Not only is Dawn Griffin a talented graphic designer, published childrens book illustrator, webcomic creator and my table buddy at C2E2, but now can add assistant script consultant for 1977 to her resume. In a chat with Dawn, the subject came up of how art majors at her college would make glass bongs shaped like a penis. And I thought what a great thing for Jeff to have and bingo… today’s comic was born. Yes, somehow our conversation ended up on smoking pot and bongs. How on Earth did that happen? I have no idea…
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Blown – Bachman Turner Overdrive, 1973.
Besides being a great title for today’s comic, BTO’s “Blown” has a bit of history to it. Only interesting to us BTO fanboys, BTW. First, it is written and sung by Tim Bachman, one of three Bachman brothers in BTO at the time. Next, after the second album was released, Tim was given his walking papers by older brother Randy. Then to add insult to injury, Randy lifted the rhythm guitar part (including the peppy drum riff) from “Blown” to write “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet” which went on to become not only a number one hit in the USA, but just about everywhere in the world. Since Randy “wrote” “YASNY”, Tim didn’t get a dime from it. “YASNY” then catapulted BTO into super stardom and they became one of the bigger stadium rock acts of the mid 70s. To bad for you Tim.
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Discussion (25) ¬
Love the tag “penis bong”
Man, you’d have to be stoned all ready to use that. I don’t think I could ever bring myself to even holding it, much less using it.
Thats one ball busting bong buddy boy!! o.O …. would it be wrong to suggest that it could also be used as a cream dispenser? …ya know, for coffee?!? *snort*
…….Not the bong I’d choose, no…….
…..but I went to a school with a huge glass and ceramics program and yep; bongs and pipes were made aplenty!
damn, that was fast. Dude says, “Ha ha, that’s funny..one day I should put that in a comic”, and BAM. Penis Bong makes its debut.
The one that a friend of mine made, you actually inhaled through the head, the bowl was in the balls region. He was/is gay… so it was not at all surprising.
Thanks for the flattering write-up Byron! Kind of funny that I inspired this and I’m not even a smoker. I was always the non-smoker friend of the potheads/smokers. I guess they thought I was like their cute little pet, LOL. “Aaww.. how cute is that? She doesn’t smoke! Everyone, pat her on the head.”
Way to go, Dawn! Jynksie has some great ideas for other uses…just don’t forget to take the cream dispenser out of the fridge and hide it when Mother-in-Law comes to call….
It might accidentally get dropped. XD
Hahaha! One of your best, Byron.
Now you can truly tell that they have the stones to get stoned. 🙂
Or the Mother-in-law would come over and display it:
“I saw this had water in it but I was only able to fit in a few flowers for the dinner table, it’s a beautiful colour and so uniquely decorated…”
I have spiky hair for a reason. Stop the head-patting! ;0)
Penis Bong? Not that there’s anything wrong with it!
Thanks for the BTO history lesson.
I guess this one is for multi tasking….if the glass is thick enough anyway…
great post as usual!