The upcoming winter season of Big Brother 9 will not contain last summer’s twist America’s Player, which allowed the producers to control the game and act arbitrarily while generating revenue from text message votes.

“That’s really hard to do twice. Anyone coming to be a part of ‘Big Brother’ this year would know about it and we’d hate to have people act differently because they think that the viewers are in control. … That doesn’t mean that it couldn’t return in some other way, but doing exactly what we did again, no,” executive producer Allison Grodner told the New York Daily News.
However, she says viewers should expect something different. “We really want it to stand out. We want it to be special, because we’ve never done something like this before. I promise you it will be different from any other ‘Big Brother’ you’ve ever seen.” Hey, maybe you could not manipulate the outcome to fit your narrative?

Casting for the new season starts this weekend, but Grodner says that the debut date is uncertain. “We have been told by CBS to get ready for anything, so there’s nothing that is certain at this point. It is a wait-and-see. We are preparing for anything,” she said.

Busy days as is becoming the usual….

Worked 2 overnights this week which was great to get a lot of shit done but really fucked with my system. I need to start taking some vitamins or something because I'm always so tired.

We went shopping at the mall where Chantals office is and because she is too nice to me she picked me up some dvd's. She got me the new John Cena set, I know I know…. Its John Cena but over the last year or so he's been the go to guy and has been putting on some hot matches. And being that I haven't been able to watch too much wrestling lately I hope I can see some of the stuff I missed.

She also got me the re-release of XPW's Baptized in Blood 1 and 2. I think its kinda hilarious that XPW is re-releasing all this stuff. Some of it is brutal but its not all totally without merit. I also picked up XPW TV season 1. I remember watching XPW tv on America One online many years ago so this will be a trip down memory lane, for better of worse.

Saturday I went to Amber and Richards to watch UFC 78 and boy did it suck. I haven't really followed MMA for many years and I know its changed a lot but this show blew.

We had the kids this weekend which is always good even though they make us nuts sometimes.

Last night was the annual Best Buy Christmas Party at Kelsys. I don't really like the way we do our party but BB have a deal with Kelsys and they like to pretty much suck the fun out of everything we do. We still had fun though and I won a copy of Mad TV season one which was cool. I've wanted to pick up the early Mad TV stuff to see Artie.

I goofed around with the camera and took some pictures on the way home from the party that I will post later.

Word is Rock Band has been delayed in Canada until 12/17.

-We are live (kinda) from Chicago, Dave Prazak is your ring announcer.

-Delirious is fucking awesome.

-Opening match was hot, reminded me why I love wrestling. No Remorse Corps was fucking sweet.

-Pop for Aries was ridiculous. Cut a nice promo.

-Giant Swing? Nice job Claudio.

-Man, Sydal and Castagnoli pulled out some crazy shit!!

-Post-match with Sweeney and Matt Sydal went a little long.

-Marafuji and Whitmer was good, nothing groundbreaking. I assume they are burying Whitmer for storyline reasons……

-Brent Albright destroyed Pelle Primeau. Fucking brutal.

-Mark Briscoe appears to be missing some choppers.

-Steen and El Generico vs. The Briscoes was epic.

-My fucking Xbox stopped being able to read my dvd right before Jimmy Rave and Morishima. Fuck.

-Ok, put the dvd on my notebook and I'm back in business….. And I can watch in bed!

-Rave and Morishima was…. There.

-I quite enjoy Adam Pearce's promos.

-Holy fuck, Danielson and Nigel Mginnis was fucking amazing.

With Big Brother 9 set to debut in the early part of 2008, CBS is launching a series of 15 open casting calls for cast members.

The casting notices specifically mention the ninth season, and thus the possiblity that the show could feature celebrities seems to be less likely now—unless the house will be stocked with both real people and whatever D-list celebrities would subject themselves to the expereince

In a casting notice specifically for Sunday’s open call in New York, producers say they want “attractive males and females ages 21 to 60, must be fun and outgoing and energetic. ‘characters’ a must, and NY accents are a plus !” Capitalization and proper sentence punctuation is apparently unnecessary.
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"I've always wanted to see senior citizen dykes polevaulting"

"I think one of those chicks is my dad"

-Chantal, both while watching The Amazing Race.

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants was quite the chick flick but it wasn’t totally without merit. After that, my pick was High Fidelity, one of my favorite movies. Chantal seemed to enjoy it too.

Now we are watching the Amazing Race.

As Borat would say, movie day has been Great Success!

Today is the second annual movie day, Where Chantal and I hang out in our pajamas and take turns picking movies the other hasn’t seen.

I went first and chose Clerks because she hasn’t seen it and everyone should see Clerks. She didn’t care for it much, what can I say… You can’t teach good taste .

Her first pick was Blue Crush, a chick-surfer movie. It was ok, some of the visuals looked really incredible. Hawaii looks like an amazing place. All the chicks in the flick had small boobs which was a tad of a bummer…..

My next choice was Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny. I love that movie, but Chantal didn’t care for it again, but said it was better then Clerks.

The Stamps play the Riders this afternoon, hopefully I will be able to catch a little bit of it later.

Chantals next pick is Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants… Sweet fucking lord….

-HIM was an awesome show but greatly overshadowed by the greatness that is Drew. He re-invented rock and took it home to his mom.

-The Flames are mired in a pit of suck.

-The Stamps shall break Ridervilles hearts on Sunday

-Had to miss the show tonight because of work. Crud.

-Work Sucks.

-Chris Masters was released, Quel suprise…..

-Raw vs. Smackdown 2008 comes out next week, should be cool.

-I forget everything else I wanted to say…. Fuck.