D’oh!
:smack:
Booooorrrrringggg!
Other than two or three events, nothing much has happened since Friday.
The hamsters had to paint plaster gnomes for the veto competition (I’m assuming that it was a smash-em-up thing), which at least provided several opportunities for amusement. Amy’s gnome sported as much makeup as she does. Roddy’s gnome is an ax murderer. Hehe.
Jason won the veto. So unless he gets a massive infusion of evil self-interest within the next eight hours or so, the nominations will stand as they are.
Dani won America’s Choice and got a video message from home. Apparently her mother’s MS went into remission. And Christianne straightened her hair.
They had a cookout last night (Big Brother let them play with fire!) at Gerry’s instigation. Everyone pretended to humor him but they really weren’t particularly excited by the idea.
Marc and Amy are fighting. Marc, in conversation with Dani, has said that Amy has to go and if he realized why she really wanted Chiara out, he’d have voted to evict Roddy. Marcellas is finally realizing that she mostly wanted Roddy to herself and to have the spotlight on her. Looks like jealousy rears its ugly head between these two…who else guessed they were eventually going to fight over Roddy? 
Veto meeting is today sometime. The outcome is pretty obvious, but I’ll recap if I come across it.
LMAO!
Priceless. 
Jayjay
Thanks for your updates. I enjoy them thoroughly. I have a couple of questions about the veto rules. Can Jason actually veto (and change) his own nominations? What happens if a nominee wins the veto?
Yes, Jason can veto one of his nominees.
If a nominee wins the Veto, he or she can only remove the other nominee.
Apparently, Jason did not use the veto, at least to all appearances. Nobody is unduly elated, and no one seems to have been sandbagged, so looks like no change.
You know, I really like Jason but this is about the most boring week yet, even with the rousing and amusing game of water duckball they played a little while ago.
Cute moment…you know the computerized voice that calls them to the Diary Room (I think we heard it for the first time on TV on Saturday)? When they were in the teeny-tiny pool, that voice came on and said “Attention houseguests! Remember that it only takes 440 laps to equal a mile.” Heh!
That’s Big Brother. I’m surprised we haven’t heard more from him on the TV version. (I don’t subscribe to the feed, so I don’t know if he did anything else but call people to the Diary Room so far.) He was a very powerful force, much like his namesake, in the first season, telling them what to do…“Get back in the house” and things like that. He’s a lesser force now. If the mile comment is the first non-Diary Room thing he said, my hypothesis is true: he’s gone from Stalin to Gorbachev. Heck, if the show wasn’t already well-known by its current name, you could get a new name and avoid that earlier lawsuit and the disclaimer in the credits! But what would you call it?
Actually, I believe he does most announcements (lockdowns, mic reminders, etc). It’s just that I don’t think the Voice has been heard much on TV the last two seasons (I never saw BB1) and it usually doesn’t make little jokes like that.
The announcer is Phil Proctor, from Firesign Theatre.
I remember in the first season there was more than one “Voice”, maybe two men and a woman, and they were much more conversational with the houseguests. Phil Proctor probably recorded a bunch of canned announcements weeks ago.
Oh, my goodness! Marc needs to go hook up with Chiara because they are made for each other.
Just a while ago, Marc got upset because he thought that Gerry was talking about him behind his back, and said something to the effect of “If he has something to say to me, he should say it to my face”!
You know, folks, I’ve swallowed a lot of things in my life, but I’m just choking at this one. Never has a bigger pot yelled “Black! Black!” louder at a kettle in the entire history of kitchenware. This outshines every “He hit me first!” ever cried in a sandbox in juvenile outrage. This dwarfs Emperor Franz-Josef’s historic “He hit me first!” while poised at the border of Serbia. This…this is just unbelievable. I’d turn in my rainbow flag in shame if I could just figure out how to make myself lust for women. Marc. You…are the weakest link. I wish Anne Robinson could be the destined occupier of the 8th chair at the new dining room table just so I could see her cut Marcellas down to size.
Marc, not unlike his spiritual ilk in my own local gay community, is giving me a headache. And a frustration tic.
So, is Marcellas our new bitch?
Not new, I don’t think. I’ve been considering him one for a while now. His constant behind-the-back sniping of Gerry is insupportable and annoying.
I think my greatest objection to Marcellas is that his moral worldview is based on an aesthetic principle. If he finds someone attractive, they’re a good person (Roddy, Amy, Jason). If he finds someone unattractive, they’re a bad person (Gerry, Tonya, Josh). Not that Tonya or Josh were top-of-the-line morally or anything, but Marc comes to that point from the wrong direction. Clothing he finds unfashionable isn’t just ugly, it’s reprehensible, as if wearing out-of-fashion clothes were a mortal sin.
That kind of worldview irks me. Maybe because I’m not the most handsome thing in the world and don’t have either the fashion sense or the money to dress like a model. For whatever reason, I’m finding Marc harder and harder to enjoy.
This is why it’s good that the viewing public aren’t voting any more. Cuz unless you have the live feeds you don’t realize everyone’s true personas.
I think Marcie’s prejudices speak volumes about his own insecurities.
This coming from the guy who wears socks and flip-flops… :rolleyes:
Heh, BiblioCat! Unfortunately, I think that combo is gaining legitimacy. It’s incredibly silly, but I know I’ve seen the socks & sandals thing on a few local people who aren’t known for being unfashionable.
Last night was, to quote the great Joanne Worley, “BOOOOOOOOOOOO-ring!” The hot tub is working again…or at least it was until slightly before they went to bed and it wouldn’t turn off. Marc Gerry-bashed. Quelle surprise.
Marc accused Roddy of having a deal with Gerry, which Roddy lied and denied. So much for “I’m not going to lie in here”. THen Roddy got paranoid and tried to turn every conversation with whoever around to whether that person thought he had a deal with Gerry. Amusing, but hardly earth-shaking.
Lisa and Amy have developed a new psychosis in which Gerry turns into a rapacious, murdering monster if you sleep in the same room with him, so they resurrected the incredibly lame “Too Scared To Sleep” Big Brother movie concept and went off on Gerry again for a while, then moved into the cot room for the night. And probably will do so tonight as well, since by their belief, Gerry is gone on Thursday. It should be noted that except for an inordinate interest in their drunk-night “I Never” drinking game last week, I’ve never seen Gerry leering or hovering or harassing any of the women in the house. Apparently they’ve run out of semi-legitimate complaints and just feel the need to make something up instead.
I really hope Gerry, when he gets out of the house, goes home and watches the tapes. And goes to recap sites and tries to catch up with the live feed history. And sees the kind of treatment he’s getting behind his back. And gives them all holy hell in September when he comes back for the final jury.
Aha!, no BB tonight, Wednesday. They seem to have a football game & no sign of BB after that…Looks like Miss Teen USA instead.
Hmmmmm.
It is on here at 8pm.
And it was on here at 8PM as well.
Some notes:
Didn’t Jason say that if he thought Roddy would go after Danielle he’d veto Amy and put him up? Didn’t Jason say that he thought that Roddy was talking about Danielle when he was saying he was aware that someone in the house wanted him out bad? So why didn’t Jason veto Amy and put Roddy up?! Dammit!
Was the “Marcellas Makes Love To The Mirror” segment disgusting or what? Yes, Marc, you were a professional model. Yes, Marc, you were paid to look good. But Marc, consider for a moment how brief the period of model-quality looks is…you’re already too old to be considered for a major modeling job. In five years, you’d be lucky to get a job modeling for Sears catalog. In 10 years, there’s no chance. Get all the “work” done that you want to, you’ll still be 44 years old. How many famous 44-year-old male models do you know, Marc? Besides, you’re not a model now, you’re a stylist, and while a stylist may need to dress well, nobody cares what their face and body look like.
Truthfully, if I saw Marcellas in the bar here in town and didn’t know him from Big Brother, I’d probably not look at him twice. He needs to get over himself big-time.
And then, of course, we go from my Marc-hate to my Marc-laugh. The gnomes were hilarious. When Marc isn’t ragging on Gerry or the other houseguests (or touting his own “perfection”), he can be damn funny. Regarding the gnomes, I like to think that the hamsters unconsciously painted them as true reflections of their inner selves. Marcellas’s gnome was old, and I like to think that Marc is slowly buckling under what he considers to be encroaching old age. Roddy’s gnome was a psycho axe murderer. 'Nuff said.
Dani’s America’s Choice video was so sweet, although Javier sounded like he was reading his “What I Did This Summer” essay instead of an impassioned love letter to his wife. It was so nice to see Dani reassured that her mother was all right. I can’t imagine going into seclusion with the knowledge that my mother may have multiple sclerosis and not being able to find out for sure for three months. That had to be torture for her.
Roddy…the man is hypnotic. Did you notice that in his conversation with Jason before noms, he said, in refuting what people were saying about him not trusting Jason, that “people will come in here and tell you anything to keep from being put up”. If any normal person had said this, the natural reaction should be “And how are you different?” But Jason just let this go right through him and never questioned it. I’d like to think that I’d be immune to the Roddy-mojo if I were in the house, but I can’t say for sure. It’s different when you’ve been isolated with these people for six weeks.
Tomorrow’s the live show and HoH. Interesting that I’m more looking forward to the HoH segment than the eviction segment…
Jason is worthless and weak. If he was smart he would have nominated Roddy in the first place. He made the same mistake again by not exercising the veto. If Roddy’s head was on the block, he would definitely be voted out.
I’m still sitting on the fence on whether Jason messed up or if he did a really smart thing. If Jason had put up Roddy, and Roddy survived the week (and Dani’s little alliance has proven they have no ability whatsoever to get rid of the guy), Jason would have a very influential enemy. But Jason was loyal to his promise not to put Roddy up (which was highlighted tonight) and so he still has Roddy on his side (to an extent), as well as still having Dani (the other power center in the house) on his side. Odds are that one of these two is going to the Final Two, and both of them are pretty set on taking Jason along. Lisa, poor Lisa, is pretty much swinging in the wind once things heat up for the home stretch. Gerry’s gone tomorrow, and Amy & Marcellas are totally inconsequential, since neither one has any idea how to play the game. I see the next two weeks consisting of the culling of Suzanne and Anthony, with Dani, Roddy, Lisa and Jason in the Final Four, when things really get interesting. Yes, Roddy is outnumbered, but they have to get HoH before they can oust him, and I don’t see either Marc or Amy putting Rod up. Which means that there is a 3/5 chance of someone not inimical to Roddy getting HoH.
Truthfully, if Dani is determined to keep her poorly-judged word not to nominate Roddy herself, then Lisa is the ONLY person in the house who will put him up on her watch. Which reduces the chances of his ouster to 1/5. Nasty, nasty odds.
Dani promised herself into a corner here. Not a good thing.