This video was originally posted in 2006 and has well over 300,000 views, making it kind of old news in terms of CUTTING EDGE pop culture BLOGGING. But it, like The Wire without a laugh track, is…   Read Story »

My thimble is my motherfucking thimble!   Read Story »

Congratulations to David Simon on winning a $500,000 MacArthur "Genius" Grant. Finally, the unpaid and unrewarding task of creating popular television pays off. (Just kidding, buddy! Just tearing…   Read Story »

Between playing paintball with the cast of The Wire (sort of) last weekend, and this week's Caption Contest, and today's Toy Story/The Wire mash-up, it is clearly a week of The Wire mash-ups. So,…   Read Story »

I suppose wishing that this was a real show mostly just means that I wish The Wire was still on the air. Because it turns out that, like many 56-year-olds, I don't care about Toy Story. That being…   Read Story »

Look, I know this photo has already appeared on the site, but when you get your photo taken with Omar from The Wire, you have to MAKE THE MOST OF IT. Those are just the rules. Besides, if you're…   Read Story »

So. Saturday morning, I woke up at 6:45 AM, which is the earliest time in the day that a human being has EVER gotten up, much less on a Saturday, to ride my bike to Long Island City, Queens, to…   Read Story »

Wait, this paintball tournament in which you compete against your favorite characters from The Wire is real? What happens at the end? You get paint-nailed into an abandoned paint house on the Paint…   Read Story »

OK, this might be a little harder than we thought. The anticipation for David Simon's Treme, which premiered last night on HBO, has been extraordinarily high, at least in my head, but now that it is…   Read Story »

For those of you who watched The Wire, which I assume is all of you--but if some of you have not watched The Wire, please stop reading this post and go watch The Wire, jeez no duh--you remember that…   Read Story »