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December 11, 2013 by whatwhippedcreamismadeof

I looked up Terry’s address. Bad neighborhood. I put on Slumberhouse Baque to smell like rotting fruit and tobacco. Maybe I can fool the street dogs into believing I’m walking compost so they won’t attack. It doesn’t work. I smell right (wrong) but am dressed too preppy. They can see right through my Michael Stars white and navy striped sweater with yellow boat neck collar. Terry doesn’t have a doorbell. I form indentations on my knuckles knocking on his black […]

Categories: scents, stories • Tags: michael stars, slumberhouse baque, Tracy Chapman

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slumberhouse ORE

December 10, 2013 by whatwhippedcreamismadeof

When I write, I write about people and memories, not smells, though smells do conjure up lots of memories about people. Here’s a new memory, thanks to the smell: Slumberhouse Ore. When I sit in a dark corner in a private booth at a ramen restaurant, after a long day of friends and fairs, I’m in dinner mode. I’m ready for food and drink. But when I sit in a dark corner in a private booth at a ramen restaurant […]

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celestial detumescence

December 7, 2013 by whatwhippedcreamismadeof

Tomorrow is not tomorrow, but 11 days ago. Tomorrow, the man who I put on a throne and looked up to at the young age of 22, is turning 63. When he sat on that throne, looking down at me, disguising his melancholy and desolation with biting wit, he was 54. He was where harmony out of conflict lived and I loved visiting. He looked like the Psycho house: tall and gray from weather. A corpse lived inside. We talked […]

Categories: secrets • Tags: Moon, Psycho House

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OB/GYNSUN

December 7, 2013 by whatwhippedcreamismadeof

It’s the time of day when the sun pours through the window next to where I lay my head to sleep and I lie down on the bed and close my eyes for a nap. I watch the inside of my eyelids turn the color of Mars. My face gets warm and I’m reminded of the first time I visited the gynecologist. Ladies build it up to be some horrendous thing, but everyone who has ever shared their experience forgot […]

Categories: stories • Tags: Chow mein, Gynaecology, Light, Mars, Obstetrics and gynaecology, sun

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I am the remedy…

December 7, 2013 by whatwhippedcreamismadeof

I am the remedy, I am the poison.

Categories: snippets

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“Odors have a p…

December 2, 2013 by whatwhippedcreamismadeof

“Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.” ― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Categories: scents, snippets • Tags: Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

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aromatic substitution

November 30, 2013 by whatwhippedcreamismadeof

There are five candles in my house that smell like memories. I messaged a friend the first night one was lit: “Last night I came home and the house smelled different. It smelled like a sensuous man in tune with his surroundings and spirit. Kinda like incense, kinda like ceremony, kinda like bed sheets after sex.” The scent was an immediate aphrodisiac. I lunged for Bubba who turned me away because of a migraine. I got comfy in bed, stared […]

Categories: scents • Tags: candle, cire trudon, old spice

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objects + time

November 25, 2013 by whatwhippedcreamismadeof

Time is linear when you’re in school. Moments are simple bullet points or dashes scattered along a straight path, each with a brief call out. It’s simple to see how events relate to one another – they’re all there in front of you. As an adult, looking at a timeline – your own timeline – becomes more like looking at a constellation. The moments are near and related, but all over the place – and all brilliant. Some shine brighter […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: constellation, t-shirt

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the downfall of humanity: generation after generation

November 24, 2013 by whatwhippedcreamismadeof

I somehow managed to submit a couple of simple and cynical writings while getting my interior design degree. What follows is the preface to an anthology about childbirth I compiled right after high school. Preface The notion of a woman sprawled out on starched, white sheets, with her legs reaching out towards the ends of the universe in preparation for a pulpy, gray and purple breathing mass to desperately inch its way out of a hole whose existence I was […]

Categories: stories • Tags: Andrew McKenna, Anthology, Father of the Bride Part II, Umbilical cord

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a follow up to alameda + an old flame

November 18, 2013 by whatwhippedcreamismadeof

You asked if I was interested in reconnecting. I’m interested in reconnecting with the person who I’m losing right now, and it isn’t you. I’m interested in you reconnecting with the person who I am losing, and it isn’t me. My eyes burn and water, just the way they used to every time I’d drive through Alameda. They don’t anymore. Alameda doesn’t make me cry. I thought it did. What makes me cry is that you are Love and Truth […]

Categories: secrets • Tags: Alameda

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