Posted 4 years, 5 months ago in the wee hours by oso
el-oso.net hatched ass first in the fall of 2003 as a way to keep in touch with high school and college friends who were all headed in their own directions. Go figure, not a damn one of them checks in today. I had thought I would be moving to Istanbul, Turkey in November and figured this would be the closest to the 3:30 a.m., 24-pack toasted, quasi-intellectual meleés we’d dabble in thrice-weekly back in San Diego.
My one way flight to Turkey ended up an empty seat and in mid-December I installed the blogging software b2 which later became WordPress to record my road trip from San Diego to Chiapas and back with my girlfriend. The blog officially began on December 18th, 2003. Any entries before that come from my journals and have been transcribed.
On 4-20-2004 (go figure) El Moreno decided to crash the party and hasn’t left us alone since. Then in August 2004, Abogado joined the fray. If you have seen him, please tell him to come home.
[...] For those of you that don’t know, shortly after the 2004 election, I was asked to be a guest on a liberal blog. The owner of the blog, Oso, was disappointed by the results of the election, and felt more dialogue between the two sides was needed. The idea was to open up communication between liberals and conservatives, and hopefully close the misunderstandings that are so common in liberal/conservative discussion. [...]