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

Kyle Turley on Weed: “That Would be the One Bob.”

 Posted on February 1, 2011  |  The Editor

A recent Washington University School of Medicine study discussed the use, or rather misuse, of painkillers by current and former NFL players. The study, commissioned by ESPN’s Outside the Lines, found that 52 percent of former players used prescription pain meds during their active days, and 15 percent of that group admitted to misusing drugs in the last month. “That’s a very large number in a population that, at that age, we wouldn’t expect to see much use of these substances at all,” Compton said. [Read More]
celebrity  espn  Health  kyle turley  medication  outside the lines  pot  weed 

Brad Penny Was Totally Going to Pitch For the Cardinals in the Playoffs, but Well, You Know

 Posted on January 31, 2011  |  The Editor

Former Cardinal and perma-injured starting pitcher Brad Penny has been 20 times more interesting this off-season that he was in his official time as a Cardinal. To review, Penny signed with the Cardinals and pitched nine games all season. He hit a grad slam in that ninth game and never came back. Brillant! It’s a theatre technique called a “black out”. Look it up. Since the season’s conclusion, Penny has filled his time by whining on Twitter and getting dumped on by everyone. [Read More]
baseball  brad penny  cardinals  mlb  tigers 

We’re All Going to Die: “Historic” Winter Storm is Coming

 Posted on January 31, 2011  |  The Editor

It’s all over people! The Snowpolocypse is upon us! Go to Home Depot and get some road salt even though you’ve never used it before! Go kick an old lady in her flappy neck to get that last can of green beans. It’s time to get serious people! Snow! Ice! Ahhhh! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! KMOV (Channel 4): This could be one of those devastating storms when you have power outages and snow over a foot. [Read More]
1982  weather  winter storm 

Anyone Know How to Sign “Stop Hitting Me With Your Car!”?

 Posted on January 31, 2011  |  The Editor

A Maryland Heights man, Andrew Stcyr, 24, had an interpreter (Stcyr is deaf) call the police to file a report on a man for bashing in the windshield of his car. Sure, the man broke Stcyr’s windshield only after Stcyr hit him with his car…twice…but I mean still. Can’t be braking windshield of deaf dudes bro. Also, Stcyr totally signed “Look out bitch!” right before he ran him over. Not his fault he was looking a different direction and can’t hear sign language or even understand it if he had seen it. [Read More]
hit and run  maryland heights 

Back at Full Strength Monday

 Posted on January 28, 2011  |  The Editor

Sorry everyone for the spotty posting schedule, but we’ve been out of town all week, with limited time to research all the silly things you people do and then make fun of you about it.

Rest assured we will be back at 100% full strength starting Monday!

Until then, please enjoy this photo of kittens celebrating our recent award:

Photo Credit: Cute Overload

sorry 

Virginia Kerr is a Good Sport

 Posted on January 26, 2011  |  The Editor

To the winners go the spoils…assuming the winners is us being selected as the Best Local Celebrity Blog by the RFT and spoils mean being discussed on KMOV’s Great Day St. Louis. They get to us at the end, and we didn’t get a screen shot because we used naughty language in our post earlier today. Oh well. The important thing is that Virginia Kerr is a good sport! We don’t particularly care if our “targets” don’t get the joke, but it sure is nice when they do. [Read More]
great day st. louis  kmov  press  virginia kerr 

Thanks RFT: We’re the Best “Local Celebrity Site”

 Posted on January 26, 2011  |  The Editor

We want to thank the Riverfront Times for selecting us as the “Best Local Celebrity Site” in their Web Awards! Hell, we even made the cover (That’s us above with or logo look-a-like cat.) We mentioned before we had made the list of finalists, but here’s what the judges had to say on our selection: This is the only nominee that has daily updates and includes “celebrities” with some kind of tie to St. [Read More]
awards  press  riverfront times 

The United States of Shame Featuring Your Poor Ass

 Posted on January 26, 2011  |  The Editor

Pleated Jeans.com recently put together this map of our United States with each state decorated by one state that it is worst in the nation in. What better day to post this than on the day after our President’s State of the Union address? Oh, I know what you’re thinking, guy with knife lodged in his belly, but Missouri isn’t the nation’s worst place for crime, that’s just St. Louis. The wise map picked bankruptcy as Missouri’s “best” worst ranking. [Read More]
bankruptcy  map  missouri  weird 

John G is a Really Good Dancer

 Posted on January 25, 2011  |  The Editor

“John G” is a professional karaoke singer somehow. This is his story we found on YouTube.

He lives in St. Louis so it makes sense.

If you get that dumb-founded hypnotized feeling after watching the video it’s because of his crazy awesome dance moves…or because you just realized someone can be considered a “professional karaoke singer”.

via the Twilight Zone or something equally f*cked up but actually real.

karaoke  youtube 

Counting Down to Pujols’ New Contract Deadline

 Posted on January 24, 2011  |  The Editor

Less than a month remains until St. Louis baseball legend Albert Pujols’ self-defined deadline for when contract talks between him and the Cardinals need to be done or he will go to free agency. Instead of updating you daily like all the local sports sources have already started to do, we’re just going to put up a little countdown clock. Feel free to just stare at that whenever you’d like. [Read More]
albert pujols  cardinals  contract