Crminal Minds Season 6 Premiere!

The season 6 premiere of Criminal Minds airs on CBS Wednesday night, September 22nd at 9 pm.  I am so excited to see the resolution of the season 5 cliffhanger.  Tim Curry made an exceptional UNSUB.  Creepy, nasty and sooooo gross!

I have been an avid fan of Criminal Minds since the very first episode.  The first two seasons, Mandy Patinkin starred in it as Jason Gideon and he is what drew me to the show.  It was the rest of the cast and the stories the show tells that kept me as a fan after Mandy left at the beginning of the third season. 

Season five was a whirlwind of a season with Hotch teetering on the edge of the abyss and nearly tumbling over when his wife was murdered by The Reaper, who was one of the series' worst UNSUB's.  The season ended with the BAU team in LA trying to find a horrible UNSUB, played with creepy abandon by Tim Curry, who is murdering and raping is way through LA during planned power outages. 

Tomorrow night will find me in front of my TV anxiously awaiting the beginning of season 6 of my favorite show, Criminal Minds.

Happy Labor Day!

Labor Day signals the end of summer and new beginnings.  A new school year begins, activities start anew, baseball season ends, football season begins, the days grow shorter and the air grows cooler. Before you know it, the fall and winter holidays will be upon us and we will be scurrying around buying candy and food and presents.  I just wanted to take a moment to reflect on all the events of the summer

• On Memorial Day weeked, the beginning of summer, we went to a barbeque at our good friend's Deb and Tom's house and had a lovely time with lots of our friends.
• In June, Tom nailed through his thumb with his nail gun, and when he went to the doctor, the doctor thought he was going to lose his thumb.  He had to have two surgeries but only lost the tip of his thumb once all the dead skin was debrided.  He had a skin graft from his thigh and didn't even lose his thumbnail.  (I have a really gross picture of his thumb at its worst if anyone wants to see it.)
• Also in June I was able to go to New York City and see two Broadway Shows, which were amazing.  I saw Sondheim on Sondheim and A Little Night Music.  Both shows featured the music of Stephen Sondheim and featured venerable Broadway performers Barbara Cook (SOS) and Angela Lansbury (ALNM).  It was a great experience and I can't wait to do it again.  I did get cast recordings of both the shows and have been enjoying them immensely.
•  In July my good friends Blum, Bri and Laura came to visit for a week.  Blum came from Germany, Bri from Montreal, Canada, and Laura from NC.  It was Blum's first visit to the DC area, so we went to all the momuments and museums and had a wonderful time.  It was as hot as hell, and humid to boot, but we had a lot of fun.  We watched Crminial Minds every night.  We went to Tyson's Corner mall one day and bought nail polish at Sephora called "I'm With Brad," and if you are a CM fan, you will remember the scene from the beginning of Open Season, with JJ, Garcia and Prentiss when they meet the "real" FBI agent at a bar.  We loved the name and had a nail painting party one night.  It was a pleasure to have them visit us.
•  In August, I traveled to Wilmington, DE with my friend Debbie to attend the NALS Region 2 Conference.  I had a great time with my NALS friends and we had some really interesting legal education.  Debbie and I took the train up to Wilmington early in the day on a Friday and went to a day spa for the afternoon in Wilmington.  We had massages, facials, manicures and pedicures.  It was WONDERFUL!

 All in all, a pretty good summer! 

I have a pretty busy fall season lined up, so stay tuned!

What I am Reading

I just started reading this book last night and so far it is a really interesting read.  It isn't a Criminal Minds story but a study of the many of the real-life serial killers mentioned in various Criminal Minds episodes.  As I was reading about some of the heinous serial killers around midnight last night, I thought, maybe I should put the book down so I don't have bad dreams about serial killers trying to do me in! 

Fortunately, I didn't have any nightmares.  I am about halfway done with the book, and I like the way the author, Jeff Mariotte,  put the book together.  He separates out the different types of deviants, such as anger-excitation killers, mission based killers, etc., and not only does he give real-life examples, he also indicates episodes that are similar to some of the horrible murders comitted by the real-life serial killers.  He also lists which epiosdes the real-life serial killers or their victims are mentioned, such as family annihilators John List and Mark Barton are mentioned in "Children of the Dark", and victim Danielle Van Dam, a seven year-old girl who was abducted from her home and later found murdered, was mentioned in "What Fresh Hell" and "Seven Seconds."  And, to alleviate all the dark subject matter, the book is interspersed with pictures of the Criminal Minds Team from various episodes.

One really interesting tidbit - the book, The Collector, by John Fowles, which was used in Fisher King 1 and 2 to decipher the code left by Randall Garner, was avidly read by at least two of the real-life serial killers profiled in this book.  In fact, the book was found in the car of one of them when he was arrested, and he could quote large passages of the book.  Of course, the serial killers intepreted the book as kidnapping women to become their personal sex slaves.  According to a review I read about The Collector, it is about a man named Frederick, a butterfly collector who decides to "collect" the object of his desire, Miranda.  He keeps Miranda in the basement of his home   All he wants is for Miranda to love him and, other than keeping her prisoner, he treats her like a queen, fulfilling her every need or want, except of course, her freedom.  Maybe I should put The Collector on my list of books to read.


From what I have read so far, I recommend this book