I believe it's "Medellin", as in the drug cartel.(That *still* isn't spelled right...the trials of being a brain-damaged crime freak.D'oh!) Eric is the group superego.I like Eric a lot, but I admit I don't pay much attention to him because I *am* him. Well, with breasts. Totally loyal friend, inclined to be subordinate, tougher than I look. Ari fascinates me because he doesn't go around worrying about doing the right thing like I do(except at home, which keeps him human.) Yeah, Vincent Chase is a foamy dude, and he knows it, too. He could be much more of a bastard than he is. That was a good movie, Java.

Entourage: OMGWTF happened to Beverly D' Angelo's face! She looks like she ran into the Carver from Nip-Tuck. Yikes...it's like plastic surgeons need bouncers..."You've had three procedures...you're cut off." And it's exceptionally weird on that show, because of Gold being Gold. Because if it were some kind of *effect*, just for Barbara Cooper, agent bitch-goddess, one might expect Ari to be all "I've known Babs so long she was on her first husband AND her first face...Isn't that right, baby?" I still swear there's no way wrinkles look worse than that.

OMG, just saw Herc from The Wire playing, essentially, the criminal version of Herc. Sloppy, lazy and half-assed(Except we actually do almost see the full Lombardozzi so not really half-assed at all. Too funny, though. On another board, I'd totally "LOL" that. but only Daddy speaks that way. (He does...it's pretty tragic when you find out your genius estranged father sends e-mail like an eighth grade girl, but that is one of a million crosses I bear in our relationship.

The editor of the Smile, Hon, You're In Baltimore zine(Which I was proud to be featured in last year) sent me a link of interest to Wirefiends and other crime junkies.

EJ,

Thought you might enjoy (as it were) this BBC clip featuring THE SUN's Peter Hermann, reflecting on his 15 years covering crime in The City That Bleeds:

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(It's sort of wrong that hearing about his job made me jealous, but I was, at least momentarily. But there has to be an intervention required for a woman hearing about going in the rain at nine at night to talk about a shooting and thinking "lucky bastard."...that shit ain't seemly, yo.

Anna Paquin was on Fresh Air yesterday.

We watched the first 2 eps of True Blood and really disliked it. However, I keep hearing all this great stuff about it and wonder if we should have continued. Does it change much after the first 2 eps or is it more of the same?

The middle part gets more dramatic, but if you didn't like the initial vibe, I don't know if you're going to change your mind. I like it, but I'm bored with Naked!Jason by midpoint, I gotta say. Love seeing William Sanderson and Chris Bauer again...they rock.

I really liked it. . . . I pre-ordered the dvds as soon as that was possible just on the basis of the first episode. When they came in - I watched the entire season w/i 24 hours and ordered HBO.

I really like TrueBlood now, but I didn't like it immediately - the first couple episodes irked me. A friend talked me into watching it again, and it got better. It's definitely its own thing.

And you just have to resign yourself to Jason's idiocy.