Monday beer links: The CliffNotes edition

Tap handles at Structures Brewing in Bellingham, Washington

We left home early last week and are still traveling. The photo above was taken at Structures Brewing in Bellingham, Washington, where we had an excellent lunch and outstanding beers in their waterside restaurant. The tap handles are made of cattle bones.

Things seemed quiet in the beerblogosphere, giving me an excuse to link to this from The History of the Web. Beyond reminding us of the distinction between “free beer” and “freedom of speech” there is a call action.

“Put something on the web. And do it for free.

“This will require, first and foremost, your time. That is no small ask, time is the most valuable thing we have. But I can tell you one thing that’s become readily apparent to me in my decade of research of the web. It is only through people’s time that we’ve gotten to where we are.

“Here’s the thing about you. You know something nobody else does. You have a perspective that nobody else does. Information doesn’t have to just be information, it can be whatever you want it to be. Start a blog. Post an art project. Write a poem. Create a fan page. Contribute to a Wikipedia article you know something about. These little actions, these little contributions, are the best way we have to claw back to a truly free web.”

To this I will add a couple of quotes from “The Freaks Come Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper that Changed American Culture.”

Dan Wolf, co-founder: “The Village Voice was originally conceived as a living, breathing attempt to demolish the notion that one needs to be a professional to accomplish something in a field as purportedly technical as journalism.”

Richard Goldstein, who began as a rock critic and later as executive editor: “Our philosophy was you do not hire an expert; you hire someone who is living through the phenomenon worth covering.”

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FROM BLUESKY