It’s been a little busy around here this past week.\u00a0 Spouse and I were away the week before last attending a funeral in Northern Ontario.\u00a0 We got snowed in up there and missed an extra day of work as a result.\u00a0 When we got back to work, a couple of days went by and Spouse came down with a wicked cold and, as we later learned, a sinus infection.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This thing has pretty much knocked her on her ass for three or four days, and I’ve been covering some of her work commitments as a result.\u00a0 Add a couple of snowstorms into the mix (with all the attendant shovelling required) and there has unfortunately not been either time or energy for me to blather on teh Intarwebs.<\/p>\n
That is, until yesterday.\u00a0\u00a0 Determined to chill a bit and get back some much needed energy, Spouse and I planted ourselves in front of the tube.\u00a0 What I am saying is that I spent the time I could have spent with y’all perched on my couch and drinking in the entertainment from my TV set.\u00a0 We had watched the first couple of episodes of The Wire<\/em> Season One a few days ago;\u00a0 on Saturday, we put that baby to bed.\u00a0 We watched about eight episodes of the series, right up to the end of the first season.\u00a0\u00a0 What an amazing bit of television.\u00a0 This show follows a major drug and homicide investigation into the Baltimore Projects subculture.\u00a0 It tells the story\u00a0on both sides of the wire.\u00a0 It\u00a0features some of the greatest characters ever invented on television – on the street side Bubs, Wallace and D’Angelo;\u00a0 on\u00a0the law side\u00a0Jimmy McNulty, Bunk, Lester Freamon, Kima, and Sgt. Jay Landesman.\u00a0 There’s also one of the great all time villains, Omar.\u00a0 The acting on this show is\u00a0absolutely top notch, especially Larry Gilliard Jr<\/a>., the guy who plays D’Angelo Barkesdale (a lieutenant in the drug-dealing organization) and Bubs, played by Andre Royo<\/a>.<\/p>\n We loved this show so much, I was in the car this morning and off to the mall to get seasons two, three and four.\u00a0 I understand that season five, the final season of the show,\u00a0is playing out on HBO right now.\u00a0 Writer’s strike aside, why can’t network TV\u00a0produce anything half this good?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been a little busy around here this past week. Spouse and I were away the week before last attending a funeral in Northern Ontario. We got snowed in up there and missed an extra day of work as a result. When we got back to work, a couple of days went by and Spouse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}