Hey boys and girls. Yours truly has to work the next three days (I know, right?), so I'm gonna try something a little different here and blog this episode live. If I wait until Monday I'll be like last week's immunity challenge except that I'll be the one who won't be able to remember anything.
Previously...on Survivor. "Jamie played an idol while a shocked Jean-Robert looked on." So they are confirming he didn't know about the idols. Interesting. Oh, yeah, he just said it. I didn't realize until right now just how bad he has screwed himself with his strategy. If James of all people thinks you are too stupid to be trusted with the knowledge of the idols, well, I'd say you are pretty far down the river at that point.
Does anyone else think it is embarassing that whats-his-face Carradine is making these totally lame Yellow Book commercials? However I am totally up with the new singing Mazda commercial. Singing is always, and I do mean always, good.
Um, whose toe is feeding the local insects?
HA! My fellow blogger Fletch just laughed out loud when James called Todd the Stewardess. Heh.
Dang, Lunch Lady is still stuck in gradeschool and didn't get picked for the challenge! That is totally lame. And, what a surprise, Courtney fails spectacularly! That was so lopsided it wasn't even fun. However, on the bright side, it does give Eric and PG a chance to chat up Courtney. I don't see Lunch Lady betraying James anytime soon, but Courtney will bail on her team to vote out Jean-Robert in a second. I wonder if Jean-Robert will try anything with Todd and Amanda?
Why are they giving out clues to the idols when they are already found? Just to screw with Jean-Robert? I'm ok with that, but still. Oh wow, Amanda wears glasses! And she is even hotter! I always think almost all Survivor girls are totally hot, and then they show up at the very last show in too much makeup and always look like hookers. Hopefully her modeling background will help her from the curse of the rouge.
Sweet, sweet game playing. Lunch Lady starts playing, and I love every second. More, please.
Shut up and hold the phone. Did Jean-Robert just take down the same non-idols that Jamie played? Did he not see Jeff throw hers into the fire? This season is plain crazy. But at the same time, what is he supposed to do? He can't just anticipate that the idol has already been found, he has to try something, but this is just ridiculous.
Todd: "I would love to see some craziness at camp". I agree! Curious that they are thinking about getting rid of PG before Eric. So they want James to not win immunity, which my Survivor-sense tells me means he wins. But balance, hmmmm, you never know. But I bet Lunch Lady goes down first, sorry sweetheart. These kinds of things usually favor the light girls, but I just have no faith in Coutrney. Yay! Lunch Lady isn't last, just second to last! OK, I love James' cartoon struggling voice. Heh. And he is out, so much for my special intuition. So it is up to the little people. And Courtney pulls it out. I still hate her, but I will give her props for that.
Voting out James is smart, but still risky. Todd will totally go for it, because he is all about playing hard regardless of the consequences. But will the Amanda sitting on his shoulder let him get away with it? I can't wait to see if she comes out with a halo or a hooked tail. I also can't believe Todd let James keep both idols. Dude, ask for it back! Waiting for him to offer it is a strange, passive-aggressive strategy for someone who is playing so hard.
Oooh, this is just too good to be true. J-R pretends to have it, and Eric blows the secret! And a confrontation between J-R and James! This is turning too fast, I can't keep up with the wheels that are turning now. This is completely my favorite episode so far. Todd is so wishy-washy I can't tell what he wants, but I give him credit for saying the game is "fun". Amanda doesn't really talk much, but I really do imagine that she is the closet smart one of the group, because she can sure call Todd out on his crap. And my beautiful Jamie doesn't look so wholesome anymore. ::sigh::
Oh, the delicious levels. James looks pissed and scared, which is enjoyable. Todd looks smug, which I also find enjoyable, because if no one except Amanda ever calls him out on it then he deserves to win because he has been nothing but obvious the entire game. I find it super foolish that they kept Denise out of the loop and told her to vote for PG. Now she knows she is on her own and will flop, but I suppose they were afraid she would've flopped tonight if they'd told her. Still, she will be on the jury, so still super risky.
I give JR credit for not getting pissy in his exit interview, though he clearly has very little awareness of how he is really viewed, because i don't think anybody voted him off because they thought he was "the best player in the game". I still worry about his threat to Todd, and worry that his final tribal question will be uncomfortable.
James still has two idols. Is he beatable at this point? He's been warned people are going to vote for him now, and now that the balance challenge is done, he could still win a lot of challenges. I think he is a boring win because he is so strictly an "outplay", but maybe he'll grow on me. (And even if I prefer "outwit", "outplay" is still valid and I couldn't complain.)
I'll probably think of more to say as I'm falling asleep, but I need to get started on that falling asleep part, because 5:15 comes all too soon. I'm not looking forward to three days in a row, but having the same patients day after day helps a little. But this was a good episode, I'm sated for another week.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
More proof that cable news sucks
This is just random, but I was reading an article about news shows and it said that the primetime Fox News programs get an average of 1.5 million viewers. CNN is in second with about half that. For as much as we hear about CNN and Fox News, it amazes me how few people actually watch them. Don't the top TV shows have like 20-30 million viewers? I mean, we are a nation of 300 million people and the top rated cable news show only gets 0.005% of the population to watch? I know there are lots of options for watching the news (I myself read the news, televised news always just makes me angry with their low-brow stupidity), but still, those numbers really surprised me a lot. I wonder how many people watch "The Daily Show"?
Monday, November 5, 2007
Things you should do because my friends totally rock
I have a couple of totally fabulous friends who amaze me in so many ways, but this particular couple rock my world by always finding new ways to make some art on their own instead of waiting for someone else to give them the opportunity. Anyway, they entered this short film contest, and have made it to the finals, with judges like George Clooney, Cameron Diaz, Orlando Bloom, and Rihanna. I'm talking Rihanna people! If Rihanna loves them, you know you will too.
So you really should go to current.com, check out their video and vote for them, because while George and Orlando got to pick the finalists, we get to choose the winner. You have to register to vote, but it only takes like three seconds. It actually seems like a cool website, but I was in a hurry and didn't really check it out too much, any anyway my plug here is just for my friends 60-second movie. If the link doesn't take you to the right spot after you register, just search for the Alliance Ecospot Contest. Their film is called "Small Steps". You are allowed to watch and even like the other spots (I thought "Support Good Hot" was funny), but I'm sure with your good taste you will realize that my friends video - and they are your friend by extention - is by far the best, so vote for them. Or I'll get all Mean Nurse on your butt.
Also, another friend of mine (and probably of some of yours) has a totally awesome CD out of children's music. Her name is Suzie Tallman and the CD is called "Let's Go! Travel, Camp & Car Songs". So if any of you are Grammy voters, make sure you give her some consideration, because not only is she plain old totally rocking awesome as a person, but the girl can sing. (I especially love her because the first time I saw her was in a production of "The Secret Garden" and she is a dead ringer for Rebecca Luker which fooled my brain almost every time she walked on stage.) If you have kids, even if you can't give her a Grammy, you still will want this CD for car trips. (Don't tell my sisters or their kids, but they are both getting it for Christmas.) You can order the CD here. Remember when you were a kid and you would sing "Going On A Bear Hunt" and it was super fun? Don't you get all warm and fuzzy remembering that? Well, pass on the good times to all the children you know so they can get happily nostalgic about it when they are all old like we are. Do it for the children. You don't hate children, do you?
So you really should go to current.com, check out their video and vote for them, because while George and Orlando got to pick the finalists, we get to choose the winner. You have to register to vote, but it only takes like three seconds. It actually seems like a cool website, but I was in a hurry and didn't really check it out too much, any anyway my plug here is just for my friends 60-second movie. If the link doesn't take you to the right spot after you register, just search for the Alliance Ecospot Contest. Their film is called "Small Steps". You are allowed to watch and even like the other spots (I thought "Support Good Hot" was funny), but I'm sure with your good taste you will realize that my friends video - and they are your friend by extention - is by far the best, so vote for them. Or I'll get all Mean Nurse on your butt.
Also, another friend of mine (and probably of some of yours) has a totally awesome CD out of children's music. Her name is Suzie Tallman and the CD is called "Let's Go! Travel, Camp & Car Songs". So if any of you are Grammy voters, make sure you give her some consideration, because not only is she plain old totally rocking awesome as a person, but the girl can sing. (I especially love her because the first time I saw her was in a production of "The Secret Garden" and she is a dead ringer for Rebecca Luker which fooled my brain almost every time she walked on stage.) If you have kids, even if you can't give her a Grammy, you still will want this CD for car trips. (Don't tell my sisters or their kids, but they are both getting it for Christmas.) You can order the CD here. Remember when you were a kid and you would sing "Going On A Bear Hunt" and it was super fun? Don't you get all warm and fuzzy remembering that? Well, pass on the good times to all the children you know so they can get happily nostalgic about it when they are all old like we are. Do it for the children. You don't hate children, do you?
Tales from work, or Yes, I do have a life outside of watching reality television
There is the stereotype that nurses are subjected to a lot of poop. So far, that really hasn't been my experience. Until yesterday. I won't go into details, because I love you all to much, but yesterday I saw far too much poop for my liking. Enough said.
Otherwise, work is going ok. I still feel overwhelmed with the amount of information I'm expected to know, and still can't always take all the little details and extrapolate them all into the big picture. But I'm getting much better with the details, which for now is progress enough. Also it has been suggested to me that I am a "people person". Who knew? Maybe I am just a pushover or something, but patients that are mean to everyone don't give me any problems at all. Yesterday a doctor with about eight med students in tow huffed over to me and said "Are you the nurse for this patient? She is completely non-responsive, she won't even answer simple questions! What is wrong with her?" And I got the extreme satisfaction of looking her square in the eye and said "She is tired, and doesn't want to talk to you." Don't get me wrong, I work with a lot of fantastic doctors, and even if the med students sometimes exude more fear than I do, well, that is all part of learning and I think they do a great job. But sometimes they just get so caught up in the guts and glory that they forget there is a real person attached to the disease who might object to being rounded on by multiple teams and asked the same questions over and over and over again.
On the other hand, I've gotten attached to another patient, a woman with cancer that has caused a wide array of other problems. For a while it seemed like she was getting better, but now it is weeks later and she is struggling. She has had other nurses assigned to her the last few shifts I've worked, but I try and stick my head in the door before I go to say hi. She is such a sweetheart, but it is all wearing on her. I just hold her hand for a minute, and try to make her smile. I wish there was something I could say to make things better.
Oh, and also yesterday I got to try my hand at being Mean Nurse. I had another patient who was having a rough day, perhaps a reaction to some medications, but she was very tired and wanted to rest, but was expecting a lot of visitors. She couldn't bring herself to tell me not to allow her family to visit, but she kept dropping hints. So when the family arrived and started trying to force her to get up and walk, or to eat more of her lunch - all with the best of intentions mind you - I got to step in and save her and kick them all out. Perhaps it was less of a stern body slam out the door, and more of a firm encouragement with a smile, but still, for me that is pretty darn Mean. ::grin:: The patient rested quietly for the rest of the afternoon, and later that evening was feeling much better, and though she never mentioned her family she kept thanking me for allowing her to rest and get better. She was delightful, and I'm sure she will be gone before I get back to the floor on Friday.
And daylight savings rocks. Besides the extra hour of much needed sleep, it is so much nicer going to work with a little bit of sunshine. It probably won't last much longer, but I'll cherish it while it lasts.
Otherwise, work is going ok. I still feel overwhelmed with the amount of information I'm expected to know, and still can't always take all the little details and extrapolate them all into the big picture. But I'm getting much better with the details, which for now is progress enough. Also it has been suggested to me that I am a "people person". Who knew? Maybe I am just a pushover or something, but patients that are mean to everyone don't give me any problems at all. Yesterday a doctor with about eight med students in tow huffed over to me and said "Are you the nurse for this patient? She is completely non-responsive, she won't even answer simple questions! What is wrong with her?" And I got the extreme satisfaction of looking her square in the eye and said "She is tired, and doesn't want to talk to you." Don't get me wrong, I work with a lot of fantastic doctors, and even if the med students sometimes exude more fear than I do, well, that is all part of learning and I think they do a great job. But sometimes they just get so caught up in the guts and glory that they forget there is a real person attached to the disease who might object to being rounded on by multiple teams and asked the same questions over and over and over again.
On the other hand, I've gotten attached to another patient, a woman with cancer that has caused a wide array of other problems. For a while it seemed like she was getting better, but now it is weeks later and she is struggling. She has had other nurses assigned to her the last few shifts I've worked, but I try and stick my head in the door before I go to say hi. She is such a sweetheart, but it is all wearing on her. I just hold her hand for a minute, and try to make her smile. I wish there was something I could say to make things better.
Oh, and also yesterday I got to try my hand at being Mean Nurse. I had another patient who was having a rough day, perhaps a reaction to some medications, but she was very tired and wanted to rest, but was expecting a lot of visitors. She couldn't bring herself to tell me not to allow her family to visit, but she kept dropping hints. So when the family arrived and started trying to force her to get up and walk, or to eat more of her lunch - all with the best of intentions mind you - I got to step in and save her and kick them all out. Perhaps it was less of a stern body slam out the door, and more of a firm encouragement with a smile, but still, for me that is pretty darn Mean. ::grin:: The patient rested quietly for the rest of the afternoon, and later that evening was feeling much better, and though she never mentioned her family she kept thanking me for allowing her to rest and get better. She was delightful, and I'm sure she will be gone before I get back to the floor on Friday.
And daylight savings rocks. Besides the extra hour of much needed sleep, it is so much nicer going to work with a little bit of sunshine. It probably won't last much longer, but I'll cherish it while it lasts.
Saturday, November 3, 2007
Survivor, or why real-time reality is just better
Let me just start by saying, and I don't want to equivocate here, that I totally love my Tivo. Gone are the days where I'd program the VCR wrong, or forget to put a tape in, or worse yet put the wrong tape in, and have part of some priceless old family videos get taped over by Gervais getting interviewed on "The Today Show". (::sigh::) Now I can just sit back and know that my Tivo is going to get all episodes of "Pushing Daisies" and "The Daily Show" and I can watch them whenever I get around to it, work schedule non-withstanding.
But I have to say, there is something about Survivor that is different. I'm not even sure what it is exactly, but whenever I watch Survivor more than a day late the energy just seems to be lacking somehow. Like everyone already knows what is going to happen except me, and I'm just playing catch up instead of playing real-time. That is sort of why I've never bothered to try and watch any of the Survivor: Outback episodes, the only season I've missed (because I was actually camping in the Australian Outback when it aired). From most accounts it is one of the best seasons, full of excitement and stuff, but since I know who the winner is, I've just never had much interest in catching up with it.
This weeks episode, which I just watched, was a little like that. Not that I knew what was going to happen, but it was still one of those episodes where I guessed Jamie was going home after the first five minutes, and then despite some honest-to-goodness fun and plotting along the way, still played out much as expected and just wasn't as exciting. Anyway, that probably says more about me than about the actual episode, but there it is.
So rather than recap the whole episode, I'll just cover my favorite parts. The best moment was, of course, Todd talking about Courtney: "Deal with it...bitch." I think that sums it up for me. Also Todd seems like a little kid to me, and made me think of my post from a few days ago where Pearl said much the same thing. Which of course = me howling with laughter.
Let's see, I think that was about it for the especially good parts. The whole not-an-actual-immunity-idol was totally unsatisfying for me. This season the editors seem to be going out of their way to make people look stupid via editing. I actually thought Jamie was playing very smart with the info she had. Her little "deal" with Todd about saving her and she would give him info on the other idols would have been a great move under different circumstances. She wasn't stupid like James kept saying she was, she was doing a good job with the information she had. Last season when the Four Horseman used their idol, but on the wrong person, it was like TV-heaven because they were so cocky and watching their smiles crumble was as delicious as my mothers homemade sour cream enchiladas with New Mexican green chile fresh out of the oven. But Jamie, while hardly the smartest player the show has ever seen, was still playing a good game, made some smart moves (think Leslie) and could hardly be called cocky. So it all just seemed inevitable, which was sort of boring.
James remains likable, but his less-than-sharp wit means he'll never be in the league of Terry or Tom or even Ozzie, at least for me. Amanda is solid, but still hasn't been given much to do other than provide a bit of wisdom and strength behind Todd's power plays. I still love the wild and reckless way Todd is playing, because at least he is playing, but like I said from Episode One, I'm worried he is just going to play too hard, and the previews for next week seems to bear that out. Jean-Robert's plan also seems to be unraveling though he himself is loathe to admit it. His attempted bulling of Todd about the jury was perhaps on point but also annoying. If there is anything I hate more then walnuts in otherwise delicious cookies, it is a sanctimonious and bitter speech from the jury. Sadly, I think he is right about Courtney, whom I expect is going to make it to the end as the person that no one votes for. Good for James for calling her out on her lack of New York "street smarts".
Another curious Jeff-move, but why didn't he ask if anyone wanted to play the immunity idol? The original intent might have been that is was hidden and that it might surprise people, but surely he watches the tapes and knows that everyone knows about them. Well, Jean-Robert seemed surprised, but surely he knew James was trying to throw the challenge last week, so I didn't really get that either. Anyway, hardly important, just curious.
Also, I was bummed that Frosti won immunity, just because I was curious which way he was going to fall. But since he knew he was safe, he really didn't have to scramble so just went with the easy path. I wonder how long that is going to work out for him. However, if he really does like Courtney, I might find it hard to like him anymore. Fun fact from his bio: he's been on tour with Madonna. Are any of these contestants media-neophytes?
So them's my thoughts. Deal with it...bitch.
But I have to say, there is something about Survivor that is different. I'm not even sure what it is exactly, but whenever I watch Survivor more than a day late the energy just seems to be lacking somehow. Like everyone already knows what is going to happen except me, and I'm just playing catch up instead of playing real-time. That is sort of why I've never bothered to try and watch any of the Survivor: Outback episodes, the only season I've missed (because I was actually camping in the Australian Outback when it aired). From most accounts it is one of the best seasons, full of excitement and stuff, but since I know who the winner is, I've just never had much interest in catching up with it.
This weeks episode, which I just watched, was a little like that. Not that I knew what was going to happen, but it was still one of those episodes where I guessed Jamie was going home after the first five minutes, and then despite some honest-to-goodness fun and plotting along the way, still played out much as expected and just wasn't as exciting. Anyway, that probably says more about me than about the actual episode, but there it is.
So rather than recap the whole episode, I'll just cover my favorite parts. The best moment was, of course, Todd talking about Courtney: "Deal with it...bitch." I think that sums it up for me. Also Todd seems like a little kid to me, and made me think of my post from a few days ago where Pearl said much the same thing. Which of course = me howling with laughter.
Let's see, I think that was about it for the especially good parts. The whole not-an-actual-immunity-idol was totally unsatisfying for me. This season the editors seem to be going out of their way to make people look stupid via editing. I actually thought Jamie was playing very smart with the info she had. Her little "deal" with Todd about saving her and she would give him info on the other idols would have been a great move under different circumstances. She wasn't stupid like James kept saying she was, she was doing a good job with the information she had. Last season when the Four Horseman used their idol, but on the wrong person, it was like TV-heaven because they were so cocky and watching their smiles crumble was as delicious as my mothers homemade sour cream enchiladas with New Mexican green chile fresh out of the oven. But Jamie, while hardly the smartest player the show has ever seen, was still playing a good game, made some smart moves (think Leslie) and could hardly be called cocky. So it all just seemed inevitable, which was sort of boring.
James remains likable, but his less-than-sharp wit means he'll never be in the league of Terry or Tom or even Ozzie, at least for me. Amanda is solid, but still hasn't been given much to do other than provide a bit of wisdom and strength behind Todd's power plays. I still love the wild and reckless way Todd is playing, because at least he is playing, but like I said from Episode One, I'm worried he is just going to play too hard, and the previews for next week seems to bear that out. Jean-Robert's plan also seems to be unraveling though he himself is loathe to admit it. His attempted bulling of Todd about the jury was perhaps on point but also annoying. If there is anything I hate more then walnuts in otherwise delicious cookies, it is a sanctimonious and bitter speech from the jury. Sadly, I think he is right about Courtney, whom I expect is going to make it to the end as the person that no one votes for. Good for James for calling her out on her lack of New York "street smarts".
Another curious Jeff-move, but why didn't he ask if anyone wanted to play the immunity idol? The original intent might have been that is was hidden and that it might surprise people, but surely he watches the tapes and knows that everyone knows about them. Well, Jean-Robert seemed surprised, but surely he knew James was trying to throw the challenge last week, so I didn't really get that either. Anyway, hardly important, just curious.
Also, I was bummed that Frosti won immunity, just because I was curious which way he was going to fall. But since he knew he was safe, he really didn't have to scramble so just went with the easy path. I wonder how long that is going to work out for him. However, if he really does like Courtney, I might find it hard to like him anymore. Fun fact from his bio: he's been on tour with Madonna. Are any of these contestants media-neophytes?
So them's my thoughts. Deal with it...bitch.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Survivor delay...
Hey folks, I worked today, and again tomorrow, so I won't get a chance to watch my Tivo'd Survivor until tomorrow night, which means no post until Saturday. Sorry, I know how much that depresses so many of you. ::grin::
On the other hand, I've decided that "Pushing Daisies" is my favorite show since "Wonderfalls".
Running to bed now, I'm exhausted and need to get my dream on.
On the other hand, I've decided that "Pushing Daisies" is my favorite show since "Wonderfalls".
Running to bed now, I'm exhausted and need to get my dream on.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Visitor fun and the finding of the green chile
We had another visit from an Albuquerquian. Steve used to do theatre (and grew up a few houses down from my parents), but for some reason decided to go to law school. So he's doing that now. In Baltimore. Yesterday he drove down and we walked around the Mall a bit. The Library of Congress was inexplicably closed, well, the signs all said open but the front door was locked. But we took him to the Supreme Court and the Air and Space Museum and then up to the Portrait Gallery which was pretty cool. We saw like half the cast of "1776". Plus a guy who looked like a vampire, and another one who looked like Dumbledore. Also, who knew, but the faux-mohawk was also fashionable in the early 1800's. Then we had lunch at the American Indian Museum. And guess what they had? Green chile!!! I was so excited, I thought I would never find it outside of New Mexico. Perhaps it wasn't the best green chile I'd ever had, mind you, but it still tasted good on my bison burger. People have been recommending the cafe there for a long time, so it was fun to actually go. They have some very interesting stuff, lamb and salmon and baked turnips and all sorts of stuff. It isn't cheap either, the lady in front of me in line (this is a put stuff on your tray kind of place) paid $50 for two people. But boy did her selections look yummy. Ours worked out about $12 a head, which isn't terrible but just seems a lot in a cafeteria setting. Also a plus? Fry bread. Anyway, now I can go get a little taste of New Mexico if I need it.
Then we came home and he painted a frame for our wall of "friend frames". As will you when you come visit, we always like encouraging our guests to make a little art. We'll be going to visit him up in Baltimore at some point, he has promised to take us to good crab cakes, which I have a weakness for. Plus they have a great aquarium, so it is a no-brainer.
Laugh break
Holy crap, Will Ferrell is funny! Warning: some, uh, disturbing use of relatively mild swearing.
Friday, October 26, 2007
Survivor, or Sometimes Simple Plans are Better
Almost every episode of Survivor is packed full of tasty little treats, and if this episode won't go down in the hall of fame of episodes, it was still no exception. I consider myself a relatively saavy viewer, but even though I know better I am still dependant on the editors to guide me through, and it is funny what I forget week to week or how I change my mind about people.
So we start out with last week's recap, watching poor Frosti and Sherreah sailing off into an unknown future with the other team. Now, honestly, at this point I don't really care who wins, but rather I just think it is more exciting when teams merge with even numbers and have to scramble. Having one team dominate is just less fun. But do I like Pei Wei more than, say, Poker Man? Not really. But getting that even split for the merge is what I've been rooting for, so Aaron getting booted last week wasn't that bothersome to me.
Right away we start talking hidden immunity idol. Gay Mormon Flight Attendant still hasn't found it, so he enlists the help of Amanda. Now Amanda has been hiding in the background for a while, and it is a shame, because I just read her official bio and it is filled with so much deliciousness that I can't stand it. Her official title is "Hiking Guide", but then we learn that she is a model who wants to "develop a business within the fashion industry". She has been to China twice before to compete in the Miss Kite Of The World pageant, and was a semi-finalist. While there, she "was permitted to fly kites off the Great Wall in five-inch heels". You need permission to wear heels on the Great Wall of China? Who knew? Trying to boost her "hiking guide" moniker, it says "she has camped every weekend in Montana since she was three years old." Yes, but does she do it in heels? So now I love her. Other than her obvious hotness I don't know why, but I do. Actually I was liking her before I could picture her travelling the world to look pretty flying a kite, but now I love her.
I actually thought GMFA gave a pretty sorry story to her, his first of several poor maneuvers this episode. "I was going to wait until I found it to tell you, but I can't find it, so I'm telling you now." Luckily for him she was so excited to find out about it she didn't see how lame (and desperate) the excuse was.
On to the reward challenge. It was a pretty standard challenge without much excitement, except of course for Sherreah commiting suicide. Heh. During the challenge Pei Wei has a few moments of alone time with Sherreah and tells her they threw the challenge to save her, and that they want to stick with her and Frosti. In response to how her life was saved the previous week, Sherreah does her best to ignore her. Meanwhile Frosti won't make eye contact with them. After losing the challenge, and James is kidnapped, they go back to camp and start freaking out that they've made a terrible, terrible mistake in throwing the last challenge and decide they have to win the next one.
Over at the winning side, GMFA - ok, Todd - corners James and tells him "If you give me the clue I will save your life". Big promises boy! But it works, and little Todd boy has all his dreams come true as big manstud James is eating out of his hand. With the new clue in hand, they finally figure out where the hidden idol is. But this part is funny. Their attempts at retrieving it is so super obvious that Frosti comes over to help. Rather than abandoning their search they sort of try to shoo him away, but he doesn't, and in the end they are forced to show him the idol. Laughable. The editing doesn't really tell us if this accident helped change Todd's plans, but in the end he decides to give James the idol. Then he tells his team James is going to try and throw the challenge so that he, James, can use the idol and vote off Jamie.
I will give him points for choosing Jamie, since she is likable and allied with Eric. And on the surface the plan is clever, something I always love. But remember what I said a few weeks ago, that Todd talks a good game but is trying to hard? He had a HIDDEN immunity idol in his grasp, that could have saved HIM. Now everyone knows that they exist, that there are two, what they are. James has one, and is heading over to the other tribe where he can conceivably get the other. So now your strongest player in the game has both immunity idols? James is a short-term ally, not a long term. He makes it to the end, he wins. So while the plan itself was juicy, I thought the reasoning behind it was faulty to the extreme. At least he was smart enough to tell the entire tribe about it, winning him huge points for helping the team out, should he make it to the end with all of them on the jury.
So up comes the immunity challenge, and it is the eating contest. I always hate this one. I really think it would be funner if they had to eat like a huge Farrell's style ice cream sundae or down a whole bottle of wine so it was something they liked but then got sick on. Eating baby turtles is just not fun to watch. People would gag just as much trying to eat twenty plain hot dog weiners. But at least we have this super fun dynamic where now James is the one trying to throw the contest while his teammates are trying to win. Courney eats the first solid food of her life, and I have to give her credit that she did much better than I'd anticipated, but still loses to Jamie. (I'm not even going to get into why Courtney was sat out of the reward challenge so was forced to participate in the immunity challenge, like, smart move.) James is put up against Lunch Lady, and they have to eat dead baby birds, I forget what it is called, and frankly I don't want to remember. So James, who could probably eat a whole rat filled with maggots in one bite, is pretending to gag, while Lunch Lady, who probably serves worse in her own cafeteria, is absolutely unable to eat the thing, preferring to scream at it instead. "Get in my mouth!" or something like that. Her jedi-mind tricks fail her though, and she finally just gives up. James, meanwhile, is trying to have trouble but it is really killing him. So Lunch Lady finally gives him the baby blues, and says, quite clearly, "I'm sorry James". James sighs, picks up the baby birds and swallows them whole. Practically anyway.
Now here is my beef. Jeff has been acting all weird about the throwing of challenges, and has been coming down hard on the girls for it. Now, right in front of him, he has one contestant APOLOGIZING to the other, and yet he doesn't call them out on it? Clearly Jeff has his favorites.
What is even more fun about this all, is that it hardly matters which team wins. James is safe, so if he wins Todd can just vote off Frosti or Sherreah. Either way they get their numbers. But as James team starts winning, James and Todd keep making these incredulous and disappointed faces, which totally cracks me up. James looks downright glum when his team wins. I'm sure he was looking forward to surprising them with his immunity, but still.
So now Todd and Amanda, who seem to be running the show now that Aaron is gone, have to decide between Frosti and Sherreah. Frosti seems to be sucking right up to them, showing no signs of loyalty at all to his former team. I'm curious about him, you'd think he'd at least be trying to straddle the fence a bit. Anyway it works for now, so they decide they like Frosti better, and decide on Sherreah. Courtney, though, wants to get rid of Jean-Robert, because she doesn't like him. Todd wavers, cause he knows that Jean-Robert will betry him at the earliest opportunity, which is actually a valid concern. But Amanda is secretly a super smart model, and probably even wears glasses in private, so she still wants to get rid of Sherreah to ensure that they at least will have the numbers. And we have a gay boy/model stand off. Sweet.
I'm torn, I actually see both arguments (at least when Todd says it, nothing Courtney says goes beyond being a spoiled brat who just wants her way). I want a stand off between tribes come merge, but Jean-Robert is far more interesting than Courtney is.
At tribal council, Sherreah starts talking for the first time in two episodes, and I suddenly remember something. I totally hate her! Jean-Robert, who is still trying to peddle his "I'm coming around and working so much harder and it is so much fun it doesn't even feel like work anymore!" plan, has got to be realizing that no one is buying what he is selling. But to his credit he puts on the good face, even under direct assualt from Courtney and Sherreah. You could see his wheels turning, calculating the odds of different approaches, and in the end he chose to redirect and try to be positive, which came out a bit desperate perhaps, but for my money was way better then sinking down to their level. And his plan worked, because once Courtney got wound up she also ended up alienating Todd, who thought they had a close alliance. Whew! Get rid of her soon PLEASE!!
So the super-smart kite-flying heel-wearing camping-going model got her way, and schoolteacher Sherreah was unceremoniously dumped to the curb. Actually, it was quite ceremoniously, wasn't it? Heh. Anyway, she is finally gone so her poor students can stop being embarassed every week and can start the healing process.
Jean-Robert really dodged the bullet though. Next week it looks like we merge, which should favor him. Pei Wei and Eric and Brooke are the big targets now, though it won't take long before the in-fighting begins and James becomes number one target.
So we start out with last week's recap, watching poor Frosti and Sherreah sailing off into an unknown future with the other team. Now, honestly, at this point I don't really care who wins, but rather I just think it is more exciting when teams merge with even numbers and have to scramble. Having one team dominate is just less fun. But do I like Pei Wei more than, say, Poker Man? Not really. But getting that even split for the merge is what I've been rooting for, so Aaron getting booted last week wasn't that bothersome to me.
Right away we start talking hidden immunity idol. Gay Mormon Flight Attendant still hasn't found it, so he enlists the help of Amanda. Now Amanda has been hiding in the background for a while, and it is a shame, because I just read her official bio and it is filled with so much deliciousness that I can't stand it. Her official title is "Hiking Guide", but then we learn that she is a model who wants to "develop a business within the fashion industry". She has been to China twice before to compete in the Miss Kite Of The World pageant, and was a semi-finalist. While there, she "was permitted to fly kites off the Great Wall in five-inch heels". You need permission to wear heels on the Great Wall of China? Who knew? Trying to boost her "hiking guide" moniker, it says "she has camped every weekend in Montana since she was three years old." Yes, but does she do it in heels? So now I love her. Other than her obvious hotness I don't know why, but I do. Actually I was liking her before I could picture her travelling the world to look pretty flying a kite, but now I love her.
I actually thought GMFA gave a pretty sorry story to her, his first of several poor maneuvers this episode. "I was going to wait until I found it to tell you, but I can't find it, so I'm telling you now." Luckily for him she was so excited to find out about it she didn't see how lame (and desperate) the excuse was.
On to the reward challenge. It was a pretty standard challenge without much excitement, except of course for Sherreah commiting suicide. Heh. During the challenge Pei Wei has a few moments of alone time with Sherreah and tells her they threw the challenge to save her, and that they want to stick with her and Frosti. In response to how her life was saved the previous week, Sherreah does her best to ignore her. Meanwhile Frosti won't make eye contact with them. After losing the challenge, and James is kidnapped, they go back to camp and start freaking out that they've made a terrible, terrible mistake in throwing the last challenge and decide they have to win the next one.
Over at the winning side, GMFA - ok, Todd - corners James and tells him "If you give me the clue I will save your life". Big promises boy! But it works, and little Todd boy has all his dreams come true as big manstud James is eating out of his hand. With the new clue in hand, they finally figure out where the hidden idol is. But this part is funny. Their attempts at retrieving it is so super obvious that Frosti comes over to help. Rather than abandoning their search they sort of try to shoo him away, but he doesn't, and in the end they are forced to show him the idol. Laughable. The editing doesn't really tell us if this accident helped change Todd's plans, but in the end he decides to give James the idol. Then he tells his team James is going to try and throw the challenge so that he, James, can use the idol and vote off Jamie.
I will give him points for choosing Jamie, since she is likable and allied with Eric. And on the surface the plan is clever, something I always love. But remember what I said a few weeks ago, that Todd talks a good game but is trying to hard? He had a HIDDEN immunity idol in his grasp, that could have saved HIM. Now everyone knows that they exist, that there are two, what they are. James has one, and is heading over to the other tribe where he can conceivably get the other. So now your strongest player in the game has both immunity idols? James is a short-term ally, not a long term. He makes it to the end, he wins. So while the plan itself was juicy, I thought the reasoning behind it was faulty to the extreme. At least he was smart enough to tell the entire tribe about it, winning him huge points for helping the team out, should he make it to the end with all of them on the jury.
So up comes the immunity challenge, and it is the eating contest. I always hate this one. I really think it would be funner if they had to eat like a huge Farrell's style ice cream sundae or down a whole bottle of wine so it was something they liked but then got sick on. Eating baby turtles is just not fun to watch. People would gag just as much trying to eat twenty plain hot dog weiners. But at least we have this super fun dynamic where now James is the one trying to throw the contest while his teammates are trying to win. Courney eats the first solid food of her life, and I have to give her credit that she did much better than I'd anticipated, but still loses to Jamie. (I'm not even going to get into why Courtney was sat out of the reward challenge so was forced to participate in the immunity challenge, like, smart move.) James is put up against Lunch Lady, and they have to eat dead baby birds, I forget what it is called, and frankly I don't want to remember. So James, who could probably eat a whole rat filled with maggots in one bite, is pretending to gag, while Lunch Lady, who probably serves worse in her own cafeteria, is absolutely unable to eat the thing, preferring to scream at it instead. "Get in my mouth!" or something like that. Her jedi-mind tricks fail her though, and she finally just gives up. James, meanwhile, is trying to have trouble but it is really killing him. So Lunch Lady finally gives him the baby blues, and says, quite clearly, "I'm sorry James". James sighs, picks up the baby birds and swallows them whole. Practically anyway.
Now here is my beef. Jeff has been acting all weird about the throwing of challenges, and has been coming down hard on the girls for it. Now, right in front of him, he has one contestant APOLOGIZING to the other, and yet he doesn't call them out on it? Clearly Jeff has his favorites.
What is even more fun about this all, is that it hardly matters which team wins. James is safe, so if he wins Todd can just vote off Frosti or Sherreah. Either way they get their numbers. But as James team starts winning, James and Todd keep making these incredulous and disappointed faces, which totally cracks me up. James looks downright glum when his team wins. I'm sure he was looking forward to surprising them with his immunity, but still.
So now Todd and Amanda, who seem to be running the show now that Aaron is gone, have to decide between Frosti and Sherreah. Frosti seems to be sucking right up to them, showing no signs of loyalty at all to his former team. I'm curious about him, you'd think he'd at least be trying to straddle the fence a bit. Anyway it works for now, so they decide they like Frosti better, and decide on Sherreah. Courtney, though, wants to get rid of Jean-Robert, because she doesn't like him. Todd wavers, cause he knows that Jean-Robert will betry him at the earliest opportunity, which is actually a valid concern. But Amanda is secretly a super smart model, and probably even wears glasses in private, so she still wants to get rid of Sherreah to ensure that they at least will have the numbers. And we have a gay boy/model stand off. Sweet.
I'm torn, I actually see both arguments (at least when Todd says it, nothing Courtney says goes beyond being a spoiled brat who just wants her way). I want a stand off between tribes come merge, but Jean-Robert is far more interesting than Courtney is.
At tribal council, Sherreah starts talking for the first time in two episodes, and I suddenly remember something. I totally hate her! Jean-Robert, who is still trying to peddle his "I'm coming around and working so much harder and it is so much fun it doesn't even feel like work anymore!" plan, has got to be realizing that no one is buying what he is selling. But to his credit he puts on the good face, even under direct assualt from Courtney and Sherreah. You could see his wheels turning, calculating the odds of different approaches, and in the end he chose to redirect and try to be positive, which came out a bit desperate perhaps, but for my money was way better then sinking down to their level. And his plan worked, because once Courtney got wound up she also ended up alienating Todd, who thought they had a close alliance. Whew! Get rid of her soon PLEASE!!
So the super-smart kite-flying heel-wearing camping-going model got her way, and schoolteacher Sherreah was unceremoniously dumped to the curb. Actually, it was quite ceremoniously, wasn't it? Heh. Anyway, she is finally gone so her poor students can stop being embarassed every week and can start the healing process.
Jean-Robert really dodged the bullet though. Next week it looks like we merge, which should favor him. Pei Wei and Eric and Brooke are the big targets now, though it won't take long before the in-fighting begins and James becomes number one target.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
A dim ray of hope in the political melee
I haven't been able to get too excitable about the current state of politics, as by the time I get the chance to vote in a primary the decision will have already been made who the candidate is going to be. Mostly the primary debates just depress me as Obama has yet to really make a case of why he is better than Hillary (which I think he may be), and watching Romney and Rudy run from their records just seems to confirm the worst about politicians.
But stuff like this sure makes me happy. Ron Paul has introduced The American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007, which
Now I don't agree with Ron Paul on everything, there is a limit of how aggressively I want to pursue libertarianism. But it is nice to daydream that Hillary or Obama or, heck, ANY sane person running for president, would back this bill. None of them will, because polticians who aren't "crazy", are in fact power-hungry. Hillary actually spoke the other day about "reviewing" all the power-grabbing policies of the Bush/Cheney administration, which is a step in the right direction, but she of course stopped short of actually promising to give up any of the new powers Bush has invented for himself. It is hard to blame her, how many politicians willingly give up power? Only Ron Paul apparently. Of course what that means is that we the people are supposed to put our own checks and balances on the politicians, but with W's reelection, we gave them the stamp of approval they needed, and it will be hard hard hard to move this backwards now. I hope we can do it, but I'm getting all old and cynical now. ::grin::
Anyway, for today, I ::heart:: Ron Paul.
But stuff like this sure makes me happy. Ron Paul has introduced The American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007, which
would repeal the Military Commissions Act of 2006, restore full habeas corpus requirements, prohibit the use of secret evidence under all circumstances, and end the practice of rendition to other countries to torture terrorism suspects. It also would grant standing to Congress to sue the President over any signing statement that proposes that the President may ignore any provision of the legislation for any reason.
Now I don't agree with Ron Paul on everything, there is a limit of how aggressively I want to pursue libertarianism. But it is nice to daydream that Hillary or Obama or, heck, ANY sane person running for president, would back this bill. None of them will, because polticians who aren't "crazy", are in fact power-hungry. Hillary actually spoke the other day about "reviewing" all the power-grabbing policies of the Bush/Cheney administration, which is a step in the right direction, but she of course stopped short of actually promising to give up any of the new powers Bush has invented for himself. It is hard to blame her, how many politicians willingly give up power? Only Ron Paul apparently. Of course what that means is that we the people are supposed to put our own checks and balances on the politicians, but with W's reelection, we gave them the stamp of approval they needed, and it will be hard hard hard to move this backwards now. I hope we can do it, but I'm getting all old and cynical now. ::grin::
Anyway, for today, I ::heart:: Ron Paul.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Friday, October 19, 2007
Survivor, or How To Take a Risk and Make Me Happy
Let's get right to it, this episode was both curious and delicious, and so chock-full of memorable moments that I am bound to forget some now. In other words, rock on.
But first, can we all raise a triumphant cheer that there were no lame special effects? This episode got back to the basics of game and strategy and I was all the happier for it.
We start off with Schoolteacher being lazy (shocker!) but paradoxically saying "I want to shake things up around here". While the rest of the episode reminded me how much I really don't miss Zoolander, honey, are you trying to make me hate you? Meanwhile James, who has generally started annoying me with his macho swagger, made me love him again by proclaiming a love for the Lunch Lady with age as their single barrier - "If I were older or she were younger, she would have to watch out" he says. Anyone who loves the Lunch Lady is golden with me, especially since it is a much more interesting love story than the 26-year-old Virgin Eric and Jamie's non-committal flirting.
But Jeff Probst heard Schoolteachers prayer, and each team got to pick two members from the other team to steal. Now let it be said that in general I really do not approve of this kind of twist. It makes things impossible for any real strategist to plan for, and instead chooses winners by luck instead of skill. But, whatever, it is still better TV than some over-elaborate reward challenge that it took the place of. And it gave me chance to marvel at the stupidity of the tribe that didn't put it together that it was a trade and not a steal. Like, duh. I thought the choices were all fairly obvious, although the one tribe (dang I need to start learning their names) that picked Schoolteacher has no idea what they've done, do they? Heh.
Jean-Robert and the Lunch Lady with a mullet were both sad to see James go, as apparently he was the sole ally to either. No one seemed particularly sad to see Aaron go, which was even more interesting. Once the switch was made, the game came out, which of course pleased me to no end. Todd announced to his confessional camera he was going to be looking for alliances with the newbies, which forced me to admit my love for him. Even if he is a bit hysterical at times, he has been the most consistent strategizer, which ultimately gets my loyalty over anything else. You go girl. Frosti and the Schoolteacher are both on notice and notch it up, and she even says "I'm gonna have to step it up around camp" - well, better late than never honey. Maybe this will be a good thing for you.
James and Aaron, meanwhile, are a bit more awkward. Actually Aaron lays out his case fairly well I thought, marking James out as a big danger once the merge comes. James, meanwhile, just isn't the kind of player that has any interest in the "outwit" portion of the game. For him it is all about "outplay", which he can totally do, and he just assumes everyone else thinks the same way. While this kind of mentality may have honor in real life, it can be a big liability in a game of strategizers. So when Pei Wei and Jamie start talking about throwing the challenge, I got very sad for him but very excited for me. Then Pei Wei and Jamie do throw the challenge, and show us they are never going to be hired to be in even a Rob Schnieder movie because they are both the worst actors ever and are giggling through the whole thing, and James is getting more and more frustrated and I am getting even more sad for him and even more excited for me. Throwing a challenge is a bold, risky move, and offhand I seem to recall it being done only twice before, once to get rid of, um, I think it was Silas in Africa, and once by the Hispanic team to get rid of the weird guy whose "love at first sight" comments made for one of the best tribal council sessions ever. Anyhoo, I ::heart:: bold and risky.
The girls, interestingly, did not tell Eric beforehand. He seemed a bit upset when they did, but was sort of trapped by his love of all things Jamie. I like him, but I'm starting to think he is a bit of a wuss. I hope he changes my mind on that soon, but I fear we may have lost him completely as he is now just a manslave under the control of Jamie's pheremones.
On to the curious part: Jeff Probst. He seemed genuinely peeved at the girls for throwing the challenge, and called them out on it all the way through the challenge. Jeff, your anger was warrented that season where the guy quit, cause that was totally lame. But this was a valid strategic move here, not just some silly girls who don't care. They are making a lot of assumptions in making this move, that 1) the tribes will merge at ten players as usual, and 2) that neither Frosti or Sherreah will defect to another alliance, and 3) that they will be able to either steal another player or win at a tie-breaker. But if that seems better odds than in watching Frosti and/or Sherreah get voted off, then I think it is a legitimate play. It sucks, of course, for Aaron and James, but luckily for me I'm not terribly fond of either so I'm just not all that heartbroken about it like Jeff seems to be. I can only guess that the producers didn't forsee that move or were just intending something else to happen, and so Jeff was caught unawares or something.
In the end I was surprised they let Aaron go when James was so uncomfortably combative about it, but I think it was best for their long-term strategy. Aaron was smart and, therefore, dangerous. James is only dangerous if, by sheer willpower, he manages to win the next immunity challenge all on his own. And even then, come merge time, he will be a huge target as well.
The other person this switch has really screwed with is Jean-Robert. His entire strategy revolved around slowly increasing his work ethic so that people would like him more and more for trying harder. With the switch, now he is really on the defensive about it, with his entire team mocking him for it. In their eyes he is only working hard now because he is trying to save himself, which rather devastates his entire strategy. At the end of the last episode I admit I was starting to feel more fond of our resident poker player, and I started wondering if there was some weird kind of inverse relationship between how much people liked him and the size of his pot belly. But things aren't looking too good for you bro.
And I still don't like Courtney.
But first, can we all raise a triumphant cheer that there were no lame special effects? This episode got back to the basics of game and strategy and I was all the happier for it.
We start off with Schoolteacher being lazy (shocker!) but paradoxically saying "I want to shake things up around here". While the rest of the episode reminded me how much I really don't miss Zoolander, honey, are you trying to make me hate you? Meanwhile James, who has generally started annoying me with his macho swagger, made me love him again by proclaiming a love for the Lunch Lady with age as their single barrier - "If I were older or she were younger, she would have to watch out" he says. Anyone who loves the Lunch Lady is golden with me, especially since it is a much more interesting love story than the 26-year-old Virgin Eric and Jamie's non-committal flirting.
But Jeff Probst heard Schoolteachers prayer, and each team got to pick two members from the other team to steal. Now let it be said that in general I really do not approve of this kind of twist. It makes things impossible for any real strategist to plan for, and instead chooses winners by luck instead of skill. But, whatever, it is still better TV than some over-elaborate reward challenge that it took the place of. And it gave me chance to marvel at the stupidity of the tribe that didn't put it together that it was a trade and not a steal. Like, duh. I thought the choices were all fairly obvious, although the one tribe (dang I need to start learning their names) that picked Schoolteacher has no idea what they've done, do they? Heh.
Jean-Robert and the Lunch Lady with a mullet were both sad to see James go, as apparently he was the sole ally to either. No one seemed particularly sad to see Aaron go, which was even more interesting. Once the switch was made, the game came out, which of course pleased me to no end. Todd announced to his confessional camera he was going to be looking for alliances with the newbies, which forced me to admit my love for him. Even if he is a bit hysterical at times, he has been the most consistent strategizer, which ultimately gets my loyalty over anything else. You go girl. Frosti and the Schoolteacher are both on notice and notch it up, and she even says "I'm gonna have to step it up around camp" - well, better late than never honey. Maybe this will be a good thing for you.
James and Aaron, meanwhile, are a bit more awkward. Actually Aaron lays out his case fairly well I thought, marking James out as a big danger once the merge comes. James, meanwhile, just isn't the kind of player that has any interest in the "outwit" portion of the game. For him it is all about "outplay", which he can totally do, and he just assumes everyone else thinks the same way. While this kind of mentality may have honor in real life, it can be a big liability in a game of strategizers. So when Pei Wei and Jamie start talking about throwing the challenge, I got very sad for him but very excited for me. Then Pei Wei and Jamie do throw the challenge, and show us they are never going to be hired to be in even a Rob Schnieder movie because they are both the worst actors ever and are giggling through the whole thing, and James is getting more and more frustrated and I am getting even more sad for him and even more excited for me. Throwing a challenge is a bold, risky move, and offhand I seem to recall it being done only twice before, once to get rid of, um, I think it was Silas in Africa, and once by the Hispanic team to get rid of the weird guy whose "love at first sight" comments made for one of the best tribal council sessions ever. Anyhoo, I ::heart:: bold and risky.
The girls, interestingly, did not tell Eric beforehand. He seemed a bit upset when they did, but was sort of trapped by his love of all things Jamie. I like him, but I'm starting to think he is a bit of a wuss. I hope he changes my mind on that soon, but I fear we may have lost him completely as he is now just a manslave under the control of Jamie's pheremones.
On to the curious part: Jeff Probst. He seemed genuinely peeved at the girls for throwing the challenge, and called them out on it all the way through the challenge. Jeff, your anger was warrented that season where the guy quit, cause that was totally lame. But this was a valid strategic move here, not just some silly girls who don't care. They are making a lot of assumptions in making this move, that 1) the tribes will merge at ten players as usual, and 2) that neither Frosti or Sherreah will defect to another alliance, and 3) that they will be able to either steal another player or win at a tie-breaker. But if that seems better odds than in watching Frosti and/or Sherreah get voted off, then I think it is a legitimate play. It sucks, of course, for Aaron and James, but luckily for me I'm not terribly fond of either so I'm just not all that heartbroken about it like Jeff seems to be. I can only guess that the producers didn't forsee that move or were just intending something else to happen, and so Jeff was caught unawares or something.
In the end I was surprised they let Aaron go when James was so uncomfortably combative about it, but I think it was best for their long-term strategy. Aaron was smart and, therefore, dangerous. James is only dangerous if, by sheer willpower, he manages to win the next immunity challenge all on his own. And even then, come merge time, he will be a huge target as well.
The other person this switch has really screwed with is Jean-Robert. His entire strategy revolved around slowly increasing his work ethic so that people would like him more and more for trying harder. With the switch, now he is really on the defensive about it, with his entire team mocking him for it. In their eyes he is only working hard now because he is trying to save himself, which rather devastates his entire strategy. At the end of the last episode I admit I was starting to feel more fond of our resident poker player, and I started wondering if there was some weird kind of inverse relationship between how much people liked him and the size of his pot belly. But things aren't looking too good for you bro.
And I still don't like Courtney.
Monday, October 15, 2007
Another reason why the internet is awesome when you are bored
Tell me this test isn't the freakiest coolest thing ever. No surprise I'm predominantly a right brainer. I actually thought it was a scam at first, but after a few minutes I was able to make her change directions back and forth just by looking off to the side a bit. Try it, and I guarantee you will waste a good ten minutes marveling at it. I freaking love the internet. (Hat tip, Andrew Sullivan)
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