| Why are you still here? You should totally be at http://blog.iamnotdenny.com!!
Except for the guy from Sweden, I can at least understand why you haven't made your way over there yet. Can somebody translate this to Swedish?
Some arrangement of these perhaps as a pictogram?
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| Goodbye cruel world ... I mean ... Xanga.
I've finally gotten around to playing with Wordpress and should have it setup in the next week or so. No more lame ads and a functioning search - how wonderful!
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| Seriously, nothing else I've watched has come even close. Take your favorite crime procedural (say ... Law and Order: Special Victims Unit), pick the best episode (feel free to take a moment, there's a bajillion episodes), imagine it with better camera work, strip out any sentimentality, add substantial character development, remove cheesy references to current news events, and add significantly better dialogue. All the one hour shows are forced to come up with some resolution by the end of the episode and usually end with you being able to check the "We Won" or "Nuts, they got away" column (and the ones that don't aren't all that satisfying). The Wire doesn't pretend to ever show a win. Whatever convictions the detectives and D.A.'s manage are overwhelmed by the amount that gets away or is quickly replaced. And then there's the corruption, nepotism, politicizing of justice, and straight up incompetence. So good! Each 12-hour season is bite-sized and covers an amazing amount of ground. If only we could force the fools that write for Lost to watch The Wire and learn how to build story lines over multiple seasons!!
Does it sound a bit grim? If the fight will be lost (as it certainly is with the "War on Drugs"[1,2] - the "solution" is to treat addicts and focus on violence rather than chasing low level dealers and users (seriously, tons of research has verified this but no politicians are willing to look soft on the issue)), what's the point of fighting? Well, you gotta earn a buck while waiting for the world to end, don't ya'?
[1] Wall Street Journal
[2] Rolling Stone
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