time alone in the yard as they could before it shut down.
• I'm expecting ghostly figures to appear in the mirror windows.
• Aren't you?
• Mark and Elena are back on. Gah. I don't want to see them kissing. It's bad enough I have to change the feed I'm watching when Jessica and Cody go hot and heavy.
• What if BB had a season with NO showmances?!?!
• It's definitely more entertaining for me to see Alex and Jason pick on each other and fake fight.
• Paul told Keving that he (Paul) is basically playing for second place again because nobody will vote for a show vet to win.
• I don't know about that.
• First off, Nicole won last year over a newbie (Paul).
• Second, even his house enemies have said how well he is doing at playing the game. I suppose it's up to who he'd be sitting next to, but unless it's a bitter jury, Paul will win.
• Maybe if it's Kevin up there with him at the end, Kevin might win because he's so well-liked by all.
• Meanwhile, Alex and Jason still are wondering what Kevin might do outside the house. A mobster married to a nurse for 30 years? The Mayor of Boston?
• That's it for now. It should be quiet until all heck breaks loose with the new HoH comp on Thursday. 

Kitchen chatting

BB19: Live Feeds into Monday Night, Veto Meeting - August 7

Is that a holiday sweater? Christmas?

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Radical Rats:

• Kevin is all excited about everyone sitting at the table eating dinner for his birthday. He wants some time with the game aside. He wants family time, it seems. I guess he misses his kids!
• Besides his dream of dinner together, Kevin also has another dream in which he, Jason, Paul, Cody, Christmas and Alex work together to be the final six.
• He might have to just keep on dreaming.
• Jessica, thinking she will be evicted this week, pep-talked Cody. She knows he can win comps and that skill just might save him.
• The PoV meeting went down, blocked to the life feeds.
• Mark saved himself.
• Phew!
• He might have been dense enough to use it to save his unrequited love Elena. I 'm glad he came to his senses!
• Raven, as planned, is the replacement nominee for Mark.
• If Christmas had her way, Cody would be going home this week. The animosity she feels towards him increases daily. It's to the point where just about every breath he takes near her will irk her.
• Hmm. I've had neighbors I felt that way about!
• Jessica mentioned to Cody that BB offers them therapy after they leave the house. 
• Cody says he doesn't need it.
• I think a punching bag might suffice for him.
• Some weirdness happened today. First, Kevin saw a Happy Birthday balloon over the wall. Then the sounds of a baby crying piped through the house with someone yelling to hush said baby.
• Oh my.
• Are they clues?
• Alex tried to warn Paul that others think he's spending too much time with Elena.
• Will he listen?
• Then there was a dog barking piped through the house.
• Hmm.
• A shot rang out! The maid screamed! 
• Oops. That last one was me.
• Alex isn't on board with Kevin's thoughts of keeping Cody.
• She and Paul agreed that keeping him could be a bad idea, especially if there's a double eviction.
• Kevin told Cody that he wanted everybody for dinner at 7pm. Cody told him since the yard would be shutting down, he had a date with Jessica. He agreed to come in for cake.
• Kevin also talked to Cody about possibly working with Paul. Cody said that Paul never lied to him, telling him one thing and doing another. He has others who he thinks betrayed him he would target first.
• When they starting singing Happy Birthday to Kevin, only Jessica was missing. And she had a good excuse -- diary room. Josh took part.
• Still not like a happy family ...



The morning walk and talk laps



He's playing the game and the others



Banana logic



She's obviously glued Cody's head on

BB19 Live Feeds into Monday Morning - August 7

Paul gets a make-up job

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of People You Don't Invite to Your House:

• Mark and Elena are over.
• Mark and Elena are back together.
• Mark and Elena are over.
• Elena is hitting on both Matt and Paul.
• Yet Mark is still lovesick.
• Christmas continued to plant the anti-Elena seeds in Josh's mind.
• Kevin told Josh that Jessica needs to go this week.
• That was it. Too much data and confusion. Josh's head blew up and he's out for the count.
• Okay, I made up the last part.
• But Josh's HoH reign that he claims is his own is actually a tug of war with Paul and Christmas both in his ear.
• He recognizes the Paul part and claims Paul's game is Paul's, not his own.
• But, what about Christmas? I don't think Josh thinks of her influence on him like he does about Paul.
• Aww, Josh offered Kevin his HoH room to sleep in alone. Kevin was touched, but declined.
• In a more lighthearted note -- the make-up lessons with Paul had everyone giggling ... even Jessica.
• Kevin's birthday was at midnight. Treats all around!
• Elena is the only Have Not this week because of her bad key pick last week.
• Kevin said all he wanted for his birthday was for everyone to sit and eat together.
• Aww. His children probably never prepared him for this house of fools!
• Now Mark once again wants to use his veto to save Elena.
• Yikes! Paul couldn't believe it and lectured Mark about why he shouldn't use it on her. Use it on yourself, but not on another person!
• Mark told Paul that Elena convinced him to use it on her.
• @@
• After all, she has so much she'd have to pack if she remains on the block and he doesn't have that much stuff!
• Oh, geez. 
• After a disbelieving Paul left the room, Elena was threatening Mark that if he didn't save her, their plans for after the show is over date are off.
• Now, that's just mean!
• She then claimed she was joking.
• But she was also "joking" when she egged him on to throw pickle juice mixed with hot sauce in Josh's face.
• To be honest, I think out of all involved, I'd rather Elena go home this week.
• But I do think it will be Jessica. 

Their last week ... or not.

Does she have to caress his feet?

Comp beast in hiding?

Pressure of the veto on his shoulders

BB19: Live Feeds into Sunday Evening - August 6

Friendship

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Wooly Bully:

• Sundays are usually one of the quiet days in the house. There are no comps to be played, no veto meeting until Monday.
• I've gotten so I really enjoy Jason and Kevin's morning laps in the yard. They talk game. They talk life.
• This morning Kevin told Jason that Matt said if he won HoH, he'd nominate Jason. Eep. He also said that while Cody hates Alex and Paul, he'd be willing to work with them (Kevin and Jason). Kevin would like to save Jessica.
• From the talking, it seems the comp was OTEV.
• Most of them think Cody would have won had he played.
• Yeah, very good chance of that, I'd say.
• Cody and Jessica, assuming that Jessica will be gonzo, talked about how nasty Cody should get. Jessica advised him not to get personal, but perhaps an Evel Dick level.
• Others mentioned that BB won't give them alcohol because they don't want to "set them off."
• They've had very little alcohol in the house this season compared to most. But this season has more guys who might actually physically fight than most.
• Josh thinks he might have the votes to evict his target Elena over Jessica.
• The votes he thinks he has mostly aren't really with him. Alex, Christmas and Jason all want Elena out ... but they seem to want to tackle Jessica first.
• Josh thinks he'll be a target if Elena stays.
• I'd agree ... IF either Mark or Elena win HoH. Anyone else would have bigger fish to fry.
• Alex, Paul and Kevin talk about switching sides and working with Cody -- Kevin is pushing the idea. Alex and Jason think sticking with Paul is a better bet -- he knows the game better.
• Matt and Raven talked the pros and cons of either of them going up as a pawn if/when Mark uses the veto. Mark said he'd rather be a pawn when he can play for veto. 
• Raven, knowing that this would be the safest time to be a pawn, said she's willing to go up.
• They will guilt trip Mark about having the "sick girl" take his place on the block.
• Raven talked about both her real and probably imagined health issues.
• Yawn.
• Jessica told Elena that she thinks Paul is playing a great game. She would vote for him to win if the finals were tomorrow.
• That he is. A few hiccups now and then and he's still obnoxious to watch or listen to on the live feeds. But he knows how to work people.
• Jessica also warned Elena that Christmas is not her friend.
• She told Elena that Paul would protect her, but Alex and Jason wouldn't. If sides flipped, Elena should stick with Paul.
• Well, I'd prefer Elena go -- she irks me. But Jessica's advice to her is pretty spot on.
• Meanwhile, Paul would like to get through the season without every being on the block.
• No, I doubt he'll be a Derrick.
• Both Paul and Elena told Mark to use the veto to save himself or not at all.
• That's the way it should be, I'd say.
• Now, as I close out this report, things seem to be swaying towards voting out Elena rather than Jessica.
• We'll just have to see what happens.

Awning duties

The morning laps in the yard

Mixing and mingling ... sort of.

Influencing Josh, easy to do.

Still in cahoots?

Talking pleasantly? Oh my.

Playing her own game

BB19: Temptation Challenge and Nominations Show Blog Party - August 6

As the show airs here, I'll be live-blogging and constantly updating this entry -- refresh the page to get the latest! As always, the real party is in the comments area. Come join in on the fun! 

Recap starts off with the Josh/Mark fiasco. Recap, recap. 

Mark is worried, but he and Josh have made up. Josh tells him he won't be provoking him again. Mark hopes all is cool with him. Jessica and Cody are (rightfully) worried. 

Paul points out how unhappy Mark and Elena seem to be with Josh's win. Alex points out to Josh in front of Mark that his "face was down" when Josh won. She has a long talk with Mark, starting out with an argument. She accuses him of playing both sides. He admits doing so to us.

Josh thinks he actually has four targets -- Cody, Jessica, Elena and Mark. Paul wants him to go after Jessica and Cody. Christmas points out that it's Josh's HoH, not Paul's. So ... it's to become Christmas's HoH? She wants Mark or Elena out because they're floaters.

A talk between Josh and Elena doesn't seem to help improve her standing in his book.

Paul thinks Jessica needs to go first out of the four targets. Christmas takes Josh aside and tells him she loves Paul, but don't do everything he says. She told him that he needs to be nice to all four.

Heh, Elena is definitely Josh's target. He thinks she's very influential to others while Jessica and Cody will always be targets. Josh thinks others don't see what he sees in the threat of Elena. 

The Den of Temptation voice speaks to them warning them the comp will be in the morning. Jessica and Cody think they don't have much to lose and will both play in the comp. They hope one wins safety, the other might win veto. 

Everybody except Christmas is drinking the potion to play. (No wonder the feeds were blocked for over ten hours for the comp!) 

They have to find three written clues in the haunted house that will seal the rift between two worlds. Evil scary things are jumping out at them as they do the challenge individually. Jessica's plan was to throw the comp so Cody could win. She does just that.

Mark 7.06
Kevin 3.11
Elena 12.31
Jason 12.07
Jessica 15.0
Raven 9.0
Cody 3.0
Matt 3.42
Alex 3.06
Paul 3.34 

Cody is safe. Jessica is the third nominee. Elena is worried that she will go on the block. Mark is just as upset.

Paul thinks they should target Jessica and not let her be saved with the veto. Josh still wants Elena out. Paul tells Josh to tell Elena it's a team effort and she's a pawn. Josh tells us again that she's his target. 

Elena doubts Josh's reasoning that she is a good competitor and that's why she's a pawn. Josh thinks she's throwing Paul "under the rug." So he brings Paul in on the conversation. She kerfuffles about it but he says she will go up as a pawn.

Nominations ceremony time.

Josh nominates ... Mark, then Elena.

Mark, not really familia. Elena, good competitor. Josh tells Jessica he's gunning for her.

Off Topic: That Was the Week It Was - August 6, 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.

It's been just another week in the life. We've had nightly or early morning thunderstorms almost every day and hot, humid days.  The streak seems to be over for now. I left my windows open last night for the first time in days. It was great not to be running the air conditioner and not to worry about rain coming in the windows! Tomorrow it's supposed to rain again. Sigh.

Mind you, I actually kind of like rain and storms ... just not when I have to be out commuting in that weather!

I really don't have much for you this week other than the photos I took. So, without further ado ... clicking on an image will open a larger version in a gallery setting.

Mama Sparrow still feeds baby ...

... even though baby looks fatter than her and is perfectly capable of picking up his own bread crumbs!  The youngster chases after Mom, fluttering his wings repeatedly and cries for food. Sheesh. I don't know about this younger generation! Plainfield Train Station.

A small murder of crows gather

 While waiting for my train (delayed by a half-hour!), I watched crows gather on the obsolete technology across the street from the Plainfield Train Station. At least their antics gave me great photo fodder and passed the time while I waited to be late for work.

Are they arguing?

Last call for alcohol! Er, um ...

Last call before the Flower of an Hour closes up for the day, that is.

If I had the time, I'd love to time lapse these

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BB19: Live Feeds into Sunday Dawn - Aughst 6

Everybody is giving him HoH advice

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Crap Shoot HoH:

• As you know from my recemt posts, Mark and Elena are on the block with Jessica as the third nominee as she lost the Temptation Challenge. Cody won safety in that challenge. Mark won the Power of Veto.
• What Josh really wants is Elena out of the house.
• He's apologized to Jessica for his bad behavior. While she didn't really truly seem to be accepting the apology, he did make the effort. 
• He has been telling the others not to be mean to her.
• Hmm.
• Yet, Christmas in particular, has Josh's ear. She has had it for weeks on end. When everyone else was treating Josh as the clown they could count on to create chaos and be a vote for their side, Christmas befriended him (whether fake or not and obviously for her own nefarious purposes) and acted like she really cared about him and wanted to secretly work with him until the end.
• Elena isn't the one immediately on Christmas's agenda -- Cody and Jessica are. Since Cody can't get got, it's Jessica.
• She wants Josh to convince Mark not to use the veto.
• If he doesn't and the nominations remain the same, it should be Jessica or even Elena voted out, not Mark. 
• But, then again, if Mark does something foolish and sets off the house, it could be a Marcellas Reynolds saving Amy Crews situation with him going home. 
• If he uses it to save Elena, he'd be putting his own game at risk.
• To be honest, I think at this point, anyone from their side put on the block with either Elena or Mark would result in Jessica going home.
• Christmas wants to break up the duo before both get into the jury house together.
• Josh's buddy Paul is also trying to get Mark not to use the veto.
• Dang. If they're all that dead set on breaking up Cody and Jessica, it really shouldn't matter who is up on the block against Jessica!
• They're saying that if Mark doesn't use the veto, it will show he's split from Cody.
• Um. Gee. I just don't get how if he uses it on either himself or even Elena, what it would have to do with being apart from Cody or not. Now, if he used it to save JESSICA, then that would say he's with Cody. But otherwise? Just making sure his own butt is safe or his lovesick sense of chivalry is alive if he uses it on Elena.
• I guess I just can't think like a hamster in the Habitrail.
• Mark told Josh he wants to use it and save himself. He claims it's not that he doesn't trust them not to vote him out. He just doesn't want to have the worry nagging him for four days and have to pack his bags and all.
• Mark also told him that he wants to win HoH next week and target Cody -- that will show them whose side he's on.
• So, Christmas is saying that if Mark takes himself off the block, they can't trust him.
• Say WHAT? 
• I guess I just don't see what difference who's on the block with Jessica makes! At this point, it should be all voting for Jessica to go except for Cody. I'm just not understanding the big deal about someone who's not the target saving himself being an issue of trust.
• Meanwhile, Kevin wants Paul to work with Cody after Jessica leaves the house.
• Hmm.
• I will say that if Kevin is at the end, especially if it's a bitter jury, he'd win it all because he's about the only one in the house who's liked by all. He isn't a comp beast but his social game is extraordinary.
• Back in the Jessica/Cody camp, Jessica is letting her insecurities about Alex show. She told Cody if she leaves and sees him fooling around with Alex, she'll never see him again.
• Now, Cody is a lot of things -- often sullen, hotheaded and more. But he's totally smitten with Jessica. Yet, she's jealous. If they stay together after the show, I predict a rocky long marriage. "Yeah, we've been married for fifty years and argued every day!"
• Paul actually gave Josh some good life advice. It kind of surprised me as I listened. He was talking about girls coming into his room where he has human skulls and it being a turn off. But then he admitted that he doesn't or hasn't had sex with many women. He told Josh that he should save that for someone he truly cares about. Oh my.
• Then, later on, Josh and Paul shared the HoH bed. 

Ew. Just ew. Nothing more to say.

Being a clown is in his blood

Jessica won't get her out this week!

"They're creeper cameras!"

Will he pull a Marcellas?

BB19: Live Feeds Power of Veto Update - August 5

After many more hours of blocked feeds, they've returned. And, we have a new Power of Veto winner.

It's Mark.

Christmas wants Josh to convince Mark not to use it and promise they'll keep him safe and vote out Jessica. To her thinking, it would serve two purposes -- it would separate Mark from under Cody's will and show Mark they trust him.

Problems: Josh actually wants Elena out and Mark is super paranoid. I personally can't see him not saving himself. We'll see.

BB19: Live Feeds - Tempt Challenge and Nominations into Saturday Dawn - August 5

Paul and Elena talk

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Crumbling Cookies:

• The live feeds were blocked for 100 hours yesterday! Some of us have to work for a living, including having to work weekends! Grr.
• Okay, it wasn't a 100 hours. It was more like ten hours. But, still ... they didn't return until almost 2am Eastern Time. I had been awake since 5am and worked all day Friday. I ended up going to bed, getting up early and catching up via Flashback.
• After they returned, they already had the Temptation Challenge done and nominations in.
• Cody won safety this week in the Temptation Challenge.
• Unfortunately, both Cody and Jessica chose to play in that.
• Uh-oh. Jessica did the worst and is put on the block as the third nominee.
• Josh nominated Elena and Mark.
• Hmm.
• Now, of course, IF Cody gets chosen to play PoV and wins, he could take Jessica off the block and she wouldn't be replaced or she might even win PoV -- she's fairly good in many comps. That would end up with either Mark or Elena going home.
• I think I'd personally prefer Elena going home of those two. She often irks me on the live feeds, more so than Mark.
• Oh my. There was a kerfuffle between Josh, Paul and Elena.
• Despite the fact that Elena badmouthed Paul and Alex earlier in the day, now Paul trusts Elena more than he does Josh?
• That's a bit whacked.
• Elena once again is trying to tug the same heartstrings with Paul that she did some time ago with Mark -- Woe is me.. I have no job to go home to, no home to live in. Woe is me. BB is my job.
• @@
• Paul told her he's not the HoH this week -- last week was enough for him.
• He told her that he (Paul) was willing to be a pawn for Josh because Josh was a pawn for him.
• Paul advised her to win the veto to take herself down. He said he'd try to help her if he's chosen to play for veto. But, he didn't promise to take her off the block if he wins.
• Maybe he's just not that into her! Heh.
• Meanwhile, Josh is telling everyone not to talk to Jess and Cody because they're playing "victims."
• Um. Well. They actually were victims of his ridiculous antics.
• He doesn't want people to attack them, just ignore them. 
• I would guess BB spoke to him about his outrageous behavior.
• Both Jessica and Cody hung out with the others most of the evening in the kitchen. Well, what evening was left after the feeds came back, that is.
• Jessica talked with others (not about game) and smiled. Cody did his staring with an occasional comment thrown in.
• They feasted at midnight their time when the Have Nots could finally eat again.
• Raven and Christmas both trash-talked about Jessica to Josh.
• Josh thinks that Jessica was incredibly rude to him in her speech while Raven is still going on about cat ears.
• Josh told his crew he wants Jessica out this week.
• That's even after Paul brought up that Elena threw him, Alex and Jason "under the bus" to Josh.
• Mark thinks that Jessica and Cody did the right thing by both competing in the comp. This way, she'd have a chance at veto (maybe two chances if Cody plays) and it wouldn't be a backdoor with no possibility of saving herself.
• He might have a point there.
• Alex hid a two-liter bottle of Coca Cola in the storage room. Kevin and Jason hid bottles of water in the lounge room. I don't know why. Maybe they expect a shortage and plan to make money selling the beverages?
• Josh's ideal final four would be himself, Alex, Jason and Kevin.
• Now, I like the thought of three of them being in the final four.
• He thinks Christmas and Paul should round out the final six.
• Hmm.
• Jason would prefer Elena going home over Jessica this week. He says Elena's playing everyone and thinks she's smarter than all. At least they know where Jessica stands.
• Kevin talked with Jason about the possibility of working with Cody once Jessica goes home. He thinks they could get Cody to realize that Mark, Elena, Matt and Raven were targets more so than them.
• Hmm.
• Kevin is right that Cody does well in comps and would be a lone wolf.
• However, I doubt that Jason and Kevin would make the top of Cody's hit list for targets if he does win HoH.
• If Jessica goes home this week, Kevin is going to whisper to her to tell Cody to work with him because "I've been good to you."
• Hmm.
• A lot will hinge on the veto comp later today.  

Ecstatic over his win

They're cousins, identical cousins ...!

From pirate to babushka

Just playin' the game

BB19: Live Feeds into Friday Dawn - August 4

Meow

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Vindictive Voles:

• As per usual, and perhaps more expected than normal, Cody and Jessica exiled themselves away from the crowd.
• When they did happen to pass through or bump into someone else, no animosity was immediately evident.
• Jessica, true to form, attempted now and then to mix with the others.
• Cody didn't really attempt to be anything other than himself.
• Alex and Mark had a forever long talk, airing all their grievances with each other. It started because Alex said something about Mark looking sad that Josh won HoH.
• They both came to common ground and now are buddies.
• But I don't think they really trust each other.
• Despite the long talk, Mark is sad and thinks he might want to go home on Friday.
• I don't think they want to send him home, though. And, he probably knows it's unlikely as well.
• Jessica and Cody have decided, since they know they'll be targeted, if the next comp has prizes, they'll go for them.
• Elena is more of an "odd man out" than Mark at this point.
• Her loyalty to Jessica is wavering along with power shifts in the house.
• Despite her explanations, Josh told her he was hurt by her voting against him.
• But she's not a major target.
• They're all a bit worried about the Temptation Challenge.
• Paul wants to win Safety ... not so much because he's worried about his own safety, mind you. He just doesn't want Cody or Jessica to win it.
• Everybody, including Cody and Jessica, went to the HoH reveal. Jessica smiled and mixed in; Cody was basically quiet.
• Josh got a bit teary reading his letter from his mother.
• That's it for now. 

Alex and Mark heart to heart talk

I don't wanna go see his HoH room!

EVERYBODY goes to see Josh's HoH room

Familia!

Jessica smiles in HoH, Cody not so much

Strategy talks going on