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Out of 2000: the Cynical Queer Speaks…

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted one of these, but here comes the thoughts of the Cynical Queer on his favorite posts from my blog.

He's on the right!

For me, the travels you and I took together seem to be memorable. You always have a great way of detailing things in […]

always hard 2 red

I must come out of the closet: I am a spelling and grammar Taliban.

Maybe that’s a bit too dramatic. I’m not perfect and I do take shortcuts along the way.

Ultimately my goal is to communicate ideas—and each as clear as possible.

I’ve ceded some strict middle- and high-school rules. I’m not as insistent […]

Out of 2000: The Regensbloggers

Next up in my celebration of 2,000 posts, come the favorites of Sarah and Cliff, the authors of the Regensblog. They’re great people and its been great meeting them in Bremen, Berlin, Munich, Weimar, and Regensburg.

We’re from not very exciting places in the U.S. (at least, not exciting to us). Since moving to Europe […]

Out of 2000: Ian in Hamburg’s Favorites

Next to offer thoughts about my 2,000 posts is Ian in Hamburg:

Humble Canadian blogger Ian in Hamburg’s favourite posts are Butt Plug Santa and Jessica Dubroff, the former for permanently searing into my brain a piece of public artwork depicting what in real life remains completely hidden from view, the latter for its thought-provoking […]

Out of 2000: Cathy’s favorite posts

The first person to offer a medley of favorites out of my blog’s history is Cathy of the Big Wide World. I first met her on the train from Jena where we learned, in short order that we both loved The Amazing Race and David Sedaris. It was the foundation of a great friendship.

Adam’s […]

On the way to Two-Thousand…

I’ve had my domain, elmada.com, since early August 2000.

Originally coding pages by hand, then using Microsoft FrontPage to streamline the process, I finally switched to the blogging format in May 2004.

I love blogging and along the way I’ve explored and written about things that I never imagined.

Almost 2,000 times.

That’s right, I’ve […]

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A Meta-Post

So I’ve sort of hinted at it now and then, and after a great deal of work, usually involving cut-and-pasting, I’ve created the archives section of this website and fixed up a number of things with the main site.

The new TQE | Archives section of the site includes stuff that used to be available […]

WEBUM – Queer Expedition

In my humble opinion, the most highly anticipated event during the Whiney Expatriate Bloggers Unmissable Meetup – the WEBMU – is the (now) annual Queer Expedition, which is now in its third year.

Two years ago, in Dresden, Ian, of Letters Home, and I checked out its tiny and noisy gay scene on Friday night—it […]

Random Tuesday Today Thoughts

I know that Snooker in Berlin participates in the weekly Random Tuesday Thoughts—and to be different, I’m doing it on Wednesday—but only because I have a crap load of thoughts to get out. I could try and break down the thoughts into more complete individual blog posts, but none of these thoughts really deserve that […]