>>> Last night’s finale of The Wire delivered completely, we thought, but here’s the hangover: Creator David Simon (pictured here) is still banging on about Inky ed Bill Marimow. And it’s getting friggin’ borrrrrrring. Last week, Terry Gross asked Simon about Marimow directly, and he served up some mealy-mouthed nonsense, over-answering and getting a little hot under the collar, which proved something to us that we’d been suspecting for a while: Simon’s only comfortable playing this game by himself. And in this essay for Esquire, he does just that. Again. [Esquire]
>>> Good morning, 2008! The Philadelphia Gay News has finally moved into a slightly more digestable web format, from a clunky frames thing that hid a lot of its content to… a clunky flash format that mimics the paper’s actual pages, ads and all, that produces a satisfying “swish” sound when you “turn” a page. You can write your own joke there. [PGN]
>>> And lastly, we gotta say: This election year could not be more screwy. Here’s professional asshole Michael Smerconish getting positively weepy over Barack Obama’s 1995 tome, Dreams From My Father. Dear God, it’s me, Philebrity: Help me understand. [Inky]

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