Is Breaking and Entering Still a Crime?
Those in the blogging community can attest to the concept of a “blog friend” and that there are two ways to make them. First, because of similar interests, you come across each other’s blogs and become avid readers. After a while, you start commenting on each other’s posts and develop a relationship where you “talk” to the person a couple times a week. The second way to make a blog friend is when you see their picture on their site and they’re incredibly hot. You start following/stalking them and try to make them like you. Sure it’s not a “true” friendship but, really, do you care? Creep…
Oliver – aka “The Winegetter” – is one of my best blog friends. (You’ll have to check out his site to figure out which of the above methods was at work.) His passion for wines – German Rieslings in particular – comes through in informative, enthusiastic, and terrifically well-written posts. The bonus here is that he lives in Ann Arbor, so we’ve become good friends offline as well.
One quality that I admire the most is his sense of humor. There aren’t that many people fresh-off-the-boat from Germany who appreciate sarcasm or nuance in a joke and can take some ribbing. Oliver, God love him, has taken a few from me. He’s endured my many gags involving the eccentricities of Germans – their dancing inability, their habit of being naked in hot tubs all over the world, and their love of David Hasselhoff.
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Speaking of being all over the world, he and his wife went on an extended journey through Southeast Asia this summer. During that time, he’s had a lot of really good bloggers write guest posts for him. So he decided to break his streak and had me write one.
The assignment was to write a wine-related post around the theme “Beyond the Sea.” In the post I talk about how I discovered my love for Rose wines on the gorgeous island of St Barth’s –
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… and then I definitely put his patience to the test.
Please, please, please go check it out.
THE FOOD AND WINE HEDONIST: WHILE THE WINEGETTER IS BEYOND THE SEA…
So how have you met your bloggy friend?
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God, I wasn’t even aware that my blogmancrush (nice long German word) was this reciprocal! Thanks, man. You just made a day in Seoul that was as close to perfect and personal as could be, just a tad more so…really means a ton. Thanks!
That’s awesome that your blog bud lives so close! I’ve been lucky enough to meet quite a few so far, as you know. All of this solely based on their hotness, of course.
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