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Friday open thread.
Eyes on your own work! Miz Nall has sharp eyes …
#7 Lake Trout Special: been caught stealing edition
Wire mirroring reality #739: Templeton works at the Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel
Nancy’s too modest to post this up here, but she has done Gus-like yeoman work, and has found that Tim Goeglein, White House Public Liaison officer and Karl Rove gopher, is a stone cold red-handed plagiarist.
Look for the chatter to come down from Romenesko today like wild.
Kudos to Nancy. Kudos to Gus.
Update: Tim Goeglein resigns.
Wire Tuneage
There’s a very cool feature on music supervisor Blake Leyh over on HBO:
… music supervisor Blake Leyh - who, on another show, might compose sweeping themes and clever montages - has to fight the instinct to draw sentimental connections through song choice. “I want to make the scene less emotional, less melodramatic,” he says. “We [...]
…like a train that is nearly always late
Speculation, not spoilers.
In 58, while Sydnor is doing surveillance on Marlo and Monk, a train passes by on the el in the background. (Dunno if they call it an el in Bal’more. So shoot me. No, wait, don’t.)
We’ve talked a lot about trains foreshadowing death in The Wire. Was this Omar’s [...]
I need to lie down.
Didn’t write much last week, I know. I watch my Wire On Demand, spend the week thinking about it, then post something after you proles without superpremium cable get caught up. And as you know, the new episode goes up a mere two hours after the last one airs for the first time.
And after watching [...]
Me and my lonesome
” A lie ain’t a side of a story. It’s just a lie.”
-Terry Hanning
Epigraph for Episode 58, Clarifications.
Discuss first impressions, speculation, etc. Spoilers must go here.
We’re All in This Alone: Final Thoughts on “Took”
“Took,” as in “got took.” Fooled, conned, manipulated or lied to. See also owned, pwned, punked.
A week of thinking about this episode didn’t yield much of anything new. I don’t think there were any subtle truths hidden in the layers. For that matter, I don’t think there were a lot of layers. There [...]
Wire mirroring reality #n: Ray Nagin acts like Clay Davis
WWL TV did a piece on Ray Nagin Thursday night about his schedule. What was he doing with his time, was he in Jamaica most of the year, were his kids in Houston, and so on.
Typical FOIA journalism.Only thing, See-Ray went coocoo for Cocoa Puffs. He went ballistic, he went off his meds, he lost [...]
#6 Lake Trout Special: Allen wrench edition
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Friday open thread.
Go with God.
No, Athenae didn’t quit
In case you’re wondering…
Nor have we got her locked up in a vacant somewhere. She’s just very busy lately being famous and dealing with the release of her new book, It Doesn’t End with Us, the Story of the Daily Cardinal. (Available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Heritage Books)
More here about scheduled [...]
