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
If you read the tweets last night or watched the news today you would have thought the new chunk of highway 40 that opened yesterday came with free ice cream at every onramp and it was lined with thousands of hot naked chicks washing each other.
“I’m right here by the new Hampton overpass and anxious drivers and pouring on to the new highway as we speak…”
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One of Punching Kitty’s favorite sports columnists, Bernie Miklasz, has a great article up on STLToday.com about former Rams coach and perennial news lightning rod Mike Martz. After stops in Detroit and San Francisco, Mad Mike is cooling his x and o’s marker as a TV analysts, but he clearly still yearns for a coaching job.
Martz, 58, hopes for a second chance at being a head coach, or even a coordinator, but recognizes the trends work against him. Owners have been hiring younger, less-expensive head coaches. And those young coaches don’t always want to bring in opinionated, high-profile coordinators.
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You pull up to the Quik Trip, park and race out. You’ve had to pee for about 39 miles now and you thought you make it until you got home. You were wrong. You’ve been battling your bladder all night on the road, this Quik Trip rest room is going to your Waterloo and you don’t care.
Try the door. Locked.
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Every time a St. Louis has a hit on its hands, it gets knocked down on the national scene, like Imo’s or Ike Turner.
Take for instance Mister Squiggles. Every Christmas season needs an “it” toy and every year, some bastards try to take it down. Why you gotta hate?
The maker of Zhu Zhu Pets, one of the hottest-selling toys of the holiday season, defended its product after a consumer Web site said one of the robotic hamsters carries high amounts of a dangerous chemical.
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Did you hear the one about the guy that used Google Earth to find the best place to hunt deer, lined up his shot but missed, causing the deer to fall down a cliff and drown…and then totally take credit anyway like he did something special?
[Joe] Graber added the Internet to his arsenal, using the Google Earth mapping service to pinpoint paths the buck would likely follow to pursue female deer. It was raining Oct. 26, when the buck wandered down one of the paths by a creek at dusk. Graber was lying in wait.
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A sweet softball field and a parking lot. That’s the awesome action going on next to Busch Stadium right now, and its here to stay for a little while.
Go St. Louis!
Don’t expect to see the Ballpark Village site humming with construction next summer. The site, which is now home to a softball field and parking lot, will almost certainly look the same during the 2010 baseball season, said Bill DeWitt III, president of the St. Louis Cardinals.
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Did you know that 1 in 4 teens have sent a sexually explicit text message? I know what you are thinking: “Damn, that’s hot!” But remember that 3 in 4 teens are ugly. …plus KSDK thinks this is a bad thing and is urging parents to make this holiday extra special by corning your kids and reminding them not to be a whores over the cell phone.
You know all the beautiful sunshine we’ve been getting lately? Oh right. Probably a bad time for this press release to come out.
Ameren Corp. has planned their first solar power projects in St. Louis, Mo. and Illinois. This is a big step, as the company currently generates 85 percent of its power from coal, 10 to 15 percent from nuclear and a few watts from methane and hyrdoelectric sources.
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What’s better than going to see your favorite girl-movie about non-scary flavors of vampires and werewolves at midnight? Going there and falling in love…and then smelling her hair…and following her to her house…and stealing things out of her car. Awww love.
New Moon midnight showing – m4w – 27 (Saint Louis, MO)
I sat behind you at the midnight showing of New Moon the other night. Me: 6 foot, dark hair, long nails, mysterious. You: straight long blond hair, full ruby lips, you were wearing black cargo pants and a twilight hoodie. As your hair draped down behind your sear i just had to hold it and smell it deeply(pantene.great choice). I don’t remember much of the money but I will awlays remember the smell and texture of your hair. The way you sound when you whisper and laugh. After the movie I followed you and your friends to Denny’s. I waited outside in my car so I could watch you eat and smile. I followed you home and made sure you got there safely. I noticed you left your car unlocked so I went to have a look into your life. I can tell by looking in your car that we have a lot in common. If you want your dash ornaments back you will have to meet me and we can have a great time getting to know each other. “grin”
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Poor Steven Jackson. Its been a rough year already for the Rams running back, but this week in particular has been hard.
First the Rams seemingly regress and lose a winnable game to the woeful Seahawks. During which SJ39 had to set Seahawks rookie Aaron Curry straight. Don’t you step to SJ39! Don’t do it! …I’m warning you! …aw! …now you gone done it. Its on!
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