October 2011
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July 2011
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“Why, if there is any truth to anything presented in The Wire over the last four...”
– David Simon, on The Wire (via vruz)
June 2011
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Dedicated to James Francis McNulty, master of the...
http://jimmymcnultysmirking.tumblr.com/
May 2011
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“One of the themes of The Wire really was that statistics will always lie....”
– David Simon (via azspot)
vruz: didn’t represent anything other than their beliefs, aims and intent.
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January 2011
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October 2010
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The Wire: A Tour of Baltimore on Google Maps →
“As they say on The Wire, “It’s not my turn to care.”
– overheard a man joke to his work buddy
May 2010
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December 2009
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“But I guess where I was originally going is that nobody wants to write endings...”
– David Simon (via dbreunig) (via soupsoup)
unburyingthelead:
DAVID SIMON: You know, listen, the only reason that alcohol and cigarettes, which do far more damage than heroine and cocaine, are legal is that white people and affluent white people at that, make money off that stuff. You know? Phillip Morris was— you know, had— if those guys had black and brown skin and were— you know, in the Mexican State of Chihuahua, they’d be hunted. Or...
“Everything from Iraq to Wall Street to urban policy to the drug war. I look at...”
– David Simon
“the hollowness at the core of American will”
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Unrepentant
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“I watch The Wire because, to paraphrase its creator, David Simon, The Wire is about what happens in a post-industrial society, one in which people are no longer needed, not in the factories, not in the service economy, not anywhere. It’s about institutions such as the police and the media, and cultures such as poverty (drugs) and failing affluence (stevedores). It’s about the...
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November 2009
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“The people most affected by [the War on Drugs] are black and brown and poor....”
– David Simon (Do click. This discussion is incredible. Part II has fantastic insight into the collapse of newspapers.) (via syntheticpubes) (via electronicalrattlebag)
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September 2009
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http://www.reason.com/news/show/29273.html
Reason: What's the show's underlying message about the drug war?
Simon: That it's a fraud. It's all over except for the tragedy and the shouting and the wasted lives. That'll continue. But the outcome has never been in doubt.
Reason: I've seen one writer citing The Corner to make the case that the drug war needs to be fought harder.
Simon: What idiot was that?
Reason: His name was Eli Lehrer. [Lehrer said the book "vividly describes just how bad life became in a typical inner-city neighborhood" after Baltimore's then-Mayor Kurt Schmoke came out for a less punitive approach to the drug war. In fact, Schmoke's police department locked up more people for drug crimes than any previous administration.] He was writing in the American Enterprise Institute's magazine.
Simon: Ed Burns and I spoke at one of those groups. There came this point where a guy said, "Well, what is the solution? Give me the paragraph; give me the lede. What's the solution, if not drug prohibition?" I very painstakingly said: "Look. For 35 years, you've systematically deindustrialized these cities. You've rendered them inhospitable to the working class, economically. You have marginalized a certain percentage of your population, most of them minority, and placed them in a situation where the only viable economic engine in their hypersegregated neighborhoods is the drug trade. Then you've alienated them further by fighting this draconian war in their neighborhoods, and not being able to distinguish between friend or foe and between that which is truly dangerous or that which is just illegal. And you want to sit across the table from me and say 'What's the solution?' and get it in a paragraph? The solution is to undo the last 35 years, brick by brick. How long is that going to take? I don't know, but until you start it's only going to get worse."
And the guy looked at me and went, "But what's the solution?" He said it again. Ed Burns restrained me.
“I’m glad something is finally replacing The Wire as The Best Show On TV. As much...”
– From bondcliff in a MeFi Thread on Mad Men (via brownpau)
August 2009
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The Wire Bible (via kottke.org) →
“This is quite a treat. Someone got ahold of some scripts from The Wire and posted them online. [Update: I’ve mirrored the files for convenience.]
Season 1, episode 1, “The Target” Season 1, episode 9, “Game Day” Season 5, episode 10, “-30-“
But the real gem is a document dated September 6, 2000 that appears to beDavid Simon’s pitch to HBO...
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“I made up my mind that I would never be a victim; I would never be the prey. I’d...”
– Donnie Andrews, the real-life Omar Little (via marywachsmann) (via shaneguiter)
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My favorite reference yet to my favorite show... →
suitep:
From dooce.
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