Well. My name isn't really Sparky, of course; I earned that nickname in 1992, my senior year of high school, by devoting myself to the character of Megavolt from Disney's Darkwing Duck. Fangirlish, I quoted him all day, drew doodles of him on the chalkboards of empty classrooms, and argued with people about the brutal enslavement of innocent incandescent light fixtures. My friends called me Sparky, hoping, I imagine, to aggravate me the way that nickname aggravated poor Elmo Sputterspark - but it backfired on them and now, at 30, I still use the name. My first fansite was indeed devoted to The Fearsome Five from Darkwing Duck (it's actually still up and running); though when I discovered there were no websites at all devoted to either the movie or the cartoon Beetlejuice, I started one for both. The Beetlejuice cartoon, also out in 1992, was my *other* passion, and I dressed my best friend up as Lydia and myself as BJ for our senior year's Halloween costume contest - we won, yes, a coupon for a large pizza. Go us. Anyways, I took a bunch of screencaps for the liveaction portion of my new BJ site, and - I swear - *instantly* a swarm of Beetlejuice fansites exploded all over the Net, all based solely on showing off (yup) my screengrabs. :P Sigh. I was noon thereafter contacted politely by a BJ fan who wanted to make an actual *developed* BJ fansite, not just screencaps in other words, and he asked if he could use my pictures. Glad that someone was finally *asking*, I just gave them all to him and deleted the liveaction portion of my site altogether, deciding to concentrate on the cartoon. Well, my BJ cartoon site isn't the only one out there these days, but it *was* the first! theneitherworld.com, while probably not as popular as it once was, used to at one point get hundreds of hits a day on the entrance page alone; such is my legacy. I'm proud of it, anyways. Incidentally, the reason I joined tvtome.com (and now tv.com) is related to my BJ site, but in a negative way: I discovered that someone had come to my site, copied all my episode synopses, and pasted them into the tvtome BJ episode guide. Without my permission. Well, that skeeves me off, I'll tell you what. How very tacky. Someone got over 90 submissions out of my years of work. Whoever you are, if you're reading this right now, I hope you feel at least a little bit of shame. No, that episode guide is not *official* in any way, *I* wrote it, a fan, and you stole from me. Also, the artwork on the front page of the BJ guide (at this time, anyhow, I may try to get it taken down) - guess what, I DREW THAT, it's not official clipart or anything. Whoever took that and posted it, YOU SUCK. There, I said it. Well, with that all said, I hope now to become the new editor for the Beetlejuice cartoon show here on tv.com. Unfortunately I cannot submit anything until I am level 2, so, here goes my blog, in hopes that will raise my level faster. Cheers. :) ~Sparky, 2005 PS: Oh yeah, forgot to mention...I know the name "Sparky" is a little neutral. Well, I'm a chick. Cheers again. ;)