Big Brother Season 10-Goodbye April

Renney nominates Jerry and April leaving the house, well at least Keesha, Memphis and Dan to question why? We all knew she was the loose cannon as evident by her kooky thinking. My daughter says I hope the old guy wins, you know why? I say why? Because he doesn't have long to live....ugh! Typical kid thinking. I wonder how long she thinks I have!

Everyone on Keesha's side is hoping that they will win the POV or it's either Dan or Memphis going up knowing Renny likes Ollie. This was guess the amount which is always hard. Dan finally decides to do something to defend himself and wins the POV. It is here when my modem decides to go down for two days! Unfortunately I had written out this entire post and it didn't save, and for the sake of not having to do this all over, I am going to say that glad that April was evicted, the only sweet thing about her departure was Ollie asking her to be his first girlfriend. Did Julie Chen coin that word "frienemenies"? I'm wishing , someone other than Jerry and Michelle will win HOH!-Single D

Did we happen to mention that Renny is weird? Yeah, I guess we did. Between Renny and her Godfather like stares and Jerry talking to himself, answering himself and petting his dog who isn't there, the BB house is turning into a loony bin!

Ollie's name gets pulled to play POV and, of course, promises April he will save her if he wins. How romantic! The knight swooping in to save his princess. OK, you can stop gagging now. Did anyone else hear Ollie propose to April? My husband and I just looked at each other and couldn't believe what we had heard. Then April just laughed. I can't fault her too much on that because I thought my husband was joking when he proposed and we are still together, for better or worse. Look out Ollie, I think April will chew you up and spit you out. If you read the live feed blogs, she has already done that! EEWW did I just type that?

The backyard is transformed into a creepy graveyard complete with hissing cockroaches. Cockroaches are bad enough without them hissing. The houseguests are given some time to wander around and study the yard because they have guess how much there is of something. To get an estimate of how many cockroaches there are, they have to stick their hands in the tank. Keesha can't do it and I certainly can't blame her for that! In a move that would make any poker player proud, Dan pulls off the win.

Later, Renny is giving Dan a haircut while Dan prays to have Renny's hands blessed. Dan is happy with the haircut and everything is right with the world.

April offers Dan money for the POV by saying she's sure he could use some extra money for his school and also tells him that her and Ollie won't put him up next week. These people seem awfully sure of themselves. Dan doesn't use the POV.

Michelle gets wind of the money offer to Dan and wants to know who it was because she is in complete denial that it could be April. Dan is wisely keeping his mouth shut. Ollie, in the diary room says he has a few reasons to keep April in the house. That deserves a big DUH! You think the sex has anything to do with it?

In April's "keep me" speech, she repeated almost word for word the speech made by Memphis or Jesse (I can't remember which), "play for yourself, not for the person sitting next to you", etc. It doesn't help and she is evicted. Looks like no nookie for Ollie for awhile.

The HOH competition is to hang on to a vine with water raining down and getting slammed into a padded wall. It looked like fun until the slamming started. Dan had on a heavy, hooded jacket and gloves. Did he get some inside info on the challenge? We are left "hanging" to see who wins HOH. And yes, Julie did start a new word, frienemies! Now go and use it in a sentence at least five times today! Double D

Project Runway-March of the Drag Queens

I guess if anyone can dress up for a good laugh it is Chris March, last season's softie that we love so much and drag queen designer himself, all decked out in a grotesque Brunhilda like, disco bra bearing, take me to your Attila of the Hun drag queen outfit. This challenge will be to design an over the top outfit for your lovable drag queen next door and with that a parade to rival Beach Blanket Babylon, the girls come strutting in their stuff. I have never seen so much sequins and pancake makeup in one episode. I loved some of their stage names, like Farrah Moans, Hedda Lettuce, Anniad Greenkard and Sharon Needles to name a few. Each of the designers pick their models, poor Dom Stella, I thought she should have been paired with Sharon Needles, they both looked like they could chew on heroin needles for a snack. After the designers pick their models, Chris his work done here, says he needs some German food and Heidi says how about some beer and pretzels? Cute.

Oh by the way, my bad, I thought Blayne had been eliminated last challenge, wishful thinking here, but I must have dreamt that, either that, or I'm really getting those senior moments that are lasting more than a moment! Gads! Blayne is getting on everyone's nerves with is licious, this and licious that, which reminds me of my sister-in-law who used to describe herself as lusiciouslicious. Annoyinglicious, girlicious, bootylicious....shut the h---up! Keith is doing another outfit with strips, didn't he already do that? And poor Suede, his choice of Hedda Lettuce, little did he know he was picking Mommy Dearest! Hedda complains to Suede what you made gloves, were you too lazy to make sleeves? Oh Hello! I think gloves are much more time consuming to make than sleeves, what with fingers and all that? Hedda Lettuce is more like Sour Cabbage to me and certainly not Butter Lettuce. When the guys come in for their fitting, hey they really are guys. Someone said that under all that makeup was some little Mexican guy. Now I know why those guys are drag queens, they look so much better in pancake and sequins.

My favorite over the top drag queen outfit was Terri's. A mix of Kabuki meets Kiss outfit. Terri certainly thought that she was going to win the challenge, but when the judges declared Joe's sedate pink Ann Margaret, I work at a gas station jumper as the winner, Terri had that look of I was robbed, I was robbed! And rightfully so!

It was goodbye to Daniel, I take back everything I said previously about him. Gifted he maybe, but stubborn and it's my way or the highway, well, honey, it's the highway for you!-Single D

The beginning of this episode shows the designers getting out of bed and the camera catches Stella in the hall way. How many ways can you say SCARY?! I was really surprised that she wasn't wearing a leather nightie. With that out of the way, we are greeted by last season's Chris M, or who I like to call a young Fred Flintstone, dressed in a whacked out viking outfit. He looked like he had disco balls for boobs. The challenge this week is to design for drag queens. These queens had attitude for a mile. I was cracking up most of the episode but some of these people were just over the top rude, like Hedda as Single D describes above.

Everyone is SO tired of Blayne and his liciousness. Even LeeAnn said she is getting barflicious listening to him. Suede actually referred to himself as me. Don't deny it, I heard it! Kieth has gone fringe happy again and promised Tim Gunn that he was going to shape and form fit the fringes. Blayne seemed surprised when his model came in and it was a man.

Joe's outfit was too Elvis so he lowered the collar and went sailorlicious (sorry). I agree with Single D, Terri's outfit was great. My fave was Korto's red "flame" dress, her model loved it and it was exactly what the drag queen ordered.

RuPaul was the guest judge. I didn't know he was still around. I remember watching his show, as brief as it was. The judges thought Kieth's fringe disaster was messy and Jerell's dress was too normal looking. Daniel's dress was pretty but not what the challenge was about. Poor Daniel, he looked so confused and frustrated, he obviously doesn't grasp the whole drag queen concept. Joe wins with his pink sailor suit and Daniel is auf'ed. I thought Kieth should have gone home but he lives to fringe another day. Double D

Ghost Hunters International - Finale in Transylvania

The first stop on the finale is Banffy Castle in Transylvania, Romania. The castle is currently being used as a renovation school. Alot of the students report hearing noises, voices and seeing shadows.

Rob & Brandy start in the stables where a stable boy is usually seen. The stable boy was murdered by an older woman to keep him from talking after she seduced him. See, they even had cougars back in the 16th century! Brandy tells the spirit that she won't hurt him and Rob challenges him to whisper something in Brandy's ear. They do hear a noise but little else.

Barry was trying to debunk the shadows in the blue room when Dustin sees a shadow in a window in the room next to Barry, but that room doesn't have a floor and the window is a good 20 feet up! Barry goes in, as far as he can, to be sure no one is in there and sees flashing lights. No one is in the area and they are not using flash lights. Meanwhile in the courtyard, Dustin is waiting to continue with Barry and he hears hissing noises coming from the castle. Turns out it was just an owl. Had us going for a minute though!

Andy goes into the "secret room" off the stables as Brandy holds the thermal cam. The room turns out to be a tunnel that leads to the basement.

The findings show an audio of the noise Rob & Dustin hear in the stables. At the same time, Barry was taking pictures with the full spectrum camera and catches a flash of light right where the noise was heard. Rob says there isn't enough evidence to call the castle haunted.

On to Curtea De Arges, Romania and Dracula's Castle. The team has to climb 1400 (not a typo) stairs to get to the castle and wisely decide to take their equipment to avoid multiple trips. Rob decides to try a technique called triangulation using three teams in a triangle formation all doing EVP work simultaneously. At the end of the session, they listen to the recordings to see which area to concentrate on. Barry hears noises on his recording from the top of the castle so that is where they go to conduct additional EVPs.

It turns out that the noises Barry heard where natural and Rob says the castle is not haunted. I guess Count Dracula is resting in peace. All in all, not a bad season. Can't wait until next season to see where GHI goes next. Double D

Bachelor News Flash!

This just in---Jason Mesnick the jilted, rejected bachelor from DeAnna the Bachelorette, will be the next Bachelor, due to air in January, 2009. Hearts were breaking all over the world when Jason was sent roseless. No one wants to see a good guy finish last, so now he gets the chance to find his true love. Let's hope ABC will select quality, smart ladies! We can only hope!-Single D

Reality Check-Back in the Day....

A funny thing happened over dinner the other night, my daughter Madison said that her friend, M2 (she's a Maddy also) got a stereo for her birthday. "A stereo"? I said. Now there's a word I haven't heard in a long time, stereo! She said yeah, it's cool, it cost $600.00 (not true of course). I said what would she want a stereo for, what with ipods, downloads and portable cd's. I said, what... are you going to pick up a big stereo and take it with you? Why would she want a stereo? My daughter shrugs her shoulders and says I dunno, it's just cool. It's such a different world since when I grew up, which I constantly remind her, my mantra that she is sick of listening to, which begins with the line, back in the day....when there were no computers, blah, blah, blah.

When my daughter brings homework of vocabulary words, all she has to do is click the mouse, go to dictionary.com and type the word. Me, I had good ole Merriam Webster, wet my finger, find the indent listed with the letter, turn to the page and hunt for the word on a page that had thousands of tiny small words, which could have been braille for all I knew. Let's see: progress, progression, progressive. Now when she comes home with some algebra problem, I can always pretend I know it by looking it up on the computer and say, see I told you so!

Now my daughter programs her favorite TV shows when we are gone, her Disney Channel or Nick Jr. Back when, we only had about 7 channels and if we had to go out to dinner or something, too bad, I would miss an episode of Gilligan's Island. Back then it wasn't the episodic shows, it was just Gillian, his same old shenanigans , Ginger trying to seduce the professor, and Skipper trying to get off the island.

We had no DS for portable game playing, it was your plastic battleship or Chinese checkers, try sticking that in your purse! Where would my daughter be without my computer, to which she keeps asking me, when can I get my own computer in my own room and my own TV in my own room? Huh, huh??!! This I counter with, I never had my own TV in my own room, I didn't even have my own room. Never mind that we have 3 TV's, one being a rather large plasma in the living room which she and her friends have taken over, with my husband in the spare room and me in the den. And another thing Missy, you will not be getting your own computer, two computers in this house for 3 people are quite enough. Maybe a laptop when you reach high school, but this I secretly think will come a lot sooner than I plan or would want. My daughter is a wiz at electronics and computers which I don't quite know if that's a good thing. It's just wrong when my daughter can set my ringtones to my favorite song on my cell phone or program the vcr on the TV, when I try and fail.

My daughter is going into middle school which is a big event, leaving her elementary school days behind. Gone are the long list of supplies which at the beginning of every year cost a small fortune. Why do I have supply paper towels, handiwipes, pens, pencils, paper, glue, scissors, candy and everything else not nailed down in a classroom? I remember when all I had to take to school was a binder and a pencil, maybe a pencil box and a stylish lunch box.

Attending my daughter's middle school orientation was like entering a concrete prison. Gone are the open corridors with rows and rows of lockers. Gone are the trees, views of the street and fresh air. Replaced by cement blocked building with only one way in. No adults allowed, drop off your kid at the loading zone and say goodbye. The middle school is like a fortress and I guess in this day and age it needs to be, which is sad. Back in the day, I remember seeing the cars wiz by the school, jumping the chain linked fence of the school for lunch as we sneaked off to the local Tasty Burger.

So when my daughter said that maybe she wanted a stereo at dinner the other night, I thought, is everything old, new again? Nah.....I think not.-Single D

Ghost Hunters International - Slovenia & Slovakia

Predjama, Slovenia investigating Predjama Castle. Now it really feels international! This place is SO cool looking. It's built into the side of a mountain on top of a natural cave where people lived before building the castle. The castle sports a torture chamber which seems to be the hot spot in the castle. The usual voices and footsteps are heard throughout but mostly in the courtroom and torture chamber.

Andy & Brandy start with EVP work in the cave. Brandy asks the spirits to make a noise and they hear a noise. To be sure it wasn't coincidence, she asks again for them to make a noise and, again, they hear a noise. She asks a third time to confirm and is rewarded with yet another noise in direct response to her questions. Andy discovers the cave is full of quartz crystal which he says stores energy and information (any video?) and could be the source of the noises.

Dustin, Rob & Barry in the torture chamber get a vibration from one of the torture devices when the spirits are asked to move one of the devices.

During the review of audio tapes, voices are heard but it is not known what language is being spoken. On the full spectrum camera, Barry catches a misty object moving up behind Dustin in the torture chamber. When Barry tells Dustin what is happening, Dustin turns around and the object disappears.

Rob declares the castle haunted and the evidence is enough that the castle manager says he is quitting his job!

Now it's on to Cachtice, Slovakia and Cachtice Castle. This is the castle where Countess Elizabeth Bathory killed 650 young girls in order to bathe in their blood believing that would keep her young. I'll stick with my Olay moisturizer thank you! Reports are of apparitions of an old lady, possibly the Countess, as well as a young lady crying.

The castle is in ruins but there are tunnels under the castle which houses the room where Elizabeth killed the girls. The castle has a very interesting past but unfortunately the team doesn't find any evidence and finds the castle not haunted. Double D

Blogging Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain is a God. I think if you toss this question out into the universe, you would find a consensus. I want to be Anthony Bourdain, bear his children or at least be his traveling companion. I want to listen to his irrevent commentaries on the places and the food he eats. I want to be the words that roll off this man's tongue and drink the wine he swills. Notice how everyone calls him Anthony Bourdain, not Anthony, not Mr. Bourdain, but Anthony Bourdain? I'm not too fond of his smoking and know that probably when his breath doesn't stink with garlic and seafood, his breath smells of stale cigarettes and booze. How does he create his dialogue for his shows? Are there many takes? Does he tell his cameraman that today he is having a writer's block and needs to drink many glasses of wine and eat many cans of oysters at the local bar in Barcelona where the tin of oysters cost 156 euros. Here he and his guide are picking away at several tins of these oily shell fish nuggets which she says only improve with age and dissolves like velvet in your mouth, an experience only rivaled by eating something so expensive with a primitive wooden toothpick. Next it's on to a gathering where the locals pick what look like giant over grown green onions which are laid out lovingly on a bed of coals, quickly charred and then wrapped in newspaper to continue the cooking process and steamed for another 45 minutes. While these green stalks steam, Anthony Bourdain is drinking wine from a fat glass vial that has a long spout for easy waterfalling drinking. Good idea for not sharing germs. After several swills from this vial, pretty soon, it will be red wine on the foreheads and chard bits of green onions from the mouth. How delicious are the green onion, at first I'm thinking about as delicious as eating a head of lettuce. But leave it to the locals to show Anthony Bourdain how to strip and dip these perfectly cooked stalks into some sort of orangy dip, head back with abandon, downing down these vegan delights in a manner that makes my mouth water. Never mind that they were cooked in newspaper, I'm sure the free fall waterfall wine made everything taste that much better.-Single D

Big Brother Season 10-Renny Nominates

Three little words for Jerry: Stubborn old goat! I started out rooting for Jerry and Renny being in the generation closer to their age than the twenty somethings, but I have to say, Jerry is just as bad as the screaming shrews in the house. He can yell with the best of them and God help anyone that double crosses him (poor Dan!). Gee, who made him the moral police? Jerry, lighten up, it's just a game. And someone should tell Jerry that three's a crowd. He doesn't get the hint that Ollie and April want to be free of him. Like I said, stubborn old goat. It's curious that Jerry has aligned himself to those two? And Renny, she's really kooky, kooky dresser, kooky thinker, kooky kooky! I was glad Renny won, giving our side a real boost for the morale, but I knew when it came to make some decisions, she was going to be a wild card, you know all that kooky thinking. The first 10 minutes of the episode showed Renny as the jilted jealous lover to Keesha and Memphis, thinking that she should get rid of Memphis so she can have Keesha all to herself. Well, if looks could kill! When Renny entered her HOH room, did you ever see such a display of fake crocodile tears ever? Someone give her an Oscar! She cried for her mama, but where were the tears? I heard a lot of mama! mama! but where were the tears? One minute she's all jelly over her pictures of her mother and the next she's acting like the Godfather telling the likes of Michelle that if she spares her this week, she may need to call on a favor from her later. Michelle better be careful or she'll wake up with a horse's head in her bed!

I thought the crickets, pig ears, slop, food challenge was lame! Ok crickets might be alittle hard to swallow but slop (which everyone has eaten) and pig ears are not something that would gross you out. Michelle was in pig heaven eating those pig's ears. And what kind of pig's ears were those, baby pigs? Come on, we want gross, we want puke, we want heaving and suffering! Loser's got slop and an added bonus-lollipops! I have never seen such big lollipops! Ollie was in candy heaven and I love it how someone said can I have one and Ollie said no, those are ours! Isn't it weird that Ollie loves lollipops but is irrationally afraid of birds??? Strange and funny.

I was hoping Renny would have a sliver of rational thought for one minute and nominate Ollie and April for elimination. But noooo, instead she has to ask everyone if they would go up to be a pawn. I loved it how everyone she polled said no way, except Dan. Dan can you hear me? Grow a set!! I'm hoping the house will get rid of April. Who can put up with her and her I'm so in love with myself attitude? I read on the comments on the Big Brother blog that April let her boyfriend torture her cat that he didn't want by locking it in the garage and tying it to the wheel of his car (for 5 months! Will someone call the ASPCA!) That's just plain animal cruelty, if it's true. Apparently April didn't ditch the boyfriend, but the cat! Just goes to show what kind of person she really is. Odd that she cared more about that stuffed dog Holly than she did about her own cat! She needs to go, period! No mercy!-Single D

After Renny wins HOH, April is standing around with a big 'ol grin on her face. Jerry seems to be following April & Ollie. He just shows up like he's the moral police, there will be no making out in this house! Renny has an emotional unveiling of her HOH room as she goes crazy over pictures of her parents. Everyone plays "keep away" with April's stuffed dog.

The food challenge was a disgusting version of rock, paper, scissors. In this case it was slop, crickets, pig ears. Dan & Michelle eat crickets, Jerry almost pukes eating slop (hasn't he been eating that stuff?) and Michelle thoroughly enjoyed the pig ears. April, a vegetarian, eats pig ears for the win. The team that gets the slop also gets, courtesy of America, lollipops. Who votes in these things? Ollie was happy about the lollipops, I'm sure that's all he will eat this week.

We now know that Ollie has a HUGE fear of birds. He seemed to be living the movie "The Birds" when he sees crows in the backyard. Renny asks just about everyone if they would be a pawn for elimination up against April. Who in their right mind would volunteer to be put on the block? And what's up with that one sleeve dress? Renny, leave the one sleeve dress on the rack no one wants to see your under arm dingle dangle. No she didn't listen to reason and puts up Jerry & April. Double D