{"id":4313,"date":"2007-04-06T07:48:49","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T12:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=4313"},"modified":"2007-04-06T14:03:49","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T19:03:49","slug":"55friday_the_ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/06\/55friday_the_ca\/","title":{"rendered":"55Friday: The &#8220;Candy Everybody Wants&#8221; Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Cadbury.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/Cadbury.jpg\" width=\"157\" height=\"366\" hspace=10 vspace=5 align=left \/><\/p>\n\n<p>When I&#8217;m not <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/suitablegirl\/423643249\/\">listening<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/suitablegirl\/sets\/72157600003769418\/\">Accuradio<\/a> at work, the wee <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/suitablegirl\/385224693\/\">leetle iPod<\/a>, it is on the shuffle.  Like all other gadget-addicted <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/suitablegirl\/63660759\/\">fruit-lovers<\/a>, I marvel at how the seemingly random is the utterly awesome, since I like every tune that gets served up, every time.<\/p>\n\n<p>This, despite the fact that <em>I<\/em> am the one who chose to load all my favorite songs on to <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/suitablegirl\/55099048\/\">Suitable iPod<\/a> in the first place, thus making me an ingrate for feeling so much wonder at what I, not shuffle, hath wrought. Maybe it&#8217;s the timing of it all, i.e. how the perfect song always seems to play at the exact moment it should?  How else to explain why <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/suitablegirl\/67224572\/\">Depeche Mode&#8217;s<\/a> &#8220;Master and Servant&#8221; blares when I&#8217;m reading about Dick Cheney and Dubya&#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ve heard the song which inspires this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flash_fiction\">nanofiction<\/a> orgy 2-3 times a day, every day this week thanks to shuffling.  It&#8217;s one of my favorite joints of all time, in part because I sweat Natalie Merchant&#8217;s voice so so very much.  So, since I already had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/004308.html\">mancandy<\/a> on the brain and there is ALWAYS candy in my tummy, this week is dedicated to sweet stuff, which seems especially apposite when <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Easter_Bunny\">baskets everywhere are being filled with goodies<\/a> which will make dentists rich in a few months.<\/p>\n\n<p>Write about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sephora.com\/browse\/product.jhtml?id=P40412\">sugar<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peeps\">peeps<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sour_Patch_Kids\">sour patch kids<\/a> or that totem of my childhood which is pictured to the left, Cadbury fruit and nut.  I&#8217;ve had everything from Hershey&#8217;s to handmade, exorbitantly-priced truffles and no chocolate is more delicious or makes me feel more loved; if it&#8217;s from England (where it tastes better!) I feel positively <em>adored<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Write 55 words (exactly 55 words, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/002304.html\">no need to be Hemingway<\/a>) inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemerchant.com\/history\/lyrics\/song_lyrics\/c_songs\/candyEverybodyWants.php\">the lyrics<\/a> to &#8220;<em>Candy Everybody Wants<\/em>&#8221; or about your own sugar-fix in the comments below.  If you are in a salty mood, disregard the weekly theme.  We just want to read, so get typing.<!--more--><br>\n<br>\n<br><\/p>\n\n<blockquote>if lust and hate is the candy<br>\nif blood and love tastes so sweet<br>\nthen we give &#8217;em what they want<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>hey, hey, give &#8217;em what they want<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>so their eyes are growing hazy<br>\n&#8216;cos they wanna turn it on<br>\nso their minds are soft and lazy<br>\nwell, hey, give &#8217;em what they want<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>if lust and hate is the candy<br>\nif blood and love tastes so sweet<br>\nthen we give &#8217;em what they want<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>so their eyes are growing hazy<br>\n&#8216;cos they wanna turn it on<br>\nso their minds are soft and lazy<br>\nwell&#8230; who do you want to blame? <br>\nhey, hey, give &#8217;em what they want<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I&#8217;m not listening to Accuradio at work, the wee leetle iPod, it is on the shuffle. Like all other gadget-addicted fruit-lovers, I marvel at how the seemingly random is the utterly awesome, since I like every tune that gets &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/06\/55friday_the_ca\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}