Bernie Goetz Is Not the Subject of This Post (though when I've finished the book I might review it here)

So this retired criminal defense lawyer is sitting in his recliner one summer evening in Phoenix, Arizona (10 pm temperature a nippy 92 after a high today 106) reading Fear and Fury, which if you're old enough to remember and even if you aren't is a book about Bernie Goetz and the shootings and the aftermath and well, I haven't finished it so I'm not sure just where it will end up, though the subtitle Is "The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage." 

Anyway, I'm reading this book (yes, I'm that retired criminal defense lawyer, which I figure you really didn't need me to tell you) and suddenly there's this guy, a lawyer, name of Scott Greenfield being quoted. And I know Scott.  And I have some vague recollection that he had something to do with one of Goetz's victims.  So I check the footnotes to see if he'd been interviewed by Heather Ann Thompson.  And no, he hadn't been. The quotes came not from an interview but from a blog post, "Remembering Troy," on Simple Justice which I'm sure I read 8 plus years ago when Scott posted it.  

And, even if I hadn't read it then, I [re?]read it now.  Because that's what we did back in the day, read each other's blawgs and commented on them and argued about them and with each other and damn I miss that, though I'm partly to blame my own blawg (this one) being essentially fallow now.

But I'm writing this both to let Scott know in case he doesn't that he's quoted in the book.  And to remind myself that what we write (and wrote) has some life and significance at least occasionally beyond our little stables of readers. And, finally, as a reminder to myself that I'd really like to get back at doing this regularly.  

Except that being retired takes up so damn much time.