Ok, no-one else has started this, so I guess I will.
I joined Moorcock's Miscellany in August '04 after deciding to make another search for a good Michael Moorcock biblography. I'd started reading Mike's books in earnest about 15 years before and had become a big fan. Reading a few threads and discovering Mike was posting was enough for me. I decided to join!
Picking a name, though, was difficult for me, being unimaginative in that department. I settled on the name I have, after remembering Mike's fictional island in the Indian Ocean, mentioned in the Oswald Bastable and Jerry Cornelius books, among others. Some puzzlement it has caused, too. And I'm glad, 'cause I didn't want it to be too obvious.
I chose for an avatar a cut-out from a reputed picture of a famous (perhaps, the most famous) Wild West hero (below left.) The others followed over time, though I forget where I snipped them from. I decided to treat myself to a full colour avatar when the site was resurrected. (He's Windy Miller, in case you were wondering.)
Becoming more confident in my navigation of the site I decided to fill a few holes in the Image Hive (though it was a plain old Image Gallery, back then), and informed Reinart der Fuchs that I had a few images that needed moving, and a few more to up-load. His response was to thank me, make me a Chaos Engineer (which is what he calls his helpers on the site), and tell me to do it myself!
Since then I have tried to help out where I can with the Images, creating the Non-English Editions folder, moving and adding some images to it, among other tidying up efforts. I eagerly await Herr Fuchs' debugging of the Image Hive, so I can continue where I left off.
Personally, I have just entered my fifth decade, am married with two sons, and live in Bath, England. (Zummerzet! Cider country!
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Welcome to Moorcock's Miscellany. I hope you will get as much out of it as I have.
Gov
I joined Moorcock's Miscellany in August '04 after deciding to make another search for a good Michael Moorcock biblography. I'd started reading Mike's books in earnest about 15 years before and had become a big fan. Reading a few threads and discovering Mike was posting was enough for me. I decided to join!
Picking a name, though, was difficult for me, being unimaginative in that department. I settled on the name I have, after remembering Mike's fictional island in the Indian Ocean, mentioned in the Oswald Bastable and Jerry Cornelius books, among others. Some puzzlement it has caused, too. And I'm glad, 'cause I didn't want it to be too obvious.

I chose for an avatar a cut-out from a reputed picture of a famous (perhaps, the most famous) Wild West hero (below left.) The others followed over time, though I forget where I snipped them from. I decided to treat myself to a full colour avatar when the site was resurrected. (He's Windy Miller, in case you were wondering.)
Becoming more confident in my navigation of the site I decided to fill a few holes in the Image Hive (though it was a plain old Image Gallery, back then), and informed Reinart der Fuchs that I had a few images that needed moving, and a few more to up-load. His response was to thank me, make me a Chaos Engineer (which is what he calls his helpers on the site), and tell me to do it myself!
Since then I have tried to help out where I can with the Images, creating the Non-English Editions folder, moving and adding some images to it, among other tidying up efforts. I eagerly await Herr Fuchs' debugging of the Image Hive, so I can continue where I left off.
Personally, I have just entered my fifth decade, am married with two sons, and live in Bath, England. (Zummerzet! Cider country!

Welcome to Moorcock's Miscellany. I hope you will get as much out of it as I have.
Gov


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