Mainstream snack chips that claim to be hot haven’t been genuinely hot for very long. Mind, I do enjoy the flavors. I love Golden Flake’s Hot potato chips, and I think jalapeno Cheetos are awesome. But there just hasn’t been any adrenaline. Doritos had a roulette gimmick a couple of years ago, in which each … Read more
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
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.