These were standalone rants in an earlier version of Otherstream, but are now simply part of the chronological posts like everything else. I will probably be re-evaluating them soon and re-work this page to include a better mix of posts I’m particularly proud of.

Urbanism, My Former Hometown, Etc.

Overview:

• The Big Urban Essay (27 July 2006)
  Urban is variety; you can’t build it from scratch…

More stuff:

• Charlotte vs. Urban (9 April 2007)
  Charlotte was more fun when it was still a city…
• New Urbanism Is Neither (23 January 2006)
  Ultimately, it’s just another shopping center…
• Leaving San Francisco (29 April 2005)
  The hour is at hand…
• The Land of Lowered Expectations (4 February 2005)
  Too many people in San Francisco seem willing to settle for less…
• Ten Years in San Francisco (5 October 2002)
  Have I really spent more than a quarter of my life here?
• Sprawl (18 October 2002)
  Cities vs. suburbs. Again…
• Urban Blah (15 January 2002)
  Maybe I’m just tired of being an urban dweller…
• Preserving the Past (20 January 2000)
  Historic preservation of just gentrification?
• I Want My Recession Back (28 April 1999)
  Life was much more fun here before things started “booming”…
• Only in San Francisco (10 February 1999)
  San Franciscans are an odd bunch. We forget this a little too often…
• Disillusioned (Planet SOMA, 21 August 1998)
  The SF I knew is history. It may be time to hit the road…
• Insulated from Reality (14 February 1997)
  Living in a cultural vacuum…

Sodomy and Other Sexualities

Overview:

• The Big Gay Essay (27 July 2006)
  All gay people are homosexual. Not all homosexual people are gay…

More stuff:

• An Honorable Disease (28 July 2006)
  In one life-threatening disease really more “devastating” than another?
• I Do Not Nurture Nature (31 January 2006)
  Or why I won’t be seeing “Brokeback Mountain”…
• On Gay Bookstores (8 July 2002)
  How gay do you deserve to be?
• Pornographically Correct (30 November 2001)
  Do smutty stories really need to follow the gay party line?
• Slumming Faggot Tourists (28 December 2000)
  Trendy boys in designer altermative clothes…
• Gay Gay Gay Gay Gay (15 September 1999)
  Why I’ve grown to hate the term “gay”…
• Naked Gay Sex Gallery Pictures (30 July 1999)
  Jeez…the things people will do with a search engine…
• A Quandary of Queers, a Lick of Lesbians (10 May 1999)
  Faggots run in packs. This is most detrimental to cruising…
• To Have and to Hold (17 January 1999)
  Note to those who are obsessed with the second person plural: “Back off!”
• Faux Butch (18 December 1998)
  A very “manly” topic…
• On Personal Ads (6 December 1997)
  In all their glory…
• Cruising Planet Sears (21 November 1997)
  I was a teenage tearoom queen…
• Celebrating Our Sexuality (24 October 1997)
  There will be a buffet…
• The Cootie Factor (30 July 1997)
  Folsom Street is a boys’ club. No girls allowed, dammit…
• The Gay Press (14 March 1997)
  What I’m not reading this week…
• Castro Marketing (20 October 1996)
  If you don’t fit the mold, you can’t play…
• Anti-gay (1996)
  Intriguing book…

Miscellaneous Pop Culture and Politics

• Dotmaniac.com (20 November 2007)
  Incomptence, negligence, ot just plain old fraud?
• One Size Does Not Fit All (8 April 2006)
  There’s no more mass culture, which is probably a good thing…
• Minnie and Yogi and Arthur and Roy (27 November 2005)
  Dead (and near-dead) restaurant chains from my youth…
• Charlotte’s “Uptown” Magazine (3 August 2005)
  When bad writing happens to good cities…
• Bill of Rights (2 May 2003)
  Having the right to do something does not mean that one should do it…
• “Peace” Protests (19 March 2003)
  Your right to break the law does not supercede my right not to…
• Tolerance (3 February 2003)
  Everyone deserves it, right?
• Community Center (10 July 2002)
  Pondering an increasingly overused cliché…
• Pop Rocks (Updated 15 May 2002)
  Seeking the best pop songs of my semi-young life…
• Free Speech (28 March 2002)
  It’s a pity so few people have a clue what the concept entails…
• Animal “Rights” (12 February 2002)
  Animals have no rights and are only eligible for the privileges we, as humans, decide to provide them…
• What Are Words For (3 October 1998)
  Feeling kewl and extreme? Wanna celebrate your sexuality on the Information Superhighway while growing your business? Interested in cliches?
• Instant Retro (27 January 1998)
  Do five year-old songs REALLY qualify as “retro”?