Statuesque Blondes....

....you just don't see them anymore...
some early late thoughts on The Wire:

 Joe Klein: “The Wire never won an Emmy?” 
                    “The Wire should win the Nobel Prize for literature!”

I was re-watching the last-season of The Wire, after I finally got to finish Homeland (boy that Claire Danes huh). So the 2nd episode you get this quote by one of the news paper guys, and man does it bring to mind many things of a yonder-lost-era.

Haynes: “You ever notice how a ‘mother of four’ is always catching hell? Murder? Hit-and-run? Burnt up in a row house fire? Swindled by bigamists?
Price: “Tough gig, ‘mother of four.’”
Twigg: “Innocent bystander’ is worse. He’s always getting the short end.”
Haynes: “Not a lot of them around anymore. Not a lot of innocents anymore, you ask me.”
Phelps: “You know who there’s less of? ‘Statuesque blondes.’ You don’t read about ‘statuesque blondes’ in the newspaper anymore. Buxom ones, neither. They’re like a lost race.”