So... Busto got her HOH room, where there was a picture of her hubby Matthew and their "child," i.e.; the dog Pepperoni; and life is good. For James, however, it was the continuance of a "summer of hell" where his long drought from winning the HOH crown lumbered-on unabated. As did Howie's rather miniscule efforts in securing it for himself (and his lone-remaining acolyte) once again — getting knocked-out from the HOH Competition in the first round. This would change soon enough (thank God) but for now Janelle remained the only stiff competitor — as has become her way; her ambiance of wit and will — drawing down with April in the final "tie-breaker" round and missing victory by the happenstance of the quick stab at a jumble of numbers on a poster board.

By David W. Taylor (Email Me)
Reality Reel Media
09.02.05

For their part, HOH April and her hens (with Eric sending remote sensory commands from Vegas) continued their delusional obstinacy in the Big Brother House, which soon extended far beyond Eric's feeble tentacles and into the Realm of the Almighty. It was April winning her first HOH role and defining it as "prayers" that were listened to, mulled over, and ultimately granted... all the way over to Ivette, Maggie and April — and to a lesser, possibly strategically motivated extent, James — who all crumbled under their own pathos when Janelle won the America's Choice Phone Call reward.

But let's start with April who won HOH and immediately placed her upward trajectory as a Sign from God and that "my prayers have been answered" and soon knuckled under to deliver additional dripping sentiment: "Thank you Lord. Thank you so much God..." This hysteria only further insulating these Eric-The-Fireman apparartchiks from the outside world and thus reinforcing themselves psychologically into their preferred, persecuted cult-like status. Surely it is so! That God is now sitting in Heaven making sure April scratched the correct numbers on her poster board — while a hellish Hurricane cleaned out humanity from the Gulf Coast or our U.S. Soldiers are dying overseas...

Yet, in a strange transformation, April quickly succumbs to the earthly flesh and warms eventually to take full-credit for her HOH win — as much a flip-flop con as her irksome clone, Jennifer. I suppose once the flush of victory subsides, the ego takes over and God fades into the smog. This was really a personal waterloo of sorts, of course!; a surge of April's human will... remaining dormant and untapped for weeks, her intestinal fortitude finally sprang forth like a magic fountain. After her profs to God, April was soon offering this pedestrian explanation: "Just to prove to Howie, and James — I know he thinks I can't win crap. And just to my, you know, even the friendship and stuff, that, when I really want somethin' I definitely get it." Hmm.