Brief Introduction

Hello no one.

This is a brief (hopefully) introductory post about what I want to accomplish with this blog. I don't pretend that it'll be anymore serious, recondite, any less self-serving or -promoting than any other blog, though I'm going to try to always write content that is well-written, engaging, and all that rest. I'm a writer, so I'd better put my best face forward in this context.

In short, there will be a couple different types of entries; not all entries will be written from uniform perspective or with identical goals.

Primarily, there will be anti-tourist posts (to be explained in mere moments.) I'll attempt to do one or two of these a week.

Next, Boston is a peculiarly monument-ridden city, each edifice as idiosyncratic as the last. So I'm going to visit and write about all of them. What I write about each statue will vary based on how I feel that day and about that statue. The entries could be anything from historical essay to poem to fiction. If it's interesting in just a boring enough way, I'll lump them into an anti-tourist post.

Next, a little more far ranging and long-term and infrequent will be a series of Last Bus pieces. Combining my anti-tourist scope with my statuary breadth, I'll be riding the entire MBTA on the last service of whichever line of the night and writing about that. These will likely mostly be nonfiction but I may do other formats.

Finally, from time to time, I'll just write whatever it is I want to write about. The trick to this blog is to get me to constantly practice many different types of writing in order to keep them sharp and honed for my other projects, the ones I had heretofore cared more about. I think the best way to keep that consistently going is to introduce this sort of practice as another big project. I anticipate some growing pains as I integrate a third ambition to my personal artistic goals, so please be as negative as possible to encourage me along the way and keep me writing.

These sections will have headings in them for ease of sorting and, if you don't like one section's format, for skipping. They are: Stay Away from Harvard (anti-tourism), Boston's Pygmalia (statuary), Last Ride (should be obvious) and general posts will just be out there. If you think I'm a little heavy-handed with the Greek mythological references, I don't care.