COTWWSB History

The members of COTWWSB (Citizens of the World with Shared Brains) came together in various ways. While we all knew each other (or at least knew of each other) prior to the formation of COTWWSB, the origins of COTWWSB can be traced back to two separate organizations.

In late 2004, Holly, Hoppy and Loren formed the "ODW" (Olympic Dom Watch), a trio that centered around one thing: actor Dominic Monaghan. Around the same time in February, another group sprang up consisting of Meaghan, Julie, Holly and Morgan, and they called themselves the "Uber!Buffy." The Uber!Buffy was formed when its four members decided to apply together to adopt the Joss Whedon fanlisting from Emma. In the season 4 Buffy episode "Primeval," the four main characters merge together to form one Buffy with all of their powers. All four members of the Uber!Buffy are represented by a character on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Morgan is Giles, Meaghan is Xander, Julie is Willow and Holly is Buffy.

Aside from just having Holly in common, these two groups had other things in common as well, and had already formed prior friendships through meeting each other at The Fanlistings network, where all six are currently staff members. In late February of 2005, an event occurred that we refer to as "The Week of Doom." Within that week, some of our members went through some difficult times, but it only served to bring us closer together as friends.

During that week, and somewhat prior, we noticed that most of us had a tendency to not only agree on most things, but to even say the same thing at the same time. Whenever an incident like that occurred, we would yell out "SHARED BRAIN!," since it was decided that apparently we were many separate people all sharing the same very large brain. As the Week of Doom came to a close, we held a weekend chat with several members of the "Brain," which will most likely go down in history as the crackiest chat ever held. It was in that chat that the name of our organization came to be, and we were from then on known as "Citizens of the World with Shared Brains," to represent the four different countries that the brain currently resides in.

On April 23rd, 2005 we created the COTWWSB LiveJournal community, which currenty consists of the members of COTWWSB. It's mostly a place for us to post silly graphics, nakey pics of our spouses and other general insanity that we wouldn't see fit to be released for public consumption.

COTWWSB has now been going strong for well over a year, and because of it, we've developed many amazing friendships. We have now opened our shared site collective here at crotchgroin.info to give the world a small taste of our insanity, and we plan on being around for a long time to come.