
My name is Andrea Gidusko. You may be wondering what inspires a
person to create websites, even more so one to such a degree as an
archive for a TV show that ended nearly a decade ago. Well to get
into my love for Lois & Clark you would have to go back to when I
was your typical depressed college student looking for something to
give me happiness. I was overweight, unhappy and didn't really ever
leave my home. But every Sunday night at 8:00PM there was something
to give me happiness. After a while I became very much into the
show. At my job people gave me Superman Happy Meal toys, or pictures
from the show that they found in a magazine or a newspaper. The show
brought me OUT of the depression I had fallen into, and somehow -
even though I don't know HOW exactly, made me believe in myself. I
lost weight, and got out into the world. I had great friends who
knew Sunday was the one night I couldn't go out and didn't mock me
for it. The show was in a sense, my reason for getting up in the
morning and it helped me through a lot of hard times.
In 1996 I got a computer and found many other people with the
same love for the series. In 1997, after the show had ended, I
attended a Lois & Clark fan convention and was able to meet Beverly
Garland and Tim Minear and it was so great meeting people who loved
the show as much as I did. Not long after this I decided to make a
website called In Loving Memory of Lois & Clark. Dedicated to the
show. It had most of what you can find here, and then I started
dabbling in music video creating because it was another way to keep
the show alive.
In July of 1999 I went to St. Louis for an event where we would
all meet Dean Cain and was able to finally meet one of my new
internet friends who is still one of my best friends to this day. It
was so great seeing Dean in person that I literally passed out and
fell on said friend. There are pictures to document this, but I keep
them hidden. In August of 1999 the same friend and another I
had met on the net and I went to see Teri Hatcher in Cabaret and
gave her a giant gift basket for her and her daughter that we spent
forever on. Teri was so thankful she moved us to the table next to
the stage and came out and waved to us. When we met her she was the
sweetest most gracious woman I've ever had the pleasure of meeting.
Moments like those are reasons the show means so much to me. For
a few years I put my tapes away and didn't watch the series, but
after some hard times in my personal life I knew I needed it again,
just like the first time around and just like when I was nineteen
the show brought me out of another dark hole and because of that I
decided to make this website. I had some help from another friend,
but most of the heart of this site is from me. She has her own site
as well.
Some may say those who create and maintain websites have no
lives. I have a life, and this series is a part of it and always
will be. Sometimes I wonder if I had never had the privilege of
meeting Teri and Dean if it would still mean so much to me, or if
they were not such great people in real life would I still adore the
characters they portrayed? I don't know the answers to those
questions, all I know is this series means the world to me, and it
always will.
If you would like to know more about me you can find it here:
http://www.andreamarie.dreamhost.com but it hasn't been edited
in some time because, frankly, I don't like talking about myself.
Thank you:)