What do you do when love goes wrong? If you're Tomato Rodriguez, the reigning queen of motorcycle-riding, bicoastal bisexuals, you do every wrong thing there is to do. But what starts out as a small-scale revenge job complete with whipped cream, Bic ballpoints, and a monster truck, soon turns into a murder charge and a visit to the slammer with all the rest of the bad, bad girls. Traumatised by tough B movie one-liners and tedious lesbian orgies, Tomato decides to transform herself into Mad Dog, hoping that Ilsa the Wicked Warden will think her too crazy to be convicted on a murder rap.
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"Strap it on girls, and I mean your seat belts. Tomato's adventures in and out of the Big House are grosser and sexier than you can imagine." - Out Magazine "Lopez gives great text...she refuses to stick to any one expressive form or to any single sexual, cultural, or political line."-The Advocate
About the Author
Erika Lopez is a cartoonist and author who has twice won a Pew Fellowship in Literary Fiction. The author of the novel Flaming Iguanas (currently available from Turnaround) and a collection of cartoons, Lap Dancing for Mommy, she lives in San Francisco.
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By M. Reed
Format:Paperback
A friend in San Francisco mailed this to me last year just prior to the start of combat in Iraq. I sat up late at night with mortars and artillery booming, and laughed my ass off. To make matters worse, there was a guy in my platoon who is from the Castro who's mom and grandmother used to enjoy making cocktails and watching Matlock topless. He was talking about it one day (he's 18, and hadn't heard of the book), and when I showed it to him, he just had a strange look on his face and said he would call home when he could...
Format:Paperback
Erika Lopez never ceases to amaze me with her artwork and brilliant stories. Every time I finish a book by Erika, I'm inspired to write and write and write and write. The storyline is this book is hilarious and amazing. I can't say enough great things about this book. Oh yeah, and it made me reconsider killing my exes. Or not.
By V
Format:Hardcover
Even more fun than 'Flaming Iguanas!!'
Damn, it's so difficult to write about why this book was so good without sounding stilted and phony. It's great because just about everyone can identify with Tomato's revenge fantasies, impulsiveness and goofy melodramatic streak, not to mention her social faux pas. It's lots of fun to get the vicarious thrill of watching her act out her deranged fantasies since most of us are really too inhibited to carry out much more than a low-key stalking of an ex. It's also great to see characters that are as weird as the psychos I come across in the course of my day.
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EMC and FMPs, Read to know!
This book is hilarious...I was literally laughing out loud...My friend recommended it to me, and I couldn't put it down... Read more
Published on July 20 2000
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A revenge fantasy for the masses!
Erika Lopez is a true Equal Opportunity Offender, in the ranks of Howard Stern and the Farrelly brothers (There's Something About Mary). Her humor is shriekingly, gross-out funny. Read more
Published on Mar 4 1999
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