Posts Tagged: The Wire
Whale: 1685, Kitten: 1
Ever thought, “I know Herman Melville was talking about a whale but how much, really, did he talk about a whale?”
This cool page will answer your question with its graphical representation of word distribution throughout Moby Dick. The creator Adam Pearce was inspired by an infographic of frequently used words on the show The Wire and styled his project after Stanford’s Bibly, which does the same and more for the King James Version of the Bible.
...moreDonnell Loves Fran
...moreIf Omar was ‘one of TV’s greatest characters’ it was because of Donnie. The show distinguished itself by laying out a palimpsest of failed American institutions but even within that decentralized narrative Omar was singular because the outcome of his life, before, during, and after incarceration was so unusual.
An Interview with The Wire‘s Omar
Michael Kenneth Williams, the actor who played Omar on the highly-praised HBO series The Wire, is interviewed on Mother Jones. The show is often described as “the greatest television show ever made,” and Williams offers his perspective on why the show has been so successful.
...moreSounds like a reasonable position
Reykjavik just elected a comedian to be its mayor. Jon Gnarr is the head of the Best Party, which took just over a third of the vote in the recent elections, which means they control 6 of the City Council’s 15 seats.
...moreSome Special Video Interruptions for your Turkey Day
Not a football fan? Nothing to watch on Thanksgiving? Let The Rumpus help with that.
100 Greatest Quotes from The Wire.
Dock Ellis and the LSD No No.
My New Religion (aka man shooting bananas out of his nose).
...moreEssays on the Game
With contemporary postcolonial critique, Darkmatter offers a series of papers discussing HBO’s The Wire.
With titles including:
- “The Politics of Brisket: Jews and The Wire,”
- “The Life and Times of Fuzzy Dunlop: Herc and the Modern Urban Crime Environment.”
These papers will help all you David Simon fanatics expand your Wire water cooler repartee beyond “Who’s cooler: Slim Charles or Stringer Bell?” and “Who’s dumber: Ziggy or Herc?” because the answers are totally Slim Charles and Herc.
...moreGeorge Pelecanos’ Favorite Westerns
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
A handful of professional gunmen led by black-clad Yul Brynner are hired to protect a south-of-the-border farming village from scores of bandits in John Sturges’ western adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai.
...moreMorning Coffee
Ed Park’s funny novels syllabus.
Will you accept the Infinite Summer Challenge?
Military rock bands. It turns out the coast guard is the only service with no official rock formations.
The Oxford Project: Residents of a small town pose for photos in 1984, and then do it again twenty years later (our favorite by far is the buckskinner turned Protestant minister).
...moreDavid Simon’s Existential Baltimore
Bill Moyers spends an hour talking with David Simon about The Wire.
...moreAmerican Apocalypse: The Wire and 2666
The name “Baltimore” can be traced to an Irish phrase meaning “Town of the Big House.” “Juárez,” when traced back to the Visigoths who overtook Spain in the 5th Century AD, means, roughly, “Army of the South.”
...moreLaura Miller on Sister Carrie
“What Sister Carrie reminded me of most, however, was the HBO series “The Wire,” in that the characters are similarly subject to forces beyond their control.”
A Month Without Internet
Two years before I founded The Rumpus.net I spent a month offline. I published the result in Poets and Writers but since it’s not available online we’re publishing it here as a Rumpus Reprint.
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