Gene Simmons is officially the competition

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The news that Gene Simmons is starting a marketing company with actual clients really makes us want to indulge in puns about kissing up. But we’ll refrain. And it doesn’t look like he’ll be particularly good at sucking up anyway. In an interview in Forbes.com (free registration required), the Kiss frontman, asked how he got his first client, the Indy Racing League, said he told them their logo “sucked.”

—Posted by Catharine P. Taylor

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