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September 4, 2006

Two truths and a lie

What do you REALLY know about the Lit Chicks?

Now that we’ve had a long weekend to process the news we’ve all been waiting for – that Tom Cruise has apologized to Brooke Shields for his amazingly assholish, what the f#$k was he thinking, er, I mean, LESS THAN POLITE remarks about post-partum depression, something he knows so much about, having a UTERUS and all . . .

Oh. Maybe that’s another blog. Heh.

So on to the fun and games portion of our day! We’re going to play TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE. I am shamelessly stealing the idea for this game from the lovely Suz Brockmann, because we laughed so hard when we played it in Atlanta I nearly fell off the stage.

Here’s how it works: I’ll give you two truths and a lie about each of the six of us here at the LC AND our special guest Cara Lockwood! You write in the comments which author you think matches each number and ALSO for bonus points, which one you think is the lie. So, for example, if I said:

1. Did bad home hair straightener kit once and had to cut 28 inches of fried hair off. Can sing national anthem of the Philippines in Tagalog. Have a tattoo in the shape of a pug.

And you said: 1. Alesia. The lie is the tattoo.

You would hear the cyber clanging of BIG BELLS AND WHISTLES!! Because you’d be RIGHT and you’d win some sort of FABULOUS PRIZE that will involve books! And a t-shirt! And other assorted fun stuff that our office manager, Jazz Terlicki, is demanding, er, encouraging us to move out of the storage closet at the LC offices!! (UPDATE: I'M LEAVING THE GAME UP ALL WEEK, SINCE IT'S A HOLIDAY WEEK! CHECK BACK NEXT WEEK FOR THE WINNERS!!Oh, and check this space next Monday for the winners so you can email me your addys; we are strictly a “no tracking people down” kind of joint.)

So without further ado, here goes:

CONTESTANT NUMBER 1. THIS LIT CHICK SAYS:

I'm afraid of cats.

My bellybutton is pierced.

My grandfather pitched for the Yankees.

CONTESTANT NUMBER 2. THIS LIT CHICK SAYS:

I grew up less than a mile from a rodeo.

I’m a size zero, and on fat days, a two.

I went goth in high school, listened to the cure and wore nothing but black.

CONTESTANT NUMBER 3. THIS LIT CHICK SAYS:

I am the great grand-niece of the poet I.J. Schwarz, famous among the Yiddish literati in the early twentieth century for his epic poem "Kentucky" written entirely in Yiddish.

I bought my current home, sight and unseen, on the advice of my sister and then fourteen-year-old niece while I was at a Diamondbacks game. I bid on the house during the second inning and bought it by the seventh.

When I was in college, I accidentally set fire to my apartment by forgetting to turn off a space heater when I went to class.

CONTESTANT NUMBER 4. THIS LIT CHICK SAYS:

When I was in the seventh grade, I won my school spelling bee, but was defeated in the city-wide round when I misspelled the word bellwether.

When I was in the second grade, I broke my leg skiing on the Bunny Hill. My mother thought I was faking it, and tried to make me get up and ski the rest of the way down.

When I was in the eighth grade, I was a member of a school singing group called the Good Time Singers. We wore matching red polyester sweaters, and danced a box step as we sang.

CONTESTANT NUMBER 5. THIS LIT CHICK SAYS:

When I was little, I wanted to be a werewolf when I grew up.

I was kicked out of Girl Scouts for organizing a raid on the Boy Scout camp

I love bluegrass music. Especially anything involving dueling banjos!

CONTESTANT NUMBER 6. THIS LIT CHICK SAYS:

In college, I worked as a teller at a bank and was held up at gunpoint by a 13-year-old kid who then escaped on his Schwinn.

My husband has webbed toes.

I was once kissed by Desi Arnaz, Jr.

CONTESTANT NUMBER 7. THIS LIT CHICK SAYS:

I once danced for Kenneth Kawunda, the then president of Zambia, holding a birdcage in my hand.

I was once the only female member of a drag act.

I've never eaten snails, frog's legs, octopus, squid or ostrich.

OKAY, ARE YOU AFRAID YET?? Are these things you never wanted to know about another human being, let alone your beloved Lit Chicks?? (Trust me, we feel the same way!!!) So GOOD LUCK and HAVE FUN!!
Hugs,
Alesia

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