Hi y’all!

So, as all of you probably already know, they had the veto meeting earlier today.  Ever since Mark won the veto, there’s been a lot of speculation about whether or not he would use it.  Josh and Christmas were hoping that, in order to prove that he trusts the rest of the house, Mark would not use the veto.  Even Cody wasn’t a 100% sure that Mark would use the veto.  He told Jessica that a “real man” would use the veto but that Mark hasn’t been acting like a man inside of the house.

Well, Mark used the veto on himself and Josh put Raven up as a replacement nominee.  At first, Raven said that she didn’t care and that she was excited because it would mean that she would get a chance to give a speech on Thursday night.  However, as the day has progressed, Raven has started to get a little bit nervous.  She and Matt were expecting all of the other houseguests to get mad when Raven went up on the block.  The fact that nobody cares has surprised both of them.  Matt is especially angry at Mark for using the veto.

Perhaps she should be.  While I don’t think it’s going to change anyone’s vote this week, a lot of the other houseguests have been talking about how they don’t trust either Matt or Raven.  Christmas, in particular, has been saying that she has some suspicions about Raven.  As she explained it to Kevin, it makes her nervous that Raven’s accent changes depending on who she is talking to.  Christmas views Raven as being a fake and both Kevin and Jason agree with her.

That said, if Paul’s reluctant to let anyone vote for Elena, he is definitely not going to let anyone vote for Raven.  He knows that he can get Raven to do whatever he wants.  With Christmas and Josh recently showing some hints of independence, the last thing that Paul wants is to lose someone he feels he can control.

Cody, for his part, has been trying to campaign for Jessica but it’s not coming naturally to him.  There are a lot of hard feelings between Cody and the rest of the house.  Even though almost everyone seems to be starting to realize just how big of a threat Paul is, they still don’t want to work with Cody.

Cody has spent a lot of time talking to Kevin.  He told Kevin that, if Jessica stays, he won’t go after Paul if he wins HoH.  Instead, Cody says that he would go after the people who lied to him earlier.  Kevin relayed this message to Paul but Paul says it doesn’t matter.  He wants Jessica gone.

(Kevin has promised Cody that he’ll vote for Elena but he’s also promised Paul that he’ll vote to evict Jessica.)

Jessica seems to be resigned to the thought of leaving on Thursday.  Earlier today, she was telling Cody about how much she hates everyone in the house, especially Raven.  Jessica told Cody that she can’t wait to get away from “these idiots.”

Finally, there have been some weird noises playing over the house loudpseaker.  The first noise heard was a baby crying, followed by someone telling the baby to be quiet.  This was followed by the sound of barking dogs.  While all of the houseguests are trying to figure out what the sounds mean, Raven is paranoid that they have something to do with her.  She has been talking to the other houseguests and deliberately lying to them about what the sounds were.  For instance, she’s been telling everyone that the crying baby was actually a squealing pig.

What’s funny is that Raven’s lies aren’t fooling anyone.  Instead, all they’re doing is annoying the other houseguests.  Alex, Kevin, Jason, Christmas, and Josh have all talked about how they don’t trust Raven.  Again, I would be surprised if anyone other than Jessica is voted out.  However, Raven better watch herself because you don’t want to annoy people when you’re on the block!

Anyway, that’s where we stand now in the Big Brother House.  As always, we’ll see what happens!

Lisa Marie

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Hi, y’all!

So, to the shock of everyone in the house, Mark actually did something and won the veto yesterday.  Apparently, it was the Otev comp.  Even more shocking than Mark winning it was Christmas wasting her ring of replacement so that she could take Cody’s place in the comp.  If I’m interpreting what I’m hearing correctly, Christmas was not allowed to compete.

Why was it shocking?  Christmas previously promised the HoH, Josh, that she would not use her ring of replacement this week.  However, Paul apparently ordered her too so Christmas went ahead and did it.   I know that a lot of people were hoping that this would be the week that everyone would stop taking their marching orders form Paul but no, he appears to be as powerful as ever.  That’s not good news for Jessica.  Josh may want to send Elena out of the house but Paul wants everyone to vote Jessica.  Paul has also said that he wants Cody to be next week’s target and he ordered Josh to start harassing Cody once he is no longer HoH.  Josh, who seems to be getting a little tired of Paul ordering him around, said that he didn’t want to do that and Paul replied that Josh has to because no one gets under Cody’s skin like Josh does.

Cody is actually trying to campaign on Jessica’s behalf but he’s struggling, largely because he really doesn’t have much of a connection with anyone in the house (other than Jessica, of course). Earlier today, he tried to talk to Kevin.  I like Kevin but he’s really the last person in the house that you should try to convince to make a big move.  I mean, Kevin and Jason may talk about how they have to make a big move but neither has shown much of an inclination to actually do it.  Anyway, Kevin told Cody that he would vote to keep Jessica in the house but they may have just been Kevin telling Cody what he wanted to hear.

Christmas has been telling Josh that he needs to make some sort of deal that will prevent Mark from using the POV.  Apparently, she and Paul think that they can convince Mark that not using the POV would be a good way for him to prove his loyalty and to show that he trusts the house.  I doubt Mark is going to go for that.  That argument has only worked once in the entire history of Big Brother.  Marcellus did not use the POV to save himself and was voted out immediately afterward.  It’s remembered as one of the dumbest moves in BB history.

So, Josh will probably have to pick a replacement nominee and it will have to be someone from his alliance.  For all the talk about how much they all trust each other, no one seems to be eager to take Mark’s place on the block.  For his part, Matt did say that he wouldn’t take it personally if he or Raven was used as pawn.

As for tonight’s show — well, I’ll be missing it.  I will, however, be DVRing it so I can watch it later.  We’ll get to see that 9-hour temptation comp and, even more importantly, we’ll see what was said at the nomination ceremony.  Supposedly, something was said that upset Cody and Jessica.

Finally, the veto meeting is on Monday.  We’ll see what happens!

Lisa Marie

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Hi, everyone!

They’re picking players for the veto right now so I thought I’d just do a quick update.

So, Josh is the HoH and it looks like he might be trying to think for himself.  Apparently, he really wants to get Elena out of the house.  He says that he knows where Cody and Jessica are coming from but he doesn’t know what’s going on in Elena’s head.  Paul and Raven freaked out when he said that and started ordering him to put up Jessica.  That was a huge mistake because Josh is really proud of being HoH and is determined to use this week to prove that he can actually think for himself.

How do I know what’s going on in Josh’s mind?  Well, it helps that he keeps talking straight to the camera.  Whenever he’s alone in the HoH room, he starts talking to the camera and telling them his thoughts.  The majority of his thoughts sound like this: “This is my HoH!  Nobody but me realizes how dangerous Elena is!”

They did the temptation comp yesterday.  It went on for nine hours.  Cody won, so he’s safe for the week.  Jessica came in last, so she is going on the block.  Apparently, Jessica lost on purpose.  She figured that she was going to be put on the block anyway so, by throwing the comp, she guaranteed herself a chance to play for veto and prevented Josh from backdooring her.

What’s funny is that Paul ordered everyone else in the house to play in the veto.  (Despite what Josh says, Paul is convinced that this is his HoH.)  And everyone was supposed to try to throw it, to keep either Cody or Jessica from coming in last.  Obviously, Jessica worked really hard at throwing that comp.

After the temp competition, Josh told Mark and Elena that he would be putting them up as pawns.  (That’s not true, of course.  Elena is Josh’s target.)  Mark took it pretty well but Elena totally freaked out.  Up until the nomination ceremony, she was yelling at Josh.  Elena’s main argument was that she quit her job to come on the show and she deserved to at least make it to jury.  Right before the nomination ceremony, Elena look at Josh and asked, “Is this your HoH or Paul’s?”

(Paul, for his part, lied to Mark and Elena and said that he had volunteered to go up as a pawn but that Josh wouldn’t let him.  That’s not true at all.)

Anyway, there was apparently some drama at the nominations ceremony.  It sounds like Josh said that Jessica was throwing her game away for Cody, which led to Cody getting upset.  But anyway, Josh nominated Mark and Elena.  Afterward, he tried to have a meeting with Cody and Jessica but both of them refused to talk to him because they don’t know that he’s targeting Elena.

Okay, as I typed all that, the players were picked for the veto.  Christmas used her ring of replacement to take Cody’s place in the comp.  So, apparently, it’ll be Alex, Christmas, Josh, Jessica, Mark, and Elena competing for the veto.  Josh told Christmas that he needs the house (specifically Paul) to think that he’s changed his mind and that he’s targeting Jessica but actually, he wants Jessica to win the veto and take herself off the block.

Well, we’ll see what happens.  Josh really doesn’t have the votes to evict Elena if Jessica’s still on the block.  Paul is going to tell his people to vote for Jessica, regardless of what Josh wants.  So, Jessica has to win this veto.

We’ll see what happens!

Lisa Marie

P.S. Just in case it’s gotten confusing for anyone, here’s where we stand:

Josh is HoH.

Elena is the only Have Not for the week.

Cody is safe for the week.

Mark, Elena, and Jessica are on the block.

Mark, Elena, Josh, Alex, Jessica, and Christmas are playing for the veto.

All of the temptation powers have now been used and are out of the game.

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Hi, everyone!

I hate to put up a short post with no new info in it but, today, I have no choice.  The feeds have been down nearly all day.  As I sit here typing this, they’re still down.  The feeds went down at the start of the Temptation Comp and now, 9 hours later, they’re still down.

As far as I know, I think everyone was competing in this comp, except for Josh and maybe Christmas.  So, if it’s a timed comp, that might explain why it’s taking so long.  Of course, there’s a lot of speculation online.  Some people think a fight broke out.  Some people think there was an injury.  Myself, I kinda suspect that they may have gone straight from the comp to the nomination ceremony.

As for the nomination ceremony … I’m really not sure who Josh is going to nominate.  Paul wants Josh to nominate Cody and Jessica but, last night, Christmas told Josh that he needs to stop doing everything that Paul wants.  Josh has said that he doesn’t mind the idea of evicting either Cody or Jessica but he’d rather get Elena out of the house.  My guess is that he’s probably going to go ahead and nominate Jessica and Cody and then try to backdoor Elena.

Whenever the feeds come back, we’ll see!

Lisa Marie

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Hi y’all!

Well, what can I say about tonight’s episode?  That was an interesting one.  I guess the best thing I can say about it is that it signaled the end of perhaps the worst week in Big Brother history.

For the record, Jessica used the hex.  The eviction was canceled.  Jessica and Cody were saved for the week.  I know that Jessica thinks that she saved Cody by using the hex but actually, she saved herself.  Last night, Paul said that, if the vote did happen, he wanted Jessica to be evicted over Cody.  He feels that Jessica is a stronger player than Cody and he’s actually correct.  He thinks that Cody will fall apart without Jessica in the house.  I don’t know if he’s correct about that.

As for the HoH, it was won by Josh.  My natural assumption is that Josh will do whatever Paul or Christmas tells him to do.  I could be wrong.  Josh could go out on his own.  Reportedly, he was shaken by that person with the bullhorn calling Paul a bully.  And he’s told Paul that he’s worried that Jessica is actually really popular outside of the house.  About a week ago, Josh even nodded when Kevin said that they were going to have to get Paul out of the house at some point.

But, honestly, I would be surprised if Josh did anything other than target Cody and Jessica this week.  Josh dislikes Cody a lot more than he does Jessica but, of course, Paul has said that he considers Jessica to be a bigger threat.  If, for some reason, Josh doesn’t go after Cody or Jessica, I imagine he’ll go after Mark.

That’s just my guess but you never know!  This week might come down to who wins the veto and who wins the temptation comp.  If Cody and Jessica win both of those, things could get interesting.

So, as always, we’ll see what happens!

Lisa Marie

P.S. I was not extremely happy with the way tonight’s episode was edited.  Yes, they did show Paul telling everyone t harass Cody and Jessica but they left out the part that got everyone so mad.  They didn’t show Paul and Christmas telling everyone to suggest Cody was lying about his military service.  Paul’s goal was to get Cody to snap and take a swing at someone.  Instead, the show let him off the hook by having him say that he was reacting to Jessica “harassing” everyone with her hex.  Obviously, they can’t show everything that happened but still, the editing felt a bit obvious tonight.

Production yelled at Paul for the bullying (and the bad publicity the show received as a result).  So, I doubt we’ll have a repeat performance this week.  Again, we’ll see!

P.P.S. Thank you everyone for your comments earlier today!  Y’all are the best. 🙂

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Hi, eveyone!

Well, it’s that time again.  It’s been a strange week in the Big Brother house and tomorrow, it’s finally coming to its conclusion.

So, once again, it’s time to open up the diary room!

How do you vote this week?

Do you vote for

CODY

or

JESSICA

or

THE HALTING HEX!?

Cast your vote over on the right side of the page or in the comments below!  And then be sure to watch Thursday to see what happens!

Happy voting,

Lisa Marie

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Hi y’all!

Speaking as someone who is not a huge fan of either Paul or Cody, yesterday was exhausting to watch.  With the exception of Jason, Matt, Mark, and Elena, all of the other houseguests signed onto Paul’s plan to try to push Cody to the point that he would either self-evict or take a swing at someone and get kicked out of the house.  Josh wandered around the house, yelling at Jessica and Cody.  While they mostly ignored Josh, Jessica did end up getting into a screeching match with Raven.  Raven was extremely proud of herself, even though she did most of her shouting after Cody and Jessica went outside and shut the door.  Raven spent a lot of time yelling at that glass door.

Speaking of yelling, it turns out that Paul is a lot better at instigating than actually fighting.  He had no problem suggesting that the other houseguests should question Cody’s military service and maybe even bring up the death of Cody’s brother but Paul largely stayed in the background himself.  He spent nearly the entire day rehearsing what he was going to yell at Cody — “Ya woman put a muzzle on you!” — but he didn’t yell it until Cody was outside with the door closed and probably wasn’t able to actually hear him.  Paul apparently was more comfortable with the idea of pushing Cody to attack Josh than running the risk of being attacked himself.

It quickly got exhausting.  Evel Dick may have popularized the idea of being a bully but even he knew when to back off.  Just to make clear, I’m neither a Cody nor a Paul fan.  I pretty much dislike both of them.  For that matter, it’s hard for me to think of anyone in the house that I actually do like.  Sometimes, I do like Kevin but he’s going to have to do something more than just be likable if he wants to earn the right to win Big Brother.

My thing is this: Drama is fun to watch.  Bullying is not.  It wasn’t fun when Cody told Megan, “I just don’t like you” and it wasn’t fun watching Josh taunting Cody and Jessica yesterday.  Even if you accept the argument that the people being bullied were bullies themselves, it’s never entertaining to watch someone sink down to someone else’s level.  Apparently, production realized this as well because they eventually called Paul, Josh, and Christmas into the diary room and informed them that they are not allowed to “provoke violence” or to encourage other houseguests to self-evict.

Shortly after this, someone with a bullhorn shouted, “America loves Jess!  Paul is a bully!”

Paul seemed kind of out-of-it immediately after all of this.  To a large extent, his strategy has been based on convincing all the other houseguests that America loves him and that America will love any houseguest that works with him.  Getting scolded by production and then being taunted by the bullhorn really seemed to get under his skin.  As soon as Big Brother After Dark started, Paul started to backtrack, as if he was trying to convince the casual viewers (i.e., the ones without live feeds) that they had heard wrong and he hadn’t spent the entire day ordering the other houseguests to try to make Cody snap.

Ultimately, Paul’s plan backfired not because he upset the viewers but because he just made Cody and Jessica even more determined to 1) stay in the house and 2) win HoH on Thursday night.  Paul seems to realize this too.  He has spent most of today telling anyone who will listen that he’s sure that Jessica will suffer some sort of “personal punishment” for using the hex, like she won’t be allowed to compete for HoH or she’ll automatically go on the block the week afterward.  Paul’s grasping at straws.

Paul really should just get over it.  So Cody and Jessica get to survive an extra week.  Who cares?  It’s not like they have any allies in the house.  Even Mark has said that he’s going to nominate Cody and Jessica if he wins HoH.  Even if Cody or Jessica wins HoH, Paul’s alliance is so huge that it’s not like it could be dismantled in a week or even two.  Perhaps instead of trying to get people to self-evict, Paul should spend his time telling his followers how important it is that one of them wins HoH on Thursday.

Just a thought.

Anyway, things have been calmer today.  Jessica was amazed when, after their huge fight, Raven greeted her this morning with a cheery, “Good morning!”  Jessica is definitely going to use the hex on Thursday and we’ll see what happens from there!

Lisa Marie

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Hi y’all!

So, the drama continues in the Big Brother House.  Earlier today, they had the veto ceremony.  Now, earlier, there was a lot of speculation about Paul maybe taking Cody or Jessica off the block and replacing them with someone like Alex, all as part of an effort to trick Jessica into not using the hex.  However, to no one’s great surprise, that didn’t happen.  That plan was too cutesy even for this group of people.

Instead, Paul use the veto to take Jason off the block.  Because Jason was the third nominee and wasn’t actually nominated by the head of household, he was not replaced.  That leaves Cody and Jessica on the block together and I think that Paul has finally accepted that there’s no way Jessica isn’t going to use that hex.

So, Paul’s come up with a new plan to get Cody out of the house!  He discussed it with Christmas, Josh, and Matt today.  Paul’s plan is to essentially keep pushing Cody to the point that he loses his temper and physically attacks someone.  Cody will then be kicked out of the house for violating the rules of Big Brother.  I think being kicked out would also lead to Cody forfeiting any money that he would otherwise make for appearing on Big Brother.

Matt actually spoke up and said that he didn’t think this was a good plan.  After all, Cody and Jessica are extremely isolated and it’s not like there won’t be any other opportunities to get rid of them.  However, Paul says that Cody is a bully and that they have to get him out of the house.

(If anything, Paul seems to be really, really angry that he doesn’t have the power this week.  He may have said that he’s happy to just flush out the halting hex but the fact that he won’t be the one evicting Cody really seems to be upsetting him.)

Christmas and Josh are totally on board with the plan.  In fact, Christmas announced, “Cody may have killed people but I can tear out his soul and rip it apart.”  (She then hopped on her scooter and rolled away.)  And Josh, of course, seems to think that this is the greatest idea ever.  In fact, the entire plan seems to be for Josh to keep being more and more obnoxious until Cody snaps.

Personally, to me, it seems like if Paul is determined to make Cody attack someone, he should take one for the team and allow himself to be the target.  Instead, he’s using Josh and Josh doesn’t seem to understand that.  Josh is so happy to be hanging out with the popular kids that he doesn’t realize that they’re going to dump him as soon as they don’t need him anymore.

Anyway, that’s the plan.  Josh will be obnoxious until Cody takes a swing at him.  Paul wants to provoke Cody into physically attacking anyone but him.

We’ll see how that works out for him!

Lisa Marie

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Hi everyone!

Well, as we all know, the veto competition was held yesterday.  If you’ve been watching the live feeds or reading the comments on this site, then you know that Paul won the veto!

Now, before anyone gets too excited, it appears that everyone — even Cody and Jessica — threw the comp.  Jessica and Cody have their hex so it’s not like they needed the veto.  Kevin never wants to win anything because that would require him to take a definite stand on something that’s going on in the house.  Raven is the same way.  I’m a little bit surprised that Jason apparently threw the comp but, then again, it was a memorization comp and Jason’s never exactly been a cerebral player.

Anyway, now that Paul has the veto, there’s been a lot of speculation online and in the house about what’s going to happen next.  Could Paul use the veto and somehow convince Jessica not to use the hex?  Is it possible that Jessica will not use the hex and just allow Cody to walk out that door?  Jessica herself has suggested that Paul should use the veto on Cody and then put Alex up in his place.  Jessica believes that Alex would be voted out over her.

There’s still a lot of confusion over how the hex works.  When Jessica received the Hex, Julie specifically said that the hex has to be used before the votes are cast.  It’s kind of like an immunity idol in Survivor.  You have to use it before the votes are announced (or, in the case of Big Brother, cast).  However, Jessica was telling Cody that she thinks she might be able to use it after the votes are cast.  When last I checked, she was even heading to the diary room to get clarification.

Meanwhile, Paul and Raven are still convinced that, when Jessica uses the hex, that means that Paul will be allowed to nominate someone in Jessica and Cody’s place.  No!  It doesn’t work like that!  Still, they were talking about possibly backdooring Alex after Jessica uses the hex.  Raven is even volunteering to go up on the block, against whoever Paul wants out of the house.

So, here’s my prediction.  There’s going to be a lot of speculation because, honestly, it’s going to be a boring week if people don’t at least spend a little time scheming.  But, in the end, Paul is not going to use the veto.  (Unless, of course, he decided to help out Jason and take him off the block.  But, in that case, there would be no replacement nominee.)  And Cody may be talking about how he’s given up and how he just wants to leave the house but Cody hates Paul too much to give him the satisfaction of forcing him out.  Jessica is going to use the hex on Thursday and, if she doesn’t, she’s a fool.

But who knows?  To be honest, I never thought Jessica would be silly enough to not use her veto on Ramses.  This is a strange week in a strange season so we’ll wait and see what happens!

Lisa Marie

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