Sep 13
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Ian’s Art Direction: Did you see the cover that came back from the artist? It’s full of crotches! Crotches! I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay that idiot to fix it. See if you can get an intern in here to cover them up with oblong stickers or smudges or something. Make it look natural.
Published 1973
September 13th, 2011 at 10:14 am
The editor gave the artist a sound thrashing:
“I said paint a cover WITH a drunk on it… not paint it WHEN a drunk!”
“I’m sho shorry…Mein Fueh-*hic* -rer!
September 13th, 2011 at 11:42 am
Is this a heartfelt representation of beer goggles?
September 13th, 2011 at 11:59 am
Makes you wonder what the cover would look like if the drunkard was a woman.
September 13th, 2011 at 12:38 pm
“Easily Pohl’s most satisfactory effort.” Ouch.
September 13th, 2011 at 12:53 pm
@maxbenign – you’re right. That’s not the best of choice to put on there.
When I walk home drunk I don’t see naked women. Are you supposed to see naked women? Sometimes I get home and I want there to be a naked women. But mostly I get a slap around the face and, “How dare you stay out this late!” from the talking unicorn that gets into my house.
September 13th, 2011 at 1:07 pm
There are sheep bursting forth from those naked women. Sheep. Someone has some really strange sexual fantasies.
September 13th, 2011 at 1:13 pm
I kind of like John Berkey’s cover… I dunno kind of encapsulate what it’s like to walk while drunk…. SO yeah, I echo the “heartfelt representation of beer goggle” statement.
September 13th, 2011 at 1:41 pm
The pull quote sounds like something your professor marks on your paper, not a blurb for a novel!
September 13th, 2011 at 3:32 pm
Its like a critique issued by an English teacher, ‘satisfactory’. I dont drink so I never see any naked women. Hey wait a minute…..
September 13th, 2011 at 4:11 pm
Now it’s time for the best quote to put on a book challenge:
“I’d keep this one in my bathroom right next to a Calvin and Hobbes omnibus.”
September 13th, 2011 at 5:12 pm
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ef/Drunkards_walk_ret.jpg
The first edition cover is better.
September 13th, 2011 at 6:37 pm
“Forget all these normal naked women. I’m gonna choose the little one on the ground that looks like a Barbie doll.”
September 13th, 2011 at 6:39 pm
I think the Admins need to develop a smaller sheep for the smaller naked women in books.
September 19th, 2011 at 9:18 am
About the first edition cover:
“So biting funny”?
October 2nd, 2011 at 3:50 am
The nudes all look like standard art school model poses. I have a closetful of paintings just like them. It’s like an art student stumbling past a row of class exercises leaned against a paint-spattered wall while he reaches for one of those little manikin posing figures.
Clearly the artist is having a flashback to art school.
November 21st, 2014 at 10:51 pm
If SI doesn’t see naked women when he drinks, and if Alessandra has a closetful of pictures of naked women, I think the obvious solution is to get SI drunk in Alessandra’s closet. 🙂
Hm…
‘Are you thinking what I’m thinking, Pinky?’
‘I don’t know, Brain. I don’t think we could get more than three GSS commentators drunk in Alessandra’s closet.’
‘No, Pinky. Drunkard’s Walk! It’s easily Pohl’s most satisfactory effort!’
‘Oh, right…’
January 23rd, 2015 at 4:34 am
@ Dead Stuff with Big Teeth. Thank you, thank you! I needed that tonight!
My books aren’t exactly selling like hotcakes so I took on a night job cleaning medical offices. (Oh boy, oh joy, where do we go from here?) Anyway, laughs are few and far between. Narf!
January 23rd, 2015 at 12:53 pm
“I know I am high and drunk and I know you’re all naked, but I bet I can still heal you all in one go. Dial 1-800-NEEDMOREDRUGS to donate.”
January 9th, 2017 at 2:04 am
Starting from the lower right, the second young lady appears to still have a crotch. But of the other sort.
Chap looks like young Paul Simon stole Shat’s toupee.
July 4th, 2022 at 9:10 pm
The Pubic Crawl….could be the next Squid Game.
March 16th, 2024 at 1:15 am
I’m sad that to date, this is the only cover tagged “Fake William Shatner”. Some of the floating heads (see, another WS reference) on Laser Books could have had it.
(I still have a LOT of those left unposted here, if anyone’s interested; have come to the conclusion Admin and Tag simply don’t like me).
The blurb is certainly praising with faint damns. Maybe why the NYHT has been out of business since 1966. Fred himself was 5 when it started and outlived it by 47 years! One wonders why the publisher of this edition couldn’t find a blurb from a paper that hadn’t gone out of business 7 years earlier, but perhaps that was a feature and not a bug?
March 16th, 2024 at 3:46 am
Just Andy Kauffman doing Andy Kauffman things, probably in collaboration with David Lynch.
March 16th, 2024 at 3:59 am
He was too drunk to figure out how he got to the Naked Woman Place, and too drunk to remember how to get back when he woke up in a dumpster the next day.