My first thoughts on Generation Kill, after reading about the first eight chapters, is that it’s a perfect Simon vehicle…a huge cast of characters who are hard to tell apart, have alien vocabularies and customs which you must learn before you can figure out what’s going on, and they cuss like sailors. Or Marines. [...]
Ashley Morris is a committed motherfucker
Last winter I wrote my post, Rigorous Honesty, after watching Bubbles struggle and stumble his way through an NA meeting and then after talking for a long time about the episode over lunch with another fellow Wire addict and former drug addict, the charming Ms. Hiromi. Like most of my half-decent writing, the idea [...]
So…McNulty
We’ve been discussing the fate of McNulty. From the path the show is taking, and from the looks of the previews, McNulty hasn’t got much of a future. He’s permanently fucked things up with Rhonda, Beadie, his ex, and his kids. His secret is out within the department and looks like it [...]
Bubbles
Man.
I grinned from ear to ear the whole scene until I cried.
…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 [...]
Marlo ain’t owning up to shit
Just to clear up some confusion in the comments…Marlo did not own up to killing Prop Joe. He said “I know what you’re thinking, so let me put it out there…I did it” (as in “I know you’re thinking I did it.”). He then went on to blame Omar for Hungry and Joe’s murder, and [...]
Simon, New Orleans, and the Davis Rogan connection
First, to set the stage, the standard NuPac head shot. Davis Rogan, Ben Franklin High School yearbook, 1982:
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.
Some pig
Templeton was the name of the rat in Charlotte’s Web. Greedy, sneaky immoral, loathsome. Yet by the end of the book he performs several critical actions for the Good…maybe still motivated by greed, but doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. Sort of an anti-hero. He also, ironically, goes to [...]
