Does anyone have a mirror?

Here’s my thought in regard to Rick and Edna. Have you ever seen those Fat Head commercials where you can buy life size replicas of your favorite sports personalities and hang them on your wall? They don’t move, they don’t talk, they do nothing, but…..they will cash a check at some point for some amount for just appearing, very much like Rick and Edna. What have these two brought to the game other than they know how to write someone else’s name on a piece of paper? Sad. Maybe next year they should simply recruit people on welfare who don’t move, don’t talk and don’t do anything with the exception of cashing a monthly check for what? For being an American. Everybody now, “GOD Bless the USA”. Okay, I’m done now.
Pre-Redemption Island
Jim thinks the final three will be Coach, Cochran and Edna. I think if this is the case, Cochran would win out. I still don’t think enough people are sold on the new and improved Coach.
Redemption Island
Ozzie beats Jim and Keith in the challenge. Balancing two boards on the back of his hands which supports another board, very creative. Oh yeah and by the way. Before the challenge Whitney openly cheers for Keith while Rick cheers for Jim. Jeff asks the group if anyone is cheering for Ozzie, ………….crickets. Wow I think President Obama has a higher approval rating. No one is hoping for the Oz man to win. While Ozzie is the most physically fit, it is quite apparent that even though this is his third appearance on the show, he still doesn’t know how to play the social game. Oz Man might very well make it to the final but the only way he could win is if he faces Rick and Edna in the final and they both fell over from strokes before the vote.
Redemption Day 26
Ozzie says good things about himself. The group is missing his skills in catching fish and providing. What else is new.
Tetuna
Let me stop here for a second. When you pronounce Te-tuna, doesn’t is sound like a guy who stutters? What do you want for lunch? A t-Tuna sandwich. I know, that was rude.
Challenge
As soon as Jeff started explaining this challenge my first thought, damn it Gumbie, that looks like fun. Fill a bowl with rice, put it on your head, walk across a teeter-totter and dump your rice into another bowl. If I never make it on Survivor I at least want to help design future challenges. Of course my ideas involve blindfolds, lawn jarts, and ex-spouses, just sayin’. Sophie wins when she loads her third bowl of rice to the brim. Oh yeah, remember teeter-totters from when you were in school. One of the most dangerous of all the playground equipment especially when the two people sharing one tttt-teeter-totter, who might have been very close as friends but not very close in actual weight. And while we are on that subject, why was it the fat kid’s best friend was the skinniest kid in class and the girl who slept with everyone was best friends with the girl who ended up being a nun? But I digress.
Pre-Tribal Council
Cochran notes his lack of balance and co-ordination. Yeah dude we know. Millions of people watched your attempt to cross the teeter-totter with a bowl of rice on your head. It was akin to watching Helen Keller attempt to walk across a frozen pond, with two bags of groceries after downing a case of Bud Light. Whitney makes the comment about Cochran and Sophie being lawyers and “For a bunch of smart people they sure are dumb.” I don’t get this quote at all other than sour grapes for being on the short end of the totem pole.
Dawn then notes that she thinks she is going home. However, some moves are being discussed in the background such as Albert, Cochran, Whitney, Dawn and Sophie talking about getting rid of Edna. Why not? At some point you have to whittle the numbers down, why not now? You also take over control of the game with a move like that. However, even with Jeff telling everyone to expect a twist, Dawn gets voted out. This happens even after Whitney and Dawn mention this at Tribal Council prior to the vote. Cochran even pipes in that this would be the best time to make a move. The guy sitting at number 7 of a 7 person tribe agrees with the status, but fails to make a second huge move. Coach and Albert exchange a few friendly, “Who is in charge,” comments. Coach makes the quote, “Information is power,” which I think I have heard on each season. The twist is in the form of a trivia question challenge game about South Pacific and Sophie wins immunity a second time in about five minutes. Whitney gets sent to Redemption Island along with Dawn. The only surprise to me was Cochran getting a vote. Who voted for Cochran?
Next Week.
I am thinking Cochran is the key here. Sophie and Albert have to make a play for him as it breaks down like this. Albert, Sophie, Rick against Coach, Edna and Brandon. Cochran could easily determine who the final four is and these two groups already know this. And my prediction is, I think Dawn upsets Ozzie in the next challenge and eventually makes it back from Redemption Island.

It's Cochran's Fault

Dear Andy,
Where did Cochran get his dress coat?
Arnie Flemler, Amsterdam Vermont

Dear Arnie,
In the opening credits they showed a homeless guy on the beach with a shopping cart and sign which read, "Will be in your alliance for food." Cochran hit him over the head with a coconut and then stole his jacket. Evidently it's homecoming at Harvard this weekend and he needed a suit.
P.S.
Arnie, can you send me some Maple Syrup, I have a hankering for some waffles.

The Fallout at TeTuna
Cochran gets an earful from both Jim and Whitney. Jim tells Cochran he is a piece of crap and to never talk to him again. Whitney drops a couple of f-bombs on Cochran and calls him disgusting. WOW. These two people have done nothing but complain about Cochran to his face, have asked him to take more responsibility for his actions and to not take things personnally. For my two cents they are both talking about both sides of their mouth because they do exactly the opposite of what they expect out of Cochran. More on this later. We see Ozzie wanting to talk to Cochran alone and Brandon stepping in. Ozzie makes the comment of "We aren't thugs out here." He also said he put in ass on the line for Cochran. Yes, yes you did Ozzie, you chose to do that on your own, again don't blame Cochran for a decision you made.
TeTuna day 22
Coach thinks thing are going his way. UH OH, the kiss of death. The island will probably get hit by a Tsunami now.
Challenge
Coconut toss into a ring. Is there anything you can't do with a coconut that involves fun? I am thinking about opening up a coconut farm next year. Jim wins immuinty and starts looking for a friend.
Pre Tribal Council
The obvious is spoken. Coach says the cockiness of the other tribe has subsided. Jim blames Cochran for being, "Less of a man," and also says Cochran is to blame for the job loss in the United States and finally says "Charlie Sheen would still be on Two and Half Men if it weren't for Cochran." That frickin' Cochran.
The Plan / Tribal Council
Jim wants to give Ozzie the immunity idol and then tell everyone that 10 of the 11 people left in the game have integrity and honesty and only Cochran doesn't. At Tribal Council, Cochran tells people that the reception after the last vote was chilly from his tribe. Jim admits to saying some childish things to Cochran. Of course he also says they have saved Cochran several times and that Cochran is dishonorable person. Whitney thinks she is being vilified and cries a river. Jim then gives his best "This would be a good time to send a message to future players that you can win this game with ingerity." All he needed was a pulpit, the setting of the Lincoln monument and a picture of Martin Luther King and it would have been perfect. Notice he didn't say "Win with integrity and balls," because when it came time for Jim to determine if he would really give the idol to Ozzie before the vote, he of course backed out. Dude when you say you are going to put yourself out, like Ozzie and Cochran did, you should really follow through because if you don't, your words sort of ring hollow. Ozzie is sent to Redemption Island where he will feed people, embrace them and then beat them. Go Ozzie, go. Oh yeah, I think one of the players wrote Coch&^%$ on their card for Cochran. Let me guess, probably Jim, how immature. Oh yes that girl Whitney who felt vilified switched her vote to friend Ozzie. That should come out at the Reunion Show.
Second Challenge
Eat or challenge. If I was on the tribe with the majority I would have done the challenge for two reason. First, its frickin' Survivor. Secondly, if you win you have full control on who goes home. Vilified Whitney wins. Oh yes, a weary Brandon rests his shoulder on Cochran's neck. How sweet.
The Plan #2
Jim diagrams a play in the sand for Albert and Sophie to vote out Edna. Albert thinks Jim has a good idea but is more key on getting Dawn out who is really fitting in with the dominant group now. The group does the smart thing and rids itself of Jim. By the say, Edna is still playing for those of you keeping score at home. Have no idea where she has been hiding, but she is still in the game. and oh yes, Cochran makes a fashion statement with his new coat.
Next Week.
Albert is making a play and Coach doesn't like it. Ozzie climbs a tree. Jim blames Cochran for JoePa being fired at Penn State.

Red Haired Step Child / Part 2

Here is a question I pose to the fans of this blog pertaining to Cochran and Ozzie.

The Savaii tribe has done their best to berate, tear down and basically run Cochran into the ground since the game started. Keith was rude to him, Whitney basically followed suit and Jim called him a coward. The only one that was nice to him was Dawn. A question comes to mind though. Remember back to the infamous "Rope" challenge that Cochran screwed up and Ozzie went off on him at tribal council and then the tribe sent Ozzie to Redemption Island. Ozzie picks Cochran to give his idol to for safe keeping while he is at Redemption Island. At that point it no longer belongs to Ozzie. Why did he give the idol to the person who he considered to be the weakest link on his tribe? He could have just as easily given it to his right hand man Keith, or Whitney or Jim. If I am one of those three I would be asking that question. I think the Ozzie - Cochran partnership isn't over.

The Red Haired Step-Child stands up

Mis-Quote of the week.
"You are a coward." Jim's quote to Cochran at last night's tribal council.
Was last night fun or what? I can compare it to your neighbor's wife finding out that her husband, (that guy you who never returns the tools he borrows from you and is a real tool himself) went to a strip club and she is berating him on the front lawn. All you do is pull it out a lawn chair, open up a beer and enjoy the show.
Savaii Day 18
This tribe continues to bitch about and berate Cochran to his face and then say those words that I hate, "Don't take it personnel." It reminds of that one phone commercial where the lady is watering her plants and her husbands comes in and says he just signed them up for some new phone service and she bitches that she should have married the other guy.........and then he says it was all for free. Yeah lady, shut your pie hole. Yes, tell me I ain't worth crap to my face, "but don't take that personnel." I am going to say those words that people hate, "I told you so." Last week this same tribe bitched at Cochran, not because of a decision he made but rather for one they made in voting Ozzie out. More on this later.
Redemption Island
Ozzie beats Christine and Ozzie is back in the game. Polite golf applause and cut.
Okay, Christine who liked nobody and nobody liked her and who had zero chance of winning is now gone. The tribes are merged, there is a feast and we move on.
Oh yeah, Ozzie tried to sell a story of being blindsided to those in attendance and nobody bought it.
Post Redemption Island
For a tribe that openly doesn't want Cochran around and think he is a piece of crap, they sure are putting a lot of faith and trust in this guy to do the right thing, the right thing for them, not necessarily him. We don't like you or want you around but this is what we want you to do. As I am watching this I am thinking, are you people that stupid, really?
Post Merge
Cochran spills the beans to Coach about how he is being treated etc. and Coach, to his credit isn't buying any of it. However, Coach tells him they will protect him if he votes with them. We then see Cochran talking with Dawn and she breaks down because she doesn't think she can vote against people she gave her word to. God love her but she is not Survivor material.
The two tribes.
Savaii has made a pack that they want a tie vote and go to picking marbles. If you aren't familiar with this it means if two people tie then a re-vote is taken and you can only vote for those two people. The difference in the second vote is the two people who tied don't get to vote the second time. If there is still a tie, then the two people who tied are now immune and safe and the remaining people pick marbles and whoever gets the black marble is out. So in effect you now have a one in ten chance of going home.
Challenge
Balancing a coconut on two strings while balancing yourself on a block of wood. Try this at home sometime, it ain't easy. Dawn wins immunity for the women and Ozzie for the men.
Pre-Tribal
Both tribes are working Cochran hard. I understood each side doing their best to keep all six votes going to one person. The only question was if Cochran was going to flip.
Tribal
I wrote down that I think Cochran is going to flip prior to the vote. Jim says there is a zero chance that someone will defect. Edna says someone who isn't incorporated into their tribe may flip, how poetic. Sophie tells the group that Ozzie's tactic at the Redemption Island challenge were pathetic and this has Ozzie admitting the same.
The vote is taken and then Ozzie gives his idol to Whitney. Whitney? I didn't get this at all. Tie vote between Rick and Keith and then Cochran flips and Keith is sent packing. But my question is where? It appeared he was sent to Redemption Island.
The fallout and next week.
Jim calls Cochran a coward and won't talk to him, Whitney has words for Cochran and Ozzie has lost his faith. You know what, too bad. Unbeknownst to you he might have just saved you from picking the black marble you knucklehead. You should be thanking him. You people treated him like crap.
The fun has begun.