Friday evening, strong spring storms rampaged through North St. Louis, crippling Lambert Airport and sealing off the major St. Louis escape route. The brimstone should arrive by this Wednesday to take the rest of us out.

“The storm caused significant damage to the airport,” said St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay.

There were nine sightings of a possible tornado or tornadoes in St. Louis County. The KSDK camera showed extensive damage to residences and other structures near the airport.

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Yesterday morning, a trailer flipped over on Highway 70 at the Mid Rivers Mall exit in St. Peters, spilling it’s cargo of what the police think were bratwurst.

After the tractor-trailer exited off eastbound 70 onto north Mid Rivers Mall Drive this morning, it overturned, spilling some of its contents, which St. Peters police believe to be bratwurst.

So they aren’t sure if they were bratwurst, but they believe them to be bratwurst.

The Cardinals are making it kown that they have been working with Operation Food Search to pack up all un-eaten food and supply it to homeless shelters.

Jeramie Mitchell, the stadium’s Food and Beverage Director, says the Cardinals work with Operation Food Search. They pack any quality food in coolers, and the organization picks it up the next day.

Operation Food Search is a St. Louis organization that distributes food to homeless shelters and others in need. Last season, the Cardinals donated $100,000 worth of food.

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The Pointer’s Pizza Pointersaurus challenge has been tried many times, probably because it sounds a lot easier when you aren’t staring at that football field of a pizza. Here are the rules:

The contest costs $50 and is a 28″ Pointersaurus pizza which weighs ten pounds.  Two people are allowed one hour to eat the pizza with either two meat toppings or four vegetable toppings.  You must make a reservation at least one day in advance and the contest is only done at 3 PM each day.  If contestants finish the pizza they are refunded their money and given a check for $500.  Call 314-644-2000 to make a reservation.  You get complimentary soda or water during the challenge.  You must keep the pizza down for the entire hour.  After the hour is up you may do whatever you or your stomach may wish to do with the pizza.  As of January of 2009 there have been seventeen winners of the contest.

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Last weekend Food Network was in town to shoot a segment for the show “The Best Thing I Ever Ate” and it shot a little deal about the toasted ravioli, the reigning king of “St. Louis foods”, at Charlie Gitto’s on The Hill.

The crew was asked if they wanted to go out to St. Charles County to sample their best local flavors, but apparently Applebee’s hanging a Francis Howell jersey on the wall doesn’t mean you have any local claim to the Quesadilla Burger and it’s ability to “Take your taste buds for a Southwest joyride.”

We know what you’re thinking: Photos of Kirstie Alley jogging aren’t relatable to you…but wait! Look again. True enough, that’s a large amount of spandex wrapped around a huge immovable object, but it’s actually a house, not Kirstie Alley. Seriously. Keep looking…try squinting a little…the trick is to look through the picture. There you go! See? House. We know, it’s tough.

The house is on the corner of Arsenal and Iowa in South City and is indeed wrapped in white, gold chain-patterned, spandex. Why? It’s art or something…probably about the struggle of man or women’s oppression…or hell, maybe it’s the only way they can keep thugs from stealing the bricks off this house! Either way, when we drove by it yesterday, we just had to pull over for some photos:

So far St. Louis has had Jersey Shore’s The Situation visit downtown herpes petri dish F15teen, we’ve been taken over by New Jersey on South Park and at some point Paulie D played music in town while wearing headphones…but only one ear pressed in to them so he looks like a cool DJ and doesn’t hurt his hair, so the fact that Snooki is now coming to town along with WWE’s Raw next week is of little surprise.

Justin Bess is a drummer for local metal band Aegaeon, which we think is pronounced “never-heard-of-you”, but we love this video of Bess killing it on the drums.

Check out Aegaeon’s band page for more videos, a distinct lack of Bess as their drummer, and photos of them looking like they’re unhappy someone is taking their photo. Standing still for a second is so not metal.

Update: Here are their more updated Facebook and Twitter pages (the photo thing still applies in both cases).

Mardi Gras is upon us, but that’s especially true for the fine residents of Soulard who enjoy the often repeated pleasure of “Dude! You can just get wasted and walk back home!” …but alas, they also have to look at the invading drunken hoards for an entire weekend, and lets face it, some are better to look at than others. Ok, lets really face it: Some of ya’ll are gross. It’s ok though! We’re here to help with…

It may have looked like Halloween came really early in Park Hills, Missouri Saturday, but it wasn’t, just a bunch of racist dudes in little ghost costumes. For whatever reason Saturday was the day the local KKK decided to get the word out about their organization! …there also may have been a bake sale. None of those “black and white” cookies…just white ones. We’re also guessing a churro was hard to come by.