Hiya and Welcome

Greetings!

And, more importantly, congratulations. You, reader, are at present wallowing in the luxury and priveledge of reading the first-ever post on my blog. Hooray!

I suppose I could set out my political philosophy, offer a brief history of the positions I've taken in recent years about the war on terror, Israel-Palestine, Iraq and all that, and explain a bit about myself...but all that should become clear as this blog clunks along. I'll be writing quite a lot about the affairs of this global city, I predict, but my first love is literature and art so expect plenty of pretentious cultural navel-gazing. In short: this is a blog about the arts and humanities, culture, politics, the state of education in the Western world, history, ideas, beauty, horror, philosophy, religion, life in a big and wondrous city, boys, girls, animals, and senior citizens: all with a running commentary on current events that will hopefully be eccentric enough to attract two or so readers.

I should say that I'm an American living in London, currently pursuing a degree in Comparative Literature and Film Studies at one of the colleges of the University of London. That in itself isn't interesting; hopefully the transatlantic, international perspective on things will be.

Here we go!