"The Wire" on HBO

Isn't he referring to the time when they got in a fight at Cutty's gym? But "bloody pulp" makes it sound like KJ is conflating that fight with Michael's beatdown of Kenard.

guys, i just got e-mailed an updated syllabus for something and one of the classes is called Negotiations: Tactical Maneuvers of a Dickensian Nature and all i could think about is the baltimore sun.

I do get the impression that Simon is an asshole

Really? Just kidding, I thought this was a known fact. Don't get me wrong, I am forever grateful to the man for producing such a beautiful work of art, but damn, I saw him at a forum recently and he was straight up rude to some people asking questions. But I guess that bitterness and anger were necessary for such a biting piece social commentary as the wire.

Has anybody posted this awesome CJR piece with Simon?
http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/secrets_of_the_city.php

Shield has its moments, but it is no way as good as the Wire. Nor was Homicide.

homicide comparison isn't fair imo, cable vs. network.

I have not watched these, but whatevs:
http://www.theatlantic.com/movies/wire.mhtml

http://periscopestudio.com/?cat=23

http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc275/thehousenextdoor/2008/Links%20for%20the%20Day/April%202008/April%2030%202008/wire03.jpg

:D

I finally started watching this a couple of weeks ago - the last disc of season one should be in the mail now. For some reason I was kind of oblivious to it forever, like I kept hearing about it but never imagined that I'd like it, not being a big fan of Law and Order, Homicide, or any other TV cop show. Holy shit was I wrong. It started kind of slow but I'm totally hooked now.

Holy shit at Wire/Simpsons

sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit.

http://periscopestudio.com/wp-content/uploads/wire01_web.jpg

i cant seem to get clay davis' catchphrase out my head.

Is that supposed to be another Simpsonized thing? Cause it's pretty good, but not very Groening.

many lol/wtf posts in this thread

amazing show, seasons 2-3-4 are my favorite, and it sounds like 'sean gramaphone' was pretty much setting himself up to hate it from the first ep

to hate season 5 i mean

those cartoons give me the heebie jeebies more than Shitting_cumming_asian_dicknipples.jpg for some reason.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS7gAt7XkBk

i have sorta just tripped over this on late-night TV down here, it's around season 4 i think? so so so so good, i'm definitely gonna have to go back to the start.

3 > 1 > 2. that's as far as i'm through in the past month. couldn't really get with the eastern european prostitute thing, as much as i loved frank sobotka as a character. bell + barksdale = epic, beautiful. can't wait for season 4 (torrent). i'm behind everything.

ziggy was fun but i'm glad he got the time. maybe season 6?????????/

I didn't think I'd be into the dockworker stuff but it seems they can thrown anything into the mix and write it so you start to like the characters and want to see what happens to them. Ziggy was an idiot, the Fredo of the Sobotka family. I have no idea if he's going to ever surface again.

I'm midway through season 3 now and I'm glad it's back to Stringer and Avon and Prop Joe and all that.

Maybe this is a stupid question but I've been wondering - why heroin? Doesn't anyone smoke crack in Baltimore, or is that a whole other unseen and equally big part of the problem going on off-screen?

I only finished Season Four two weeks ago. I've dipped periodically into this thread to sort out plot complications but have been too intimidated to post.

Without having seen Season Five I'd rate'em 3>4>1>2.

Favorite character: Prop Joe. Nothing this character (and this actor) does is predictable.

2 is totally underrated by jerks

you think Ziggy would like Season 2?

why heroin? Doesn't anyone smoke crack in Baltimore

of course they do but heroin is the #1 problem in the city. 'the corner' mini-series covered both equally iirc

4 > 2 > 1 > 3 > 5

4 > 2 > 1 > 3 > 5

-- abanana, Tuesday, June 10, 2008 3:04 PM (45 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

^^^^^^

I'm almost done with Season 3, should have it polished off by the weekend. I'm glad that the Barksdale organization is back in focus this season, although so far the dockworkers are more interesting to me than Carcetti and the whole city politics angle.

That's probably all I'll say for a while, though. I've been resisting even opening this thread every time it gets bumped.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzTM6BiUoqo

looooooooooooooooooooooooooool

hooooly shit so much animated gif potential (xpost)

Take it from me, Jimmy McNulty...

Gayer in this clip: Freamon or Colvin?

what in the fuck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS9_wtekt8c

His next projects include a feature film about a true but unlikely romance between Donnie Andrews, a Baltimore holdup artist who robbed drug dealers (and inspired the character Omar Little on “The Wire”), and Fran Boyd, a crack addict who recovered with his help and married him last year (and was also a character in “The Corner”).

FEEL GOOD MOVIE OF THE YEAR!

just one Emmy nomination for the Season 5, to match the other Outstanding Writing For A Drama Series nomination it lost in '05. kind of glad it turned out this way (even better if there was no nom at all), better for the show to go down as unjustly shut out of the awards than to get thrown a bone at the last possible minute for its weakest season.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2008/0805.carey.html

Seriously Vic: that is an important find.

that is a great article caek

yeah, it's crazy.

for those of you who can't be bothered to click through:

On November 16, 2005, Willie “Bo” Mitchell and three co-defendants—Shelton “Little Rock” Harris, Shelly “Wayne” Martin, and Shawn Earl Gardner— appeared for a hearing in the modern federal courthouse in downtown Baltimore, Maryland. The four African American men were facing federal charges of racketeering, weapons possession, drug dealing, and five counts of first-degree murder. For nearly two years the prosecutors had been methodically building their case, with the aim of putting the defendants to death. In Baltimore, which has a murder rate eight times higher than that of New York City, such cases are depressingly commonplace.

A few minutes after 10 a.m., United States District Court Judge Andre M. Davis took his seat and began his introductory remarks. Suddenly, the leader of the defendants, Willie Mitchell, a short, unremarkable looking twenty-eight-yearold with close-cropped hair, leapt from his chair, grabbed a microphone, and launched into a bizarre soliloquy.

“I am not a defendant,” Mitchell declared. “I do not have attorneys.” The court “lacks territorial jurisdiction over me,” he argued, to the amazement of his lawyers. To support these contentions, he cited decades-old acts of Congress involving the abandonment of the gold standard and the creation of the Federal Reserve. Judge Davis, a Baltimore-born African American in his late fifties, tried to interrupt. “I object,” Mitchell repeated robotically. Shelly Martin and Shelton Harris followed Mitchell to the microphone, giving the same speech verbatim. Their attorneys tried to intervene, but when Harris’s lawyer leaned over to speak to him, Harris shoved him away.

if Omar voted Ron Paul

man, that's some crazy convergence. an ex-ceo was just convicted here today of tax evasion. he got deep into this radical "common law" christian identity libertarian stuff. they're gonna get him on more i think, he kept talking about god wanting him to kill the judge...

there was an episode of law and order on yesterday w/ that, it was mostly lols as sam waterston kept yelling object

heh

www.redemptionservice.com

Despite the United States Federal Reserve Bank asserting claim that "Washington, D.C." is over 8 Trillion Dollars in Debt to the Federal Reserve Bank, most Americans today fail to realize that the United States Federal Reserve "BANK" is a "PRIVATE" Bank! Fifty years ago this fact was common knowledge among many Americans. It was even taught in school as part of History class. Today, it is no longer even mentioned in school and most Americans are completely oblivious to this once common knowledge. So who owns the Federal Reserve Bank, you ask? No, NOT American Citizens! The Federal Reserve Bank was created through an Act of Congress and came into existence from the "Federal Reserve Act of December 23, 1913." Created from an Act of Congress; but more-or-less a "HYBRID" (Created through Legislation; but as a Corporation with privately held stock). Eighty-Five percent (85%) of the Stock is held entirely by European International Bankers. These foreign Shareholders/ Owners being entirely European Jewish families:

Rothschild Banks of London and Berlin

Lazard Brothers Bank of Paris

Israel Moses Sieff Banks of Italy

Warburg Bank of Hamburg and Amsterdam

Lehman Brothers Bank of New York

Kuhn Loeb Bank of New York

Chase Manhattan Bank of New York

Goldman Sachs Bank of New York

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lol