Soda

I recently made the transition from a long and proud history of joint smoking into the bubble sucking ways of waterpipes. My piece was 20 bucks, it's a mix of a pipe, bubbler, and hookah - but none of them by definition.

I've had my doubts about bongs, as I had read they only served more concentrated tar and less thc per smoking unit (something about the thc molecule sticking to the solids in the bong). But **** that, it was probably the man trying to trick us.

My first question is about the bong water. It would be great to tell a new smoker that chugging the bong water after a smoking session is customery and watch hilarity ensue. Anyway, is water the best liquid to use? Maybe some cool blue colored energy drink or no? Distilled water better? Best way to pack - ground up - nugs - what? Dare I say...a sprinkle o' strawberry rollin' tabacci? At let me see some pics of bongwater, dirtiest bong water recepient will get a free doobie, that I'll keep with me for safety.

I pour in some spring water and freeze it (ice cubes are actually larger then the whole chamber of my piece), then fill in a little more spring water. It hits nicely - but the bowl usually gets hot enough to burn and the damn thing needs to be unattached and cleaned with a paper clip every three smokes or so, and the water needs to be changed every three hits because the chamber is so small.

I named this piece King Turbo, in memory of a bagseed cannabis plant I was growing in a 20 year old pale on a stealth grow indoors. Unfortionately my good mother threw it away into the woods or backyard. I was crawling on in the dark on mud and wet grass crying his name looking for him, it was so climatic. Remeniscent of Wilson the ball floating away from Tom Hanks in Castaway. The next day I looked at pictures of him and tried to cry to inflict guilt to those responsible.

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Alas! the forbidden fruits were eaten,
And thereby the warm life of reason congealed.
A grain of wheat eclipsed the sun of Adam,
Like as the Dragon's tail dulls the brightness of the moon.

— Rumi: Masnavi I Ma'navi