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

Be Our Fan on Facebook!

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We just started our Facebook Fan page and we are trying to get to 100 fans as fast as possible!  Get on Facebook and add us as a Fan!  Come on!  Don’t be a bitch!

Being a fan means you will get our extra Facebook content sent to your Facebook stream, and we promise to not just use it as a list of links to our stories.  Thats lame.  We put new content in that stream, like stuff that couldn’t make it in to posts, funny photos, and some times ever talk about things we are planning for down the road.

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Good Kitty / Bad Kitty: Asher Roth at Home Nightclub

Good Kitty / Bad Kitty: Asher Roth at Home Nightclub

With a tip of the hat to Vice Magazine we are going to be doing a little thing called “Good Kitty / Bad Kitty” here on Punching Kitty.com for time to time.  We are going to show you some photos from a recent happening in St. Louis and let you know who was good and who was bad as a service the St. Louis area and beyond.

We thought we would kick this off with the photos taken by Nick Schnelle for the Riverfront Times at the Asher Roth performance at Home Nightclub on July 11th.

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Leisa Zigman Doesn’t Quite Get Twitter

From the Wikipedia page on Twitter:

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read each others’ updates, known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters, displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to other users – known as followers – who have subscribed to

Its that “up to 140 characters” thing that seems to be hard to understand for KSDK reporter, and recent focus of police officer ire, Leisa Zigman.

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Send Us Your All Star Photos!

kitty_headAll Star weekend is upon us St. Louis!  Celebrities and tons of other random people will be in town and its your duty to send us your stories, photos, and videos you capture of something crazy, stupid or have anything to do with a celeb!  Of course you can be anonymous if you wish, but we just want anything you can send us!

You can click on the right to tell your story to our Tip Line voicemail, or you can write it up and send it to [email protected]

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America’s Next Top Model Not Canceled Yet and Coming to St. Louis

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If you are a skinny girl, with plenty of attitude, very little brains and don’t mind being used and told you are going to have an awesome modeling career only to end up in a freaking Chili’s commercial 2 months later, then you are in luck!  America’s Next Top Model tryouts are coming to town!

Tomorrow, July 11th, Tyra’s posse will be looking for girls ages 18-27 that are over 5’7″.

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KSDK vs St. Louis’ Finest

KSDK vs St. Louis’ Finest

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It appears channel 5’s reporter Leisa Zigman didn’t feel reportery enough so she got out her fedora, tucked her press pass in the band and went off to uncover a scandal!  Long story short, she didn’t find one.  Instead, Zigman decided to do a “report” on St. Louis police officers parking in no-parking spaces throughout the city, including in front of their own station!  [Editor’s Note: Dun dun daaaaaaaaa!]

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Missed Connections: iLove You Apple Store Girl

Missed Connections: iLove You Apple Store Girl

apple_girlThe Apple Store is a great place.  What store has more cool stuff per square inch than the Apple Store?  None.  The only thing that could possibly make it better would be a cute girl, but what are the chances of finding a cute girl in a  computer store…Whhhhaaaaaaa?!

Kari at Galleria Apple Store – m4w – 26 (St. Louis)

Holy shit, you’re cute. I could go on and on but I’m already on thin ice posting this thing in the first place.

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If You Actually Got a Ticket to the All Star Game, Don’t Bring Anything

artsy_pictureAccording to Matthew Leach, the MLB.com writer that covers the Cardinals, pretty much nothing will be allowed past the gates for the All Star game because of the Presidential first pitch.

Here are his tweets from earlier today:

Working on story on stadium/city/etc procedures for ASG week. One thing mentioned: for the game itself, it’s essentially TSA security. #

“If you can’t take it on the airplane, you’re not going to be allowed to bring it in the building that day. ” – Joe Abernathy, stadium ops. #

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