Beer Gut is the New Sexy

My friend Nicky, the person responsible for this blog, just sent me this article from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about how Marie Claire named our hometown of Milwaukee . . . ok brace yourself . . . the sexiest city in the WORLD.

I will now take a pause so you can rub your eyes and blink a few times to make sure you read that correctly.

Now, don't get me wrong, I LOVE Milwaukee, but "sexy" is just about one of the last words I'd use to describe the place, and most of the locals quoted in the Journal Sentinel article seem to agree. Their general reaction was "Umm thanks, but I think you might be mistaking us for some other city."

Probably the best quote of the entire article is:

"But aren't we the fattest city?" said Jon Bailey, 26. "Well, we are the drunkest city, so I guess that comes with the allusion* of sexy." (Actually, we've recently fallen to the second-drunkest city, displaced by Austin, Texas.)

I'm also REALLY baffled by what criteria they used to choose their sexiest city. According to the Journal Sentinel, part of the reasoning was:

Milwaukee is "the nation's summer-festival epicenter" where "NASCAR tailgaters, Lebanese dabka dance fans and Foo Fighters freaks (are) all welcome."

When did NASCAR become sexy, and why didn't I get the memo?

A Marie Claire staffer added:

"It's sort of like when you find a cool bar before anyone else finds it. You pioneer it, and we think Milwaukee may be that bar, a place that might be the nation's best-kept secret."

Whatever you say, guys.

*I copied and pasted this directly from the article. I DO know the difference between allusion and illusion. In case you were wondering.