ON THE WHOLE most of the blogs and websites I used to frequent fifteen and more years ago seldom if ever come to mind. One exception of those I recall involuntarily is the long ago baby blue blog (as once allegedly referred to on the silly and long ago Sorkin fairy tale, The West Wing) comes to mind only because one of its habitues insists on libeling me there and cross posting his slanders here, or tries to. But you know as much about that as anyone needs to. And, really, who does need to know about it?
There are a number of those who were always interesting and frequently had content that I wasn't likely to come about anywhere else. I won't make a list because I wouldn't want to leave any of them out. One I will mention is the blogger who called herself Echidne of the Snakes for whom I used to act as weekend guest blogger, someone for whom English is a second language and who wrote better than easily 99% of those of us who started learning the language at birth. I don't know the details of why she stopped writing her blog, nor do I know what happened to her other guest bloggers, Suzie, Phila, a few others. I always enjoyed reading them. I will mention NTodd whose blog I really enjoyed a lot and the mysterious blogger who went by the name Roger Ailes, I assume though never knew, out of some subtle irony that I never knew.
But this is about one named Tim Anderson who was a Gay man who drove trucks for a living, had a degree from a small college in the North West, was active in HIV prevention among truckers, truckstop prostitutes and others and an entirely admirable man. He also wrote and posted many very good essays and stories which I read and copied a large number of to re-read. Unfortunately, I don't have access to the hard drive of my long ago had and now greatly lamented desktop computer where I believe those might be located because his website isn't anywhere online I can find, trying the link to one that I mentioned in a post eleven years ago, the result is to tell me that the domain name is up for purchase. He had another website after that one which has a number of interesting posts still up but I can't find those many stories I loved so much. Its last post from four years ago might hold the clue as to why I can't find him, his sudden, unexplained and unsuspected deplatforming from Facebook, taking down 14 years of his work - I'd read it on his blogspot blog, never having been involved with Facebook. It wasn't much like the stereotype of LGBTQ+ life that most straight People and many an LGBTQ+ one holds
I can understand him not having the heart to repost so much work, even though he seems to have had many other dedicated readers. I wish I could find him in some active blog or other website, I'd like to be able to tell him, again how much I liked his work and respected his point of view and his work.
Anyone know were I can tell him that?
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