Wow, this one was pretty intense. Made up for last week, that’s for sure.

We get a sand wrestling, hair pulling, neck scratching, choking, shaking, dragging, sand guzzling, reward challenge that wears out every last player except for Cao Boi, who sits out. I was tired (and a little gritty) just watching them. In the end, a weary AiTunes pulls it out. Literally.

For their efforts, AiTunes win a feast. The twist? They get to eat the feast at tribal council where they can also listen to the pre-vote Raro talk to Jeff about what’s happenin’ round their campfire. (Mostly listening to Cao Boi and his endless dream sequences, complete with credit card receipts… Don’t ask.) However, in a further twist, AiTunes will only get their feast after they also vote someone out of their own feast-winning tribe. Talk about a kick in the lamb shank.

In the case of both tribes, the editors try and make us think that maybe, perhaps, something else will happen, what with Nate being all “come on, let’s give second chances” and Cao Boi with his Voodoo Vote of the Great Idol Reveal or whatever. But were we fooled? Nah. In the end, Cop Cristina Bossy Pants is voted out and Cao Boi takes his final spiritual walk. Thank. God. Man wears me out. I was very on board with both these votes. (And in case I wasn’t, Cao Boi’s parting words during the Show Me Who Voted For Whom portion of the program consisted of “why was I stupid enough to trust Asian people” would have done it for me anyway. Martyr complex much?) I do like the fact that both of these teams are eliminating the sleepers and playing the game. Nice job. Even Jeff couldn’t pick on them. “Three votes, three different, yet solid reasons…gosh, I can’t snark on you because you’re actually, you know, playing the game right. Except, you know, the losing part.”

(Oh, and Flicka? Stop with the eye rolls and smirky nanny nanny boo boo faces before I come over there and snatch your dreads.)

BUT! Because tonight wasn’t twisty or gritty enough, we get ONE MORE! (Jeff loves this stuff.) Before Raro can vote off Cristina, AiTunes gets to kidnap a member of Raro, thereby saving the kidnappee from elimination AND he gets some lamb shank chow in some last second feasting. The deal is, the kidnappee will stick around AiTune’s camp until the next reward challenge. So for a few days, they will listen in, eat up, and in general make his or her presence known. I like this. Sounds interesting. And, you know, why the heck not.

They kidnap Nate which I was all for as he was the only one not even trying to keep from drooling over the feasting he was forced to watch. So Iwas perfectly happy to let the boy eat. And you know, I’ve been picking on Nate, but his observations tonight were a little more on target and it’s clear he is really trying to think this game through. He doesn’t have the best game on, but he is playing.

Next week? Raro tiptoes around camp while Nate is there, except not. They just blab and blab and blab. And in other news, Ozzy can hold his breath a realllly long time. This means he catches a mess of a lot of fish. (Which reminds me, I liked the attitude of Raro when they lost the feast. They were totally “We have mutant octopus, we don’t need no stinkin’ lamb shanks.” Loved that.) In even other news, Adam wasn’t insufferable this time. And decent eye candy, too. Unless you were still drooling over Yul’s Pack o Six.

And one last thing….did anyone catch Candace playing “I love you” whispers toward the other tribe at council? I thought that was frakking hilarious! A little of the Billy Lurve Snark. What I couldn’t tell was if she was just doing it to the entire tribe as a joke, or was she lookin’ at Adam? Hmm….. Time will tell.

And a whole lot more Blog Babes are in the running for the free book on Monday. Some of you were are even three for three. Dang.

Oh yeah - next week, not only do I have a primo prize to giveaway, but I’ll let you guys get an advance peek at the first Black Sheep book cover. WOOT!! (In a word? Yum-mee. It’s very Maks-alicious. Just sayin.)

Have a great weekend! See you Monday for some MAC and a Winner!

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