Joe Konrath: 30 Day Beer Diet

I'm calling "BULL SHIT" on Joe Konrath's 30 day beer diet. Don't get me wrong, I would do the same thing if I were in his shoes, but seriously, Bull Shit. It all started on New Years Day, some crazy, self publisher/writer decides he want's to lose some weight "the easy way". In all honesty, he wants to do a 30 day beer diet, see how many followers he can get and then sell his story. Don't believe all the bull shit about wanting to lose weight or prove to his wife that beer isn't bad for him.

Day 1, two blog posts and three videos to get the readers engaged. If this wasn't enough, Days 2-6 also included Part 1 & Part 2 blogs with tons more videos and photos with a little bad humor mixed in. Now that he has you drawn-in and running back for more and more... it all starts to get a little fuzzy.

What Joe is/was attempting to do has already been done by many people. In fact what Joe is/was doing was most recently completed and turned into a book by J. Wilson and his book Diary of A Part-Time Monk. The difference between what Joe did vs. Wilson was the reasons behind the project. Wilson actually followed the 46 day fasting by the old Monk tradition of some 300 years prior. He even went and brewed his own doppelbock beer filled full of carbohydrates, calories and vitamins.

Now why do I call out a big Bull Shit on what Joe is doing? Well if you know of or read one of Joe's books, you also probably know that he has started a revolution (not really started, just is more public than others) of selling his work electronically. He called out the big publishers of the world and called Bull Shit on them and with the help of Amazon, he is self-publishing all of his co-written fictional works. He doesn't sell out to anyone and has the attitude of "sticking it to the man". So what is so different in Joe now? Well maybe it is the fact that he is spouting off about how much money he has made this Holiday season on his other blog and trying to put thoughts into writing to help justify his own actions to make them OK so he can lay his head down at night (just my opinion).

After about day 6, he was down to only one blog post a day and they continued to get shorter and shorter, in most cases leaving the cult-like followers wanting more and more. No more videos or photos for the "People" and finally on day 19, it all came to an end. Waiting...still waiting... No more Joe. Then, out of a miracle of the beer Gods that circle in Joe's head at night, he reappears with some nonsense about his next diet and wants the "People" to leave comments so he can see exactly what kind of market he is getting into. After this appearance, we will not see Joe again for another 6 days when out of nowhere he reapers and tells the "People" that he can't talk anymore and you will just have to wait the 13-18 months it will take him to get his documentary completed. Nice, really Joe, this is what you do, you finally sell out after spouting your mouth off daily about what your all about? Maybe I'm reading into this the wrong way? Maybe he really did get sick and was hospitalized for a good time? The fact is, you started something with just a bunch of crap promises.

The main reason I'm calling Bull Shit is the simple fact that on his very blog, Day 20 to be exact, I started a comment that quickly spread with many follow-ups. That simple message was "RIP Joe". Now did I mean it the way most readers took it? No, I knew you sold out and at that very moment and that you crapped on the thousands of followers. After this comment (which had to be approved by owner of the site, Joe) I tried to comment again on the Day 26 break-up post (basically calling you a sell-out). For some reason that comment never made it into the comment section as it wasn't approved!

Today is day 31 and no one knows what really ever happened to Joe. All we know is that he has shot tons of video and has hired an editor and that he can't give us any further information. Sounds to me like he signed a deal with "The Man" or as Joe himself calls him "The Devil" and cannot give away anything further for free.

I don't blame Joe at all for his actions and would probably do the same thing since life revolves around the dollar. Hell, I'll probably be the first one on Amazon to pre order the finished product. I'm just having a hard time comprehending the different personalities between his two blogs and the fact that Joe doesn't fully gets what he has done. Can he decipher the differences between Fact and Fiction or is he so caught-up in his own fantasy land with Jack Daniels and Uncle Jim Beam?