Who's Doctor Who? - Who IS Louise Lobinske?

The Eight Doctors

Another Obligatory Personal Page

I'm your new host, Louise Lobinske. Thanks for visiting Who's Doctor Who. For those of you interested in the lives of yet another total stranger, I'm 39 years old, married, and childfree. I grew up in Maine; when I was 18 my parents moved to Florida for their health and dragged me with them. I went to Oberlin College for a year and was "withdrawn" (hey, I'm not complaining - it was a great experience, and I pretty much deserved to be kicked out). A few months after I came back to Florida, I met the man who would become my fiancé and later my husband, Richard Lobinske, who has a home page of his own called Life on Saipan, 1944-1945, the look of which still reflects Allen's redesign. (Richard and I met on stage, and that's a whole other story...) Besides Allen and other friends, Richard introduced me to another group of weirdos called the Society for Creative Anachronism, where, when I show up, I'm known as Lady Krystyna Czartoryska (it takes a weirdo to know a weirdo). I'm an editor and proofreader by trade, and a writer and lots of other things at heart. I don't think I have a favorite Doctor, to be honest - I like them all. My favorite sci-fi shows include Babylon 5, most incarnations of Star Trek, Red Dwarf, Tripping The Rift, and (except for the 2001-2002 season for both shows) Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. I was probably fated to become a Doctor Who fan; some of my favorite shows that are no longer around include Birds of Prey, The Visitor, Batman Beyond, and The Piglet Files - although this theory falls apart now that the show has returned. My favorite SF and fantasy writers include Neil Gaiman, Anne Rice, Orson Scott Card, and Roger MacBride Allen. My major was in journalism (at least the major I got the AA in - the other three were creative writing, microbiology, and chemistry). I've known how to play the piano since I was eight, although I'm a bit out of practice. My favorite books include The Scarlet Pimpernel (read it three times - a record for me), The Prisoner of Zenda, and Longitude (read it in three days - another record). I miss role-playing, and someday I will get off my butt and come up with a scenario in my Dungeons and Dragons campaign. My favorite comic books and characters include Spider-Man, Planetary, Sam and Twitch, and Ex Machina. Thanks again for visiting and I hope you enjoy Who's Doctor Who.

If I may, here are a few of my favorite links:

Gotham Girls - The online adventures of Batgirl, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy and Catwoman

At the Tomb of Tutankhamen @ nationalgeographic.com - An interactive web rendering of the original 1923 article written for National Geographic at the tomb's official opening - really cool

Bizarre News - "Spanning the globe for the weird...strange...and stupid"

Institute for Druidic Technology - Sections include "Hyperborean Mainframes", an example of which is Stonehenge; and "Celtic Computing Systems," which were based on the "RUNIX" operating system

Get a(n interesting) life! - Was "May you live in interesting times" really an ancient Chinese curse? Find out what one man has dug up in his research on the subject

Impeach Bush - At the risk of upsetting U.S. conservative fans, I include this link - check it out before you write me to disagree