I'm also sad that I didn't get to watch Brotherhood in time to talk about it with him, either(It's in fact still in my queue.) Could this be like the fruit punch speech? Except butch, with more crime. He'll never eat*tight* McNuggets again. Dag. Never have to carry a toothbrush in case he gets arrested. None of that. (I'm so happy to post with three other people that might get where I was going with that.)

Oh, erika. I'm not a Wirehead (yet), but I know Gus is laughing at every little trubute you're making to him, and he'd get it.

I'm all fucked up too, bunk.

Didn't need to be said twice.

Of course, if I were police, I might consider the greatest tribute spreading the rumor that he went, uh, in the saddle. America's finest being kind of gross like that. But, being that I'm a heathen from way back without much organized to lean on at such times, the fruit punch speech has expressed a lot of my confusion and doubt. So that is the Western District fruit punch speech.And then there was when D'Angelo died and his boys chipped in to send him a floral housing project, which was just the most horrifying thing you could imagine, but it was kind of cool at the same time, because the actual building had been imploded, and they all grew up there.

Once I got started, couldn't stop The West Baltimore Fruit punch speech: [link]

Aw fuck fuck fuck.

And then there was when D'Angelo died and his boys chipped in to send him a floral housing project, which was just the most horrifying thing you could imagine, but it was kind of cool at the same time, because the actual building had been imploded, and they all grew up there.

I wish I remembered the quote. Bodie appropriated a line from The Wild Bunch in the flower shop, something close to "when you side with a man, you side with him forever." I wish I'd known him in real life, and I wish we could gather to sing "Body of an American" in his honor.

Yeah...and we wouldn't even puke in the gutter. I'm sorry, Corwood, don't remember either. (Bodie...sigh)

This may be more appropriate for literary, but...

So, I finally read DARKLY DREAMING DEXTER (5/6 of it in one sitting yesterday), and having read all the comments here, they've definitely changed things up quite a bit (probably necessary given that they had to do a season's worth of shows on a small book), including Rudy's name (he's Brian in the book). I'm really looking forward to seeing this once it's out on DVD (I gave up Showtime just in time for them to start doing interesting shows again). I've also got to get the second book DEARLY DEVOTED DEXTER (and a third on the way in May, I think - DEXTER IN THE DARK) - I'm curious if they incorporated any of that book in the first season.

I don't think I've read such a disturbing yet fascinating evocation of a sociopathic personality since Patricia Highsmith passed on, and I was totally hearing the whole book in MCH's voice.

"I may be sociopathic, even homicidal at times, but I'm not crazy."

No, his name was Brian in the show. Rudy was the name of the person he killed to take the name.

They did take some things from Dearly Devoted and put them into the first season, but they've also kept some things steady into the next season, like the end with Doakes.

I too heard MCH's voice while reading the book; so perfectly evocative.

I too heard MCH's voice while reading the book; so perfectly evocative.

If ever there was a definitive set of audio books in the offing...