Jenny is a very close friend of my wife (a.k.a. debmo).  I love Jenny’s blog about Survivor and when she asked me to help write the blog because she is on vacation with her husband I was honored.  Jenny and I are very different.  I am a 6 feet tall and a 300 pound man and she is a tall beautiful blonde.  I love Russell and she hates him. Those of you that read Jenny Spence’s blog know that she hates Russell.  She is always wishing that he gets kicked off every episode and the little monster just keeps on coming.  So I pose the question; Is Russell the best player ever?  My answer is very simple, of course he is!!  How does this little fella week after week avoid being voted off??  In his first season he did it with pure determination.  If you did not see his season, Russell PRE found every idol (3 of them) put in the game.  In this season against the best players in the games history, Russell has been able to piss off Hero’s and Villain’s alike and he still just keeps on truckin’.  First Boston Rob, who before Russell, was my favorite player ever. Russell simply discarded him very early in the game. The Tyson experiment where somehow he talked that dummy into voting for the wrong person and still no one else said, “ hey, this guy is crazy smart and really into the game. Let’s vote him off next”. Then he punches Parvati in the face with removing her strongest partner before they could get rid of him.  I quote Parv from the week before “we are just toying with Russell and there is nothing he can do about it”. Still last night Parv can’t pull the trigger and Russell makes it yet again. The tribe does the predictable thing and gets rid of Rupert.  Maybe it was the log breaking in the middle of the night or maybe it was the things living in that rats nest on his chin, but the ladies and Russell finally vote him off.  Bottom line is Russell is the perfect player.  He is like a shark in the game.  When he was with his wife, I swear to you that I think he was mad that he might have to come out of game mode and show his wife some emotion.  He didn’t even blink an eye.  I would cry like a baby if I did not see my wife for 36 days.  I would also cry if I went 36 days without ice cream!! What does that say about me?? Not sure but time will tell.  Russell is jilted by Jerry for the reward challenge when she wins and picks Parv and Sandra to go with her.  Jenny hates Russell for how dirty of a player he is and I love him for how dirty he can become.  Russell is the ultimate Survivor and the fact that he has played as bold and brash as he has and made it as far as he has is all the proof I need.

Jim  (Debo) D.