john mayer? comeon..

I found an interesting blog last night, supposedly composed by Mario Batali, about the dark side of food bloggers, or actually blogging in general. I assumed this would cause me to doubt myself as a food blogger stating his own opinions about the dining choices he made and how that effected his dining budget but instead was surprisingly encouraged. He made extremely valid points, most importantly that bloggers have the capability of presenting what they percieve to be fact and the responsibility of backing such statements with evidence. How a blogger actually executes this responsibility is left to be judged only by their peers, which is similar to my motivation for limiting my blog to opinion and observation rather than reporting news, gossip, or rumors. I honestly wish that I motivated to write about this last night, it would have been good. Instead, the urge to cheer on Batali came tonight but unfortunately, when I searched for it I was distracted by what I found.

WHYYY!? John Mayer has a food blog? No bueno. As a 22 year old recent college graduate who has yet to attain gainful employment, my yearly dining budget hovers somewhere between the price of John Mayer's guitar on ebay and the average migrant workers yearly wage. However, so far as I could tell, the biggest concern of Mr. Mayer's newest food blog appeared to be copywriting his food photos. Maybe a photography blog would have been a more effective channelling of the remaining creativity this man has left to offer.

I am not saying Mr. Mayer is not creative, he is obviously an extremely talented musician/singer/songwriter and the whole teddy bear costume in the parking lot of his own show was an undisputable display of genius. Yet besides taking pictures of some punk rock, metal loving sous chefs saliva on his fried chicken, I am not sure that John Mayer has much to offer to the world of food blogging.