Introducing Ourselves

izzie

Posted: May 27, 2007 - 8:22am

What would you like us to know about you?


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Hello, I'm izzie, and I'm

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On May 27th, 2007 izzie said:

Hello, I'm izzie, and I'm one of your two moderators here. I have other names, too. But here, I'm just izzie. And don't put a capital I on it. Just izzie.

I'm an 80's style Deadhead and a Brent-girl to the core. There were two sides of the stage: Jerry Side and Brent Side. and I was always a Brent-sider. I can't really remember all the shows or parts of runs that I saw, but I took a swag at it for my list here.

I've been around the internet since long before there was an internet, as I'm sure alot of us in here have been! My first modem was a 1200 bps, and it was too slow for some of the cool new BBS's that I was finding in the late 80's. I got to The Well right after Jerry died, and it's been my online home ever since. (oh, and I blame Gans.)

I am from the DC Metro area in Maryland, and have lived all over the South and in Colorado. I currently live in Ocean Beach - San Diego - CA, and my family lives in Bayfield, CO. It's one hell of a commute.

I'm marye, not finicky about

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On May 27th, 2007 marye said:

I'm marye, not finicky about the capitalization, and I'm the other mod. David Gans and Bennett Falk and I cofounded the Well Grateful Dead conference back in, uh, 1986 I think. I've been kind of retired from the online conference scene for some time and am truly delighted to come out of "retirement" for this one.

My first show was 12/31/80. I probably got to about 200 before it was over, though as I'm busy filling in the My Shows list, I'm certainly wishing I'd kept better records. Still, I cannot complain; I was around for some amazing stuff and I'm grateful.

I also quite unabashedly turned myself into a journalist (I was a retail slave at the time) back in 1981 because I could not see any other likely path to having a decent conversation with Jerry Garcia. Eventually the strategy paid off; you can read the result at http://www.yoyow.com/marye/garcia.html, bearing in mind that this is a raw transcript with every sentence fragment in place. (A shorter version of the interview ran in a story in BAM, which no longer exists.)

I've lived in Oakland, California, for the last 30+ years. I was born in Los Angeles. I strongly prefer the Bay Area.

I'm looking forward to hanging out here.

You can call me Paul or

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On June 1st, 2007 pauli said:

You can call me Paul or pauli and like our two hosts I've been on the WELL where I was attracted by the Dead conferences in 1992 as an escapee from Usenet. I spent the first 27 years of my life in California. The last 27 have been spent in New Jersey where I am in charge of a project that is editing the papers of Thomas Edison.

My first show was 9/9/72 at the Hollywood Palladium, though I had been listening to the Dead for many years. The first time I "saw" them was I believe a broadcast of the 1970 New Year's show. And during the the summer of 1972 I listened to them a lot, especially while my college roommates and I were painting the house we were renting San Luis Obispo. One of my roommates was already a confirmed Deadhead and we went to many shows together over the years. My last show was 6/25/95. I'll have to spend some time reconstructing the list here.

I have too many tapes that don't get listened to enough in this digital age but I've been putting those shows that I have on cd on my older IPod and selectively downloading a few others from archive.org. I've also converted a few of my tapes to digital but don't really have enough time to do much of that these days.

Drive misses the

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On June 1st, 2007 drive said:

Drive misses the dead...............

Colorado, izzie? That's my

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On June 1st, 2007 Analise Dubner said:

Colorado, izzie? That's my home state!

Colorado, eh? what part!?

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On June 1st, 2007 izzie said:

Colorado, eh? what part!? I've lived in Colorado Springs in the early/mid 90's and now in Bayfield.

I grew up in Aspen, but went

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On June 1st, 2007 Analise Dubner said:

I grew up in Aspen, but went to college in both Boulder and Ft. Collins. My sister and her family live in Denver now, and my folks are still up in the mountains.

hi, i'm aud. 7/18/72

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On June 2nd, 2007 aud said:

hi, i'm aud. 7/18/72 Roosevelt, but really "got it" on the rail at the Spectrum on 9/21/72 during that Dark Star>Dew...

born and raised in Philly and live now in the western suburbs with my husband and my 2 kids and 3 cats. found the Well one Friday afternoon at work in June 1986 and have been there ever since, hosting the "philly" conference and the "tours" conference, which started many years ago as the spinoff place for all us deadheads on the Well to discuss tours in excruciating detail. these days i caretake a daily topic there with a list of that day's GD shows through history which makes for a lot of great reminiscing, and which i hope will find its way over here in a more multi-media format.

i'm a long suffering dedicated Philly sports fan, office manager, Jewish mother, and frequently wish to be on a cliff in Negril rather than in front of my laptop.

my life in pictures currently residing at http://www.flickr.com/photos/auds-pix/

Aud! Drive! Howdy!

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On June 2nd, 2007 marye said:

Aud! Drive! Howdy!

Hi everyone- I'm tn2nadoes

On June 2nd, 2007 tn2nadoes said:

Hi everyone-
I'm tn2nadoes (not picky about caps, either) as I live in Tennessee & have 7 yr old twins who are officially a mess (TN 2 Nadoes). Most people just call me Vivi.
Went to my first (half) show at Morgantown, WV in 1983 and my last was RFK in 1990. Got to see a lot of great shows in between- and got a chance to see this great nation of ours- Lots of great stories there -skinning dipping in a "dry lake" outside of Salt Lake City on our way to The Greek, and the great spaghetti sauce incident (that was after a Midwestern show at some wonderful Shakespearean theatre, does anyone remember the name of this?) come to mind...
I'm an East Coast girl originally, came South for college & never left. My ex-husband was (and probably still is) a Well Member from the early days - I couldn't handle trying to read all the posts in that weird green type!
I've been a lot of things: a cook, caterer, advertising exec, copy writer, office manager, book keeper (ugh), gardener... I've worked in construction (even built an outhouse), graphic design, building design (my own home), music industry, been on the boards of some non-profits (in the arts , land conservation and in animal rescue) mostly in fundraising research (left the professional begging to others, LOL), and I'm now a full time Mom, Wife, Home-Maker, Farmer & Animal Rescuer. Yup, that would be 5 full time jobs! I do some specialty writing on the side, mostly procedure, health, information and fundraising brochures for a Pot Bellied Pig Sanctuary.
Yup... pigs... almost as cute as dancing bears.
Cheerios-
Vivi

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