I’m here at the Gin Blossoms concert in Anaheim. The opening band was good. I’m looking forward to the main act.
UPDATE: Second act not so great. And there’s a *third* opening act up next. Sheesh. Get on with it, willya?
UPDATE x2: Three opening bands is too many. That’s all I’m sayin’.
UPDATE x3: It was excellent. More tomorrow.
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Anwyn (9b5f79) — 12/8/2006 @ 9:54 pmyou know, for a full-time prosecutor, family man and blogger, you sure do spend a lot of time at concerts. what’s the story here?
assistant devil's advocate (18c6c6) — 12/8/2006 @ 11:00 pmwhether three opening bands is just right/too much obviously depends on the bands.
Surely you jest, ada. THREE opening bands for anybody is too much … unless you’re there to see, for example, Dolly Parton, and the opening acts are Mindy Smith, Alison Krauss, and Gillian Welch.
Three unknowns are at *least* two too many.
Anwyn (9b5f79) — 12/8/2006 @ 11:03 pmIt’s like foreplay without the payoff.
john (604835) — 12/8/2006 @ 11:28 pmyou know, for a full-time prosecutor, family man and blogger, you sure do spend a lot of time at concerts. what’s the story here?
Uh, I like music?
Patterico (de0616) — 12/9/2006 @ 1:25 amI’m not saying exactly what ada said, but …
Two kids, prosecutor in a high-crime area, prolific blogger including detailed investigative posts, frequent book reviews, more frequent music concert reviews …
There are three Pattericos.
nk (8214ee) — 12/9/2006 @ 8:34 amI wasn’t going to sully the comment section for Major McClung, so I decided to post here.
Why has Patterico refused to take that post down? Can you imagine Patterico’s reaction if the same transgression had been committed by the L.A. Times or a liberal or libertarian blogger (namely, publishing the name of a dead soldier before the DoD announces it in direct violation of their policy?)
Patterico would have gone ape shit and I defy anyone to say otherwise. Ignorance of the rules is NOT an excuse. And then to have Patterico refuse to take the post down with the excuse that, “Well the deed is done and I meant well so I’m above the rule,” is a slap in the face to our servicepeople..
[As if you give a damn about them. You’re just looking for a cheap way to criticize me, as you did when you piddled on the comments to a post I did about my daughter. I left the post up on the advice of a PAO I trust, as I already explained. By the time I’d learned of the issue (and indeed ignorance is not an excuse), my post and Badger 6’s had been quoted on NRO and other blogs, and there was no putting the toothpaste back in the tube. In any event, Maj. McClung’s dad has left a post on Badger 6’s site, saying that he was told of the death in advance of Badger’s post. He does not sound upset, which indicates that the posts didn’t cause the family unnecessary anguish. I am glad for that. I have a hunch that you aren’t. — P]
King Christian XI (d0e459) — 12/9/2006 @ 8:39 amKCX, you sully the entire planet by just being here.
[As it turns out, KCX is that professional comment spammer I banned here a while back. — P]
Old Coot (caf903) — 12/9/2006 @ 9:20 am“uh, i like music?”
i like music too, but there are only 24 hours in a day and i need to sleep about 1/3 of them.
dedicated prosecutors spend way more than 40 hours/week at work, because dedicated criminals do too. if mrs. patterico is still a prosecutor too and hasn’t quit her job for the kids, who does the housework, cooking, childcare? i hope none of your nannies, maid, cook, butler, chauffeur are “undocumented”. your blog must consume about an hour a day too, not just opinion farts but the research and investigation. how do you manage to do all this?
[Let’s see. Not that it’s any of your business, but 1) I don’t watch television, and 2) I don’t always sleep as much as I should. Blogging is my hobby, which I do primarily in the evening after the kids go to bed, and on weekends. (I also sometimes do a few minutes in the morning before leaving for work, and on occasion in the evenings when the kids are awake, if they are watching a video.) I also work plenty outside the office, as I did on Thursday when I was in the office late, or as I will do this weekend as I prepare for an upcoming trial. Sometimes the house gets messy, as we don’t have any of the various maids and butlers you mentioned. On occasion (like last weekend) I have to spend the lion’s share of the weekend cleaning the house to make up for a week’s worth of sloth on housework. The main answer is no TV: it’s amazing how many hours there are in the day when you almost never watch TV. That’s a pretty long answer for something that doesn’t concern you in the slightest, but I have to say it perplexes me that people like you seem to want to deny me the pleasure of an occasional music concert. — P]
assistant devil's advocate (a6f56d) — 12/9/2006 @ 10:06 amTook a nasty pill this morning, ass. dev. ad.?
Anwyn (9b5f79) — 12/9/2006 @ 10:17 amNice Appeal to Authority…some anonymous PAO puts you in the clear, I guess.
Badger 6 did the honorable thing and removed the offending post. You just made excuses.
And much as it likely disappoints YOU, I am thankful that your posts apparently did not damage the family of this soldier. You showed a callous disregard for the rules of the DoD, and then compounded the error by refusing to remove the post once you discovered you had made a mistake. Why did Badger 6 choose to remove the post, while you refuse to? It’s a reaosnable question, but one that I’m sure you’ll refuse to answer.
I’m sure you’ll just dismiss me once again as a “professional spammer” whatever that means. I have never posted a single Viagra, porn, or other “spam” link or post in my life. Apparently, the sin of disagreeing with Patterico makes one a “professional spammer.”
[The PAO was Maj. Jeff Pool with the Marines. You have an IP that comes back to a domain I associate with comment spam. I just checked the spam filter and see that your comment was initially posted from an address already on my ban list. You came up with another pretty quickly. I will say that you’re behaving like a comment spammer, putting your comment on an irrelevant thread. I also don’t think, although I could be wrong, that my readers are interested in repeated spurious attacks on my character — at least attacks that 1) are unrelated to my ideas, 2) are unrelated to the post, 3) are filled with name-calling, and 4) make false statements or assumptions. You are a waste of time, KCX, and from this point forward your comments will be unceremoniously deleted, unless it amuses me not to. Anticipating spurious claims of HELP! I’M BEING REPRESSED!, I note that I have not previously banned you, and that this particular comment of yours was rescued by me from the spam filter, where it had automatically gone for reasons unknown to me. — P]
King Christian XI (7a5fe8) — 12/9/2006 @ 10:23 amPingback no worky?
[I looked in the spam filter for your pingback, but saw only comments from KCX and Beldar (which I approved). — P]
Xrlq (49afe6) — 12/9/2006 @ 10:28 amI think NK is on to something:
perhaps this is really a group blog, with three (or more) guys (gals) – one, an ADA, another a semi-full time media critic, a third being a concert going Mr. Mom – all blogging under the same nom de guerre.
Or perhaps the proprietor of this site has simply hired a couple of stand-ins to churn out a steady number of posts in order to feed the beast and keep viewers coming to maximize the ad revenue he’s pulling in?
steve sturm (d3e296) — 12/9/2006 @ 10:45 amyou are correct that it isn’t really any of my business, but humans’ curiosity has always exceeded their “business”, reach/grasp.
you misunderstood me, i do not wish to deny you the pleasure of a concert about every two weeks, i’m just marvelling at how you fit all this in.
not watching tv is a big help i agree, i don’t have a tv in my house, i’m just surprised to hear this from you about a month after your public solicitation of advice on what kind of tv to get. you installed a fancy, expensive sewer pipe in your living room but never open it up?
[Mrs. P. and the kids watch TV. And I don’t mean to suggest that I *never* do — of course I do. But it’s not a several-hours-a-night habit as it is with many people. I’d estimate that I watch 0-2 hours a week on average.
Also: do I really go to a concert every two weeks? That’s news to me. I remember going to CSNY, Roger Waters, Toad, and Gin Blossoms during a particularly active period late this year. Usually there aren’t that many artists I want to see in such a short period of time. I can’t offhand remember any other rock concerts I’ve been to this year. There may have been one other Glen Phillips show, maybe, but I’m quite confident I haven’t been to two dozen music concerts this year, unless you count Hollywood Bowl concerts that the whole family went to. — P]
assistant devil's advocate (a6f56d) — 12/9/2006 @ 11:10 amNasty pills in abundant supply this morning. steve sturm, at what level did they teach you to read enough to spot the words “guest post by [Justin Levine, See-Dubya, Angry Clam]”? Because it appears you’ve never read them before.
It’s so amusing when people think ad revenue is something so negative that all they have to do is throw it out there–Gasp! he receives AD REVENUE–to score a point.
Anwyn (9b5f79) — 12/9/2006 @ 11:22 amI apologize for my comment in light of ada and steve sturm (whose snark I admire at Xrlq’s) and wish I had not made it. I meant it in an entirely humorous compliment kind of way. I distance myself to infinity from the aforementioned snarkers.
nk (d7a872) — 12/9/2006 @ 1:33 pmIs Mrs. X a Ghostwriter for the WSJ?…
I can think of no other rational explanation for this.
Hat tip: Insty.
UPDATE: OK, maybe one other explanation.
……
damnum absque injuria (38c04c) — 12/9/2006 @ 2:29 pmI’m not sure what’s witha ll the wierd criticism, but this blog is a hobby. It takes up time when you have time – it can’t get in the way of your obligations unless you take it too far.
If you don’t have a challenging and interesting hobby your life can be pretty grey, especially with a mentally tough job like lawyering.
I definitaly don’t agree with Patterico on many issues, but the idea that his blogging is suspicious or too time consuming is plainly idiotic.
And he left the memorial post up because it would have looked like a cover-up/tarnished the memorial to remove it.
Do liberal blogs get a but of conservative whackos too? (probably)
Dustin (ea244e) — 12/9/2006 @ 7:11 pmbut=bunch
Dustin (ea244e) — 12/9/2006 @ 7:13 pmanwyn, tell me: are my attempts at humor so lame that they can’t be recognized as such? Or did you just wake up in a lousy mood?
while I can’t speak for ada, since there is apparently some confusion about the intent of my previous comment, let me assure the good proprietor of this site and all of his loyal and dedicated readers that I meant no offense.
having said that, what is wrong with you that your first reaction is to see real criticism rather than good natured jibes? or did you recognize it for what it was and decide to jump on us anyway? or was your comment your attempt to do what I was trying to do?
steve sturm (d3e296) — 12/9/2006 @ 9:20 pmI woke up in a chipper mood, thanks for asking, steve sturm. As for jumping on “us,” well, I can’t speak for ass’t. dev. ad. either, but “opinion fart” is pretty far from being a good-natured jibe, and in my book, “concert going Mr. Mom” isn’t much nicer. You made snitty reference to multiple (unannounced) bloggers, when in fact there *are* occasionally multiple bloggers here and made steady blogging into a negative with your comment about “feeding the beast” and pulling in ad revenue.
Not a damn thing in the world wrong with me, but again, thanks for asking. If your comments were meant in good nature, then I owe you an apology, but I fear that’s not at all how they read to me.
Anwyn (9b5f79) — 12/9/2006 @ 10:04 pm…and so, yeah, in answer to your first question, I guess they are that lame. 😛
Anwyn (9b5f79) — 12/9/2006 @ 10:05 pmgeez anwyn, if you weren’t so quick to take offense and start jumping over people, you might have been able to figure out that I in no way was taking shots at Patterico.
how can I blast him for selling out for advertising when there’s next to no advertising on the site? unless my browser is set to block ads only on this page, he’s not bringing a whole lot of money in… wouldn’t said lack of advertising dollars undercut any serious claim that he was doing anything, shady or otherwise, in order to rake in the dough? I guess picking up on facetious isn’t your strong suit, huh?
and yes, I am fully aware that Patterico has other people blogging here, and under their own names or monikers. How could I think otherwise given that I once was lucky enough to be one of his guest bloggers? If you had bothered to actually pay attention to what I wrote, you would have seen that I was playing (and apparently unsuccessfully, by your standards) off NK’s joke that there must be three Pattericos to explain how the guy(s) can blog so much given how much he has going on in his life.
As I doubt I’m going to be taking any humor courses at the local community college, I figure my lame humor is as good – or bad – as it’s going to get. Given this, so I don’t make the mistake of upsetting you in the future, should my ego ever recover from the thrashing you gave me, and I decide to try my luck at commenting in the future, I’ll attach a little “hey, anwyn, I’m making a joke here” at the end of my comment.
steve sturm (d3e296) — 12/10/2006 @ 5:19 amIt’s all ada’s fault, Steve. He spoiled it for both of us.
nk (d5dd10) — 12/10/2006 @ 7:21 ambuhhhhhh!
assistant devil's advocate (15036f) — 12/10/2006 @ 8:02 amGeez, steve sturm, if I had jumped “over” you instead of *on* you I doubt I’d be getting this lecture now. It appears that I do indeed owe you an apology, I see now, so hey, I’m sorry that I so totally misinterpreted your comment and that my rudeness was thus totally unwarranted. I apologize.
It was an honest mistake; I wasn’t so quick to take offense that I couldn’t figure you out–instead I couldn’t figure you out, or rather thought I had you figured out one way when you meant it another, and *then* took offense.
I’d no idea you ever guest-blogged for Patterico, as I wasn’t reading here (or any blog) in 2004. I did pay attention to what you wrote, and I simply misinterpreted it.
I’ll assume unless corrected that you’re joking about your ego recovering; I wouldn’t say I’m all *that* effective at laying the smackdown. In future I will move my “steve sturm offense” line a little farther up. Truce?
Anwyn (9b5f79) — 12/10/2006 @ 8:47 amIn the interest of making nice, I see that my first line above might be taken harsher than I meant it. A little joke based on SS’s choice of words.
Anwyn (9b5f79) — 12/10/2006 @ 8:54 amPatterico, you’re like the star basketball player playing a road game whose consistently impressive accomplishments elicit the boo-birds, cat-calls, and remarks about dating his sister, by fans of the opposing team.
When the Lakers play in Sacramento or San Antonio, those fans reserve their most ardent insults for Kobe Bryant, because he does the most damage to the Kings or Spurs.
It’s the same paradigm, only this game is politics, rather than hoops.
You’ve had an all-star caliber 2006 taking on the left-wing media, which is evident in being nominated for Best Conservative Blog.
It’s why a poor, angry left-wing soul such as King Christian XI cannot refrain from attacking you over political issues when you write non-partisan posts about nurturing your daughter, or when you’re commenting on attending the Gin Blossoms concert.
Old man assistant devil’s advocate is conscious of the fact that the rat race beat him down to such a degree that he bailed out prematurely to live the life of a country gentleman—(well, a man living in the country, anyhow—“gentleman” usually ascribes a certain decor.)
While old a.d.a. is fortunate to have earned a nice income to enable an early retirement, he admits to spending his days doing a little gardening and generally enjoying free time as an aging baby boomer with no wife & children, and no blog.
And he sees you balancing a full family life, a very popular blog, a full-time gig in the busy D.A.’s office—AND you make the time to periodically take your lovely wife to see Toad the Wet Sprocket or the Gin Blossoms.
The contrast is enough to motivate assistant devil’s advocate to wanna sing the Gin Blossoms’ first hit song, appropriately titled, “Hey, Jealousy.”
Desert Rat (ee9fe2) — 12/10/2006 @ 12:11 pmPatterico:
You must be an evil, evil man. Probably in the employ of Halliburton. No way, one man could get so much done. If not. Then you’re still fucking evil. For having so much accomplished. Pisses me off. Makes me want to kick anwyn’s shiny, cherry ass.
TCO (343f4f) — 12/10/2006 @ 1:08 pmUh, you could try.
Anwyn (9b5f79) — 12/10/2006 @ 2:18 pm[…] I’d like to tell you more about that Gin Blossoms concert I went to over the weekend, in part because it relates to Justin’s copyright/Pauly Shore post from yesterday. […]
Patterico’s Pontifications » Gin Blossoms and Copyright Questions (421107) — 12/13/2006 @ 6:55 am