The power of Rogers’ intro to the song was lost on the five-year old girl sitting with her father in the row in front of me. Rogers addressed her throughout the night, apologizing for curses and at one point going as far as to ask her to cover her ears so he could say “beautiful people don’t know how to fuck.”
Without an organic beginning, you just wind up chasing fads. The mindset that drives “hip” food trucks is the same mindset that drove people to invest in Beanie Babies. If we try to build a community around things that everyone’s fawning over today, without considering what they’ll need tomorrow, we run the risk of building our roads out of POGs
