Suburban Journals Columnist Says St. Louis County Has Bad Teeth?!

 Posted on October 26, 2010  |  The Editor

Oh no you didn’t Steve Pokin of the Suburban Journals’ “Pokin Around” column! (Ah! We see what you did there with your name being “Pokin” and all. Clever) Dude straight said St. Charles County has better teeth than those on the right side of the Missouri River. Oh wait. First he calls us bullies! I don’t think I’m being oversensitive when I say a lot of people in St. Louis like to make fun of us. [Read More]
steve pokin  suburban journals  teeth  weird 

5 Things That Are More Popular on Facebook Than Mayor Slay and One That Isn’t

 Posted on October 22, 2010  |  The Editor

Everything is on Facebook. Everything. Because of that little fact, its a great way to spend your Thursday night, going through things to see how popular they are based on their number of “Likes”. For instance, we found St. Louis’ Mayor, Francis Slay‘s page rocking a pretty damn low 35 “likes”: 35! You know what has more than 35 likes? Sure you can name a bunch of popular people that have way more than 35 likes. [Read More]
facebook  likes  mayor slay  social media 

KMOX.com Has the Best Story Suggestions

 Posted on October 20, 2010  |  The Editor

You know it really sounds like the best way to “suggest” new articles to a reader is pull the keywords from a headline and then search your back stories. Simple! Example: “Man Gives Out Puppies to Poor Kids” Find the keywords: “Man Gives Out Puppies to Poor Kids“ Go get some other fun stories about puppies and kids. Everyone wins! Turns out not so simple as our tipster found out: [Read More]
kmox 

KMOV’s Virginia Kerr Had Her Baby, Told Twitter ALL About It

 Posted on October 15, 2010  |  The Editor

The great thing about Twitter is that if you ever want to know how dilated your local morning news anchor’s sniz is while she’s going through labor, you can know. We live in the future. Where’s our god-dammed hoverboard?! Starting with: “This [sic] it! I’m in labor, people!” KMOV morning anchor and resident cutie, Virginia Kerr started the process of labor and a steady stream of tweets up until a few moments before she pooped out her baby boy. [Read More]
baby  kmov  virginia kerr 

Update on The Beautiful Kind’s Coming Out Party

 Posted on October 14, 2010  |  The Editor

We had a tip slip by us when we had already written our original story on The Beautiful Kind’s announcement, but it’s worth of an update. Our friends at the Riverfront Times have released an in-depth story with lots of interesting childhood details that’s worth reading — NSFW: The St. Louis mom behind sex blog the Beautiful Kind is outing herself Go for the story, stay for the classy photos of her dildo collection. [Read More]
kfns  riverfront times  sextastic  the beautiful kind 

JC Corcoran Joins KTRS, Bumps Charles Jaco

 Posted on October 7, 2010  |  The Editor

After a year of being off the St. Louis airwaves, friend-of-the-site J.C. Corcoran, is returning to local radio. KTRS, in the midst of a major overhaul after losing the Cardinals, has hired Corcoran to fill the mid-day 10a-1p slot. John Brown‘s show the Mindset (which we were a guest on earlier this year) has been moved back to a 1p – 3p slot. But what of Charles Jaco? KTVI reporter, writer of accusatory emails and current KTRS radio host? [Read More]
charles jaco  jc corcoran  john brown  ktrs  radio 

Blogger Startled by Shockingly Boring Headline

 Posted on October 4, 2010  |  The Editor

“Woman Startled by Person Outside Her Window“ Real headline from KMOV. While we keep looking for “Woman Burns Hand on Hot Plate After Waiter Told Her It Was Hot” you check out Mr. Block Quote: Belleville Police were called to the 500 block of North 40th Street just after 8 a.m. The resident told police she was sitting in her living room when she heard a noise coming from her bedroom. [Read More]
creepy  kmov  steve buscemi 

Mark Edwards, Long-Time y98 Boss Fired

 Posted on October 1, 2010  |  The Editor

After six and a half years at the helm of St. Louis radio station y98, Mark Edwards has been fired. We were tipped this yesterday afternoon and confirmed it later last night via Edwards’ own Twitter feed: …and then later he stumped for work via a mass email sent out to contacts and later posted to his blog: Bottom line is I’m not a big fan of sitting around and I’m ready to climb on a new horse. [Read More]
cbs  kmox  mark edwards  radio  y98 

I-70 Accident Triggers Twitter’s Shark Jumping Event

 Posted on September 29, 2010  |  The Editor

Yesterday at the downtown lanes of I-70 a tractor-trailer, a flat bed truck carrying concrete sewer linings and three other cars came together is in the eastbound lanes. The cause was later found to be a driver that stopped in the road to pick up road dibris, causing a slowdown and then the pileup which left the highway closed until about 2pm. Because of its downtown location, the accident could be seen from many office buildings including that of Jason Wagner, Twitter user @threefourteen. [Read More]
accident  social media  twitter  weird 

The RFT Throws Their Panties at Weird St. Louis Rap Video Guy

 Posted on September 24, 2010  |  The Editor

Oh look the RFT’s Music blog has an interview with some local rapper named “Corle 2 Da”…why does that name sound familiar?… ​You may have seen this excellent vid floating around the Interwebz in the past two weeks. “So St. Louis” is the work of one Corle 2 Da, a Belleville rapper looking to make his mark on this side of the river. Belleville rapper…god this all sound so familiar. Wait! [Read More]
Corle  music  rap  riverfront times  so st. louis  Video