My attempt to head to a site of derelict and abandoned buildings was thwarted today by two wiry men and their delightfully boisterous dogs refusing us.

I figured I’d at least post up this shot of a burnt out and battered car languishing in a field, at least the kids had been making use of it from all the smashed beer bottles collected in it’s rusty innards.

I finally managed to get some friends round and watch the last few episodes of season one of The Wire. What a fantastic show. We showed an awful lot of self control not grabbing season two straight off the shelf and starting it immediately!

It did remind me of what I now know as episode 362 of This American Life, which had one story from The Moth radio show by Richard Price, apparently a writer of The Wire.

It’s a story about a police car which pulls over a black man taking a white child home, and one phrase, “Home boy to base. Home boy to base. We’ve got a black man down” really just suddenly grabbed me when I heard it. I’ve heard this from a recent trailer for a movie…

Now, if I can just figure out which one.