This is one of those days.

FINALLY! The show decided to get engaing! The house had been squarely divded into two alliances:

Alliance 1: Kaysar, Janelle, James, Sarah, Howie and Rachel

Alliance 2: Eric, Maggie, Beau, Ivette, Jennifer and April

After veto, Eric and Maggie were the two on the block. As they are not allowed to vote for eviction, and neither was Kaysar as Head of Household, that meant it was five votes for Alliance 1 (or as they call themselves, The Sovereign 6, you can read about it in Kaysar’s HoH blog entry.) to Alliance 2’s four votes. It was a lock Eric was going, and he did.

So, The Sovereign 6 were feeling darn secure that the house was now there’s to control, oh who cared about the pesky HoH competition, they were going to control the house, no one was going to stand in their way, feel our power, fear us, FEAR…..what? What do you mean Maggie won HoH? That’s…that’s not possible. That means that Alliance 2 will control the house for a week. NO!

hehehehehe I love it when this happens in a reality show. An alliance will think they have the game sewn up, but they get cocky too early and overplay their hands. Such is the fate of The Soverign 6. Let’s face it, Maggie will nominate two of them, even if they win veto, she will replace the saved member with another member of the team. She will effectively make them feed on themselves and campaign against themselves. YES! I love it when this happens!

Next week will be a replay of this week when it comes to HoH, but for now, Kaysar and his ego are learning a very important lesson, the lesson of the reality wildcard. Every show has them, wether it be Survivor’s immunity or Big Brother’s HoH, never count out the wild card.

The other rule, don’t name your alliance. It is ALWAYS a bad idea.

Google “Your name is”, leaving in the quotation marks, and adding your own name– for example: “Sean is”. Then pick your top ten favorite responses. Or you can just go to googlism.com

1. sean is ssooooo hottttt (well…duh!)

2. sean is a total wanker (hey!)

3. sean is using his british (bangers & mash please!)

4. sean is mine (but…who are you?)

5. sean is/is not (huh?)

6. sean is teaching class tonight? (I stopped teaching night classes years ago!)

7. sean is currently a post (stands very still)

8. sean is always at work (ain’t that the truth)

9. sean is incredibly cute (you’re so sweet!)

10. sean is a very active ambassador for afdr (Action Figure Defense Regiment?)

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Lots of shifting alliances, finally! Now Kaysar, Janelle, James, Sarah, Howie and Rachel have formed an alliance. With that plan in place, they decided to compete hard for the Power Of Veto to pull James off of the nomination block, and change the possible eviction nominee to Eric. The nice twist to this was it meant Eric was up against his own secret pairs partner, Maggie. Ruh-roh Raggy! Adios to another secret pair team.

At the POV competition, it was decided James would win so he could take himself off the block. From there it was just fighting and scratching as everyone got angry over the shifting alliances. Yay! Nasty time….AT LAST!

My biggest question now is, everyone is saying Eric has lived up to his word in the house. For the life of me, I can not figure out what in the world everyone is talking about. Yeah, he’s a bossy pain-in-the-butt, but I have not seen him break his word. Oh well. Like everyone else is so honorable.

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Hell’s Kitchen on it’s way to the wrap up, and we are down to the last three contestants as this episode opens. Jessica, Michael and Ralph head back to the dorm, after Elsie’s eviction, and are greeted by champagne so they can celebrate being the final 3. Jessica gets blasted, Ralph looks tipsy, Michael appears to be…well…Michael.

After heading to bed in a dunken stupor, the phone rings at 4 AM and Michael answers. They are to meet Ramsay in the kitchen on the double due to an emergancy. After some rangling, they all got there and discovered that not everything in a resturant runs smoothly. The baker was going to be unable to deliver the bread for that nights service. It was up to the hapless, tired and dunken crew to make all the necessary bread. After two hours of working at it, Jessica, who had really done nothing, was sent off to bed by Mike and Ralph. She showed back up an hour later, all perky and ready to go, too bad they only had about an hour of work left. All three headed to bed at 8, just to be woken up at 10 for their next challange.

This time, it was mastering making a souffl?, not an easy task. Ramsay demonstrates, the idjits follow along, and in order the winners are Ralph, Michael and Jessica. Their prize? Choosing what dish they will put their own twist on that night to carry them through to the final two. Ralph takes beef (filet mignon), Michael takes tuna (sesame crusted tuna) and that leaves Jessica with chicken (stuffed chicken breast). As dinner approaches, they do not know their families are present and will help in the judging. Part of Ramsay’s decesion will be based on customer feedback of their dishes.

Long story short, Jessica flubs up everything, even to the point of asking Ramsay for help. HA! That was stupid! In the final tally of dishes, the filet was most popular, then chicken and finally the tuna. As customer feedback matters though, we still didn’t have an answer.

Unaware of who prepared what, the final threes families case their votes at the end of their meals. They were:

Ralph’s family - tuna, tuna, tuna
Jessica’s family - tuna, chicken, filet mignon
Michael’s family - filet mignon, filet mignon, tuna

Meaning the final total was Michael gets five vote, Jessica had one and three for Ralph. With the curshing of the votes, Jessica is sent home.

Next week, Ralph and Michael face off with each running their “own” resturant, and the help of the banished contestants. Here and now, I am calling Michael as the winner, but we shall see.

You’re a Ravenpuff!: You are a very analytical and
ingenius person, someone that likes to invent
new things. The way you look at life is with
wonder, and sometimes you’re even a little
naive. But people love you for that trait and
they feel the need to protect you from the
harsh facts of life so that you can retain your
innocence. You are very capable person and when
there is trouble people turn to you because
you’re able to stay calm and collected. You
like balance in your life and you try not to
make many waves. Even still, if there is
something that you believe strongly in, you
will commit yourself totally to that cause.
Your weakness is that sometimes you can be
indecisive and perfectionist, especially about
little details and you drive people crazy
sometimes with these traits. With the
innocence of a Hufflepuff and the calm of a
Ravenclaw you will be loved in life!

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I was not aware that “turd blossom” was now considered a term to risque for some newspapers. According to this article, some newspapers took offense at todays comic strip of Doonesbury for use of the term. Here is the strip itself:

One of the things I have always loved about Gary Trudeau is that all political people are his targets, and thus, he can be enjoyed by all people, no matter what their political affiliation. Was it that took offense at Karl Rove being the subject of the joke? Or was it the term itself? Whatever the reason, censorship is never a good thing, and on something this small, it just speaks ill of the mindset of our country as a whole.

A few days ago, Microsoft made the big announcment about the long delayed next version of Windows. While it has been in devolopment for quite sometime under the name “Longhorn”, Microsoft has now announced the official and final name. Ladies and gentleman, I give you………Windows Vista.

Has there ever been an unsexier name for an operating system? Well…yeah, IBM’s O/S 2 Warp comes to mind, but you have to admit, Windows Vista just doesn’t roll off the tounge. Let’s even disregard the awful amount of time this sytem has been in devolopment (long story short, around 4 years), and the fact they are already stripping features out of it, in all that time, they couldn’t come up with a better name?

At least the Mac OS X system has had sexy names like Panther and Tiger. What do PC users get? Vista….freakin Vista.

Ok, this is quickly getting irritating because with the feeds, I am so far ahead of the telivised show, and it is hard to talk without spilling some things. Ok, highlights for this one.

Kaysar recieves his Head of Household room and amongst his treats are his Hookah pipe and kosher meats.

The food competition was food spelling, each correctly spelled word removed a “PB & J” wedge from a whell. When all done, the wheel was spun, and if it hit “Food” they got normal food, if it hit “PB & J”….you guessed it. There were 8 food wedges and 4 pb&j wedges, and yep, it landed on pb&j for the whole house. Funny!

Ivette came out to April.

Kaysar nominates Maggie and James for eviction.

Morgan Spurlock’s series 30 Days wrapped up it’s first season with a look into binge drinking. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, from Wikipedia:

Binge drinking is commonly defined as drinking alcohol solely for the purpose of intoxication. However, it is quite common for binge drinking to apply to a social situation, creating some overlap in social and binge drinking. Binge drinkers may or may not be alcoholics, although the definition of an alcoholic is also subjective.

The subject this time was 43 year old mom Michiel Nacke who is concerned that her 19 year old daughter, Jessica, is doing a dangerous amount of drinking at college. Her solution, instead of doing something sensible, is to turn into a binge drinking partier for 30 days. Wow…that makes about as much sense as shooting yourself in the stomach to teach your kids gun safety.

This recap is going to be fairly short because quite honestly I couldn’t stand this episode. Jessica was out doing her own drinking most of the time, so she hardly ever saw the effects the alcohol was having on her mom. The few times she did see it, she would just sit around with a smirk and giggling about it all. The one who did see everything, and seemed to take it the worst, was the 9 year old son Braden.

Besides the absolute absurdity of the whole concept of this “experiment”, the biggest problem was the severe attitude adjustment Jessica needed. Too call her a prissy little snob would be a compliment compared to the words I called her while watching the episode, but I like to keep my blog profanity free. Everytime Michiel tried to talk to Jessica, she was rude, abrupt and far more interested in her cell phone.

My biggest problem with this episode? Anyone notice I said earlier Jessica is 19? As in, two years under the legal drinking age. Not once in the entire episode was this ever mentioned. Hey mom, instead of putting yourself though this insane idea, how about you just once mentioned to your daughter she was breaking the law? How about you just once find out where she was partying and call the cops? Sure, no one wants to see their kid get busted, but if the other option was drinking yourself into a stupor multiple times in a 30 day period? Yeah, let’s go with the harsh lesson for the kid instead.

Don’t get me wrong, I have no dellusions that underage drinking is going to stop. I did my fair share of it in high school, and let me just say that first hour marching band with a hang over was a great time! That being said, there are so many more ways this could be handled, but instead of disceplining her daughter, instead of telling her daughter to stop being a snotty little brat, she puts herself through a drinking binge with no positive results. Dumb woman, dumb show and I have to say, dumb Morgan for allowing this, let alone showing it to us.

I am so far behind on my pointless reality show enteries. Oh well.

The second elimination episode of Big Brother 6 treated us the departure of Michael in a 9-to-1 vote. We were also treated to spew worthy moments of he and Janelle kissing, and in one of the oddest reality TV moments ever…Janelle broke up with her boyfriend via a scene in the diary room. And she assured the unseen boyfriend that she would understand if he never wanted to talk to her again. After the arrest record came out, would you want to date her anyway? Not that arrest records alone should matter in a relationship, but….it’s Janelle for crying out loud! You shouldn’t want to date her anyway!

So, with Michael gone, the Chen-Bot conducted her post eviction interview. I must say, the Chen-Bot Mark 6 is sporting an awful lot of body glitter. Being married to Les Moonves seems to have increased her budget for it.

HoH competition was a majority rules Q&A with Kaysar winning. Who will his targets be? dum-dum-dum!

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In other news, a friend (thank you mittens83!) introduced me to AllOfMP3.com, it is a music site out of Russia with just INSANELY cheap MP3s! All legal to boot. You can read about them in this Wikipedia entry.

I know I am behind on this, but oh well. The big things from this episode were the pseudo-fight between Eric and Michael, and James winning the veto competition.

Michael and Eric nearly got physical over…well…who knows what it was over. Let’s say hangnails for the heck of it. Any way you slice it, it was just silly. The entire house recieved a warning over their antics that night, and we got the fun of hearing a paniced Big Brother voice. Quite amusing.

James won Veto and chose not to save anyone. Hey, he does still have a brain.

And in great fun, you can check out Janelle’s arrest record over on SmokingGun.com