Having access last night to all the fancy TV channels I don't have at my house, I somehow found myself watching Big Brother After Dark last night. I could not turn it off! For minutes I was watching people just sit. Mostly they were talking, and it was kind of interesting, but STILL. The shame.

What was interesting was they were talking a lot about the logistics of the game -- when the last day was, how much money non-winners would get (it's apparently about $3K/month?), and a producer told them to stop, but not in scary Big Brother voice or anything, just conversationally, which they noted as being unusual.

I believe the sequester people all get $9000, so, whatever that works out to a month/week.

Ah -- that's what they were saying, that if you stay three months you get nine grand.

Random BB thought: they didn't show Daniele's bday party, did they? And did anyone care that she lied about her age the first day?

They showed her getting a b-day card from Nick, no? And I'm not sure that anyone ever found out that she lied about being 21, but really, why would they care?

Yeah, I was just curious, because usually a birthday is a nice happy filler thing for BB. I guess they were too busy showing Jen get BURNED WITH CIGARETTES.

From Keckler's TC recap:

Some would say that bread pudding was invented as soon as the first loaf of bread staled in ancient times, but since "bread pudding" has also come to mean different things, it's impossible to tell. So, I won't quibble overmuch with Hung's eight hundred year idea, but mainly because I like the idea that the first recipe for bread pudding was written on the back of the Magna Carta.

Design Star:

I think Kim was the clear winner tonight. Todd - whew. Could he BE any more grating?

I don't know. . . I mean, to me there was no surprise in either room. They both used color palettes they've used before, Todd did another ocean themed room and I just felt bored with them both. I think that I wouldn't necessarily watch a show with either. I will say that I think Kim is more to the taste of most people and Todd is more original in the way he uses space. Neither of those things are new observations either.

Did you guys watch Vern's show afterwards?

I'm kind of watching - mostly I want to see the reveal.