Thiscouldbearadioshow

I am a late follower of the Wire. I have bought all the series and watched them quite recently to understand what the fuss was about.
Well I have to say I do understand now.
The Wire is amazing. It might nit strike you immediately but it will if you give it some time and get passed the confusing amount of characters and the Baltimore slang. I am not English mothertongue and therefore used to miss out on what is going on. I therefore always watch movies with subtitles with the excuse that it makes me learn vocabulary (it does work). Strangeky enough I got along well with the Baltimore slang after a few episodes. Equally I managed with the many characters after only a few episodes. The first series got me wondering: had I just watched some kind of experimental fiction or was I up for a full lenghth story? I am glad I picked up on it when the full series had been broadcasted. Thank you HBO for having supported quality and allowed the makers of the Wire to fulfill what they had intented to do.
So I have watched it all and I feel like I have been educated about what it is to survive, live, support, rule, try to educate and report about a city in the USA. I got attached to many characters along the story, some easy to like and some that would have been easier to dislike, some I did dislike but not in such an easy way. I feel thta I have seen enough to understnd whay shit happens although there are still ways to make it better.
I have started to care about something rather remote though with very much similarities to what I have got at home. Belive me or not I wrote a letter to Obama and asked him to watch the Wire, this is how much it stroke me.

Believe me or not I belive that anyone in charge should watch these series. I want Britain to get better, I want London to be better. The five seasons of the Wire show us how shit hits the fan. I live to hope that we can watch and learn. It is possible. Watch the Wire and make where you live different: it is possible but only up to you and your vote.

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Hi,

haven't been around for some time... Feel a bit bad about it actually. Not that I am thinking that my absense had a massive impact on my readers... but just because I realise that when my life gets a bit more intense my need to discuss or talk about it becomes less of a need.

Life is good. It is actually really good. Not sure how it could get better... Maybe with a winning lottery ticket (need to remember about buying lottery tickets). Maybe with more holidays for me and my friends. Maybe with brilliant health for all my friends and aquaintances. And no one killed by malaria anymore, especially when you think it is down to silly cheap nets. Oh and no one starving either. And actually no one suffering from any kind of illness. By the way let's add no kids in a situation in which they cannot enjoy being children. Which reminds me no women being beaten or bullied in any way. To be fair let's add no dads being deprived from taking care of their children when they want to do it.

I realise I am drawing a world that could be almost perfect... If so then I have to add a few other things:
- make sure girls and boys are aware of the consequenses of having sex and therefore choose parenthood instead of having to cope with it
- organise a world in which anyone in the worst case scenario is taken care of
- teach people how to be happy and make sure they can be for the length of their life
- say hello to your neighbours and risk the odd occasion of them asking you for a little bit of sugar or milk
- nurture the bad behaving teens in the bus and tell them that behaving by the rules is not against their freedom but contributing to it
- smile and say hello to old people in the street - they usually smile back and it does make your day

This is not an exhaustive list but it does work for me so far. Happy to take over any additional suggestion over what could make my world better.

Love to you all xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx