Hands, touching hands....

Perhaps we shouldn't get too excited about our new mayor's celebrity pals just yet.

More on Richmond being doomed

I blogged a freaking ton and a half today over on Save Richmond. Check it out.

Hey hey hey! This city is doomed

I haven't beaten up on the Times-Dispatch lately, but I can't help but think that part of the reason Richmond is such an effective youth repellent is encapsulated nicely in this passage from yesterday's Weekend section, in which the author addresses a friend of our new mayor, a man by the name of Bill Cosby:

"Note to Dr. Bill: If you're trying to be cool, not to worry. Ditch the shades. You DEFINE cool.

(Cosby, pictured above, defining cool back when Ross MacKenzie first started accusing his nurses of poisoning his food)

Bodie, hip-hop trope

I was watching MTV Hits while feeding the boy, and noticed J D Williams is in the Aaliyah "Miss You" video. So I looked him up: He's also in videos by Cam'ron (no relation), Mariah Carey and Freeway. The missus swears she saw Andre Royo ("Bubbles") in the "Miss You" video, too, which I am totally prepared to believe at this point.

Techmology

Well, I guess I can get rid of the $4.99 "mobile web" service on my cell phone now. I just tried this and it worked wonderfully.

All in the game

More The Wire castmembers filtering into pop culture: J D Williams, who plays police-brutality magnet Bodie on the show, has a cameo in Fabolous' "Breathe" video as...a drug dealer who gets beat up by police. He's even wearing the 'do rag. I've also seen Chad "Cutty" Coleman and Melanie Nicholls-King (Kima's ex-partner Cheryl) in commercials lately. Now if only people other than casting directors watched the show....

Wacky!

I can't imagine even Chris Lehane would be able to put a positive spin on spending time with these folks.

Reinventing the wheel

A few minutes after writing that last post, I happened to look at today's New York Times, in which Frank Rich examines the new season of 24 a bit more expertly than me with my little bullet points.

Freedom spreads

I'm enjoying the season premiere of Fox's 24, but it really is a bit of a red-state fantasy. Consider these points from the first hour:

• Foreign enemies have penetrated and are constantly penetrating the U.S.
  
• The Secretary of Defense's son is made to repent what his dad calls his "sixth-grade Michael Moore logic." "America has enemies," the SecDef reminds his mixed-up liberal scion moments before being kidnapped. Sonnyboy is later found whimpering in the corner.
  
• Jack Bauer is clearly better at his old job than the woman who has it now. She caves under pressure, makes wrong calls. And Jack, well, the only way he can get information out of a suspect is by using torture.
  
• And guess what news network the characters watch?