A flurry of media attention has focused on Kiss Machine's Disposable Issue and Kiss Machine Presents... Violet Miranda #1 over the past few weeks. CBC Radio chatted up the creators of Violet Miranda. As a sidebar to a feature on Toronto mags, Utne called us "a playful romp through the surrealism inherent in daily life." Sequential Tart, a webmag about women in comics, gave Violet a 9 out of 10! Eye Weekly highlighted Violet Miranda's launch party eye weekly, then their comics columnist, Guy Leshinski, gave us a glowing review. Space TV has been running this brief. And exclaim! mag speculates on the fate of our two girl pirates.

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.

Kiss Machine's 5-year anniversary "disposable" issue will be flying through the air to subscribers and newsstands mid-April. Contributors explore obsessive consumption, the glamorous cultural industry, extinction, garbage and fashion. Get performance instructions for your next shopping excursion, explore the disposable ages of woman, and read self-negating theory. The issue's framed by minimalist art by Vancouver's Sonja Ahlers (author of Temper, Temper and Fatal Distractions).

The first special Kiss Machine Presents... issue, Violet Miranda: Girl Pirate (#1 of 4) will launch with a swashbuckling pirate party! Hope you can join us, share the bootie and buy some copies of the comic. Details: 9 pm. Saturday, March 12, 2005. Mitzi's Sister (1554 Queen St W, Toronto). Free admission, comics $4 each.

More than forty people helped us celebrate love and stars by sending us short stories, true stories, high art, low art, and critiques of the whole movie star/celeb thing. Includes the tantalizing ILLICIT CRUSH SUPPLEMENT!

Guelph artists Paula Cowan and Chris Down shrank a stunning 6-foot girls and guns-themed woodcut to make the most gorgeous t-shirts you've ever seen--order yours today.