News comes from New Orleans that The Wire writer David Simon is pitching a pilot series to HBO.
Having joined the minions of white people who consider Simon’s last show to be “a drama of the streets,” I couldn’t be more excited.
“New Orleans was knocked on its ass [in 2005],” Simon says. “And if you look at where the country as a whole is right now, and sort of what was coming …” He stops, then starts again.
“I don’t mean to make more of this metaphor than will allow, but the country’s in very much the same emotional place as New Orleans. A lot of Americans are feeling very dislocated after the last decade or so. So the piece could be resonant to more than New Orleans — if it’s done right, if we think about this thing in more universal terms.”
Why does he even have to pitch shows to HBO?
“Lo and Behold! For verily, I am David Simon. Scion and heir of Emmy without number. My word is law and shall be good! Look upon my works and despair, for you know your works shall never be this good. Take my newest show and please watch it.”
Something like that.
I think they’re called “ratings?”
Quotation marks are for quoting things, Matt. If you’re not quoting someone calling the wire “a drama of the streets,” they’re not really needed.
p.s. your rating comment didn’t make sense. please clarify.
Hey! It’s News From The Paaaaast!
For clarification:
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/03/09…
I should have written “a documentary of the streets.”
Matt, I’m with CAT on this. What are called ratings? You’re taking my job and obfuscating things, not clarificating things.
CAT, I think Matt was using ‘ironic quotation marks’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mar…
You see what I did there? I’m fucking hilarious.
Maybe Barksdale never really died, and this will be the story of his return to power following a period of laying low at his aging grandmother’s place down in New O!
Or maybe I just got WAY into The Wire.
I, too, would like to join the “minions of white people.” Please tell me how, Matt.
bob: You obviously didn’t get THAT into The Wire, since you think Avon died. (?!?!???)