HEART OF THE CITY: BLACK URBAN LIFE ON THE WIRE
January 29-30, 2009
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Sponsored by
The Black Humanities Collective
and The Center for Afroamerican and African Studies
CALL FOR PAPERS
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The Black Humanities Collective (BHC) and The Center for Afroamerican and African Studies (CAAS) of the University of Michigan invite individual paper and panel proposals [...]
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 [...]
Last open thread. Anyone got anything left?
Omar: “Marlo Stanfield is not a man for this town.”
Marlo: “Do you know who I am?”
Damn, I miss you guys, I have had a busy period.
I loved the ending. I like the way Simon finished his story
For all of our speculation about who was going to die by the end of the show, there was relatively little blood spilled. And even knowing the substance of the show, knowing [...]
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 [...]
You know what I like about Roger Ebert’s movie criticism? He likes movies. Really. He shares a trait with the best pop-culture critics I’ve known through the years: He walks into every movie with an open mind and open heart, expecting to be entertained. Overwhelming experience has taught him he’s as likely to be disappointed [...]
Spoilers for the latest, beneath.
“… the life of kings.”
-H. L. Mencken
Epigraph for Episode 60, -30-.
Discuss, if you wish.
Were we wrong, or what?
The only guy that got bagged was Cheese (Thank you Slim Charles), Michael is the new Omar, Dukie is the new Bubbles, Rhonda is the new Gary, Chris is the new Wee-Bey, Bubbles got to come upstairs (Amen!), and everybody on the side of the law covered their asses most well.
Valchek? [...]
