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
Nothing like a bet no one knows or cares about with a city we are clearly better than on a field of play that probably ranks in the top 10 most boring bets of all time to get a city of people excited about something!
In an effort to get Missourians excited about the 2010 Census, Mayor Slay and Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser have agreed on a friendly competition to see which City improves its Census mail-in response by the highest percentage from 2000-2010.
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If one had plans to look at kiddie porn, you would think the next step in their minds (other than “F*ck me. I’m gross.”) is “Maybe I should invest in my own computer.” Its clear these guys know there is a…lets just say “stigma” against those men with those interests, and one would think that the risk of being arrested, beat up, or even killed might be enough to pay the $300 dollars for some crappy laptop.
So we hear these iPhone things are getting pretty popular, and its proven by our stats that say lots of you try to read this site with one. Just for you people (and you other crazy Blackberry and Android phone people too) Punching Kitty now has a nice format for mobile phones!
What do you need to do? Nothing! Just type in punchingkitty.com like normal and if you are on a iPhone (or whatever) the site will change to a nice, easily readable and browsable version.
[Read More]Dick Ford and John Auble have been around the St. Louis news scene for a long time now. Long enough to have a clip surface where together they interview Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons from KISS even before they would allow anyone to seen them sans makeup.
Stanley and Simmons did the whole interview with their backs to the camera with only a pair of shades embedded in to the mane of Simmon’s hair to differentiate himself.
Normally this would be a pretty un-stimulating TV interview. Good think Ford and Auble brought the audience in on the action…
Um, guys? KISS really isn’t in that TV. You don’t have to look at the TV in some vein attempt at eye contact.
You can watch the whole interview that involves four dudes with their back to the camera after the jump by clicking below.
[Read More]“Crap. They’re back.”
“Who?”
“Come see.”
The two of them stand up and look in to the window facing the parking lot, each of them looking through their reflections, focusing on their respective cars.
“They didn’t get mine yet.”
“Well the bastards got mine double and their heading your direction.”
“Maybe they’ll miss it.”
The crowd at the window has now grown to 6.
“Can someone set off their alarm? That would freak them out.”
[Read More]St. Louis is #3 on the most dangerous American cities list…again. Old news. We are always on there. We’re like that kid that wears the leather jacket no matter how hot it gets and uses a switch blade comb. We’re bad ass. We know it.
Well, I guess not everyone knows it. (Watch out people at work, this dude is loud!)
At the end of his little tirade, he shows the whole list. Note that if you think you are just having a stroke because you can’t seem to lock in and read the list very well, don’t worry. Its just because this genius though the best way to display the list is with black text on a bright red background…that blinks.
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Hey kids of Timberland High School, you remember this: You mess with the bull, you get the horns.
The staff of the school newspaper and free speech honks that live for things like this filed in to a Wentzville School Board meeting Thursday night to hear a discussion of whether the level of censorship being displayed by the Timberland High School principal was within “acceptable” levels. Apparently the kids have been feeling a bit censored for some time now. Things like…
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Spotted on St. Louis’ Craigstlist section under “Missed Connections” last night:
i almost killed you with an oatmeal cookie – w4w – 25 (st. louis)
****j.w,
i really want to see your smile again. i promise to show you a good time. if anything, just for fun.
think about it…
Hey there! w4w eh? Nice…
Here’s hoping “oatmeal cookie” is a euphemism for “amazing night of crazy lesbian sex where one of us is dressed as a sexy librarian and the other one as a school girl and involved all the hot stuff and none of the weird stuff that lesbians probably prefer but doesn’t fit with male fantasies”
[Read More]The Globe Democrat reports that a St. Louis Metro Police prisoner decided to end it all while the cops were at lunch or something recently.
The 32-year-old woman was taken into custody around 2:00 p.m. Tuesday in the 5400 block of Southwest Avenue for an outstanding bench warrants. She was taken to the south patrol area station where she was being held.
Around 3:00 p.m., the victim was found hanging in the holding cell. She had used an item of her clothing to hang herself. Police said they immediately took the woman down and contacted EMS. She was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead.
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Counties passing laws that ban texting while driving are the Lady Gaga of lower-level governments. Everyone seems to love them because they sound good, but when you get up close and really think about it, its kinda stupid and ugly. Also, those weird outfits just seem like a whole “Hey look at me with my crazy outfits that always hide my face like the Phantom of the Opera because I’m ugly and pay no attention to those rumors about me having a little penis.”