"as you may expect from a lovestruck fifteen year old..."
I wish I'd been lovestruck at fifteen. That was around the time my childlike sense of wonder about the world went AWOL and I haven't seen it since. *sniff*
My screen name is pretty damn obvious too. No prizes for originality in that department .
I was looking for a name to use for my first hotmail account and of course everything you could associate with Bev was long gone. So I started trying all sorts of different names and the thing kept telling me they were all taken. After an hour of trying I was getting well fed up, as I was putting in the stupidest names and I couldn't believe they were all taken. So in a fit of frustration I searched along my bedroom floor, as usual covered in assorted crap, and the first thing that caught my eye was the latest copy of DWB, aka Dreamwatch Bulletin. So I tried that et voila! I've used it ever since and always with a lower case d.
Funny story about Calvin & Hobbes... for my 10th birthday party I invited all my school friends as you would, but I also invited the kids from my basketball team, which included this one kid I was never really huge friends with. I didn't hate him or anything, but we didn't really get along like I got along with the rest of the guys. Anyway as a present he got me a Calvin & Hobbes book (I'd never heard of them before), and I was like "wtf? "... but once I read the book I was an absolute out-and-out Calvin & Hobbes obsessor. To this day it's still my favourite cartoon of all.
I never got to thank the kid though because basketball season finished and we never played in the same team again.
As for my nickname... a lot of people accuse me of not being able to spell, but it's actually from the Platypus song "Platt Opus", which was playing at the time I registered on the DT message board.
My name was derived from something I wrote in a friend's guestbook once, something about wading through the gore of the false or some such nonsense. Plus, there were way too many Edgecrushers already and I figured I wanted something unique.
"the latest copy of DWB, aka Dreamwatch Bulletin."
Ah, DWB. Back in the pre-internet days, us cult TV fans could never find a more wretched hive of (potentially libellous) scum and villainy . I even remember when it was a grubby little fanzine called Doctor Who Bulletin, then they got hold of a laserprinter, changed the name and went professional.
The editor (Gary Leigh) had a real chip on his shoulder and was not the sort of man whose decisions you bitched about in the letter column. Wonder what he's doing now?