A Late Unlamented Start

Hello Cruel World!

Myles Lobdell here,

Please excuse the meager furnishings apparent at the moment, this being the first post and all.

Perhaps this is an exercise in futility (an attempt to keep a daily blog): after all, I'm not particularly noted for my efficiency or prolificacy. It's not my first attempt at a block (Proust-Punk was an errant first attempt, more brass tacks class project than sentimental effusion), nor is it my first essay in self-expression, my radio show on KRNL (89.7 FM!) "The Myles Hour" often enters personal narrative.

In part, this is intended as an annex to my weekly radio show. Those who like the show can come here and find more of the same, here I can find the space to go further in-depth on various and sundry that may come up on the show.

It's also a personal record, a marker, yes, even a (ugh!) Myles-stone, indicating the life-experience passed from day to day, and showing where I've been and where I'm going.



Eh, well, introductions are requisite, yet, inherently, of a kind.

Those who know me, great!
Those who don't, soon will, if they continue reading...

For the record, I'm your typical everyday genius, college-attending contrarian in his mid-20s. Born and raised in the wilds of northern New England (a short walk from the White Mountain National Forest), I'm currently Iowa residing. I love to pontificate (a fair warning: my internal monologues usually come replete with footnotes and obscure references to Burton, Gibbon, etc.) about history, culture, and anything else possible to over-analyze.

I'm an amateur historian, researcher, reviewer, radio dj, and (mostly unpublished) creative writer. I've assisted with several books (comic book annotations, etc.)

Feel free to respond uncensored, but a note of caution: I'm perfectly happy publically responding in whatever manner I see fit, thus don't post here if you don't want to engage in a public forum and expose your "close and cloistered virtues" to public review and criticism.

I read some of the OED every day, and I don't get out from behind the books much.

As you can probably tell, I like to bloviate...

And that's it. For now...