David Simon
@audacityofdespair.bsky.social
Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
On this Veterans Day, a remembrance of Technical Sgt. Murray Lebowitz, my mother's cousinwhose B-24 crashed on takeoff from Bomber Field #2 on Guadalcanal in April 1943. His body was not recovered from the waters off Koli Point.
November 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM
On this Veterans Day, a remembrance of Technical Sgt. Murray Lebowitz, my mother's cousinwhose B-24 crashed on takeoff from Bomber Field #2 on Guadalcanal in April 1943. His body was not recovered from the waters off Koli Point.
Got it. Nancy Pelosi is retiring from government because she is being forced out by angry, emerging leftists in the Democratic party. Not because she is 85 fucking years old.
This fucking guy.
This fucking guy.
November 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Got it. Nancy Pelosi is retiring from government because she is being forced out by angry, emerging leftists in the Democratic party. Not because she is 85 fucking years old.
This fucking guy.
This fucking guy.
Something like those caravans of refugees that would begin deep in Central America and then crawl along for weeks toward our southern border as Fox News spits out fearful jeremiads. Except this will be a stream of BMWs and Benzes on car carriers on I-95 to Florida. And who gives a listless fuck.
November 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Something like those caravans of refugees that would begin deep in Central America and then crawl along for weeks toward our southern border as Fox News spits out fearful jeremiads. Except this will be a stream of BMWs and Benzes on car carriers on I-95 to Florida. And who gives a listless fuck.
As long as the biographers were all of age, I'm thinking we can let this much pass.
October 25, 2025 at 4:20 AM
As long as the biographers were all of age, I'm thinking we can let this much pass.
I talked a lot of shit when I was trying to get everyone to turn off Desperate Housewives and Sunday Night Football. But if that's the crooked path to pop culture immortality, so be it. Thanks for the shoutout, jeopardyofficial@bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I talked a lot of shit when I was trying to get everyone to turn off Desperate Housewives and Sunday Night Football. But if that's the crooked path to pop culture immortality, so be it. Thanks for the shoutout, jeopardyofficial@bsky.social
So about a half century ago, the Rolling Stones took a pop-culture beatdown for the original album art on "Black and Blue." Now comes Sabrina Carpenter showing us that either we overreacted, or it isn't for men to make the joke. To quote Nigel Tufnel, it's "a thin line between stupidity and clever."
September 4, 2025 at 8:53 PM
So about a half century ago, the Rolling Stones took a pop-culture beatdown for the original album art on "Black and Blue." Now comes Sabrina Carpenter showing us that either we overreacted, or it isn't for men to make the joke. To quote Nigel Tufnel, it's "a thin line between stupidity and clever."
Joseph Albert Campbell has been dead for 125 years, but as a Baltimorean, I am not adverse to marching north to Philadelphia, disinterring his remains, and stringing them from atop the scoreboard at Camden Yards.
As a warning to others.
As a warning to others.
September 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Joseph Albert Campbell has been dead for 125 years, but as a Baltimorean, I am not adverse to marching north to Philadelphia, disinterring his remains, and stringing them from atop the scoreboard at Camden Yards.
As a warning to others.
As a warning to others.
Also from Waterloo station, London, on a pillar just outside:
June 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Also from Waterloo station, London, on a pillar just outside:
-- Waterloo graffiti tunnel, London
With every day, the relentless levels of greed, hate and assholery makes it harder to choose.
With every day, the relentless levels of greed, hate and assholery makes it harder to choose.
June 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
-- Waterloo graffiti tunnel, London
With every day, the relentless levels of greed, hate and assholery makes it harder to choose.
With every day, the relentless levels of greed, hate and assholery makes it harder to choose.
Lafayette Gilchrist and the New Volcanos playing Beth Am synagogue today. All theology aside, I belong to the most badass shul in Baltimore.
May 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Lafayette Gilchrist and the New Volcanos playing Beth Am synagogue today. All theology aside, I belong to the most badass shul in Baltimore.
Charlie Scalies was a true professional and a delight. Yes, we knew he was a Philly guy, but once he put on that safety vest, he was Horseface Pakusa and he might as well have rolled right out of a Rappolla Street rowhouse. Pure Bawlmerese. Thoughts are with his family; and memories, blessings.
May 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Charlie Scalies was a true professional and a delight. Yes, we knew he was a Philly guy, but once he put on that safety vest, he was Horseface Pakusa and he might as well have rolled right out of a Rappolla Street rowhouse. Pure Bawlmerese. Thoughts are with his family; and memories, blessings.
Greetings from the Jewish mother of all American municipalities.
April 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Greetings from the Jewish mother of all American municipalities.
No one sits for first pitch.
March 31, 2025 at 6:40 PM
No one sits for first pitch.
It's St. Joseph's Night in New Orleans.
Let's go get 'em.
Let's go get 'em.
March 20, 2025 at 1:38 AM
It's St. Joseph's Night in New Orleans.
Let's go get 'em.
Let's go get 'em.
Seems the new standard for being called a traitor in this Age of American Misrule is to fly more than three dozen combat missions in Iraq for the U.S. Navy, then command the Space Shuttle as a U.S. Astronaut, then serve in the U.S. Senate, and remember that Russia attacked its neighbor, Ukraine.
March 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Seems the new standard for being called a traitor in this Age of American Misrule is to fly more than three dozen combat missions in Iraq for the U.S. Navy, then command the Space Shuttle as a U.S. Astronaut, then serve in the U.S. Senate, and remember that Russia attacked its neighbor, Ukraine.
As a small coda: Leo Herskovics, just shy of five years old when he was murdered in Auschwitz:
March 6, 2025 at 5:22 AM
As a small coda: Leo Herskovics, just shy of five years old when he was murdered in Auschwitz:
The internet may be the death of us, but it's still astonishing. My grandfather came to N.Y. in 1905 and lost track of three siblings who remained in Russia. My father never learned their names. Nor I. Between Ancestry and other websites, I've found them.
Fourteen survived the war; seven did not.
Fourteen survived the war; seven did not.
March 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The internet may be the death of us, but it's still astonishing. My grandfather came to N.Y. in 1905 and lost track of three siblings who remained in Russia. My father never learned their names. Nor I. Between Ancestry and other websites, I've found them.
Fourteen survived the war; seven did not.
Fourteen survived the war; seven did not.
...this photograph, otherwise lost to a family's memory or imagining. The internet can be vile, sure. Even wrong. But damn, no one should ever doubt its new reach and breadth.
February 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
...this photograph, otherwise lost to a family's memory or imagining. The internet can be vile, sure. Even wrong. But damn, no one should ever doubt its new reach and breadth.
...recovered from the waters off Koli Point on the island. Noting the date, I then got back online and found a copy of the war department report indicating the pilot in the 4/23 crash was Lt. Miller, as is the pilot of the crew being honored in this funeral. The caption further indicates...
February 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
...recovered from the waters off Koli Point on the island. Noting the date, I then got back online and found a copy of the war department report indicating the pilot in the 4/23 crash was Lt. Miller, as is the pilot of the crew being honored in this funeral. The caption further indicates...
Apologies, I was confused by the orange glow in the middle of the photo.
February 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Apologies, I was confused by the orange glow in the middle of the photo.
Noting the passing of a news source, a friend and a genuinely good man. I first got to know Dick Lanham when he headed the BPD's internal affairs division. No matter how bad the headline, he couldn't help but tell the truth. If I had a byline for the number of times he confirmed a bad headline...
January 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Noting the passing of a news source, a friend and a genuinely good man. I first got to know Dick Lanham when he headed the BPD's internal affairs division. No matter how bad the headline, he couldn't help but tell the truth. If I had a byline for the number of times he confirmed a bad headline...
Results of burning D.C. 1812. This guy left Baltimore in a rum cask, which preserved him long enough to be buried in Nova Scotia. War is all hell. Payback is a motherfucker. And no one gets out clean.
January 11, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Results of burning D.C. 1812. This guy left Baltimore in a rum cask, which preserved him long enough to be buried in Nova Scotia. War is all hell. Payback is a motherfucker. And no one gets out clean.
Apparently, the original post I cited from @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social was deleted and replaced to correct for the brother's outcome. I'll repost the photograph so my previous remark is contextualized:
November 24, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Apparently, the original post I cited from @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social was deleted and replaced to correct for the brother's outcome. I'll repost the photograph so my previous remark is contextualized:
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy...
November 21, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy...