From the “mockingwords” blog post:
“It would seem that gold and silver spray paints are his metallic colors of choice because according to one psychologist, a one David Blum, ‘... gold or silver paints have a higher concentration of toluene, a chemical that produces a high.’”
When I was a kid growing up our family owned a rubber molding business. I remember using toluene to make the bonded rubber expand and release off of metal stampings it was bonded to if they were scrap. To this day I can’t smell the stuff, the shop could be filled with it and I wouldn’t notice, it’s quite nasty.
Don’t ever get it in your eyes either, it feels like Mike Tyson threw three haymakers into it after a few seconds. We use to have the stuff in 55 gallon drums, you knew it was time to stop when the room started to spin, then you had to step out to get some fresh air.