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:

Of queer ska librarians

April:

May:

June:

Goodbye SF
The great migratory road trip of 2005 (several posts follow)
Good to be home

July:

August:

September:

Am I a writer now?

October:

Underground nostalgia

November:

Myrtle Beach
Practice makes perfect
Minnie and Yogi and Arthur and Roy (one of the most accessed posts on the site)

December:

Adaptive reuse
Stupid Christian tricks
Lowcountry road trip (several posts follow)

Otherstream at 20: 2004

I’m almost caught up from my vacation break and so I can return to one year a day soon The anniversary happens on 13 January.

In 2004, the trend toward daily updates with no substantial essays continued, making the site more of a journal than a reflective space. Thus it’s harder to pick “highlights” as such and the ones I chose don’t really show what was on my mind quite so well as in earlier years. Anyway, here are the ones I chose, such as they are.

January:

Credo

February:

Married (sort of)

March:

May:

July:

August:

October:

November:

Documenting
Muzak
East Coast trip (several posts follow)
Pittsburgh

Otherstream at 20: 2002

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Twelve days till the big anniversary, and fourteen years to cover because I missed a couple of days.

2002 was all about love and mushiness, until September, when it became all about love and cohabitation. But I occasionally managed to write about other things, too. In retrospect, I’m not wild about some of it, but most of it holds up OK.

January:

February:

Weekend in Fresno
Animal “rights”
New York Pizza (it didn’t really burn down after all)
The “bear” thing

March:

Los Baños (the first “coupled” road trip begins, several posts follow)
Find a city
Cities, continued
Free speech
Northwestern road trip begins (several posts follow)

April:

Let me just pull that out of my magic asshole

May:

June:

July:

Mmmm. Databases (if only there were a career choice for someone with these interests…)
On gay bookstores
Community center
Sheehy is an idiot

August:

September:

100 things about me

October:

November:

Bloopers and outtakes 2002

Otherstream at 20: 2001

Sorry for that delay. I didn’t create enough of these before I left on vacation, thinking I’d catch up on the road, but the “cut and paste” nature of these particular posts made that a major pain on the iPad. Twelve days till the anniversary.

So 2001 was the year in which I lost one of my oldest friends, had major health issues, and met the love of my life, among other things. And a surprisingly latge number of things still managed to annoy me. A pretty intense year, all in all.

Some highlights:

January:

February:

March: