mos def. Still excited, though. Most shows that would piss me off, especially with one hottie dead and the other one going off to be a Big Movie Star Guest Appearance Guy(Although, DW, love ya I do, but looking at your filmic ouevre, what have you played but McNutty the Roguish Horndog With Self-Deprecating Super-secrit Heart Of Gold? Ok, sometimes you use your real voice. Don't get me wrong; I love the RH, etc. But you're not exactly stretching, are you, petal? Although if I were you, I'd count picking Julia over Maggie Gyllenhall as "Science fiction experience") But these characters are all so strong, I expect not to think about that too much. (OK, yes, my oost made me watch a Julia Roberts movie. I'm a total Pearlman. Happy now?) But something felt wrong about him PG-13. McNulty gets aphasia. Because not a "Fuck *me*" to be had.

Thanks, erika and Corwood. I will make the plunge, and somewitmes I will know what y'all are talking about.

I found The Corner just sitting there On Demand, too, I'm more than a little tempted to give that a watch.

The Corner's pretty good, but, to paraphrase a comment a friend said the other night, you never forget that you're watching a TV show with The Corner. With The Wire, it's like life; the artifice is more of a piece with the product.

I will make the plunge, and somewitmes I will know what y'all are talking about.

You may have seen this already but there are 8 minutes synopsis of each Wire season on OnDemand right now. That should help some.

Thanks, lisah, I haven't seen that. Is that what that Wire Reup thing is? I'lll look for them.

David Milch article on Slate: [link]

Thanks! Although I could use less of that worm Tobolowsky, the worst actor on Deadwood and a true Bogdonovich-worthy shallow suck-up.

Bogdonovich-worthy shallow suck-up.

Hmm. How does that compare to a James-Lipton-worthy shallow suck-up?

More self-important interviews that bask in greatness via proximity, fewer actual on-camera surgical removals of lips from rectum.

Bwah ha ha. Nice burn, Corwood. reminds me of a Peter B.-David Chase interview on one of the Sopranos discs. Eventually Chase had this look like "It's hard to talk with you being up my butt this way," which I could follow, though there were parts of the conversation that I could not, but the director missed completely. Sounds like Toblowsky is a bit of a Jarry, in real life.