Callaphera

Gross. More tuna kisses in the HoH room with week. Hork.

"Watch the HoH competition live on the feeds!" No, more like watch Jeff highlights and two brief seconds of the comp.

Johnny Mac is out. Damn.

Julia seems more concerned with her nails than who is going to win the competition. The twins are feeling just a little too safe for my liking. I'd love to see one of them on the block next to Vanessa, just for shits and giggles.

This was a rather lackluster live show. I mean, yay Zingbot is coming and I can't wait to see what he's going to say about Liz, Austin, and Vanessa. But other than that? The piece on Steve was way too long. The Becky boot was predictable the second we saw the HGs, just because she was dressed up and Johnny Mac was in athletic clothes. We've already seen most of those clips of James scaring Julia. The HoH comp seems a little ho-hum too. Just as I was saying that Meg probably wasn't going to make it far in this one, she goes out first. I usually get bored at this point of the season with the broadcast show. Hopefully it picks up soon.

I'll kick in a dollar. Of course, with the Canadian dollar down so far, it'll only be 75 cents after it's exchanged. Sorry about that.

If that was Johnny Mac's best death stare (what?) and if that's as angry as he gets (again, what?), he's the most mild-mannered person in the house. What a difference from Vanessa's mania and paranoia. They always have to make OTEV sound as annoying as possible, don't they? By the third "Bud-daaaaaaah!", I was ready to mute the rest. Good thing I didn't, because I laughed like crazy over Jace's song. His BB legacy isn't going to be first evicted from the 17th season, it's going to be that he was taken off the memory wall. We already had Train-Face Becky, now we've got Buttered Ramp to the Face Meg. That had to hurt. Didn't stop me from laughing at it, though.

Yawn. Big surprise. The Veto wasn't used.

The only moment of this episode that made me interested or laugh was Johnny Mac going into the HoH room after Vanessa and telling her that it looked a little fishy. Other than that, this was a yawner from start to finish.

I'd like to believe that. But I foresee two days of crying, finger pointing, and stressing over finding a different Reason, because the first isn't enough. Then Austin, Liz, and Julia pleading their cases, which leads to more crying and stressing. Then Veto and finding The Reason for a replacement nom (complete with a staged confrontation or two and more finger pointing). And then switching The Reason to another target and finding a third new Reason and more tears and stressing and adjusting the Green Tuque of Doom. Add in a handful of "What?!" and "I trusted you!" and you have a tasty Batshit HoH cocktail. Can you tell I'm so over Vanessa? Although I admit, if I were in the house, I'd want to keep her around until after the buyback from jury, just to make sure she couldn't return.

Possibly. But then we would have to sit through another long week of In Search Of... The Reason. I don't know if I could take that again.

Too bad Steve filled in Julia earlier about OTEV being a veto comp and not HoH. I would have loved to see her baffled face as she went out into the backyard. "What?! Ohmigod I'm so confuuuuuuseduh!" ETA: Apparently, Jace's clue in OTEV was about his face being taken off the memory wall. Man, BB is nasty this year to the HGs and I love it.

But he offered to throw it up when he confessed in the DR!

Conspiracy time! Vanessa was flipping through the BB Rule Book for awhile there in the living room. She then got up, put it back in the storage room, and went into the DR. You can argue that she was checking out the list of HN foods but that's not as much fun as wondering if she's trying to find a loophole to keep herself from being backdoored or bitch about Johnny Mac having that one cookie by accident.

Ha! Julia is 100% sure that OTEV is an HoH competition. Vanessa's confused, probably because she just found out that Julia can't spell words backwards.

Y'know, before this I was thinking of making myself a tuna sandwich. Not so much anymore. I'm not sure I want food at all now. That's what I was thinking when she was playing with it. She hated that thing last week and wanted him to chop it off, now she willingly plays with it? Well, that and the fact that there was probably tuna in it still. Maybe she was just cleaning it up for him. Yup, sufficiently grossed out now. And probably not eating tuna for awhile.

First Liz was playing with Austin's ponytail beard and then when I think it's safe to watch again rather than just listen, I get extreme close-up of them kissing. Ugh. Can't we check up on Vanessa or something? Start Veto? Guess I'll keep just listening. ETA: from Jokers Ewwwww-uh, that's grooossssss-uh.

BB14, I think? I look forward to him every year, because there's always someone in the house who I think is going to get zinged hard and then whine about it for days. My money is on Vanessa this year. Or maybe Austin, if it's about his odor issue.

If it is Zingy, I feel sorry for the person in the costume. I've seen people talking about how hot it is today in that area.

So I haven't checked on the feeds yet today... did Johnny Mac kill Vanessa in her sleep? Or did security manage to stop him?

So, I missed this little tidbit while away from my computer for a few minutes. From Jokers: Really? I don't know what to say about that. She and I are thinking of the same Johnny Mac, right? ETA: Apparently so, because Austin is now telling James and Meg about it downstairs. ETA2: Vanessa is claiming that she's one of the least frequent criers in the house. She really does live in Bizzaro Land, doesn't she?

Vanessa can't figure out why Johnny Mac and Becky aren't her #1 fans. She's a nice person! She doesn't get it! She's not mean! ETA: Ah. Vanessa thinks Johnny Mac has a "mood disorder" now. As well as being Clay's gay lover cousin brother person. LOL

The parlour was the hammock room originally. In the beginning of the season, there was a giant hammock in the middle of the room. The HGs complained that it was uncomfortable, so we got the seating we have now. At least they can have actual conversations in there with the new seating. The hammock was just bad. But the name stuck.

I like how BB waited for the nomination ceremony until the Vanessa/Johnny Mac conversation was done in the hammock room. It was practically a script, you could almost hear the "aaaand... scene!" as she walked out of the room. I did like him telling her that he doesn't like how she cries and yells at people. That seemed to shut her down a little, although she claimed she didn't like it when she cries either (which is why she does it a handful of times a week?). Poor Johnny Mac looked so over that conversation. I don't blame him. I came into it five minutes before Jeff highlights started and even I was over it by then.

I think he said something about a ball being stuck somewhere and it "not working" because of that. I'm not surprised that something went wrong with equipment on a DE live show. You'd think that by the 17th season, this show would work like a well oiled machine.