Here's what we need: it’s those photos where two people are kissing a third person in between them. You’ve seen them, right? The pose three friends often fall into, where there’s a person in the center being kissed on either cheek? We need more of those.
In fact, what we need is one of those photos for every man, woman, and child the world over. That’s my suggestion, as far as world peace is concerned. I think if everyone had a photo of themselves like that, with a person kissing either cheek, it would do a lot for their self-esteem. It would make them feel loved. It would keep them from doing bad things, like shooting at moving cars from a highway overpass, or implying that someone is of a loose moral character when in conversation with friends and acquaintances.
What we need is a van to go from town to town throughout the world with a photographer who can take those pictures. Someone with a nice camera, maybe something digital, and a high quality printer in the van that is somehow run on solar power, or from the van’s battery. It would be better, I think, if it had some sort of solar component, just as long as the photographer didn’t make some sort of big deal about how environmentally sound they are. No one needs to be lectured to all the time. They just need to be kissed on either cheek, and they need a photo of that kiss.
They need to carry it with them, or have it in their cubicle.
They need that.
I'm going to get right on that. So, you know.
All together now.
No time to blog.
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This is a good story idea. Make the narrator the driver and the photographer. He loses the battery-charger for his digital camera, and gets lost looking for a mall with a Radio Shack. Then his van breaks down in a nice suburb. He knocks on the door of the home of a little old man who invites him in, shows him pictures of his grandchildren, and asks how much he would charge to prune his hedge.
This story has been done before many times, but the driver/photographer narrator would refresh it. We don’t mind hearing the same stories over and over as long the occasional driver/photographer is thrown in.
i hope you know that what you propose is impossible. the directions to my place though, for while you might believe it possible are as follows: left, right, up, post-it, snowball, look at behind you for the man who looks like the man who couldn't blog except his eyeballs are big like pencil tips and his hands are made of wollen tacos. you should do the picture of me first.
i sometimes feel like the person in the middle when two people are reading my blog at the same time. it doesn't happen often, but it might be an incentive for you to try just a little bit harder to blog.
call me crazy (or, more to the point, feminist, though I don't think I am), but I have often wondered why you don't normally see men resting their heads on women's shoulders.
The image of a person being kissed on both cheeks reminded me of this personal conundrum of mine. I suppose it's just because women are usually shorter than men. And men are less prone to require cuddling
Is this just some kind of lesbian fantasy?! ;)
kiss 1
kiss 2
kiss 3
kiss 4
kiss 5
kiss 6
kiss 7
kiss 8
kiss 9
kiss 10
...
Thanks for the search, Anonymous.
No problemo.
I did feel a little ill looking through all those pics of people kissing, however.
Maybe there's something wrong with me.
Or maybe I just need one of those photos taken with me in the middle.
an excellent idea.. maybe supermodel pageant contestants could use it to substantiate their wishes for world peace :)
Some of the pictures linked by anonymous were clearly emotional power struggles for the kissee's affection.
I think the caveat needs to be added that they be kisses of friendship.
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