Freekend: The Wire
I’ve gotten hooked on The Wire, the HBO socio-political police procedural, set in Baltimore. Various critics have called it the best show on television and my friends have called “Please hurry up and watch The Wire so you’ll know what we’re talking about.”
It was slow starting, but the last few episodes of Season One were [...]
Hankincents theory of Relativity
When I was trying to come up with a name for this blog, one thing that leaped to mind was the story of the apocryphal magi from everybody’s favorite Christmas carol. They came with really fancy gifts that were probably well-received. But here in 2009, I’d just as soon have a big, fat check as [...]
