re: #225 Jimmah

The great thing about the Sopranos - or one of them - is that it mocks the gangsters for their stupidity, crassness etc in a way that other shows/movies don’t. The hypocrisy of sociopaths trying to pass themselves off as noble soldiers honouring venerable codes is of my favourite themes in it. Tony S. keeps telling himself that they don’t touch ‘civilians’; yet almost every civilian whose lives they touch is ruined one way or another.

Maybe you don’t catch what I’m saying. I was very close to some shit that came down in the 50’s in Brooklyn. I saw how some of that “stupidity” got people hurt and killed, people I know.

That is not interesting to me at all.