I didn't know he just died. Most sad.

"Robert F. Chew, who played Proposition Joe on 'The Wire,' dead at 52"

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-01-18/entertainment/bal-proposition-joe-the-wire-robert-chew-dead-at-52-20130118_1_young-actors-david-simon-prop
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Interesting article. I knew he mentored the kids in the Wire but didn't know he actually supplied 22 of them to the show.

Thank you for the heads up. Found a replacement.

http://www.videosift.com/video/David-Simon-on-Real-Time-with-Bill-Maher

In reply to this comment by moodonia:
Hi mikeshl13,
Your wonderful real time interview is flatlining:
http://www.videosift.com/video/David-Simon-on-Real-Time-with-Bill-Maher

Hi mikeshl13,
Your wonderful real time interview is flatlining:
http://www.videosift.com/video/David-Simon-on-Real-Time-with-Bill-Maher

Ah, Landsman. Never a scene without some food around.

The real Jay Landsman actually plays a different character on The Wire. Quite a history with the other David Simon shows, too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Landsman

Thanks! I was afraid this great interview would go unnoticed

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*promote

>> ^vairetube:
well, more like no one cared, and it wasn't quite the present implementation... more cultish? expensive? exclusive?


It was neither expensive, nor exclusive (outside of the fact that it wasn't common knowledge yet) in '95, but it was definitely more cultish. I can remember when there were very specific websites for information without all of the overlap that we have now; like the Star Wars site at the University of Pennsylvania -- it was, tbh, one of the few websites out there with that type of concise nerd info.

Also, the perception was different, that type of quick information in an easily accessible format was new and exciting (even if you were a previous BBS user), and the only people with decent websites were university students/faculty and companies like Disney; and, honestly, commercial websites didn't really put a lot of effort into the content, even if the website was flashy because the audience was so small. Angelfire, Tripod and Geocities were on the way to drawing in an audience and search engines were questionably accurate. It was California before the railroads.

>> ^jimnms:
Nobody new what the internet was in 1995?


Actually, his point was that in 1995 they had a pretty idea of what the Internet was about to become, and instead of reinvesting their profits in trying to prepare, they spent it all on hookers and blow.

Your video, Real Time with Bill Maher - Drug War, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.