The Wire's Snoop arrested!

[kyser_soze]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/10/the-wire-snoop-arrested-baltimore-drugs



Gives me an excuse to post up her most memorable conversation:

Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: God... damn.

Hardware Store Employee: I see you got the Dewalt cordless. Your nailgun, Dewalt 410.

Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: Yeah. The trouble is, you leave it in a truck for a while, need to step up and use the bitch, the battery don't hold up, you know?

Hardware Store Employee: Yeah, cordless'll do that. You might want to consider the powder-actuated tool. The Hilti DX 460 MX or the Simpson PTP. These two are my cadillacs. Everything else on this board is second best, sorry to say. Are you contracting, or just doing some work around the house?

Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: No, we work all over.

Hardware Store Employee: Full time?

Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: No, we had about 5 jobs last month.
Hardware Store Employee: At that rate, the cost of the powder-actuated guns justifies itself.

Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: You say power?

Hardware Store Employee: Powder.

Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: Like gunpowder?

Hardware Store Employee: Yeah. The DX 460 is fully automatic, with a .27 caliber charge. Wood, concrete, steel to steel... She'll throw a fastener into anything, and for my money, she handles recoil better than the Simpson or the P3500. Now, you understand what I mean by recoil ?

Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: Yeah, the kickback. I'm with you.

Hardware Store Employee: That's right.

Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: .27 caliber, huh?

Hardware Store Employee: Yeah, not large ballistically, but for driving nails, it's enough. Any more than that, you'd add to the recoil.

Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: Man, shit. I seen a tiny-ass .22 round-nose drop a nigger plenty of days, man. Motherfuckers get up in you like a pinball, rip your ass up. Big joints, though... Big joints, man, just break your bones, you say, "fuck it." I'm gonna go with this right here, man. How much do I owe you?

Hardware Store Employee: Six-sixty-nine plus tax.
[Snoop counts out a stack of cash]

Hardware Store Employee: No, no, you just pay at the register.

Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: Nah, man, you go ahead and handle that for me, man. And keep the rest for your time.

Hardware Store Employee: This is $800.

Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson: So what, man? You earned that buck like a motherfucker, man. Keep that shit.

Reading this back, it's reminded me of just how fucking brilliant the writing on The Wire was.

 

[TopCat]

That Ms Pearson has a conviction for murder does not surprise me. She was chilling in The Wire. "Just be yourself" you can imagine the Director saying.

 

[AverageJoe]

You should check out her wiki page.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicia_Pearson

 

[JWH]

I don't remember where I read it but iirc it was Michael K Williams (Omar ) that met Snoop in Bodymore and got her into acting. She had also had a pretty sad and rough life.

 

[Dillinger4]

shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitttttttttttttttttt

 

[JWH]

PS I can't believe you beat me by six minutes to post this thread.

 

[kyser_soze]

I was really surprised it wasn't already up TBH!

Not get out on that corner and make some money motherfucker.

 

[miniGMgoit]

He's a she!

 

[kyser_soze]

She always was a she, even in the show. Fo' sho

 

[krtek a houby]

Always wondered if she and Chris were getting it on

 

[Dillinger4]

Always wondered if she and Chris were getting it on

She is a lesbian.

 

[goldenecitrone]

I thought the wire was about drug dealing and shit. Not DIY.

 

[kyser_soze]

She and Chris were involved in a community housing project.

 

[kittyP]

Damn they update wiki pretty quickly too.

Sad for her. Seems that she was really starting to turn her life around

 

[Dillinger4]

all in the game yo

 

[krtek a houby]

She is a lesbian.

In the show?

 

[JWH]

Bunk: "We all got roles to play"
Lester: "What's your role?"

 

[Blagsta]

That Ms Pearson has a conviction for murder does not surprise me. She was chilling in The Wire. "Just be yourself" you can imagine the Director saying.

They used a few people from their book The Corner, to act in The Wire.

 

[DotCommunist]

'hows my hair look mike?'

'you look good girl'

BLAM


art imitates life and life imitates art till you have this chasing-its-own-tail situation like this. They'll life her off given the chance. The US court system is vengeful
I never even realised she was a she untill mid season.

 

[DotCommunist]

In the show?

her sexuality is not discussed in the show as I recall because it is not so crass. Think on how we know rawls is a heem- a thirty second if that clip of him during a totally unrelated bit.

The casual nature of her attitude to ending the life of another human being is what rings so chilling when you know her past. Life is fucking cheap there, cheaper than it has any right to be in a place where people cxan have swimming pools in the garden and three cars in the garage.

 

[The Octagon]

her sexuality is not discussed in the show as I recall because it is not so crass. Think on how we know rawls is a heem- a thirty second if that clip of him during a totally unrelated bit.

The casual nature of her attitude to ending the life of another human being is what rings so chilling when you know her past. Life is fucking cheap there, cheaper than it has any right to be in a place where people cxan have swimming pools in the garden and three cars in the garage.

Except for the brief exchange with Bunk when he pulls them over and sits them on the sidewalk.

Bunk - "I know I'm all that. I'm just thinking about pussy"
Snoop - "Yeah, me too!"

Kind of a hint.

 

[DotCommunist]

d'yknow this thread just made me think about the scene where the young uns are in the takeaway place and michael is treating them all. The kid orders turkey grease, to the derision of his friends. He's taken aside by michael who explains that turkey grease is crackhead food for people seeking to line the stomach between hits and that is why his mum always ordered it. There aren't words for how fucked up that is. It stuck with me for days.

 

[Dillinger4]

d'yknow this thread just made me think about the scene where the young uns are in the takeaway place and michael is treating them all. The kid orders turkey grease, to the derision of his friends. He's taken aside by michael who explains that turkey grease is crackhead food for people seeking to line the stomach between hits and that is why his mum always ordered it. There aren't words for how fucked up that is. It stuck with me for days.

There are so many bits that stick with me like that.

 

[DotCommunist]

there are moments in the Wire that grab me by the heartstrings and that is one of them. Another is where Avon and Stringer hug in the full knowledge that they have betrayed each other only both think the betrayal is unknown by the other. Another is where someone asks kima how mcnulty took Stringers death 'like he was kin' is the response. And that fucking nails it on so many leveles because of who mcnulty is and how invested he was in stringers case. It hurt him in a way that seeing the cat-mouse game concluded with jail never could.

I am now going to have to re watch the whole thing, as it has been a good year since I last did so- fuck last time I watched they were shotting it in a fucking stupidly late slot on terrestrial tv

 

[Dillinger4]

there are moments in the Wire that grab me by the heartstrings and that is one of them. Another is where Avon and Stringer hug in the full knowledge that they have betrayed each other only both think the betrayal is unknown by the other. Another is where someone asks kima how mcnulty took Stringers death 'like he was kin' is the response. And that fucking nails it on so many leveles because of who mcnulty is and how invested he was in stringers case. It hurt him in a way that seeing the cat-mouse game concluded with jail never could.

I am now going to have to re watch the whole thing, as it has been a good year since I last did so- fuck last time I watched they were shotting it in a fucking stupidly late slot on terrestrial tv

Definitely. That moment between Stringer and Avon is like Greek tragedy.

I watched seasons 1 - 3 all over again recently.

 

[DotCommunist]

There are so many bits that stick with me like that.

dill, what is the first response- to the knowledge that a kid can order fucking grease because his drug addicted mother always did and then be roundly mocked because of it?

because I am getting horror fatigue and feeling like I am living in a dystopian nightmare. I can't do the care anymore, it just gets transmitted into pure fucking rage. We can't live like this. They make animals of us and tell us it is good. I should probably confine this to a PM cos it is way off topic but I can't find the tears anymore. I just want to kill the people whose desire for wealth accumulation as an end to itself.

 

[Dillinger4]

dill, what is the first response- to the knowledge that a kid can order fucking grease because his drug addicted mother always did and then be roundly mocked because of it?

because I am getting horror fatigue and feeling like I am living in a dystopian nightmare. I can't do the care anymore, it just gets transmitted into pure fucking rage. We can't live like this. They make animals of us and tell us it is good. I should probably confine this to a PM cos it is way off topic but I can't find the tears anymore. I just want to kill the people whose desire for wealth accumulation as an end to itself.

pm sent

 

[kyser_soze]

dill, what is the first response- to the knowledge that a kid can order fucking grease because his drug addicted mother always did and then be roundly mocked because of it?

because I am getting horror fatigue and feeling like I am living in a dystopian nightmare. I can't do the care anymore, it just gets transmitted into pure fucking rage. We can't live like this. They make animals of us and tell us it is good. I should probably confine this to a PM cos it is way off topic but I can't find the tears anymore. I just want to kill the people whose desire for wealth accumulation as an end to itself.

It's precisely for my mental health & general wellbeing that I stopped caring about this shit.

 

[co-op]

It's precisely for my mental health & general wellbeing that I stopped caring about this shit.

Stopping caring about it is also bad for your mental health.

 

[krtek a houby]

Except for the brief exchange with Bunk when he pulls them over and sits them on the sidewalk.

Bunk - "I know I'm all that. I'm just thinking about pussy"
Snoop - "Yeah, me too!"

Kind of a hint.

Cheers, don't remember that. The Wire is a thing of great beauty, sadness and humour.