Jessie hasn't really been known for his sense of humor to this point, but I have to give him credit for the funniest moment of the season so far, at least as I see it. It came during his conversation with Julie Chen:

Julie: You seem to volunteer quite often to your housemates that they consider you 'a body without a brain.' What makes you think that?

Jessie: Say--say that again?

Poor Jessie. But he got his way with this eviction, which took one more member of the evil Cult of Brian out of the house. We can question if it was the smartest thing from a game perspective, and I'm pretty sure it was a negative in terms of our enjoyment of the feeds, but Jessie did serve to further solidify things with Michelle and Memphis, and he seems to have made inroads with Dan, who obviously won't feel comfortable in an alliance led by Libra and containing Ollie, who has already backstabbed him once.

It never did appear from the feeds that Steven had a snowball's chance after losing the veto--and since I haven't mentioned it yet, let me say that those who weren't trying to throw it embarrassed themselves in a way we haven't seen since Chicken George tried to spell in Season One. But the producers certainly did a good job on Tuesday and tonight digging up every last little bit of tape that "proved" that there were serious talks about taking him off the block, or evicting Dan instead. Dan has to be given credit for the apparent success of his "I'm pathetic" strategy; it worked so well that Jessie, who doesn't seem like the forgive and forget type, never really thought about getting rid of him even though he was the one vote to keep Brian.

Keesha is now the HoH--probably good news for us because she has some wild card potential, as a outer member of her current alliance. Libra, Ollie, and April are pretty impregnable and she must know that, so on the one hand she might be tempted to target floaters, while at the same time extracting favors from those she spares (in other words, she'll need people on that side to do the dirty work against her allies that she can't do). But on the other hand, she might have some freedom to make a frontal assault on the Memphis/Jessie/Michelle group (possibly holding Jessie in reserve if she's worried about him playing the veto), in the knowledge that the pair of Ollie/April and the obvious leader Libra might still be considered bigger targets.

But early indications are that Keesha is going to be gunning for Angie, against who she still harbors resentment for the way she tried to push her into voting to keep Brian 2 evictions ago. The general dislike of all the women for Angie is approaching Janelle levels, if not yet in vehemence, then in how inexplicable it seems to me. Maybe it's a girl thing. An Angie eviction wouldn't be much fun for me, and it wouldn't rearrange the house too much since she's very much the fourth in that four-person group. But this does look like it might be the week where, having gotten essentially wiped out Brian's gang, the original eight who waylaid Jerry before the first veto meeting officially turn on each other.

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