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Everything that was lost
DeAndre McCullough, the precocious teenage West Baltimore drug slinger David Simon profiled in his book The Corner, died recently at the age of 35. Simon eulogizes him on his blog in a way that really captures how his relationship transcended writing. To remember him as we met him, twenty years ago, is to know everything […]
Bases Loaded Art Series
Designer Brian Lindstrom has a visually stunning series of felt banners celebrating the game of baseball, from the shame of the steroid era and Pete Rose’s fall from grace to the curse on the Cubs, the painful departure of the Brooklyn Dodgers and legends like Jackie Robinson, Hank Greenberg and Ernie Banks. The Bases Loaded […]
Nickelback or Pickles?
Of all the awful bands out there, why is so much fun to make fun of Nickelback?
The Wire: The Musical
Michael Kenneth Williams stars alongside Sonja Sohn, Larry Gillard Jr., Andre Royo & Felicia “Snoop” Pearson from The Wire in The Wire: The Musical where they will allow you to experience America’s failing drug war through the magic of song! If you watch any video today, watch this one.
No excuses!
His stuff is all “broked” and “tore up” but if you like it you can buy it at the Bargain Barn, a ’90s Oklahoma public access version of QVC home shopping. (Hat Tip: Boing Boing)
