For erika:
From Lawyers, Guns, and Money
Acting and The Wire .
Although I don't fully agree, I think ogged has a point about acting and The Wire. It's a really, really, outstanding show, and getting better too. But part of me does wish that Simon had been able to do Homicide on HBO. Particularly in the first season, when you compare McNaulty and Pembleton you have to notice that while the latter character is one of the greatest in TV history while the former is a pretty stale cliche, and one also notices that Dominic West ain't Andre Braugher.
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I hadn't thought about the carbon impact of Burning Man before. If I had, I probably wouldn't have considered Cupcake Cars to be the primary culprets. And apparently, I would have been right. Beware the wrath of a solar/electric cupcake car enthusiast!
I feel my muffin has been defiled. In Meridith May's August 26 article entitled "Burning Man Goes Green," she made a particularly distressing error (well, distressing to, at the very least, me and my fellow cupcake builders). Gas powered food? Ick. The motorized cupcakes and muffins are all electric, every delicious one of them, charged by solar panels back at camp. No gas. No varoom. None among us has a gas powered Burning Man art vehicle. . . . Please remember to do your research even when writing about wacky art projects. Though I hope no one digs deep enough to discover that the furry toppings for the cupcakes were harvested from baby seals and stray kittens.
I think both those guys are on the pipe. I've not really found a weak link in their cast, and if it is, it's not Kima.
Who doesn't love Andre Braugher? Duh. But that doesn't mean DW isn't good at what he does. McNulty is kind of a reprobate, anti-authority, skirt-chasing pain in the butt, but I find him winning my sympathy more often than not, and foamy only does so much, you know? But it is totally obvious a man NGA wrote that. Cause a woman would get how he can do that that thing with his face that says "I'm full of crap, but you love me anyway..."
Huh. Sources: Karr DNA no match in Ramsey case
BOULDER, Colo. - KUSA, a television station in Denver, reported Monday that two sources said the DNA sample taken from John Mark Karr is not a match with the DNA found on JonBenet Ramsey's body when she was slain in 1996.
Can't say that I'm surprised. I figured he was a red herring once the ex-wife that divorced him as an icky possible child molester gave him an alibi.
There's been a lot of discussion and analysis that his confession was not true. I'm not surprised to see that result either.
It sounds like the lack of DNA evidence doesn't prove he didn't do it. But still, it makes it look even less likely he did.
Xpost, but re: The Wire.
I do agree that the sex scenes, especially at the end of S3, were completely uncalled-for. Of course, by that time, I had so much goodwill towards The Wire that I would have forgiven them even if they'd found a way to have Omar actually jump a motorcycle over a pool full of sharks.
I admit I found the long one between Rhonda and Cedric at the end a bit Too Much.
There are plenty of ways to show that they are intimately involved without our, you know, being there for it.
But, yes, a lot of what Corwood said. I think it aims for a lofty target a lot of times, even if it doesn't always hit. Which I thought, at one time, was what made for an award winner.But I should have known better watching H:LOTS get snubbed.
(And sometimes it's really on, too. Hits perfectly.)
I know how he'd hit the sharks...a day at a time, I suppose.)
Announcement: I just broke my thumb nail down below the quick trying to open up a box from the Government Printing Office.
Announcement: oww. The GPO is now On The List.
