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For all the guys watching the feeds…I give you…Jessica!!

So first off, she IS beautiful…but she is playing this game great. Week 1 she helped (without doing much) to get rid of her old BFF from school. She is just flying under the radar, making friends, having fun.

She is going to do good this season. The more she stays out of the drama…the better her game is becoming.

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This week’s PoV competition featured six houseguests standing atop pedastals with giant hats on and what looked to be martini glasses on top of them. The object of the game was to be the last person standing atop the pedastals with the glasses on top of the hats.

Long story short, the houseguests were asked to go outside and taunt the PoV competitors to try to get them to laugh, to shrug, anything to make them fall off the pedastals. Jen won the PoV because Mike taunted evel Dick to the point where Dick threatened to put him on the block if he didn’t quit, and Mike didn’t quit, so Dick knocked off his own glass and nominated him.

In Mike’s eyes, he was being loyal to Kail for the purpose of demonstrating his capacity to be loyal to all the other houseguests. Earlier in the day, he had told the Oregon mother that he would take either Jen or Kail off the block if he won the PoV. Well, when he wasn’t picked to particpate, I suppose he figured this was his way to demonstrate that loyalty.

He thought he scored a coup, even though he knew he could be nominated by acting so brazenly.

He was, and there’s a good chance he’s going home. As of Tuesday night BBT, the votes are stacked against him. However, there are two days to go before what I’m sure will be a live eviction, so let the campaigning begin.

Plus, there’s always America’s Player, Eric, who I suspect will be asked to evict Kail. So, out of 9 available voters, Mike has one vote.

As of right this second, it would probably be 8-1 vote to evict Mike, although I think Amber and Dustin could be swayed.

What stands out this week is just how manipulative evel Dick can be. He and his daughter, Daniele, have grown closer and then fought before she cried on his shoulder before they fought again. Dick has made it clear that their issues wouldn’t be resolved in this house, and Daniele has made it clear to him just how uncomfortable he makes her sometimes.

Left out of this mix is Nick, who I am convinced will beat the living snot out of Dick by the end of the competition. He and Dick had the father-future-son-in-law heart-to-heart where the Minnesota football player says, “It’s not aboot me. It’s aboot your daughter. I really dig her.”

Dick offers the obligatory, “Yeah, well, if you hurt her, I’ll f****** kill you.”

The conversation from both sides is extremely sophomoric, but this is Dick’s modus operandi with everybody. He’s a certifiable nut, and he’s peeved everybody in the house at some point this week.

As for Nick and Daniele, all you have to know is that Daniele’s real-life boyfriend, Kris, has a MySpace page, and he currently lists his mood as “sad.” He also has as his quote, “TRUST IS LISTENING TO THE ONES WHO LOVE YOU AND IGNORING THE ONES WHO DON’T.”

You think that’s directed towards his 20-year-old sweetie? Or perhaps do you think she told that to Kris before she left Huntington Beach for the Big Brother house?

Daniele says she’s crazy in love with her real-life boyfriend, but check out this video with Nick on top of her from earlier Tuesday night.

The campaigning won’t really get buzzing until Wednesday night, so expect some more info then.

What a difference a weekend makes.

An HoH that began as peaceful for Dick has turned into one of the most volatile yet. What’s odd is that Jen’s victory in a PoV competition didn’t really factor in to the volatility, at least not on Sunday night.

Sure, she’ll almost certainly remove herself from the nomination block.

However, Dick’s available pool of resources with whom to replace Jen has just grown bigger and bigger and, theoretically, could include his daughter at this point.

In a conversation with Amber late Sunday BBT, we see Dick for the first time really bad-mouthing his daughter Daniele. Dick was chiding Amber for allowing her emotions to get in the way of her game, and while he was in the process of explaining himself, he starts talking bad about another houseguest.

And then I realize it’s Daniele.

Being a newbie to BBReloader, I didn’t set my audio properly, so my clip recording did not go well. Darn it all! This was a terrific conversation, and it showed major potential for a major rift between Dick and Daniele Donato in this game.

Dick seemed pretty clear when he told Amber that there would be no reconciliation or rift-mending in this house. On other occasions, Dick has said that he wants to spend as much time with her in the house as possible.

However, as HoH, a definite bi-polar side of Dick Donato has come out. Roaring out. And there’s a part of me who can really understand from where Daniele is coming in terms of her frustration with her dad.

On the other hand, Daniele and Nick have been tucked away on the hammock tonight. Nick has been pounding beers — at last count, he was on his 7th, and this was at 9:40 p.m. BBT, and frankly Daniele looks like she’s ready to give in to romance, er, showmance.

Either that, or she really looks ready to go home.

On top of all that, Nick’s personality has changed by 180 degrees. Per a conversation he had with Dick, Nick makes it clear that he doesn’t give a f***, well, about anything except Daniele and that he intends from here on out to be a bad mofo.

Personally, I think this plays very well for Kail and Jen. Jen will throw herself off the block, and I think there is a strong possibility that a Mike or Zach, probably Zach, will go up against Kail and be evicted. Stunningly enough, Kail has done herself well this weekend by keeping relatively quiet.

However, the dynamics are changing, particularly among Nick, Dick and Daniele. It will be a very interesting 48 hours, and there is a very real possibility that Nick and Daniele take things further within this time frame, which could either influence Dick’s decision with regard to Jen’s replacement or turn Dick into a raving maniac.

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Today is Jameka’s birthday. For her special day, the school counselor from Maryland got … ?

Uh, well, she didn’t get nominated. That honor has gone to Jen Johnson and Kail Harbick. It’s no surprise that Dick went after these two, and he made it clear that he would. Furthermore, tonight, he’s made it clear that he’ll nominate Mike if either Jen or Kail wins the PoV.

In a conversation with Mike, Dick outlined his distaste for Zach as well. Apparently, the 30-year-old business owner from California is prone to saying super-creepy things, such as references to “soiled panties.”

I’m not sure of the context, but it didn’t sound good. In fact, Mike said he’s taken Zach aside to try to get him to not creep people out so much. My gut hunch is that Dick is open to a Zach nomination should Kail or Jen win the PoV.

Either way, Daniele, Eric, Jessica, Jameka, Amber, Dustin and Nick are completely safe. Of course, as I say this, Dick and Zach have a fairly deep conversation in which Dick opens up about the death of his father from Alzheimer’s.

Zach notes that he’s only experienced the death of a loved one once. In fact, he had to ask Dick what a pallbearer was. Dick explains that as he got older, he realized that funerals weren’t for us, they’re for the families. I mention all of this to underscore my contention that Dick has become sort of a parental figure to all the houseguests to a certain extent.

Sure, he can be brash, but I also think houseguests respect him. So far, at least.

Only got to watch the live feed for like two hours, but I’m thinking that I should really be surprised by that statement. Surprised that I watched the feed for two hours. Man, this is addicting.

Here’s what stood out:
1. The houseguests spent the better part of the first couple of hours awaiting food. Once it came, they chowed on pizza and pasta, and the non-slop eaters were quite gracious about letting those who had been on slop get their food on.

2. Evel Dick got to see his HoH room, which included a personal letter from his mother, who apparently is an ordained minister. Did I hear that right? Alas, his mom said she hoped Dick could use this time to mend things with Daniele.

3. Jen apparently has word that Dick does not plan to nominate her this week. After she ditched the unitard, she apparently slipped this to Kail, sending the 37-year-old mother into paranoia deluxe. She’s talking to Mike telling him that she and he are going up on the block.

4. At some point during dinner, Dick gave a speech that included a sentiment that this week wouldn’t be nearly as crazy as last week. Uh, not for him it won’t.

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Are you kidding me? Really? Really? Sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction, and with that said, evel Dick is now the new HoH.

With that sentence, you know who was evicted. It wasn’t close. By a 9-1 vote, gonorrhea Joe was sent packing, and the one twist to the voting was that Mike — who had initially aligned strongly with Kail with regard to Dick — voted to evict Joe. He did it quickly, as if he had a last-second change of heart.

In the back of my mind, considering how open and honest Dick has been about gunning for Jen and then for Kail, I sorta hoped Dick would have a shot at the HoH. However, I thought to myself, “Self, there’s no way it could work out that perfectly.”
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In the words of a broken heart it’s just emotions
Taking me over
Tied up in sorrows
Lost in my soul

Only three weeks into the Big Brother 8 season, and houseguests are preparing for a vote as emotional as I could remember from the entire breadth of Season 7 votes.

As of Wednesday night, it seems as if Dick has enough support to survive, meaning both he and his daughter Daniele would still be in the house just days after that seemed virtually impossible. In terms of their relationship, evel Dick has been much more the emotional of the two.

According to accounts of livefeeds I’ve read, Dick spilled his heart out to his daughter, offering what seemed to be a heartfelt “I Love You,” only to have Daniele say, “Alright then.”

On the other hand, Daniele had a breakdown of her own this week. After three weeks in a house away from your boyfriend and dog and two weeks on slop — poor girl — how could you not have been on the verge?

There is no question that emotions and being emotional at times play a role on the show and as part of a strategy. However, is being emotional and being so emotional right now, so early, a good thing for these houseguests?

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My predictions this week for eviction and a recap of last nights episode.

I think Dick will be staying. CBS needs him in the house to stir things up and cause some drama because honestly they don’t have much of that to work with this year .. yet. I think the ‘Frenemies’ is a complete flop. We all know this show is part scripted and many house guests have complained about “being told what to say in the Diary Room.” So with that, Dick the 44 year old Bar manager will be staying this week so bye bye to Joe. Even though I was beginning to somewhat tolerate Joe, it was funny to watch him confront Eric about his ’sleep-somethings’.

So once again Jedi Jani Daniele wins the PoV. That’s two consecutive weeks of her winning power of veto. I think we may have a Jedi Jani in the making! The competition was a simple task. Big Brother transformed the backyard to a winter wonderland. It came complete with a curling rink, snow, presents and a christmas tree! The object of the game was to push a curling stone down the ice and try to get closest to the red line which was marked in the middle. The person farthest away was out and had to choose a present from under the tree. As each House Guest is eliminated, they can choose to either take the previous House Guest’s prize, or pick a new one. Whoever wins the final round can choose whatever prize they want, including the PoV. Joe won a slop pass. Dick won a plasma TV but didn’t seem to care, he was hungry for the PoV. Jen got the red unitard. Mike got a BB8 date with who he chooses. Amber got a pair of handcuffs and was handcuffed to the House Guest of her choice, Kail for 24 hours.

Previous to the power of veto competition Jen took it upon herself to threaten the House Guests competing. Amber and Joe were for-warned that if they won PoV and used it to save either Dick or Daniele she would be putting up someone close to them. Amber, cried. Joe asked who was close to him and made it clear he could care less who she put up as long as he was safe. Ambers tears got some tempers going in the house. Daniele told Jen she knew what she said to Amber and that is sucks that Jen was doing that too her. Dick and Jen shared some words as Jen just la-de-dahed it and told Dick to have a good life and how she loves it when its stirred up. She later apologized to Amber realizing “everyones not like her” and some are sensitive. The apologizes were condescending.

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There is a growing opinion among houseguests that Eric is not only a spaz, but some of them believe he’s bi-polar. They don’t know he’s America’s Player.

However, could his odd behavior, such as climbing into bed with Joe — Eric’s sleepwalking assignment — actually be directly leading to this perception? Could it be that the weirder the tasks become for Eric, the more his roommates think he’s nuts and the more susceptible to ouster he becomes?

Eric’s assignment was deemed a failure by Big Brother, but really, I thought he should have gotten a pass. The assignment achieved what it set out to do — creep the other guy out. Weird him out.

The next day, in the shower — two stalls next to each other, covered — Joe asks Eric if he sleep-anythings, like does he sleepwalk?

Honestly, I have done this. I have sleepwalked into a roommate’s bed. However, it was in a hotel room, and I didn’t get into the bed next to him. I jumped in on top of him as if he weren’t there. I was sleepwalking.

He freaked out and pushed me off. I was awake at that point; however, the machinations of my own weird experience made me think that Eric might have gone about this too carefully.

If the instructions were to hop into bed with Joe until Joe kicked him out, there is no level of detail as to “how” Joe gets in. He should have just hopped on in right on top of Joe, startling him — startling them both — and then the incident is over. Eric got too cute with this, too precise.

Nevertheless, in my book, Eric succeeded in the spirit of this task and, in my opinion, should have been rewarded. Whether or not he gets the ultimate reward as BB8 winner will have a lot to do with how the other houseguests view him in light of his crazy, America-inspired antics.

As always, come check me out at ryanwelton.com, where I also take a look at Tuesday night’s America’s Got Talent semifinals. Who’s worthy of the finale? Who should absolutely go home? Check me out there, and find out.

On Wednesday night, the night before eviction No. 2, I’ll make a prediction as to who’s headed home and offer my weekly game-play rankings.