I really wish Warren Buffett would get his secretary some tax help

January 24, 2012

That’s a picture of Megan Rapinoe, my favorite US Women’s Team futbol’r – she’s quite hot, and also quite fun to watch.

Anyway…

If you haven’t heard, the world’s most famous secretary is a special guest at the SOTU tonight. Nope, I’ll not be watching. I just figured out The Wire is available for purchase through Amazon Prime streaming etc, so I’m rewatching season 1 right now for the tenth time or so.

Why? Why not – the rise and fall of Stringer Bell alone is worth a semi-annual re-watch.

Also: I can never get over how much Deangelo Barksdale looks like Todd Bridges.

Also re TW: It is a show for people who feel like reading a novel but don’t have the energy. In that sense, it’s perfect. Also: looking for a novel to read, and can’t find one.

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Omartown: “A New Day”

August 14, 2011

Returning to my thoughts on The Wire…

I’ve been powering through the series, trying to get the full series re-watched before NFL season starts and I just finished S4E11, “A New Day.”

S4 is the sentimental favorite for many fans of the show, although it’s my least-favorite story arc. It’s not that it’s not effective – it is – it’s that its the most explicitly political of the five seasons, and at times the politics is heavy-handed, at least for a show that is brutally fair when it comes to politics.

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The Wire – A Primer

May 21, 2011

So, here’s the problem when a fella like myself starts trying to write about The Wire (TW) – white people of a certain variety tend to ejaculate into gascans when trying to write/talk-about/discuss TW. They tend to go absolutely bonkers because, they’re convinced that you are somehow insane for not having not only seen all five seasons of the landmark show, but that you’re not fluent in the show. I was way late to TW party – I watched half the first season when it came on originally, but couldn’t get into it. When it went off the air, I started getting the DVDs on Netflix.

And I was hooked.

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