lined up

lined up, originally uploaded by smoooch.

lantern labor rewards

lantern labor rewards, originally uploaded by smoooch.

light my fire

Cancel your plans, say no to that dinner date and make your way to Trout Lake for the annual Illuminaires Festival AKA. the lantern fest, tomorrow night at dusk.

And if you want a one of a kind, hand crafted, gauranteed original lantern you'll head to the North end of the park and look for the string of masterpieces for sale. Each one is strung with vintage ribbon and ready for you and your trip through the festival. Remember..be a participant, not a spectator.

finished, originally uploaded by smoooch.

this spud is for you

I never knew grocery shopping could be so easy. Thanks to a certain Jane I know, I have discovered another aspect to the wonderfully entertaining concept of online shopping. This shit's addictive!

Now, instead of Elsewares- "where they shop the hard way so you won't have to", and books called No one cares what you had for lunch-100 IDEAS FOR YOUR BLOG I have found the ultimate in interactive internetting and by telling you I may break the cardinal rule of the book that very well may be in the post to me right now..I'll tell you what I had for lunch, or plan to have for lunch.

Or rather the fascinating aspect of ordering groceries on line. I log onto Spud, pick out my fruits, veggies, and every other kind of grocery item I can think of and a few days later its waiting for me when I get home. The prices are the same if I walked all the way to the local organic grocer but this way I don't have to walk, carry and transport groceries 2km in searing heat.

If you live in the Vancouver, Calgary, Victoria or Seattle area and want to try it out, I can give you a code which will entitle you to $25 off over your first 4 deliveries. Internet with me and I'll hook you up.

the epitome of my childhood

Or most of it. This kind of sums it up. This and the actual farm in my life rounds out the whole picture and makes me the prairie girl that I am. Thank god for the Friendly Giant, the little chairs, and the Rusty the giraffe.

reminder

reminder, originally uploaded by smoooch.

Curious, the sin has now been washed away. The city maybe?

many hours of fun

What would you do if someone gave you 100 dildos for Christmas? It seems it has happened to someone and they are asking the internet.. what would you do. All answers must be non destructive and involve all 100. This is what I suggested..

1.Donate them to a women's shelter.

2.Plant them in your vegetable garden to mark the rows.

3.Leave them on bus seats, coffee shop chairs and other random places with a note attached that reads "take me home and give love". Kind of like those public random art projects.

4.Make an art installation about sex. Plant them all in a park, build a fence around it and call it the Get Off Garden.

What would you do?

TITLER

Not for the meek but funny.

I could have been a rock and roll photographer

Him: "Would I like to shot the cover for the Ramones first album?"

Me: "Yes, yes, yes"

Him: "They need to do it this afternoon"

This guy takes a bunch of photos at a Patti Smith gig at CBCB's and ends up with an offer to shoot a Ramones album. Unfortunatly for him (but a lucky turn of event for the coat check girl with a left behind camera), the photo gig interferes with the instruction of Hebrew and his presence as the teacher.

I can imagine his gripping dilemma back in the 70's. Etching out a career for himself. Maybe trying to denounce his adolescent ways. Saying, NO! I must be an adult and uphold my responsibilities, and he says um, I can't I have plans.

See, this is what life is. A series of options and choices. They may pull you into darkness or they may pull you into light. they may also pull you in to dark, seedy bars and raw bizarre punk shoots which threaten to destroy your credibility as an upstanding citizen or they shoot you through the muck and into infamy, stardom and a lifetime of more unusual choices and options.

Makes me wonder if I should've moved to NY when what's his face asked me to and I said to myself, "No, I can't. What about my Christmas bonus?"

Incidentally, CBGB's is getting ready to finally close its doors as the quintessential and historic punk rock slash rock and roll mecca.

downtime

Click here

ahhh...that..feels...good...

hot pants

More wittisims from my favorite website.

Queer: And, futhermore, we all know that the Devil does not wear Prada. He wears flame-retardant knock-offs from Target.


--Chelsea

Hi Mom

I know you're reading this as you seem to be electronically disconnected from life in North America while you galavant around the UK. It seems that the only connection you have been able to find is one to More Kisses Please, and thank god for that. If it weren't for the mysterious comments signed with M, and my intelligent level of speculation to confim that it isn't Madonna commenting, I would almost start to think that the UK had swallowed you up. If nothing else, I hope your shopping and drinking shite coffee while you navigate fried foods and bad manners. xoxox Jill

matriarchy, originally uploaded by smoooch.

victim vs.prey

I have tried to halt the carnage with a bell. Well that has helped curb her insatiable appetite by halting her affectiveness, it has not stopped the carnage of the very young and innocent. The newly birthed, unaware of the horrors stalking the yard, fall easy to prey when Ruby is out in the yard. It's sad really. The one on the left was rendered paralysed yet still conscious of her desire to 'play'. A little heart ponding away as I observed the trauma and documented it. I paused, pondered what I should do to end the little life. Do I just cut off the oxygen? Do I look for some sort of noxious substance to snuff out the little life? Or do I do what my Grandmother does on the farm and leave them in an open field as hawk food?

I can't believe I let that cat sleep on my bed sometimes.

Really.

big city apathy

You pretty much have to take your bike with you everywhere you go these days. Or lock it up with kryptonite. This video may be from NYC but it could pretty much happen anywhere.

Bike Thief

we have lived here 25 years

we have lived here 25 years, originally uploaded by smoooch.

"July 8 1970
This day we have lived here 25 years. From the day we moved into that leaky grainary with 2 small children. It was rough."

These are the writings of my grandfather, Edwin, made when he was still alive and building a life and a family on the farm. Small poignant jots of memories penciled into the planks of wood that made up the walls of the old garage.

You can see more of them here.

PHOOTS BOOB

Well however someone gets to More Kisses Please is fine with me. It's OK that if you google PHOOTS BOOB from Saudi Arabia and find my webpage, then all the power to you. It'd be nice if you stuck around longer than 3 seconds, but thanks for visiting anyway.

Othere non exciting ways you've found me..

Silk Hat Restaurant
Glue Making Tissue Paper Lanterns
Flickr Dyke March
Janis Joplin House Larkspur
How to Sew a Zipper

And that make Phoots Boob from Saudi Arabia my current favorite.

the funniest shit ever

Overheard in New York is the funnies website I know of.

And Added Some Strychnine To Her Birth Control Pills


Pharmacist: You should probably re-sign your card.
Woman: Why?
Pharmacist: Well, you signed over the magnetic strip. You're supposed to sign over the white part down here.
Woman: Then how would the machine read my signature? That doesn't make any sense.
Pharmacist: No, it's a magnetic strip. It reads the information, not the signature.
Woman: I don't think you know what you're talking about. That's not how the machines work. You're a pharmacist, not an electrician.

Then the pharmacist gave up.

--Zitomer, 76th & Madison

Overheard by: Helena

youth

me at 19 years

big clouds over the wheat field

big clouds over the wheat field, originally uploaded by Castanet.

I could only hope to catch something this beautiful. Wow. Click on it to go to Castanet's other photos!

Goldfish

Goldfish, originally uploaded by smoooch.

These 2 girls were great. No one was around and they had the time of their lives kicking and splashing in the fountain in front of City Hall in Edmonton. Complete and utter reckless adolescent abandon. I'm glad I captured the moment.

I spoke to them afterwards. They were so excited and energetic. They just asked that I called them 'Goldfish'

Goldfish, originally uploaded by smoooch.

If you look closely, the middle girl has www.morekissesplease.com written along the back of her hand. I hope she remembered.

Italia!

Italia!, originally uploaded by westcoast_frog.

Wish I could've been home to see the neighbourhood explode in joy. This photo is from a flickr group dedicated to The Drive by "Westcoast Frog". More of their shots can be seen here.

hot rain

from the heavens like
multicolored tulips raining down joy on the dirty
swamps of capitalism. spilling earth back
into this metropolis.

-John Rogers

Send me mail!!!

snailmail, originally uploaded by smoooch.

jill@morekissesplease.com

Cool

I almost forgot about this until my aunt Jane showed it to me today via Yarn Harlot. How great is it to be Canadian?

milk me, baby

milk me, baby, originally uploaded by smoooch.

wheat

wheat, originally uploaded by smoooch.

Prairie influenced. My life. My heart. My ashes will be scattered in a wheat field in Alberta one day. Left to blow and tangle with the stalks of gold. Flurry into swirls to rest inside the petals of the wild roses that grow in the ditches along the dirt roads of Alberta. I'll be home.

urban awed

You Cities


Alex is a startling creative expression. Almost everything I see is inspiring, uplifting, clever and intriguing. A wee drawing of his sits in my home, the result of an unexpected aquantenance

a holiday from hunting

IMG_2604, originally uploaded by Ben Frederick.

My own wee break from the jungle is quickly coming to an end. Only a few more days of freedom remains. 5 days to recupperate from getting sick a week ago and 5 more days of Alberta's dry hot weather and falling down barns.

Incidentally, this photo is not mine. Taken by Ben Quinn of Toronto, who happens to be one sharp shooter.

richer than you think

According to this website I am in the top 4.37% richest people in the world. They also made me wonder why the fuck do I feel so poor??

..Well if I could take my job and apartment and move to the middle of Africa, I probably would feel like I could afford Prada and long luxurious vacations in the south of France.

(Stolen from Charlotte)

good to be

Happy Canada Day.

How do you feel?

While on holiday.. I feel quite fine. I've been spending my days sleeping late, wandering around Edmonton, visiting old friends, making new ones, and leisurely surfing the net at a frien's house. All the while, staying as far away from anything work related as possible.

During one of my recent surfs, I found the most deliteful web page that is so extrodainarily interactive and humanizing. How we feel.. check it out.