The Sugar Babies

The All-important Sugar Baby Meets More People Who Are Also Called Sugar Baby

Renji Shino
The Sugar Baby, given a nickname as a young child due to being really into sugar in one way or another, is a very important person who must be paid attention to. Thus, this is a tribute piece to the "sugar baby"! There are some sugar babies who were baptized in sugar as infants or toddlers, there are others who were dipped in warm chocolate, a few were drizzled, coated, double-dipped, and rolled in coconut or crushed nuts. All of these people remember their early childhood experiences, some as fond memories, others as experiences to resent.

Recently, I received several packages of sugar babies candy in the mail, and gave them to some friends who appreciated them immensely. However, I forgot that the purpose of this gift was to remind me about "sugar babies", and am now writing something about sugar babies, in the hopes that this will be something that family and friends will approve of as a tribute piece to these local "gods and goddesses", or sugar babies.

The Boomtown, New Mexico art gallery was filled with people, curious to see the new Ultra-Pink art, basically little more than a sly rip-off of Andy Warhol techniques, complete with a gallery guide duo called Andy and Sandia Metric. Now, Sandia was a local name that everyone was familiar with, however, Andy Metric, this was obviously an Andy Warholism, no such person, no such name, how could this poor darling girl Sandia have become mixed up with him? Also, equally obvious was the fact that Ultra-Pink knew nothing about art, and had no respect for the celebrities in attendance, not even having showed up for the gig.

"Have you ever been really uninspired?", the new buddy asked Sugar Baby at the art gallery. Lost in thought... I mean, truly uninspired, to the point where nothing seems to be interesting, and nothing seems to be worthy of writing, where everything seems to be merely mediocre, just okay, where you are jaded, and everything might as well be part of the homogonized plastic landscape of sameness.

Published by Renji Shino

Independent software designer, graphic artist, stock photographer; affiliated with PBS and IGT.  View profile

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  • Renji Shino11/5/2009

    Tanks for the memories, but the article was not done to the "T". It's not going to take anyone's career anywhere, and you wonder why? I guess that the electronic replicant who took over the account didn't notice the deliberate flaws in all of the articles here. Have fun sending private messages, I guess.

    Not much I can do to get into the account now, see you at the morguefile. Have some really cute photos of Scaresdale to post there, someday soon. Suffering sugar babies, indeed.

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