So, what brought this on…
Today, I noticed that my blog views spiked dramatically upward. No complaints, mind you. I haven’t posted since Monday and my views were pretty much dormant. But what could be causing the traffic? I did a scan of the blogosphere — nope, nothing posted that has anything to do with me.
Then I realized… it’s probably from something completely vanilla. Ooopsies! 😀
As I’ve mentioned ad nauseam, I use Erica Scott pretty much everywhere, including Twitter. Several years ago, I connected with and friended “Cousin Barnabas,” who is a fellow Dark Shadows fanatic and has a blog called The Collinsport Historical Society. He knows about my blog, and it didn’t send him running away screaming. In fact, he’s one of my blog followers, and he often “Likes” my tweets. I ♥ open-minded people.
Because Dark Shadows is currently celebrating its 50th anniversary (!!!), he invited several people to write a guest column on his blog about their experiences with the program, when/why/how they watched it, etc. I was very honored to be on this list, and I wrote a little piece about my years as a DS fangirl (and in particular, a Quentin Collins/David Selby fangirl). He posted it this morning, and you can read it here. And he tweeted about it, which linked people to my own Twitter profile.
And what’s on my Twitter profile? My blog URL.
Oh, dear. Imagine the shock when a bunch of Dark Shadows fans read this column, wondered who I was, and clicked on my blog. Not quite what they were expecting!
Ah well. They’re all big boys and girls, I’m assuming. For the DS fans landing here via the Collinsport Historical Society, I offer you this toon that my talented friend Dave Wolfe created for me a few years ago, which combines two of my favorite obsessions. 😀
Oh… and this really should go without saying, but I’m saying it anyway. If you visit the CHS blog and want to comment on my post, please don’t say anything about TTWD. That’s not what his page is about and that would just be rude, ya know?
Erica Scott: Life, Love and Spanking 
Erica, I’m wondering how Cousin Barnabas, would have etched in cartoon style your ever loving voluptuous bare bottom. “WOW”, XXX Luv ya
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Six — as far as I’m aware, Cousin Barnabas isn’t into what we are. Our common thread is Dark Shadows. 🙂
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I loved Dark Shadows and ran home from school to watch it.
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Robert — yup! That sounds familiar.
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That is so funny. I know nothing about Dark Shadows, but now I have to look into it.
I’m glad you got to the bottom of the spike in views!(no pun intended)
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SH — Dark Shadows is quite the phenomenon, one that continues long after it went off the air.
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I am just pondering why you don’t change your twitter profile, especially after this post full of google terms. 😉
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MrJ — none of which will lead to anything of note. 🙂
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I hadn’t seen the “DS fangirl” pun before, but now that I have it’s funny!
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Anonymous — Ha! That was unintentional! In this context, I meant Dark Shadows. 😉
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Ah, that works too! 🙂 I was thinking more “fang girl” with Dark Shadows!
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Hi Erica ♡ I like that pic, Dave Wolfe is sure creative, But so are you 🙂 I watched a episode of Dark Shadows and it was very COOL 🙂 That’s awesome that you, got to write about Dark Shadows. I am going to read it 😉 Much Love and hugs always from naughty girl Jade / Emily Jean xoxoxoxo ♡ ♡ ♡
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Jade — hope you like it.
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Well, I hope a lot of our fellow DS Fans wind up enjoying the joyously kinky side of your personality! (Maybe WolfieTooons, too?)
How funny to find this, because I was just looking at your two pictures with David Selby in my files yesterday! I’d forgotten that particular cartoon, though, and I’m delighted it still gives you pleasure, as well as Jade some others!
Speaking of cartoons, I see that Cousin Barnabas posted my favorite parody on his site, from Marvel Comics’ short-lived 70’s “MAD”-type mag, “Spoof!” Writer Roy Thomas and artist Marie Severin did it brilliantly!! (Marie is one of my favorites, and maybe a little of her humor got into mine!)
I don’t think the “html” stuff works in here, so here is a link worth everyone’s effort to copy-and-paste!
http://www.collinsporthistoricalsociety.com/2011/11/darn-shadows.html
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Holey socks, the link went “clickable!” Icing on the cake!!
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Dave — I love Darn Shadows! The first time I read “Elizaburp,” I laughed out loud. Hey, that’s right, I forgot — I have TWO photos with David Selby, two different occasions. Lucky me!!!
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