I just recently purchased my tickets for this years HL Mencken Club Conference.

This year I’m going to try to get permission from the hosts to interview a few of the speakers for my Underworld Amusements Podcast. It’s too bad I don’t have a number of episodes under my belt yet – just a few specials, the test episode and the one extra. It’s getting a small number of listeners so far (about 1,800+), but not a single review on iTunes, and not enough ratings to tabulate an average yet. It’s one of those credibility paradoxes… you’ve got to have some credibility to get the interviews, and you’ve got to get the interviews to have some credibility.

Maybe the mixed, but mostly positive review of last years event will put them off, or maybe not. Given Derbyshire’s own afterthoughs, maybe he’ll be up for an interview at least.

I just ordered a Blue Microphones Mikey for my iPod for “field recordings” where it’s not possible to take my netbook and USB mic. I’ll be testing it out in Switzerland next weekend. It has mixed reviews, but when I saw it had come down from the $79 purchase price to $49 on amazon, I pulled the proverbial trigger.

Underworld Amusements HAS published a Mencken book, and his work will appear in the next volume of the Iron Youth Reader.

I’m really excited that Patrick J. Buchanan and Steve Sailer are going to speak. I’ve read three books by the former and have been a daily reader of the blog of the latter for a few years now. Mr Sailer is the only person to ever write a golf themed article and make it interesting to me. That’s amazing.

Anyway, I wanted to plug the event here.