Oh Happy Day

Oh Happy Day: Dick and Daniele Deserve the Win! Well, Dick Does, Anyway by Roxanne McDonald

That’s what we think—we being not the royal we but the we the friends in this house, we the neighbors in this area….

There were many reasons this typically reclusive writer liked her new neighbor, but when she realized the neighbor was

also a Big Brother fanatic, well, the friendship galvanized. Even better, she, my neighbor agrees with me that Dick and Daniele deserve the win this season.

Actually, both of us agree wholeheartedly that Dick should get it.

I write this on Tuesday afternoon, a few long hours before the Big Brother finale, and after many hours of watching only the live, primetime, what-BB-allows-us-to watch episodes, plus one hour of the spoiler live-cam Showtime2 material [which made me nuts, watching Daniele roll each one of her tee shirts up for minute after minute after minute].

Here’s the logic behind our vote, if we had one:

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Smoking, Spitting and Cereal Flinging

Smoking, Spitting and Cereal Flinging by Roxanne McDonald

For AmERICa, it was a close call this week. But Daniele decided not to use the PoV, so our boy is one step closer to [and one step away from] making it to the final four.

And $40k richer, which he deserves, for sure.

I could focus on recapping how Dick was instantly attracted to Janelle tonight; how Dick and Daniele reiterate their

power; on how Daniele emphasizes how Eric could be put up on the block but if so, it’s now or never that they do it.
But instead, I feel like checking out how Eric is doing with his America’s Player tasks. Just cause he’s so damned adorable.

Starting in week two, Eric had to tell a sob story to a houseguest, to reveal his softer side: he successfully made up and told to Kail a story about pitiful high school years.

Two days later, his second task was to get Carol voted out of the house. He was credited with successfully doing so.

Eric’s third task was also in week two, on Sunday, when he was told to try to get Jessica nominated. At this point, the two were not all kissy-kissy, and Eric also successfully completed this task. So while the deal is he will earn $10k for every five tasks completed, let’s say he has thus far earned $6k.

AmERICa’s third-week tasks began on Sunday, when he was to feign sleepwalking and climb into bed with Joe, but he only made it as far as the edge of Joe’s bed, in a kind of sleep-sitting position. He just couldn’t go as far as under the covers…. More fun was when he revealed in video-good-bye to Joe that it was his mandated gig for that one.

Next in the same week was the fairly easy get-Joe-evicted job. Done. Get Jen nominated for eviction. Done.

More fun was trashing Jen’s property, a task that is now in the annals of Big Brother as the Mustard Incident, though some might have preferred a Mustard Shampoo for the Jentile. Also in week four was the mission to get Kail ousted. AmERICa failed that time, but I’m not sure one of the weekly tasks should be to get someone evicted, as that takes most of the power all around, and who has such singular power at this satge in the game—four weeks in?

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Time Enough to Let the Big Brother Rugs Dry

Time Enough to Let the Big Brother Rugs Dry by Roxanne McDonald

Amber is finally put out of our misery…and just in time to dry up all the soppy, tear-sogged stuff to get it all nice for the guest PoV host, Janelle!

Okay, maybe Janelle won’t be physically in the house? Maybe she will just join Julie [aka the Chenbot] from the control room gazebo thingy.

But that will be cool. I have been likening Daniele to Janelle, all along, so maybe there will be an opportunity there to test my supposition.

Okay, on to the festivities over the next best elimination yet this season:

I’ll try to be as kind as the remaining houseguests were in their good-bye messages, but don’t hold me to that.

Don’t mean any ill toward the born again waterworks waif, but omg, could ya ease up on the sobbing as if you are one day clean and sober and going through withdrawals without proper medical/psychological support? It doesn’t and didn’t even make for good TV.

Well, except for those who turned your moments into a drinking game, taking a swig every time you bawled. Man, they sure must have been shnockered!

And let go of the false notions, the pseudo faith, and the hackneyed cliches that are as annoying as the “I’m not going to cry” contradicting wails.

Amber tells us in the DR that Eric is only in this for himself. Uh…, yuh. I’m thinking that is most likely the case for every single one of you? I mean, last I checked back, no Big Brother player was there to help a rival win….

Sigh.

And, guess what? Unlike Eric, who was dignified enough to stifle the mocking laughter at your inane suggestion that only “good” people should win, we at home were whoopin it up. There are so many levels of wrong to that, so many fallacious elements to that bizarre logic, I am going to pass on explaining.

And Amber can go right on insisting on her own personal eviction theory—that she was just so damned threatening a player. Then again, she might click on the TV or check out the Big Brother chatter online and consider that the most powerful players are still there, and that the biggest threats have traditionally not been ousted all that early.

[Yes, several will insist otherwise, but I do see Jess, Daniel, Dick, Jessica, and Eric as the strongest, the wiliest, the more strategic—and not just because they are still in the House.]

But superlatives and likely battonage aside, a Big Brother-to-Amber dictionary would not hurt, even though she is now long gone. [Hey, I think I might just create a Big Brother dictionary in general: hmmm. Think I could get much more than “backdooring” and “under the bus” entered to make for a whole little book?]
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Unhealthy Concerns for Big Brother Politics

Unhealthy Concerns for Big Brother Politics: Obsession with Big Brother Trivia That is far from Trivial by Roxanne McDonald

While I could give a hamster’s behind for real Big Brother politics—you know, how low our president’s IQ is, how we are censored and controlled and forced to go for the greed over the common good, etc.—I get more concerned about what goes on behind the scenes of Big Brother the TV show.

I mean what goes on behind the behind the scenes we get to see on scheduled TV.

The General BB Phenom

If it matters to anyone other than myself and maybe my mother, my obsession started with the very first, I mean the very first episode—with the caravan of matching black vehicles with their tinted windows, chauffeuring the first candidates into the compound. I was fascinated with the concept as it followed so keenly the Orwellian concept, the delivery, and stunned [still am] by how people would voluntarily give up implied Big Brother life to actually willingly subject themselves to agreed-upon totalitarianism…for any amount of money.
My interest has never waned [having a consistent fascination with one of the most frighteningly prescient books of all time and having taught the book in lit classes over the years—and Big Brother is not a character, per se, by the way, peeps, but is a construct, an abstraction, a real collective mindset/entity], but has rather been piqued and has peaked on several select occasions.

Big Brother’s Watching You, Alison

While I couldn’t help but think about several studio practices all along, this episodic intrigue began when Alison Irwin [Big Brother 4] tried to communicate [cleverly, I might add] to an ally by way of pointing out words in a book, so that the cameras and the audience couldn’t decipher what she was “saying”. Big Brother called her on it and forced her to reveal what she was secretly communicating. Whooo. That was creepy enough to make me want to quit the show…, until I realized I wasn’t a part of it. Oh, yeah.

Big Brother Will Make it up to You, Dick

This leads my coo-coo dissertation to what I meant to write about here, today. I don’t spend days obsessing about Big Brother the reality show, but I do spend hours searching for single details that will uncover the machinations of this number-one program.

This week, I have been so damned worried about Dick getting his cigarettes back, for instance, as the lunatic Jen had destroyed his selective luxury item [don’t know if that’s what Big Brother determines it, as does Survivor, but I know how important it was/is for Dick to pack enough smokes to keep him sufficiently fixed for the duration] on her way out the door, so to speak: when she realized it was over and went all rules of the game AWOL [which I am still celebrating over, too].

Anyway.

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Character Check-up Time

Character Check-up Time by Roxanne McDonald

Not to copy Reality TV Calendar [and the writers’ ranking] or commit character assassination, but the remaining eight on Big Brother 8 have made some remarkable enough personality changes that it might be good to check in.

Mini-Me Janelle

For starters, Daniele is different, don’t you think? It’s not a full-out cockiness she has taken on, but a very bold, more vocal, more confident, more present persona. Wow.

When Daniele first came into the Big Brother 8 House, she was mawkish and weepy and reticent and recalcitrant. With the amazing recovery by way of winning several PoVs and two HoHs, the girl has become woman to be reckoned with, has boldly spoken to her distaste for persons and dynamics, and has even taken on an authoritative role (as when she was dismissing Amber after an agreement to take Amber off the block).
Yikes. Have we underestimated the anorexic? Doubted the dangerousness of the dumb blonde? Unlike others, Daniele does not win competitions by serendipity. There is some skill, some real intent there.

Thick as a Brick but Less Dangerous

Jen is just the punchline to a joke at this point. It’s not about composure. She’s just too thick, too insipid to be credited for being all that composed. It is little more than false pride and sudden strategy shifts of the others that keep her afloat.

The focus on her comes and goes, she switches alliances as quickly, and her shine is now as dull as our regard for her and her lackluster presence. Just listening to her makes our own IQs drop.

Following her shifts and switches is just as silly, as she, too goes the way the House wind blows…except that it blows against her for the fifth time this week, and then she doesn’t even bother to bolster her transparency or get some enhancing by way of alliance. Rather, she hyper-confidently announces her ensured survival in the House and denounces those she just, uh, had alliance and collusion with. I don’t know what I’m saying. Just trying to recap the one-dimensional has made me deliver little more than non sequiturs and mixed metaphors.

The One They Should be Watching Out For?

Either Jessica is consistently low-key and amiable unintentionally, or she is sharp-shooting smart and consciously staying on the margins when it comes to ganging up, over-competing, or hyper-conspiring. It may be, that is, that Jess has the unannounced brains and strategies to win this game…unannounced and therefore unattended to except when she gets the occasional spotlight.

Okay, Jess will be remembered (by the BB Houseguests) as the one who facilitated Dustin’s departure, but that wasn’t all her doing…so they likely think, so she will go ignored as a potentially potent killer of dreams this season.

Evil?

Dick has been proven to be as popular and hob-nobbing [sp?] as he first announced. He has also made sense of every switch in fealty he has made. I am sure I would be co-dependent to Dick if I were in the Big Brother House with him, so I am overlooking his inane antics and altered alliances, being more forgiving of his bellicose ways, but there is just something endearing about him. Starting with his devotion to his prima dona daughter.

Still, he doesn’t have the true evil, the truly malevolent gift that Dr. Will had and used, but rather has just the perpetuation of such an image because of the others in the House who are intimidated, challenged, insulted, or cowed by Dick.
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What Would Jesus Do?

What Would Jesus Do? by Roxanne McDonald

The question has gotten alot of mileage, given Jameka and now Amber’s propensities in faith and Dick’s agnostic adversity. And the question is mulled over, as we see the “good” guy [the pious gal] doesn’t necessarily win in the case of Big Brother competition, nor do the good or evil stay true to anything, not their words, not themselves, and obviously not to each other.

How much is Jameka regretting having exposed her faith?

Yes, the whole dynamic lends itself to big-time trust issues.
Yes, the whole phenomenon of living together is bastardized exponentially once the game is “on”.
And yes, this week, this Tuesday, anyway, the odds (intended as such by Dick) are in favor of the mighty five voting ED’s mean, taunting, mocking, insulting, confrontational ass out.

But we at home can no longer count on the keeping to what are often knee-jerk decisions any more than we can trust in morality, justice, putting money where mouth is, keeping word, or following logical trend. No such things this season on Big Brother as staying true to agreements, emotions, and mores.

Example: I hate Jen and will guarantee she is miserable every day she is here has become first a ridiculous joke of a truce and a Jen is one of us and now a silent separation of sorts [with Dick ensuring EVERYone is going over to the enemy].

Another questionable “strategy” is using someone as a “pawn”. The pawn ends up going home 80 or 90 percent of the time. [In fact, as I write this, Dustin has been put up as a pawn (in Daniele’s place, against Dick), and Dick is thrilled, for as he says, “How many times in this game have we seen the pawn go home?” Exactly.

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To Err is to be Julie Chen

To Err is to be Julie Chen, HoH Wrecker, Idiot Game Saboteur of Very Game She is Hosting by Roxanne McDonald

Julie Chen needs to be the next America’s Player. Maybe we can slap her around enough that we knock some of that saboteur out of her.

Imagine Scripps National Spelling Bee official word caller giving the spelling of a word instead of the word to a finalist on the stage. Imagine Alex Trebek calling on Ken Jennings as he

buzzes in to answer “The best reality TV show, based on Orwellian concepts,” and instead of saying Ken, Trebek says,”What is Big Brother?” How frigging long do you suppose such offiators would last?

Julie Chen needs to find some other work. Get the fukk off our show.
But first, a retraction of sorts:
I went off on a ramble in the last Big Brother 8 article, and when I got to musing on the voting, I included Daniele’s vote in the equation. DUH. HoH doesn’t vote. Duhh.

I take that back, then. Though I don’t take back the rest of what I said.

But I aint the one who controls, or significantly impacts the outcome of a brutal game or challenge…, Julie.

Now, tell me. HoH competition. Down to two. One who has nothing to gain or lose [at this stage in the game, anyway, as she has flown under the radar]. One who has just narrowly escaped losing status, cash, and pride—as America’s Player. One question. Tenuous thread player buzzes in and is about to win HoH. Julie Chen calls on player by using not his name but the name that is the answer to the effing question!!!!

Oh, woops, ehhehhehheh. Aren’t I an idiot who is just going to scratch that and start a NEW question?

What the HELLLLL. What the HELL, Julie Chen. Get off the show, or give Eric HoH next week. Just straight the eff up and make reparations, concessions, big-time amends.

Don’t just blow it off as if it were totally acceptable that the powers that be get to err while the players do not and therefore Big Brother loses points in its otherwise highest ranking, most watchable reality TV show in the queue.

What can—should—we do about this?

1. Fly a plane with a banner that says Julie Chen fixes HoH competitions?

2. Force feed Julie Chen slop for the remainder of the Big Brother competition?

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Come Down Off Cross, You

Come Down Off the Cross, We Need the Wood by Roxanne McDonald

And the martyrdom begins as the shifting sympathies pitifully continue.

Jen gets cocky: not worried about being on the block–
for as the previous two weeks have shown, she says, she is still

there…and will be for the next two.
So she thinks.

Then again, given the wishy-washy crap you guys are pulling, she just might be right, not because people like her in the Big Brother House but because they seem to tend toward scapegoatism [yeah, I made it up; yeah I know no such word] and shifting sympathies more often than Brian Vickers shifts gears.

So the least likable, the least deserving, the most inimical snake their way to the top while you are busy focusing on the more innocuous.

What the hell, Dick? You are so not doing much to keep Jen’s ego in check. Sure, you started the day by scowling at her taunting “Hiyee” dance, and told her that trust you, it was not her beauty you were glaring at. You told her she was going home because nobody likes her….

And then, what? Because she won the PoV you got all squirrely and squeamish about the possibility that Jen would indeed be staying? Did you suck up to her because you were truly focused on being humane to everyone? Or because you wanted to get that last vote against poor scapegoated Eric? Or did you just go into a momentary coma, and are now covering tracks by saying, “How’s THAT for flipping…flipping over the LNC?”?

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Pride and Paranoia

Pride and Paranoia by Roxanne McDonald

There’s [already] too much paranoia. There’s [sic] too many closets I went in before and now I got a reason it’s no real reason to be waiting! ~ The Sex Pistols

So much undeserved pride and misplaced paranoia making the hamsters turn…turn on each other, turn each other out, turn tricks that piss us off even if we favor the trickster.

Making my gut turn just trying to keep up.

The bats hang. Amber falls first and is the first to upset our process when she doesn’t cry!

Eric has sabotaged himself by pulling the upper half of his body in line with the bat rod.

Jameka just flops and against her usual reserved way pipes in from the watcher row that they are all teaching her a good lesson (whatever that cryptic point means)

Then the banner plane makes its appearance: WE LOVE NICK~ AMBER + ERIC ARE LIARS~ LNC ARE THE NERD HERD

You can’t help but wonder who paid big bucks for this:

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Ranting About Big Brother 8 on CBS

Hi, it’s Mike Liebner here from TV Robot with an updated rant and rave session about the reality TV show Big Brother 8 on CBS and it’s cast of houseguests.

In this article I’ll review what’s been going on in the Big Brother house, plus dish dirt on all of the cast from a to z.   No holds barred!

To put things into perspective it’s Friday, August 3, 2007 and it’s been 29 days since Big Brother 8 premiered on July 5th.

Wow! Has a month really gone by already? That means that the Summer too is half over… or is the summer “half full”???

The last complete BB8 rant I did on the full crew was on July 10th. Now with 24 days of viewing and digesting Big Brother 8 and the companion Showtime series “Big Brother After Dark” I have changed some of my opinions. You can see the original Scandalous Big Brother 8 Rants and Raves Here

By the way, if you really enjoy Big Brother 8 and like to read more into than the show provides, Reality Remix on Fox Reality Network is a great show that often does recaps and offers opinions.

Lately Reality Remix has had Big Brother alumni Marcellas on a few times discussing the shows goings on with host Kennedy. (Hi Marcellas! You’ve been very good on the show!)

Have a watch if you can! Watching Reality Remix every once in a while will make you feel like you know what’s going on with the other reality TV shows we do not watch.

First off I need to say that this crew of houseguests is the most unlikable batch I have ever seen. This is the first season I have watched that I find it difficult to identify with any one guest. Looking at the lineup overall it is disappointing. I simply don’t like too many of them. That said however, I am enjoying watching the show this year. Although last night when they evicted Nick I must say that I was feeling a bit low and even down on the show. I was mad and felt the energy level of the show was way too negative. Too many jerks and wimps in the house.

Last Nick joined Carol, Joe and Mike as evicted Big Brother houseguests.

The episode last night was a wicked and mean spirited one as we saw more of the bad side of Dick than ever. I know the shenanigans weren’t planned out, but it seemed to be a heavy episode with more drama and negative karma than ever.

I almost had to go wash off after all the sludge from that episode…

But, I pushed on after that episode ended and even watched a little bit of Big Brother After Dark and got back in the groove a bit.

It’s Friday, the morning after as I write this and I have forgiven the BB8 producers  pretty much for playing with me the way they did last night and I’m looking at it a bit more optimistically.

The main point I need to make is you do NOT need to like them to enjoy the show. Possibly in fact Big Brother 8 may be more fun to watch when you LOVE TO HATE THEM!

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You Talkin to Me, Roderick?

You Talkin to Me, Roderick? by Roxanne McDonald

Wow! Taxi Driver, Sybil, and Fall of the House of Usher all in one wee-one-hour episode!

Is there something in the water? In the slop? We see how Nick is, okay, pissed about this and that and saying no more Mr. Nice Guy so he dons a quasi-thug scarf look. But then,

then, and I am sitting her alone as I laugh nervously and yell out loud that yes, he is actually doing a Travis Bickle Taxi Driver shave his head to suggest his psycho is coming OUT.

Eric may be starting to lose some screws, too, as he also gets the razor taken to his head…though he ends up with more of a PeeWee Herman meets future Travis look.

But looks aren’t all that are pointing to something killer, deadly, or demented and dangerous:

Dick again comes down on Jen, telling her in his disgusted way that she is a scumbag who uses people, only cares abouyt herself, and something something Saddam Hussein. Of course, the either incredibly thick or truly sociopathic narcissist barely bats an eyelash at all of this, saying how she certainly wouldn’t use such words about herself, and that his bad energy is only hurting or going to hurt him.
But then, true to form, the conversation concludes like this:

Jen: Keep at it. Keep at it…. I’m wonderful to myself and that’s all I care about.
Dick: Riight.

Whoooo doggie.

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God is a Gangsta

God is a Gangsta by Roxanne McDonald

God is a gangster who has predetermined the winner, folks. So, give up now, all.

Just do what Dustin did and go for all the great prizes, instead.

Okay, I actually get what Jameka is saying about

predetermination and all –though I can’t imagine it is just God doing all the set-up work. (As Dick says, God is likely more concerned with bigger issues that which Jameka ball to pick from the PoV Bag.) I appreciate her belief that it is all just little people going through motions already set to swinging, though I tend to believe as the existentialists and see free will as right up there with taking responsibility for those actions you perform on that pre-mapped path.

And I think I get Dustin’s twisted logic, thinking of going for those prizes if, hey, we’re all goin down eventually, anyway. Might as well enjoy some virtually free cash and cruise to Barbadoes as the giant ball of fire comes hurtling toward this Hell we call Earth.

I even get and really admire Dick for 1) confronting houseguests when they make stupid ass moves, and 2) announcing that he just says aloud what the chickens are thinking. [And I love how when Kail says SHE’S not thinking that, Dick says it doesn’t matter because she is irrelevant, anyway, so there.]

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Pretzel Logic

Pretzel Logic by Roxanne McDonald

Now it’s time to try to figure out Dustin: fickle and flaky? Duplicitous double-dealer? Dumb and in denial?

Eric announces the conspiracy theories abound. And he is apparently tickled to no end at this.

And Amber is expressing her delight in Dustin’s getting HoH…by doing guess what? Somebody just shoot that baby.
Okay, so Dustin says Nick is working several angles (when he [Dustin] isn’t?)

Dustin tells us he has four targets:
Kail
Zach
Nick
Jen

In the meantime, Dick is arguing with Jen and then Amber, which continues from the dining table to the doing of the dishes.

Zach is enjoying his status as the “pass-around guy”, the man without an alliance. But Jameka can’t stand him and Daniele says you can’t get away from him—tagging along or passing himself around to tell stories of a visit to a BDSM dungeon, to crash private conversations, etc.

Then Daniele and Dick do the tit-for-tat feelings thing, each saying how do you think I feel, and you always and you never … until Daniele is outdoing Amber in the whining and crying department and until Dick finally breaks down and has to give the apology for being a lousy parent speech.

He does get one little hug, though.

During the food competition, Dustin is made king, and the house guests are made the kingsmen…all competiting to be the first to put Humpty Dumpty together again. [Is THAT in Alice…?]

The winners—Jessica and Jameka—get to designate five sloppy eaters for the week. They choose ED, because he hasn’t had any; Zach, because Jameka can’t stand him; Kail, because karma’s a bitch; Nick, because Jessica says they need to do anything to take his power away; and Jen—who acts all giddy and says she has no discipline around real food so this will govern her nutritional diet for the week.

Back to Dustin and his flip-flopping (or very evil and insidious strategizing).

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Well Shut My Mouth

Well Shut My Mouth by Roxanne McDonald

What’s the deal with flip-flopping Big Brother 8 house guests?

I was so cocksure Kail was going home this week, but then I remembered the no surprise surprises that come with Big Brother.

Jameka had said that CBS does a good job of selecting the right personalities and therefore the right balance of personality dynamics. Yeah! I do believe they select a couple of balanced persons such as you, Jameka, and then toss in a few coo coo bears…for fun. Ours.

Let’s see, Kail makes ally with the Robinson boys. Kail singlehandedly fails to evict Dick, faces threat of being nominated for eviction, outs her alliance, offers the suggestion they are cowards, shows some interesting cowardice herself, lies to Dick.

Dick promises to get Jen out of the house for being self-involved, wins HoH, puts Jen and Kail up for eviction, throws the PoV competition by intentionally tossing aside the glass he is supposed to be using to outbalance Jen [after offering to keep her and be on her side if she wants to step down during the PoV competition, puts Mike up in Jen’s place, outs Kail’s lying by going to JEN with the info, and somehow manages to piss off enough people in the house so that neither Kail nor Jen end up going home in the long run.

Mike has been in the Robinson alliance, had turned on that alliance by voting not as Kail did but the opposite in the eviction ceremony that saw Joe going home, refused to chat about the after effects, went for the heckling of Dick during the PoV [asserting his integrity, dignity, loyalty, what have you…for Kail], gets himself on the block where we are sure Kail is still going home, and then….has SEVEN people vote against him—in favor of keeping Kail, who only got two votes to evict her.

What the?

Now I didn’t do a now antiquated recap for any of you who follow Big Brother much more closely than even Big Brother follows Big Brother…; I did it for ME. I need to know if I am missing something, alone in my madness, or just confused about the usual protocol that includes changing one’s mind a hundred times a day.

This is no longer spoiler info, which we at TV Robot are banning!  No Spoilers!  

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Must be the Season of the Pig

Must be the Season of the Fire Pig: BB8 by the Stars by Roxanne McDonald

Can the Eastern and Western astrological influences impact the dynamics, the downfall, the deliberations of the Big Brother 8 houseguests? Could their astro-charts determine who will win?

Does the fact that Amber is a Pisces [a water sign] account for all that crying? Does it make sense that the bullish, bull-headed, full of bull Jen is a Taurus? Does it make you nod when you learn that Joe was born under the sign of the pig?

I leave the speculations up to you, but cite the small bit of research I did into the Big Brother 8 guests’ astrological assignments [in alphabetical order and including, to be balanced, those already evicted]:

By Western Astrological Terms

Amber – born March 17, 1980 - Pisces
Carol – born March 3, 1986 - Pisces
Daniele – born August 20, 1986 - Leo
Dick – born June 24, 1963 - Cancer
Dustin – born January 21, 1985 - Aquarius
Eric – born January 25, 1980 - Aquarius
Jameka – born July 20, 1978 - Cancer
Jen – born April 25, 1984 -Taurus
Jessica – born December 22, 1985 - Capricorn
Joe – born September 28, 1983 - Libra
Kail – born October 5, 1969 - Libra
Mike – born August 20, 1980 -Leo
Nick – born March 5, 1982 -Pisces
Zach – born April 17, 1977 -Aries

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Put Some Friggin Clothes On

Put Some Friggin Clothes On by Roxanne McDonald

What they should have said…. But then she’d just wear another equally obnoxious Jen coinage shirt. Is it tres passé to say “Gag me with a spoon”?

But thank you, Zach, I think, for taking the damned cams off the primadonna of personal interest squared and doing the streaking thing—complete with frat boy/David Puddy beller of a growling “YYYEEEAAAAAAH!”

And thank you, Big Brother, for actually following through

with at least one more Alice in Wonderland theme. There are enough characters and vignettes within the Carroll tale to get you through the whole season, so you could have had each of the food, Power of Veto, and HoH competitions tinged with something from the story. I wonder if enough bloggers bitched that this was done on an impromptu basis… for us?
And while you at least brought in Alice in Wonderland motif this last Tuesday night, it could have even been more inventive…so will you have someone other than the best-known Mad Hatter characters?

Enough harping on that; let’s get to the contradictions and clothing (or lack of) concerns.

Kail is again clueless: before even in the BB House she boasted she would rule it the way she rules her many business. In the House for something less than a week, she jumped right into alliance-making, not knowing the guys, not thinking ahead by taking her time. Then, when the supposedly loyal allies voted opposite her in the last elimination, she not only projected the failures onto them (whom she called cowards) but went to Dick, spilled the secret of their being aligned, turned on them, and made her trustworthiness and loyalty a huge sore spot for the astute Dick.

Then…, she turned on her supposed “best friend”, Jen.

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Big Brother 8 TV Viewer Ratings

Big Brother 8 TV Ratings by Mike Liebner

3 nights a week is a lot of TV!    Is America watching Big Brother 8???

Reality TV appears to be as popular as ever. There are some big brand new hits this Summer.

With all the press going ga-ga gush over the big new reality tv hits (Spelling Bee and those cloned singing idiot type shows) I was worried that Big Brother 8 was sliding in viewership and ratings…. BUT apparently not!

According to Variety Big Brother 8 and it’s houseguests’ ratings are on par with last season: (more…)

Give Us Something (More) to Talk About

Give Us Something More to Talk About: Big Brother Episode 8 Rant by Roxanne McDonald

One is too many and a thousand is never enough. 12-step slogan

You won’t give us a sustained theme (having ditched the Alice in Wonderland effort before those mushrooms even stopped spinning). You give us some pretty lame wannabes

(like Jen with her roach hotel lingerie modeling shots). Give us some more of the real live feed fodder to germinate with….
Evil [or Evel, for whatever ridiculous reason it is spelled that way] isn’t all that evil. In fact, he is probably one of the saner, more sensitive [without going all terrapin tears on us every time a fellow house mate has to eat slop or make a decision], and more championed players.

Jen is just a ridiculous shill who likely seriously thinks she will get high caliber fame from a few pitiful and scantily clad body shots [You have to visit her “professional website. And what’s with the Jen shop? A CD by someone else, an alarm clock or something obscure, and a Miata? What the hell? J-Bay?] and an appearance on a show where not only everyone in th house except the Christian hates her but a majority of viewers find repulsively disinjenuous.

Amber cries more than I do, and I cry over bad news in states 3,000 miles away and road kill.

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ED Stands for more than Evil Dick

ED Stands for more than Evil Dick by Roxanne McDonald

Of course, it also means erectile dysfunction, but should we go there? No need, for there aint no potency issues, here.

I was all set to do a smirky recap of the 7th aired episode of Big Brother 8, but so many, who are much funnier and much

more detailed, have not only already done so but have gone ahead and written on the continuation of the episode—the live feeds.

Not to cast any spoilers into the overpopulated seas of BB8, I plan to stick to discussing or complaining about little dumb shit.

First, I love how Dick’s name has taken on several evolutions already—from Dick [which I surmise is from Richard] to Evil Dick to Evil to ED. I love more how Joe got the boot over Dick and even MORE how Dick won HoH!

Yahah. Take that, beeyatches.

Next, I already couldn’t stand that the freak with the self-importance of a security guard believing she is a full-fledged cop had named herself all kinds of misnomers- Jenius, Jenuine…, you remember, but that now she has somehow gotten the Diva moniker.

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