Who is Sailor Nova?

Sailor Nova (aka Lonnie) was born many years ago, probably more than he wants to remember, in the small town of Gonzales, Louisiana located between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. He was raised in a normal family with five brothers, no girls until the nieces came along. Being the youngest of the six, he was often above his head when it came to the football, baseball and basketball games (especially since 18 years divided his oldest brother and him).

He was on the honor roll every semester at school and graduated in the top five percent in his class in 1979 (well, there’s one hint). He started LSU in biochemistry but left after a year to support himself through the use of computers, data operations at a bank. After a few years, he went back to LSU and earns a BS and MS in accounting. He joined the Louisiana Department of Insurance as an internal auditor in 1995 after passing his CPA exam (all four part at one sitting – ask your accounting friends about that feat) and after three years transferred to the Information Technology Division as a programmer/analyst, support technician, and system administrator. He is still working in the IT division that has undergone tremendous changes since he has joined them.

He become involved in anime by watching the first year of Sailor Moon on the USA Network while he was a home sick with a cold and began taping every episode. He is proud to proclaim that he has every original episode of Sailor Moon in some media form or another (all 200 in real player). He began writing Mina’s Tale for his niece that just wanted to see if he could write some fanfiction. He watches many different types of anime from Sailor Moon, Wedding Peach, Hime-chan’s no Ribon to Slayers, Evangelion, Tenchi to Vampire Princess Miyu. Just about any type catches his interest these days.

He is a poster in the newsgroup alt.binaries.multimedia.sailor-moon where he posted over 170 episodes plus the specials and 8 musicals since October of 2000 (in fact they ask if a posting is a Nova encode whenever some post to the group). He is a collector of anime and can always be counted on saying, “Anime – crack is cheaper and less addictive.” Once said of by his mother, “Lonnie believes that if you think you are old, you will be old so he’s remained a child at heart.”

Nova also has this strange habit of writing as someone else either from his or her perspective or in the third person. Must be something in his background.