Big Brother 10: It Might Not Be Such a Predictable Weekend After All

I thought tonight's Big Brother 10 was boring and predictable. The alliance of Renny, Keesha, Dan and Memphis run roughshod over the rest of the house and emerge as America's favorites to make up for the disappointment of Big Brother 6. Saw it coming a mile away. My sister called me earlier and predicted that the last question of the Head of Household competition would be wonky, cause a tie and that one of the four would win the tiebreaker, similar to last season when Sharon got screwed out of her HoH. Well, my sis called it.

So when the feeds came back on, I figured they'd give Keesha one night in the HoH room and I'd have an early night. I definitely was not going to stay up and listen to another night of Dan and Memphis gloating about how they have this thing won. And I didn't want to listen to Jerry drone on and them listen and then when he left bash him. But wait, the live feeds went to bubbles and stayed there, so I figured they were having the second Head of Household competition of the evening.

Big Brother After Dark came on before the feeds came back on and lo and behold, the HoH key was around Jerry's neck. Ha! I really don't like Jerry, but I love it when the majority's plan gets a kink in it. Now they have to pretend to listen to him at least until Monday. Dan and Memphis' faces went from gloating to worried in a matter of an hour or so.

While it will be boring on the feeds until Jerry goes to bed, night time will be interesting. Once nominations are made, the alliance will turn on each other. That's always good for a few laughs. It'll even be amusing to make my rounds of message boards and read the posts of mourning for their favorite final four in a long time. Evil, aren't I? That's one of the perks of not having a favorite in the house.

Who will Jerry nominate? Which alliance member will turn first? Memphis is already kissing up to Keesha. Keesha is playing nice to Jerry as is Renny, hoping that he'll put the boys up. It'll be an interesting night and day tomorrow in the Big Brother 10 house. Post your thoughts below.

Big Brother 10: Good TV?

What is 'Good TV'? That is so subjective, yet it seems to be so important to some reality tv contestants. They try to manufacture situations that they believe will enthrall and entertain the viewing audience. Personally, if I wanted manufactured situations, I'd watch scripted television with real actors. And it's even more annoying to sit and watch them gloat about their plans all weekend.

Now I dislike Dan less than most of the remaining houseguests ... well actually all of the remaining houseguests ... but his Head of Household reign has been an eye rolling experience for me. While it's been somewhat amusing to see Renny stuck to his behind after all her talk of distrust last week, his plan to manufacture drama at the Power of Veto meeting wasn't amusing in the least.

He made a stupid deal with Ollie while enduring the HoH competition. It was a very stupid deal and it was all his own idea. It was so unnecessary. But to spend the first 40 something days talking about how he's so concerned over his image and how he carries himself in the house and the past few days gloating about how he was going to reel Ollie in and then go back on his word was very hypocritical.

I know Big Brother is a game of lying and deceit, and it doesn't bother me. What bothered me was Dan's behavior with his little friends in the Head of Household room. That room really seems to go to their heads. Why don't they remember it's only for one week? If he was supposed to be such a good guy, and it was important to him to be the good guy, why play that way? Why make the deal? Why affirm to Ollie right before that you were keeping the deal? Why tell your allies that you were going to blindside him at the meeting for 'good tv'? Was that necessary?

Well, Dan, you got your betrayal. It didn't work out totally the way you planned it, though, did it? Between your stupid making of the deal and the stupid way you broke the deal, you may have just cost yourself the game. Last week, you were a front runner to take it all. Right now you are cowering in your little room. Right now you are pathetically seeking approval from Renny. Right now you can pretty much kiss off four jury votes if you happen to make it that far.

Yes, you may have engineered some drama in the Power of Veto meeting, I guess we'll see on Tuesday, but more drama happened after the meeting. Old Ollie really showed his behind. He was cussing, calling names, and throwing things. Yeah, he had a big ole temper tantrum. In fact, I was wondering if he would get kicked out of the house. I guess since he wasn't throwing things at or around people, it was okay.

I have no love for Ollie, and feel no sorrow for him at all. I just hate that Dan may have ruined his game, his shot at $500,000, just to make 'good tv'. So, after the Good TV put on for us by Dan, the nominees are Jerry and Michelle. Michelle is gone, but Dan's allies are laughing and joking about taking Jerry's money for their votes, even though they have no intention of voting him out. This may be an interesting week in the Big Brother 10 house. But hey, Dan, hope it was worth it.

Big Brother 10: Deluded Much?

Big Brother 10 Houseguest April is nuts. She has delusions of grandeur that are sometimes amusing to watch, and sometimes just sad. For some strange reason, she thinks that she's America's Sweetheart, and I think she's going to be really hurt when she gets out.

I haven't liked the way she's played. She's been unnecessarily nasty to her allies and unwilling to take responsibility for her actions. She's a walking contradiction. She regularly has sex on camera, but she insists on changing her clothes in private. She's a staunch advocate for her nephew's disability, but she makes fun of others.

From her biography and what she's said in the house, she has a very good job and has her own home. She seems to be very independent, and she's shown flashes of that in the house. Why then, would she hook up with someone in the house almost from the first?

I could sort of see it if he were a strong player and she was using him. But Ollie is a useless sort of fellow. If anything, he has been using and hiding behind her. He hasn't won a thing and while she's portrayed as a beyotch, he's floating along. She could have had a strong female alliance going, but her jealousy and relationship with Ollie got in the way.

Ollie feeds into her feeling of superiority, spitefulness, and sense of entitlement. And the way she isolated herself during her Head of Household reign doomed her alliance. She refused to listen to her teammates' feelings about Jesse. They gave her plenty of hints that they wanted him out, but she refused to bend. Jesse and Michelle played her like a fiddle. Her storming downstairs for that catfight played right into their hands.

I'm still trying to figure out how she figures that America would pick as it's sweetheart a shrew that seems to enjoy having unprotected sex for the camera. And it's not as if she didn't realize what she was doing. Last night on Big Brother After Dark, she and Ollie commented that we caught their entire coupling. And her attitude ... sheesh. She can be an ugly piece of work. The way she bashes others is such a turn off.

She is on her way to sequester. After the ugly goodbye message she recorded for Libra, I wonder what kind of welcome she'll get when she walks through the door. I hope we get to see it. And when the game is over, she'll get another welcome that I'd like to see. When she realizes that America is not enamored of her, and that she hasn't put on her best face, she'll be shocked. And that would be more entertaining to me than her time in the Big Brother 10 house.

Foul Weekend in the BB10 House

This group has reached obnoxious status. These are some of the foulest, meanest, ugliest houseguests as a group. The two elder statesmen/women are not setting a good example and seem to be trying too hard to fit in. I know it's not a popular opinion, but for me Renny is no better than her little friend Keesha.

And Jerry ... he's just awful. His unreasonable attitude towards Dan is just the icing on the cake. The disrespectful way that he talks to/about the women in that house does not do his Marine garb proud. He refused to wear any of his gear when he turned on Brian, but what he's done since then is much worse. He brings shame to the Corp.

He thinks that he's running the house. When Libra let him keep the POV last week, it seems that he let it go to his head. On quite a few occasions, he's been heard saying that he controls the vote. I'm not sure why he thinks that. He took it as a personal affront when Dan went against his wishes and he's making sure that all know it. He even said last week that he was going to shove Dan's cross up his behind. From listening to the houseguests talk today, he took his venom to a new level at the veto meeting. I haven't heard anyone defend what he said.

Ollie has dropped below rock bottom for me. I never thought too much of his game. Sleeping with his blonde trophy and having sex for the cameras does not a winner make. As a proud, Black woman, when he said to others that women like Libra are why Black men took up with White women, I was totally offended. I have something for you, Ollie. Number one, I don't consider you a man, and number two, the personality you've shown in the house is the reason that you probably can't GET a Black woman worth a darn. And his continuous attacks on Libra's physical features make me like him less and less, although I'm really not sure it's possible for me to like him any less than I do now.

The weekend catfight was awful, but quite amusing to watch. If you missed it, read about it here. The screaming/screeching that went on for hours between April, Libra, Keesha and Michelle was amazing. The accusations flew, the lies piled up, and the name calling continued. I'm not sure if Keesha was really drunk, or if she was putting on an act. While most of us watching the feeds cringed for her, she seems to have won the sympathy of the guys in the house. Of course, she was helped by her sidekick Renny. While the four girls went at each other, Renny was working the guys in Keesha's behalf. As much as Renny bashed Jerry for the past few weeks, she was so stuck up his butt that I'm surprised she was able to extract herself.

I've given up trying to decide who's worse: April, Keesha or Libra. They are all bad. Unfortunately for Libra, she's been chosen as the scapegoat. No matter what goes on in that house, she gets blamed. Did you know that she single-handedly engineered the evictions of every single evicted houseguest? Yeah, she's been bossy and she likes to be in control, but the way she's been demonized isn't cool. She's been attacked verbally on such a personal level that it makes me sick. Keesha and April have the foulest mouths for females. The names they call each other make me want to slap both of them. Calling other females the C word is the vilest epitaph that I can think of.

Michelle is just nuts. She isolated herself with Jesse, and then blasted the girls for her not being in their little club. She is just so jealous that she wasn't invited to take baths with them the past couple of weeks. Yes, imagine me rolling my eyes here. And she's so coarse. She's another one with a foul mouth. Don't these females have ANY home training? If any of them were my daughter, I'd be on that CBS lot right now pulling them out by their ears. Not that my daughter would ever behave like that.

I really feel sorry for Dan. I cannot imagine being stuck in that house with that cast of characters. He's trying so hard to play with some semblance of integrity. The atmosphere is so toxic in there. He lays on the couch, reading his Bible, trying to be invisible. Unfortunately for him, I think his game got screwed by us last week. He's on almost everyone's radar for what they call his suspicious actions. Many of them have accused him of being America's Player. I just hope that he can survive this because he's funny and I enjoy watching him.

Wow, I feel like Negative Nancy, but after this past weekend it's warranted. Can the Big Brother 10 houseguests recover and peacefully co-exist after the nastiness of the past couple of days? Time will tell.

Big Brother Wake-Up Calls Return

Remember how much fun the viewer wake-up calls were a couple of seasons ago? Well Big Brother remembers them, too. They are giving us another opportunity to rudely awaken the Big Brother 10 houseguests, but if you want to participate, you'd better hurry.

The CBS website has all the information including the required release form. Record your message as a .wav file, scan in your signed form and email it in by Wednesday, August 6. That's right, this Wednesday. Make it fun, brief and clean, no profanity allowed.

Good luck!

Thirty Six Hours of Chaos in the Big Brother 10 House

Wow! It's been a wild and woolly 36 hours in the Big Brother 10 house. April won the endurance Head of Household competition after promising Michelle to keep her and Jessie safe. It was pretty much a given that Memphis would be nominated, but the question was who else would April put on the block.

Since she'd promised safety to Jessie and Michelle, Memphis was the only one not in her alliance. I guess I figured she'd put up either Jerry or Dan, since they weren't core members. April, though, rationalized that she only promised safety, not freedom from nomination. She was determined not to put Michelle up out of respect for her showing in the competition, so Jessie it was.

April brought Michelle up to her room to explain herself before the nomination ceremony, and assured her that Jessie would be safe. When Michelle explained it to Jessie, he somehow got the impression that now he and Michelle were in an alliance with April and Ollie. That mistaken impression caused all sorts of discontent last night.

The nomination ceremony went on as planned. It lasted longer that I expected, but when it was over Memphis and Jessie were on the block. Keesha is trying to work it to keep Memphis. I knew last week that there was something going on there. I thought that part of her reason to get rid of Angie was because she was jealous of the relationship between them. So this is going to cause a little discontent in the alliance of 7.

The houseguests also learned that the Power of Veto competition would also be held that day, or actually late that night. I'm mad that they schedule these things for right after Big Brother After Dark, but it is what it is. Libra, Jerry and Michelle were chosen to compete in the PoV in addition to April, Memphis and Jessie. In the hours before the competition, and right in time for BBAD, all hell broke loose.

Libra felt like her alliance members were disrespecting her competitiveness when they had a discussion on the PoV. She got her feelings hurt and left the room in a huff. Keesha followed to make sure she was okay and they went into their bedroom. Libra used the opportunity to vent. I swear this woman must be going through Postpartum hormonal issues or something because her mood swings are furious.

Anyway, helpful Jessie overheard some of the ranting and he immediately beat feet up to the Head of Household room to tattle to April that Libra and Keesha were bad mouthing her. April was already feeling put upon by all the stress of the day, and also finding out that Ollie said that Angie was gorgeous (yeah, her jealous monster came out over that), so she went off. She approached Libra and Keesha in the absolute wrong way and it was on.

April and Libra were screaming at each other, April dismissed Keesha telling her that she'd deal with her later. Of course, that set Keesha off and she went into the kitchen and ranted about April to Renny, Michelle, Ollie and whoever else was in there. Somehow or another Jerry and Renny got involved in that mess. Jerry told Libra to shut up, Renny went off on Jerry for daring to say that. The girls are screaming at each other.

In another room, Jessie is doing a little dance of joy and Dan is trying to play invisible man. He's is so under the radar right now that he may as well not be there. After all was said and done, the girls have put their fragile alliance back together and blame Jessie for the drama. This is all helping Keesha in her quest to have her alliance members vote Jessie out instead of Memphis.

After all the drama, how would the large alliance perform in the PoV competition which followed less than two hours later? Well, it seemed like it motivated them in a good way. They walked away with all the big prizes. Jerry won the Power of Veto, but he's also on slop. April won $10,000 and she shared it with Jerry and Libra. Apparently Libra passed on the letter from home and took a Hawaiian vacation instead. Lucky Michelle won the red unitard for a week and she's not happy. I think that at one point or other in the competition, she had both the money and the vacation. Jessie and Memphis won the letter from home and a slop pass.

So, at this moment, Jerry has promised April that he'd leave the nominations the same. In return, she gave him $4000. She's still determined that Memphis needs to go, but has promised that if Jessie keeps acting out, she'd switch. I swear I don't understand that herd thinking. Once nominations are done, the Head of Household has no power. Why they collectively vote out the choice of that person baffles me. Whatever, though. I guess it works for them. I'm wondering if that will end this week.

Keesha is determined to keep Memphis and April is determined to get him out. If Jessie keeps instigating and stirring the pot, Keesha may prevail. We'll see how this week goes in the Big Brother House. Until next time, catch y'all later.