I am a 36 year-old married-with-child guy living right in the middle of the US. I started playing RPGs around '83 with word-of-mouth knowledge of the D&D game (we had dice and paper, and no rule book!).
Eventually we played a mix of Moldvay/Cook with 1e. Also, as a comic book fan, I got heavily involved in the Marvel Super Heroes RPG. I still love that game. I eventually moved from my home town to play in a band, so I left gaming behind for a while.
After 3e came out, I thought I'd give it a shot and joined a campaign ran by my wife's co-workers. I did not enjoy the game in the least (two and a half hours to kill a few goblins...yeesh). 3e put a bad taste in my mouth for RPGs, and I quit gaming...until the summer of 2008.
Last summer, my brother-in-law from Brazil was staying with us. He remembered watching the D&D cartoon as a kid and we got to talking about the game. This started stirring some interest in me, so I began doing some research online for old-school RPGs.
There I discovered a huge community who are still dedicated and playing old-school games. And the retro-clones!! Wow! I downloaded all I could find and then asked my co-workers (who are all movie and comic geeks like me, but strangely have never played table top RPGs) to come to my house for a game night. We've been playing ever since.
Influenced by the OSR community, I started publishing adventures under my Prime Requisite Games company for the Labyrinth Lord game. This has been a fantastic creative outlet for me, plus it's cool to contribute something to the OSR.
As for LotFP -- James, I discovered your writing on the various RPG forums - I believe it was all the complaining and moaning about the "Fantasy Fucking Vietnam" title. 
I dug your writing and frank discussion (plus you're a metal fan) and found my way to the LotFP blog. Needless to say, I am a fan of your blog, especially because it can stimulate interesting discussions/debates.
