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August 23, 2004

Things Which Smell Good, But Which Nevertheless Should Not Be Made Into Candle Scents

by Ebony Adams and Julie deGroot

Potato salad
Bean burritos
Baked ham
Cream of mushroom soup
Newly washed hair
Freshly applied deodorant
Just-shaved Grandpa
Sleeping baby
Whiskey sour
First cigarette of the morning

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