Smoking Banana Peels

[J.D. P. Lafrance]

RICHARD ROMEO <RR.TFCNY at mail.fdncenter.org>,Internet writes:
> Leafing thru my recently purchased Mad about the Sixties came across a 
> Don Martin cartoon which depicts this groovy dude chopping up some 'nanas 
> peel, ground to fine powder, then stuffing into a little pipe, smoking, 
> with no effect, gets mad, eyebrows all akinder that Don Martin way, takes 
> a step, slips on the leftover 'nana peel, hits the back of his head on 
> the counter, begins to see groovy things about the air, including stars, 
> wavy clouds, and other fine points of trippiness flight...the myth 
> continues, now about that nutmeg...

interestingly enough, a folk-punk band, The Dead Milkmen did a song called
"Smokin' Banana Peels" in the mid-'80s! very trippy, mondo-bizarro vibe on that
song too...

bfn,
JDL