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in which i sort of talk about myself
Jul. 28th, 2008 10:54 amI picked my pen-name from a Neil Gaiman short-story about Cthulhu, in which the main character's name is Ben Lassiter. I was reading this particular short-story for an oral interpretation contest, so I read it a lot, out loud, so it got pretty stuck in my brain. It was still on my brain when I was picking a pen-name for the Pit of Voles, and there you have it. A few years back, I was rereading this short-story and I was like, "Oh, fancy that, this character has the same name as me," COMPLETELY forgetting that he is my namesake. That's how much I've latched onto it. I still get weirded out when I see the name Lassiter on things that aren't my fics (like on that TV show, which I haven't seen, but on the flist I scroll past fics that are Lassiter/CharacterX), which is silly, I know. I still kind of goggle, just a little, and am like O RLY? I mean, it isn't a popular enough name that I just automatically tune it out, like if I had chosen Smith for a pen-name or something.
...Hmm, I think I'd rather like having the pen-name Smith. BUT TOO LATE FOR THAT.
Searching for 'lassiter' on Amazon reveals that the name appears to be associated with either cowboys or private eyes. According to Amazon, I am:
---facing a trumped-up murder charge and the gun barrels of a ruthless gang out to get the money for themselves, and unless I find some way out of this mess, the only way I'll be leaving is in a pine box. -from here
---an ex-mediocre Miami Dolphin linebacker and now small-time defense lawyer who is accused of murder when a body turns up in my Miami house. My former lover's name is Jo Jo, and her con-man brother (also my friend and often client) has disappeared. --from -from here
---Double Barrel Lassiter. This is actually my pornstar name.
According to IMDB, I am a handsome jewel thief operating in London in the late 1930s. HOW DID THEY KNOW??
That and the following are tied as my favoritests: "When Lassiter promises to protect his dead friend's son, he never thinks the young rancher will run into such a passel of trouble. Yet before he knows it, there's an all-out range war led by a pack of hired sharpshooters trying to steal the kid's land--and their lives. They figure that one man can't last long, but they haven't reckoned on THE LASSITER LUCK." -from here
DON'T YOU BE GIVING ME NO PASSEL OF TROUBLE OR I'LL CUT YOU WITH MY LUCK, TRUFAX.
So tell me how ya'll thought of your aliases! Now I am mightily interested.
...Hmm, I think I'd rather like having the pen-name Smith. BUT TOO LATE FOR THAT.
Searching for 'lassiter' on Amazon reveals that the name appears to be associated with either cowboys or private eyes. According to Amazon, I am:
---facing a trumped-up murder charge and the gun barrels of a ruthless gang out to get the money for themselves, and unless I find some way out of this mess, the only way I'll be leaving is in a pine box. -from here
---an ex-mediocre Miami Dolphin linebacker and now small-time defense lawyer who is accused of murder when a body turns up in my Miami house. My former lover's name is Jo Jo, and her con-man brother (also my friend and often client) has disappeared. --from -from here
---Double Barrel Lassiter. This is actually my pornstar name.
According to IMDB, I am a handsome jewel thief operating in London in the late 1930s. HOW DID THEY KNOW??
That and the following are tied as my favoritests: "When Lassiter promises to protect his dead friend's son, he never thinks the young rancher will run into such a passel of trouble. Yet before he knows it, there's an all-out range war led by a pack of hired sharpshooters trying to steal the kid's land--and their lives. They figure that one man can't last long, but they haven't reckoned on THE LASSITER LUCK." -from here
DON'T YOU BE GIVING ME NO PASSEL OF TROUBLE OR I'LL CUT YOU WITH MY LUCK, TRUFAX.
So tell me how ya'll thought of your aliases! Now I am mightily interested.