| Lo Fun Fact #1 |
| "Lolita Files" is my real name. It is not a pen name, as incredible as that may seem. There are plenty of Files family members and people who have known me for years capable of validating this. As for the "Lolita" part, my mother named me after the movie based on Nabokov's book, although she saw or read neither. To this day, she has no idea what a "Lolita" is. |
| Lo Fun Fact #2 |
| I love fried chicken and fabulous shoes. If you ever want to get on my good side, send Popeye's or Mr. Chicken (my favorite spot in Cleveland) and a pair of
Christian Louboutins. |
| Lo Fun Fact #3 |
| Never show up unannounced or without a Pepsi (preferably Pepsi Jazz Caramel Cream). Better yet, how about not show up at all? |
| Lo Fun Fact #4 |
| I hate the telephone. Don't get mad if I don't call you. I don't call anyone. Don't call me asking why I don't call. Just don't call, okay? |
| Lo Fun Fact #5 |
| I love the internet!!! I love communicating through the internet!!! You can e-mail me and odds are I'll e-mail you right back (if I'm not in the middle of a major project). Makes up for my hangup about the phone, doesn't it? See, I'm not so bad after all!!! |
| Lo Fun Fact #6 |
| I can't stand IMing. Please don't IM me. You will get the cold shoulder. I don't like giving people the cold shoulder, so please don't put me in that position. |
| Lo Fun Fact #7 |
I have four five six wonderful, slap-happy dogs, a bird (some kind of dove/pigeon mix), and a cat, all of whom I love to pieces. If you meet me and ask me about my dogs, bird, and cat, we'll be instant friends. If you meet me and ask me why the f*ck I have four five six dogs, a bird, and a cat, see the above fun fact for how I will respond. |
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| Can You Catch "Being Gay" Like You Catch The Flu? |
| Friday, November 17, 2006 |
 A picture book about two male penguins raising a baby penguin is getting a chilly reception among some parents in [Shiloh, IL] who worry about the book's availability to elementary students — and the reluctance of administrators to restrict access to it.
The concerns are the latest involving "And Tango Makes Three," the illustrated children's book based on a true story of two male penguins — Roy and Silo — in New York City's Central Park Zoo who adopted a fertilized egg and raised the chick as their own.
Complaining about the book's homosexual undertones, some parents of Shiloh Elementary School students believe the book — available to be checked out of the school's library in this 11,000-resident town 20 miles east of St. Louis — tackles topics their young children aren't ready to handle.
Their request: Move the book to the library's regular shelves and restrict it to a section for mature issues, perhaps even requiring parental permission before their child can check it out.
At least for now, the district's chief isn't budging. Though a panel she appointed suggested the book be moved and require parental permission before it is checked out, Superintendent Jennifer Filyaw says "And Tango Makes Three" will stay put — at the advice of the district's attorney, who says moving it might be legally challengeable censorship.
Filyaw considers the book "adorable" and age appropriate, written for children ages 4 to 8.
Is it objectionable to allow children to get their hands on this? Is being gay a learned behavior that can come from reading a book?
And how exactly can you tell that it's a gay penguin anyway? Does it snap its fins in a half circle? Maybe wear some shoebooties and a D&G scarf?
AP: Parents want gay penguins book blocked |
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i wonder if those gay peng-guh-wins (as bugs bunny would say it) eat gay grass also....lol
hmmm, so i guess that cartoon of daffy duck sitting on that egg makes him a gay "wanna be" too?, in touch with his "maternal" side?
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Homophobia can run deep. Personally, I watch the images my kids see, but I don't teach them to be homophobic, just aware. Besides, a member of our extended family is gay, and the entire family gives them a lot of love.
I think you have to just be open to talk about various topics with kids, you can't live your life in fear that they'll "catch" something.
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"Happy Skeet"
Funny, in Mrs. Doubtfire Returns, I referenced this penguin story. Doubtfire is interviewing the caretaker of a penguin exhibit in San Fran and brings this story up, later to comment, "Oh, it sounds like 'Brokebeak Mountain', doesn't it?"
I thought it was funny when I wrote it.
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i wonder if those gay peng-guh-wins (as bugs bunny would say it) eat gay grass also....lol
hmmm, so i guess that cartoon of daffy duck sitting on that egg makes him a gay "wanna be" too?, in touch with his "maternal" side?