1:30AM Dani is Still Up:  She's chatting with Marcellas, who is playing solitaire.  From their talk, I gather the challenge was both physical and mental and included trivia about evicted guests and general trivia.  One of the questions involved past presidents, Danielle says she knows nothing about political stuff and has never voted.

3:30AM Bedtime.  8:00AM Marcellas up doing ADLs.  11:30AM Danielle is up-  Marcellas tells Danielle that he doesn't think he'll use the POV to remove himself from the block.  He feels that the target nominee is Amy, and it would look like he's insecure if he takes himself off.  I'm not sure what Dani's thinking is today, originally, the target was Marcellas, of course he didn't know that.  Dani's told him she'll protect him, could be a lie, or maybe she is going after Amy.

1:15PM BBT A Fire Near Studio City-  Marcellas is called to the DR to be told that there's a fire in the Verdugo mountains several miles from the studio.  The fire is located near Brand Park in Glendale and is moving north, away from the BB house.  The fire is so far away it will not effect them, however, the HGs could see the smoke, and BB felt they should be informed.  Later, Lisa and Marcellas discover a new microphone in the bathroom area near the mirrors.

IMPORTANT INFO  6:45PM "We've Got Mail" And as Jason said those words the feeds went to FotH. When we returned, Jason was reading a letter from Big Brother: "Greetings houseguests:  As promised, here is some important information about how the final days of Big Brother 3 will play out.  During this Thursday's live show, you will compete for the penultimate Head of House position.  This is a crucial Head of House competition, as the winner will be eligible to compete in the final HoH competition, scheduled to take place the following week.  In other words, for the first time, one of you could be HoH two weeks in a row.  Between the live veto meeting, the live voting, the live eviction, this Thursday promises to be a very busy evening, so rest up  and prepare yourselves.  To make matters more interesting, you will take part in a luxury competition following the live show on Thursday night.  One week from Thursday, there will be another live eviction, and the votes will be cast live." -- "And as always, you should expect the unexpected. Big Brother will end on September 25th, two weeks and two days from tonight. Thank you for your continued support and excitement as we head to the final days."  They'll be performing these stunts on only PB&J, as the food will not arrive until after the competitions on Thursday the 12th.  TWO WEEKS AND TWO DAYS TO GO!

Summer Camp Craft: Tonight's camp craft project is a soap making kit. 

WHY I FELL IN LOVE WITH KIKI BY JASON GUY

10:00AM BBT Marcellas confronts Jason: As you may recall from 8:15PM yesterday, Marcellas was angry over Jason's nomination choices.  So this morning, he asks Jason "Why?"  Jason tells him it was a tough decision, he just needed someone to go on the block with Amy, and picked Marcellas.  Marcellas: "Did you just think that putting me in harm's way was okay?"  Jason: "Yes, I thought it would be okay. I could have put Danielle up and she would have been fine with it. And with the Golden Veto, either you or Amy could save yourself. "  Marcellas reminds Jason of how he saved him, "I also talked Chiara and Roddy out of nominating you. I wasn't going to put any of this on you, but Chiara and Roddy didn't give a shit about you."   The conversation goes on, and on, Jason: "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have worried about the repercussions and I should have put up Danielle or Lisa."  Jason says hopefully things will be redeemed with the Golden Veto today.  Marcellas asks him point blank, "So you don't have a deal with Lisa?"  Jason hedges,  "I think everyone in the house is an amazing person and I think everyone should win."  Marcellas:  "I asked you a direct question."  Jason:  "No, I don't have a deal with Lisa. I'm friends with her. I want to keep on good terms with her."   In the end Marcellas hugs him and says he doesn't have to worry about him coming after him,  he understands that he was in a tough spot.

2:00PM BBT Lockdown:  The HGs are in LD, as BB prepares the yard for the POV challenge. 4:45PM Update: They're still in LD.  IMHO, I think they're starting to get sick.  Lisa started coughing a couple nights ago, Jason's all stuffed up, Marcellas and Danielle have been groggy, and Amy's complaining she feels dizzy and shaky.  It could just be the PB&J diet and boredom.  They've been playing cards for two hours waiting for the POV challenge to begin. I know,  I'm bored, feeling groggy too. 6:00PM Update: Marathon LD continues.  6:52PM Update: Jason was called to the DR, BB just wanted to take videos of Jason's snapshots, we hoped it was to start the POV challenge.  

The Laser Challenge Court for the Golden Power of Veto.

9:30PM The Golden POV Challenge Has Begun!  All feeds were FotH, not even a teaser picture of the yard to let us know what took seven and half hours to set up.  At MIDNIGHT it was still going on.  What could it be?  Jason was told that "this on will really 'rock you.'"   Some of the viewers on the update boards thought they saw lasers and fog, and think it's a dance marathon...

WHO DID I TRASH IN THE DR?
THE MOST SCATHING RANT ON TONYA AND CHIARA TO DATE

2:30PM BBT Jason Takes the Keys off the Wall: It's time for Jason to put the keys in the box.  He's already told Amy that she will be nominated, and word is, that Marcellas is too.  It'll all be official around 3:30PM. 4:00PM It's official! Amy is up for her fifth nomination and Marcellas is with her again too.

4:15PM BBT Marci is Mad About Noms:  Marcellas just did one of his long tirades to Danielle.  He feels he was nominated, yet again because he's friends with Amy.  Although he feels safe (and he's not), he resents that his association keeps getting him put on the block.  He does realize that if Amy wins POV, she's off and he's out.

5:00PM BBT Household Comments:  Lisa and Dani were especially impressed with Jason's nomination speech.  Lisa told Marcellas what she'd do with the prize money, helping her parents, family and friends, no mention of travel with what's-'is-name. Jason wants to drive out to Vegas with Roddy to see Tonya.  Amy says she's ready to leave the house (again).

6:00PM BBT The Basketball Diaries:  Danielle and Marcellas retreat to the basketball court and talk about "battening down the hatches" (making sure the game goes as planned) and love in the Big Brother house.  Marcellas remembers when he fell in love with Roddy, and the five minutes later when he realized he was being manipulated. 
DANI & MARCI: CONVERSATION ON A BASKETBALL COURT

8:15PM BBT Marcellas Unhappy with Jason's Nominations:  Marcellas tells Amy that he can't understand why Jason picked him.  And now Marci is trying to figure out if Danielle is behind it.  "But why would he want to help Danielle?  She's never helped him."  He figures that Jason has a deal with either Lisa or Danielle.  Danielle has always told Marcellas that the final three would be her, him, and Lisa.
MARCELLAS SMELLS A RAT AND STARTS TO ADD THINGS UP

All Tucked in: By 1:00AM  the whole house was sleeping.  I think this is the earliest they've gone to bed so far.

AFTER MIDNIGHT IN A BIG BROTHER BEDROOM

9:30AM Ominous Message:  Jason's up early today, and the big screen has the message "Expect the Unexpected."   Wow! NO NOMINATIONS TODAY  Jason explains the new twist:  Jason: "We were told to expect the unexpected. The game is changing one more time. This is the 'Golden Veto,'  it is our last veto of the season.  All the same rules apply except one. This veto come with an additional power. If you are nominated and win you can take yourself off the block. The golden veto gives you the power to change some ones destiny, or your own." Nominations will be announced on Saturday, so Jason will have an extra day to consider the ramifications of the Golden Veto! The veto meeting will be held during Thursday's live show. The final veto competition will be held on Sunday.

Things to Look For:  In the past, there has always been a cash buy-out offered for anyone willing to quit the game.  There has always been an open vote, where they either vote live, or are shown the votes from the DR.  Since there will not be any DR voting on Wednesday (they won't know who's up until Thursday) they could vote live and open.  Jason's two nominations are expected to be Amy & Marcellas, at least that's his plan today.  Jason certainly got an exciting week to be HoH.  

Lunch- Today's lunch is brought to you by, Subway.  1:15PM After lunch the HGs had a good time watching clips from the "Freeze Frame" game.

4:00PM Here's the Strategy:  Jason will put up either Amy and Marcellas, and Danielle and Lisa will both vote out Marci. Or: Jason will put up Danielle against Marcellas and Lisa votes to send Marcellas out.  If Amy votes to keep him,  Jason breaks tie and Marcellas is out.  Or:  Jason wins power of veto and uses it Thursday to take Amy off the block and put Danielle up against Marcellas. Got it?  If they were allowed to write, they should make us score cards.

4:30PM Craft Time:  To alleviate the boredom, or possibly as part of a later challenge, BB has provided candle making supplies to the HGs (and what did you do at summer camp?). Of course Marcellas is in a pissy mood and doesn't want to participate.  "It looks like a nice candle set, but I doubt it for $14.95"

 With Roddy's Departure, The odds have changed.  I have to say I really don't agree with these odds.  Marcellas and Danielle have little or no votes  on the outside for the final judgment.

Jason hosts the dinner party from hell.
The dinner guests await their fate.
Amy has to get that taste out of her mouth, but "the goblets are cool"

The backyard set looked really good, but between special effects malfunctioning and planes flying over, there were many re-takes.   As I recall from the last time Jason was HoH, during the competitions they had to edit a lot because he's always stopping to ask questions.  BB "Chris" directed this one, and Jason asked a lot of questions.  I thought it was cool that, earlier in the day,  before anything started,  Chris asked Jason if a satanic dinner party would be a problem, religiously, for him. 

Marcellas wanted to quit and just take the PB&J for the week, Jason insisted they press on.  Both teams ended up eating PB&J for the week.  At the end, it was suggested the as HoH Jason should select one thing from the table in a chance to get his own food for one day.  Jason said he would even try a little of everything on the table, but alas, he will eat PB&J for the week also.  Jason took loosing the food competition really hard. It's the closest to an angry Jason that I've seen.  Marcellas skipped off to the DR and told them "I don't give a shit about Jason.  He can eat his luxury food and screw it."

Lisa's not feeling well, she has a cough and it sounds like she's coming down with something.

9:15AM BBT:   Wake-Up Call: Another One Bites the Dust  --  The HGs were wakened by Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust."  It doesn't look like Marcellas is up yet,  it was his first night to sleep alone (without Amy) in the HoH room.

11:30AM BBT: Rehearsal for Live Show.  The HGs were outside for quite some time while the feeds were FotH.  This is usually for a run through of the HoH competition so the directors can get an idea of the time it will take and so the HGs will know where to stand.  Tonight's game may be a little more complex than the usual question and answer contests they usually have.  When the feeds returned, we saw that Amy was still in the house.  Some people thought she might have left the game, as all last night she was bitching that she didn't want to be there anymore.

2:15PM BBT Marci and Amy are Friends Again--  Well, at least I think so.  She said "I love you" but ended it with "that's why this is so hard."  Meanwhile, Lisa and Roddy are saying their goodbyes.  I'm tellin' ya, these two got awful close....  Eric might not be thinkin' Roddy's so wonderful.  By 3:00PM the producers might have to make some changes to their plans.  A light rain is falling with a thunderstorm on it's way, this is what's left of Hurricane Hernan, which has been downgraded to a tropical depression and is 900 miles Southwest of LA.

"Freeze Frame" HoH Competition.

5:45PM BBT We've Seen the End of Roddy--  Roddy was evicted in a 3-0 vote.  He was greeted by his father and brother, who will no doubt, whisk him off to a steak house for a big dinner.  Before the vote totals were announced  Julie played an interview with Rod's parents.
ROD'S PARENTS COMMENT ON ROD AND CHIARA
After Roddy's exit, as usual, there was an interview with Julie.  This one was pretty good. 
JULIE INTERVIEWS RODDY MANCUSO ON HIS EVICTION
 5:50PM Jason becomes the New HoH-  Danielle's plan to throw the HoH competition in the second round, failed, as Amy and Lisa lost in the first round. The game was called "Freeze Frame."  The HGs were show a video clip of a Big Brother event feature a HG making a memorable comment, and had to complete the comment by selecting from a multiple choice question.  After the show, Jason and Danielle laughed at how their plan fell apart.  The contest was quick and even left Julie to fill some time at the end of the show by talking to the HGs.  Amy told Julie she regretted not using the POV, even though it may have meant her eviction. 

7:45PM  Lisa Knows She Was Played: I really like Lisa.  I was a little worried she wasn't smart enough to know that Roddy's been working her for the last week.  During one of the many recaps that Dani and Marci keep giving, Lisa told them about all the stuff Roddy had said to her in the past few days-- she knew.  There's so much talk between the HGs about "how you play the game."  They knew Roddy was never badmouthing anyone because he wanted a clean record for the cash vote.  If Dani knows this, why is she trashing the jury?  The evictees have all said they wouldn't vote for her, and yet even the Vegas odds calculator has her at 5/2. 

Look at Jason's bulging basket.

9:00PM Jason's HoH Room is Ready- Got pictures from his brother's wedding,  Doritos, Snickers, the "Moulin Rouge!" CD he mentioned at the end of the show, a letter from home, M&M's, Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey ice cream, a necklace, and a block of cheese.  He shared his edibles with everyone.  Marcellas was really pissed that Jason got such better stuff than he did. "I had to beg for a lousy $3.25 bottle of lotion, and he gets two bottles of cologne.  I'm going to the DR right now!"  Amy told him, "...you're a bigger drama-queen than me!"  Marcellas: "No you don't understand.  They do it because they know it gets to me.  They know I'm the star of the show, and this is just their way of saying 'No you're not.' My feelings are hurt yet again."  "They're going to have to bring Arnold in for this one...  and Johnny Cochran"  After a marathon DR session, Marcellas came out and apologized to Jason. 

9:05PM Dinner Arrives- The HGs always get to order out on Thursdays. Tonight's fare was Italian and came with wine.

9:45AM Wake Up Time--  Breakfast at 11:45, 12:15PM Voting is complete-- 

12:30PM BBT: House In LD:  The HGs were called outside for a LD and Lisa does more laundry.  Dani tells Jason it was hard voting.  When Jason starts to tell Danielle what he said in the DR, the feeds switch to FotH.  Could there be a surprise on Thursday?  I don't think so.  It sounds as if Roddy's parents will be present for his eviction.  In Chiara's web chat interview, she says her father and brother didn't come to greet her at her eviction because they did not approve of the show.

2:30PM BBT: Amy, Not Happy Again-- First, Danielle and Marci told her that her Elmo voice is annoying, then BB busted her for writing a note with a mascara pencil in the HoH room. She was scolded in the DR for the violation, and now (3:15PM) she's sulking by herself.  Later she's called back to the Dr told to stop crying.

Slow News Day-- Since the feeds are dull right now, I checked the Las Vegas odds by John Avello of Bally's Casino. 

Danielle's New Plan:  Her and Jason intend to throw the HoH competition tomorrow night.  So that Amy gets HoH.  This way she'll be forced to put up Marcellas.  They're pretty sure she won't put up Jason, because with Roddy gone, she'll need a man to flirt with. This also works to their advantage, because the next week she won't be eligible for HoH and  they can get rid of her.  Even if they goof, and Lisa gets HoH, she'll put up Marcellas, and that'll be another one down.  Danielle's got this thing thought out, except for one thing, so far there are no evicted HGs that would vote for her to win in end, however they all like Jason.  

The great lizard trial of 2002

9:45AM Cards & Sex:  A game of cards on the patio turns into a conversation on the male physiology, covering erections, masturbation, and circumcision (Dani's giggle is great)..  11:45PM After Danielle goes to bed, Roddy gets Amy alone in hammock and makes her cry again.  Same old lecture, just play one of the clips from yesterday, you can't tell the difference.
THE PENIS DIALOGUES