Kiss “farewell”* tour ticket sales slow #EndoftheRoad

When I saw the Kiss reunion tour in 1996, online ticket sales weren’t a thing yet. You called on the telephone repeatedly until you got through, you took the operator’s assessment of “best seats available,” and that was it. That show sold out in less than an hour. When I saw the Kiss “farewell” tour … Read more

Thursday miscellanea #486

For a lot of my stint at Madison Books & Computers and Computers & More, the “486” was the hot computer. (As in Intel 80486 microprocessor.) I can remember one earnest-but-naïve salesman telling more than one customer “this should be enough to get you through the rest of the ’90s.” Roy Clark has died at … Read more

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