By: Kimba
It’s another late morning wake-up for the HGs today on the 23rd
day of our feeds. An eviction and a new HOH loom on the near horizon, but the
HGs’ excitement is less than palpable as they continue to snooze on past noon.
Dave, Erika and Jack are the first awake and talking, though being that the fate
of two of them lies in the telling of the afternoon, it’s not surprising that
their minds turn early to the question: who will be evicted? Apparently, despite
all they’ve been told, they all agree that it “could go either way.” In fact,
they are even considering the thought that the Blondies have been spreading:
that the Rat Pack are lying to them and David ~won’t~ go after all.
Soon
after, everyone physically gets out of bed and begins their morning routines in
the bathroom and kitchen; in particular, most of them seem to have voracious
appetites, and we wonder if they are storing up for fear that tomorrow they
might be subjected to the horrors of PB&J? Good thinking, since this is the
alternate week where one half of them ~are~ going to have to say goodbye to
Jun’s cooking, their breakfast sandwiches, and meals upon meals of
steak.
Now, apparently last night some kinky stuff went down with Dave
and Alison. It happened after I finished my summary for the day—because as I
posted it, the HGs were all sleeping and I assumed they would stay that way
until morning. Some people saw it; some people speculated they had sex; some
people speculated they only, er, gratified each other with their hands while
making out. What exactly happened? Well, as we hear David telling Erika about it
this morning, we eagerly hope to find out, but alas, he does not reveal much at
all. In fact, what he did seems to have been more of a strategic move than it
was about any sort of emotion (even lust) for her (strange that—he must have
hopes to stay today): “I’ve totally got Alie now. I just ***** with her head.
She plays by her emotion.” Sensible-headed Erika interjects, “Don’t you think
Amanda would be upset?” Well, Dave’s plan now, as he states, seems to be about
messing with the “girls” and using that to his advantage. While he feels “bad
about Amanda,” it’s “just a game.” Now folks, can we think of all the horrible
names a woman would be called if she were to sleep with someone to try to stick
in the game to win the money? Whore? Prostitute? Slut? What makes David any
different, despite the fact that he is a cool guy and most of us like him? Well,
as Dave says himself, “My fan base just dropped on the girl side and the guys
are like, “Yeah, dude, ***** that bitch!” Nice.
As the live show
approaches and the HGs have nothing to do but lie around or get ready, mundane
chatter slowly wavers out of their mouths, rebounding off the walls, into the
microphones, through the wires and into our ears in a tedious, tiring journey.
There is talk about the turtles and what “boring animals” they are (no duh; cute
they may be, but I want another Pugita or Ophelia!). They delve into their last
Burger King lunch with verve—okay, I think it may have less to do with it being
their last Burger King experience and more to do with it being the last day
before the dreaded food challenge. We cheerfully get to watch Dana move her
belongings out of the HOH room. Jee and Nate get into a elastic-band war, but
Dana only gets peeved at their actions: “I’m about to lose my ***** marbles!” I
am sure I am not the only one to think hearing that, “about”? Her anger doesn’t
faze them, however, and two new competitors join the battle, Dave and Justin.
All bare-chested and full of energy, they have more fun with the hair elastics
than any tye-dying or ponytails could hope to generate.
Around 3:30pm, we
go to FOTH and the feeds don’t return until an hour later. What greets us is
only about a flea’s hair more interesting than watching for ripples in the moat
on FOTH. Justin cleans the windows in the Sandbox; Erika lies in bed and looks
sad; HGs primp and vie for mirror-time as the biggest moment of their week lies
only an hour and a half away. Dana, for example, makes a point of showing her
cleavage to Justin and pointing out how thin her top is: “If I get excited, it
will be easy to see!” When Erika suggest that Dana wear a beige bra with the
top, Dana only shakes her head and remarks that this “clingy” type of top
doesn’t require that a bra be worn with it.
In the wee minutes left
before they have to gather for the show, most of the HGs, especially Alison and
Nathan, all look tense, weighted by obvious pressure. Well, that is, except for
Dana who ~continues~ to talk about her “boobage” (as she calls it). “God, my
raised areolas” are “inflamed,” and she is bothered by her microphone that is
interfering with her “low neckline, seductive cleavage-look."
At six
their time, as is expected, we go to FOTH and return about ten or so minutes
after the show is over. If you don’t know by now, you’ve been living in a hole!!
Because while, sadly, David was evicted (oh well, Jack is still cool) with a
vote of 5-2, Alison won HOH! What a site that was watching her take that key
from Dana…weee! Okay, okay, enough of my own jubilation; back to the
feeds…
As we come back, it is apparent that the slow, rather pleasant day
of the afternoon is long over as once again a new week gets underway and more
people are scared or cocky or angry. Dana is heard bitching about Nathan, as
usual, and the “smirk” on his face. After that rant is over, she and Justin fall
to wondering whom Alison will nominate and they both agree it will be either her
and him or her and Jun. “It just sucks because one of us is leaving.”
(Ahahahahhahahahahahahhahaahahaha! Whew, sorry…no more outbursts, I swear.)
Justin, who is clearly a bit shell-shocked, mostly only grunts back answers to
Dana’s babble, but he does tell her that if she is up and he is not, he will use
the POV if he wins it. Dana only continues to bitch and remarks that “it’s a
fluke (Alison) won; it wasn’t based on skill.” Well, yes it was a game anyone
could have won, but did just anyone stand outside most of yesterday practicing?
Hmmm? Dana goes on to bitterly suggest that there were “magnets” in Alison’s
ping pong balls.
A rather funny moment occurs around now when Jun, who is
snacking down on food and really enjoying it while no one else is eating,
mentions to Justin that she wouldn’t mind losing the food competition tomorrow
since it might help her to lose weight. Now, I am a big non-believer in making
fun of someone’s disorder and it drives me nuts to see how much ridicule is
thrown her way over it, but I have to admit that the “irony,” as Alanis
Morrisette would incorrectly term it, was fairly amusing. Jun then asks Justin
whom he thinks Alison will put up with Dana, him or her, and Justin makes a
point that I made immediately as well: it would be stupid for her to not put
Justin up, because if he won the veto and used it to save Dana, it would be a
repeat of last week which blew up in Dana’s face.
The evening trudges
onward, and the interesting bits are as follows: We learn that David chose
gourmet peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for their dinner if he were to stay
(the nominees choose what meal they’d like the night after the live show, and if
they stay, the whole house gets that meal)—always a jokester to the end; Jack
chose filet mignon, which only makes Dana angry since she feels they’ve had
enough steak. She wanted something more ethnic, and no one has the guts to tell
her to stop whining since it was not ~her~ choice, but his. The HGs again wonder
where they will be sequestered and places like Acapulco and Cancun are
mentioned. Dana again states how she wants to “punch Alison’s face into the
wall,” while all Alison is doing, in fact, is taking part in a DR-session. Dana,
however, believes that she must be “talking so much *****” about her. Paranoid
and crazy much? Er, well, she’s probably right.
OOOooog, aaaagh, uuuughh…
I am trying SO hard not to be so rough on Dana in my summaries, but she makes it
so damn hard! Just about now she is talking about how she is “still a winner.”
She believes when she is sequestered, she will get to go to the beach. She
doubled her salary with the stipend while she only made $450 at her job. “I’m a
winner and I don’t have to work.” Just like when she doesn’t win at a
competition, she always has an excuse. I wonder how long it will be before she
starts touting how she really ~wants~ to be evicted? (To be fair, Alison even
sang that tune a few times.)
Meanwhile, Alison and Nathan are discussing
nominations. Alison takes a moment with him to look at the pictures of the HGs
on the walls and point out all of them people she hates and wants gone. Though
the list is large, Nathan steers her in a more focused direction when he suggest
putting Dana and Justin up together. Though Alison doesn’t say anything about
Justin, she does say that Dana is “definitely going to go up.” The DR apparently
asked her if there was “any way” she would “not nominate Dana,” and Alie
replied, “Yeah, one way… A voluntary exit!” Dana, however, is tooting a
different horn in the BlueRoom with her cronies; she believes that no one’s plan
ever goes as it does, and her number may not be up yet. All she knows for sure
is that one of her group (Dana, Jee, Jun, Justin, and Robert) will
go.
Jun and Robert, once Dana is not around, agree that Alison will put
Dana up because Alie is “so immature” and takes everything personally, “just
like a little girl.” I swear, with all my logic and understanding, HOW can they
say that and not the same about Dana and her witch-hunt for Alison last week??
*Sigh.* As their group gathers again, they once again feed off the anger of each
other as they bitterly watch Erika jumping up and down outside, clapping her
hands. They are mad that the others (meaning Erika, Jack and Nathan) are so
happy that Alie won HOH, when—as a poster points out—THEY did the exact same
thing last week! And it is not all Dana; Jee, too, is upset and declares that
the only one of the other four he “wouldn’t mind” winning the game is Jack. He’d
be “pissed” if any of the others got “that money.”
Though Dana suggests
cards at this point, as she doesn’t “want to deal with this anymore,” the
embittered conversation continues as they shuffle the deck. “It still kills
meeeee. It still kills meeeee,” she repeats over and over. Still? Dana, you’ve
got a whole week of this to endure! About this time, Alie gets let into her HOH
room and is excited to see her new things: a filled basket, a new stuffed animal
(a cat) and pictures. She cries a bit as she looks at the latter, especially
those of her boyfriend. Her sadness flips to happiness fairly quickly, however,
as she jumps up onto her bed while listening to her CD (Ashanti) and begins
boogieing with her kitty cat and elephant. She appears to be engaged in some
good-natured fun, though some posters speculate that she is intentionally trying
to rub her win in Dana’s face as the door to the HOH remains wide-open. Yet Dana
doesn’t get to see the show as she sits over in the BlueRoom and conjures up
different ways that she and the others can hurt Alie—one of which is to put
pepper in Alie’s eye shadow. “I’d do it, too, if no one could see me,” she says.
As the night dwindles into morning, the bits to note are: Alison
mentions a “sequestering house,” and we immediately go to FOTH. Alison tells Jun
that she was “really mean” to her (Jun knows, or at least says, that she might
be a possible nomination). The HGs try on their jumpsuits for the food
competition on the morrow; some get red jumpsuits, some get blue. The teams are
as follow: Dana, Erika, Jee and Robert are Red; Jack, Jun, Justin and Nathan are
Blue. Robert complains that the teams are unfair—that Nathan and Justin should
not be on the same team. The Stooges all agree to veto one another should one of
them be nominated and should one of them win the veto; they also agree that they
will be “pissed” beyond belief if Erika makes it to the final two. Jee tells the
others how he wants to leave his “mark” on all the women he has been
with—literally. Apparently he branded Jun and his girlfriend both with a knife
with his name on it (this makes me so seriously ooky, it is not even funny). The
Rat Pack talk about Dave and all say positive things about him—he was “awesome,”
he was “real,” and he was “one of the coolest people in the house.” (I
concur.)
Throughout all of this, various HGs are tipping their glasses
and getting a bit sloshed. Jee, in particular, rambles on in his usual-drunken
way about how “slammin’” his girlfriend is and how “high” he wants to get when
BB is over. The others chat away; both groups are separated and both take the
opportunities to throw jabs at the others. Alie accuses the Rat Pack of hoarding
alcohol in the HOH (she found three bottles of win in the cooler); Justin says
he will “kill” himself if Alie wins the half million; Jee is mad that “they”
didn’t do what he wanted when he was HOH; the Rat Pack makes fun of Erika for
crying when David left (“she’s such a ***** actress,” Robert bites out). It goes
on and on. A bit later, Jun makes her way over to Alie to have a talk, and
though nothing much is said, Alie does tell Jun that none of her alliance ~hate~
Jun, they just view her as a threat. Alie also says that she is considering
nominating Dana and Jun together, because none of the Stooges would use the veto
to save Dana and Dana would go. There is discussion about a deal, too, that Jun
wouldn’t nominate Alie next week if Alie didn’t nominate her this week—but Jun
couldn’t say the same about Nathan. The conversation continues on, but
eventually ends as Jun says she doesn’t want to be seen jumping from group to
group—it would look bad. Really? And the thought of an imminent nomination
doesn’t already prove to you that you are balancing on a tapered fence, Jun?
Dana, meanwhile, is telling her Stooges that they are “still strong” because,
even though they will lose someone, none of them would ever turn on one another
like the others would (oh hohohohoho….heee. Ha. Okay, a little outburst of
laughter. Sorry.)
Three o’clock looms on the clock and the HGs are mostly
preparing for bed. Some of the women work on beautifying their competition
overalls. Nathan wanders into the Sandbox and wonders where he is going to be
sleeping now (Alie will be in the HOH and the Rat Pack has taken over the
LoveRoom); Jack suggests that Nate take David’s bed and he moves over to test it
out. Soon after he realizes how scratchy the blanket is, he tells Alie, “I’m
going to have to sleep with you tonight.” And he does. Everyone settles down
into their beds, thought the Rat Pack keep speculating on what the nominations
tomorrow will be and Nathan keeps worrying that the other side will be targeting
him next week (egads, take a week off from the worrying and rest!). There is
various strategizing monopolizing the feeds, as usual, but though it is the
night before new nominations, none of it is very interesting and it is all
highly repetitive. Eventually it settles into general chatter about past
competitions with Erika and Jack and friends and family with Dana and Jun.
The HGs all fall asleep anywhere between three thirty and four thirty in
the morning. It appears that an early-morning food competition (which four of
them will lose and be subjected to a PB&J diet all week) was not enough to
encourage them to get to bed earlier. So that’s all it wrote, folks; that is,
until they are forced to wake up in a few hours and I will once again begin to
work my summary magic. Till then.
PS: Again, my apologies for a late
summary. I’m having a very busy week, but I try to get them out at least within
24 hours from the end of the day.
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