Otherstream at 20: 2008

There was better reading in 2008 than in 2007, maybe because I was tying (at least for a little while) to generate content for four different websites, all of which eventually landed here. I’d call this year “reflective” and “hectic” with grad school and all. I also worked a very odd part-time job, continued with my freelancing, and migrated the site from static HTML to WordPress. I’d sort of forgotten what a busy year it was.

January

February

The geekiest pornography store ever (all this SF nostalgia was part of a short-lived rebirth of Planet SOMA)
Making preserves out of history
Sunset people

March

April

Myrtle

May

June

July

August

September

At Yum Yum

October

The atheist homosexuals who stole Christmas
Advice column (sad foreshadowing)
Why I generally don’t vote Republican in the South

November

The first Tuesday following the first Monday in November

December

Charleston and Pittsburgh (several posts follow)

Otherstream at 20: 2007

Past the halfway point now, and only eight days until the anniversary. Highlights and favorites from 2007 (the year I started grad school and actually started working toward having a real career) follow. I have to admit very little of it is especially entertaining or inspiring.

January

Family crises

February

March

April

Charlotte vs. urban

May

June

Newspaper junkie

July

August

September

The first paper

October

November

December

Must be a cheap scale

Otherstream at 20: 2006

Ten years ago I was celebrating ten years of the site. 2006 also brought homeownership, a slight case of cancer, and more travel. Highlights and favorite posts below.

January:

February:

That word
Triangle weekend (the “something that was bothering me” was the early-stage cancer I’d just been diagnosed with)

March:

The ‘burbs

April:

May:

June:

MySpace. Blecch.

July:

August:

September:

October:

Chicago, Detroit, and Toronto (several posts follow)
Five years of gooeyness

November:

December:

Videolog: One great city!

Weakerthans
One great city (2003)

So it was kind of cool to walk into the local purveyor of used media here in the not-so-deep south and notice that they were playing the Weakerthans (though not this song). I like the Weakerthans.

And for the record, I have a suspicion that I might like Winnipeg just a little, too. But that’s a thought for a different day…

Otherstream at 20: 2005

Back to one year per day as we move toward the big anniversary on 13 January. 2005 was another pivotal year as it brought my departure from San Francisco and return to the East Coast. Highlights and favorites follow.

January:

Febtuary:

March: