Punching Kitty was a writing project for the city of St. Louis to have a little fun and try to get everyone to stop taking themselves so seriously…and hopefully highlight some critical issues along the way. Not everyone liked it (it turns out people don’t love being made fun of) but we converted a lot of people and I take pride that the site was truly well read. From the local media, to area police departments, Punching Kitty truly became a source for news and entertainment for St. Louis.
We had a lot of fun, but all good things need an ending and ours was on March 13th, 2013. When we closed up shop the news made local radio, TV, and even the front page of STLToday (The St. Louis Post Dispatch’s website) where we were the top story over a new pope being named. Wild stuff.
While we will no longer actively write, the site will stay up as an archive for St. Louis.
- The Editor
“Hey, we know we suck so bad it hurts, but what if we let you rename our mascot! That help at all? …ok, well we’ve already printed the flyers so we’re doing this thing anyway.” – The St. Louis Rams
After 1,700 submissions the final round of voting has begun with your choices being (hold on to your hat now): Archie, Rammer, Rampage, Ramsey, and Rush.
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We had the pleasure of heading over to KDHX’s South City studios last night to hang out on KDHX’s Collateral Damage show along with the RFT’s Chad Garrison and host DJ Wilson.
We talked about the origins of this very website, the best place to find genitalia on the internet, the rarely spoken topic of our little “blogging break” last year and our various battles with local “celebrities”.
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St. Louis takes a step closer to killing everyone as Hardee’s, the fast food chain known for big burgers and calls St. Louis it’s corporate home, is currently market testing that crazy but beautiful behemoth pictured above: The foot-long hamburger.
The foot-long burger idea was hatched two months ago from a product development chef at Carl’s [Jr., the other half of Hardee’s], says Brad Haley, marketing chief. The chain is especially eager to create products that appeal to its core customers: young men ages 18 to 24. “Obviously, the foot-long sandwich has been very successful at Subway. But we decided to do it the Carl’s way.”
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The Urban Assault Ride is coming back to St. Louis on August 15th! If you’ve heard of it, I’m sure you’re excited and if you’ve never heard of it, this bearded gentleman on the right riding a big wheel should get you sufficiently up to speed.
The Urban Assault Ride™ is a truly unique cycling event…and quickly becoming one of the biggest in country! Here’s how it works: You and your teammate will set out on a city-wide quest for ‘checkpoints’ on your favorite two-wheeled steeds. At each checkpoint, you’ll drop your bikes and complete a funky/adventurous obstacle course, then remount your bikes and hit the streets for more.
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Found via the Twitter stream of one of the bigots themselves!
From our @ladygaga concert picket in St. Louis! http://twitpic.com/26aotu http://twitvid.com/PFOL9
You can really tell all the good work they are doing across the street behind their little fence. Look at all the people listening and giving a crap. Powerful stuff.
Now where did my ink well and quill go? Ah! Here it is…
Dear @meganphelps,
Why are you so angry? No one is making you like Lady Gaga or lick poontang. Chill out! Its really not hurting anyone. Wait. Is it because you look like you have Downs Syndrome, have horse teeth and a witchy nose?
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We’ve related Chat Roulette, the (in)famous site where you video chat with someone randomly, to our local area before when someone figured a way to grab screenshots of people and post them according to their geographic location. That was fun, but we wanted Chat Roulette to do the real thing: Make “local” channels to find random chat buddies.
Recently they did just that. (Here’s the TechCrunch article about the new local channels)
[Read More]The forums at SkyscraperPage.com have some great old photos of downtown pre-Arch. You wouldn’t think it would look that foreign, but it does.
This is like looking at a clean-shaven KFC’s Colonel Sanders or watching a Brendan Ryan that can play baseball.
I know you think we here at Punching Kitty spend our “down time” doing extreme things like kicking lions or swimming in the Mississippi with our mouths open, but from time to time we might sit down and enjoy the more stagnent side of life by enjoying a spot of TV. Keeping in mind the whole “kicking lions” thing we said earlier, we aren’t afraid to say we watch Project Runway. The one problem with Proj. Run. is that its kind of always the same…New York, weird designers from the coast, or “hoosier” designers from somewhere in the middle.
If we lose Pujols after next season LeBron-style, we should totally go get the Reds’ Joey Votto to hold down first base. Not only can the guy hit (actually having a better season thus far than the Mang himself.) but he totally hates the Cubs. No not like “Oh you rascal! I hate you.” and then see them chatting it up on the field during BP, but like telling ESPN he hates them. That’s awesome.
The socially retarded hate “church” that runs the site godhatesfags.com (no, they don’t get a link) will be in town Saturday, July 17th, to put up stupid signs and march around so everyone will look at them.
Here are snippets of their pubic itinerary:
2:00p – 2:30p @ Staenberg Family JCC
You know how to read? Open a paper, or any website news page. I mean do you know that Egypt has made a law that any Egyptian man married to a Jewess shall lose their citizenship? Hello?! […] You all have to be deaf, dumb and blind to not see what is happening on the national stage.
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