Three decades ago my wife and i were staying at the Kona Village on the big island. A friend who knew our preference for the Champagne/cheetos wine and food pairing, called the hotel and asked both be delivered to our hut. Unfortunately, they misunderstood and sent a box of Cherrios with a bottle of Moet Brut. That particular combo doesn’t work, moreover I have found Cherrios much harder than Cheetos to pair with wine.

RE the audience reaction in this episode of TROAE: maybe it was an expression of the distrust many ‘Murricans feel for people who read and write for fun, rather than to make a living, Or maybe it’s that most blogs seem to be put up by haters, trolls and other malcontents. Perhaps this shapes the public perception of blogging in general?

The stereotypical image of a blogger is some unshaven guy in his underwear with a Red Bull and Cheeto-stained fingers. Me? I haven’t found a wine that goes with Cheetos yet. I shopuld probably Twitter the question.

Excuse me, Stephen, but I don’t give a flying @%$# what your goldfish is doing or, for that matter, what any of you Twitterers are doing.

I agree that it is satire. But in every joke is a seed of truth and bashing blogs seemed fertile ground. Interesting how energetically the audience voiced their support of Oswalt, though.

My $.02.

It’s very similar to what I was getting at with the OWC discussion about wine blogger “insecurity”: http://www.openwineconsortium.org/group/winebloggers/forum/topic/show?id=2000748%3ATopic%3A45893

Here’s hoping we get the opportunity to discuss it facet o face at the WBC!