Mental telepathy or what?

How very bizarre - I was thinking about my brother Jimmy and Alan Window sort of at the same time - the Australian connection. Clicked on Alan's blog An Aussie's Nightmare to read his latest posting

"........watched The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen not a bad yarn and very enjoyable".

He could have knocked me down with a feather, I was so surprised. The screenwriter is my brother Jimmy who I haven't seen since he was young.

Didn't have much contact with him growing up and since my mother and siblings returned from Australia (we have a massive family living down-under from my mother's side), I've only seen him a couple of times. He went to America and cut himself off from everybody after she died. Her death must have affected him badly because he promptly changed his moniker from Jimmy to the formal James, included his middle name Dale and started writing some of the most weird and scary comic stories (seems to have a fan-base in the world of comics).

Mother gave him that name after the actor Dale Robertson who stared in the popular TV Western Tales of Wells Fargo which ran until 1962 - found the very photo on the web she kept as a pin-up. She used to talk about him all the time. Something must have rubbed off on Jimmy somewhere.

I have often wondered what kind of person Jimmy's become, why he writes as he does, what's in his head. My sis jokingly blames me for keeping him in constant supply of comic and art material as a child (I attended an art & drama college). We also considered he picked up some thoughts from school in Australia. He was always sympathetic to the Aborigines.

Found him on wikipedia recently and have been following his progess via the web for years but we can't locate him or even find a photo of him on the web as he is now.