By: Kimba
It’s Day 17 of the feeds and Dana is HOH—so really, if you
don’t like that I’m not impartial and throw in commentary once in awhile, buck
up. There are going to be a lot of “ManTrolls” peppered throughout these
paragraphs…
To revisit the remnants of last night, since the hand of
sleep gripped me before it did the HGs: Dana decided that, as HOH, it was her
duty to go around being obnoxious and demanding explanations from everyone. As
was to be expected, she gnawed out her home for the week with the Stooges later
in the evening with Jun close by her side (she calls Jun her “First Lady;”
hmmm…). Despite giving the appearance for about, oh, ten seconds that she wasn’t
going to ally herself but simply “shake the house up,” she made her choice
obvious by whom she chose to attack (Alison and Nathan) and whom she chose to
listen to with blinders over her eyes (the Stooges). She regurgitated over and
over that she doesn’t “***** trust anyone in that house,” but I think she will
sum up to do a very good job of trusting the exact wrong people in that
house—which, actually, makes me giggle in glee.
As last night wound
down, Dana had a long conversation with David that gave us some hope; in it,
David told the truth ~except~ for maintaining the lie that wanting to use the
veto in order to have her put on the block was a ploy. Dana seemed to accept
what he was saying, but we should know better by now. The Paranoid Queen eats
everything everyone says and then goes directly over to the Stooges to vomit it
all up and have her belly scratched. Several times during this conversation
Justin came in to tell Dana how late it was getting (I suppose he was looking
for some bedtime cuddling action), but Dana insisted on finishing her
conversation with David, and anyway, she asked Jun to sleep with her in the HOH
that night. Before snuggling down to sleep, however, we overheard Dana tell
Alison that she will stick to the alliance and nominate two of the Stooges. Of
course, Dana also told Alison that their little love-triangle going on with
Justin isn’t a source of concern for her, and we know that that is an
out-and-out lie (but don’t feel bad for Alison—there wasn’t a whole lot of truth
brimming from her lips, either).
By four in the morning, Jun had fallen
asleep somewhere else in the house (I guess she finally got tired of
baby-sitting Dana; still, to last that long, she’s got stamina) and Justin took
her place by the HOH's side. Though little compliments are thrown in (“I like
you with your glasses on; it’s so natural. I find glasses sexy,” and “You have a
washboard stomach”), Justin took the opportunity for game talk rather than
romance. He told her that if she can trust anyone other than him in the house,
it is Jee and Robert. *Sigh.* She fed right into his hand as she told him that
the “elite” are her target. And so went the night that would not seem to end
until…
About three and a half hours later. Ha! There will be a food
competition in thirty minutes (at 8:30am) and BB cheerfully wakes up the
sleep-deprived HGs who must get up and get their booties in gear. The truly
crazy thing is that Jun is already up and getting ready when the wake-up
announcement sounds. I agree with her that some of the other HGs are lazy-asses,
but this is just…weird. There is a brief FOTH as everyone wakes up and BB gives
them their instructions for the competition, but we come back in time for the
competition itself. The HGs are dressed in camouflage board-shorts and bikinis,
which might be candy for our eyes but the HGs complain: Erika says specifically
that they are ~not~ eye candy (ha! And you were all chosen for your stellar
personalities) and Alison worries that her “boobies keep falling out” of her
top.
The rules of the food competition are easy: they will have army
helmets with which to catch little parachuting “army men” that will be hurled
over the walls into the backyard. The army men are really different-colored
capsules that represent different foods. Once one touches the ground, it is no
longer in game play. There are gold capsules that represent the special foods
they picked out last night, such as a daily Burger King lunch. When Dana reads
this bit of news, by the way, the HGs aren’t suitably excited for the treat
sponsored by the fast food giant (one of them even complains, “Burger King?!)
and after a momentary FOTH (which shows us Michelle being interviewed outside),
Dana rereads the news and everyone bursts into cheering. Way to pull a fast one
over on us, BB. *Eyes-rolling.*
The competition gets under way and there
is a lot of laughing and a lot of scrambling for the capsules, many of which,
despite their efforts, are strewn all over the backyard. Once the capsules stop
falling and the competition is over, the HGs take turns opening their capsules
and reading what they’ve won. They appear to have a good variety of foods; to
name only a few: sausage, steak, liver, lamb, shrimp, ostrich burgers,
alligator, bacon, nuts, spaghetti, skim milk, sour cream, margarine,
marshmallows, chocolate ice cream, cake mix, bagels, pita bread, tortilla chips,
corn flakes, granola, many vegetables and fruits, dressings, seasonings and
herbs, beer and wine and sports drinks, and the Burger King lunches. They then
rifle through the capsules they missed and see that they lost out on getting
lobster this week (I think they will survive).
To celebrate, the HGs get
their Burger King lunches right away (it’s not even ten in the morning yet).
Alison complains, “Oh, this is so gross to eat at nine-thirty in the morning,”
and a round of shut-ups chorus through the kitchen—after all, Alison wasn’t one
of the ones on PB&J last week. They all, including her, dig eagerly in and
only hope that tomorrow they can pick what they get.
You’d think that
with the lack of sleep, the exertion of the competition, and the full bellies of
fast food that the HGs would head back to bed, but it is the day of nominations
and no time is to be lost! Nathan zones in on Dana early and pushes for the
original alliance; he warns her that if she sticks with them she has a
guaranteed three weeks, but if she turns her back on them she might go next
week. She counters this with the fact that she will have the Stooges’ votes (she
hopes) and that in all reality she likes Justin and Robert just too darn much to
nominate them. Of course, she also states that she still trusts Alison, Nathan
and Jun—contrary to everything else she says, including that she cannot trust
~anyone~ in the house. I think poster KimM sums it up best when she writes,
“This woman is nuts.” Ultimately she says she only wants to look out for herself
and cannot trust the original alliance to not stab her in the back. When Nathan
assures her that he will make sure they look out for her, she retorts that he
doesn’t have near the influence he thinks he has. Okay, maybe she is smarter
than she seems—though a lot of her actions right now are based in emotion over
how she was shunned, she feels, last week. “I want to ***** people over before
they can do it to me.”
Alison, meanwhile, provokes a brief FOTH when she
mutters angrily, “I’m going to throw up. Don’t give me a ***** Whopper and Onion
Rings at 9:45 in the morn—” and she is cut off. Tsk-tsk, show better
appreciation for your sponsors, Alie!
Around eleven o’clock we learn
from Dana and Jun’s conspiring that nominations will be held this afternoon. We
also hear, much to MY dismay, that as far as she knows now, Dana will nominate
David and Jack. Of course, when Justin pops into the HOH and Dana asks him whom
he thinks should be nominated, he suggests Alison and Jack. Alison, he says, is
like Nathan who will say anything to go with the numbers, and she is also a very
strong player who can win competitions—so don’t think any lingering bad feelings
from their relationship influence this choice (ha!). Jun has by this time moved
on to the Blue Room where she tries to warn Jack of his impending nomination in a
roundabout sort of way. She tells him that though she trusts the alliance more
than she does the “other side,” Dana does not and will most likely nominate two
from the elite. She later tells Dana that she spoke to Jee and it was certain
that the Stooges were going to nominate Dana this week (Jun is playing a good
game). Dana, however, lets this roll off her back and says, “Fine, but it’s a
new game now.”
Afternoon tidbits of interest: Nathan tells Alie that his
member is named “Anaconda.” When Dana says that she forgot to take her “pill,”
Jack jokes, “Don’t worry, I’m shootin’ blanks!” Apparently after Jack’s sixth
kid, he had a vasectomy. Dana tells Alie that ~everyone~ is up for grabs in her
nominations-decision except for Jun, because Jun is the one who has lied least
to her. The others ask her why did she bother to vote with the alliance if she
won’t stick with it now, and she remarks that it happened so suddenly that she
didn’t have time to really think it through. Now, however, that she is in a
position of power, she will play the game to her advantage; in fact, when Alison
points out that they need to get rid of the “threats” in the game (Justin, for
example), Dana emphatically replies, “Yes, but threats to ME. That’s what you
guys need to understand!” And what Dana obviously doesn’t understand is that a
player cannot play that kind of game so early on in the game—she’s only placing
a neon sign flashing “EVICT ME” on her forehead.
Tidbits continued:
Alison wants Justin out. She knows that he will turn on her, and since she is
“the ***** one who brought him into the house,” she wants to “***** take him
out.” Dana tells Robert that she is going to nominate Alison and Jack with the
intent to evict Alison. David and Jack make a last-ditch effort to save the
alliance, but are met with a wall of resistance as Dana says, “I am not looking
out for six other people. I am not looking out for three people. I am not
looking out for Justin. I am looking at what is best for me.” (Okay,
okay…evil…forces…are…taking…me…over…because I actually respect that! I still
think it is a stupid game-play, however.) Jun tells Nathan that she is sticking
with the numbers—lol, which means for now she is still with the alliance. Jack
warns Dana to stop the “kissy-swapping-spit” with Justin or it will cloud her
head. Jack also tells Dana that Robert remarked at the HOH competition how “that
bitch has got to go” (meaning Dana), but Robert denies it effusively when Dana
asks him; though Alison, David and Jack will all confirm it, Robert chalks it up
to them all being against him. And why wouldn’t they be when he says things like
this about Erika: “That ***** whore! I’m going to ***** slap the bitch!” And yet
within an hour the rat is literally lying in bed ~crying~ and talking to Erika
about how he doesn’t want to be sequestered. Am I the only one to yell, “Then
LEAVE, Robert, LEAVE!” Don’t worry, we’ll be fine without you; in fact, I’ll pop
some champagne and dance a little jig with pure, unbridled happiness!
Just after two in the afternoon, Dana decides to take a shower. As the
cameras follow her about in the bathroom, she bites at BB, “Stop being all up in
my business.” When they continue to move about and follow her, she threatens to
sing; sure enough when she does, the feeds switch to FOTH. Hmm, methinks BB
needs to have a talk with her in the DR…
Alison and David take this
Dana-less opportunity to bash her. Alie admits that in the DR she always refers
to Dana as “ManTroll,” while David remarks that there probably isn’t a single DR
entry of his in which he doesn’t refer to her as “bitch” or “psycho-bitch.” He
then says she looks like a wombat. Apparently this is not bad enough, however,
because Alison takes it a step further and says she looks like “Minnie Mouse on
crack.” Erika takes David’s place and the bashing turns to play-talk: Alie
considers putting Dana up against Jun next week because neither of them can be
trusted. Erika is surprised at this, but says that her game-focus is shifting
because Dana “is really starting to piss (her) off.” Alison then veers off
strategy and starts to diss her own body and all the “cellulite” she has and
Erika, as Alison expects no doubt, immediately tells her that she has a lovely
body and needn’t worry about it. (Btw, Alie also mentions that she put
Michelle’s dress—the one she wore for her eviction—into storage to give it back
to her.)
There’s been a lot of talk and jokes directed at Jun on the
boards for her eating habits, but generally this hasn’t been the case ~inside~
the house—that is until today when Jee cracks the following after someone asks
where Jun is: “I don’t know, but I bet when the food shows up she’ll come out.”
Looks like her penchant for munching hasn’t gone unnoticed. As I’ve said before,
however, I’d rather see her snacking than killing herself with cigarettes. Dana
and Justin meanwhile are in the HOH room where she lies down to let him scratch
her back and their conversation wanders over the many usual topics they visit.
Robert, they believe, ~is~ all he claims to be (a big ladies-man, etc.). Alison
and Justin’s relationship was “nothing”; they were only “*****-buddies.”
At 4:00pm we go to FOTH and when the feeds return twenty minutes later,
one of the cameras is playing with the memory wall. Speculation abounds on the
board that nominations must have occurred, but one bright soul points out that
all ten keys are still on the wall. Suddenly we see a woman, who is clearly not
a HG, in the house adjusting the pictures and talking into a walkie-talkie. The
HGs are apparently on lockdown outside, but it only lasts a few minutes and soon
enough the mystery woman disappears and the HGs resume their haunt of the house.
It’s not long before we once again go to FOTH, however, and this time when the
feeds come back at quarter to six it is obvious that nominations ~have~
occurred.
Through simple deduction (Alison is the only one in bed with
the covers pulled up to her chin and Jack comments that he will eat all the
pretzels before Wednesday), we learn that Alison and Jack are nominated. Dana
wastes no time in telling her cronies that there must be “no mistake; all four
of you vote her out.” She means, of course, Jee, Jun, Justin and Robert. Nathan
meanwhile is trying to console Alie and telling her to “keep cool,” as she
apparently blew up at the meeting; he also tells her that David is very mad at
Dana and that Jun has her back, though on this latter point Alison is rightfully
worried. She then makes a comment that, for the first time, doesn’t make me hate
her: “I’m not going campaign against Jack. I’m 22, he is 58. That would just be
disrespectful.” I don’t necessarily agree—it ~is~ a game, but still…Alison’s not
being the usual selfish witch she normally is.
As for Erika, some
startling true colors might be starting to shine through. She readily tells Jun
that she will sacrifice Jack for Alison mainly for the reason that she suspects
Alison’s nomination was engineered by Justin. See, Erika is upset that the male
exes are targeting their ex-girlfriends; maybe she is scared if Alison is picked
off, she will be next (having narrowly escaped eviction last week). Of course,
to David and Jack she maintains that her vote will go to Alison. Hmm, even if we
don’t know which is the lie and which is the truth, that Erika is playing two
sides right now is evident.
Nathan’s key apparently was in the last
position; Dana said it was meant as a warning to everyone that if the veto is
used, Nathan will be put in their place. David seems to have taken this warning,
because he remarks that there is no way to get the veto, use it and force Dana
to put up one of the three “Stooges” (he actually used the term, and from a
convo earlier it appears they got it from the DR—how about that?!). His advice
is to avoid winning the veto and to sacrifice Alie; the other two agree (Erika
and Jack). The three of them then blame themselves for putting their alliance in
this position having let Amanda go and by not using the veto last week. Also
interesting to note is that Dave mentions the idea of there being a secret
alliance between Jee and Jun (and he is not the only one to have thought of
this—Alie wondered about it earlier; in fact, she reiterates this supposition to
Nathan later).
There is a lot of pompous talk this evening on both
sides. Erika remarks that she hates “being outsmarted by someone not as smart as
(her).” Dana says that she “just did something that no one in the whole house
had the balls to do.” It appears that both sides see themselves in the right and
the other side as imbeciles. Alie and Dana have a mini-spat over the nomination,
and when Alie remarks, “I’m disappointed in you,” Dana throws the words back in
her face. Alison blames Justin for influencing Dana, but Dana says that Alie is
the one person in the whole house who has disappointed her most. Over in the
Blue Room David says that they now play a waiting game until next HOH and then
bursts out, “Slutslutslutslutslutslut!” Is he talking about Dana? Erika deflects
the comment onto herself and calmly says, “Stop calling me slut,” to which he
replies simply, “I can’t.”
Back to Alison, she tells Dana she won’t vie
for the veto; she wants to be evicted so she can be with her boyfriend for his
birthday (bah, I am so sick of nominated HGs singing this tune). She then asks
Justin if he will vote as “she” (Dana) wants and vote for her and he says yes;
he won’t use the veto, either, if he gets it. She offers to tell him everything
she knows the night before she leaves, but he says he doesn’t want her to. She
calls him stupid, and I agree, but Justin seems to think somehow that Dana saved
him this week. Once alone, Alison throws a solitary tantrum in her bedroom,
flailing blankets and asking the Space-Muffin above to let her win the “goddamn
veto” (that lasted long), and then covers her head with her hands. It’s always
fun to watch these princesses come to the realization that their popularity
won’t save them…
A bit later, Nathan assures Alie that he will use the
veto if he gets it. He actually asks that she let him get it, so that she can be
saved and he can’t be nominated in her place. She agrees and says that if it
works out, she’ll get HOH next week (because she is “honestly smarter than
everyone else in the house”) and everything will be golden. Whether or not
Nathan will keep his word, it is obvious that he doesn’t want Alie to win the
veto; he knows that if she does, he is a goner.
Interesting tidbits of
the night: When Erika mentions that Julie Chen is dating Les Moonves (the head
of CBS), there is an instant FOTH. Jun prepares a veritable feast of pasta,
seafood and steak for dinner. Everything Dana says the alliance blamed on the
Stooges, they deflect off onto Alison (they ain’t SO dumb and Dana is easy to
play when she gets to hear what she wants to hear). Both sides (Dana, Jee,
Justin and Robert versus Alison, Erika, David, Jack and Nathan with Jun
somewhere in the middle) repeat over and over and over ad nauseam that they have
to get HOH next week. The original alliance considers wooing Jee over to their
side. Dana basks in her glory as she talks to the Stooges about how no one will
use the veto (“it’s perfect!) and how much fun it was to watch “their” faces as
they pulled the keys that afternoon. David puts a toaster in the bathtub and
triumphantly announces, “There! Now Dana can take a bath!” When Nathan remarks
that Alison has “a hunk of a nose,” she irritably informs him that she doesn’t
appreciate that since she spent four thousand dollars on it (to steal poster
livefeedwhore’s joke: Refund!!). As she heads for bed, she notices her blue
elephant is missing and asks where it is. David tells her that the last time he
saw it, it was making toast; Alison goes off in search and finds it in the
bathtub with the toaster (lmao…I don’t know why, but I find this *****
hilarious). She, of course, yells at him and says the “execution” hasn’t
happened yet, to which he replies, “It committed suicide!”
The night
trails off in the usual manner with Dana and Justin massaging each other in the
HOH room as they and the other Stooges engage in self-congratulatory talk that
requires the putting down of everyone else. Alison and Nathan conspire; Alison
and her blue elephant eavesdrop at the HOH door; Jee notices her and Dana wants
to catch her in the act, but doesn’t manage to; and eventually the house settles
down into sleep…that is excepting Dana and Justin who continue chatting long
into the night (despite a lack of sleep on the former night), and as Phantom
puts it, “Oh crap, more of their insufferable confidence.”
Get used to
it folks, it’ll be quite a many night before we’re rid of it!
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