The Sheila Variations

I believe I have a copy of Splinter of the Mind's Eye somewhere.

Also, art.com has a section of retro book covers that I've always loved. The Gods Hate Kansas is my favorite.

Ahem. There are certain "aspects" of the first group of illustrations into which I wouldn't mind crawling. Particularly the one with the piano.

You look at those covers, and you can't help but start writing a score for them in your head...

Mark - I love the one titled

She TRIED to be good.

Don't we all. But it's more fun when we FAIL in that attempt, in my opinion.

I love the images from the first link - they're all like old John D. MacDonald covers.

Cover enthusiasts shoudl check this out:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1932595058/sr=8-2/qid=1147372651/ref=sr_1_2/002-9991917-7945649?%5Fencoding=UTF8

I rec'd a copy for Christmas last - it's great fun.

She TRIED to be good, but she was the...Office Tramp!

I knew of a site years ago that had a lot more covers like these and they sold them as postcards. I wish I could remember it.

I read all the Mickey Spillane I could find while in college, and the cover art on those was similar. But what I really loved was the cover art on the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books from the 60s and 70s.

Those women are what I strive on a daily basis to look like. I don't know if that's cool, or incredibly tragic.

heh heh heh

Alex I MISS YOU. Come to New York again, dammit. It's already been too long.

Yummy!!!!!

Wow, I didn't even know that Abe Vigoda could play the piano!

I may be there sooner than you think. :-)

In the mean time, I want that white number the chick has on. The one where she's leaning against the mantle. Delicious.

yeah, i'm kinda jonezing for you right now, alex. sniff, sniff.

I'm going to see Poseidon tonight with TS. Should be hilarious. We both loved the original (cheese and all) so we are more than a little apprehensive. I'm gonna miss Shelley's presence as well.

The wave looks fake in the commercials, too. Which is so STUPID ... why do Poseidon if you can't get the damn wave right???

But don't you see that the Wave must be fake, because it is a metaphor for the oppressive BushyMcChimpyrovianhitlerisms that have been crashing across us, inverting our society and drowning us in waves of lies and deceits that have tossed honest people about in our society like, oh, I don't know, say passengers on a ship that just got hit by a selected-not-elected fake wave and capsized.

I thought that Poseidon symbolized the hubris of this illegitimate and theocratic administration - it's no accident that it's named after a god, right? - and the wave symbolized the cleansing power of the grassroots everyday citizen reclaiming America; while the passengers symbolized the oppressed peoples' struggles to escape neo-colonial fascism! Bingley is wrong, and therefore a Nazi...

PS - the original Poseidon is currently rolling on AMC. Hackman, Albertson, Winters, McDowell, Buttons, Borgnine. Good times!

umm..isnt the origainl about Moses leading the Jews out of Egypt???? and btw..Alex..u DO look like the ladies in those covers!!! I love those covers soooo much...im a lil obsessed now.

um..original... i literally cannot type!!!

Mitchell - I know! I can't stop looking at them either - aren't they so pretty??

And I'm with you, Mitchell - I have no idea what those two guys are yammering about up there. Where the hell did that come from?

The movie was bad. Wolfgang Peterson has done better. One of the effects at the end literally looked like the opening sequence of Land of the Lost. Like at least get the effects right!!

But Kurt Russell's great - love him!

"One of the effects at the end literally looked like the opening sequence of Land of the Lost."

.And with one sentence, Sheila demonstrated the power of her fully armed and operational space station...it was as if a million voices at Warner Brothers cried out at once, and then...silence

Don't mind me, I'm just up waaay too late.

Go see the new soccer movie, Goal!, Sheila. It's a great sports flick, and I think you'll like it. I thought it was a lot of fun.

You MUST post about the movie. I can't bear to go see it. I know it's ridiculous, but don't try and replace my Shelly or my Stella. I can't stand it.

Tell us all how it is and what you thought. I must know. I need to know.

And I need a Sheila fix as well.

I also love those images. They are far more inspirational to me than the trollops of today.

Alex - my big long rant is up.

'Twas a fine rant, Sheila, thanks.

Bings and I were totally tongue-in-cheek up there about the wave being a political metaphor. Absurdist humor (or so we hoped). We didn't mean to confuse.

And nobody thought that the guy at the piano looked like Abe Vigoda? I'm bombing out here...

Actually, nightfly - normally I try to respond to every comment, because I'm kind of obsessive compulsive that way - but sometimes I miss one. Your comment made me LAUGH OUT LOUD. It was so unexpected, first of all - and also it is RIGHT ON.

Glad you enjoyed the post and I appreciate the link to it. McGinnis is one of my favorites and I really enjoyed doing the post.