The Wire and Baltimore
Online chatter about the Bouchercon conference -- and Baltimore -- has been very positive. Folks enjoyed touring the city, and perfect fall weather certainly helped. When I joked on the DorothyL listerv that some people might have stayed home after seeing episodes of The Wire, I got this response from British author Natasha Cooper:
"Having read about Baltimore's high murder rate and seen some of The Wire, I'd had a few moments of silent panic here in London about what I might find when I crossed the Atlantic. What I actually found was a great city, basking in wonderful sunshine. We walked to Mount Vernon and saw rows and rows of beautiful old houses, went to dinner in Fell's Point, basked on the edge of the harbor and had a really good time."
This from a writer who deals with murder and gore for a living? (Her latest book, A Greater Evil, has this plot summary: Abandoned as a baby and brutalised in care, sculptor Sam Foundling is the obvious suspect when his wife is beaten to death in his studio.) Actually, I'm sure she was partly kidding about our rep, and I'm glad B'coners had fun in our overly maligned city.
But maybe Cooper has unwittingly found a new marketing opportunity for the city -- at least one aimed at mystery writers. One possible slogan: Plot in a rut? Visit Baltimore for new ideas on mayhem!
Categories: Bouchercon/Charmed to Death
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from Baltimore - home of the television series: "The Wire", "Homicide" "The Corner" (popular tv shows on crime in the ghetto)
a couple of my wire inspired poems- go Snoop
1) Abandominium Ode
Rats b crawlin
cross my feet!
Heroin high!
2) Homage to David Mamet who did the original "Homicide" movie- set in B more in the 90's? 80's?
Serial killer to cop:
"Want to know the nature of evil?"
Cop: "No, I'd b out of a job!"
3) Homage to Mamet 2
"FBI couldn't find
Joe Louis
In a bowl of white rice!"
4) Yo, careful that pit bull
Don't bite yr. johnson-
He b goin that way!
5) found poem no double space NOTE
“Assistance for
Trapped animals?
Call 311”
Posted by: david eberhardtmoela9@comcast.net | November 22, 2011 10:52 AM
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from Baltimore - home of the television series: "The Wire", "Homicide" "The Corner" (popular tv shows on crime in the ghetto)
a couple of my wire inspired poems- go Snoop
1) Abandominium Ode
Rats b crawlin
cross my feet!
Heroin high!
2) Homage to David Mamet who did the original "Homicide" movie- set in B more in the 90's? 80's?
Serial killer to cop:
"Want to know the nature of evil?"
Cop: "No, I'd b out of a job!"
3) Homage to Mamet 2
"FBI couldn't find
Joe Louis
In a bowl of white rice!"
4) Yo, careful that pit bull
Don't bite yr. johnson-
He b goin that way!
5) found poem
“Assistance for
Trapped animals?
Call 311”
capchas sometimes a prob- an n w two dots over it?
Posted by: david eberhardtmoela9@comcast.net | November 22, 2011 11:54 AM