{"id":517,"date":"2008-03-24T06:28:23","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T13:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/monday-morning-and-not-much-musing\/"},"modified":"2008-03-24T06:30:12","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T13:30:12","slug":"monday-morning-and-not-much-musing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/monday-morning-and-not-much-musing\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday morning and not much musing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The idea last January following a brief note about our travel plans for 2008 and 2009<\/a> was announce the blogging around here would be reduced. When I told Lew Bryson<\/a> about this he laughed a might Brysonesque laugh, knowing full well how hard it is for me to keep my mouth shut.<\/p>\n

Well, the slowdown starts now. If you subscribe to Appellation Beer via an RSS feed please keep the subscription (what’s a subscription?<\/a>), because that’s the best way to learn about new posts. I may even come up with a regular schedule (as much as you can predict on a trip that includes ferries in Alaska and Croatia in general) and there are bound to be bursts of activity (such as the upcoming Craft Brewers Conference). Or maybe I’ll take a Twitter<\/a> approach.<\/p>\n

For this morning, one more thought on the subject of writer as critic (or critic as writer or blogger as critic or whatever).<\/p>\n

From Michael Jackson’s last column in All About Beer<\/a> magazine, filed just before his death and published after it was possible to ask him to expound:<\/p>\n

“Being a critic is one of the things I do for a living. Being a reporter is another. Is a reporter a fearless seeker-out of truth, neutral and objective? Or does he recruit those qualities in support of his personal passions? When I enlisted, at the age of sixteen, I may have been attracted by the powerful purity of the first role. In the event, I grew into the second.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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