I was
born Sept. 26, 1963. I knew I was different than the other children in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. They were reading Nancy Drew,
Scholastic books, and talking about typical kiddy stuff. I was reading Edgar Allen Poe, H.P. Lovecraft and translated works
by the Marquis De Sade and sitting in a corner drawing gravestones, haunted houses, and rotted corpses in basements.
When
my parents moved to rural Pictou, an isolated hamlet north of Nowhere, and I found myself trying to be friendly towards inbred
fishermen's children and things who thought 'smart' was a codeword for 'target', I realized that I'd better get used
to having a powerful imagination for a friend.
Fandom
provided people to talk to, but since they knew about shows like Voyage, I realized that I had better be able to speak
their language-so I dove in.
It didn't
take long to find episodes that inspired me. (The two Phantom episodes, the three werewolf ones, various intense espionage
and even some of the goofier monster ones -Vincent Price and the puppet Admiral, anyone?)
I found
friends, some of which stuck around and some of which disappeared and are much missed (Christopher 'Gooder' Dufour, are you
out there?)
I'm still
out here in the foggy netherworld, so if you want to visit this strange old mausoleum, I'm on FB and Yahoo, with a website
possible.