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I also can't stop laughing, and wanting to say, "them shits" in every sentence.

"I wiped them shits down" "I need to hear them shits" "nah, fuck those shits"

It's just so much funnier in plural.

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Saturday, 18 March 2006 01:54 (twenty years ago)

Just started the third Season and I don't know if it was the withdrawal (rented Season 1 and 2 back-to-back last summer), but my mind is blown and every crap show I've watched in the past months is gone from my head. Not too sure I'm keen on the new version of the theme, though.

I'm about 5 eps in, but I love the storyline involving that old dude that just got out of jail. I have no idea where this is heading, but fuckin' superb. Councilman Carcetti is also a great addition.

― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:57 (twenty years ago)

I just watched the 3rd series! I think downloading it all at once spoilt me and I really need to watch through again though, at a slower pace (ie, not in one day and an evening).

I had trouble with Carcetti, because I kept thinking he'd just slip back in to being the dude from Queer Is Folk, like it was a secret he was hiding. Ha.

Knowing the next series is about the school system, it's interesting to see (what I think might be) them setting up characters I imagine will be involved in that (Cutty and the boxing gym, very young kids in seemingly prominent positions on Marlos crew, the kid with Bubbs at the end?). I know there's been those sorts of characters throughout, but I kept thinking these were the main angles that would be taken for that next season. I wouldn't be surprised if I was completely wrong, though.

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:23 (twenty years ago)

There's also the principal from the gymnasium.

Is there ever going to be a season that doesn't end with a montage of pictures being removed from the pinboard?

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:30 (twenty years ago)

I hope not.

I saw Peter Geraty (the judge) in "The Lieutenant of Inishmore" on Sunday night at the Atlantic Theater, playing a roaring bastard of an alcoholic father.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 19:07 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

Zsiggy Sobatka prevents a rape.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:03 (twenty years ago)

http://www.hbo.com/thewire/img/90x94/characters/theport/franksobotka.jpg

you done good zig.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:18 (twenty years ago)

Ziggy's duck is so sad.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:49 (twenty years ago)

FOR GREAT JUSTICE

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:34 (twenty years ago)

What was up with the "pretending to pull out the gun" part, though? That's not really explained.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:36 (twenty years ago)

i met him, recently. good for zig.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Goddamn it, when is season 3 coming out on DVD?

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:55 (twenty years ago)

i've got it in my netflix queue (sp?), but they don't provide a release date. not sure where else to look. anyone?

― tobo (tobo), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:59 (twenty years ago)

It's stories like this that remind me not all celebrities live in their own fantasy world. For every Britney Spears and Sharon Stone, there's a James Ransone who chases down criminals and excessively beats them with metal bars.

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― dave's good arm (facsimile) (dave225.3), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:01 (twenty years ago)

http://www.torrentz.com/search_the-wire

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:01 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

Television taught me to be cynical about street-level arrests.

― Paul Eater (eater), Friday, 12 May 2006 13:37 (twenty years ago)

It turns out I work for the woman who made all those impossible Wire quizzes on the HBO site! I told her she was cruel. She said she just did it because she hated her job and wanted to lash out.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:19 (twenty years ago)

That is crazy, though, Paul. It echoes Season 3 to a T. You have to wonder about the bigger fish this bust put out of reach.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:21 (twenty years ago)

That is a bummer to read. Any possibility the dealers were actually inspired by the show?

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Is anyone in the UK watching this? It's on cable channel FX (Fox sci-fi and drama) but I haven't seen it yet. Charlie Brooker called it the best programme ever made, and he is not the sort to exaggerate, much.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Any idea which season they're showing over there, Konal M?

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:39 (twenty years ago)

no but it can be found out i expect. are they up to season three now? didn't hear about it until recently. Brooker (on his BBC4 show) spoiled things a bit by talking about what's happened up to this point but brief enough to make watching still worthwhile i'm sure.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Season 3 ended around 17 months ago. Season 4 kicks up in the fall, I think.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:47 (twenty years ago)

COMMISSIONER: Ladies and gentlemen, what you see on the table in front of you represents our department's answer to a culture of death and drugs. And when an officer falls in this war, others stand ready and carry the fight to the very doorstep of those responsible. Now this is only the beginning, I can assure you. But today, a message has been sent. And believe me, this message is being heard loud and clear, by all those who seek profit and power in the importation and sale of illegal drugs.

― Paul Eater (eater), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:48 (twenty years ago)

Cue Bunk and McNulty cursing and throwing their casefiles across the room.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:57 (twenty years ago)

"A Guided Tour Of The Wire's East Baltimore"

http://www.citypaper.com/special/story.asp?id=11846

The other day I rode the bus that cuts up north on Gay St. and goes by that American Brewery Bldg and marveled at how insane that building is, it's really beautiful. Had no idea that was the sniper location in Homicide

(as a sidenote, the bus I was on had Blood and Crip graffiti, like "6 poppin 5 droppin" and "Crips 4 Life" and that was all x'd out with Blood stuff and B with an arrow up and C with an arrow down and "5 poppin 6 droppin." The strangest one was a five-pointed star with B-L-O-O-D at each point, and there was also a six-pointed star with a 6 in the middle. I guess Bloods are 5 and Crips are 6? Looked like weird occult stuff almost.)

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:54 (twenty years ago)

Really interesting article, just kind of silly in its hand-wringing over "tourism." Exploring poor and unfamiliar neighborhoods is part of being alive and loving cities. And is there a single actual former or current resident of the Lower 9th Ward who resents people going there to see the disaster? These strike me as news editors' conceits.

― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Goddamn it, when is season 3 coming out on DVD?

-- Scott CE (sceldre...), April 21st, 2006 11:55 AM. (Scott CE)

^^^^^^^???!!!

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Friday, 26 May 2006 01:18 (twenty years ago)

hexagram = gangsta disciples/folks (rock blue + mix with crips) + pitchfork/three fingers. don't you listen to rap?

― 333333333333 (33333), Friday, 26 May 2006 02:40 (twenty years ago)

six stars and they shine so bright
disrespect my organization and you dyin tonight
take flight to chicago and visit the wild 100s
murders, dopedealin, kidnappins, we done done it
set larry hoover free, that's on a g, my nigga
six poppin, five droppin
we some brothers of the struggle.

― 333333333333 (33333), Friday, 26 May 2006 02:41 (twenty years ago)

now we gon start with the southside
where gds and bds and blackstones don't coincide
so, let me be your tour guide
so, when you in a certain area you will know what that hood ride
now let's start with the vulture
where folks throw up the fork sign to niggas they know they close to
at 49th and state some mingle
but just a few buildings north you got bds throwin three fingers
they call that the low
but back on 53rd and state them mcs be running the whole

― 333333333333 (33333), Friday, 26 May 2006 02:43 (twenty years ago)

is rap still alive?

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:40 (twenty years ago)

Goddamn it, when is season 3 coming out on DVD?
-- Scott CE (sceldre...), April 21st, 2006 11:55 AM. (Scott CE)

I would like to reiterate this question, though I would like to add a "the fuck" after "when" and a "motherfucking" after "is."

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:44 (twenty years ago)

dk thats dope that you know DA Smart. Those Chi Bangin CDs are classic.

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:50 (twenty years ago)

I met this dude a couple months ago who was a friend of william upski wimsatt, the cat who wrote 'bomb the suburbs' and 'no more prisons.' He was telling me about how when Upski went through his 'jew power' phase or whatever he would wear this chain with a star of david around his neck, and he was visiting this guy and he was flipping out, like "William, you can't wear that shit around here!"

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:53 (twenty years ago)

You know Jiggs & Cheeks? (off topic)

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:55 (twenty years ago)

lol Scott

in answer to dk, if not having the foggiest idea what those lyrics are from = not a rap listener, then guilty as charged

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:57 (twenty years ago)

the first one i had to google and DK's blog came up...its some obscure Z-Ro track. The second one is D.A. Smart, who's from Chicago.

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:58 (twenty years ago)

(Wild 100s is the far south side, as in 100th street - the El stops running at 79th so its the farrrr south side. I have a friend from down there who i barely ever see.)

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:59 (twenty years ago)

i thought Z-Ro was Houston, not Chicago

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Friday, 26 May 2006 04:24 (twenty years ago)

that's the only d.a. smart track i know! that's a great song, though. i put it on a cd i made for ethan.

and it was mr 3-2, not z-ro! z-ro is nominally a crip, mostly out of affil with s.l.a.b. and all the old s.u.c. dudes.

― 333333333333 (33333), Friday, 26 May 2006 04:32 (twenty years ago)

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y272/govtnames/ro1.jpg

totally bizarre, ro claiming 5-2 hoover and everyhting but being famous for rollin one deep/can't trust nobody/i'm my own gang raps!

― 333333333333 (33333), Friday, 26 May 2006 04:34 (twenty years ago)

i put my trust is no man, only my motherfuckin block
cause she ain't never let me down before
fuck a gang, i follow my bitch cause she be bustin rounds for ro
unlike my homies cause they phony than a motherfucker
even my broad cause she might be fuckin another brother

damn

― 333333333333 (33333), Friday, 26 May 2006 04:35 (twenty years ago)

ME AND MY NIGGAS USED TO BE THICKER THAN SAUCE
NOW THEY DON'T EVEN COME TO THE HOUSE
I'M DROWNIN IN PAIN, FEELIN THE PAIN
AND I REALLY DO MISS MY KIN
BUT A MOTHERFUCKER LIKE ME GOTTA FEED MY FAMILY
ONE DEEP I BRING THE PAIN

― 333333333333 (33333), Friday, 26 May 2006 04:39 (twenty years ago)

oh and i want to mention da vinci's inquest here cause i love it and i just watched the last episode. it works with the same sort of ideas the same way, especially the last few seasons, municipal politics + a failed community + focusing on the people pitted against each other.

― 333333333333 (33333), Friday, 26 May 2006 04:43 (twenty years ago)

Goddamn it, when is season 3 coming out on DVD?

http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3323309

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 26 May 2006 11:41 (twenty years ago)

0 seeds in 0 peers

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Friday, 26 May 2006 12:14 (twenty years ago)

The DVDs are coming out first week in August, I think. I worked on the DVD production, and they've been done for a long while-- HBO's been sitting on them until now, for whatever reason.

― antexit (antexit), Friday, 26 May 2006 13:03 (twenty years ago)

Well, Deadwood 2 DVD is just coming out now, only a couple weeks before Deadwood 3 starts airing. So, take that as a hint.

― Keywords: revenge, knife, granddaughter, demonic-possession, rock-star, eel (Aus, Friday, 26 May 2006 13:43 (twenty years ago)

they've been done for a long while-- HBO's been sitting on them until now, for whatever reason.

i knew it! i guess season 4 airs soon after, is that why they are waiting? otherwise wtffffff

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Friday, 26 May 2006 22:04 (twenty years ago)

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