AH AM VAMPYYYYYR! WE AR-UH DIFFURENT!
Someone Else's Money
10/27/2009
If you do nothing else today — and I mean this — please listen to this episode of This American Life from the other week on the insurance industry and our current national health insurance debacle. You’ll be enlightened and entertained in equal measure, I promise you. Also? Bonus reason to listen: David Kestenbaum, who I dated back in the 90s, is one of the correspondents who has a segment in this particular episode [waves to David].
Why you (and everyone you know) should watch HBO’s "The Wire"
10/26/2009
Last week I was reminded of the greatness of the HBO drama “The Wire,” and how lax I’ve been in singing its praises of late. Indeed, “The Wire” is a show that merits some serious evangelizing — I can scarcely think of another television program that inspires such depth of feeling, thought, and devotion in its audience. And while “The Wire” is a luminous achievement for the medium of television to be sure, it’s more than that. It’s a rich testament to the power of narrative and storytelling, a work that transcends the confines of scripted television and plumbs the inner depths of those who experience it as perhaps only great literature can. Does it sound like I’m overstating things? Well, I’m not.
Just because this made me happy
10/25/2009
The evening MamaPop won the Baltimore Sun Mobbie for Best Pop Culture Blog, Jamie arrived at our house bearing a featureless cardboard tube, which he passed on to me, saying only that it was from our friend, Bill.
