The Other Side of...WTF?!

Neve Campbell finds herself trapped in the bizarre world of a YA book cover where she is depicted as a pouty, windswept giantess roaming suburban backyards on a quest to protect sunbathing girls from harmful UV rays and the volatile boys in snug jeans who threaten them. I mean, what else am I to deduce from this cover? According to the blurb it's about a girl who lapses into a coma for four years (color me surprised) after her mother is murdered (I swear I'm not making this up) but does this cover in any way reflect that? ARGH! 

I do like the placement and font of the title. The boy's ass.....not so much.    

The Year of Perfecting "The Pose"

I know you've all been waiting for the book written by that luscious piece of man candy, Terry Kay. On first glimpse I was struck by the boy's jeans. Are they the same jeans worn by my crush? Notice the left hand gripping the back pocket - the same pose, is it not? On reading the synopsis, we're told that the novel is inspired by his hotness' own boyhood in Georgia. So it is him, in the sweet years of youth before his eyes went bad and he discovered the joys of blowdrying! Is the naked lightbulb a symbol of the brilliance yet to come? But more importantly, what would possess his mother to sew him a shirt made out of a tablecloth? Did she despise our young hero? Did she endlessly badger him about how that hole in the porch ain't gonna be fixing itself, young man?

A Hunkahunka Burnin' Manliness!

I'll be going away for the next 5 days to the Land That Time Forgot, so I thought I'd leave you with this sexy pic of YA author Terry Kay. Feel free to make it your wallpaper - I know I will. I was going to post the cover of one of his novels, but that will have to wait - his picture is far more provocative....you know he used Formula 405's Dry Look Hairspray to achieve that windswept look. He's all seriousness here, isn't he - clenched jaw, rigid pose - my god, he's ready to break those eyeglasses in two and tear the pocket off his jeans with his rugged hands! Let's talk about those jeans for a moment, shall we? The little coin pocket is a nice touch, as well as the center seams. A bit feminine, but this is a man fully comfortable with his sexuality. You can bet he's wearing Frye boots, not those hippie earth shoes. Looks like he's packin' a pistol in there too, if ya know what I mean. 

Coasting, yup, that's what he's doing.

Dear Barbara Cohen,

When I first saw this book, I thought, "How radical! A book written in 1985 about a teenage hustler! He's just arrived in the big, bad ci-tay, looking for Christopher Street." What's that you say? It's called Coasting - not Cruising? Huh. Coulda fooled me. Nice feathered hair though.