Slim Pickings

[mistletoe]

Here is a very brief update of A Booth for All Seasons. It is brief because there is a run of episodes where we have very little Booth action except he gets progressively dumber. Whether this is because of the brain tumour or writers decisions that Sweets needed a boost, there is not much to add in the way of background.

A BOOTH FOR ALL SEASONS

I'm a people person.

Passenger in The Oven
Apart from the ridiculous premise of this episode all we learn is that old ladies like Booth, which we already knew (Boneless Bride in the River) and he has a thing for librarians wearing glasses and their hair tied back. Or that could just be a Humphrey Bogart line that Bones didn't get. He also gets cranky in coach and squeamish when up close and personal with body parts when the body is dead.

The Bone That Blew
Another silly story but here we find out that Booth went to college for 4 years although he didn't say what he studied and it cost him less than $28,000. Max accuses him of being gay because he isn't sleeping with Brennan.

Double Trouble in the Panhandle
Silliest story of them all. We learn Booth had the best knife skills in the Rangers and he can drive a motorcycle because he is a cop. He also knows hair care products beacause his dad was a barber.

And I have watched all those episodes now so need never watch them again.

A few pictures to soften the blow of lack of Boothy factoids.

The masked boobies are toast.


Let's run away to Mexico Bones


Small boy foolishly calls Booth a meat sack.


To which he does not take kindly.


Don't lie to me Dr Escralow.


Are you gay?


Waste of a good tie on an Italian car.


I loosened more buttons but I didn't know you'd lied.


But Sweets did?


It's a partner thing.


Oh look. Hanky in top pocket. Aaaw.


Enter Buck and Wanda 1.0


And Buck's arms.


Smokin'!


Just stand there and look like that while I stare.


Knife action.


Oh my.


The Great Escape


Looking for loose change.


Boris and small animal.


Taking aim.


Yes! The only hair on my body is fake!

 

Comments

[limone1.livejournal.com]

Gate crashing/butting in to say Centre Court has a roof now, pfft, it's worked without one until recently! Actually I was there the year (2007? must check my Wimbledon souvenir mugs) when they had ripped off everything in preparation for this new, questionable roof, so the views of the sky were very nice. We did have to take a few rain breaks (we went for Pimm's) so I'm probably only jealous.

[huronia.livejournal.com]

Has there been a roof on it for three years and I haven't noticed? I am so lame. I'm used to Toronto and the wonder of retractable roofs.

[limone1.livejournal.com]

Checked my mugs, one of them has 2007 on it, so yes.

We shared a cab back to the train in the evening with some very nice people from Canada (you go on the train to Wimbledon and take a cab to/from the tennis courts).

The roof is probably very practical, it's just that I like it when you have to accept that it's England, it rains sometimes, and the spirit is "We can deal with it and won't complain" ;)

[a-mistletoe.livejournal.com]

Boy were we cheap in the 80s! We walked!! Mostly because there was a transport strike. I have no idea how we got back in the rain but I remember we did get a taxi to Harrods at one point and the traffic was so bad we gave up about a mile away and walked from there. I inadvertently gave the cabbie an £8 tip!

[limone1.livejournal.com]

The cabbie probably still remembers you fondly!

I wouldn't have minded walking, but the people I went with didn't want to. I had my waterproof, daisy embroidered coat from Macy's!

[a-mistletoe.livejournal.com]

LOL. It was a great weekend anyway. We saw CATS with the original cast (anagram) and had gorgeous Italian food afterwards. I'd made everybody walk to the Tate Gallery in the morning. Ha ha.

[limone1.livejournal.com]

Oh, the Tate. Which one do you prefer, (sorry for straying from your Booth study) Tate Modern or the "old" one? Haven't been to the old one in ages. I'm a sucker for modern art and when time is short I prioritize that. But the word "oil on canvas" makes my heart flutter too *am sad, pathetic person*. Next time I'm in London I'll make and effort to revisit the "old" Tate instead. Managed half an hour with Constable and Hogarth at the NG in April :)

Strikes, wait a minute, didn't Thatcher win the Election in 79? Thought she outlawed strikes...

[a-mistletoe.livejournal.com]

Well the Tate Modern was still a power station when I was there. I like proper old fashioned paintings and the Tate has the best collection of Victorian paintings. So that's where we went down by the Embankment. It was only 2 miles according to my map.

[limone1.livejournal.com]

2 miles, I could walk that easily.

Watching the BBC(?) The Romantics, shh, might have DL that, a new look at Ophelia and the Lady of Shalott is called for.

[tempertemper.livejournal.com]

Yep the first two years after they installed it it didn't rain LOL!