The Wire come to live - April 2015

"This was obviously a bad shot at current events humor"

Hold on, there. Let's tie this to entertainment.

Recently, I've been re-watching one of my all-time favorite TV shows, The Wire, and I can see some humor in what's occurring in Baltimore.

First the sadness: Store where Omar Little was killed burns to the ground.

So much for our summer sightseeing trip to Baltimore.

The real-life Baltimore mayor would be Nerese in The Wire who was council president on the show, but she became mayor at the end of the series.

Elijah Cummings is a real-life state rep whose district covers much of Baltimore. He may make a U.S. Senate bid. This would be Clay Davis. Sheeeeee-it.

Apparently in real-life Baltimore, officials designated an area of the city for rioters to destroy. That idea had to be inspired by Western District police major Bunny Colvin's 'Hamsterdam' where free zones were created for the unfettered selling of drugs.

Then allegedly in real-life Baltimore, rival gangs decided to work together to attack the police. That would be the co-op of gangs led by Avon Barksdale, Marlo Stanfield, and Proposition Joe.

The Greek has temporarily halted business with the co-op until things cool down.

Stringer Bell is worried that rioters will destroy his development investments that are funded with drug money.

No doubt Lester is using digital surveillance to monitor rioting chatter. Kima is receiving street intel from her confidential informant named Bubbles.

Police sergeant Landsman is still viewing porn during work time, except that he has migrated from magazines to using the internet.

McNulty and Bunk are doing decent police work in between their hours of carousing.

Defense attorney Levy is representing all the arrested rioters.

In the real-life photos from this week, I noticed a lot of photographers in the photos. In some photos, the photographers outnumbered everyone else. Hilarious.

The media loves the rioting, especially hacks like Scott Templeton, because it allows them to add "conflict zone reporting" to their resumes, and they can try to parlay their work into a 2016 Pulitzer.

But someone should warn the media that if they see Omar, Brother Mouzone, Chris, or Snoop walking down the street, then they need to get out of dodge pronto.

A lot of good names from the show were not mentioned above: Herc, Carver, Dozerman, Prez, Beadie, Cedric, Rawls, Burrell, Valcheck, Cutty, Carcetti, Wee-Bey, Ziggy, Fruit, Spider, Old Face Andre, Slim Charles, Cheese, Horseface, Bodie, Poot, D, Monk, Dukie, Donut, Nay, Little Kevin, and Bug.

Five seasons, Amazon Prime. It's not exactly a romantic comedy, but the sad and edgy show contains a lot of funny moments.