Here is a quick list of my oddest behaviors that have all been validated and encouraged by the internet:
- Making way too many Lord of the Rings related puns and inappropriate references
- Talking about beer and beer science and beer culture and beer goblins
- Writing short stories that use (and overuse) nested adjectival clauses, resumptive modifiers, and chain-appositives
And most recently:
- Unabashedly crawling across/through neighborhood yards/porches/decks to take photographs of beer
John Kleinchester over at Beertography.com (beer + photography = beertography) did me the honor of making me the official beertographer of the week, starting today. I want to not only thank him for highlighting my work, but for making me feel a lot less insane about filling my SDHC card with nothing but images of amber fluids and fancy glassware.
I take photos because I enjoy looking at things. Sounds simple, but it’s true. I relish the chance to watch a sun sink, purple and orange, into Chincoteague Bay. Or to see the bubbles scamper upwards out of a glass, tearing through the golden prison on a pilser. I love perspective and angles and light and shadow. And really, all writers should all at least appreciate photography, because one click and shutter flutter is equal to 1000 words of 12 point Times New Roman. That’s proven fact.
All eccentricity and absurdity aside, I’d also like to thank all my readers for giving me the energy and motivation to keep writing and crawling through the verge with camera in hand. You guys are the best.
Here’s a smattering of some of my favorite beertographs (captured over the years). Enjoy!
Slight buzz + long day + very tired = thinking photos are the height of modern art.
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” ― Cormac McCarthy
“Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.” -Barbara Ehrenreich
The beer triune: pint glass, airlock, bottle.
We drink our beer from mason jars.
Left to right, order of enjoy-itude.
“How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.” ― Benjamin Disraeli
Sometimes a man has to buy 9.5 lbs of pilsner malt. We all have our vices. Don’t judge me.
A great beer at the end of the day if your dogs are barking.
One bullet, one empty can.
A shoal is a somewhat linear landform extending into a body of water, typically composed of sand, silt or small pebbles. This is a somewhat delicious beer extending into my stomach, composed of water, hops, and alcohol.
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s beer for me.
The first paragraph of this story was part of my homework assignment for my grammar class. I had to mimic Steinbeck. It hurt my brain.
This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the beer whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom’s core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion’s velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o’er But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o’er, She shall drink, ah, nevermore!
This story brought to you buy DuClaw’s brewing, Ed Pearlman’s teaching, and Anthony Hecht’s writing.
Arr, here be good beers.
This picture makes it look warm outside. It was not warm outside.
Ammunition.
The fog settles on London like the head on a freshly poured pint.
Hop on beer. Do not hop on hydrangeas.
It is incredibly difficult to take a picture of direct sunlight.
I feel like I should use monosyllabic expressions of my feeling when writing a formal review. Hrm. Yes. Quite. Mmph.
+3 against thirst (and ogres)
RyePA. Get it?
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You have at least a full keg of talent (None of this quarter keg BS). Brilliant photos, brilliant writing – brilliant blog.
Man that’s a lot of beer! Lovely jubbly!
🙂
Awesome! I too love Beertography and am a bit of an addict. Love your shots! A fine accompaniment to your always superb writing.
Cheers!
G-LO
Thank you kind sir!
This is an area were I definitely need to pick my game up. I’m taking better pictures, but I’ve stopped putting any real thought or trying to be clever with them like when I first started out.
I love the comment about crawling through yards. My fav “behavior” that this whole thing has encouraged is that I no longer mind the stares I get when I whip out my phone in a bar and take a picture of a mug of beer or a plate of food. Seemed out at first. Now I don’t even think about it, I just do it.
Congrats. They’re all great pictures, but my fav will always be the “gang shooting”!
Yea, after you get over that initial “is he really taking pictures of beer?” hurdle, it gets pretty easy. I think most people who know me expect it by now.
At least the phone is a little less obtrusive than a DSLR, but hey, I love my macro filters.
great stuff, and don’t ever stop exhibiting odd behaviors, the world would be much more beige without them.
Haha, you’re totally right. I much prefer orange (and green and purple and blue) to beige.
What a fine collection of beer photos!
Thank you! It’s been fun. Pretty cool to see a bunch of them all clumped up like that. Maybe I’ll make a full time “Beertography” page that is just a bigger, complete version of this.
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Perhaps you’ve been asked this before, but what do you think is the no. 1 beer in the world? 🙂
Not smart-ass answer: Impossible to say. There are too many beers to match just as many moods/situations/times of year. No single beer is ever the best beyond that moment you drink it.
Smart-ass answer: http://www.ratebeer.com/beerimages/full_size/23340.jpg
Ahaha smart-ass answer indeed. 🙂