Mission Statement

The goal of this blog is for it to be something I actually want to write, first and foremost.  I felt encumbered trying to write on my old blog because I didn't think I could write now like I wrote then, when I was younger and perhaps more easily stirred to be loud and vulgar and describe beers as having the odor of dead rats.  Which is not to say that I am not still loud, vulgar, and eager to describe beers as having the odor of rotting lettuce from someone's vegetable crisper last opened during the Bush administration.  It's just that I don't necessarily want to write like that as much anymore, except when I really feel that it's critical to the topic at hand.

The title of this blog, "Useful Stuff About Useless Stuff" came from an idea I had to write a guide on playing Ruzzle.  I'll probably do that shortly, with picture examples to illustrate the ways you can easily improve at the game.  And that's like, the definition of useless.  It's a cell phone word puzzle game.  Yet at the same time, anyone who plays Ruzzle, or any game like Ruzzle, still likes winning and getting lots of points and getting big words, so it's kinda helpful to know more about it.  I think that it's something I'd have fun talking about and thinking about on my own, so there's no point to not actually writing it down and making it public.

Beer is kinda the same thing.  It doesn't really matter if I think a beer is the greatest thing on earth or the worst thing since Foster's, but I feel compelled to discuss it so I might as well do it through writing.  I will probably talk about more general beer stuff and less about specific beers, but I'll leave that for when I actually write stuff.  Movies, games, music, these things are all not ACTUALLY useless (when you think about it, pretty much nothing is useless since all of our experiences shape our future experiences in some form or fashion) but they're "useless" so there you have it.

What I'm saying is, enjoy the "useless" because without it living would be useless.