Well, I started watching on DVD, too. Mostly so I could tell Corwood I watched his fucking show. But I do that about The Wire so I guess I deserved it. Mom says without even hearing the show she can tell when it's Deadwood because of the way it sounds.

Having just finished the first disc of the BBC Bleak House, I can say that it's the show that comes closest to Deadwood in subtle intrigue and gorgeous language. Luckily, Deadwood doesn't have the oddly jerky transitions between scenes.

I liked the list, too.

Yeah, pretty hilarious. Wishing I could give the filker(?) props but it was sent anonymous-like. ETA: Step 12, which my inexact decimals has as 11

12. Having had a fuckin' spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we carry it to the hoopleheads, shout it in the thoroughfare, and try to use it in our daily principles, interfering self-deluded motherfuckers that we are.

The newest Wire trailers are getting me excited, and I don't mean porn. Much less McNutty and String being 10-7 means less sweaty Wire thoughts, but I'm not gonna stop watching or anything. Balmer is the real star, of course.

In whitefont: Mastah String, he dead.

Yeah...10-7 is something they used in A Year On The Killing Streets for dead bodies, as well as radio cars that don't work. 10-7= Out of Service. Cold, huh?

"This drug dealer has ceased to be. He is a former drug dealer."

"No, he's not. He's...uh, pining for the Eastern Shore. They all do that, this time of year."
(I really loved some String...IE played the hell out of that part. I just saw the chance to grab some geek trifecta of crossoverhood. no offense intended.)

Having just finished the first disc of the BBC Bleak House

I'd love to hear what you think of it when you're finished.

I just saw the chance to grab some geek trifecta of crossoverhood.

I feel you.

I'd love to hear what you think of it when you're finished.

I'd love to tell you, but those worthless cocksuckers at Netflix have been telling me that Disc 2 has a "very long wait" for 3 solid weeks. I only allowed Disc 1 to arrive at my house on the faith that all very long waits must surely end, and 3 weeks is long enough to mean imminent change in status. So far, no go. Disc 3 is, of course, available immediately, should I wish to forego the middle section of the story.

That is fuckin' annoying. Possibly a timely bribe should arrive in Yankton, uh, Santa Clara, forthwith. I haven't really got the patience for Dickens anymore, gotta tell ya, although I always wanted a Dickens Ending for Wallace and D'Angelo, you know, that they're cousins and also related to the Royal Family of Liberia or something corny like that... you know you have to love a character to want to suspend narrative logic for them.

True that. You might find yourself surprised by your patience for Bleak House, though. It's the best literary adaptation featuring Gillian Anderson that I've seen since Tristram Shandy two weeks ago!

Almost finished re-watching S3 of The Wire with Mrs. Industries (she's a much slower tv watcher than I). I noticed last night that Brother Mouzone's lackey is played by none other than DeAndre McCollough, the real-life counterpart to the main character in The Corner.