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
We’ve done the list of you all liked the best (judged purely on page views), but screw that because now its time for us to say the best posts of the year were.
This one made the list simply because of the response we got from this post. Not in the comments or any type of even remotely public forum, but in private communications. This post really struck a cord with a few disgruntled Post Dispatch employees and lots of others.
[Read More]We missed this before Christmas, but Mayor Slay sent us all a special Christmas message…through the words of Dr. Seuss:
Don’t think we don’t appreciate the sentiment Mr. Mayor. We do! …but what the hell did you record this with? A 7 year old cell-phone?
Where ya going on New Years Eve?
Really?! No way! Sounds awesome. You aren’t going to wear that shirt you think is cute are you?
Anywhoo…we want your videos from the magic moment!
That’s right. When you go out on New Years, take the flip video camera, or your cell phone or even just a still camera and take some shots of the night and specifically the countdown to the new year. If we get enough, we want to put them all together in a nice little awesome bundle of video goodness, so spread the word so we get a few submissions!
[Read More]Today while picking up some dinner we caught a group of gentlemen gathered around a couple of chess boards battling with each other’s wit as opposed to the chill outside.
This is St. Louis. A warm place where friends get together via intelligent activities.
Here’s a different photo from one of our readers that on his morning dog constitutional.
It is a pile of homeless person poop neatly coiled in front of an Organic food store downtown. Its not clear from the photo if the intent was some sort of statement on organic food or this restaurant in particular, but we do know this: This is also St. Louis. A place were you can clearly see some that guy duked on the sidewalk.
The Vital Voice, St. Louis’ great, and sorely missed, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgendered lifestyle magazine is very close to returning so we thought it would be a perfect time to sit down with the new head-honcho, and friend-of-the-site, DSly!
DSly has been a busy guy from the day we met him, and now with the the Vital Voice’s relaunch around the corner, and of course the holidays, we can’t imagine how busy he is these days, so we thank him for taking the time to talk with us.
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The Globe-Democrat is reporting that rap star and native St. Louisan Nelly is offering a $10,000 for information that leads to the arrest of the men that broke in to his home a few weeks ago.
Please note the fine print.
Nelly is offering a $10,000 reward in addition to the CrimeStoppers reward for information that leads to the felony arrest (not arrest and conviction) of the person or people responsible for the burglary to his Wildwood home.
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One of our eagle-eyed readers caught our favorite local newscaster, Leisa Zigman of channel 5 KSDK droppin’ some gang signs in between the “news”
Yo yo yo!
My name is Leisa Zigman and I’m here to say
I love talking news all the damn day
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Well “news” is a relative term…more like happenings that I care about…ok, its more like a video diary I get paid for.
[Read More]If you are going on the MetroLink and are heading through Grand and Central West End prepare to spend an extra 20 minutes getting off the train, getting on a shuttle and then getting back on the train. Also, that guy next to you that smells like piss and cocaine and for some reason has a change of clothes in a Schuncks bag, will be sitting right next to you on the shuttle.
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So you’re a thug ok? You see a car idling on the street, and you think. “Wow, doesn’t get much easier than this!” So you hop in and start to drive away.
And then you get shot “several times” and die.
Its like the damn wild west in North St. Louis!
An 18-year-old north St. Louis man was fatally wounded Sunday as he attempted to steal a truck.
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According to a tipster to STLMedia, 100.3 will soon kill the Christmas music and move to a new format for the area: All 80s and 90s music, aimed squarely at those Gen-Xers.
Says the tipster…
CONFIRMED. GEN X RADIO COMES TO 100.3. MUSIC OF THE 90’S AND 80’S AIMED AT GEN X. EXPECT STUNTING AND A LAUNCH RIGHT AFTER FIRST OF THE YEAR. THE ARCH IS SCREWED.
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