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

Cardinals Dominate Cincinnati’s “Most Disliked Sports Personalities”

 Posted on June 22, 2011  |  The Editor

Cincinnati.com put a poll up to their readers to find out who the area’s most disliked sports personalities were. The amount of both former and current St. Louis Cardinals is hard to miss. Here’s the list (so you don’t have to click the source link an then click through the stupid slideshow): Chris Carpenter, current Cardinal pitcher (12) Jim Edmonds, former Cardinal and Reds outfielder (18) Michael Vick, Eagles Quarterback (24) [Read More]
cardinals  celebrity  cincinnati  Sports 

You Better Hurry If You Want to Have Midtown’s Del Taco Give You Diarrhea One Last Time

 Posted on June 22, 2011  |  The Editor

Though we once described our feelings for Del Taco thusly: Don’t care how late it is or hungry we are, we will never say yes to the fast food version of rib-jobbing a sweaty Mexican donkey ride guy. …we do appreciate the unique design of the “brown nipple of Midtown“, and as such, we were a little sad to hear the news that the Del Taco might be leveled for some generic retail building. [Read More]
del taco  food  midtown 

Pujols Contract Season: Totally Going Just Like They Planned It!

 Posted on June 21, 2011  |  The Editor

Just six months ago everything was coming up Pujols. He was getting offered the big money for his next contract, and he was turing it down for bigger money. His agent, Dan Lozano, was out there telling his client “Hell yeah you should go in to your walk-year without a contract! Think of the money we could be offered on the open market! We’re talking huge money Al! The only thing that could go bad is that you have a bad season, but lucky for us you’ve never had a bad season! [Read More]
albert pujols  baseball  cardinals 

St. Louis Has Really Stupid Twitter Trends

 Posted on June 20, 2011  |  The Editor

We think St. Louis is filled with smart intelligent people that use Twitter to say nothing but notably pithy quotes, but if you are to believe Trends St Louis, then everyone is a retard churning out nothing but song lyrics and offensive hash tags that are just barely one rung on the literary ladder above slamming their faces against the keyboard. (No, no, no…not you. Your tweets are great! We’re talking about the other people. [Read More]
andy strickland  social media  trends  twitter 

We’re Back!

 Posted on June 20, 2011  |  The Editor

It’s been a hectic two-week vacation, but we are back at the keyboard, tickling your lookin’ balls with the kind of finger magic and slightly dirty words that are usually only reserved for the most classy of summer hookups where you think she might be a little freak, but you don’t want to scare her off, so you just like kinda slap her ass a little…just hard enough where she can get into it, but soft enough so that if she gets all weird about it, you can just laugh and say “No! [Read More]
vacation 

Impromptu Vacation

 Posted on June 10, 2011  |  The Editor

Sorry everyone! We’ve traveling the last few days, but we thought we would have Internet access throughout…but that didn’t end up being the case, so we’re on vacation now we guess. There are definitely things we wanted to weigh in on, so we may try to get something written or worst case, just be late to the party when we get back to St. Louis. We’ll be back at it in a few days, and you would not believe how long it took us to write this on our phone with a shoddy cell connection. [Read More]
vacation 

The Top 5 Other Things The Cardinals Were Happy About

 Posted on June 6, 2011  |  The Editor

Yeah! Pujols looked like Pujols the other night against the Cubs when he dropped two bombs on them, the last of which in the 12th inning to seal the victory. Here’s what it looked like via the St. Louis Post Dispatch: A great moment to be sure with lots of happy little Cardinal faces…almost too happy. Sure a walk-off victory against the Cubs is great, but if you were really the best fans in baseball you would have kept watching the game and noticed a few other things followed Pujols down the baseline that elicited the same jubilant reaction. [Read More]
albert pujols  baseball  cardinals  photo  photoshop 

Cicadas Ruin Everything, Even the Past

 Posted on June 3, 2011  |  The Editor

There are few things worse than hearing the first sounds of St. Louis cicada invasion. They are the political talk show hosts of the insect world, going on and on all the time, making any kind of rational conversation nearly impossible. When even the crunchiest of hippie pause for a second before saying “Yes, all live is precious!” that’s called the Cicada Pause. No one likes these little bastards. Worse yet, every home movie you make during a St. [Read More]
cicadas  history 

KSDK’s Ann Rubin Isn’t Fazed By Traffic Accidents

 Posted on June 2, 2011  |  The Editor

Ann Rubin of KSDK lost her shiz just a little bit last night on the news when a fender bender happened behind her, just off camera. She made a little gasp, finished her sentence and then explained the situation before throwing it back to Kay Quinn who didn’t even ask if everyone was alright…what the hell Kay?! Everyone died. Are you happy now you didn’t wasted the time to ask? Feel good about yourself? [Read More]
accident  ann rubin  kay quinn  ksdk