I stumbled across a link to this recent Slate piece on GK by Peter Maass. I’m posting about it here not just because it’s so favorable, but because part of it speaks exactly to a chain of thought I’ve been wrestling with as I’ve watched (and read) GK, which is the connection between these characters [...]
A good man, and thorough
TWOP is going to be recapping Generation Kill, which I find surprising — given the mini-series-ness of the production.
Athenae hooked me up with this news a week or so ago. So why has it taken me so long to post it? Is it because some folks have grown kind of “meh, TWOP sux” lately, especially [...]
Not Quite Fiction: Headlines Ripped from The Wire
In New Orleans, and in urban areas all over the country, there’s a creepy conflation of the Wireverse and reality. There is surely some local version of Avon Barksdale or Marlo running the Iberville project, or a Bodie holding down the tower on Simon Bolivar Ave. Ray Nagin is just as craven and disconnected [...]
Half awake in a fake empire
Snot Boogie died because he couldn’t change things up, even a little. Omar tried changing but it didn’t take. Dukie didn’t even know how to change unless someone else did it for him.
The tree that doesn’t bend breaks.
Bubbles and McNulty both tried and failed more than once, and they lived through it but others paid [...]
Excuse me…
I’ve been wrestling with an sloppy and overlong post on the overall theme of paradox and contradiction in Ep 56 and right now, the post is winning. Partly in the interest of tightening that behemoth up, and partly in the interest of posting something, anything, before the week gets any older, I’ve excised this:
Carcetti’s not [...]
Send Bill O’ to B’More
His head would explode.
Just tell us where this bridge is.
Oy.
“Like the boys in so many cities”
NOT AN ENDORSEMENT, merely an observation.
Clip from near the end of Obama’s speech last night. Knowing that The Wire is his favorite show, did anyone else ponder a connection here? Not that it matters, because the story about those boys in the street is true no matter where you go, but does anyone know if [...]
Apropos of angry
As I was stumbling through the links to the links to the links, I read this Rolling Stone interview for the first time.
Yeah, it’s over a year old but there’s not a blogger at this joint that doesn’t think about New Orleans every single day. Indeed, it’s part of the glue that brought this particularly [...]
