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Contents of Issue 10

Cover art gallery: Sonja Ahlers (with disposable shaver by Brooke Nechvatel)
Insert: Mere Creation in a Chronologically Compressed Culture by Von Bark

  • Editor's Note by Emily Pohl-Weary ONLINE!
  • Discarded Printer, a photo by Richard Marks
  • Bathroom Art, drawings by James Culleton
  • Ashley, a photo by Mia Donovan
  • Sick in Bed, a drawing by Rose Bianchini
  • Lefties, a drawing by K. Crab
  • Lovely Garbage, a photo by Colleen Baran
  • McPoems, poetry by Billeh Nickerson
  • Cut Out and Use: Performance Instructions for Your Next Shopping Mall Experience by Laura Nanni
  • COLUMN Zoe Whittall: Take Your Passion, Make it Happen
  • Mating Rituals of the 20-Somethings, a poem by Hollay Ghadery
  • The Light Switch Method by Robert Weston
  • Interview with cover Artist Sonja Ahlers by Kiss Machine
  • Disposable, a story by Chandra Mayor
  • Hurt, a story by Samantha Cleaver
  • How To Make The Best Punk Album Never Made by Brian Joseph Davis + song online
  • COLUMN Tamara Faith Berger: Present Preoccupations
  • Barry Linden, Clockwork Orange and Dr. Strangelove, paintings by John Abrams, with a statement by Carla Garnet
  • Spending The Money That Grows On Trees, a poem by Robert Priest + song online
  • Sea Monsters, a short play by J. J. Steinfeld
  • Jade and Kamogawa, photos by Isabelle Hayeur
  • COLUMN Sally McKay: Art Is Science
  • Wednesday January 5th, 2005, transit art by Michael Brown
  • Your First Birthday, a photo by Dawn Yow
  • COLUMN Jesse Hirsh: Reality Hacking: The Disposable Nature of News (and Democracy) ONLINE!
  • Whole Foods, a story by Lisa Rundle
  • How Do You Spell Love?, a poem by Myna Wallin
  • The Disposable Ages of Woman, a diagram by Suzette Chan
  • The World as We Know It, a story by Camilla Gibb
  • Esquire, Fashion and Shape, tracings by Rob Labossiere
  • Keep Breathing, a story by Lorne Roberts
  • Obsessive Consumption, a photo essay by Kate Bingaman
  • COLUMN Paul Hong: Good Advice on the Disposable Lifestyle

    Web Extras!
    Singer/songwriter Robert Priest and cultural provocateur Brian Joseph Davis have both written songs that accompany their pieces in KM#10, and they're kind enough to let us post them online.

    Also read an original short story by Toronto Writer Lisa Foad.

    • Read Lisa Foad's brilliant story, Balance.