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January 2, 2008
Hamsterdam
The greatest fucking show in the history of television starts its last season this Sunday night.
In honor of it going out like that, a group of blogger miscreants and fanatical followers of The Wire will be blogging throughout the entire season at a new blog called The New Package.
I'll be posting there occasionally, as soon as I get caught up re-watching the old seasons on DVD...partly research, and partly because I just really miss Wallace.
First posts from me will likely contain some surprises for Wendell scanned from the 1980 Ben Franklin yearbook.
"And I keeps one in the chamber in case you ponderin'."
Posted by ray at January 2, 2008 10:32 PM | Permalink
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Ray, I friggin' love The Wire too and had no idea about the New Package. Great idea. Dave and I just watched season 4 again while he was here for Xmas break. Yuko is into it too. We talk like Omar and Bunk at home. Yuko mentioned that she saw a quote by David Simon to the effect that New Orleans is the city most like the Baltimore portrayed in the show. I wonder how many bodies are waiting to be found in those abandoned houses ... shudder.
Posted by: Bruce Rutledge at January 19, 2008 7:43 PM
The quote is "In a lot of ways, New Orleans is Baltimore but it can carry a tune." You can find linkage and discussion at the blog of the Grand Master of Wire experts, Ashley Morris. He was also the first to make the possible connection between the bodies in the Baltimore vacants and what it bodes for our vast neighborhoods of vacants. Just a couple of weeks ago they found a body in an abandoned school in the Lower Nine.
Simon has been down here researching a possible show about New Orleans; I would absolutely kill to be involved in it, even if I just play an extra homeless guy in the background. I could be like the white Bubbles of New Orleans, stealing copper out of flooded houses.
Posted by: Ray at January 20, 2008 2:18 AM
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