I'm stuck writing a paper and so I'm procrastinating and talking about fandom instead.
Snagged this from wildtiger7 who tagged me with Band of Brothers, BSG & The Wire

Comment and I will give you 3 fandoms and then you have to answer these questions ( Read more... )

The only sad thing about The Wire season 5? It's the last season...*sob*

( Spoilers for episodes 51 and 52 )

Why didn't I know about this until now?

Three short The Wire prequels posted on the Amazon website here. Including one of Young!Omar! Hee.

Thoughts regarding The Wire seasons 1 -3, with a few remarks about season 4 for good measure.

I have recently rewatched the first three seasons of The Wire. I’ve wanted to do that for some time, and for a strange reason I apparently found the time during the busiest exam schedule. Or its possible I was just trying to find an excuse not to read ( Read more... )

If this was fiction no one would believe it! A drug ring in Queens copied "The Wire".

Call it a case of crime imitating art imitating crime.
That's what the police say happened with a drug ring in Queens whose members honed their trade and learned to evade arrest by watching the HBO series "The Wire," a gritty, realistic police procedural about a ( Read more... )

Hmm..not much posting lately - but I'm currently trying to finish a paper and watching season 4 of The Wire.

I'm on episode six now and I must say that this season might become my new favourite, right next to season two. ( cut for s4 spoilers )

For all those of you who love The Wire I urge you to head over here and read the_grynne's wonderful and thought provoking post about The Wire and Greek Tragedy

And for all those of you who haven't seen "The Wire" then please use this as another incentive to check out the show. There is nothing out there quite like it.

ps. applegnat? I've mentioned "The Wire" to ( Read more... )

Another link from Jason Mitchell’s blog - this time about The Wire

I especially liked this part:

For many critics, bloggers, fans, and even creator David Simon himself, The Wire is best understood not as a television series, but as a "visual novel." As a television scholar, this cross-media metaphor bristles - not because I don’t like novels, ( Read more... )

Five reasons I love the things I do - the second.

Being a continuation of our heroine’s account of her favourite things + lists are made + numerical standards are broken+ and book passages are quoted

( Tolkien )

So I’ve spent the day at a seminar on photography. From this I’ve learned two things.

1.When they key note speaker looks like the twin brother of Nathaniel Parker - aka Inspector Lynley among other things - and has a wonderful, honey voice it is extremely easy to get distracted. When he starts talking about the sensuality and the intimacy ( Read more... )