Pink Cupcakes
Monday, February 4, 2008 At breakfast with a friend of ours on Saturday morning, the words Business and Venture and Sex and Move came together somehow. I am not sure who said them. My brain wants to say that I did, but I think it was the Palinode or our friend.
At any rate, I piped up: That sounds like a band name, "Business Venture Sex Move". Or maybe I did not pipe up.
I like the way Business Venture Sex Move sounds. I would like to be in that band, or at least watch them play.
I like to think I made them up myself, even though I probably did not.
Then, we went grocery shopping, and I fell in love with a tray of pink cupcakes.
I do not like the colour pink or things that are heart-shaped. My sweet tooth wore itself out in my early thirties. Foods that are too artificially coloured make me nervous. There the cupcakes were, though, being frighteningly pink and absorbing more colour into their mounds of icing from the hear-shaped sprinkles that had been thrown into the clear plastic tray with them.
They were miniature, like they were treats for people with little hands or those who pretend that miniature food will not make them fat.
Despite my finding them to be hideous and sickening, I wanted to buy them so I could take pictures of them in the evening light.
Can I buy those? I asked the Palinode, as if I were eight years old and had to ask permission.
Of course, but why? he asked back. His face was pulled into a grimace of disgust.
Because they are so pink! I said.
I carried the tray in my hands while we went through the checkout and while we took a taxi home and while we carried our groceries up to our apartment. I did not want anything to press the plastic carton in to wreck the swirls that were still perfect on half the cupcakes.
In the middle of my cupcake photo shoot, which took place on blue bristle board on a corner of the bed where the evening light shone long, the cats moved in to investigate. They upended the cupcake, leaving stains on the paper and pink icing on their nose leather. After that, they kept sneaking back to steal more icing. It is two days later, and they are still the only inhabitants of our apartment to eat that stuff.
I found a pair of tweezers in the carton yesterday. The pink cupcakes must have become insecure about the cat hair moustachios they were sprouting.
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Reader Comments (17)
Those are really cute cupcakes... I'd be takin' pictures too.
I like how you thought to buy them solely for the point of taking pictures. You are too cool.
I'm not a fan of pink or hearts either and my birthday is on Valentine's Day. Still a little bitter after almost 39 years? Why, yes I am.
Good call on the cupcake purchase. I can't believe the color saturation you're able to pull out of a cupcake, a bristle board and natural sunlight on your bed.
Sumo, I didn't even do anything to make the colours pop. They did that all on their own.
Our friend B. was the one to come up with the phrase Business Venture Sex Move. And you definitely piped up that it would make a great band name.
I ate one of the cupcakes. It was not a good time, but at least it was quick.
There's a hair on the last one.
I LOVE the photos and can totally see why you would want to buy them for the sole purpose of photographing them.
Beautiful eye candy photos! Love that hot pink against the cool blue.
ErinH
your photos are gorgeous. The first one made me want to do a watercolour of it. Delish colors!
I only like pink when it's baby pink, silk, and on my hot tanned bod, which would make it almost 20 years ... but those precious pink prizes have me on the sugar train ...
Are those with the Rebel or the Lumix? Would you say both cameras take similar quality pictures for this type of situation?
I took the cupcake shots with my Lumix FZ20. The Canon Rebel 2000 takes excellent close-ups as well, and I would say it has far and away better quality, but film is expensive. So it is.
Pretty pretty pictures.
I'm hungry.
I think the google searchers are going to have a field day with "Business Venture Sex Move".
My 4yo would have loved those cupcakes. It's why I leave her home when I go shopping.
my daughter, now, after seeing those cupcakes has just fallen in love with you!
i'm not sure what it says about me that I find your cupcakes so erotic, but these are cupcakes as anais nin would make cupcakes. gorgeous, femmy, delectableness.
Love your pictures. They look good enough to eat - at least in my house. (smirk) Oh yes, I eat the cupcakes. yum