Amy Clayborne

      Amy Clayborne is outstanding in her field:
                            managing a Website devoted to X-Files actor
                            David Duchovny's wearing glasses of all kinds.

Joel Stein, Time Magazine, Canadian Edition - May 19, 1997

Amy Clayborn is not, of course, the only woman with a Website devoted to
David Duchovny's myopia.

         Besides her site, Lovers of Mulder in Glasses
         (www.busprod.com/aclaybor/lomig/) , there is Paula Graves' MulderGlasses,
         and as you might guess, there's some bad blood between the two.

         "I E-mailed her to see if I could link to her site, but she never wrote back,"
         says Clayborn, before pointing out their differences. "She writes sonnets; I'm
         not into poetry. And her site is just a shrine. You can't join - it isn't
         interactive." Then Clayborn's bitterness gives way to grudging admiration.
         Graves, she explains, has won a coveted "Spooky" award, which is given to
         authors of the best original fiction based on the The X-Files. "She writes very
         well," Clayborn admits, looking down at her Very, Very Strawberry shake at
         the Steak 'n' Shake. "She's one of my favorites."

         LOMIG has been up only since February, but already has more than 100
         members - including a couple of men - and more than 2,000 visitors who
         weren't quite ready to make the membership commitment. They stop by to
         enjoy the impressive collection of photos of the rarely bespectacled actor
         (especially one referred to as "The Bite." in which a pair of Armani frames
         dangle seductively from his mouth), read Clayborn's episode summaries and
         peruse the fan fiction. Among the stories on Clayborn's site is one narrated
         by Duchovny's fictional ophthalmologist and several told from the point of
         view of the glasses. A standout is Clayborn's novella, one of 20 she has
         written.   In it Duchovny is presented with a check at a restaurant: "'Man,
         this print is really small,' David replied as he reached for his glasses." It gets
         even steamier.

         Though PC-less, Claybourn, 26, runs the site by spending about 15 hours a
         week on her aunt's computer and eight more at Ivy Tech State College,
         where she is taking a data-processing course. Her family members, devout
         Baptists and universally nearsighted, don't know much about Clayborn's
         preoccupation, despite the fact that her bedroom in the apartment she
         shares with her sister is filled with X-Files comic books.   Her co-workers at
         the Bureau of Motor Vehicles - even those who watch the show regularly -
         don't seem to get it either. "It's just kind of a show they watch," she says.
         "They don't think about it much once it's over."

         Even her hero, Clayborn figures, wouldn't really jibe with her. "Personally, I
         think he's a little out there. From all the indications, he's a little eccentric,"
         she says. "All of his work is weird - the movies he's done and the television
         shows. And he's got a strange sense of humour - a little bit sick."