IVIV (2) Dope Fiend Standards and Ethics Committee (26)

[rich]

Potheads, you're so exclusive. Would you say you _took offense_ at
Glen's preference for barbiturates and amphetamines?"
"Yeah, I was planning to report him to the Dope Fiend Standards and
Ethics Committee." (26)
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Cocksucker Blues perhaps?  bit between two guys, one of whom I think
is shooting up, the other rapping about creating another hippie
organizational goof--some kinda league of international heroin
enthusiasts

p.s. saw again Zappa's hosting of SNL in 77 or 78--funny bits of Frank
meeting hippies who try to get him to do drugs and they're freaked
that he doesn't--Belushi's character is named Windowpane. might've
been mentioned here already but its pretty funny stuff
always lamented that i never saw one of his halloween shows

rich

On 9/7/09, Doug Millison <dougmillison at comcast.net> wrote:
> Before we get away from Chapter 2 entirely, I'm still wondering which
> sit-com, TV cop show, or movie is the model for this exchange, which
> has made me laugh out loud several times now. Or maybe we need look no
> further than Firesign Theater, which, Robin has reminded us, is worth
> looking at again as a possible influence on IV. This dialogue has the
> feel of a 60s underground comic book, too, like the one that Bigfoot
> quotes.
>
> "Potheads, you're so exclusive. Would you say you _took offense_ at
> Glen's preference for barbiturates and amphetamines?"
> "Yeah, I was planning to report him to the Dope Fiend Standards and
> Ethics Committee." (26)
>
> I also like the way Bigfoot is piecing together a narrative of what
> might have happened, fashioning a scenario in which Doc is guilty of
> the crime - as all literary PI's seem to do - not only a genre
> convention but also a what-if storytelling strategy that fits well
> Pynchon's predilection to create characters who wonder how history
> might have unfolded differently.
>