Sometimes I like to put up pictures of things that are actually in my books.
This is for my readers in landlocked, waveless states.
It's for surfing. Get over it.
To me, there are few memories and experiences more intense or better than this: lying out on the water on your surfboard on a brilliant and warm day when the water isn't painfully cold and the swells are perfect and forgiving, and smelling the sea and Mr. Zogs Sex Wax all at the same time.
One time, when we were kids -- when everyone in the state of California who surfed wore Sex Wax T-shirts -- my brother and I went to Disneyland, and the people at the gates refused to let him into the park because he had a Sex Wax shirt on. He had to turn it inside-out to get in.
True story.
Best-smelling stuff in the world.
(And there isn't a surfer in the world who hasn't seriously considered tasting it -- hence the modern-day, lawsuit-avoiding warning on the label)
9 comments:
We had problems wearing those in middle school too. Ah, good times.
This may require my actually buying some Sex Wax T-shirts when the book comes out, just to wear at signings and maybe give out as prizes.
Because the kids in STICK get Sex Wax shirts -- which they have to hide from their parents.
(Macmillan publicity department -- you read me?)
Sweet! Unfortunately, I grew up in the time where Ron Jon's tees were the premier "surf" tees. Oh, and Hollister Co., ugh.
I'm digging the giveaway idea. Did you say you're coming to Chicago soon? That's probably as close as you'd get to my town.
Yes, I'll be in Chicago just after Stick comes out. I'll be there, doing a few book-related things in November of this year.
Sex Wax and Sex Wax Ts in tow.
I think I would dig a Sex Wax Tee.
Tell me, Andrew. When did the missing apostrophe in "Zogs" first come to your attention?
Ha!!! I bet you looked it up when you were reading the manuscript -- didn't you???
To be totally honest, when I was writing it, I was, like -- I wonder if they still make this stuff?, so I researched it to be certain that my memory served me correctly and all that bottled-up rage I felt as a kid about the missing apostrophe (I placated myself by quietly professing a belief that "Zogs" was the last name of a mythical genius -- like Jack Daniels [mmmm.... whiskey...] -- and, therefore, the brand was the name, and required no possessive apostrophe).
At least, that's what I told myself.
Nice call, copy editor... nice call.
i do love this smell so much. i have a sex wax car air freshener =]
but i'm partial to Sticky Bumps surf wax, just because it is made near my home surf shop. =]
See? I knew it was a true story.
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