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Hello! Moderator speaking.

As I've mentioned in the past couple of weeks, I'm letting go of this blog. I've been swamped with stuff IRL and maintaining tumblr sideblogs has become a bit of a hassle.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the ride while it lasted! Sorry for the inconvenience :(

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-Stringer Bell? -Yeah, that was him in court with the legal pad and the glasses, scaring the living shit out of every witness.

#jimmy mcnulty #gifs #daniel phelan #dominic west #peter gerety #s1

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Aidan Gillen, Beneath the Harvest Sky. (x)

#cast photos #aidan gillen

Gentle reminder that this blog will be closing down soon :(

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Michael K. Williams as Omar in The Wire

#michal k williams #omar little #caps

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Got tired of being a punchline to every joke.

#gifs #s2 #ziggy sobotka #frank sobotka #james ransone #chris bauer

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Alright- I’m finally going address this. I usually don’t like talking about the wire in the public sphere, less because of the polarizing effect that ziggy seems to have on people, but more because it was 12 years ago, and if I spend too much time retroactively navel gazing over my career I will fall into an endless spiral of shame obsessing over every mistake I’ve made (creatively and otherwise), but since the wire has hit a critical mass in the zeitgeist I’d like to address ziggy in my own words. When we were shooting the season the only intention I had every day I went to work was to make ziggy as comically ridiculous as possible. I always tried to find humor in the darkest corners of the story. So,If you didn’t find ziggy funny or ridiculous then it is my fault as a performer and I apologize to you, however if you believe that the character didn’t fit into the show as a whole I beg to differ- he’s fredo in the godfather. He’s Frankie in that Springsteen song highway patrolman. I grew up with guys like him. I have him in my family. I was him at times in my life (sadly). He’s the dude that’s just smart enough to get whats happening, but too dumb to not let his hubris dictate every decision he makes, but he’s still blood. Look around your life, I’m sure you have your own. And yes, it freaks me out when people scream “ziggy!” In my face on the street; less because of who or what ziggy is, but more because it speaks to the intelligence of the viewer. For a show that’s so subtly nuanced in terms of story (not to mention its commentary on the absolute futility of the US “war on drugs”), I’m always shocked that some audience member’s disbelief remains suspended when they see me. I’ve never stolen a Mercedes or killed a duck with whiskey, and more importantly the dick was fake. Lastly, stop fussing over which season was best, the show was a visual novel and season 2 is but a chapter in it, Subjectively If you don’t like it,that’s fine and you’re entitled to that, but hose stories in season two are all very much based on real people and things that happened to the working class in Baltimore with the closing of the Bethlehem steel mill, so i humbly ask you not disqualify them because you wanted to see Omar smoking his rivals. And yes, season 4 is my favorite. End of rant.

James Ransone’s unedited 25 part tweet on Ziggy and The Wire [x]

(via definitelynoteffy)

#james ransone #misc

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#gifs #kima greggs #ellis carver #seth gilliam #sonja sohn #s1

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From The Wire to Pacific Rim to this fall’s Mandela, Elba is the solitary man who always draws a crowd

Oh Idris…..Wearing two pieces of a three piece suit with denim!!! I love it!!!

#idris elba #article

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"People read it, they think about it — maybe they see things different."

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5.10, —30—

#caps #s5 #ensemble

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breaking bad 5.14 + the wire parallels

#gifs #crossover #breaking bad #d angelo barksdale #stringer bell #idris elba #larry gilliard jr

HI folks! The mod here.

I've been recently swamped with stuff (in other words, Reality Ensued) and I have decided that I cannot maintan this sideblog any longer. I still have a couple of things queued but during the next couple of days they will slow down to a trickle.

I hope you will find a similar The Wire-themed blog to follow (thewirehbo seems to be gaining momentum?). Anyway, thank you for sticking with this blog and sorry for the inconvenience :(