Otherstream at 20: 2010

In 2010, I got my first tenure-track position (which is working out quite nicely, thanks), my ex and I recommenced living together full-time after five years of the bicoastal thing (that didn’t end well at all), and I didn’t write much of any consequence. Highlights follow on the march to the big anniversary on 13 January.

May

Tenure-track

June

July

On the street where I lived

August

I have this vague memory… (“vague” being the keyword here as I was alluding to things I preferred not to discuss at the time)

September

Rules for college radio personalities

October

My stomach hurts (see “vague” above)
Videolog plus: Pretend we’re dead

November

December

Otherstream at 20: 2009

In 2009, I got my master’s, got my first professional library job, thought a lot about cities, and bought a house in Pittsburgh. It was perhaps a more interesting year than I gave it credit for at the time. Anniversary in six days. Highlights from 2009 below.

January:

February:

Thank you for not smoking

March:

Cute little house, isn’t it?

April:

May:

June:

Alternatively

July:

August:

September:

October:

November:

Home

December:

I look OK in black polyester, I guess

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:

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: