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
You know how sometimes news people will put a question mark at the end of their headlines or, even more commonly, the TV news anchors will do the higher voice thing at the end of stuff before going to the break: “Are there too many fat people in St. Louis?!”, “People find Randy Naughton informative?!”
This headline is just like those. The answer to the “question” we posed to ourselves is: Yes. Kurt Greenbaum is moving on from his post at STLToday.com
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If you didn’t know, we were on vacation most of last week (and it turned out, yesterday as well…whoops!).
So, what did we miss?
Now back in the saddle, here’s what we could figure out:
A few months back, two cops from LaGrange shot a chained dog. Now its a viral video. (See what I did there? I linked to a story the RFT did instead of just doing the repeat thing which isn’t our style…but happens. )
[Read More]We don’t know what it’s for, but it’s awesome. Apparently someone said there were words on it describing what it was about but we don’t remember seeing any words. Just perfectly drawn nipples on cartoon boobs with crazy flame hair and crotch grabbing. All for only $7 + a minor surcharge!
Found in the Loop.
That is all.
He has elf ears.
Now that’s all.
Recently Forbes magazine pulled together all the data of where people have moved from and to in 2008 since “More than 10 million Americans moved from one county to another during 2008.” They also made a pretty little infographic showing inbound and outbound movement from a specified location.
Our tipster clicked St. Louis.
The results weren’t pretty.
Red is people moving away from St. Louis. Black is people moving too St. Louis.
[Read More]A year seems so long ago. Isn’t that what you are supposed to say when you talk about things that were a year ago? We don’t know. What we do know is that every time we hear the word long we giggle. Well no matter how you start this out, we’ve gotten a lot of new readers in the last few months, so here are some classics.
Missed Connections: Get Your Nerd Freak On!
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Step Brothers? As in…
Two aimless middle-aged losers still living at home are forced against their will to become roommates when their parents get married.
See? (move your lookin’ balls right) Its true, though still unbelievable.
The only way to explain this is…well, there’s no way to explain this. Wait: weed.
There, we explained it.
Oh and Ron? It’s your face. And I, again, you know, you’re doing great, man. This is the Catalina Wine Mixer Cardinals Post Game Press Conference. We’re all having a great time. Everybody’s having fun. You pulled it off. Alright? But if you don’t change your face, I’m gonna change it for you.
[Read More]Punching Kitty will be on a little vacation for the rest of the week. Just the rest of the week…not like our last “vacation“.
Don’t worry though, though we won’t be doing our full posting schedule, we do have a few things queued up for our sexy readers while we are on our break.
To staisfy your insane obsession with us we’ll tell you what we are doing on our vacation: We’re going to Paraguay to find this chick pictured below. We lost our cell phone and we think she might know where we can find it.
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St. Louis is poor. Mayor Slay is about a month away from having city employees sell cheese and sausage to their families. If only there was another way! If the city could only fine a service they provide and then charge more for it…
City residents can expect to see their water rates increase, and a new $144-per-family annual trash fee. The city also talked about charging a $10-per-person entry fee for recreation centers, though that precise number may not stick.
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Kansas City, St. Louis’ little annoying sibling, just has to do everything we do. First we were like “It would be awesome if our football team was really terrible.” and then Kansas City thought that was awesome, so now the Chiefs suck, and now after our All-Star game last year Kansas City wants one of those too.
Commissioner Bud Selig will be in Kansas City on Wednesday to formally award the 2012 All-Star Game to the Royals and Kauffman Stadium. […] The announcement was delayed as details — such as available hotel rooms — were worked out.
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