wrob on Dark Family Hour (part 2)

wrob's music videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvZaaxKS-jY

wrob on Dark Family Hour

wrob's music videos

Such a delight, recorded at the Scott St. Labyrinth by salane salane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTjFIZof7vs

You'd Look So Good With a Baby

wrob's music videos

A list - greatest concert ever

B list - specialty occasions

C list - oblivion

Yes, this is men.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsX5OzpZEQk 

"Woke Racism"

(How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America)

-by john mcwhorter

2021

This country does gobble up polemics, doesn't it?

I avoided this book for a long time because it seemed guilty of bad-faith rhetoric. And as it turns out...it is.

But it's also mostly correct.

Ditch some intentionally-inflammatory overstatement, and mcwhorter makes good points. But overstatement sells! Sigh. Perhaps just like ta-nehasi coates, mcwhorter is mostly correct, with one or two blind spots.

Why do we need to run to black and white, in a world of confusing complexity? Why are we all so uncomfortable with nuance and shades of grey?

It's not the writer's job to acquiesce to that, mr. mcwhorter. Your job is truth. So replace the titular word "religion" with "quasi-religion", and you'll do a service to the betterment of all. Religion requires magical thinking, something absent from the woke movement. Mcwhorter's language is propagandistic, designed to anger both people who love religion, and people who hate it.

Replace that one word, and you'd have a good little book.

You just wouldn't sell as many copies.

Don't Murder Your Baby Brother

wrob's music videos

A list - greatest concert ever

B list - specialty occasions

C list - oblivion

Inspired by a friend's daughter, and her, shall we say, reckless treatment of her toddler brother?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtbxsQDQmM0 

wrob at gesh's

wrob's music videos

This performance was the first affirmation of my ultimate place as an artist - an intimate party entertainer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRwIwNnu4C0

San Francisco Day

wrob's music videos

A list - greatest concert ever

B list - specialty occasions

C list - oblivion

This one feels like is should transcend provinciality...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKUr8Z3a3YQ