Myself, I am a 37 year old living in Tacoma, Washington, originally from Massachusetts, but I spent more than enough years in southern California. I started playing D&D around '82 or '83 - a twisted hybrid of AD&D and the Moldvay (and eventually Mentzer as well) basic set, ended up playing mostly AD&D for a while, then drifting into all sorts of other games, boycotted 2E, played a bit of 3E, burned out on that and started digging up and thinking about OD&D when I stumbled across various Old School forums and sites.
I find LotFP to be a source of interesting and entertaining thoughts and I find it's driven me to experiment and consider things I may not have otherwise.
I'm presently hosting the Tacoma Public Library's D&D night, running a game with the Mentzer basic set and hoping to draw in some new players and lure back some old.
I haven't really gotten into the retro-clones, but I like the idea behind them (as I have been given to understand it).