KISS soils its name with a fraudulent final tour

Thanks to a mounting pile of high-profile mistakes, it is now obvious and indisputable that Kiss has a lot of prerecorded help on the End of the Road tour. (They’re lip-syncing.) It’s far beyond backing rhythm tracks, or synth, or anything of the sort. They’re flat-out faking it. There are huge swaths of current Kiss … Read more

Granny and Papaw, 1946

These are my mother’s parents, enjoying each other in downtown Birmingham. The photo is not dated, but Papaw is home from the war, and Granny is not yet visibly pregnant with my mother. So this is 1946, or possibly late 1945.

Thursday miscellanea #493

We have one confirmed case of influenza at our house. He’s definitely sick, but the vaccine he got seems to moderating it. We’re Tamifluing him too. Fingers crossed for a quick recovery (and no more cases under my roof). I did not watch the State of the Union address. The last SOTU I can remember … Read more

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