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 [...]
A good man, and thorough
NuPac’ers can fuck up a wet dream
Get thee over to David Mills’ blog and read “The end of The Wire“. The writer of “Soft Eyes” has kind words to say about the show wrapping, and a pile of links I hadn’t seen before. His pic with the post also reminds me how much I miss Prop Joe.
More on jury nullification, this time from Pandagon
I’m a day late to catch this post Amanda did on the The Wire, the black hole we call the “the War on Drugs,” and jury nullification. Neither did I see this Time article by Burns, Lehane, Pelecanos, Price and Simon. I’m on my lunch hour without time to flesh any of this out but [...]
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.
Of interest only to me
Last night, while peacefully lining up to march in my Mardi Gras parade for Krewe du Vieux, somebody came up behind me and started whistling “The farmer in the dell“. I turned around, scared out of my skin, and lo and behold it was fellow New Package writer Ray.
That ain’t right.
“The Wire is dissent”
Must read:
Simon’s comment on Yglesias’ post in response to the Atlantic article referenced below.
I would argue that people comfortable with the economic and political trends in the United States right now — and thinking that the nation and its institutions are equipped to respond meaningfully to the problems depicted with some care and accuracy on [...]
The one that got away
While we’re still doing introductions, I’d be remiss not giving a shout out to Jim King, the force behind the deeply excellent The Wire on HBO: Play Or Get Played In David Simon’s Baltimore. Jim turned down our invite, referring to himself as “more of an aggregator than a writer,” [...]
