# smell (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 9 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover smell. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Note: Tuberose 🕊️𓇢𓆸🤍](https://samplesluts.substack.com/p/the-note-tuberose) _2026-08-21 · anna dorn · Sample Sluts_ Newsflash: it’s not rose, people ## [pomanders](https://arnoldzwicky.org/2026/08/20/pomanders/) _2026-08-21 · arnold zwicky · Arnold Zwicky's Blog_ (Lots about bodily fluids, up close and personal, and the male body, a lot of it in street talk, so inadvisable for kids and the sexually modest) Another little posting that might — like “Struggling Actor” earlier today — go far. But it starts with recollections of pomanders from my childhood, sparking my interest in \[…\] ## [The Knife Pledged For A Lamp](https://twistedtimeline.com/journal/the-knife-pledged-for-a-lamp/) _2026-08-21 · Twisted Timeline_ Bolghar showed itself first by smoke, dogs, and the blunt practical geometry of winter roofs. The Volga lay under dirty ice beyond the landing, not a clean sheet but a trampled gray road with sled ruts and dark oval holes where men had been cutting water. The market near the ferry smelled of horse s... ## [Struggling Actor](https://arnoldzwicky.org/2026/08/20/struggling-actor/) _2026-08-20 · arnold zwicky · Arnold Zwicky's Blog_ Having just done two little postings on brief subjects this morning, I’m now going to wade into a few somewhat meatier subjects that have the potential to explode into larger matters of some weight. The first of these came to me in tv commercials for the Liberty Mutual insurance company, featuring a Struggling Actor character \[…\] ## [A gross hybrid](https://arnoldzwicky.org/2026/08/20/a-gross-hybrid/) _2026-08-20 · arnold zwicky · Arnold Zwicky's Blog_ The Wayno / Piraro Bizarro of today (8/20), depicting a preposterous cartoon event: It’s a Renaissance Faire and a Ren & Stimpy Show animated cartoon (if you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Wayno says there are 3 in this strip — see this Page) A crossing of the decorously ornamental and \[…\] ## [Face value](https://arnoldzwicky.org/2026/08/20/face-value/) _2026-08-20 · arnold zwicky · Arnold Zwicky's Blog_ News flash. In the Stanford Report (faculty and staff news, serving also as p.r. for the university) today (8/20), this headline: Oh, the font! The trickster font! I expected a subhead along the lines of: Distinguished Professor of Education Albert Tinkery establishes international databank on educational practices But no. The curse of sans serif fonts \[…\] ## [The Sock Wrapped Salve Tin](https://twistedtimeline.com/journal/the-sock-wrapped-salve-tin/) _2026-08-20 · Twisted Timeline_ The first shells woke the windows before dawn. They did not break them, not the ones in the room where I had been put to wait, but they made each pane give a small hard complaint in its wooden frame. From the roof, before the owner shouted me down, I could see the pale line of the Mount of Olives an... ## [Two favorite movies](https://arnoldzwicky.org/2026/08/19/two-favorite-movies/) _2026-08-19 · arnold zwicky · Arnold Zwicky's Blog_ In the last few days, I’ve returned to two movies from long ago that gave me great pleasure then and have just brought me fresh joy. From 1953 (when I was in high school, in Pennsylvania), Roman Holiday, starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck (which came up on a free classic movie channel on my \[…\] ## [In reverse](https://arnoldzwicky.org/2026/08/19/in-reverse/) _2026-08-19 · arnold zwicky · Arnold Zwicky's Blog_ Committed in speech, by me, on 7/27/26: help get through me the day \[1\] This is an error in the ordering of the parts, localized in the underlined portion. \[1\] is the production. What was the target? What did I intend to say? There are two possibilities: help get me through the day \[2\] (with reversal of \[…\] ## [silentio](https://arnoldzwicky.org/2026/08/19/silentio/) _2026-08-19 · arnold zwicky · Arnold Zwicky's Blog_ Latin silentio ‘in silence’. Where I live now (also vivide ‘vividly, vigorously’, but that’s a topic for another posting). I’ve had profound laryngitis (probably a concomitant of cryptosporidiosus, which I’m otherwise holding at bay), occasionally moderating a bit so I can have actual conversations. But mostly I’m a whisperer, and the people on the reception \[…\] ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/dIjlNS5DcMrp) _2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_ Deploy apps from your repo with auto-config, instant previews, scaling, and monitoring. ## [Hot Pants Homo](https://arnoldzwicky.org/2026/08/18/hot-pants-homo/) _2026-08-19 · arnold zwicky · Arnold Zwicky's Blog_ (Crude, but not actually X-rated; but the title is HOT PANTS HOMO, so it won’t be to everyone’s taste) From Chris Ambidge on the Facebook group soc-motss on 8/10: \[CA:\] I must have done something wrong — I’ve never seen a book like this on a bookstore shelf. Maybe I didn’t have enough Ovaltine™? CA alludes \[…\] ## [The Plain New Knot](https://twistedtimeline.com/journal/the-plain-new-knot/) _2026-08-19 · Twisted Timeline_ I reached the upper terraces before the morning cloud had finished tearing itself on the hills. Monte Albán sat above the valley with the plain spread below in green and brown squares, maize leaves flashing when the wind turned them. The stone platforms held their old dignity: steps worn hollow in t... ## [Gooner music videos](https://arnoldzwicky.org/2026/08/18/gooner-music-videos/) _2026-08-18 · arnold zwicky · Arnold Zwicky's Blog_ (Raunchy content, which some will prefer to avoid) From WIRED on-line, “The Gooner Music Video Boom Is Here”, by Jason Parham on 6/26/26, in summary: Porn music videos have circulated on the fringes of the internet for years. Featuring everything from narrative-driven stories to hypnosis, they are proliferating across X as “bate fuel” for gooners. \[…\] ## [A fragrance note](https://arnoldzwicky.org/2026/08/18/a-fragrance-note/) _2026-08-18 · arnold zwicky · Arnold Zwicky's Blog_ A note on my 7/14/26 posting “Raunch dressing”, on a Facebook pitch for Creed Fragrance that came by me on 7/12: Aventus by Creed. Bright fruits and smoky woods, crafted into an unmistakable signature Which led to some notes on smoky tones in fragrances. And then took me to this bit of fancy writing from the Creed Boutique \[…\] ## [Sniff](https://arnoldzwicky.org/2026/08/18/sniff/) _2026-08-18 · arnold zwicky · Arnold Zwicky's Blog_ About the moment. From my 8/17 posting “Cool nights”, on my greatly increased prednisone dosage: it seems to me that my already unusually keen senses of smell and taste have heightened; all my food is fabulous, especially if jazzed up to be even more bitter, more sour, more aggressively fermented, or more spicy than before, and \[…\] ## [Los Futbolitos](https://arnoldzwicky.org/2026/08/18/los-futbolitos/) _2026-08-18 · arnold zwicky · Arnold Zwicky's Blog_ Encountered a while back via Facebook, this YouTube video: \[text:\] Los Futbolitos, es un dúo de youtubers dominicanos, compuesto por Ángelo Valdés, alias “Will” y Vincent Peréz, en el que se dedican a hacer videos sobre fútbol y debatiendo sobre esto ultimo. \[Valdés and Peréz make videos about soccer / football and debate about it\] So: we’ve \[…\] ## [Roberto Reyes smells like Penelope Cruz in Vanilla Sky ⋆౨ৎ 🍨₊☁️⋆](https://samplesluts.substack.com/p/roberto-reyes-smells-like-penelope) _2026-08-18 · anna dorn · Sample Sluts_ Talking fragrance with man behind Tom Ford’s Fucking Fabulous ## [Cool nights](https://arnoldzwicky.org/2026/08/17/cool-nights/) _2026-08-17 · arnold zwicky · Arnold Zwicky's Blog_ It’s mid-August, and still hot summer in Palo Alto, but the nights are now cool (quilt time is upon me) and it’s cool when I get up (around 3 am), moving me to put on a thick flannel shirt and gelling the coconut oil I use to treat my body (it becomes a thin clear \[…\] ## [Reading the face](https://arnoldzwicky.org/2026/08/17/reading-the-face/) _2026-08-17 · arnold zwicky · Arnold Zwicky's Blog_ From the New Yorker issue of July 6 & 3, 2026, under the heading “A critic at large” (on-line, 6/29/26, “What happened to your face: How the human countenance become something to study, edit, optimize, and scan”; in print, 7/6/26, “Regression to the mien: How mirrors, selfies, and surveillance have changed what we make of \[…\] ## [The Broken Clay Seal](https://twistedtimeline.com/journal/the-broken-clay-seal/) _2026-08-17 · Twisted Timeline_ The first thing that told me I was still on the Bogotá savanna was the light. It fell hard and clean over the high ground, then broke itself on thatch, smoke, and hanging maize leaves. Shadows in Bacatá do not merely lie down. They cling to the wrong side of walls, sharpen at the edges of doorways, ... ## [Trade Bitcoin & Ethereum (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/VWH4RMoxdGGI) _2026-08-16 · **Sponsored**_ Buy, sell and margin trade BTC & ETH with fiat currencies ## [Experiencing it again for the first time](https://arnoldzwicky.org/2026/08/16/experiencing-it-again-for-the-first-time/) _2026-08-16 · arnold zwicky · Arnold Zwicky's Blog_ It starts with the movies, dwells on a paradox of dementia — that it can allow someone to experience something again for the first time — and picks up another paradox — that it’s possible for someone to forget everything and still successfully follow enormously complex routines. I will illustrate the first from my guy \[…\] ## [frags](https://arnoldzwicky.org/2026/08/16/frags/) _2026-08-16 · arnold zwicky · Arnold Zwicky's Blog_ No, not hand grenades, but (portmanteaued) fag frats, sexually specialized college fraternities. A topic that sprung out of my Sundance interview posting, in a comment by Gijs Doorenbos: F.A.G. fraternity -\> ΦAΓ ? (Should be available as a T shirt somewhere) And then we strolled down fraternity row. My response: — AZ: Lovely. No t-shirt \[…\] ## [Who Is Moving Your Hand?](https://bernardbaars.substack.com/p/who-is-moving-your-hand) _2026-08-16 · Bernard Baars · Consciousness & The Brain_ Voluntary action, conscious control, and a revealing observation from the operating room ## [The first step](https://arnoldzwicky.org/2026/08/15/the-first-step/) _2026-08-16 · arnold zwicky · Arnold Zwicky's Blog_ Now, a piece of my life story you have heard about from my side of the event the first meeting of Ann Walcutt Daingerfield and Arnold Melchior Zwicky (which happened in the bowels of the Firestone Library at Princeton University) from Ann s viewpoint, as rehearsed in e-mail yesterday from our old friend Benita \[ \] ## [Cracked Gourds At West Kiln Court](https://twistedtimeline.com/journal/cracked-gourds-at-west-kiln-court/) _2026-08-16 · Twisted Timeline_ The Avenue of the Dead was already awake when I arrived, which is to say that Teotihuacan had begun its daily business of making people feel small and clay feel important. The Pyramid of the Sun sat to the east like an argument no one had yet won. Apartment compounds breathed out morning voices. San... ## [Adam’s ribbing](https://arnoldzwicky.org/2026/08/15/adams-ribbing/) _2026-08-15 · arnold zwicky · Arnold Zwicky's Blog_ It s all about men s crotches, but it s not actually X-rated; but, but it is about crotches and their contents. Adam in a jockstrap, Adam in a rubber. Adam in a jockstrap: the jock with ribbed pouch. The Daily Jocks mailing of today (8/15): (#1) 40% off DJX Luxe \[style name\] ribbed jocks (in black, \[ \] ## [It’s a mistake to rile a gunslinging faggot](https://arnoldzwicky.org/2026/08/15/its-a-mistake-to-rile-a-gunslinging-faggot/) _2026-08-15 · arnold zwicky · Arnold Zwicky's Blog_ an arresting dictum from Sundance Kidd, in my short story The interview (from my XBlog on 3/15/11 edited from several 1996 drafts); the piece serves as a kind of vertiginous magic-realist summary of my Sundance and Butch saga (Sundance denies that his book is magic realism, but this isn t that book, although it \[ \] ## [Three prolegomena to a giant can of worms](https://arnoldzwicky.org/2026/08/14/three-prolegomena-to-a-giant-can-of-worms/) _2026-08-15 · arnold zwicky · Arnold Zwicky's Blog_ (frank discussion of sex, of various kinds, some of it in street language so not for kids or the sexually modest) 1 is about the Bloomsbury artists Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell; 2 is about affectionate relationships between gay men and straight women; 3 is about me and my wife, Ann. Prolegomenon 1: Grant \[ \] ## [The Black Hawk Tile](https://twistedtimeline.com/journal/the-black-hawk-tile/) _2026-08-15 · Twisted Timeline_ Bombay is still Bombay at first glance: BEST buses leaning into traffic as if late for an argument, black-and-yellow taxis nosing through puddles of coconut water and petrol sheen, paan spit making red constellations along compound walls, and the Arabian Sea keeping its damp thumb pressed over every... ## [23 fragrances for a steamy August night 🌙₊\*ੈ🍸✩₊💨](https://samplesluts.substack.com/p/23-fragrances-for-a-steamy-august) _2026-08-14 · anna dorn · Sample Sluts_ A paid subscriber fragrance fitting for summer ## [Every Channel. One Login. (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/UcxYJxuRxoOv) _2026-08-14 · **Sponsored**_ 17,000+ live channels, movies and sports on any device. Free trial, no IP lock. ## [le mot juste](https://arnoldzwicky.org/2026/08/13/le-mot-juste-2/) _2026-08-14 · arnold zwicky · Arnold Zwicky's Blog_ (warning: raunchy vocabulary, but surmounting the raunch is the point; still, over the line for kids and the sexually modest) Well, a two-word phrase. Which I very carefully framed in yesterday s posting Getting picked in this passage: I’m a whoring faggot in deep disguise — also a lot of other, socially more decorous, \[ \] ## [The Bitten Plug](https://twistedtimeline.com/journal/the-bitten-plug/) _2026-08-14 · Twisted Timeline_ The road into Trowulan was ankle-deep in red dust before the morning had finished deciding whether to become hot or merely insulting. The capital announced itself less by walls than by brick: brick drains, brick platforms, brick temple bases rising out of grass, brick wells with smooth rims polished... ## [Lecterns on wheels](https://arnoldzwicky.org/2026/08/13/lecterns-on-wheels/) _2026-08-13 · arnold zwicky · Arnold Zwicky's Blog_ They bring me reference volumes for work in progress, allowing me to hold them open on the lectern itself. My reference works are mostly big heavy volumes, very hard for my disabled hands to cope with at all. Lifting them is a problem in itself. Then I used to have a space on my worktable, \[ \] ## [Yesterday’s metromanteau](https://arnoldzwicky.org/2026/08/13/yesterdays-metromanteau/) _2026-08-13 · arnold zwicky · Arnold Zwicky's Blog_ The Wayno / Piraro 8/12 Bizarro: The Metromorphosis : metro- \[the libfix, representing the noun metrosexual\] + metamorphosis \[the abstract noun meaning transformation \] = metromorphosis transformation to metrosexuality (if you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Wayno says there are 4 in this strip — see this Page) Two contributors: metro . From NOAD: noun metrosexual: \[ \] ## [The birthday of doom](https://arnoldzwicky.org/2026/08/13/the-birthday-of-doom/) _2026-08-13 · arnold zwicky · Arnold Zwicky's Blog_ Coming up in about three weeks, my birthday of doom: 2026 1940 = 86. A bad omen. As in NOAD: verb eighty-six (also 86): \[with object\] North American English informal 1 eject or bar (someone) from a restaurant, bar, etc.: they were accused of cheating, and eighty-sixed from their favorite casino. 2 reject, discard, or cancel: the passwords will be \[ \] ## [Global Workspace Theory, AI, and the Lost Baby Test](https://bernardbaars.substack.com/p/global-workspace-theory-ai-and-the) _2026-08-13 · Bernard Baars · Consciousness & The Brain_ Wide recognition of Global Workspace Theory is very welcome. But we should be careful not to confuse a useful model of consciousness with consciousness itself. ## [Every kiss leaves ash](https://www.adashofsunny.com/every-kiss-leaves-ash/) _2026-08-13 · Sanaa · A Dash of Sunny_ There is something dangerous about the way you kiss me— not violence, not \[…\] ## [The White Feather On The Wet Corner](https://twistedtimeline.com/journal/the-white-feather-on-the-wet-corner/) _2026-08-13 · Twisted Timeline_ The first thing I noticed in Niort was not the war, though the war had kindly placed itself everywhere for my convenience. It was in the station clock with its dirty glass, in the blue coats moving in twos, in the women’s black sleeves, in the chopped posters pasted one over another until the wall l... ## [Getting picked](https://arnoldzwicky.org/2026/08/12/getting-picked/) _2026-08-12 · arnold zwicky · Arnold Zwicky's Blog_ The gay sex news from 60 years ago. It started with an e-mail exchange with my first male lover (Larry Schourup) about the course of our relationship back then. I m pleased at having dredged up so much, but it is of course largely imaginative reconstruction, fictobiography, not bald narrative I post often about the \[ \] ## [Blues for Mr. Arnold](https://arnoldzwicky.org/2026/08/11/blues-for-mr-arnold/) _2026-08-12 · arnold zwicky · Arnold Zwicky's Blog_ It s happening again. The staff where I live now have mostly taken to addressing me as Mr. Arnold because to lots of Americans (of whatever origins), Mr. Zwicky seems to be simply unpronounceable, a hurdle too high. This produces a twinge of sociolinguistic distress in me, because of the regrettable history of the American \[ \] ## [10 burning questions, asked & answered ⋆˚🧐꩜｡🔥¿?](https://samplesluts.substack.com/p/10-burning-questions-asked-and-answered) _2026-08-11 · anna dorn · Sample Sluts_ On what we’re wearing, reading, celeb perfumes, and more ## [Silver at the edge](https://www.adashofsunny.com/silver-at-the-edge/) _2026-08-10 · Sanaa · A Dash of Sunny_ At midnight, I hear the moon calling from the edge of the roof. \[…\] ## [When Voluntary Control Breaks Down](https://bernardbaars.substack.com/p/when-voluntary-control-breaks-down) _2026-08-09 · Bernard Baars · Consciousness & The Brain_ Why unwanted thoughts, feelings, images, and actions raise fundamental questions about volition ## [The Fish Bone Groove](https://twistedtimeline.com/journal/the-fish-bone-groove/) _2026-08-08 · Twisted Timeline_ The harbor was awake before the sun cleared the coconut tops. Malacca does not rise; it is shaken loose. Men shouted from prahus with wet ropes across their shoulders, Gujarati brokers argued over pepper sacks, and a line of Javanese oarsmen carried jars so heavy that the clay left red half-moons on... ## [Petal 𓆸˖𓍢ִ໋🌸˚🪽˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒🪽](https://samplesluts.substack.com/p/petal) _2026-08-07 · Crissy Milazzo · Sample Sluts_ Scenting Ariana Grande’s new album ## [The Louvered Nest](https://twistedtimeline.com/journal/the-louvered-nest/) _2026-08-07 · Twisted Timeline_ Nevsky Prospect had the appearance of a city holding its breath through its teeth. The tram rails lay bright and useless in the mud, as if the street had been polished for a parade that no one now intended to attend. Men in caps stood in small knots at corners, not blocking passage exactly, but caus... ## [Is Willpower Like a Muscle?](https://bernardbaars.substack.com/p/is-willpower-like-a-muscle) _2026-08-06 · Bernard Baars · Consciousness & The Brain_ A conversation with Roy F. Baumeister on self-control, ego depletion, self-esteem, and free will. ## [The Greasy Board Of The Beer Seller](https://twistedtimeline.com/journal/the-greasy-board-of-the-beer-seller/) _2026-08-05 · Twisted Timeline_ The desert air crossed the river before sunrise and came into Meroë with the faint coolness of water it did not intend to keep. It slipped under my sleeve, found the line where the brass spring clip pressed my reader papers against my forearm, and reminded me that in several worlds my greatest survi... ## [Lucy Burrows smells like hot seashells under overcast skies ˖°𓇼⋆🐚.˚⋆☁️](https://samplesluts.substack.com/p/lucy-burrows-smells-like-hot-seashells) _2026-08-04 · anna dorn · Sample Sluts_ Chatting with Miami’s niche scent queen ## [The Patched Basin Collar](https://twistedtimeline.com/journal/the-patched-basin-collar/) _2026-08-04 · Twisted Timeline_ The first thing I saw in Houston this morning was not the Moon. It was a red circle drawn in grease pencil around a number on a newspaper weather map. The Sunday Chronicle lay folded on the counter of a drugstore coffee shop, its pages already softened by fingers and damp rings from sweating glasse...