NoggyNet

West Virginia, told from the road.

These days that means narrated drives: what a place is, how it got that way, why the name on the sign is the name on the sign. Switzer, Mate, Hollyhurst. The roads keep records, and I've started reading them out loud.

It didn't start here. I've had this channel since 2008 — it began with music and education, and there's still a playlist of me conducting Peer Gynt to prove it. For years after that it was "Ride With Me": straight dashcam drives, hundreds of them, town by town across the state. The essays grew out of those drives. Same roads — I'm just looking harder now.

I've left all of it up, in the order it happened. The early work isn't hidden and it isn't embarrassing; it's the floor this is standing on. If you only saw where a channel ended up, you'd miss the part worth watching — a person figuring it out. That's the channel.

Current work is up front. In the Playlists tab, the Ride With Me archive — every town its own playlist. Wander it.