Snoop weekend

Friday, November 9th, 2007

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Felicia (Felecia?) Pearson, the woman behind the wildest most-intriguing character on TV, hitgirl Snoop on The Wire, came out this week with a memoir called Grace after Midnight. We haven’t had the honor of peeping it yet (G-C publishing, send us a copy already!) but the stories in that book are sure to be the real stuff that the people behind The Wire have tapped into and why it’s one of the best shows ever about topics that have otherwise been buried under nuclear-war-safe Yuka Mountain-size loads of cliche.

Awhile back, the big fans at Fader did a Q&A with Pearson. This is our favorite section:

Are you from the area where they film the show?
Yes sir, right in it, right where they film it in the hood.

Do people recognize you now?
Yes sir.

Do they treat you differently?
No, because they are people, they don’t play with me. I’m just the same old person, I don’t act different or nothing like that, I mean some family members come and put their hand out like I got millions or something like that, but you know family always have the tendency to get on your nerves.

Weekend recommends: The memoir and all five seasons of The Wire, download or dvd. Don’t answer the phone. No need to get dressed. Everybody at your house has to be watching or reading. Drinks start only after six pee emm.

ps: Can we decide (HBO uh and uh) how we’re spelling girlfriend’s name?

The sell

Friday, November 9th, 2007

In 1979, according to history books and some of the people who were alive back then, Ronald Reagan, with that folksy Hollywood brand he had going, somehow convinced working class Americans that the Republican party was looking out for their interests as well as the interests of their millionaire bosses. Suddenly the guys who owned and ran the factories with their suits and power ties and the guys and gals who filed into them every day with their lunchboxes and hard hats were all on the same team: everybody was Reagan Republicans, cuz it was morning in America and he was good looking and patriotic and he slashed taxes and corporate oversight and busted unions and all the factories closed down and moved away and now we alls work at Wal-Mart.

That’s one version of the story, anyway. Barack Obama makes quick unarticulated reference to that history in this ad. Obama may be the anti-Reagan, opposite in every way, but similarly able to redefine the debate and maybe win back the people that got fooled in that long long ago.