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
The sun was slowing cooking us and we felt drastically under-dressed, but we were there, in the crowd, for St. Louis’ annual Pride Parade yesterday.
Great crowd (in both size and energy) and as always, visually interesting. We had a great time hanging out (though not as much fun as the guy picture above had hanging out) and putting together another Punching Kitty photo montage, which you can watch below or in HD at our Vimeo page.
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From the website, Texts From Last Night, we present to you the Top 10 texts from the 314 area code!
#10:
i just packed a bowl on a big bird place mat and smoked it in a spaceship with a slide. i love babysitting.
#9:
Just saw an old lady vomit in a trash can at the airport. I instinctively called her a pussy. College has ruined us.
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Bill Keaggy is an interesting guy. Usually people that are described as interesting are guys that do Civil War reenactments and say in character way too long, or collect weird stuff. Keaggy falls in the later bucket and one of his quirky collections is landing him on the national late-night show Jimmy Kimmel Live (not to be confused with Jimmy Kimmel Taped Earlier Today, which is the name of the pilot we’ve been pitching. Call us!)
[Read More]St. Louis’ #1 website, STLToday.com, finally launched a much needed redesign the other day. Our sources say its been in the works for some time and has been in a beta test for a few weeks before finally getting released to the general public the other day. We may have gotten a peak somehow and might have been using it for a little while now…or not…maybe…just sayin’.
So what do we think?
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Found last evening on St. Louis’ Craiglist Missed Connections section:
to the girls on the hiway[sic] im[sic] their cars – m4w (interstates[sic])
every day i drive down the road.in a shiny jeep all decked out.and i see so many pretty ladies going by,shopping,to work,to who knows where.they are all fantastic looking.but do they look at me or anyone?
“hiway”? “im their cars“? “they are all fantastic looking“?! Why can’t this guy learn to write and where is he driving where all the girls on the street are fantastic looking?!
[Read More]Add it to the list of things St. Louis gets: Underground explosions.
Around 5p Wednesday evening, City Hall was shaken by an underground explosion, which they said it was a blown transformer…no, not the cool kind of Transformer, but the boring kind that AmerenUE breaks every winter and summer…and fall…and spring.
Government excuses bullshit.
Our guess?
That’s were we buried former Cardinal Ray King after we “traded” him a while back. Turns out he was just sleeping and he’s pissed. This is gonna be just like Cloverfield, but it will be sweatier and with more walks.
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…but they could barely fill their lungs with the sweet taste of air before getting caught and going right back to jail.
Eric Glenn Gray and Kurt Michael Wallace were discovered hiding in a vacant house in the 5900 block of Wabada at 5:45 p.m. They were arrested without incident.
Pussies. What ever happened to “You’ll never take me alive!”?
St. Louis Corrections Department Director Gene Stubblefield said Gray and Wallace were being held in the Administrative Segregation Unit at the Workhouse because they had been a problem in the past. While there, they deliberately flooded their cell to gain access to the lobby area. They were allowed to clean their cells, which Stubblefield said is against protocol.
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In the photo below Bill O’Reilly chats with Albert Pujols about…
A. O’Reilly: “Excuse me senior, but how long does it take you to cut Busch Stadium’s lawn?” Pujols: “Ha ha ha…that’s funny. Now you die.”
B. Which of the two of them is more loved in St. Charles County.
C. Bill’s checking for Albert’s green card and asking him if its ok he came to this country to take the job of a hard-working american first-basemen like Steve Pearce of the Pirates.
[Read More]If you’ve even listen to 101 ESPN, the city’s leading sports talk station, you’ve no doubt heard their promos.
“Randy Karraker rides his bike to work…”
“D’Marco Farr is blah blah…”
“Bob Ramsey something…”
How do they do it?! How do they make such great promos that never* want to make you bash your head against the dashboard and then hit the dial so hard you break your radio? Well we took the promos the lab and tried to figure out their secret. It took a lot of work, at least three beakers with blue liquid bubbling over, at least one of those twirly drippy things, and two lab coats, but we got it!
[Read More]STLMedia is passing on a rumor from their anonymous tip line that KMOV she-anchors Vickie Newton and Jasmine Huda are involved in a brewing mess that one can only hope ends up in a Dynasty-level brawl with a 40% clothes-ripping-off-and-a-boob-popping-out chance.
Says the STLMedia source:
Jasmine Huda to anchor the 6 at KMOV, Vicki Newton is furious and had a fit in the middle of the newsroom. The tension between the two has been fun to watch.
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