I had breakfast with Scrappy and she's met all kinds of Movie Stars!

You can't use Scrappy to claim secondhand connections ... she's Scrappy! Don't dismiss her intrinsic worth.

Hayden,cool! Can you believe the HFQ?!(Dude, it's a gritty show and I was manifestly surprised,I thought there could be an upgrade, profanity-wise.) And I want it in my obit that I taught David Simon the expression HSQ although he's been applying the skill for a very long time. Been watching season 2 again, but stopped for a bit because Frank Sobatka makes me cry like a little girl. Guess I need crimping up, still. Maybe it was even "HMFSHQ" Damn, that's The Bomb. I've done everything I can do but get on my knees to save it...would that be solicitation...Levy would know. "I'm like a marriage counselor...here so he remembers to bring flowers and she remembers to suck a little cock." It would be funny, if not terribly productive, if Simon brings a bouquet to the next sit-down with the brass.

No kidding. The word is that Simon is planning to take on public education next. With all the sheer emotion he's wrenched from institutions of the Drug War, local government bureaucracy, and failing unionism, how could HBO say no to that? Seriously, HMFSHQ about has it. And the writing! How many references to The Wild Bunch can they squeeze into three seasons? I thought Buffy, Angel, and Firefly had as many as you could make, but Joss couldn't contend with that scene in Season Two of The Wire when Bodie went to buy flowers and delivered the perfect ebonics take on Pike Bishop's best quote. Jeez, those guys are good. Really, I don't know if I could pimp this show enough. I'm still a bit in shock from the Season Three finale. If that's the end, so be it, 'cause it's not a bad place to end. But I would have said that after Season Two, also.

Seriously, y'all. Watch this show. From the beginning. And give it a few episodes to get under your skin. David, if you get to be the fanatic I am now, I have burnt DVDs of Season Three I could send you.

Dude, Hayden's got testers. ;)(Dealers give out samples just as much as people selling anything else. Then the fiends watch and see who gets knocked back the hardest, from what. Samples=testers.) I mostly hate the Westerns, babe, Pelecanos forgive me, so I don't know from The Wild Bunch Is it that I'm a good pimp or just fucking relentless, Hec?

Or do you like its effect on my language? I may have to quit HBO.com. They harsh on my fictional boyfriend too much.

Once I get Netflix, I am so going to request The Wire.

Signed,

Doesn't have HBO, dammit.

::pouts::

Scrappy's celebrity and intrinsic value are second to none, but I can't believe that Hec has already forgotten that in between bouts of illness on Saturday he got to meet an excessively minor celebrity but major Buffista crack-pusher, the Cat Stacking guy.

You can't use Scrappy to claim secondhand connections ... she's Scrappy! Don't dismiss her intrinsic worth.

Pffft. Like I would. Though perhaps I mis-spoke. "I've had breakfast with Scrappy - just like the movie stars did."

Some very intelligent people have told me they found it like watching grass grow. But they were not Buffistas, where The Arc Is King. The King stay the King, yo. I, of course, fell hard, relatively fast. (And no, not just cause McNulty has a smart mouth, a leather coat, and authority issues that could choke a horse...but that'll make most Bitches happy.) I feel very comfortable in the Simonverse.

on Saturday he got to meet an excessively minor celebrity but major Buffista crack-pusher, the Cat Stacking guy.

Heh. We told him his work had eaten Cindy's brain. He also told me about the new game he was working on. Also also, he was handsome and snarky and good Buffista-bait. We should totally pimp him out.

And Hec, knowing stuff about WH? not lame. Had massive crush following COLG. Time has not been kind in the interim, but his voice is still nice.

Doesn't have HBO, dammit.

Me, neither. I have always depended on the kindness of strangers from the Internet. And, of course, Netflix.

And yeah, you don't have to be a fan of Westerns to like The Wire. I think both Simon and Pelecanos have mentioned it in separate articles as their favorite movie, and I've noticed enough quoting of that movie, even down to the visual language Peckinpah uses, that couldn't be random.

So, which guy's your fictional boyfriend, Erika? They're all pretty foul-mouthed, except Omar for some reason. Oh, y'know, this just struck me: all you girls and guys who swooned over Spike will probably love the hell out of Omar. They manage not to overuse the guy, which was my problem with Spike, but he certainly is cut from the same cloth.