In the annals of rock history, Wayne Kramer will forever have a two-inch dick. “Wayne quite literally got the shaft,” says Cynthia Plaster Caster, who cast the MC5 guitarist’s member, as well as that of drummer Dennis Thompson, in 1969. The world’s second most famous groupie was still perfecting her gimmick. “He got the container that wasn’t designed to mix alginates in,” she says, “and if you mix it the wrong way it sets prematurely. It set before he could push his dick all the way into the mold–only the head got in.” She says he wasn’t upset: “Wayne is perfectly aware of what he’s got. He doesn’t have to prove anything to the world.”
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Since then Plaster Caster has added about 60 more penises–and in recent years a few breasts–to her collection. But though she’s exhibited them once, she’d never sold any of what she refers to as her “sweet babies” until October 2, when her new Cynthia P Caster Foundation made its first $1,500 on a limited-edition plaster of paris reproduction of cast number 00004–Jimi Hendrix.
Graphic designer Jason Pickleman–a friend and one of the producers of Jessica Villines’s 2001 documentary, Plaster Caster–suggested the foundation last winter, and over the spring and summer the pair met with lawyers, set up a board of directors, and designed a Web site, www.cynthiapcaster.org, from which to hawk their wares. There’s no blue book for plaster casts of penises, so Plaster Caster and Pickleman looked around on eBay and in art galleries to figure out how to price them.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): photos/Jim Newberry.
