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in which i sort of talk about myself
I 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.
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I play the flute.
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Do you lead away mice and rats?
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*shudders* God, I hope not, although that would explain the dead mice in the car a couple years ago...
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Eww. I have a maggots in the car story, but it was not my car, and not my rotten sandwich, though even driving with the windows down was of little comfort.
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omg nantucket! I looooooooooooooooove New England, especially New England seasides, especially THE CAPE. (Except, I care not for the chowder. Or much of New England seafood. Can they not think of anything better to do with a fish than dip it in batter and deep-fry it??) Yes yes, stuff like this, like bits of the USA splintering off into different kingdoms or colonies OR WHATEVER. For whatever reason! The Republic of Texas holding its own for more than just a decade, and THINGS LIKE THAT.
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(I love S.M. Stirling, by the way.)
And then there's Naomi Novik's Temeraire series, which is an AU of the Napoleonic Wars...with dragons.
DRAGONS?!?!?
omg what if ww2 with dragons i don't even know where to start. you wouldn't need kamikazes probably, and the blitz would've been waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay different
Re: DRAGONS?!?!?
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I chose my LJ name because I'm fascinated with the myth of Persephone, and because Proserpina is my writing name that nobody ever remembers or spells correctly. *g* Weirdly enough, my birthday is also the day of Persephone, Hecate, Kore, and other goddesses of the underworld.
Also I'm really glad that you've been posting again recently. :)
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Oh interesting! And you have a cooler birthday fact than mine. Me, I share a birthday with Dennis Rodman.
Aww! <33 Me too. College stole me away for the past few, but now I'm in the uneventful summer before post-grad starts. I'm mostly left alone to my own devices now and am falling back to old habits. How are your days these days?
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Apparently I share a birthday with the Bush twins and a bunch of athletes, which I did not know until you prompted me to look. *g* If you look up your saint's day or goddess day you could probably find that you share your bday with some cool god--I only know because when I was ten or so and all ~mystic I wrote down all the stuff about my birthday in a notebook that I still use.
I transferred to UCLA last year so usually my days are long and full of public transportation. Right now I'm just waiting around for my job to start, though, so mostly I'm on the internet and reading and being bored a lot.
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None of my saints are particularly exciting, but to make up for it it International Day Against Homophobia! aka IDAHO. Which is awesome. Ironically it is also Armed Forces Day in the USA. The UN has also declared it World Information Society Day. "The day had previously been known as World Telecommunication Day to commemorate the founding of the International Telecommunication Union in 17 May 1865." Thanks, Wikipedia! (Yes, I am a Taurus!)
I can't make sense of the public transportation where I am, and it doesn't help that I kind of suck at the local language. I think I would get out more otherwise. (Or would I??) I am looking forward to moving to NYC in the fall (despite having nowhere to live quite yet) and having the SUBWAY. Hawesome.
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I should probably know this, but where do you live right now? And ooh, NYC! That sounds awesome, dude. Are you anticipating a job or just going to job-search?
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What are you planning to do with your degree? I know what sociology is, but not what sort of careers it's applicable to.
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Good on you, I don't think I'd have the backbone to be a teacher. Maybe for a preschool, where I can just fingerpaint all day. Fingerpainting all day = AWESOME.
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