This Weeks Big Brother Rundown

Simply put....








Lots of drama and cattyness.

Boobs and her boytoy Jocko are playing a losing game. I'm not a seasoned BB fan, but IMO it seems stupid to openly declare any 'Showmance'...especially this early on.

The Brodeo 'aka brigayde'(you see what I did there?) seems to have the alliance thing figured out even if there is a lot of brodom going around. We'll see what they have in store next week with PityParty going up on the block-even if he was there voluntarily-but him going after Boobs and Jocko could be wasted now that he was called out.

The second showmance going on between Miss Invisible and Wannabe Beach Boy will get ousted soon by Mr. Kosher...orrrr maybe if I was him I would think about approaching them and seeing if I could get a little protection in exchange for not telling the household about it...and then anonymously tip off the rest of the household via a note or something similar.

Really it's hard to tell what is going on without knowing who won HOH for now. That will determine a lot of things alliance and relationship wise in the house.

Haves and have nots? I don't see it factoring in nearly as much as I initially thought it would. I spose really how could it. They can sleep outside on the lawn chairs or in that cabana room and you can't tell me they aren't sneaking food now and then. Blah. Total segregation is the key there. Make them STAY in that maggot room and only be allowed out for challenges. That would create some serious issues and advantages/disadvantages, as well as maybe flip the switch on some new Alliances and break others up.

Not a whole lot outta Cop this week...her laugh is aggravating, and I'm not sure she isn't Whineys Mother.

Fake diseases for pity? That's pretty scumbaggy. Hopefully he gets caught.

Speaking of that...they've sorta dropped the whole "lifelong relationship angle, haven't they? Be interesting to see where they go with that..but what's going on there? If I was a housemate I wouldn't just drop it the second the sab. was outta the house. Unless they were told by production to STFU about it.

Speaking of leaving the house...Miss Thang?? Really? I'm not sure I'm happy to see her go from a viewer standpoint....plus she wasn't exactly super hard to look at. But as pointed out she wasn't exactly playing a winning game.

For me it's waaaaay too early to make any final 4 or final 2 predictions. I think there is waaaaaaay too much that could change and alter the course of things. But I'm pretty sure it won't be happily ever after for Boobs and Jocko.

Instead of doing a weekly thing I think I'm going to do it after each episode. Maybe not always immediately following, but the next day probly.

See ya Sunday.

Welcome to Small Town Atlantic Canada. Population: 473

I'm a city boy.

I grew up mostly at my Nan's in the 'hood'.

While Ice Cube and Mack 10 weren't my neighbors, "The Pubs" in Halifax is about as ghetto as you get. My early lessons in economics involved watching people sell drugs across the street at 'the well'. It's rather mind boggling now that the police would just drive by and not really do anything about it. Maybe it was an early, ahead of its time Hamsterdamn(from The Wire)?



It's so weird to see that place without a swarm of tough, angry looking folks milling around-but then it appears to be relatively early in the day and you know...those folk tend to like to sleep in.

Annnnnnyway.

Growing up, hood, Nan's place...yada yada.

Mom worked, so Nan/Pop watched me. They are/were more like a second set of parents than grandparents. The end of elementary school came though and I announced, being all grown up at the age of 12 or so of course that I no longer needed to go to my Grandparents every day, and that I would be staying home and attending school in Fairview, where we lived.

Fairview to me was not ghetto in the least, I mean...people from Fairview were scared of the pubs. Turns out people that didn't live in Fairview thought it was as ghetto as the pubs! Ha! I lived there on Sunnybrae with mom for ohhh 23 years, till I eventually moved out with my Fiancee(at the time-Wife now). But we stayed in Fairview. :)


THEN EVERYTHING CHANGED.

We moved into a house near the community she grew up in. I was instantly in love with not being in the city. No noise, rarely any sirens. Can't reach out your bathroom window and high 5 your neighbor and just so many other things about not living in the city rock.

Sadly, life isn't always on your side-and we ended up moving back into the city again in less than a year. Then a few more years past and we found ourselves in the middle of downtown Charlottetown, PE! :) Love it here, hate where we live. We moved here to be close to the Wife's school. Now she's done there so....we're SO outta here!

Found a little slice of paradise in our rental price range just outside of Charlottetown! Even though it's a further drive KM wise, it's a faster trip because we don't have to deal with traffic going across town. We signed the Lease yesterday, and can start moving our stuff in Wed. :)

I can't wait to be outta here, where we're embarrased to have friends or family come visit us-and no real room for them anyway. It wasn't so bad here when we moved in, but the building changed owners and well...new guy let it go to crap. More on that in another blog post.

Hey, Beavis. Pull my finger!

Beavis and Butt-head’ Are Back!?!?!?!

from fancast.com :

by Tracy Phillips
Jul 14th, 2010


"Deadbeats, slackers and misfits rejoice! ‘Beavis and Butt-head‘ are making a comeback… “Heh Heh.”

MTV plans to resurrect the pop-culturally iconic ’90s cartoon with a modern update, reports the New York Post.

The move is reportedly one step in MTV’s new strategic plan to return to its original format–showing music videos. The network has been criticized for years for losing its identity after a programming slate dominated by non-music related reality shows, like the recently departed ‘The Hills’ and ‘Jersey Shore,’ took over the airwaves.

The new Beavis and Butt-head would remain as we knew them, perpetual high-schoolers, according to the Post, “but it would be updated so that the pals — who obsessively watch music videos on a battered TV set — could lob their snarky comments at more current targets like Lady Gaga.”

Created by Mike Judge (’King of the Hill’), the animated series premiered on MTV in 1993 and ran until 1997.

The dumb-and-dumber dudes also made the leap to the big screen in 1996 for the movie ‘Beavis and Butt-head Do America.’

Are you excited for the return of ‘Beavis and Butt-head’? Or is this a move in the wrong direction for MTV?"
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Wow. I didn't see that one coming. My friends and I used to watch the show religiously every weekend on MuchMusic growing up, and even bought some of the VHS tapes(vhs!)at musicworld. Problem is, it's like a lot of things from your childhood/adolescence...it's WAY better left as a fond memory. A couple years back I saw a link on youtube for some Beavis and Butthead episodes. I was happy and clicked with a big grin thinking it would be awesome to see some of the old episodes we laughed so hard at.

I was wrong. Very wrong.

It wasn't as funny as I remembered at all, actually it was just pretty bad. Watching those few links on youtube killed most of the fun memories I had of watching the show.

The question for me is, will this be more of the same? I've read they're leaving the basic premise of the show the same but updating the music videos featured. Will Judge re-hash all the old not-so-funny-now-that-we're-not-14 'jokes'? Or will the humor get an update as well?

While I'm hoping for the latter, only time will tell.

I Love PEI!!!!

I Love PEI. No, really. I do. Ok, I'll admit-at first I was skeptical...hmmmm perhaps apprehensive is a better description. Actually if I'm honest-this wasn't the first time we were supposed to move over here. Back when I met my Wife she had planned to move to PEI after graduating high school. Well, we came over to take a look around and after much discussion decided it was not the right move for us at the time.

Fast forward 6 years and several life changing situations...what should happen to fall back into discussion? PEI. Who knows why both her and I felt so compelled to move here, we had zero ties to the island and except for a fond bunch of memories from camping trips over the years we knew almost nothing about PEI. We knew nobody except for Aaron-a friend of mine that had moved over about a year before we did, Amanda had no job, and at the time the decision was made to move and our notice given at our apartment we had no idea where we were going to live. It was a bit of a risk, and it was scary-but very, very worth it.

We got to trade in this:

For this:


And we haven't regretted it for a minute.

Hello Internets!

On my to-do list today...I added something that sounded simple enough. In theory it is-a couple mouse clicks, a few strokes of the keyboard and BAM...you have a blog online. Of course if you're like me, it's not so simple. Simple text for a header? No that won't do. Stock template? Of course not! Anyway, lots of mouse clicks, and clicks..and then more clicking to make sure it was 'ok' and here we are!


Hello, Blogworld. Is there a point to making this? Writing entries? Sharing them on the internetweb? Probly not, who is going to read it? Who knows, probly nobody. But that's ok. If nothing else at all it will serve as a journal of sorts. Something to look back on. It will also hopefully serve as a venue/outlet to grow my writing skills.

Either way, I'm happy I did it-and hope to stay pretty active-posting something daily. Even if it's a picture...something old or new or even a camera phone picture...something, anything daily. I had a photoblog in the past that I rarely updated and really who knows if anyone even noticed I stopped posting anything there!

I'm hoping to be a bit more active with this since it's a bit of a smorgasborg of everything. TV comments, movie and music reviews, random thoughts, my reviews of different restaurants etc around the island and elsewhere in my travels.

Hopefully I'm not just talking to myself! If you like something, or hate something or agree or disagree with me on something please don't be shy! Leave a comment! I don't bite...well at least not often.