David Simon

If you haven't watched all 5 seasons of The Wire yet, do so. If you want to learn what The Wire is all about, check out this interview with David Simon on Bill Moyer's Journal, from back in 2009.

Watch now, or download on itunes. The itunes release date was 4/17/09.

The Wire

If you haven't watched all 5 seasons of HBO's The Wire yet, you should probably put life on hold and go start. I'm confident you'll learn more in those 60 hours than you would in a year of grad school. Not just is this the best television series ever created, but I'm confident it's going to go down in history as the 'War and Peace' of our time.

Think I'm overstating things, well they're teaching The Wire at Harvard now.

If that article isn't enough, here's a podcast episode of Bill Moyer's Journal interviewing the producer of The Wire, David Simon.

Listen now, or download it on itunes. The itunes release date was 4/17/09.

Icelander's campaign is a joke, until he's elected

Have you heard about the new mayor of Iceland's capitol, Reykjavik? He's a comedian/punk rocker who founded what he called "The Best Party." In his words "It is the best party. If it wasn’t, it would be called the Worst Party or the Bad Party. We would never work with a party like that." And according to him I would qualify for being part of his coalition government since I've seen all five episodes of The Wire.

Adam in New York sent me this article from the New York Times.