BB 10

Is it just me or does anyone else think that Keesha from this season's Big Brother is remarkably similar to Danielle Donato from Big Brother 8?

round 10

And so begins another season of Big Brother tonight... season 10 to be exact. I didn't actually know it was starting but happened to flip past it and so of course it's been added to my DVR list. I never watched seasons 3 through 7-ish... but have latched back on the past few seasons for lack of better things on tv.

I don't have many judgments on the house guests just yet, except that Renny is CRAZY. And this is what summer tv has come to...

oh so tired

It's been a looong exhausting week for your truly and tv has eluded me. I have worked many many hours in many many days (including Saturday into the wee hours of the night) and spent so little time in my apartment that I think my DVR feels neglected.

I think Brooke White got kicked off American Idol this week. Which is very sad, only because that means David Archuleta is still there. But is also good because it means David Cook is still there too!

This morning/afternoon when I finally rolled myself out of bed I watched the final episode of this season's Big Brother, a week after the fact, to discover that Adam won, Ryan only got one vote, and all the contestants were still as obnoxious as I remember them. I really really hope next season is a better one than this turned out to be - it had hope early in the season but then just went downhill to an awful place.

I am going to try my hardest to catch back up today, since I think it's going to be yet another really long, really crazy week. Oh how I love my job!

til death do you part... or til Big Brother changes his mind

Big Brother is AMAZING! I KNEW the couples would get split up! And I'm so glad they go split up! And I'm SO glad Allison is the first person to get booted as a single! I hated her dearly. and she got evicted TWICE! Love it.

love stinks

Big Brother is so fantastic! Alex and Amanda, the co-HoH are pretty much at war with each other because Amanda likes Parker, who's coupled with Jen, who's dating Ryan, who's coupled with Allison, who is pretending to be a lesbian with Sheila, who is coupled with Adam. And on and on it goes. Nobody actually seems to be soulmates with the person they were paired up with...yet. So entertaining!

'til death do you part

If you are not watching Big Brother this season, you MUST START NOW! It's only two episodes in, so you are not that far behind and can easily catch up. They've done something different with the show this season and it's fabulous! The contestants are paired up into couples and are competing in the house as those couples. That means they earn Head of Household as couples, and get nominated and evicted as couples!! It's absurdly entertaining - there is a real life couple that are secretly dating in real life, but nobody in the house knows and they DON'T get paired up with each other, so they are technically competing AGAINST each other. There was also a real life ex-couple who had just broken up after a 12 year relationship, unknowingly ended up on the show together and DID get paired up together - but they were the first couple eliminated. Which, for the record, I don't agree with, since there is a cranky old mom paired up with someone she doesn't like and they, especially she, are so MEAN to each other, it's just annoying.

In any case, I hope you are watching! If not, you should be!

rehab

I have been half watching the Grammy Awards tonight and at this particular moment Amy Winehouse is performing. Now I am not trying to be mean here, but I was surprised to see her - I thought she was in (no pun intended) rehab and too doped up to be out in public. But aside from the fact that she is done up kind of crazy looking, she looks perfectly sober and undrugged. Okay, well maybe not COMPLETELY coherent, but enough to perform in some cabaret setting that isn't technically part of the Grammy Awards, but was on the Grammy Awards. Go figure.

...Okay, now her performance is over and she just won Record of the Year. NOW she looks drunk and incoherent and incredibly confused. She just beat out the likes of Beyonce and JT for this award... wow.

Btw, new season of Big Brother starts on Tuesday at 9PM - set your DVRs, it sure to be fabulous!

big brother has failed us

Dick won Big Brother by a vote of 5 to 2 - seriously. What a travesty this season has been and I am glad it is all over. Apologies for the lack of blogging in the past week. It's been a long, tiring and all around painful week for a variety of reasons and so tv hasn't really been at the top of my priority list (crazy, I know).

Fall tv is starting soon, which means new shows, new seasons of old show and just lots of things to watch in general when you throw in baseball and football! Some notables coming up:

- Season premiere of The Office: Thursday, September 27 @ 8PM
- Yet another season of The Simpsons starts Sunday, September 23 @8PM
- Dancing With the Stars: Monday, September 24 @ 8PM
- Desperate Hosewives: Sunday, September 30 @ 9PM

And a variety of brand new shows will I'll do my best to check out and report back on. It's a big day in college football today and so off I go to watch College GameDay...

Danato Debacle

I officially HATE this season of Big Brother. The fact that the Danatos are the top two and have won the game demonstrate all the many, MANY things wrong in this world. blah.

whiteout!

I'm SO PISSED both Jessica and Eric got evicted last week. UGH! Terrible.

Aside from that, I don't have much else - was away this weekend enjoying a beautiful football weekend at Penn State and it was super fun! We pulled off a full stadium whiteout and beat Notre Dame, 31-10. Woohoo!

Come on now, admit it, that looks pretty cool!

sports abound

Sorry for the lack of interesting (or any) tv posts lately - it's been a very busy sports filled week. The Yankees sweep the Red Sox and I was at 2 of 3 of those games, the first of which was highlighted by extracurricular entertainment in the form of squirrel atop the foul pole near my seats - the squirrel is famous, it even made it onto the back cover of the Daily News the next day!




















I don't have much else to report, other than the fact that I think Jessica and Eric are totally adorable, though I very much question Eric's decision not to use the Power of Veto.

Well, off to start my extra long weekend which will start tomorrow (yay for a day off from work!) in the form of a trip to the aquarium with the kids and then shopping at the outlets! And so I shall return along with Big Brother at the end of the weekend. Happy Labor Day!

beer pong!

Big Brother won my heart this week by revolving the episode and mainly the food competition around my favorite drinking pasttime - beer pong! Oh, how I miss my college days thinking about the fun of beer pong... seems like just last month that I played. Wait, was that last month? No, no, it wasn't... I think it's been a solid 5 or 6 months since my last game of beer pong. heehee. In any case, Danielle is HoH AGAIN and I think it is very, very dangerous for Jessica and Eric to be aligning themselves with Danielle and Dick, but we shall see how this plays out. I sense that Jen has at long last worn out her welcome, so is it possible that after weeks of flip flopping, she finally goes home?

We're getting close to entering a difficult month for me... the overlap month of regular season football colliding with the last month of regular season baseball... and thus there goes any chance of me doing anthing but watching sports and following the pennant race very, very closely. Bye-bye social life!

ahh...friday!

It's been a long week filled with crazy things at work, outings after work, storms, tornadoes and long commutes and so nobody is happier than I am to be home in pajamas on this chilly friday night parked on my couch in front of the tv. The very busy week also means that I haven't had much time for tv, BUT I have managed to keep up with Big Brother because that show is SO entertaining and I would just like to say that I am ecstatic that Jessica won Head of Household and especially that it happened so brilliantly. Genius! It's fabulous tv - get on it!

Burning in the Bronx

Burning hot that is... that's what it was today at Yankee Stadium. And when I got home I discovered I may have gotten myself a nice little sunburn. oops.

Speaking of burning, I continued watching The Bronx is Burning tonight when I got home. I gotta say, I'm not all that enthralled with this miniseries - the book was WAY better, so read it!

More entertaining to watch is Big Brother. And if you have SHO, on Showtime Too every night from minight to 3 AM there is a live feed called Big Brother: After Dark!

creative genius

Summer tv has peaked in the form of Big Brother 8. I would like to thank the creative geniuses at CBS behind this show for coming up with a show so ridiculously entertaining it is simply fabulous. This week's food challenge came in the form of "Mission InPastaBowl" (HAHA!) where the house guests dove into giant pools of spaghetti and meatballs in teams in an effort to match up the meatballs with the same name foods.

On to the people aspect, I feel incredibly sorry for Danielle, hate her dad, don't understand how it's possible for Amber to cry as much as she does, and think that Jen staring at her own reflection in a spoon clearly sums up her personality. I cannot get enough of this amazingly ridiculous show!

slop.

I caught up on Big Brother tonight and can't get over how ridiculous and entertaining this show is. Commentary:

- Why does Amber cry so damn much? That's ALL she does.
- Why is Jen so freakin' obnoxious? Worst Head of Household EVER.
- There needs to be cuter boys in the house.
- Jessica has GOT TO GO.

Bundles of entertainment all around - loved the Name That Pie competition!!