spong or frap?

[Jon Browne]

In message <9608221704.AA09039 at borg.med.ecu.edu>, Martyn White
<white at BORG.MED.ECU.EDU> writes
>        The "trippy night" "." thread reminded me of an
>underground comic I read in the early '80s.  A guy is alone in his
>apartment and decides to experiment with a hallucinogenic cocktail.
>The next picture finds him sitting and thinking "hmmm, nothing
>much happening yet".  Then over the page, he has a very
>startled look, you can see his skull through his
>head which is drawn against a star field.  Above his head in
>large letters is the caption "SPONG".  Among the friends I
>was with, SPONG became the word to say on certain occassions.
>        In any event, the name of the publication
>
>        "Brainstorm Comics"
>
>So now you see that I would never post anything without a Hawkwind connection
>
>Martyn

Well, Hilariously enough issue 6 of Brainstorm Comix (by the great Bryan
Talbot) was subtitled Amazing Rock'n'Roll Stories featured a band of
Aliens taking the world over with their brand of mind-controlling
psychedelia and LP covers with a contact hallucinagenic etc.

Anyway when the alien band does their first gig they have a stack of
synths which would " make Hawkwind jealous". In fact on 2 or 3 occasions
in the story the only way to convey how far out this band are is to
describe them as "further out than Hawkwind" !

So Mart, I'm afraid you did post a Hawk-related message after all.

Wasn't it "FRAP" though, not "SPONG"?  I clearly remember the line "my
head went FRAP and then I came down" :) The character was Chester B.
Hackenbush , The Psychedelic Alchemist BTW!
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Jon Browne