All this talk of War

All this talk of War might have might have you a little confused.  I am not trying to encite a riot, but rather pont out that part of intense pride in a culture means you dislike a nearby culture.  Typically a War is started by people playing on the emotions of others and finding out what they are afraid of then exploting that fear.

When a conflict starts that means people quit talking to each other.  It is intersting to see how one side talks about the other side.  Rember the Maine?  What is that all about?  Who was the Black Hand? Golf of what? WMDs? Slam Dunk? Living Space? This aggresion will not stand?  Bullshit, it is all bullshit.

When I was 18 I was able to share a beer with someone who excasped from a train bound for a Conceration Camp.  That changed my life.

I'm trying to get a new audience intrested in Beer.  There is a lot of history and thought put into some beers and a lot of money put into the marketing of others.  I ask why?  If something is a good thing shouldn't it sell itself?

I don't own a business and have very little money.  But I have a lot of time, a lirbary card, and passion.  Classes start for me in late August.  Then I have to put this project aside and focus on school.

I was unable to attend all that stuff the went down in Madison this Spring.  That's fine.  In America we tend to only talk about poltics with people that feel the same way and then talk down to people that don't.  Going after Beer in Wisconsin is not a good idea.  It shows you really don't know what Wisconsin is all about or ever care to.  Plently of people that are talking to me are not hanging out with me on an Election Night.

I'm trying to carve out a niche in the World of Beer Media.  I like to think I'm the Hunter Thompson of Beer Media.  Which is silly, because there will NEVER be another Hunter Thompson.  Him and Ralph had quite the thing going.

I can't wait to slow down a little and do a weekely half an hour radio show about beer on a local radio station.  A lot of people laugh at that idea.

I also would like to do a bunch of Grindhouse Propganda films about Wisconsin.  Right now these two projects are both called "wisconsinbeerun."  That is because I haven't established a reputation strong enough to make either one stand on their own. 

I think there is a lot of stuff to do with the "beerun brand" such as coloradobeerun, beerun of the pacific northwest, down under beerun, beerun.....eh, british isles beerun, beerun di italia...

Its a base formula that can be repeated again and again.  Wow, thats what your equpiment, Wow, that tastes good, Wow, you guys put that on your label.  Why is that? Really? Great.  Oh, whats that you have a mild dislike for someone diffrent than you?  Why is that?  My attitude is I get to talk to this person once so I better have my shit together and have questions to ask

I'm way more a photographer than a writer.  I like to be really diffrent than what everyone else is doing.  So it might seem like i'm spouting off a bunch of random shit at times.  I think of it as trying to make connections.

I talk about beer the way most guys talk about sports.  For both the same reason: It reminds us of our glorly days.  The best time in my life was backpacking around Europe by myself.  I got lost all the time and was exposed to so much culture.  I'm trying to pass that culture on to you.

Wisconsin has a lot of State Parks.  I went to everyone and took a picture of each one during the Summer of 2008.  I was working some lame ass factory job where every was talked down to and in turn hated their job.  They stay there because they have no other options.  That is my biggest fear: Hating my Life.

There is an intersting thing I noticed, some people who have a lot of money are not fun to talk to, and some people who have no money are loads of fun to talk to.  Good old, you may have more money but I"m smarter than you.  If you don't believe me put an art major next to a business major and listen for 10 minutes.

You can't take cameras in that Brewery in Chippewa Falls.  (Don't read too much in to not calling them by name.  I won't call any brewery by their name until they say I can.  Plus, most of the time the people I talk to have no idea and I end up saying the town anyways.)  Someone took some pictures of a tank and was trying to make a joke by saying it was a chemical it wasn't.  Never heard of that guy?  Thats because if you piss people off no one will want to talk to you.  You have to provide a body of work so people will know what you are all about.

Strong languague gets attention.  Offending people gets attention.  I'm trying to pull a little of the "World is Watching Wisconsin Attention" my way.  Remember, wisconsinbeerun is one person, therefore I can move a lot quicker than a group of people who have to run ideas past a filter. 

Pick something and be the best at it.  Just pick something and do it better than everyone else.

I'll starting my own "Protest of The Wisconsin Beer Purity Law of 2011 Facebook Event Page" give me 20 min.