Okay, one more post and I promise I'll tone down the whole Wire thing. But this one was too good to pass up - I found it in a lengthy link over on The Sports Guy's ESPN page.

It's an excerpt from a Nick Hornby interview with former Baltimore cops reporter/Wire guru David Simon, where they discuss all the good hood vernacular used on the show. (Oh stewardess! I speak Jive.)


NH: Every time I think, Man, I'd love to write for The Wire, I quickly realize that I wouldn't know my True dats from my narcos. Did you know all that before you started? Do you get input from those who might be more familiar with the idiom?

DS: My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the average reader. I was always told to write for the average reader in my newspaper life. The average reader, as they meant it, was some suburban white subscriber with two-point-whatever kids and three-point-whatever cars and a dog and a cat and lawn furniture. He knows nothing and he needs everything explained to him right away, so that exposition becomes this incredible, story-killing burden. Fuck him. Fuck him to hell.


Heh, awesome.