Comments on: Throwback Post. http://ifux.alumnah.com/2008/03/12/throwback-post/ No one goes deeper. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:10:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: LaLin the Sex Machine http://ifux.alumnah.com/2008/03/12/throwback-post/#comment-507 LaLin the Sex Machine Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:18:55 +0000 http://ifux.alumnah.com/2008/03/12/throwback-post/#comment-507 In the final episode, after his lawyer sprung him of all charges -- but with the caveat that Marlo sell his business and never go back to dealing drugs -- there is an incredible scene in which Marlo leaves a cocktail party filled with elite Baltimore businessmen, unable to handle the thought of inhabiting their spineless world, ultimately walking the streets and picking a fight with two thugs on a street corner. After landing two blows and sending them scurrying, the scene ends with Marlo checking a wound on his arm, tasting the blood, laughing and standing proudly on his new corner, reclaiming the streets if only for those few seconds. You could say Marlo was wrong for being a drug dealer, but, to steal a phrase from Jamiel Sr., it was the right reason for him. [+] EnlargeBill Simmons A flyer promoted the reward for the apprehension of Jas' killers. Police made an arrest Tuesday. Marlo's character became a defining character on the show, an unredeeming villain who embraced street life and everything that came with it. We never met Marlo's parents and didn't need to meet them -- he was created by Baltimore itself, a city with reprehensibly bad schools and too many one-parent and no-parent families, a city that left its young kids to mostly fend for themselves. The show's fourth season revolved around four teenage friends, all of whom started out with good hearts even though they had little chance of making anything of their lives. By last weekend's final episode, three of the four were hopeless -- one stuck in a group home, one hooked on drugs, one resigned to life as a street thug -- with the fourth finding salvation from an adopted family. When we saw the fourth speaking about AIDS in Africa at a Baltimore city debate this season, it was an especially rewarding moment because we knew the odds had been stacked so dramatically against him. (c) Bill Simmons In the final episode, after his lawyer sprung him of all charges — but with the caveat that Marlo sell his business and never go back to dealing drugs — there is an incredible scene in which Marlo leaves a cocktail party filled with elite Baltimore businessmen, unable to handle the thought of inhabiting their spineless world, ultimately walking the streets and picking a fight with two thugs on a street corner. After landing two blows and sending them scurrying, the scene ends with Marlo checking a wound on his arm, tasting the blood, laughing and standing proudly on his new corner, reclaiming the streets if only for those few seconds. You could say Marlo was wrong for being a drug dealer, but, to steal a phrase from Jamiel Sr., it was the right reason for him.

[+] EnlargeBill Simmons

A flyer promoted the reward for the apprehension of Jas’ killers. Police made an arrest Tuesday.
Marlo’s character became a defining character on the show, an unredeeming villain who embraced street life and everything that came with it. We never met Marlo’s parents and didn’t need to meet them — he was created by Baltimore itself, a city with reprehensibly bad schools and too many one-parent and no-parent families, a city that left its young kids to mostly fend for themselves. The show’s fourth season revolved around four teenage friends, all of whom started out with good hearts even though they had little chance of making anything of their lives. By last weekend’s final episode, three of the four were hopeless — one stuck in a group home, one hooked on drugs, one resigned to life as a street thug — with the fourth finding salvation from an adopted family. When we saw the fourth speaking about AIDS in Africa at a Baltimore city debate this season, it was an especially rewarding moment because we knew the odds had been stacked so dramatically against him. (c) Bill Simmons

]]> By: Mark Twain Fame aka tankus maximus! aka the token saltine http://ifux.alumnah.com/2008/03/12/throwback-post/#comment-506 Mark Twain Fame aka tankus maximus! aka the token saltine Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:19:09 +0000 http://ifux.alumnah.com/2008/03/12/throwback-post/#comment-506 crazy ass son of a bitch you are...but well trained in the anciet Ways of the Chutzpah I see. ha ha! crazy ass son of a bitch you are…but well trained in the anciet Ways of the Chutzpah I see.

ha ha!

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