STLMedia is passing on a rumor from their anonymous tip line that KMOV she-anchors Vickie Newton and Jasmine Huda are involved in a brewing mess that one can only hope ends up in a Dynasty-level brawl with a 40% clothes-ripping-off-and-a-boob-popping-out chance.

Says the STLMedia source:

Jasmine Huda to anchor the 6 at KMOV, Vicki Newton is furious and had a fit in the middle of the newsroom. The tension between the two has been fun to watch.

…and that’s when Larry Conners makes his move pushing in that baby pool filled with chocolate pudding. They said “Larry, why do you always have so much chocolate pudding mix in your office?”, “When are you ever going to eat that pudding Larry?”, “Come on Larry, take that inflatable baby pool home. You got that thing like 10 years ago.” but they were all fools…fools! Larry Conners: 1, Everyone Else: 0

You know how sometimes news people will put a question mark at the end of their headlines or, even more commonly, the TV news anchors will do the higher voice thing at the end of stuff before going to the break: “Are there too many fat people in St. Louis?!”, “People find Randy Naughton informative?!”

This headline is just like those. The answer to the “question” we posed to ourselves is: Yes. Kurt Greenbaum is moving on from his post at STLToday.com

Greenbaum, you may remember, was the guy that looked up a commenter’s IP address, used that personal information to track down and call his employer, thus getting the guy fired and then promptly bragging about it on his blog. Totally made his feel awesome, right up until the time the internet reached down its collective hand, grabbed Greenbaum, chewed him up, spit him out and then took a fat dump on him.

You forgot?! Read!

The Post Dispatch’s “Social Media Guy” Tattles on Naughty Commenter, Craps on Privacy Policy

The Internet Hate Machine Turns On Kurt Greenbaum

We Talk With the Man Behind KurtGreenbaumIsAPussy.com

Kurt Greenbaum 29th Most Search Google Term

Checking in on the Kurt Greenbaum Saga

Greenbaum Returns! STLToday’s Comments Under Hilarious Attack

Greenbaum to Giving Tips About How to Handle New Media?!

Kurt Greenbaum Thinks He Did Nothing Wrong (with video)

…we liked that subject.

After going in to hiding for a while and returning, although quietly, at the start of this year, Greenbaum is leaving the STLToday.com site he “ran” and the parent newspaper St. Louis Post Dispatch to be an editor on Patch.com (which one could also infer that Patch is coming to St. Louis).

The obvious joke here is to never comment anything even remotely edgy on Patch.com now that Greenbaum rolling in, but come on, we’re a little more original than that here.

…

Actually, in all seriousness, we would avoid commenting on Patch.com just to be safe.Image from KurtGreenbaumIsAPussy.com

Which street that you regularly cross do you find most difficult?

• Forest Park Parkway
• Tucker
• Washington
• Grand
• Euclid
• Kingshighway
• Oakland
• Chesnut
• 11th
• Market
• Southwest
• Macausland
• Arsenal
• Manchester

No, thats the not list of every major street in the city of St. Louis, thats the list we pulled from the complaints.

So…

Your best bet in St. Louis is either to never leave your house, or get your poor ass a car.

Such a lovely city.

Its Friday and that means we are going to interview someone random.  Who’s up next?  Terry Blastenbrei of course!  Let me tell you a little something about this dude.  He has a blog, he’s on Twitter, he’s a musician, and he wants you to hire him.  I think he’s thinking along the lines of administrative and clerical work, but I heard he’ll do other stuff too like massages and for enough money, he’ll kill someone for you.  …that’s just what I heard.

Lets talk to him shall we?

Punching Kitty:Are you Pro-Smoking band or are you a dirty smoker that won’t rest until you blow smoke in every baby’s face and leave your butts in my food?

The old 2-pack-a-day smoker that I used to be would put cigarettes out on your forehead…I’m older and wiser now.  I’m for the ban.  Smoking is a dirty, disgusting habit that is dangerous to anyone around you.  Seriously, it’s not that hard to go outside for a few minutes and light one up.

PK:How about this weather we’ve been having?  (This is what Leno does…I’m setting him up for a hilarious joke!)

I love it…feels like fall should feel.  I like rain, but it can be so depressing…I thought we were in Bangladesh there for a minute.

PK:What’s the biggest thing you’ve ever had in your mouth?

A boob…a really big boob.  What can I say?  I love the boobies!

PK: Not very gender specific there Terry…

PK:Virginia Kerr or April Simpson?

Oh wow, April Simpson is so pretty.  And I saw that picture you posted earlier this week…me-OWWWW!

PK:Name the best street in St. Louis!  Why?

The entire length of Grand…if you really want to see what St. Louis is about–the good and bad–start at Hall St. and make your way south to Carondelet Park.  It’s got everything!

PK:If you and me and 4 other random dudes, one of them being a homeless guy with a festering knee, played the Rams, what do you think the final score would be?

27-10 us.  We could gather the kids in my neighborhood to play them and the kids would win.

PK:If you had to watch one local news broadcast, which would it be: KMOV, KSDK, KTVI/KPLR?

Well, I tend to watch KTVI because I watch Judge Judy in the afternoon.

PK: Awesome Terry, and how long have you been a 75 year old Jewish woman?  Nevermind.

PK:You don’t really watch the local news though right?

Sadly, I do occasionally.  And this example is why I shouldn’t:  I was watching the beginning of KMOV’s 10pm news last night (Wed.), and Erica Byfield is on at the beginning of the news talking about a problem with identity theft.  And she was getting WAY too excited about the story.  I know it’s sweeps and all, but calm the hell down!

PK:What’s the most annoying girl name?

Misty…that’s straight out of Lemay.  Or Autumn.  I have a friend that has 6 kids, and all of them have “new age” names. That’s cool if you like that sort of thing, but I’m like, “What the hell?!”

PK: Great answer!

PK: Make up a question, ask it to yourself, then answer it!

If you needed help cleaning up your office files or making things run more smoothly, but you didn’t want to hire a temp from an agency, what would you do?

Well, of course I’d hire Terry Blastenbrei!  That dude is smart, hard-working, efficient, inexpensive…and boy does he have a great sense of humor!

Terry closed it out with a shameless plug.  We’d make fun of him for that, but we would have done the same thing.

Time for another random interview!  Today’s subject? One @SandyShores What?  Oh, that’s her Twitter name.  I thought it was odd at first too that someone would name their child something that started with @, but I figured it was just foreign like that Russian O with a line through it.  Then a “social media expert” told me it was a Twitter thing.  I tried to get more information from him, but he started to walk off and I was like “Oh you have to get to work?” and he said “Work?!  I’m a social media expert.  Its just what you call telemarketers online.”  So that solves that mystery.

Anyways…

Punching Kitty: Who are you?

I am a workaholic who somehow finds time to do 10,000+ tweets in 18 months; a short gal with more hair than should be allowed for someone my size; a grammar nazi.

PK: What do you do?

I am in sales.  Yup- a sales whore.  We also own a pizza pace- which makes question #4 a no-brainer for me!

PK: How’s it going?

Chillin’ like a villian.  My life kicks ass.  Great friends.  Good job.  My family is healthy.  And I have a great man who loves me.  What else could a gal want??

PK: Best non-national-chain pizza not named Imo’s in St. Louis?

Papa Murphy’s Take N Bake Pizza in Wildwood.  (Shamelsss self-promotion, but accurate!)

PK: You think the Rams will win a game this year or do you not even care?

I’m from LA and the Rams were the LA reject team.  Are we gonna get the Clippers next?  So yeah- my answer?  Don’t care.

PK: What’s the worst thing about St. Louis?

The humidity kills my dad’s sinuses.  That’s the only thing preventing him from moving back here.  Being a total daddy’s girl, I want my dad here.  Thus- I’d like to get rid of the humidity and make that possible.

PK: Who is the biggest St. Louis celeb have you met? What’s the story?

Ozzie Smith.  The story?  It’s an embarassing one.  When I first moved here in 1992 from Santa Barbara, I turned on the radio (KSD, classic rock) and heard that Ozzy was going to be at Keiner Plaza.  I found my way downtown expecting to see Ozzy and instead saw a bunch of Cardinals fans.  Where was Ozzy??  I asked about 100 people where Ozzy was.  Finally a guy taps me on the shoulder and says, “I’m Ozzie”.  I looked at him and said “bullshit” because he was obviously NOT Ozzy.  Apparently there was a famous guy here named Ozzie…not Ozzy.

PK: What’s the most annoying guy first name?

Rush.  Tied with Phil (as in Dr Phil)

PK: The correct answer there was Keith.  Keith.  Close though.

PK: Think of your own question, ask it to yourself and then answer it.

What’s the square root of 111707?  334.226

Our thanks to this week’s victim, and of course if you would like to be a random interview, drop us a line at editor@punchingkitty.com or even @punchingkitty to Twitter.

• The Moonrise Hotel is great for the Loop, but horrible for Delmar. The street just can’t handle it.  If one person heading east wants to turn in to the Moonrise it backs up traffic all the way through the Loop.
• The Cardinals aren’t going to re-sign Matt Holliday.  Deal with it.
• Batman couldn’t really get around very well in St. Louis in his usual rooftop style.  There are too many breaks in the buildings.
• There are too many Thai restaurants in the Loop.  Please eliminate three.
• Dear 101 ESPN, you aren’t “the all new” anything any more.  Please knock that crap off and spend the money for new bumpers.

We are starting a little thing here on Punching Kitty: The Random Interview!  Do I really have to explain it?  Ok, fine.  Its a interview with a random person.

We got some response on Twitter when we asked for anyone that wanted to be interviewed, and this was the first response we got back!  More of these are coming since 1. its a cool spotlight on people and 2. its one less post idea I have to come up with when its a slow news day!  Everyone wins!

If you want to be interviewed randomly, shoot a request over to editor@punchingkitty.com and we’ll fill your (in)box with some hot custom question goodness and you’ll be all like “Hell yeah!” …unless you are a dude, then you will probably be like “What the hell man?”  and I’ll be like “Shit, sorry.” …or  you won’t, and that’s ok too.

On with today’s interview!

Punching Kitty: Who are you?

Jason Robinson, lead singer of StL rock band The Orbz, graphic
designer extraordinaire, soon-to-be father of boy/girl twins and
part-time KMOX producer

PK: What do you do?

In the words of Richard Stevens, “I’m a Rocker. I Rock Out” — Really,
I produce live radio and go to school. The rocking is a sometimes
thing.

PK: How’s it going?

Very well. In the past year, I’ve bought a house with my lovely wife,
made some sweet babies, put out my first album with The Orbz, (“Stop!
The Reporters Will See – available on iTunes, Amazon and at live shows
including our next on 11/13 at Lemmons’ /plug) played some amazing
rock shows – including An Under Cover Weekend, where I got to pretend
to be Frank Black all night (we did The Pixies!)

PK: Favorite place in St. Louis

I am quite fond of The Way Out Club’s bar, the firepit at The Royale
and the big stacks of awesome at Star Clipper. (so it’s a three-way
tie)

PK: This morning I was driving to work through the city stuck behind this
douche that waited for every damn light to turn red! Took me forever to get
to work! So lame. I mean, thats fine if you aren’t trying to get anywhere
but damn, get the hell out of the way. As you can see I’m still totally
pissed about it. What’s your favorite color and why?

People are so scared about getting ticketed by those red light
cameras. Got a ticket for $100 the other day. Sucks.

My favorite color is black, because it goes with everything and looks
awesome on me.

PK: The whole Mark McGwire coming back to the Cardinals thing. You care at
all about that?

If he can get us to the NLC or the World Series, sure. But if he can’t
do that, so what?

PK: What are you going to be this halloween? (If you aren’t going out, what
would you be?)

This is totally hypothetical, since I’m working the Blues game on
Saturday, but I always like the idea of a couple’s costume, so I was
gonna go with Superman/Wonderwoman. But then my wife got pregnant.
With boy/girl twins. So, The Skywalker family, naturally. Pre-Darth
Vader Anakin, Padme, Luke and Leia. Yes, I am a huge nerd. My wife is
going to actually go as “the Great Pumpkin” from the Charlie Brown
Halloween special. It’s good to know she’s a huge nerd, too.

PK: What’s the best costume for girls?

I don’t really know. My girl isn’t born yet, but I can say I hate the
“sexy_____” costumes. Blah. Funny? Sarah Palin! Serious? Sally from
Nightmare Before Christmas

PK: Don’t think about it! Best album ever?! Go!

You don’t know the kind of pain this question causes… Top of my
head, because it’s been in steady rotation lately, Elvis Costello’s
“This Year’s Model” — the dude went from country to inventing new
wave in one album. Amazing.

PK: Think of your own question, ask it to yourself and then answer it.

Q: Best Concert in the ‘Lou You’ve Been to?
A: Moby – outside OZ Nightclub. It was August, shortly before my
birthday. I was very moved by the music.

Thanks Jason for popping our Random Interview cherry!

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