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A lot of blogs are passing around this transcript from the Illinois Governor's corruption scandal: Get it? Because "shiiiiiit" is something corrupt politician Clay Davis always used to say on the…   Read Story »
Some cast and crew from The Wire are getting together to film a web series. From the Baltimore Sun blogs: Former cast and crew members of HBO's The Wire are starting production in Baltimore tomorrow…   Read Story »
This Huffington Post entry titled What Barack Obama Could Learn From The Wire provides an interesting lens through which to discuss America's drug policies and anti-crime initiatives, but we kind of…   Read Story »
When M.I.A. directed this music video for Blaqstarr performing a cover of Tom Wait's "Way Down in the Hole," better known as the theme song to The Wire, all of the scientists were like "Eureeka,…   Read Story »
The cast of The Wire will be campaigning for Obama in North Carolina tomorrow. We have no idea how that will help anything, but we have some idea of how awesome it is (very awesome.)   Read Story »
There's a new trailer for 17 Again, the movie where Matthew Perry wakes up to find out he's 17 again and Zac Efron. I think it looks kind of potentially funny, thanks to Tom Lennon and Leslie…   Read Story »
Actress Felicia Pearson, who played Snoop on The Wire, has been arrested on minor drug charges. Of course she has. From the New York Times: Court records show Felicia ''Snoop'' Pearson, who played a…   Read Story »
Considering the fact that we're still embroiled in the conflict in Iraq, I think it would be weird to say that I'm "excited" about David Simon's upcoming HBO mini-series Generation Kill. It's based…   Read Story »
This is going to get taken down any second, but here's a bootleg version of the new Dark Knight trailer, nerds. (via Film Drunk) Wow, that looks terrible. The quality of the video, I mean. Dark…   Read Story »
Here are two items of clothing that are very real, and are very wanted by me. [buy it for me here] [buy it for me here] These are just really smart ways to engender warm feelings among fans.…   Read Story »