PUNCHING KITTY: 2009 - 2013

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 Morning After Moves to KFNS

When there’s smoke there’s fire, and we have been swamped with both anonymous tips and confirmations from reliable sources all saying that 1380’s popular morning show The Morning After will be moving to competing AM sports talk venue KFNS as with in the next 30-45 days.

The morning show, staffed by front man Tim McKernan, Jim Hayes and Doug Vaughn has been KSLG 1380AM’s only decent property for some time now, with the rest of their day-part covered by bottom feeding shows and closing out with St. Louis’ own Glenn Beck of sports, Kevin Slaten who has had a history of good ratings but has slid dramatically in the last few rating periods to a new low recently.  Though The Morning After gave 1380 its only show worth a damn, that show brought with it many of the day parts that have failed so mightily recently as 1380 made a deal with McKernan, owner of the local sports and semi-attractive girls’ tits-focused website InsideSTL, to purchase the morning hours until midday. The experiment, though cheap to run for 1380, has thus far been a failure.

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Links For Your Blue Monday

It’s May 17th! The Beautiful Kind is back in action!

Cops find dude murdered at South City car dealership. Key quote from police: “The place is kind of ransacked a little bit.  It could be just from the way they keep the business, we don’t know at this time.” Way to kick them when their down officer. — KSDK.com

The community helps a guy figure out some good date ideas for St. Louis. Community fails to mention our favorite place to go for no doubt action: Your Mom’s house. Snap! — Reddit St. Louis

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Mayor Slay Gets in to the Sports Reporting Business

Last Wednesday our honorable Mayor Francis Slay, took to his blog and proceeded to, out of nowhere, dick-punch former Rams owner-in-waiting Shahid Khan by backing the “familiar face” of Stan Kroenke.

Two potential new majority owners have emerged. One is a familiar billionaire face [Stan Kroenke] with generally unknown, but demonstrably successful, views. The other [Shahid Khan] is an unfamiliar very, very rich face with widely known, but generally untested, views. I’d pick the tested billionaire owner.

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Closing Out Your Week With Tony LaRussa’s Daughter Bianca

For a guy that only hit .199 for a 6 year major league career, he hit a home run on this one.

Not liking that one? Here’s three more:

  1. Tony sure put his bat in the right place to make this hit!

  2. Nothing pisses of Tony more than a pitcher going for his guys, but I’d still take my chances going high and tight to her.

  3. Tony LaRussa has a hot daughter. Baseball.

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Is the Sound Going Quiet Already?

St. Louis’ newest station 100.3 The Sound, owned by ClearChannel might be gone before it ever really got started according to a source of STLMedia.net:

Clear Channel is very close to selling/donating 100.3 to one of the groups that tried to stop the KFUO transfer. Its a double win for Clear Channel, triple if you consider that The Sound is a complete failure. All of this is being done with San Antonio because of the complex nature of the deal, but it could be done by July 4th.

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Globe Democrat: We’re Doing Fine, But Laying Off People Anyway

We got an anonymous tip last night that succinctly read:

Globe Democrat laid off all employees because it ran out of money.

Hmm. Well the site is still up, and according to the St. Louis Beacon, the Globe Democrat has laid off three reporters and is “refocusing” on only certain sections of news. Namely sports and local politics.

The Beacon reported:

Dan Rositano, who resurrected the Globe-Democrat name and began publishing the news website on Dec. 8, said news reporters Brian Flinchpaugh, Steve Birmingham and Lisa Watson lost their jobs on Monday.

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Crown Candy Record Breaker Lied About His Identity!

The man that beat the living hell out of the malt challenge at Crown Candy a few days ago is not who he claimed to be. We now are positive the actual record holder is Ben Monson.

Yesterday we reported that the famous Crown Candy malt challenge has its ass handed to it by someone who claimed to be Kevin Ross.

According to reports, a Kevin Ross from San Bernardino, California waltzed in to the popular St. Louis store and proceeded to drain seven malts in six minutes. The “goal” of Crown Candy’s challenge is fivemalts in 30 minutes.

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St. Louis Craigslist: Who Says Romance is Dead?

Every day lonely souls longing for the love of that one that got away go to Craigslist to type out prose in a desperate attempt to find the person that, although just meeting in passing, may hold missing piece to their happiness.

This isn’t one of those.

that one girl that looked like she wanted to blow me – m4w – 23 (o’fallon)

you were eying me like you wanted it, baby. send me pictures of your tits so i know it’s you.

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Some Guy From California Beat the Crown Candy Malt Record

Not only has the famed Crown Candy malt challenge been bested, but a new record has been set!

According to reports, a Kevin Ross from San Bernardino, California waltzed in to the popular St. Louis store and proceeded to drain seven malts in six minutes. The “goal” of Crown Candy’s challenge is five malts in 30 minutes.

The man, who gave his name as Kevin Ross of San Bernardino, California, was in the store Tuesday, according to co-owner Andy Karandzieff. That got him a spot on a plaque of honor. But on Wednesday, Ross sucked down seven malts; Karandzieff says he’ll get his own plaque.

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Albert Pujols Has a Cousin Named Harry

Harry Pujols…or phonetically…Harry Poo-holes.

Seriously.

Here’s a photo:

Confirmed from a good source that is this in fact our very own Albert’s cousin.

Now that we’ve settled that its true, there’s the matter of why the hell anyone with the last name of Pujols would go by Harry. Hank…Harrison…Skippy…Lorenzo…Albertsmycousingivemethings?! All of those would go much better in front of Pujols than Harry.

We know what you are thinking: Use your middle name! Sadly we’ve found out that Harry’s middle name is Fingermy. So maybe stick with Harry after all.

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