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The original title of this book was

“Brendan Bikko Flies Into the Sun”

but I changed it when Brendan said she thought the title was cliched. “Every yuppie has gone photovoltaic and if you want to make some pesos you should just stick me in a garter and bra on the cover and say something real simple, like ‘According to Me by Blue’ and sit back and record the cash registers ring, and besdes that you always want your books to begin with ‘A’ so you’re at the top of the list of new releases and the editors check you out first. But no matter what you do, don’t put that blue picture of me with the prism streak in my hair coz I look 29, and if you want to corner the lonely old men you’d better have me looking fresh and ready to be pushed into the mud.”

I like the picture of Brendan with the prism blue streak in her hair, and I like to think of her at 29, when women reach the apogee of their desires, when wildness gets old and relevance and perception are up for their last grabs; seize the Universe with both eyes or get ready to lie down in a man’s world.

Also, I caught her in the future, just when everyone was trying to touch her now, so just between me and her she owes me five pesos extra for trying to see beyond what she wanted to show.

(from "According to Bikko" pages 4-5)