We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember R D S saying something like:
Checker plate. Dead cool in the living room if you set it off with a Yank V8 on a display stand in the middle of the floor.
I've been thinking of alternatives to plastering, and the best I could come up with was p/bd and lining paper w several coats of paint on it. Ply is always an option, of course, but p'bd does at least not burn.