If you haven’t seen it check out the Hulu video. Spoilers below.

Last night Allison and I watched Bones. I was wondering when we would see Zack back on the show.

The episode begins with a young couple who have just done it in a warehouse in a truck. They finish up with a couple of Big Gulps. The boy needs to relieve himself so he runs over to a standing pool and urinates in it. To his horror he turns the water purple. He screams to the girl about her having other partners before him. His horror is not over as he suddenly gets a shock of a lifetime as an arm, leg and torso rises to the top of the pool.

Cut to Sweets at the psychiatric institution with Zack. Zack has let his hair grow out and is still as brilliant as ever. Sweets is trying to convince him that he was delusional but Zack maintains that he was wrong and not delusional. Sweets decides to give it up for a bit and goes to leave but his card will not work. Foreshadowing, people…

Booth and Bones arrive at the warehouse. Another FBI agent makes an innocent comment to Bones and Booth jumps all over him and to her defense. This is new and I wonder exactly where this is coming from, was Booth threatened by Bones’ boyfriends those past episodes? Either way they discover that the body is in 12 pieces and it is missing a head, but the cell phone and shoes are intact.

Is it me or has the name Addison been used many times this season? I think that may be in my head because of Zack’s last name of Addy. Well, the victim’s name is Jared Addison and he is an obsessive compulsive who is also 25 years old and collects toys and has a collection of special order shoes. The shoes are all the same, his room is precisely ordered as well. Bones displays her trademark warmth when she and Booth visit the mother of Jared Addison. Here we learn that Jared was a science fiction author. We also learn that he checked into a hotel to complete his latest book.

Back in the lab there is another new intern named Wendell, he is one of the best and brightest when it comes to his work. He is also easily confused when ti comes to relationships. Hodgins is trying out his being angry and he comes very close to pissing off Cam. She tells him exactly where the line is and he backs off. Despite being angry he does respect her. The source of his anger this week is that Cam wants him to move into Zack’s work space. This is something that Hodgins just can’t do. Good quote from Hodgins – “If you want to make a change, you make a change,” Hodgins says. “Otherwise, you let me do my job.”

Booth brings Sweets in to assess the victim’s room. He tells Booth and Bones that Jared was obsessive compulsive and that a major trauma to his routine must have disrupted his world. Sweets puts himself into the mind of our victim and concludes that it must be sex. So Booth and Sweets looks for a “masturbatory aid” and find a photo of a very mature woman in one of Jared’s shoes. To which Bones asks, “Do all boys keep their masturbatory aids in their shoes?”. Who knows Bones, who knows but we do know where to look at Booth’s place.

Booth and Bones find the woman whose name is Kelly. Jared asked her to marry him. She tells Booth that Jared was at a hotel attending a behavior modification class. While Booth is interrogating Sweets is going along talking to Bones and he also has the mic on to the earpiece that Booth is wearing. This comes back up later.

Bones goes back tot he Jeffersonian where she talks with Wendell, who is actually very astute and continues to come up with impressive finds. He notices a “boxer’s fracture” on the victim. This suggests that Jared hit someone before he died and he also didn’t know how to hit correctly. Bones is impressed and then asks Wendell if he ever thought of having relations with an older woman. Bones is asking for research but Wendell is all sorts of nervous about this. He thinks that Bones is hitting on him.

Hodgins visits Zack in the psych ward and gives him a riddle to solve, which Zack does in minutes. Hodgins also leaves the case file with Zack to see if he can find something that they missed. Can Hodgins do that with an open homicide investigation?

Booth and Bones hit the hotel and look for clues there. They arrive to see a behavior modification class where the germaphobes are being told to put their hands in mud and to put it on themselves. There is also some other things where they have to take a mint out of a toilet and place it on their tongue for 10 seconds. I’m not a germaphobe but that just can’t be sanitary. While there a man named Ralph confesses to killing Jared.

Ralph is a little out there, he is so OCD that if he does not eat at exactly 8:14 according to his watch then the person closest to him dies. And they say that Zack is delusional. But he does provide a clue and explain that JAred went for coffee near the hotel.

Booth and Brennan go to the coffee bar and talk to the clerk. The clerk said that Jared visited the coffee bar many times and he was a pain. Jared kept making him wash and rewash his hands. However the last time he came in he actually shook the guy’s hand and apologized. The coffee is significant because coffee grounds were found int he soles of Jared’s shoes along with seaweed. It also looks like the behavior modification was working.

Angela gets info off Jared’s cell phone and it is for his old publisher, Forward Retro. Forward Retro dropped Jared after his second book and refused to talk to him again. Jared kept calling the publisher every day at the same time. Booth and Bones question the publisher and find that because Jared wouldn’t go meet his fans he had to hire someone else to do it and that fake author began to write his own stuff and it was good so he kept the fake author and dumped Jared. The publisher however is missing a tooth. Apparently Jared came to the office and said he was cured of the OCD. The publisher said he wasn’t interested and so Jared hit him with his bare hand. This convinced the publisher that he was cured and so he rehired him because unmasking the true Jared Addison would have sold a ton of books.

The publisher also knocks Bones a bit about her writing. It must have hit her hard because later she erases her latest book and throws out the hard copy. Booth stops her and reveals that he has read every one of her books (a fact he has denied in the past) and explains that he was in her real life and didn’t want to also get caught up in her fantasy one too.

Hodgins hatches the single fly egg and determines that it is a type of fly that needs to be in a humid environment. Well, Kelly owns a greenhouse and so Booth, Bones and Hodgins go there to investigate. While they are there they meet Kelly’s son, who is older than Jared. He tells them that Jared came to ask his permission to marry his mother and he said no that he would not give Jared his blessing. Bones tests a shovel that has many flies swarming it for blood and gets a positive hit with the Phenolphthalein. However it is later discovered that potatoes can also give this false positive. How come they didn’t already know that? This is discovered after the guy is brought in for interrogation. Cam reveals that it was potatoes on the shovel. Dead End. Or is it because one Mr. Zack Addy enters the lab and tells them that he knows “where to find the victim’s head.”

What, Zack got out? Actually yes, but he escaped using Dr. Sweet’s visitor badge, just the magnetic strip. No time to put Zack back in the psych ward there is a killer that needs to be found. The big secret revolves around the number 12. Zack explains the significance of 12 through a series of photos of Jared’s home, his name and many other things too. The one thing that didn’t add up was the garden where there were 12 gnomes but only one bird bath.

Here Sweets takes over and explains that Jared’s mother was OCD too and she was threatened that Jared was overcoming his disorder. Because of this Jared was destroying his mother’s patterns. Booth and Bones go to arrest the mother. The rest of the team minus Sweets goes to the diner with Zack? Sure they miss him but wouldn’t Booth have dropped him back at the psych ward before they went to get the mom. The mom had no way of knowing that they were on to her so she would have kept. Meanwhile Zack has escaped and I know that Booth is not at all comfortable with what he did so I would have thought that he would have put him right back in. Lance however goes to the ward and waits for Booth to bring Zack. No one told him it was going to be a while? Odd?

Booth again does something I would have though uncharacteristic, he leaves Zack in the care of Sweets and goes to a sporting event. I guess this just sets up the big bomb that Zack didn’t actually kill anyone even though he confessed to murder. He tells Sweets that he would have killed if the Master had asked him to. But Sweets counters that Zack couldn’t possibly know that because unless he was actually in the situation he does not know exactly how he would react. Zack swears Lance to secrecy because if they find that he did not murder someone and he is not crazy then he may go to real prison and “I would not do well there.”

It was a very good episode overall and it looks like even though Wendell was a very competent intern the revolving intern door is gonna keep swinging. Allison liked him too and he had an interesting story. The thing about his father and the cigarette the fact that his whole town of blue collar folks sent him to school and he felt so indebted to them. Oh well, I wonder who is gonna be an intern next week.

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Bones: The Perfect Pieces in the Purple Pond

I’m a little behind on the TV shows. However I will catch up in this post. There may be spoilers. The last one that I needed to write about was Eureka. The last episode of Eureka was Show me the Mummy.

Basically the GD building has a crypt that was moved from Egypt and will be opened under completely controlled conditions by a sensationalist anthropologist/reality TV documentary filmmaker. That guy and his camerawoman get killed off pretty quickly by ‘the curse’ of the mummy. Except it isn’t a curse, it is a plague of bugs that gestate within a human host completely draining them of fluids. More water and warmer water they gestate faster, cold water they die.

Carter investigates this and along the way Fargo is infected with the plague but he is frozen by Allison and Carter to kill the bugs. It works and now Carter needs to round up the bugs and freeze them as well. Luckily Carter’s sister has composed music for yoga that attracts the swarm. So carter uses that to lure the swarm into Vincent’s sub zero freezer to kill them all.

So that was basically what the episode was about, what I liked was Carter and Henry working on something together, the team pulling through even though Stark was gone(but not really for this episode, more later.) I liked that Fargo had taken Stark’s death so hard, he looked up to Stark no matter how much Stark put him down. His memorial hallway idea and all the details in the planning were cute. Carter gives Allison the logic diamond that Stark got her. And Stark embedded a hologram on it that would show up under certain light conditions, this made Allison see Stark over and over. For some reason I see that logic diamond being put into a Stark Android in a future episode. Other than that Eva Thorn tried to recruit Henry again but that isn’t going to happen so she turns to Zane who will help her open a special puzzle. I wonder what Thorn is looking for.

Bones:

Last night brought us the return of Bones with a two hour premiere called Yanks in the UK. Bones was speaking at Oxford and Booth at Scotland Yard. Over all the two hours was entertaining. I was glad to see both Booth and Bones back on TV. They addressed the Zack Addy situation briefly at the beginning of the episode. I’m not sure if they will talk much more on that at all. While much of the action in the first hour revolved around a murder of a rich man’s daughter and how much Booth hated England because he is “not adaptable”. It did move along some stories that we’ve been waiting on. In that first hour we see the arrival of Angela’s husband and he refuses to give Angela a divorce because he still loves her. Hodgins tries to fight this man and is subsequently tossed into a garbage truck. Sweets tried to step in to help but falls on his face, literally. Eventually Grayson (Angela’s husband) grants the divorce but in the second hour Angela and Hodgins screw up their relationship and break up. What the hell! Both Allison and I were pissed at that. I think it was poorly written and a weak break up.

In other areas of the show we see a British version of Booth and Bones and Booth even points this out to Bones. There is a female version of Booth and a sorta male version of Bones but with much more personality. The male version is a professor at Oxford who is a bit of a player and attempts to seduce Bones. She decides against it based on Booth’s recommendation. But it looks like if she talked to the Scotland Yard cop who was the female Booth she probably would have taken the professor up on his offer. But she never gets the chance because the professor is killed in the second hour of the show which keeps Booth and Bones in England for the second hour.

Meanwhile back at the Jeffersonian Cam sleeps with Angela’s ex-husband this creates tension between Angela and Cam, Hodgins and Cam and Sweets has to help put things right. He helps them out with their relationship but then that is where we get the weak break up of Hodgins and Angela complete with major melodrama. I’m soured on characters ending up lovelorn and unhappy. The break up was stupid. But I am happy that Bones is back on TV.

Sons of Anarchy:

So last night FX had a premiere of a new show called Sons of Anarchy. The show centers around a young man who is now a new father and also part of a brutal motorcycle club (gang) in a small rural town. The MC runs everything in the area and will fight to protect what is theirs. This episode we are introduced to Jax, he is the main character around whom the show will mostly be centered. Jax’s father was part of the MC before he died so now it is Jax and his mom Gemma Teller Morrow played by Katy Sagal and his stepfather and current MC president, Clarance ‘Clay’ Morrow, played by Ron Perlman. Jax’s ex-wife is pregnant and she is also a junkie. There are other members of the MC but so far no stand outs except for the guy who was in the last episodes of In Plain Sight.

In the episode a rival gang blows up one of the storage houses for the MC’s gun running operation. In that attack they kill two illegal aliens steal a bunch of guns and take off. The guns were to go to a gang in another area and so Clay needs to get them back or get other guns. The S.O.A. runs the town, they have paid off everyone from the sheriff to the fire chief. This needs to be kept quiet so ATF and other government agencies don’t start sniffing around.

In Jax’s personal life his ex-wife is a junkie, she overdoses and this forces his son to be born 10 week premature with a congenital heart defect and a torn stomach. Jax must deal with this as he sorts through his old baby things in a storage locker. In the storage locker he finds a manuscript for a novel written by his father. His father didn’t want the MC life for his son. You sort of notice through the episode that Jax’s heart is not in it.

The MC discovered where the rival MC is hiding the guns, they make a raid on the place to get the guns back. They are going to blow the place up but before they get the chance some of the rival MC members come to the facility. The S.O.A. is forced to deal with this in a very brutal way, killing the rival members and adding their bodies to the building for the big fire. In this exchange Jax is put into the situation to kill in cold blood, he’s not got the stomach for it which at least makes him sort of endearing and someone I could watch again.

The show is very violent, that is why it is on so late but it is okay so far. I may watch it again or DVR it when we get a DVR. The violence is not reserved for the men on the show too. Katy Sagal is also a force to be reckoned with. She makes a visit to Jax’s ex-wife in the hospital, tells her she will never see her son and then practically forces the needle of drugs in her arm so she can overdose. Very tough to watch Katy Sagal in that role.

The Fall season is upon us and many shows will be returning this month. Some will make it and some won’t I am looking forward to what is to come.

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TV Time

The May Challenge continues as I take my boots from Exile and shoot them on the driveway. I’ve got to think of a few more ways to make these boots more interesting subjects. Maybe I will find inspiration from the rest of the people participating in the May Challenge on Flickr.

I posted my most recent guest blogging post on the IZEA Blog today, it is all about photo hosting sites. Check out the comments as people have been very informative with their opinions about photo hosting sites that I mentioned and some that I did not.

LAst night I watched How I Met Your Mother and today I watched Bones. Didn’t have time for a full on review though.

How I Met Your Mother: Everything Must Go. Another website or two, I didn’t catch the full one about the garbage bag though. The other website where Marshall and Lilly Sell their stuff is a real auction site, and the paintings are really going for $500.00. Maybe I just don’t appreciate paintings but that is a bit much. I think there are some cool show things on their as well. Other than that the episode was rather forgettable.

On Bones: The Wannabe in the Weeds, the integration of Dr. Sweets is getting better and better. He is an interesting character that I have really begun to like. He totally called that Pam woman as being dangerous. Seeley really let his guard down in that interrogation room by being sympathetic to her. That came back to bite him later too.

It looks like we have tow hidden singers on the team too. First Dr. Addy, Zach (who hasn’t had much going on this season and I sort of suspect is gormagon, sorry but I do) and then Bones herself singing Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.

The biggest action of the night was the cliffhanger as to whether Seeley dies or not. And I have to hand it to Fox, (just this once), they did not let the cat out of the bag as to whether he was dead or not. So next week we find out who gormagon is and suspicious run high that it is a member of the team. TV Squad does a much better job of this review this week than I did.

And here is the video for the episode.

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Stomp… PAD #1131

You can watch the episode before you read any further as I will post my recap and there will be spoilers.

The episode started with a horny couple on their way to a hot mud pit in the middle of a national forest. The couple strips down and gets into the mud only to find the skeleton of a famous motorcycle racer. Ugh and ouch. Apparently it was the girl who was being poked by the skeleton. I don’t think enough showers would be possible to get that feeling of dead body off off me. Sometimes this show is really, really gross.

We quickly get into other things like the humorous sessions that Booth and Bones have to have with ‘Sweets’. I am really enjoying this character and I think it was great when he suggested that they go on a ‘double date’. The double date, observation session didn’t go that well; however, for ‘Sweets’. His cute girlfriend didn’t like how he was treating her and she decided to break up with him. Poor ‘Sweets’. During the ‘double date’ Sweet, his girlfriend, Booth and Bones went to a pottery place. Booth was dead set against doing this and ‘Sweets’ figured that it was because it was something that Booth was not good at.

I started laughing when I saw Booth in his artistic clothes. Were those his own or from the pottery place? I figure that they were his because everyone else was dressed in normal clothes. The bandanna and smock gave it away that Booth was probably good at this too. And I was right, he made a great horse sculpture that impressed the group. Then he started a playful clay fight that again backfired on ‘Sweets’.

I was reading an article on TV Squad about a phone interview with David Boreanaz. In it he said that there may be some episodes in England soon and that the season finale (2 part cliffhanger) was already written prior to the writer’s strike.

Okay, how about that dead guy. The team worked on the body and there was very little face time for the squints, this was a big Bones and Booth episode with much face time with ‘Sweets’.

To tell you the truth I was more interested in Booth and Bones to pay much attention to this week’s Death Du Jour. One thing that did stand out was that MC. Gainey (LOST‘s Mr. Friendly) guest starred as a no nonsense lawyer. I wonder if he will do other episodes. Oh and in the end they did find out who murdered the motorcycle racer. Sorry, but I am finding the relationship between Booth and Bones much more interesting.

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Bones: The Man in the Mud

Oliver has certainly been making himself quite comfortable around the house. He keeps sitting on Allison while she knits. Allison has been knitting up a storm. She has already made a bunch of scarves and she even made a cute little baby hat for her friend Jess’ baby Kaylee.

I was working on some of the video that I took this past weekend and I don’t really like how everything came out so it might end up on the virtual cutting room floor. I did however pull together video for the RockStartup auditions that PayPerPost and RockStartup are having. The task was to make a video about PayPerPost and what it has done for me and my life. Well so far I have bought a bunch of cool things with the PPP money and that is pretty much what the video is about. And after I posted it it went up on the PPP blog. So quickly too.

And speaking of PayPerPost, Christine from The Passionate Ailurophile sent me a message about going to see the PawSox in April. That will be a good time.

Bones is back on TV as of tonight. Allison and I just watched it. I thought I had the whole thing figured out but I was wrong. They threw me for a loop tonight. Good Job doing that. It was a very interesting ending. I also like how the main character of Dr. Brennan’s book is Kathy Reichs. That is a riot.

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