RESPONSIBLE BLOGGER IN REAL TIME

A responsible blogger is hard to find?

Not at all, just search for an echo chamber that repeats what you think.

Find that blogger and you start wondering why everything else isn’t as easy.

But that’s not what’s going on here.

I’m not doing the work, you are.

To start, I show up with a clown-faced picture in the header. Why clown face?

I was trying for this look:

Close?

Really close?

Staying On Topic: Health

If you’ve been around someone with lots to say about everything, and you agree with them, they could be a responsible blogger.

But they’re usually not because their active brain is more tuned into things like spending time making more money.

Which is what responsible people do.

Their words are gone with the wind, but what happens online stays online.

When people talk about health they’re either selling something, or posing their gains.

Or this from an online education page:

You can get solid health and wellness tips from authoritative blogs. The following are some of the top wellness blogs in areas of fitness, nutrition, and mental health.

Are they selling commitment, dedication, how to make a sustained effort over a lifetime?

Come on, that’s asking too much of any blogger.

(650 posts tagged ‘health’ on boomerpdx)

Still, it’s good reading.

Think of a fast food addict who loves reading from their library of gourmet cookbooks.

Staying On Topic: Food

You won’t find this dish in a cookbook unless it’s one that includes volcanic super-heated stoneware.

A mess like this ought to come with a warning, as if something listed as ‘Meat Bowl’ wasn’t enough.

This compiler of food blogs understands the struggle:

You might think food blogging is an easy, free time hobby, but creating such informative, visual treats is no easy task. In fact, it is an art (most of the time, anyway), and, as with any serious art, it requires a lot of hard work and dedication. 

Food blogging today takes culinary stories to a whole new level, covering much more than delectable recipes: food travel, product placement, ‘brave’ kitchen experiments, introducing new restaurants.

So demanding is it that some famous food bloggers have become the new connoisseurs of the culinary world, with invites to critique some of the best and hottest places to eat around the world.

(470 post tagged ‘food’ on boomerpdx.)

My food and cooking interests stem from my Dad’s kitchen adventures.

He cooked for three sons. He was also a resting Marine.

The dish I most remember him for was S.O.S, or Shit On A Shingle: creamed chipped beef on toast.

I sampled the same dish when I joined the Army and ate at the Boot Camp Bistro.

My old man did it better in comparison.

Since then I’ve cooked up similarly themed meals with varied results.

“Why do they always look grey?”

A Gastronomique Responsible Blogger

My snootier readers are familiar with the term ‘gastronomique.’

It’s a restaurant owned and run by a chef with their mean-wife working the room.

You go there for the food and come away with a memory of the entire experience.

Most places have a fixed menu; the chef-run place flows with the seasons.

You go for the show, but for them you are the show.

Small, almost imperceptible, cues occur throughout the evening that tell them all they need to know about you, and you about them.

Patience is key. They’re not in a hurry, you shouldn’t be in a hurry.

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A gastronomique blogger works the same way, minus the mean-wife part.

It’s a one man shop, one opinion presented in a consistent manner.

One story, one post, telling the whole story with links out to expand the scope.

(440 posts tagged ‘blogger.’)

The picture in this section shows a Frame of Fame. It’s reduced from Hall of Fame, and Wall of Fame.

It’s a reminder of places I’ve been and people I’ve known.

That it’s full of wife and kids pictures tells another story.

The story of connectedness is the human story.

(200 posts tagged with connection.)

Doesn’t that sound tasty?

It’s a delicacy called responsible blogger.