January 2021

An a capella Cro-Mags tribute called Age of Choral

RIP Cloris Leachman, responsible for one of the greatest line readings in the history of cinema. ❤️

I’ve begun the process of replicating my @letterboxd film diary on my site, which Letterboxd’s outstanding data export makes relatively easy. v7.robweychert.com/blog/2021/01/v…

Apropos of nothing, I decided that the first of the old entries I’d bring over to V7 would be granular ones:

• Daily Haiku: A section of the fourth version of my site, beginning back in 2005. As the name suggests, I wrote a haiku every weekday based on the Dictionary.com Word of the Day. Each haiku was originally its own entry, but when I brought them over to V6 a few years ago, I consolidated… See more →

I’ve scoured the internet but not found any evidence of a cannabis-themed TLC tribute act called THC and I’m disappointed in all of us

The coda to this live version of “July” with a choir destroys me every time. youtube.com/watch?v=YBpQNQ…

As a latecomer to @lowtheband, Things We Lost in the Fire was the first album I heard, and I was a huge fan instantly. Still hooked all these years later. 💙 twitter.com/brooklynvegan/…

I know there’s a lot on Joe’s plate
And I’m more than happy to wait
But when things are less hectic
Can he switch us to metric?
I think that would really be great

I wore these on the first day and I’m wearing ’em on the last. twitter.com/robweychert/st…

I wish we could do a global day of silence. Every single person in the entire world just completely shuts up for an entire day.

At @danmall’s behest, I’ve written more than you probably care to know about my typical day. If you share yours too, I’ll happily read it. v6.robweychert.com/blog/2021/01/m…

In a revival of an old-school blogging pyramid scheme, my friend Dan Mall wrote about his typical day and tagged me and others to do the same. What follows is a mix of both the aspirational and the factual, and the distance between the two suggests that if life is time management, I’m not especially skilled at life. If you’re not either, read on for sweet, sweet validation.

My alarm goes off at 7:00. These… See more →

Nearly 4,000 Americans died of COVID-19 on January 6th, a new record that was all but completely ignored as our horrified gaze was averted by an even larger number of Americans laying siege to their own United States Capitol, egged on by none other than the president himself. In the week since, as the president has been banned from social media and grudgingly condemned the riot while refusing to accept responsibility for it, as cabinet… See more →

A great read from @TimothyDSnyder about how the GOP is split between people trying to game the system and people trying to break it. nytimes.com/2021/01/09/mag…

It’s good that that the internet has shown Parler the door. It’s bad that it only took the combined efforts of three companies to do that.

Now’s as good a time as any to quibble with the oxymoronic term “permanent suspension.”

I wear black most days, but I wear it with purpose today.

“What’s the downside for humoring him?”

War is hell.

My 2020 in review: v6.robweychert.com/blog/2021/01/t…

I began last year’s “That Was 2019” post by expressing disappointment in my immune system’s poor performance that year, so let me begin this year’s wrap-up by praising that same immune system’s effectiveness in 2020. More than 1.8 million people died of COVID-19 in 2020, a disproportionately high 340,000 of them Americans, and I didn’t get so much as a head cold. I spent much of the year being grateful for my health and financial… See more →