Live Feed - Tuesday, July 24, Evening

• The first thing I see is Jeffrey.  I’m so excited!  And I just can’t hide it!  I’m about to lose control and I think I like it!  Yay!
• Anyway, they’re all in the kitchen, doing dinner stuff.
• I was concerned that I would be sitting here, consuming these cookies as solace, but they have become cookies of joy.
• It sounds like Stephanie is bottom two again this week.  
• In the bedroom, Joy and Gene are snuggling.  Joy seems upset.  Is she the other Team Captain or just being dramatic?
• I actually check to see if my live feed is broken, as there is no sound or motion for about 30 seconds.
• Damn them.  They’re so quiet, I need to go find my headphones.
• Back in the kitchen, Jeffrey is wondering if he can tweet.  Andrea says they’ll just hold it back if it’s not OK.
• Stephanie mentions being nervous, then talks about team captain confessionals.  It’s definitely Steph and Joy.  They don’t know we’re watching.
• They’re now talking about Celine Dion.  You want to know about her, Google her.
• They’re telling Jeffrey what he missed, but it’s not that interesting.  It involved building forts and secret coves, which somehow turned into a food fight.
• I’ll be honest - I’m not listening.  I’m processing the donation I promised GLAAD if Jeffrey came back.
• I get a phone call.  Things may or may not happen, but I didn’t see them.  No one cares.
• When I zone back in, Jeffrey is talking about “wanna be fruit flies,” - women who insist that they love him solely because he’s gay, and think that all gay people must love them, too.  
• Erica said that she’s a little worried that her video came off that way, because of the way it was edited, but Jeffrey says that it wasn’t.
• I realized many years ago that the fact that I seem to have a natural affinity with gays does not mean that I must love all gays if I meet an asshole who happens to date people of the same gender (although, in retrospect, turns out that the person who helped me realize that was only pretending to be gay to meet women).
• They move on to talking about things like parking tickets, so… that’s not very entertaining.
• They’re talking about calling people out.  Stephanie is saying that Erica isn’t the only person who does it, she’s just louder.  Erica doesn’t really get that Stephanie is talking about confronting people, and she’s saying that you don’t need an audience to confront someone, and you don’t need to be loud or rude to do it.  Other people do it, too.  They’re not really communicating well here.
• Apparently, Kevin is napping, Andrea is wandering around doing nothing, and Gene and Joy are lying in bed silently, so we’re left watching these three, no matter what they talk about, so I get to watch this discussion on how/where/when to confront someone.  Zzzzzzz……
• It sounds like Erica wanted Stephanie to back her up in a conversation that didn’t involve her at all. 
• The camera seriously just zoomed in on Steph’s ass for no reason at all.  I guess the producers noticed how much everyone noticed it last night.
• Anyway, Steph said that she does speak up when she agrees, but she’s not agreeing just for the sake of agreeing.
• Joy walks in silently, stands about 6 inches from Erica, and dishes up a plate of food without looking at her or speaking.  Erica doesn’t acknowledge her, either.  It’s bizarre.  Looks like they really did have a huge fight.
• Erica finishes by saying that she wants people to stand up for her, and Stephanie says that, when she does that, Erica doesn’t give anyone else credit and she still feels like no one was on her side, so there’s no point.
• Joy is apparently still wandering around, eating, but she’s not speaking to anyone.  Andrea is sitting at the table, silently, looking pissed.  This is so weird.
• Apparently, they’ve all decided to just sit in the room and say what’s on their mind.  No more secret plotting.  Note that Andrea and Kevin have not agreed to this.  So, basically, Erica, Stephanie, and Jeffrey are going to be totally transparent, and everyone else will just listen, then go off and talk about them.
• Stephanie asks Andrea about her vacation.  She wants a Disney Cruise, but her kids want Hawaii.  Stephanie asks about a Disney Cruise to Hawaii… I’m not sure she understands the geography involved there.  The Disney Cruises are mostly out of Florida.
• Abrupt cut to Gene and Joy, in the living room.
• Gene is telling Joy she’s delusional while she’s eating something.  She doesn’t respond.  Weird.  
• She is NOT taking being in the bottom well.  
• This is awful.  Even Gene looks bored.  
• Does Joy want him to call Erica out and yell at him?  She walks away to wash her dishes, silently, while the others talk around her as if she’s not there.  The show just went from bad to horribly awkward and bizarre.  Did I say that already?
• It’s only ten.  I’m not sure I can do this for two more hours.  Something needs to happen!
• They’re talking about girly things and lady parts, and Jeffrey is freaking out, because these things are gross.  I’m on your side, Jeffrey.
• We learn that Stephanie used to teach sex ed?  Intriguing.  Tell us more, Stephanie.  Alas, she doesn’t, because Jeffrey and Erica are mostly ignoring her.
• OMG - she chose to teach sixth grade sex ed as a “scared straight” approach.  She tried to terrify children out of having sex!  This is amazing!
• She made a slide show with horribly graphic pictures of sexually transmitted diseases.  This is the greatest thing I’ve ever heard.  Anyway, just as the conversation gets interesting, we go back to Joy and Gene.
• Joy tells Gene they’re going to win.  She wonders if she’s not a good enough busser on the date.
• The fact that the viewers made her the person busing the tables on the date, of all the available options, was a sign that they don’t really like her very much.  That suggested to me that it was likely that she would wind up in the bottom.
• Did Steph say that 80% of people have had an STD?  Is that what’s going on?  Yeah - Gene and Joy are listening to the STD discussion, talking about diseases that men don’t know they have and wind…. you know what? I took sex ed.  If you didn’t, you’re probably too young to be reading this (or, you’re crazy religious, and probably in the wrong place).
• I’m mildly curious as to what STD they’re talking about, but not enough to ask Google.  There’s a vaccine for it.  
• Steph, Erica, and Andrea are talking about STDs, and Gene and Jeffrey are talking about Star Tours, and it’s all hitting the same mics, and this is the weirdest discussion I’ve ever been in a position to follow.  I can hear all five of them.  So odd.
• Yeah, it was HPV.  I was right.
• I love Stephanie, “I always called it the Human Pamplona Virus.”  That’s right - you get it from running with the bulls!  (She knows this is wrong.)
• Hmmm…. Kevin lied about napping.  Andrea went looking for him, and he’s not there.  Is he in the confessional?  Is he tweeting?  Is he lying on the grass?  Is he hiding?  Did he sneak down the tubes to follow Mike?
• Weird.  They’re talking about the patio, and Steph says there’s something weird with the chairs, and she gets bleeped.  Is there something top secret about ABC’s chairs?
• Everyone wanders away, and Andrea quietly tells Jeffrey that Erica hung out with her and Kevin the entire time he was in limbo, and she and Joy have been fighting.
• Did Joy just leave to go to bed?  It’s 7:15 p.m.!!  I’ve never gone to bed that early!
• It’s unfortunate that she can’t turn the lights out, though.
• God, this is boring.  Joy is sleeping, Erica is in the Twitter booth, Kevin is MIA, Andrea is picking her fingernails at the table, and Gene is wandering around.  I didn’t see where Steph went.  If I were her, I’d be changing so I could at least sit in the hot tub.
• Kevin reappears.  *yawn*  Erica wants to play passive-aggressive charades - only act out things people do that annoy you.
• In that bathroom, Stephanie and Joy.  Steph has first pick, and will take Kevin.  Joy wants Andrea to split them up, but also thinks that Andrea is a good competitor.  If Joy has the option of Andrea or Gene, she needs to pick Gene.  Otherwise, Steph will take him.
• Joy goes to find Gene and tell him what Steph said.  Unfortunately, ABC doesn’t want us to know what it was, because they blocked it.  Maybe Steph will let Joy have Gene?  That’s not really a good idea.  She’s way better taking Kevin and Gene, leaving Joy with Andrea and Erica, and letting Jeffrey pick where to go.
• Cut to Kevin and Erica, talking about…. well, it boils down to Erica having a huge crush on Kevin and him enjoying it, taking advantage of it, and flattering her, even though he doesn’t like her at all.
• They move to talking crap about Gene.
• Kevin is a smug jackass, saying things like, “You’re *finally* seeing it.  Some of us have seen it all along.”
• I think Gene’s the mole.  Assuming that Apollo wasn’t lying.
• Blah blah blah Gene and Joy blah blah blah fauxmance blah.
• Even Erica knows that this show sucks.
• Kevin tells her to stop saying that, because it could get her tossed into the bottom.  He has a good point, since we can all see her saying it.
• Jeffrey and Andrea are talking about THEIR PREFERRED FORMS OF ICE.  Are you fucking kidding me?
• I prefer ice in berg form.  Specifically, I’d like a giant ice berg to crash into this sinking ship, take it out, and put us all out of our misery.
• The camera moves jerkily back and forth while people have conversations about things that don’t matter.q1iujuhujhiuhiyuiyuy[p[‘;p’[[;powszwaszawsazswedeswasdereswedsdfre4redre45rtftr5rftrtrrrt
• Oops, sorry.  Cleaning my keyboard again.

                                                       

• The most interesting moment of the night occurs when they discuss whether vampires can suck zombie blood.  They agree that if a vampire ate a zombie, the vampire would become a zombie.  I’m not sure it works that way.  Oh!  Jeffrey’s roommate does special effect makeup for monster movies!  That’s awesome!  I wish I were talented.  *sigh*
• Erica thinks that #Fanswers are useless, because you don’t know who is answering or how they’re interpreting the questions.  There’s probably a right way to use them, but she doesn’t know what they are.  
• Andrea realizes that there is a different demographic watching the show and voting than sitting on the computer and even seeing the #Fanswers to respond.  Yes, ABC, and that is what’s wrong with the show (one of many things).  Listen to her (about this.  Ignore her on absolutely everything else).
• The show has changed in the last seven weeks.  No shit?  Really?
• Jeffrey sings a song about purple.  That’s a funny word.  Purple.  Heh.
• Stephanie comes up with a game.  They are trying to move Cheez-its from their forehead to their mouths without using their hands.  I cannot believe I am watching this! 
• Andrea is planning to take a muscle relaxer.  This is actually really important, because Steph hears this conversation, but Joy doesn’t - if she’s taking a muscle relaxer now, with the challenge tomorrow, she’s going to be total dead weight in that challenge - especially because she’s never taken them before.  Stephanie does NOT want Andrea on her team.  
• Jeffrey has an entire room to himself now.  It’s been four minutes since I last wanted to cry with boredom.
• Cut to Gene and Joy, sleeping.  Well, that’s certainly interesting.  Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
• Joy tells Gene that she’s thinking about what she’s going home to - her daughter, her job - her boyfriend.
• She’s assuming that, after they see the show, her many boyfriends won’t want her.  Or something like that.  But it does sound like she was seeing someone before the show.
• Whatever.  They’re sleeping.
• Back in the living room, they’re discussing the game.
• Kevin shits all over the gods of reality TV by saying that they “can’t” bring one of the eliminated players back.
• Stephanie points out that, since the eliminated players aren’t sequestered, they would have a TON of information that no one else has.
• They might actually be as bored as I am.  They’re building pyramids out of paper cups.
• We learn that Andrea has been desperately trying out for every game show out there, because she doesn’t want to do things that normal people do to get money, like get a second job.  She talks about all the calls she’s been getting to be on shows, but none of them worked out. 
• The group disperses, and Andrea is talking about whether she said too much, and I think they’re worried that Stephanie is going to talk to Gene… It’s unclear.  Andrea says that she wants to tell the others that she knows she’s being played and she’s not an idiot.
• One of them left feces on the toilet?  Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!  Please tell me that it was at least on the inside?
• I am too ill to recap any more.
• Seven minutes of nothing later, I lose the sound.  Oh, well.  They’re just talking about the people who are gone.  It would be more interesting if I made up deep, dark secrets about all of them, but I’m too beaten down from watching this garbage.
• Kevin, Andrea, Erica, and Jeffrey wind up together talking about the end.  They think they’ll be the Final Four.  Jeffrey is worried that Erica is going to go tell Steph what they’re saying.
• Jeffrey says that Steph is planning to pick Kevin first.  It’s funny, because he says that he’ll give her 110% because he wants Joy out… but he would give his full effort either way, and he would give Joy 110%.  So, he spends a lot of time saying nothing, because he wants us to think that he’s always going to try equally hard.
• It sounds like they’re all targeting Gene to go home.  I don’t know why they’re bothering - if Joy’s team loses, Joy is going home.  If Steph’s team loses, Steph is going home.  Gene is safe either way.
• Jeffrey says that he knew Gene was being shady in the challenge, because he was being shady, too.  He wasn’t trying to spin the wheel at all.
• Andrea is pretty funny here with her, “I knew it!!!”
• Jeffery rehashes the challenge, and says that he and Gene talked beforehand.  He told Gene that he wasn’t going to be trying at all, and Gene winked or something.  Gene didn’t say that he wasn’t going to try, but it was heavily implied.  Intriguing.
• I guess Jeffrey goaded Kevin to get Mike to call Gene out on the live feed for throwing the challenge.  Gene didn’t care. We saw that conversation that Jeffrey is rehashing.
• Jeffrey is positive that Gene threw the Apollo challenge, too.  Me, too, actually.
• Just as it’s starting to get good (not really), it’s over.  Yay sleep!