I am still bothered by the existence of the KISS Coffeehouse.

I stood outside it and said, "This is completely bizarre." My father said, "Oh yeah, one of the KISS guys came down for the opening." And I said, "OK, that part makes sense, but the big picture is still batshit crazy."

I choked, I couldn't bring myself to go in, much less order a KISS Frappuccino.

I would expect leggy blondes or something?

Well leggy something.

http://www.kisscoffeehouse.com/a_ph-cons44-500.jpg

if this were in NYC, i'd swear that alex would be involved with this somehow.

once again, time to cry over alex in NYC's absence from ILX ;__;

my postmodernism detector just broke
in a fit of hissing smoke and sproinging springs

Alex in Myrtle Beach.

res ipsa loquitur:

http://www.kisscoffeehouse.com/ph-grand-145-700.jpg

Well leggy something
http://www.rutlemania.org/WB_graphics/Page2.jpg

This abomination was my the subject of my first story for Heckler Spray.

It's more just a surprise as a weird match-up than anything else. I mean they've pushed crass marketing to the limits pretty much since the beginning, but they just don't have the kind of vibe I associate with coffeehouses. It's a bit like having an Anthrax Day Spa or something.

I will open the Slayer convalescent home for sick kittens.

Alice Cooper Center for Policy Research

they just don't have the kind of vibe I associate with coffeehouses.

What about this?

http://www.kissonline.com/news/images/kasket/kasket.jpg

Wow those boots are big.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/welovethedark/208554638/in/set-72157594227017123/

Note that the person in this is wearing a Bauhaus t-shirt - see how far that KISS demographic stretchs?

It ain't that far of a stretch.

I also find this greatly disturbing. Gene Simmons is the living definition of douchebag.

Every time I see something like this, I just want to grab the KISS Army by the heels of their moon boots and go NOW do you feel like you've been had yet?

But no. They'll go on another farewell tour in '09 with Scott Borland dressed up like Ace or something, VH-1 will devote a month of programming to them and call it "Kissember" or something, and all these putzes who heard "Love Gun" when they were nine and decided to act upon that feeling for the next thirty years will fill Alltel Arena, snapping shots of the band with their Nokia 3109 KISS cellphones.

KISSpresso

Ace Buy Nine Coffees Get The Tenth One Frehley

Create your own facepainted band member in Electronic Arts' (R) The Gene Simsmons (TM)!

Peter Crissants

I Want to Rock and Roll All Night and Latte Every Day

I still find it hard to believe that they thought that incorporating the schutstaffel icon into their logo was a good idea.

Dear KISS Coffeehouse:

Please survive until the next time I am in Myrtle Beach (probably in another ten years). Then I will collect on my KISS Shot In The Dark.

What is this Myrtle Beach place anyway? And why haven't we got one in the UK?

you do, it's called Blackpool

I was gonna say, we have a ton of them.

I was in Myrtle Beach two weeks ago. Granted I was camping in the State Park and actively avoiding all the surrounding ridiculousness (apart from the gigantic minigolf courses), but now I wish I had seen this.

it totally makes sense that this is in Myrtle Beach

Nickalish, Did you go see Atalaya? That was interesting.