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Real Life Imitates The Wire, Again: Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon Indicted
Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon, frequently critical of The Wire for its “overly negative” portrayal of crime and corruption, was indicted today after a three-year investigation. Dixon was ch… more →
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Real Life Imitates The Wire, Again: Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon Indicted
virgotex wrote 11 months ago: Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon, frequently critical of The Wire for its “overly negative” … more →
Life imitates The Wire? Maybe not...
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virgotex wrote 11 months ago: The complete five season box set release has spawned some new Wire reviews and recs. Ran across this … more →
Life imitates The Wire, episode 11,876
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virgotex wrote 11 months ago: Rachel Maddow had Princeton’s Melissa Harris-Lacewell on last night to discuss the drama surro … more →
Omar the Socialist vs Joe the Drug Dealer
virgotex wrote 1 year ago: If WordPress.com allowed embedding of Comedy Central videos, you would be watching David Simon on la … more →
Well, it WAS his favorite show, after all
virgotex wrote 1 year ago: This is good strategery, given that Maryland is already strong blue. via Huffpo Tomorrow, members of … more →
Simon's tribute to Ashley: video now up
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virgotex wrote 1 year ago: The video from the DePaul University College of Communication commencement has been posted. David Si … more →
"I owe him a trip to Chicago and a morning spent in a funny hat and gown.”
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virgotex wrote 1 year ago: A surprise from today’s Chicago Tribune David Simon pays tribute to a ‘Wire’ fan I … more →
Info re David Simon @ DePaul commencement
virgotex wrote 1 year ago: Thanks to Jim King for info re David Simon’s involvement in the upcoming DePaul commencement a … more →
HBO has crack
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virgotex wrote 1 year ago: There are some very entertaining wastes of time over on the HBO site. Check out the eye candy at The … more →
More on jury nullification, this time from Pandagon
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virgotex wrote 1 year ago: I’m a day late to catch this post Amanda did on the The Wire, the black hole we call the … more →
David Simon interview on Fresh Air today
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virgotex wrote 1 year ago: Listen on yer radio or here h/t michaela … more →
Best Dramatic Series
virgotex wrote 1 year ago: The Wire has been awarded Best Dramatic Series honors by the Writers Guild of America. The 2008 WGA … more →
Simon, New Orleans, and the Davis Rogan connection
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raynola wrote 1 year ago: First, to set the stage, the standard NuPac head shot. Davis Rogan, Ben Franklin High School yearboo … more →
Gus, Omar on NPR's Fresh Air
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racymind wrote 1 year ago: Spurred by this comment to Nancy’s newest post, I dug up the recent Terry Gross interviews of … more →
Apropos of angry
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virgotex wrote 1 year ago: As I was stumbling through the links to the links to the links, I read this Rolling Stone interview … more →
Down in the hole with Steve Earle
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virgotex wrote 1 year ago: Stumbled across this piece at Spinner.com: Steve Earle discusses Way Down in the Hole, the show, and … more →
"The Wire is dissent"
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virgotex wrote 1 year ago: Must read: Simon’s comment on Yglesias’ post in response to the Atlantic article referen … more →
"There’s a Wire in every fuckin’ city."
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virgotex wrote 1 year ago: via Jim’s site, excerpts from New York Magazine’s interview with Michael K. Williams (Om … more →
