Creek Running North

It’s only inexplicable until you remember that Ann Althouse doesn’t like being called out on her shit.

Oh wait, are we supposed to be expecting law professors to be all rational and intellectually honest and stuff?

well, thanks, chris.  somehow i’d forgotten that tune entirely until you re-enlightened me, and now i’ll spend the rest of the week humming it, because it is distressingly appropriate.

public service announcement:  not everyone with a law degree is quite so flamingly [insert your own description].  at least not in public.

arrgh Chris, you devil!

cleanse your mind with this folks

Some nice drumming there, btw.  Too good for Ann.

Didn’t the Guess Who turn into Bachmann-Turner Overdrive?

Dig it.  The point where she blows up is priceless.

Oh, and I agree with kathy a.

If you’re older than Alon Levy, it just can’t be done.

Ageist!

How funny—that song did go through my head—it’s even funnier though when you really listen to the song with the voices off.

The read along to go with the music video.  It works so well as a multi-media adventure in it alt too late.

Althouse: Well, that’s been my experience, and I know you know some of the people who do this. So why don’t you ask some of them why they treat me so badly, and come back and tell me what the problem is?

Franke-Ruta: I’m not really aware of anything until this whole Jessica Valenti breast controversy, um ... so, I know that there was some grudges and hostility that came out of that ...

Althouse: Well, um ...

Franke-Ruta: I mean, that’s the blogosphere. It’s a tough place. Apparently, it’s an extremely tough place. You know, one of the best things I --

Althouse: I’m not complaining about the fact that I have to be tough and fight back, because I will, I will stand my ground, I don’t accept your—[crosstalk]—wait a minute, wait a minute [pointing]—I don’t accept your saying the Jessica Valenti breast controversy. I consider that an insult.—You know, I’m on the verge of hanging up with you for bringing it up that way.

Franke-Ruta: Really? I’m sorry --

Althouse: It was character assassinating to talk about it like that. There’s a whole controversy that could be explained if it was one of our subjects, it could be explained in a way that would make sense to people. But you just throw out a term, that’s character assassination toward me, and I don’t like it.

Franke-Ruta: I didn’t mean to --

Althouse: [shouting and pointing] There’s a whole story there! You want to talk to me personally about it, why don’t you find out what the story is, and raise it in a way that has a factual context that makes sense to people, instead of throwing out a term like that that’s just an assault on me! I find it very offensive.

Franke-Ruta: That certainly wasn’t my intention. I had just watched this segment where you and Glenn Reynolds were talking about it, and it was a phrase that used within that discussion, so I just—I certainly didn’t mean to --

Althouse: Well, you were raising it within a context of people who are trying to assassinate me on frequent occasions, who say the most nasty things about me with no cause, or just any context—they take things out of context—It’s a very nasty, ugly thing and I don’t like it at all and I don’t like just glancing references to it in a way that makes me look bad like that. It’s not part of what we’re talking about, we had developed the context, and to just throw out a label like that, which is the label from the side of the people who attack me, in the way I’m trying to talk about, in saying that your side of the blogosphere is ugly—you know, I just consider that undermining and against the whole context of trying to have a conversation here.

Franke-Ruta: I’m sorry, I didn’t realize it was such a sensitive topic. Because really, I haven’t followed it that closely. It was just—there was a controversy, right? I mean, we can talk about it, but it sounds like you don’t want to and I’d frankly rather not, because --

Althouse: It would take a long time to explain, and I don’t even think it’s interesting to listeners, because it’s just --

Franke-Ruta: I don’t either!

Althouse:—a blogosphere flame war, in which I’ve been mistreated—[crosstalk] – wait a minute—I’ve been mistreated consistently --

Franke-Ruta: It’s just part of this controversy that I’m aware of, and if there are other ones, I just—I don’t follow some of these interblog controversies --

Althouse: Well, I don’t either, and I don’t think they’re appropriate subjects for Bloggingheads --

Franke-Ruta: I don’t either.

Althouse: ---- these are flame wars, and what I’m trying to say on the overarching point, is that the left side of the blogosphere is vicious and unfair and nasty to me, and I don’t like it, and I’m trying to ask you why that’s the way they treat me when I support most of what they’re for. Meanwhile, on the right side of the blogosphere, where there’s much less overlap, I think, I am treated in a very warm and connecting kind of way. And you’re really just kind of undermining my point, uh, by bringing that up like that.

That was glorious.

Ann, we hardly knew you.

Didn’t the Guess Who turn into Bachmann-Turner Overdrive?

Two significant members of the Guess Who, Randy Bachman and Chad Allan (Allan was in original Guess Who, but had been gone for years) were in BTO, and BTO was picking up about the time that the Guess Who was winding down. But there was an overlap in the early ‘70s.

I saw the Guess Who give a genuinely kickass concert sans Bachman at the Blossom Music Center during that time - mostly notable because despite the nice venue at Blossom, in my experience most groups stunk it up there.
(other than Barry Manilow - most shockingly good concert I ever saw was him playing at Blossom around that time.)

Chris--

I’d love to take credit for the music that appears on my site every Monday, but those posts are a gift from Bricolage Fantasy, the best mp3 site on the Internet.

And here I am thinking of a number this site

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