General Thoughts

Ahoy Mates! Well I finally ran my boat adrift and stranded myself on my couch for another episode of Pearl Islands.

Sorry I missed last week, but I was in Vancouver promoting Real Traveller. They are a subsidiary of GAP Adventures. That is the travel company that sent Lex and I all over South America. Real Traveller does small group, soft adventure travel and they will customize the trip to you. So it is for all ages. Once you take one of these adventures, you'll never want to travel any other way again. If you want to check it out, go to www.realtraveller.com See Daniel, I can do it too.

Alright, back to the task at hand. There are lot's of distractions this season for me with the baseball playoffs and World Series. Overly distracted now that the Yank's are down 3 games to 2.

The reward challenge looked like a lot of fun to play. Although giving steak and lobster to a cast that has already stated that they are full and couldn't eat another bite just baffles former casts. Especially those poor Africa folks. Now the rest of the show takes a turn down the old political highway. The politics of the game are really starting to come into play. Drake decides to send Jonny Jerk Off to raid Morgan for there reward win. You will see me refer to Jon in a variety of ways. It is just how I feel at the moment, "No Offense" :o) Jonny Jerk Wad shows that he doesn't have a political bone in his body. He is not only abrasive to the people whom he lives with, but manages to piss off the people he doesn't live with also. Nice move Bro.

Let's fast forward to the Immunity Challenge. There is a lot of material to work with here. First of all I loved the challenge and want to know why we didn't have anything like this in Marquesas? We had no strength challenges at all and it still pisses me off. I can talk about Osten's lake of will, Shawn's punking out, Andrew and Christa kicking ass, but I think I will concentrate on why Christa even had the pole on her shoulders while fair haired Jonny and no offense to Christa or any other ladies out there, but Jenny, I mean Jonny did the women's job. The three guys should have been up there towing the load. A disgraceful display. Now I missed last week, but Lex told me that Jonny explained that retarded finger sign. Some thing like the F to the Y. After seeing him in that immunity challenge, I can only assume that it stands for Jonny Fag Boy. Morgan wins and deservingly so. Good work Andrew.

Back to the camps and Rupert's arrogant in your face style of play is starting to be too dominant a force. Speaking of Shawn, " I want him off my island and out of my adventure." Rupert, I thought you were a team guy, there is no "my" in team. It still is Survivor Pearl Islands bro, not Survivor Rupert Bonham.

Politics, politics, politics. Now the slimy under belly of the game starts to rear it's ugly face. Trish had the right idea, Rupert does have too much power and leverage with both tribes and should go. Telling this to Jon was right, but not to Sandra. She is sailing on the S.S. Rupert and enjoying the ride. So Sandra tells Christa and they tell two friends and so on and so on...

You get the picture. Rupert is told of the plans for mutiny and seizes the moment and retakes his ship and foils the mutineers. I was wondering if before Tribal Council they were all shot up with sodium pentithal. Boy was everyone just telling the truth. When they showed all the votes and just aired Shawn's audio, I thought it was a tie with Rupert and Trish. But fooled once again, Trish was the one to walk the plank.

I did think that she had a classy exit speak. Good attitude Trish.
Catch up with you all next week.

Peace,
General

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A big night on the boob tube Thursday if you live in the North East. Yankees & Red Sox, opening night in the NHL, Oh and let's not forget about those scallywags and mutineers in the Pearl Islands. Now I have to be honest, Survivor was memorexed. There was no changing of channels until Mariano Rivera got the last out against Rob Mariano's Sox. I hope you did all your celebrating Wed. night brother, because that's the best it will get.

After the Yankees plundered the Red Sox pitching for some runs, I figured it was time to walk the plank and jump into another episode of Pearl Islands. Not much had changed in the beginning of the show, except for the love wearing a little thin at Drake. The pressure of day to day living and just interacting with such a small group of people is starting to eat away at this cohesive group. Morgan, well they just need a miracle right now. Ryan with the brain storm that he thinks the tides are getting higher as the month goes on. Did any of them ever go to school? Why they built there shelter so close to the water is "Wicked Retarded", as Boston Rob would say.

The reward challenge was another Morgan disaster. They had to retrieve 16 puzzle pieces. Eight are in the water and eight buried in the sand. Why do the two people that can't swim go and try for the pieces in the water? Osten and Tijuana needed to stay on land and Andrew, ( The Leader ), should have went in the water. Andrew did not go after one water piece. I wonder if they are hiding that he is sick? Drake wins their sixth challenge in a row and tie the Rotu Tribe with that. They get the sewing machine, which is pretty cool and the last clue to their buried treasure. Which had plenty of booty to be plundered. After all our wins we just got broken up.

Watch out Captain Rupert, mutineers are about! Burton makes a play to Rupert to throw the IC and get rid of Christa. Now I know that they cast a deaf player on the last show, but I didn't know that they had a blind one on this show. Because even a blind man can see that Rupert is all about the team and winning. Approaching him with this offer, so early in the game, is committing suicide.

Immunity Challenge time and Drake sits out Rupert and Burton in a straight up physical game of human checkers. Without much difficulty, Morgan wins. The best part being Jon getting body slammed by Tijuana. Immunity comes with a kicker this time. Morgan got to select one Drake player to join their tribe up to and including the next reward challenge and be safe from the vote the next day. Smartest move this tribe has made since the game started, "We'll take Rupert". This can be a game breaker for Rupert and certain members of Morgan to make friendships that will help to jockey for spots later in the game.

CBS does not show us any day 12 from the Morgan camp. Instead we are subjected to the "Jonny Jackass Show". I'm wondering if they will continue to include alcohol in the game. Jon seems to be pretty much of a tool when he doesn't have half a bag on. Going to Tribal Council wasted is unforgivable. I wonder how much of the exchange between Probst and Jon we actually saw. He really acted like a dick the whole time, so I will only focus on that idiotic pose we had to look at throughout Tribal Council.

Now that Burton is gone, it will be a lot easier for me. I know it will always be Shawn talking now. By loosing that challenge you set up your own exit brother.

Now that I don't have to watch Jonny Jackass any more, I will have to watch some Simpson's to cleanse my humor palate.

Peace out,
The General

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Well after a fine day running around in the sun, a solid performance by Andy Pettite and a Yankee win, what better way to complete the hat trick then with a new episode of Pearl Islands.

Not much has changed from the last show. Morgan is still in the shit house while Drake continues to ride high. But they may be showing some mutineers on there island of bliss. Sandra showed her feisty side and let Jon know that he's not as fun as a barrel of monkeys. Christa also stood out by staying cool under pressure while pillaging the Morgan camp. A talent that can only help her down the road.

Morgan has so many problems right now and are about two loses short of needing an exorcism. I promised myself that I wouldn't bash Osten unless he did something really bad. After his performance in the reward challenge and basically giving his tribe no chance to win, I thought I would have no choice. He deserves some credit for a fine job anchoring in the Immunity Challenge. No easy task and he showed signs of a pulse.

But after nine days and three episodes this continues to be the Rupert Show. As far as editing has showed us, he is the major contributor for food, is the heart and sole of his tribe and the whole season so far and has been the dominating force in the challenges, which were just great as usual. An area that was once dominated by Captains Morgan and Drake is now in the clutches of Captain Rupert. He is probably one of the most popular characters appealing to the widest demographic this show has ever seen.

Dear Lil, what can I say. You gave it the old scouts try, but it just wasn't enough. Your tribe felt that your loss would be the easiest to recover from, only time will tell, who knows if the producers will.

While you might incur a cheesy Yankee post season reference while reading my articles, you won't get a cheap plug for Daniels website or calendar. Well I guess I just did. In that case, you better check out Sarah's too!!!

Editors little hint, Lil's torch not going out, the one who comes back? Or was Probst just double clutching?

That's it for me. Peace out,
The General

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