User:Vin diesel
From Voice of the Proletariat
Taking the innertubes too seriously is spoiling vin's naturally cheerful disposition (ha!) and turning him into a grumpy old man prematurely, as seen in this recent photo:
Consequently he's trying to cut down on the tubes for a short break, but will doubtless return to his addiction in no time flat. As always he can be reached at bNdiesel on google's email service.
I'll try to list some threads I like here that don't qualify as epic but I think are worth sharing, usually either cause people are being all serious and somber, or else because there were a handful of posts that cracked me up.
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[edit] Serious threads
- The "what the hell can anyone do to fix Africa" thread
- Wal*Mart's pricecutting approaches √-1 - Troubling but thought-provoking discussion about Walmart's practice of making its Mexican baggers work for tips instead of wages
- See this bonfire? Therefore, God exists (the Ego thread)
[edit] Funny threads
[edit] Somewhere between
- Chickens with teeth
- There is a God and he's Chinese: bNers geek out on kung fu, and the upcoming Jackie Chan/Jet Li movie
Long drives are nice.
[edit] The Wire
By God, I will have some people on this site watching "The Wire" before its last season is over, if it's the last thing I do!
Stephen King's review of The Wire (season 4):
- "The Wire keeps getting better, and to my mind it has made the final jump from great TV to classic TV — put it right up there with The Prisoner and the first three seasons of The Sopranos. It's the sort of dramatic cycle people will still be writing and thinking about 25 years from now, and given the current state of the world and the nation, that's a good thing. 'There,' our grandchildren will say. 'It wasn't all Simon Cowell.'... The Wire is a staggering achievement."
Below are review summaries taken from the metacritic page for the series; full reviews for every headline below, are available through the link.
- Variety Brian Lowry: When television history is written, little else will rival "The Wire," a series of such extraordinary depth and ambition that it is, perhaps inevitably, savored only by an appreciative few.
- Slant Magazine Keith Uhlich: David Simon and his writers... aren't out to change the world; the slippery slope of civilization is already in place on The Wire and Simon is just out to document how each and every person survives. Or doesn't, as this season quite devastatingly proves.
- San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum: If you stick with it, you will be rewarded with some of the most compelling, provocative drama ever produced for television.
- Time James Poniewozik: They have done what many well-intentioned socially minded writers have tried and failed at: written a story that is about social systems, in all their complexity, yet made it human, funny and most important of all, rivetingly entertaining.
- USA Today Robert Bianco: Brilliant, scathing, sprawling, The Wire has turned our indifference to urban decay into a TV achievement of the highest order.
- TV Guide Matt Roush: This is TV as great modern literature, a shattering and heartbreaking urban epic about a city (Baltimore) rotting from within.
- Newsday Verne Gay: A critic for this paper once declared "The Wire" "the greatest dramatic series ever produced for television" and as the fourth season gets under way Sunday night, there's no reason to quibble with that assessment.
- San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman: The breadth and ambition of "The Wire" are unrivaled and that taken cumulatively over the course of a season -- any season -- it's an astonishing display of writing, acting and storytelling that must be considered alongside the best literature and filmmaking in the modern era.
- LA Weekly Robert Abele: A vibrant, masterful work of art, HBO’s novelistic urban saga The Wire is the best show on television.
- Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray: The best show on television.
- Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn: The best series on TV, period. [15 Sep 2006, p.63]
- New York Post Adam Buckman: One of the finest TV shows ever made.
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland: If there ever was a series that makes HBO a necessity, "The Wire" is it.
- Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart: To me, what allows “The Wire” to surpass “The Sopranos” in the pantheon of greatest American TV shows is its ambition and its anger.
- Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan: If you have only one hour a week for television, give it to "The Wire."
- The New York Times Virginia Heffernan: This season of “The Wire” will knock the breath out of you.
- Washington Post Tom Shales: So is "The Wire" as good as ever? Perhaps even better.
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Tony Norman: "The Wire" is as complex a picaresque as one is likely to find this side of Dickens.
- Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman: Despite high praise, there are two serious problems: (a) The first new episode is crazy confusing, and (b) over the course of the first batch of episodes, the story lines don't develop quickly enough.
- New York Daily News David Hinckley: It just might be the kids, the ones who grow up too soon in the hard world of "The Wire," who steal opening night.
- Salon Heather Havrilesky: Yes, it's tough to trace the relationships between various ranks within the police department and the city and state governments, but that doesn't mean this is an incredibly serious drama it takes a degree in literature to understand. "The Wire" is funny and odd and sad and, above all, engrossing.
