Better To Have Loved And Lost

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Tonight’s Big Brother had a little bit of everything. In addition to an eviction, we also got instructions on how we can participate in a big (though not entirely surprising) twist, someone dropped an F-bomb on live TV and a new Head of Household was crowned.

A credit to the production person who caught and muting Rachel’s exclamation of what I’m pretty sure was the F-word, which she blurted out angrily upon realizing she buzzed in with the wrong answer. It was not Rachel’s night tonight.

Moving on, it’s fitting that Brendon was eliminated tonight. As far as the great timeline of reality TV goes, he exited Big Brother on the same night that MTV brought back Jersey Shore , which also features a muscular guy with recurring girlfriend drama and frequent bouts of weeping. Truth be told, I actually don’t mind Brendon and I sort of have a soft spot for the guy for how much he loves Rachel. He fell on his sword for his girl and despite what he said, I don’t know that I’d believe Rachel would’ve done the same thing for him.

In terms of dedication and playing as a couple, the differences between Brenchel and Jordeff aren't exactly subtle. I'm sure Jordan and Jeff have (or will have) their disagreements inside the BB house, however from what I can tell, the two of them appear to have their heads in the game and are on more secure footing as far as how they present themselves as a couple. If Brendon and Rachel had one major flaw in terms of the game, it's that they weren't able to see the line between what they are as a couple and what they are as a couple in this game. The fact that Jeff and Jordan didn't flip out when Jordan was nominated, and that Jeff didn't panic or get in people's faces (that we were shown, anyway) this week demonstrates that.

Brendon’s elimination wasn’t entirely eminent. Perhaps the feed-viewers will disagree with me there.

'Tis Better To Have Loved and Lost: RIP Michael Guerette « The ...

Back in the glorious heyday of the legendary Greenwich Village supper club The Five Oaks, the only element in greater abundance than the kitchen’s signature Southeastern fare was the catalog of songs featuring lyrics by Dawn Hampton and music by Robert ‘Bobby’ Peaco. Such numbers as “New Orleans Louisiana Blues,” “I Rode That Train to Sorryville,” “That’s How the Ball Bounces” and the pair’s titular homage to the club, “The Five Oaks,” were sung regularly over the course of an evening by such singers/service staff as Aaron Lee Battle, Debra Anderson and Dan Onzo, besides Hampton and Peaco themselves and a hearty smattering of the club’s regular patrons. One of their rare and particularly haunting ballads, however, was “Bring Back the Spring,” which would always invite an appropriate silencing hush over the noisy dinner crowd with its plaintive opening strain, “‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all…” And all who were there unanimously agreed that it was never sung better than by Michael Guerette, a pixie-ish gentleman diminutive of height but tremendous of personality and charisma, who had also worked at the Oaks for quite some time as a singing waiter. It was, therefore, a shock to so very many when, on August 12th, the body of a hiker was found dead on the Appalachian Trail in Maine and the person in question turned out to be none other than Guerette, aged fifty-one, whose cause of death has officially remained unexplained. Indeed, what is most unusual is the fact that Guerette, a native of Maine who for the last several years had chosen to reside in the Fire Island enclave of Cherry Grove and display his gift for all things floral as a renowned landscaper and florist, had been a nature lover and avid hiker for the majority of his life, and had trekked the treacherous Appalachian several times before.

`It is better to have loved and lost than not to have loved at all:)

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

RT @: to love with all your heart. It's better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all

BETTER TO HAVE LOVED AND LOST THEN TO HAVE NEVER LOVED AT ALL

to love with all your heart. It's better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all

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