"With simple illustrations and quaint photographs that evoke a more innocent era--presented in Technicolor or rich black-and-white in a broad range of illustration styles--Change Your Underwear Twice a Week is a chronicle of the classroom filmstrip experience. It will instantly transport baby boomers back to fifth-period social studies, the smell of art paste, the sound of the recess bell."
Sounds like a fascinating read and damn if I don't want to taste some paste again. Okay, I admit it. I ate paste in grade school. It was creamy and white and tasted minty fresh and no I didn't top it off with a booger sandwich, snack pack pudding and an apple, yes, boogers no. Eating paste was a right of passage back then, I was liberating myself from the 'norm' the very second I dipped my finger into the little plastic pot. It happened innocently enough, I was pasting something together and wiped something off my face, perhaps sweat, don't remember...anyways it was then I tasted it. To my surprise it was flavored and damn if I didn't like it. Don't get me wrong, I didn't ask my mother to pick-up a pint o' glue as treat at the grocery store when she went. But, for the rest of my elementary education I would secretly dip my digit into the bottle and taste the glue at during every art session.
My addiction to paste fell by the wayside once I'd entered middle school and found the joys of sniffing library books, the school was new and so were the books in the library. I'd check out a couple of books on smell alone. Back then the books were covered with a thick plastic coating to preserve them and I love that smell to this day. When I receive shipments at the bookstore, you can find me sniffing each and every one of the hardcovers, because paperbacks tend to smell like um...paper, I solely sniff the hardcovers and childrens books and product and occassionally (if I'm lucky) I'll reap the reward of that toxic plastic smell of my youth. Don't even get me started on the glory of magic markers, that's another sniffing post, for another day. **Sniff**
[Via:Scrubbles]
