We’ve related Chat Roulette, the (in)famous site where you video chat with someone randomly, to our local area before when someone figured a way to grab screenshots of people and post them according to their geographic location. That was fun, but we wanted Chat Roulette to do the real thing: Make “local” channels to find random chat buddies.

Recently they did just that. (Here’s the TechCrunch article about the new local channels)

…and we had to try it out. The video before is the screencast of our experience on the Missouri Chat Roulette channel. There weren’t many people in there, but even still I had no problem finding some oddballs. The video, embedded below, is slightly NSFW, but not really since we skillfully edited out anything that wouldn’t be good for your virgin little girl eyes.

In summary, its just like the regular Chat Roulette, but with less people. Same amount of dicks though.

You can make your own “adventure” on the new Missouri Chat Roulette channel (us-mo.chatroulette.com).

Punching Kitty? …on MySpace? No sir. Not us. Never.

…but yet, here we are…kinda…not really…

Punching Kitty?! This kid is Punching Kitty? Lets take a closer look:

I would like to think we would have more friends and comments if this was really us.  In fact, this is the part where our heart goes from a little piece of coal to a big giant hart that breaks through the magnifying box…we should hook this kid up! Anyone still have a MySpace account? Yes you do. If you don’t use any more, that’s even better! Go on there one last time and add this kid as your friend! Leave a comment!

Lets hook our little Andy Milonakis-looking doppleganger up something huge! http://www.myspace.com/405208140

We’ll check in on your progress later.

OMG! Kurt Warner iz such a gr8 writer. Hs prose jst sEm 2 croS boundaries. LOL. JK. IDK. wutevA.

Here’s some examples:

Anybody out there no where my IPAD is? Bec, of the 8ppl in this house, of corse no 1 has seen it or played w it all day! Must b my imposter! #

Drove past car w/ sticker “boobs r power”, my life suddenly started 2 make sense & y I have always felt powerless! Darn it! #

At a bakery waiting 4 dinner & all the sweets r tellin me 2 take them home 4 late-nite snack! Should I cheat on my cereal? #

Brain damage is a serious problem in the NFL…clearly.

More @ Kurt’s Twitter page

The Mizzou wide-reciever that had a career year in 2009 but was left undrafted last April has found another way to entertain us all that doesn’t involve touchdowns: Insane ramblings on his Twitter stream.

This is way better than watching a Mizzou game. Here are a few examples:

Hmm. Begging for line-sitters is something that NFL players can pull off maybe…

See this is brilliant. Danario has found a way to make the label “Twitter Follower” more demeaning by incorporating the term “bitches” in there.

That’s what she said.

Apparently this was Mr. Alexander’s first trip to South County.

Sounds about right at this point.

Found this fun little time-lapse video Sean Trani took while driving in to St. Louis a while back, for your Friday enjoyment as you watch the clock ticking…ticking… Can you believe it’s already 4pm?!

Nah. We’re joking. It’s only 2.

If you go poop for an hour it will be 3 when you get out though. Just a thought.

So that’s cool and all that you want go out and drive around pretending to be Bill Paxton or Helen Hunt from Twister KMOV weather people, but you’re annoying your Twitter followers that really just want the weather. They didn’t sign up for…

They signed up for:

Going to be rainy today. Bring a jacket.

They really don’t care that…

They just care if the ball game is going to be rained out.

…and lastly, they could care less about…

…wait. Nevermind. Kinda want to see where this goes now.

We’ve been hot and heavy, so to speak, with the story about locally based erotic blog The Beautiful Kind’s sudden disappearance from the interwebs. In our last post, that featured the back story and a message from “TBK” herself to our readers, we closed with the following open questions:

Once again we wish TBK the best going forward and although it’s probably hard for her to look to the future right now, we are left wondering:

Will the blog be back? Is the interest and drive still there?

Today we got our answer.

According to the video posted on The Beautiful Kind.com entitled “The Beautiful Kind Issues a Statement” (embedded below) the site will return on May 17th, less than a week from today.

No other details have been included, but we would assume that TBK will continue to be known publicly by only her nom de plume and stick with the whole anonymous thing, such as it was.

We couldn’t be happier that TBK is getting back to “business” and we look forward to the follow up post on people peeing in each others butts.

Word is out that Major League Baseball has told their employed beat writers, who write for the MLB.com sub-sites for each time, must refrain from “tweeting” about anything other than baseball from here on out. These new restrictions hit home for local stlcardinals.com writer Matt Leach who’s widely followed Twitter account gets lots of use throughout the day.

Aaron Gleeman reporting for NBCsports.com

Multiple sources have confirmed to me that Major League Baseball is cracking down on Twitter usage, ordering MLB.com writers to cease tweeting about all non-baseball topics and scolding players for their Twitter usage in general.

I’m told a big part of the policy change is due to MLB not wanting non-baseball tweets showing up on the MLB.com Twitter feed/aggregator, but banning every writer from non-baseball talk because of that is like killing a fly with a sledgehammer.

In fact, after examining Leach’s twitter activity,  it appears that this mandate may have gone out on April 27th. Not only is that the last appearance of a “non-baseball tweet“, it was immediately followed by this:

Directing people to a new, and locked, Twitter account.

This is so dumb. God forbid the public like a beat writer for anything other than baseball, which they all talk about lots anyway because their freaking beat writers!

I love baseball, but the people in charge make some amazingly short-sighted decisions (Hello MLB.com video blackouts!) far too often.

Punching Kitty has learned that the renown, St. Louis based, erotic blogger The Beautiful Kind, whose site mysteriously vanished a few days ago, has broken her silence with a post on aagblog.com (NSFW ads and photos). The whole post is well-written and worth reading when you get the chance, but we have the upshot for you below.

Yes, as we suspected. Her identity was uncovered and she was fired. Damn you Google and your amazing fact finding ability!

I went into the office dressed in my usual conservative garb of long sleeve shirt, long skirt, hair in bun, glasses and no makeup. I didn’t even get a chance to sit down. My boss immediately told me she needed to talk to me in private. The moment she said that, I prickled with horror. I feared this moment, couldn’t imagine it, and now, here it was. I knew my Clark Kent gig was up.

We sat down and she blurted angrily, “I need to let you go. Corporate office suggested I google employees. I typed in your name and it took me two seconds to find your website. How COULD you put that stuff out there? What were you thinking?! I feel like I’m talking to a 14 year old! We’re DONE.”

…

I did feel for her – if she was looking for any dirt on me, I doubt she was prepared for the raw dog filth I spewed.

But that filth is my private life and had nothing to do with my work performance. That filth was wrapped in inspiration and education. That filth helped so many people. In all that filth, there is something beautiful to behold.

She’s handling this wonderfully and we complete agree she should not feel like she did anything wrong, but seriously, fuck that. This kind of stuff really annoys us, as it obviously hits close to home.

We also got a response from TBK exclusively for Punching Kitty about the whole ordeal:

It’s much harder to be a sex blogger in the Midwest than it is on the West and East coasts. I don’t know of anyone else like me in town. I wish I did – I could use a support group. My friends in San Fran are outraged – they say this would not be an issue where they live and that I should relocate. It sure is a different world there – hell, they have more than two genders. My friends in town want me to stay put – they insist I am needed here. I think they’re just saying that because I have all my teeth. Just kidding.

No, the teeth thing is a big deal out there.  Cute chicks that put out are too.

Once again we wish TBK the best going forward and although it’s probably hard for her to look to the future right now, we are left wondering:

Will the blog be back? Is the interest and drive still there?

If so, will she continue to be anonymous, or as anonymous as possible?

Looking back, are their any posts she regrets? …was she too loose with her identity?

Interesting, but sad topics to think about. Right now though, it seems much more about getting life back together…blogs come a little farther down the road.

The acclaimed, anonymous, and St. Louis based erotic blog The Beautiful Kind really felt like it was just starting to take off. Much like this very blog, it was included in the recent list of favorite blogs by the Riverfront Times and we kept hearing more and more people naming themselves as readers to the constantly updated titillating stories of threesomes, butt-sex [Editor's Note: Is butt-sex hyphenated?] and partner swapping.

It seems that its rise might have lead to its undoing.

Yesterday two particular messages from The Beautiful Kind’s Twitter account caught our eye.  The first came at around 9am Tuesday morning:

“Something very bad just happened.”

The next at roughly 10am read:

“I’m very sorry and sad.”

We would have had screenshots of the tweets, but in the middle of writing this post, The Beautiful Kind’s twitter account was removed moved to @TBK365. It wasn’t the first page associated with the site to vanish yesterday.

Though we aren’t sure of the time of the change, some time yesterday thebeautifulkind.com was removed along with all of its content and replaced with a message from “TBK’s web guru” admitting that “the site will remain closed until further notice.”

As far as the reason why, I feel I’m not at liberty to describe current circumstances involving TBK’s private life and I would ask that you respect her privacy at this time.

We’ll spare you the majority of the “guru’s” ruminations on the internet and personal privacy, but it sure seems like the cover of St. Louis’ preeminent sex blogger was blown.

But the ultimate question is this: despite whatever information may be unveiled about someone’s personal life, would that suddenly alter their ability to be a quality person to us? Perhaps in a very real way, the only wrongdoing that we might accuse others of lies only within our own imagination.

We have met The Beautiful Kind’s author before (and sworn to secrecy!) and thought she was great…and not just because she’s a Punching Kitty fan, but that didn’t hurt. As we at Punching Kitty know all too well, your blog getting you in trouble at work isn’t fun, so we hope our best guess is wrong, but it sure seems like someone found out enough to make The Beautiful Kind rather uncomfortable, which if you read the site, is pretty damn rare.

Emails to The Beautiful Kind have so far been unanswered.

We’ll keep you posted if we find out any thing further.