The last time I Online Searched myself was maybe 6 years ago.
There was the usual stuff, from blog posts, comments left on others blogs, and on message boards, mostly on genealogy websites, mentions of me in the blog posts of others, and there was stuff that I had no idea could be found.....
It was the first time I learned there were sites that offered access to info I though was private, such as addresses, phone numbers, credit history, and who knows what else, for free, or a fee, and I could do nothing about it.
Nothing to be ashamed of, but still...
Well, on Nov. 20th, I decided to Google myself, and the results were mostly what I expected, but with quite a few wonderful, intriguing, surprises.
Google doesn't know everything, though.
Many of the things I remember from before didn't show up this time.
However, Google turned up lots of new stuff simply because it had been put online, by someone, in the intervening years.
My LinkedIn profile showed up, some blog posts going back to 2002, and my first blog, genealogy message board posts, and a few of those damn info sites, as well as many new things.
When I Googled Kiril Kundurazieff I got 289 results.
When I Googled Kiril Giorgio Kundurazieff (The name on my Birth Certificate) I got 163 results.
When I Googled Kiril George Kundurazieff I got 156 results.
So, what did I find?
1. Google claimed that Alumnisite.com had an active page for my Junior High School...
Palomares Junior High School Alumni - Pomona, California1970-1974, Kiril Kundurazieff 1972-1974. Tim Lambert 1972-1974, John Mangrich 1972-1974, Scott Miller 1972-1974. Anthony Moses 1970-1974....
Yet, when I went to the link all I got was the school page, & "There are currently no alumni listed for Palomares Junior High School, be the first to add your name". ;-D
2. Michigan State University Libraries - Special Collections Division
Reading Room Index to the Comic Art Collection: "New Cataloging and Indexing Daily Log December 2007"
"Hunt & Peck" 2 p. in Sable, no. 3 (May 1988). -- Letters to the editor from Dale Coe, Kiril Kundurazieff, Rigval Reza, William T. Simpson, and Norma J. McQuaid. -- Call no.: PN6728.5.F5S3no.3
From the 70's to the mid-90's I was an avid Comic Book reader, and collector, with a very eclectic taste, and wrote lots of Letters to the Editor, with well over 60 seeing print.
This was just one of 3 Google turned up. ;-D
3. Comics.org website:
Superman 16 (1987) =
Indexer Notes - Letters from readers: William Waldman, Johny Q., Kiril Kundurazieff, Jeff Mitchell, Fred L. Cain, Ann C.H. Brachwitz, David Metz, Mark Billian, Marc Ouellette, Nicholas J. Taylor and Roger D. Case.
4. Sir Real's Underground Comix Classix Website
Death Rattle Comic V. 2 #12 (1987) - S. Keister - PG.32(letter), S.E. Goodrich - 32(letter), Kiril Kundurazieff - 32(letter)...
There are 8 other letter writers mentioned.
5. THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 23, NO. 11 / NOVEMBER 1990 - P. J. O'Rourke: SHOOT THE WOUNDED -
The first annual update of the Joe McCarthy Memorial New Enemies List! Well, fellow witch hunters, a lot has happened since we began our New Enemies List in July 1989.
Freedom has come to Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union has shriveled as a world power, the people of Nicaragua have given Danny Ortega the Order of the Boot, and all because of us and our brave revival of the Red Scare. As a result of our noble crusade, Communists are now just another small, halfbaked cult who put out an occasional newsletter (the
Washington Post, for instance)....
While Liberals were wondering "Who ya gonna pick on now?"....I was mentioned in the venerable American Speckled Tater (What I used to jokingly call it!) by the one, & only, P. J. O' Rourke! ;-D
And I had no idea this had even happened!
As the opinionated P. J. O'Rourke continued, at the time:
"The answer to their question of who we're going to pick onnow is—them. Let's whoop on the useful idiots, the moral equivalentizers, the peace scum, the social justice hairballs, and see who sang the Marxist tune and expected us not to mind because they had the lyrics wrong. You're next, you south-ends-of-an-NEA-grant-headednorth, you."
On the 7h, and last, page of this Round-Up, is a box with a long list of maybe about 75 names...
Tailgunner Joe's Honor Guard:
Thanks also go out to these wide awake patriots, who contributed additional
targets of ridicule to our rapidly growing data bank:
Saul David, Van Nuys, CA; Julius Blumenthal, Los Olivos, CA; Gary Stark, La Palma, CA; Charles Perry, Sylmar, CA; Kiril Kundurazieff, Pomona, CA....
I shelled out $2.95 to discover this, tonite, and while I have no memory of what I wrote that got me chosen, I am tickled to death, and extremely honored to be a member of the "Honor Guard". ;-D
I was still a Reagan Democrat, at the time, but soon became a Clintonista.
Alas, if only I'd known about THIS!
Who knows how different the 90's would have been for me, hee, hee! ;-D
6. The Well is an old, and remarkable, online Community, and resource, that goes back to well beyond the Dawn of the Internet.
So how in the hell did I manage to get a mention there?
As long time readers of my blogging know I once had something published in a Star Trek Fanzine in the late 80's, and this piece was chosen for publication in a Best of...Book in 1990 ( I was not paid for either, sad to say. ).
On The Well someone collected what they called A "Complete Starfleet Library" by year.
Among those books from 1990 that are cataloged is Best of Trek 15, and among the contents of the book...
Confessions of a Trekaholic by Kiril Kundurazeiff
Yes, as you can see on my copy of the book...they misspelled my name. ;-D
7. In the aftermath of the recent elections of 2010 something I wrote in a Letter to the LA Times, published on June 14, 1999, is quite interesting. ;-D
Another election has come and gone. When is everyone going to realize it's not who won or lost but how many didn't even bother to play the game. The people have spoken, yet again nobody is listening.
KIRIL KUNDURAZIEFF - Pomona
Disillusioned by Ol' Bill & Hillary, not to mention AlGore, and Ca. Political Shenanigans, I was just beginning to see the light. ;-D
