| 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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| Really Good Or Really Shitty, Excerpt #2: The Results!!! |
| Monday, April 02, 2007 |
We've tallied your responses for the second edition of our fun little subjective game of lit vs. shit, Really Good or Really Shitty!!!
 ...presented the following excerpt for your reading (dis?)pleasure: On television are three or four people in chairs sitting on a low stage in front of a television audience. This is on television like an infomercial, but as the camera zooms in on each person for a close-up, a little caption appears across the person's chest. Each caption on each close-up is a first name followed by three or four words like a last name, the sort of literal who-they-really-are last names that Indians give to each other, but instead of Heather Runs With Bison...Trisha Hunts By Moonlight, these names are:
Cristy Drank Human Blood
Roger Lived With Dead Mother
Brenda Ate Her Baby
I change channels.
I change channels.
I change channels and here are another three people.
Gwen Works As A Hooker
Neville Was Raped In Prison
Brent Slept With His Father
People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.
After 337 votes (a number bizarrely-similar to the 373 votes of our first edition of this contest), here's what you said:
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Looks like Really Good and Meh, it was okay were practically neck and neck. And Really Shitty made a decent showing as well. 26 people's eyes were bleeding. My apologies for that.
The writer in question is actually someone of whose work I'm also a fan. (Mind you, everyone I post won't be a writer I'm predisposed to; I'm even planning to take submissions from those of you brave enough to face the poll). This particular piece was written by Chuck Palahniuk...
 ...author of the novel Fight Club, which was turned into a hit movie starring Brad Pitt.
 ...a story about a gorgeous, much-celebrated fashion model who has everything, then becomes disfigured (and mute) after an accident and is no longer the center of attention. She's so hideous, people won't acknowledge her at all. She finds redemption through a tranny one operation from becoming a woman, who teaches her the art of reinvention.
Yeah. I can just hear you all dashing away from your computers to go out and get it.
Chuck's official website, called "The Cult," has one of the largest, most rabidly-loyal fan bases of any author on the 'net. But that doesn't matter.
What does matter is his writing made 26 people's eyes bleed at The Lo Zone, and another 49 people thought it was Really Shitty. The majority of those of you who voted just thought, Meh, it was okay.
How about that!!!
Amazon.com: Invisible Monsters
The Cult: ChuckPalahniuk.net
Previously: The Lo Zone: Really Good Or Really Shitty, Excerpt 2!!!
Previously: The Lo Zone: Really Good Or Really Shitty, Excerpt #1: The Results!!!
Previously: The Lo Zone: Really Good Or Really Shitty!!! Part 1 (Or, WWM3MS...What Would My 3 Muses Say?) |
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Thanx for exposing me to such an eclectic array of writers (already:-). I love this Polling Concept; it shows that no matter how great a writer is - when segments of a peice are isolated it's interesting to see how well they "work" or "not".
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wow, it's baseball season and lo threw a wicked curveball at us!!!
the fight club was a great movie and i can see ed norton's narrating from the movie reeling those words out.
good work loLEEta!
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I would have never guessed this was Chuck Palahniuk.
This is a great addition to the LoZone. It's keeping me on my toes.
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Thanx for exposing me to such an eclectic array of writers (already:-). I love this Polling Concept; it shows that no matter how great a writer is - when segments of a peice are isolated it's interesting to see how well they "work" or "not".