Before I go into my little spill about writing a title, which won’t be long and I will write an actual post on it when I have time – one day, I just wanted to let you know what has been going on. Mostly, I haven’t been updating stuff as much as I would like to be, but I have been doing some other work on the site and I just acquired some photography stuff, kind of, and can start doing reviews on products and take pictures. Who knows, maybe I will even grace you with my horrible southern accent in a video someday soon. We can only hope… not.

So, basically, I just wanted to let you all know that I am lazy and haven’t felt like posting anything. Not really, I have just been doing a bunch of stuff with the band(s) and getting things ready for this site and I got some really, really cool projects coming up in the near future that I am excited about. Hopefully you guys will enjoy it too.

And on with something relevant to the world…

The worse part about writing a blog (I hate that term) paper, article, story, book, song, etc. is figuring out the title. Now, most of the time song titles are easy and there is a simple, effective method – most of the time. But what is hard for me, is titling articles, papers, and especially these blogs. The title is just as important as the content itself. Why? Because you have to catch the readers attention and make them interested in reading the “article” itself. If you have a crappy title, very few people will read it… if anyone. Like I said, I will one day write an actual post on this, but for now, I just want to mention what brought this about.

Yesterday, I was reading Yahoo news stories headlines (absolutely the worse news source online) because that is what I always do when I am bored. It is usually great because they have about 10 different articles and every week they spin them, give them a new title, and re-post them. It is kind of like a Nickelback song except the words are always the same.

Anyway, they had one title something along the lines of “The Healthy Nutritional Benefits of Beer.” I should have saved it so I could give you an exact title, but whatever. Of course, I read this because I found it humorous and was generally interested in it – because I don’t drink. That isn’t the point though. My sister brought up a thought about what people were going to take away from the article.

For one, they aren’t going to read anything but the title because Americans don’t read. (Well, most. ) Luckily, there were a few pictures associated with it – always a plus because then I have something to look at while I pretend to read the article.

This is what we decided people were going to take away from it. Most Americans will read the title, without reading what the article says, and take away “Beer is healthy. Let’s go drink some more beer and get smashed!” And if they are in the south like me, they would have read “Beer Good. Hell yeah!”

The article basically said beer, like wine, has some nutritional value when taken in moderation. What is moderation? According to the article, one pint of beer a day keeps the doctor away. Well, they said it could provide nutritional value. Point being, titles are very important when you are writing., but when you are reading, they are  the starting point – not the stopping point!