OK, the Phillies lost last night 4-2. They still have 5 chances to win, so take tonight off and relax!
And now, what you've really been waiting for, my Survivor Gabon Recap: Last night saw the sixth castaway voted off and what a whirlwind of wheeling and dealing that led up to it!
The show started off with the defeated Fang tribe returning from tribal council, and Ace contemplating who he's going to lure into an alliance.
The next morning, the Kota tribe spent their time worrying about how much food Dan is eating ... hey, how 'bout keeping Dan strong to win challenges? Kota's in far better shape with food than the poor saps at Fang, who are down to about six days worth of rice left.

Ace & Matty conspire
In the meantime, Ace and Matty get together to talk strategy and decide to form an alliance to the Final Four, with Matty bring Ken along and Ace, Sugar. So Ace approaches Sugar and let's her know that he's pretty sure everyone knows she has the Immunity Idol. Sly Ace convinces her to give him the Idol for "safe keeping," so nobody else steals it. Stupidly, Sugar gives it to him, saying, "Ace is kind of a snake, but he's my snake, and I'm glad to have him."
On to the Reward Challenge, this time for an assortment of pastries, coffee and tea. The two tribes were charged with carrying a 200-lb. fake snake around a track, trying to catch the other tribe. First tribe to touch another tribe's member, wins reward. This was going to be good, remember Fang's Crystal is an Olympic medal winner in track!

As the competition lumbers on, Ace and Matty tell Sugar and Ken to drop out since they are dragging everyone down. Kelly is the next to go and then, are you ready for this, Crystal drops out! Yes, the Olympic track medalist couldn't even finish the challenge! You've got to be kidding me!
All the while Kota is gaining on Fang, and Ace tells Matty that he cannot take all of the extra weight with only the two of them. Kota easily wins the challenge and the food, causing Crystal to break down in tears. "Whaa, whaa, whaa," Randy torments from the Kota tribe.
Kota chooses to send Sugar back to Exile Island again (no problem for her, she gets to eat all the fruit she wants while there).
Crystal becomes paranoid that everyone thinks she is weak for crying. Kota catches a turtle for dinner. And tribe members are tethered in twos for the Immunity Challenge, which is easily won by the well-fed Kota. Thereby sending Fang back to Tribal Council again.'
Now it really gets interesting. Ace wants to get rid of Kelly. Matty tells Ace its time to lose Sugar and flush out the Idol. Ace assures him the Idol won't be played (because Ace has it). Crystal wants Sugar to go as well, but Matty talks her out of it. Ken confronts Matty and tells him Ace is not trustworthy. Matty confesses his pact with Ace to Ken. Ken is freaking out and goes to Sugar for hope. Sugar tells Ken that she gave the Idol to Ace. Ken is floored and warns Sugar that Ace is a snake (who can't seem to keep his faux-Brit accent lately), and is convinced he is manipulating her to get what he (Ace) wants. After this, Sugar decides to get the idol back and tells Ace she took it back just in case she needs it and didn't want him to think someone else had taken it. Ace remains confident.
At Tribal Council, Crystal calls out both Ace and Kelly. Ace for working alone to assemble the flagpole at the Immunity Challenge. Kelly for saying Crystal's tears showed weakness. Kelly snaps at Ace for siding with Crystal, bringing him to yell at Kelly. Crystal votes for Kelly and gives "the finger" while casting her ballot. Kelly is voted out 5-1. Bye-Bye Kelly.Two castaways will be voted out next week. For info or to watch visit http://www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor/


Another great episode of Survivor, but that wasn't the best thing on last night. Over on VH1, Season 2 of Celebrity Rehab kicked off with a bang! Gary Busey arrived to "participate" and pass on his own rehab wisdom to the "patients." Little did Busey know that Dr. Drew had more plans for him. It seems that crazy Gary, who claims to be sober for 13 years, but still medicinally smokes pot, is actually a patient - who could've guessed that?

Crazy Gary
Even model/actress Amber Smith saw the writing on that wall -- "He's crazier than I am."
The episode centered around everyone's arrival at the Pasadena treatment center and their back stories. But perhaps the most disturbing of all (at least for me), was former Guns 'N Roses drummer Steven Adler, who had to be detoxed before even going to rehab. Adler was kicked out of GNR - I mean, really, how bad to you have to be to have the members of GNR throw you out? He sunk into drugs and alcohol and had a stroke - a stroke!! -- that left him in a coma for 5 days. His speech is greatly affected and it's just a sad, sad sight. But hopefully the show will do him some good.

Adler, in his better days ...
And let's not even talk about police brutality victim Rodney King ... what a waste! Apparently that settlement he got from the LAPD didn't do any good for him at all. He spent it all on booze. He spends his days drunk and "working" with his childhood friends towing cars (and throwing up out of the tow-truck, that was a real treat, thanks VH1).
But at least by the end of the show Season 1 star Jeff Conaway had showed up to help everyone out - not! Conaway is no better off than before. It's really sad to see his back story, what a cutie he used to be. I think this show is a perfect way to teach your family NOT to do drugs - just look what it's done for these people.
My personal fave part was when Adler and Conaway were watching King play pool at the rehab. Conaway said something like "isn't that Rodney King from the police beating?" To which Adler replied, "No I think he's a basketball player." Hilarious!
Celebrity Rehab 2 will repeat most of this weekend on VH1 or you could just watch it here ...
http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/Celebrity_rehab_2_with_dr_drew/series.jhtml?source=globalnav

Weekend Watch: Nothing out of the norm for me this weekend, however I do plan to watch the new Hulk on DVD. Coworkers have raved about it. I'll be watching the usual - My Big Redneck Wedding on CMT, Graham Norton and Skins on BBC America, True Blood and Entourage on HBO and Dexter and Californication on Showtime (have 3 eps of Dexter to catch up on).
But being just two weeks before Halloween, networks are bringing out their best in horror. AMC treats us to the original Halloween at 8 p.m. tonight.
Saturday night Sci-Fi presents The Ferryman at 9 p.m. Saw this one earlier this year. Starts out great, but delves into familiar territory by the end.
Save yourselves for Sunday night, when ABC Family serves up Poltergeist at 9 p.m. (my all time fave ghost story). I can't promise it will still be as scary on the "family" channel, you might be better renting it on DVD.
And you can also venture out to play a game with Saw V at your local theater.

And if you're looking to rent, check out Feast! A little-known independent horror flick that hit DVD last year, this product from Bravo's Project Greenlight is a huge Halloween Treat! Before Project Runway, there was Project Greenlight. Produced by the Weinstein Co. and hosted by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, this reality show followed the production of an independent movie picked by the two actors.
Season 2 was all about Feast, a horror flick featuring performances by Henry Rollins, Silent Jay (Jason Mewes), Balthazar Getty and a brief appearance by McSteamy himself, Eric Dane.
The tag line on this flick reads "They're Hungry, You're Dinner." The plot revolves around a group of people trapped inside a seedy little desert bar, trying to survive while monsters pick them off one by one. Sounds familiar, but you haven't seen one done like this before. Among all the carnage is a lot of tongue-in-cheek humor and pop up editorials projecting each victims chances of surviving. And really, anything with Henry Rollins can't be bad right? Check out more here http://www.feast-movie.com/

Have a spooky weekend!