"Quite a few people in the world have seen my penis, so that's kinda cool. I'm just a normal kid living it up and doing the best I can while I'm here."
This is from an NPR interview with Spencer Elden, 17. If you shopped in a record store in the 1990s or saw even the remotest glimpse of popular rock bands, you, too, have probably seen his penis.
That's because 17 years ago, Spencer Elden was photographed for the cover of Nirvana's Nevermind -- the album that changed the course of rock music and also had the photo of a cute little baby, naked, swimming after a $1 bill. Turns out the baby grew up, attended military boarding school for six months, plans on traveling and is just your average-sounding high school student -- whose penis is known throughout the world. That's got to help break the ice when chatting with girls, no?
It's worth a read to discover exactly how the poor kid earned his dad $200 by getting tossed "into the drink" and, simultaneously, into rock and roll history.
