The Dapper Lad

OK, we realize that recommending a show that is already off the air is a little (fine, a lot) like recommending this sweet jam band that we just came across called the Grateful Dead, but it is so unbelievably good.  The first episode is a little heavy handed and it left us wondering about the taste of dozens of reviewers and many friends whose opinions are generally spot on.  But then it starts getting better and better and then like a crackhead in the towers you are hooked.  This opening sequence from the start of the 8th episode of the 2nd season (the one in the port) (NSFW after McNulty asks if he can get scrapple with that)

is the best sequence we’ve seen on TV since the “San Francisco cocksucker” scene from Deadwood:

The Wire is an unbelievably strong show and we’re pumped for Generation Kill (done by the same guys) to come out on DVD or for one of our friends to get HBO.

In the words of McNulty: “Pour it!”

They are going to be selling exactly the same iPhone tomorrow. I can almost guarantee that you have something better to do than to wait in line for an iPhone. If you don’t, please go examine your life. Can we get a “your meaningless lives” tag?

Because he was cleared of any wrongdoing in the death of his 14-year-old neighbor, and that’s change we can all believe in.

We’re watching TV in our hotel room… (a BEST Western, by the way)… and this was the tag we just witnessed in Dixie’s latest commercial:

“I’m proud to use Dixie paper plates if it means fewer dishes and spending more time with my family.”

Translation: I’m all for saving the Earth… unless more work is involved.

Suck it, Al Gore.

Jacksonville Jaugars "possession" receiver Matt Jones

What is it about the NFL that gives them an abnormally high incidence of drug possession and alcohol-influenced driving charges? It’s almost as if throwing a wheelbarrow of money at a guy in his early 20s, and then giving him 6 months a year to do nothing, leads to trouble. Weird.

At least this one won’t impact too many fantasy drafts. THANK GOODNESS. This time around it was Jacksonville Jaguars “possession receiver” Matt Jones. (Damn, that was clever.)

You feel bad for the guy who is 3rd on the depth chart at his position to get caught with cocaine. I mean, cocaine is the drug of a star player. Maybe even a second tier guy on a team deep in talent at WR. But certainly not of a guy who only comes in on third downs and long yardage situations.

Oh wait! We forgot. Matt Jones is white. That explains it. We need to amend our previous statement: cocaine is the drug of star players, and white players.

Having never seen the film Star Wars, this photo confuses the hell out of us.