The Eye of the Beholder

This is one of Hack’s more esoteric novels, inspired by a holiday called Beautiful Day, which celebrates all things of beauty. Hack had an idea for a story in which the hero seeks out “true beauty” but he and his cover artist Jonny M. discussed what was beautiful to them and they could only think of hot chicks, to which their male friends agreed. Jonny’s pug Boris suggested pug food, so that was thrown into the mix but the resulting story was only seven pages long. Fortunately, Hack started getting suggestions from female acquaintances along the lines of painting, music and natural phenomenons like sunrises, inspiring faces, and the white plastic bag from American Beauty, which gave Hack enough material (padded by a bunch of his signature anal sex scenes) for a full-length novel (and one of his better ones).

Do This, Don’t Do That Can’t You Read The Sign?

Hack has long been irritated by the Five Man Electrical Band ‘s 1971 hit song Sign, in which a hippie reacts to all the signs he encounters with self-righteous indignation. Hack wrote this novel inspired by the tune, in which the last sign the hippie reads is labeled High Voltage. He rebelliously whips his wang out to wave it at the placard only to brush it against some wiring and fry his Johnson completely off.