Last month, as St Patricks Day was approaching, The Daily Beast published their list of the 50 Healthiest Beers. Besides their place on this list, can anyone tell me what these beers have in common?
I.C. Light
Michelob Ultra
Natural Light
Busch Light
Milwaukee’s Best
Keystone Light
Icehouse
I think these are some of the nastiest, worst excuses for beer ever made! Does any self-respecting beer lover even drink this crap? And what the hell was the writer drinking when he came up with this list. There are 3 beers on the entire list I would drink- Yuengling Light, Guinness (never thought of that as low calorie!) and Redhook IPA. Everything else is nothing more than chilled horse piss, absolutely disgusting.
Now me, if I’m drinking a beer, I’m going to pick something full of flavor and character. There is a lot more to a beer than how many calories it has or how much alcohol it contains. Wachusett Brown Ale, many of the varieties of Sam Adams, Brooklyn Brewery Black Chocolate Stout, Pete’s Wicked Ale, THOSE are beers worth drinking! As Jim Koch, the brewer of Sam Adams, would say “take pride in your beer!”
If you think all beers are the same, click on the picture to view full-sized and check this out. I don’t know how accurate it is, but someone certainly put some time into creating it.
Why I Comment
Because there’s an interesting discussion that I feel I have something to add to
Because I want to lend some support or encouragement
Because there’s really no good reason at all, but I felt like it anyway
Or even because she looks really good naked and I want to encourage her photo sharing
Don’t tell me that you’re surprised by that!
But you know why I don’t comment? Because of some “blogger etiquette” that compels me to comment on someone’s blog for the sole reason that they commented on mine.
Yesterday I remarked on twitter “Wow based on blog stats & (lack of) comments, you really don’t care when naughtiness is implied instead of explicit for #WantonWednesday”. It wasn’t meant as a gripe about lack of comments, it was meant as more a reflection of what kind of content is likely to generate comments, though I can see how it might be misinterpreted. That’s okay though.
It turns out that my tweet was a conversation starter, leading someone else to make the “blogger etiquette” comment.
Am I guilty of doing that in the past? Yes, no doubt, but it didn’t take me long to realize how the game was played. There were people who sat back waiting for comments, then whoever commented would get the “courtesy” of a comment in return. There were the equally meaningless “nice photo” comments as well.
I understand, commenting is part of self-advertising. You’ve started a blog and you’d like to develop a readership, so you visit (or have already been visiting) bloggers with similar interests. You hope that people will wonder who you are and visit your blog to find out, and that they’ll like what they see and stick around.
I don’t know about other blogs, but I looked at my stats and in the history of this blog (and it’s wordpress.com predecessor) only about 1% of visitors will leave a comment. “Lurkers” are a fact of blogging life.
Leave a comment if you’d like, or don’t, it’s okay either way.
But if you’re commenting only because you’re expecting me to reciprocate, please don’t.
There are a lot of reason why I may leave a comment, but a sense of obligation isn’t one of them.