tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37241561.post8807180716304793968..comments2024-02-20T06:04:56.232-08:00Comments on san diego: dialed in: Things To Do In San Diego: December 19, 2008Rosemary Bystrakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12261917303245243538noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37241561.post-41580458956592974362008-12-20T13:17:00.000-08:002008-12-20T13:17:00.000-08:00A mini-review of the Dec. 19 Duke Spirit show at t...A mini-review of the Dec. 19 Duke Spirit show at the Roxy:<BR/><BR/>Good: Well-behaved, heterogeneous audience (not the usual bunch of cliched spazzing 22 y.o. hipsters knocking the ladies all over the place), every seat/standing spot in the house is a great view, a regular-sized crowd (not a fustercluck), celebrity sighthing: Rodney Bingenheimer, free schwag handed out as we left the show (stickers, posters, CD singles), he band played a benefit for Webster ES in Pasadena the next day for ten bucks, t-shirts only $15, and a variety of them to choose from, all-ages show with no hassles or uptightness from either the kids or the adults.<BR/><BR/>Bad: $10 Jack and Cokes and $7 bottled beers, no in-and-out for smoking (although my wife managed to talk them into letting her do so once), speeding dipshit nearly running into the back of our car before slamming into a concrete center divider at 100 mph at 2:30 am (this happened in SD, not in LA).<BR/><BR/>San Diegans bash on LA a lot, but LA seems comfortable with itself.Lazy Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03659980461402672986noreply@blogger.com