Comments for Three Dot Lounging http://chrishendricks.net/threedotlounging Flotsam and jetsam, mostly, and some of the random thoughts churned up in the wake... Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:59:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Legally Blonde (My Tan, Your Tan, Lotan) by Glenn Johnson http://chrishendricks.net/threedotlounging/legally-blonde-my-tan-your-tan-lotan/#comment-2 Glenn Johnson Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:59:41 +0000 http://chrishendricks.net/threedotlounging/?p=111#comment-2 I knew Lotan many years later when he worked briefly for Graphix Zone. That made him a Zoner, which is what we called our employees and contracters. And one thing I can say about Lotan is that I've never known anyone else quite like him. I guess I can be proud of the fact that I had patience for Lotan when others did not. He could be peculiar and persistent. He was at once artsy and nerdy and preppy and yet he was not perfectly any of them. I had not thought of him in years, not since the early to mid 1990's when he was loitering the halls and attending the seminars at Graphix Zone. But I saw a FaceBook friend with a similar name and I suddenly thought of Lotan. So I Googled and that brought me here to your wonderful article. I don't think I ever knew for certain that Lotan was gay, but I suspected. His closeness with his parents continued. He was still living with them in the 90s, far longer than he should have been, but it seemed to me he was underemployed or unemployed much of that decade, pursuing his dream of somehow being relevant as a media guru of some kind. His relationship with his parents reminded me a bit of the George Costanza character on Seinfeld -- too close for comfort. Farewell Lotan, I hope you were able to forgive those who were mean to you. You were a Zoner. I knew Lotan many years later when he worked briefly for Graphix Zone. That made him a Zoner, which is what we called our employees and contracters. And one thing I can say about Lotan is that I’ve never known anyone else quite like him. I guess I can be proud of the fact that I had patience for Lotan when others did not. He could be peculiar and persistent. He was at once artsy and nerdy and preppy and yet he was not perfectly any of them. I had not thought of him in years, not since the early to mid 1990′s when he was loitering the halls and attending the seminars at Graphix Zone. But I saw a FaceBook friend with a similar name and I suddenly thought of Lotan. So I Googled and that brought me here to your wonderful article.

I don’t think I ever knew for certain that Lotan was gay, but I suspected. His closeness with his parents continued. He was still living with them in the 90s, far longer than he should have been, but it seemed to me he was underemployed or unemployed much of that decade, pursuing his dream of somehow being relevant as a media guru of some kind. His relationship with his parents reminded me a bit of the George Costanza character on Seinfeld — too close for comfort.

Farewell Lotan, I hope you were able to forgive those who were mean to you. You were a Zoner.

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