My name is Bill Manley and I have literally nothing to say.
Why write a blog you ask? Well, when I say that I have nothing to say, of course that is an exaggeration. What I mean is that I have nothing interesting to say. So I publish this blog as a place to put all of the uninteresting things I think about an a daily basis.
I work in beer. More accurately, I work at a place that makes beer, and lots of it. Forgive me if I don’t mention the name of my employer (I promise, if you drink craft-beer you know them) but I have the tendency to write inflammatory things and in no-way do I want my little vanity blog to be confused with my employer’s position on anything.
In addition to working in beer, I also enjoy drinking the stuff. I go out of my way to collect, drink and gossip incessantly about it on the internet. Am I a dork? Probably.
I am a recovering journalist. Actually, a recovering photojournalist. I recently left the business, and frankly, I couldn’t be happier about it. The newspaper business is going to hell in a hand-basket and I’ll be damned if I go down with it.
I have recently re-located to the Left Coast. I moved from Virginia to Northern California in one shot. Unfortunately my loyalties lie not on either coast but in the mid-west. Chicago, in fact.
I intend to use this site to post photos, chat about nonsense and talk smack about the beer and brewing industry. I am fully aware that nobody cares what I think, but how can you have a vanity site without any vanity?
