"The Wire" on HBO

http://community.livejournal.com/abandonedplaces/1510134.html

Awesome abandoned set walk thru.

Are there spoilers in there? I saw something that looked like it could be a spoiler so I ran away and pretended I hadn't seen it. Nothing will ever be as bad as that spoiler which was in the Guardian's round up of 2008. Fuckaz.

there's something that could be misconstrued as a spoiler if you haven't seen the final season, but it's not actually a spoiler.

i remember going to an auction of Wire memorabilia, and in one display case they had the outfit Stringer wore in his final episode, with fake blood and bulletholes and everything, i never thought about it but that'd be a pretty big spoiler if someone walked up to that w/o having seen S3.

there are things there that look like spoilers but aren't and things that don't look like spoilers but actually could be. did i just blow your mind?

Hahaha some dude, that was a spoiler in itself!

But I dunno: even without a spoiler, I feel like I spent a season and a half expecting that to happen to Stringer, watching it gradually come to a head -- it felt like one of those inexorable dramatic fates that wouldn't really be spoiled by knowing it was coming, no more than it's a problem to watch an old tragedy knowing everyone's going to die.

yes totally except even though i knew it was coming i still haven't gotten over it.

some dude I am almost positive you already posted that story in this very thread

I know what to get you for your next birthday: I walked into an art gallery a while ago and there on the wall was a big portrait of Idris Elba, in an undershirt, kicking back and looking thoughtful.

Suddenly I was unsure why anyone would paint anything but actors who were on this show.

omg

sometimes you have to also paint Alan Rickman and Mos Def.

(whoa I didn't even mean to make another weird Baltimore reference there)

Hans Gruber portrait, yes; Mos Def looking down from my wall at me while I'm eating dinner, no

i want a group portrait of the entire terrorist team from die hard

tombot i'm almost certain i did too and almost included that caveat in my last post but was feelin too lazy to load the whole thread and look

I looked and you talked about going to the memorabilia show but didn't say anything about the shirt, must have been somewhere else

painting of al pacino in 'any given sunday'

i may have not mentioned that part before because of the spoiler element, who knows!

no you totally told that story somewhere on these boards because why would I know that story

because it sound intersting?

would hang up an oil painting of tracy morgan as thomas jefferson, on a horse

http://www.brandonbird.com/artisticintent.html

http://www.brandonbird.com/battle_of_the_heroes.html

yeah there have been a fair number of other wire threads, i'm sure it's somewhere, let's not lose sleep over it

http://www.brandonbird.com/images/coach_02.jpg

there are things there that look like spoilers but aren't and things that don't look like spoilers but actually could be. did i just blow your mind?

That makes sense, and I think the first thing I saw falls into the first category. Gah, I've only got 2 or 3 episodes left so really i should just leave anything Wire-talk-on-the-internet alone for a bit longer.

I just started watching this again for the third time. I am hopeless addict.

I noticed something in Episode 8 of Season 1 that I couldn't find confirmation of elsewhere and I wondered if anyone else could shed some light: at the end of the episode Bunk picks up a woman in a bar. Later Jimmy gets a phonecall and has to go rescue him. When he arrives he finds Bunk dressed in a pink dressing gown and trying to burn his suit. However is the woman Bunk seduces none other than Randy's foster mother from Season 4, Ms Ana? I could have sworn it was.

IMDB says no

so, baltimore seems to be going ahead with its own season 6, with or without david simon.

been a long time coming but daaaaaaaaaaamn

Oh, Neresepaws

we're having dinner tonight w/ my mother-in-law who works in the city court system, i'm hoping i can get some new inside dirt

http://www.blackpast.org/files/blackpast_images/dixon_sheila.jpg
SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEILA

there's a local morning show DJ that plays a loop of Ready For The World anytime they're discussing Sheila

very disappointed that sheila is not as hot as nerese

i guess this was posted already? http://wbal.com/apps/news/templates/story.aspx?articleid=19396&zoneid=24&utm_source=rss

"I want to make it clear, though, that I will continue to put all of my energies into running the City of Baltimore during these perilous economic times. And with God's grace, I am confident that the city, my family and I will weather this sheeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiittt."

oh i see the link now

I think it's kind of funny that The Wire can't resist the Hollywood touch of making Nerese Campbell 25 years younger and way hotter than Sheila Dixon.

― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, March 11, 2008 4:34 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

thank god for that h-wood touch imo

― omar little, Tuesday, March 11, 2008 4:34 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i guess its easier to weather a storm in mink and lamb coats

do you think this'll be a become a big enough national story that there'll be a bunch of dixon comix on the rightwing cartoonists thread!?

persian lamb coats

looking forward to billytheheretic's take on this

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I don't think IMDB is conclusive either way, as the role was so small in the original Season 1 episode it doesn't look like it is credited at all on the IMDB cast list to Denise Hart or otherwise http://www.imdb.com/title/tt074943/fullcredits#cast (unless I've misread it, which is likely :-))

Oh well...

Bell vs. Scott
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117998589.html?categoryid=1043&cs=1

he'll play a no-nonsense hire at Dunder Mifflin's corporate office who will throw Michael Scott into turmoil.

by sexxin all the ladies amirite

absolutely

Michael Scott: Shh, just stop. Here's what you do. You tell him that you're his friend and that you're gonna help him and that everyone's gonna be all right. And then you put a wire on him and you find out who's selling him drugs and then you get that guy and you flip up, turn him into a snitch. You follow that guy to the people who's really really bad. Been watching The Wire recently. I don't understand a word of it.

^^ Oh man, let's move this to the OCD television-crossover thread for me and Jaymc!