We just started our Facebook Fan page and we are trying to get to 100 fans as fast as possible!  Get on Facebook and add us as a Fan!  Come on!  Don’t be a bitch!

Being a fan means you will get our extra Facebook content sent to your Facebook stream, and we promise to not just use it as a list of links to our stories.  Thats lame.  We put new content in that stream, like stuff that couldn’t make it in to posts, funny photos, and some times ever talk about things we are planning for down the road.

All Star weekend is upon us St. Louis!  Celebrities and tons of other random people will be in town and its your duty to send us your stories, photos, and videos you capture of something crazy, stupid or have anything to do with a celeb!  Of course you can be anonymous if you wish, but we just want anything you can send us!

You can click on the right to tell your story to our Tip Line voicemail, or you can write it up and send it to [email protected]

The Riverfront Times put together a Guide to All Star Weekend, including their St. Louis “map”  Don’t miss the section of where sports celebs live to get your stalk on.

Patrick Says tells the tale of how his paid blogging past cost him a laptop.  Is that irony?  You decide.

The discussion of the “Largest Tweetup Ever” continues on Simple Justice.

Mary Louise Parker gets a little naked for…does it matter?  I’ve always had a thing for her. (NSFW)

Over the holiday, nothing much is happening worthy of talking about, so we thought we would take this time to say thanks for the warm welcome back.  Here’s a sampling from Twitter:

Here’s a little cute to get you through the rest of the week…

Ahem.  Attention!  We called this meeting to tell you all something:

After much deliberating, I have decided to bring this blog back to life.

So what, if any changes will there be?  None really.  Its still going to be about St. Louis and the weird crap that happens around here.  There will still be youtube finds, and craigslist awesomeness.  Local media coverage may go down just a slight bit if only because I’m no longer entrenched in that world…thats not to say I’m not going to mention it at all, if someone does something awesome or stupid, I’m still all over it.

Its been a rough week and to make matters worse, I think my stomach might be trying to kill me.

I’m taking a break for the rest of the week.

I just wanted to let everyone know.

Thanks.

No, its not actually from this site, but it does share the same name and basic theme, albeit a more liberal take.  Check it:

Now go to Threadless.com and vote for it so it gets made in to a shirt and sold on their site!

Seriously go right now.

Why haven’t you gone yet?

(Super Monkey Fun Time Bonus Game: Try to guess what rating I gave it!)

As I mentioned earlier in my note, there have been changes to the site as of this morning.

I have been “ordered” to take down a few posts (Posts that I can’t name of course, but I think you could probably figure it out.) and remove all of the up-right journalistic full-disclosure notices.

Obviously, I was pissed.

The amazing growth of PunchingKitty.com has, in so many words, shocked the hell out of me.  This site just launched less than a month a go and it already has a mature site’s worth of traffic and made a clear dent in the St. Louis media scene, so its not much of a leap to say St. Louis clearly wanted / needed a site like this.  Despite all of that, at first blush, I was just going to yank the site and put up a message.  Why?  Because if you have limits on what areas of St. Louis you post on or take shots at, then you are an asshole, but if you are universal in your scope and always hit every target, then everyone is fairly treated and you aren’t an asshole. [Editor’s Note: Well, at least not for that reason. :) ] After thinking about it for a little while longer, and resisting the urge to toss my computer through a window, I decided it would be more fitting of what Punching Kitty has stood for thus far to continue on and simply “note” the one thing I can’t touch on in an open, although admittedly vague out of necessity, letter and then go about my business the best I can.

I just wanted to put up a quick note so that no one has a chance to think anything different.  A few things on the site have been “updated” or removed as a result of some recent events.

I’ve always been 100% open on this site, and I will always try to stay as close to 100% as possible, and in that vein I will have a post up later discussing these changes as in depth as I can.