PUNCHING KITTY

Watch out Virginia Kerr, your spot at the top of the “cute TV news reporter” food chain might just be in trouble.  Yes, Kerr still has the KMOV crowd on lock, but the overall title isn’t quite the blowout it once was and what some people think it still is.

We always knew April Simpson from KTVI Fox2 was cute, but after her Twitter picture (below) flashed across our desktop the other day betwixt the other updates of the day, we might have mentally broken up with Kerr and moved to Team Simpson.

The whole point of this post over at subtraction.com by Khoi Vinh was to invalidate the “Yankees bought a championship!” argument, and although an interesting read, not really something that this blog gives a crap about.  However, in the data he pulled something interesting did pop up that related to St. Louis and our National League Central champ Cardinals.

Vinh pulled the revenue each team made in 2008 and the payroll for the team in the 2009 season and compared the “investment rate” that the team operated on for the 2009 season along with their final record.

Today Pfizer, which houses its research facility in the Chesterfield valley, announced that it would chop 600 of the 1,000 St. Louis jobs.

Damn dude.

Employees learned of the news at 11 a.m. today as Pfizer announced changes that will result in a R&D square-footage footprint that is 35 percent smaller.

The move comes as something of a shock since Pfizer only recently invested $250 million for new buildings and labs on its sprawling Chesterfield campus. Earlier this year Pfizer CEO Jeff Kinder dropped in for the facility’s dedication ceremony.

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The Sociological Images blog recently put together some data on gay marriage support grouped by age bracket and ordered by a state’s overall support.  The overall takeaways of the graph are pretty clear, the younger generation is considerably more supportive of gay marriage, even in states that are generally considered toxic to gay rights like Utah or Alabama.

Of course the other thing you can take away from this data is how each state feels about the gay marriage movement.

Found older KMOV clip on YouTube last night.  It a clip of one of those “throw away” stories that all local TV news stations do about stupid things like a squirrel that can water ski or whatever.  This time it was about a monkey in Japan that roamed free and eventually took a cat hostage.

Take a peak (its all over at the 1:00 mark, the rest is just bad editing):

Every once in a while we like to swing by St. Louis native and Office star Jenna Fischer’s blog to see what’s going on with her and if she’s finally decided to film that script with the topless scene we keep sending her.  She still hasn’t filmed that script, or acknowledged the fact that I keep sending her chunks of my hair for that matter, but we did get to see her kitty!

I made a quick mention in my Friday night post about 101 ESPN and JC Corcoran that even the shadowy figure in the 101 ESPN banner looks a hell of a lot like JC.  Well if there’s anything that screamed “Photoshop me some more evidence!” this is it right?

Bam:

Would 101 be already making banners but still not ready to make an announcement?  Who knows, but I’ll be dammed if that shadow doesn’t look exactly like JC’s noggin.

101ESPN fired the other, stiffer, less black, half of the widely criticized mid-morning show “Parris and Burwell” the other day.  Did you hear who Pat Parris’ replacement is?  Well, they apparently will work for cheap and be dumb enough to think working with Burwell on a sport radio gig is a “prize”.  Guess what?!  Its you!   …maybe.  Are you drunk enough right now to think this is a good idea?

Time for another random interview!  Today’s subject? One @SandyShores What?  Oh, that’s her Twitter name.  I thought it was odd at first too that someone would name their child something that started with @, but I figured it was just foreign like that Russian O with a line through it.  Then a “social media expert” told me it was a Twitter thing.  I tried to get more information from him, but he started to walk off and I was like “Oh you have to get to work?” and he said “Work?!  I’m a social media expert.  Its just what you call telemarketers online.”  So that solves that mystery.

We all know from our experiences at the post office or DMV that some people can be pretty damn rude, but this is some cold shit right here:

Four or five homeless people have made Interco Park on Tucker near Cole their home for the last few months, but Wednesday night, were told the park was going to be cleaned up and out Thursday.

At 10 a.m. Thursday, a city garbage truck backed up to the tents and employees of the parks department started dismantling tents and dumping bags of personal possessions into the gaping maw of the truck.

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