Round 18 Confessional

[Gary Hogeboom]

Wanna know my favorite part of a blindside? The post-explosion reaction from the people still in the game. On one hand, you have myself and Lex who are on AIM giddy as a schoolboy in the girl's locker room. I mean, our fuckin plan worked. I had good confidence that having myself and Ami flip this round would work, but this shit went flawless. I'll let Yul and Lex take credit for this for now, but it was obviously me that made this happen. These people were begging me, down on hand and foot, to do this, and I waved my magic wand and got shit rollin.

As much fun as the positive reactions are, the reactions from the losing side are to DIE for. You have lowly little Silas, who comes yipping at me like a lap dog begging for forgivness. Honestly, I have no fucking idea how the hell Silas beat the likes of Jerri, Fabio, and Eliza on DMI. All he ever seems to be looking for is approval, and has a backbone as flimsy as a jellyfish. In fact, I'll go so bold to say he's a spineless jellyfish (though if you find a jellyfish with a spine I suggest capturing it and getting big bucks from National Geographic for it ). Silas just wants to be on the inside, and now that the power has shifted and I have a bigger grasp on Kakadu's ballsack, he wants to suck Gary Hogeboom's tits to the promiseland.

Unfortunately for Silas, he'll have to be a casualty of war sooner or later. If you're a betting man, put your money on sooner. He's a dead man walking.

[Gary Hogeboom]

Alright well Russell wins immunity, something that could've been expected given how much he's seemed to dominate a couple challenges. The thing he doesn't have going for him, and maybe it actually IS going for him, is that he's completely irrelevant in the social and strategical scene. With all that, at least in my eyes, he could be the best UTR player left in the game. He'll need to be disposed of relatively quickly. Political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli said that in order to be an effective leader, one must deal cruelty swiftly and decisivly, and as such I must do that this round. Perfect scenario, I'd love to boot Ralph, but unfortunately he probably is gaining an idol this round. It's funny, going back to my statement above about people's reactions to blindside, Russell kinda fell in the same sheepish boat as Silas. When Russ won immunity, he asked my permission to let Ralph go to Ubirr. It's like, really? I think I have to start becoming more careful of what I say and how I say, because people probably are giving me the leader mantra for this new alliance, which hopefully will help me in the finals, but I still need to get there.

Basically the plan is get myself, Ami, Yul, into the final 5 with john and Lex. Those two are scrubs that won't stop us from eliminating them, and a final 3 of me/yul/ami puts me in a damn good position to win. Ami might get one or two votes, but it will probably come down to me vs Yul. Should be a fun battle!

For this vote, I'd like to eliminate Silas or BobDawg, because I don't want to see those two returnees get anywhere close to the finale. I'll see what John and Lex have to say, hopefully they'll agree that it's best to guard for an idol and vote somebody else. However, I need to be careful about not alienating either of those two, in case Ralph/Russ picked up both Bob and Silas.