Mark St. John, former lead guitarist for Kiss, died Thursday morning of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was 51. He played on Animalize, where I loved what he did with “Get All You Can Take,” and he appeared in the video for “Heaven’s On Fire.” He played three shows on the Animalize tour before Reiter’s syndrome … Read more
I come by my love of gadgets and toys honestly, because my grandfather was a total junkie for such. When my grandmother died four years ago, one of the things we found in her stuff was this calculator that belonged to him. Meet the Kosmos I: the state of the art in analyzing your biorhythms … Read more
1. Once I saw Telly Savalas guesting on some non-Kojak show. He did this bit where he could shake a cigarette from the pack in his shirt pocket, and then toss it from there into his mouth. Oh, wow. This was brute force cool. He did it in the middle of a conversation and while … Read more