Our house here in Columbus recently acquired the entire series so I think ill probably start the obsession somewhat soon and be able to follow along with this but i figured i should make it available to those that would understand (read sybil alpha).
Nathan, congrats on the Job! And i'm excited to stalk Sluis' replacement in your love life.
The rest of you POST!
Heart,
James
I read this entire thing. A surprisingly good Wire adaptation, of which many have been attempted. Consider this sample from an e-mail sent out by our UVA network/tech. department right before last year's final exams (which was an ambitious translation of exam information into The Wire-style vernacular, but that ended up mostly confusing and frustrating people who were cramming for exams):
ReplyDeleteRupert Bond: What the just happened?
Rhonda: Whatever it is, they don't teach it in law school.
Much has changed during my brief time at the Law School. When I arrived in 2004, 1Ls had their pick of high-paying fat-cat summer firm jobs and a stampede of lust for their services from fawning OGI emissaries. 3Ls enjoyed being pulled on golden chariots through their Spring semester with the promise of untold wealth at their fingertips, regardless of the efforts of their last Spring final exam period. But things went bad, life got hard, and now everybody has to work the system and hustle for every opportunity. It got gritty and tense and it seems a little too much like real life.
So, rather than send out exam tips with fairy-tale language and smiley-face quotes, I send my advice with a nod of the head to all of the hustlers out there who, like it or not, are playing The Game. With some help from my friends Stringer Bell, McNulty, and especially Omar, here are some pointers that might keep you from running the streets as a hopper for some mope and instead might keep you alive long enough to start making some cheese slinging law. With a heavy hand on the language filter, I present to you Spring 2010 Exam Lessons learned from the men and women of "The Wire"
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McNulty: Let me understand. Every Friday night, you and your boys are shootin' craps, right? And every Friday night, your pal Snot Boogie… he'd wait til there's cash on the ground and he'd grab it and run away? You let him do that?
Man On Stoop: We'd catch him and beat his but ain't nobody ever go past that.
McNulty: I gotta ask ya: If every time Snot Boogie would grab the money and run away, why'd you even let him in the game?
Man On Stoop: What?
McNulty: If Snot Boogie always stole the money, why'd you let him play?
Man On Stoop: Got to. This America, man.
You students are our Snot Boogies and this is indeed America. If you have ignored everything up to this point and things just go completely out of control, don't freak out. No matter what sort of trouble you've gotten yourself into, come to the exam table so that we can get it all sorted out. Don't go crazy and try to fix it all yourself as we might shake our heads but we'll do our best to try to save you from yourselves. We've been throwing dice at the exam table for many years now and have had plenty of Snot Boogies before you so let us figure it out together. If you strike out on your own, you might end up like McNulty. "You start to tell the story, you think you're the hero, and then when you get done talking..."
So that's how it works. Hopefully you can develop your own code and find a way to come out ahead. Please do your best, follow the rules, and we will all hope that you come out the other side relatively unscathed. And to close, I'll give you one more quote from my man Omar.
"I'll do what I can to help y'all. But, the game's out there, and it's play or get played. That simple."
Good luck to all of you,
Derek for LawITC