Awww. You open it up to the middle, and there’s this little grocery bag stapled there, and it’s got a booklet inside it that’s the shape of a ketchup bottle, with a little ten-page history of ketchup, and the bibliography is printed out like a receipt, and…and… And there’s a haunting little story about pizza delivery by Paul Hong, and an endearing story about sauce by Jessica Westhead, and a poem about pepper and the Vesta Lunch, and a pretty sexy (sexy ha-ha as opposed to sexy peculiar) photo essay featuring cucumbers and carrots and of course whipped cream and bananas. There are also many other things that are good in here, and some things that are not good. All in all, Kiss Machine is satisfying the way the appetizer sampler platter is satisfying – all kinds of little treats jumbled together producing surprising and amusing combinations. Yum. (Wendy Banks)
zine, #3, 63 pages, Emily Pohl-Weary and Paola Poletto, $4, 3 issues for $10, 18 Virtue St., Toronto, ON, M6R 1C2, www.kissmachine.org