Thanks again to the Riverfront Times for presenting us with our second local "Web Award":
Nothing is sacred at Punching Kitty. Author Mike Flynn, a 2011 RFT Web Awards winner, calls the site The Daily Show, but for St. Louis. Flynn's witty and sarcastic view on St. Louis crime, politics and general happenings kept us laughing, post after post. Only someone with genuine St. Louis pride could know how to make fun of his city so well.Read more...
We because a semi-regular on KTRS' John Carney Show for a while in the summer of 2012, showing up to talk about what we covered, and a little of what we didn't, in the week in STL news.
We sat down with St. Louis Post Dispatch's Deb Peterson for a Q&A that ran in the Sunday paper.
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Mike Flynn, Punching Kitty
Three times daily, the blog Punching Kitty, run by Mike Flynn, points out the humorous, ironic, and just plain weird news of the day. Whether it's commenting on a meth bust, the latest gossip, or captioning a photo of Albert Pujols in his whitey-tighties, Flynn keeps us coming back, wondering what he's going to post next.
When allegations started surfacing that Rev. John Wieberg, who died in 1963, had molested children when he was a priest, the archdiocesan Review Board deemed the allegations as "credible."
This news got blogger Mike Flynn of punchingkitty.com typing: "[The allegations] better be credible, because getting your ass called out as a molester nearly 50 years after you died would suck butt (consenting adult butt of course) if you didn't really do any of that."
As you can probably tell, the 29-year-old blogger doesn't believe in sacred cows.
After winning our RFT Web Award, KMOV's morning show discussed the finer points of name and our infamous Virginia Kerr story.
Watch the video here
From the RFT:
Its post about KMOV-TV (Channel 4) morning news anchor Virginia Kerr tweeting her birth was one of the funniest reads of the year. Author Mike Flynn has a deliciously cynical sense of humor. He?s a truly prolific and creative blogger who does it all, amazingly, in his spare time.
Mike Flynn, creator of Punching Kitty.com, and Riverfront Times journalist Chad Garrison, of the Daily RFT, stop by Collateral Damage to update us on the latest news making the rounds in the STL blogosphere.
A follow up to our story Wednesday about a man who went into Crown Candy and consumed seven malts in less than 30 minutes.
The man told Andy Karandzieff, the co-owner of Crown Candy, that his name was Kevin Ross, of San Bernardino, California.
However, the blogosphere, specifically the website Punching Kitty, says that is not the case, and that's where this story takes a weirder turn; weirder than a man sucking down more than a gallon of liquid in a few minutes.
Our friends at Punching Kitty scored the food-news scoop of the week: A competitive eater who obliterated the famed malt challenge at St. Louis institution Crown Candy Kitchen is not who he claimed to be.
We swung by the KTRS studios to chat with John Brown and Trish Gazall on "The Mindset"
Punching Kitty is St. Louis' answer to Gawker, a kindred sprit in snarkiness, with a special affinity for media folly. Mike Flynn, a web developer for Announce Media, comes home from his day job to dish-up thrice-daily dispatches poking fun at local news -- and the characters who set the agenda.Read the full article on the RFT
