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Chris Files Weighs in on the Kurt Greenbaum Story


Posted by The Editor on 22 Nov 2009 /


Public Dis-service Announcement style…

Well done.


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Not Quite a Retraction. More of an Addition.


Posted by The Editor on 15 Sep 2009 /


Yesterday, when talking about Chris File appearing in the Up in the Air trailer, we said this, emphasis mine:

Is that Chris Files, host of The Toast which is the diamond in the rough that is ToastedRav.com, in the new Up in the Air trailer walking behind star George Clooney?

We forgot to mention that Chris isn’t the only diamond in the rough!  He has a buddy left in those charred remains of a media experiment: Their movie critic Roger Qbert!  We love his movie ripping articles!

You know, come to think of it…maybe we could use a movie critic here at PK….


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Chris Files Walks Behind George Clooney


Posted by The Editor on 14 Sep 2009 /


Is that Chris Files, host of The Toast which is the diamond in the rough that is ToastedRav.com, in the new Up in the Air trailer walking behind star George Clooney?

It sure is!

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Things are looking good for Files to make it in to the final cut of the movie when it drops November 13th which is pretty cool…I’m sure it wasn’t as much of a thrill as it was working with me doing Don’t Puke videos, but still, pretty exciting.


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Fox 2 Redesigns Their Website to Match the Rest of the St. Louis’ Websites


Posted by The Editor on 23 Jan 2009 /


The recently redesigned and relaunched website for St. Louis’ Fox affiliate on channel 2 just went live with a new domain: fox2now.com.  Abandoning the fairly recent Fox-wide “MyFox[insert city abbreviation].com” push already is a bit of a mystery to most, but the issue is fairly clear after a quick twitter search:

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Even less of a mystery is what the “in” style for the front page of St. Louis big media websites.  There’s no doubt “Big Photo on Left with Recent Stories on Right with Ads Even Farther Right” is the new “side ponytail with leg warmers and fingerless lace gloves” in the STL media scene.  I’m just glad Fox decided to join the rest of them at the cool kids table:

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I’m not going to “review” it now for many reasons, #1 of which is “Who gives a shit?” but I will drop this on you…Why for fucks sake why do some web people cling to “www”?!  The new Fox site even goes as far as to add it when you just type in “fox2now.com!”  The www is antiquated and just leads to confusion when you start to introduce subdomains like “foobar.fox2now.com”  Don’t believe me?  Ask your mom to go to “foobar.fox2now.com” and see if she tries to put the damn “www” before it, which won’t work.

Ok, enough geek talk.  What do you think?