%{}% According to the very, very fiscally healthy New York Times, Pres. Barack Obama’s new budget will TAX THE RICH to pay for the health care of the poor, like Robin Hood. This is what Robin Hoods look like: That’s your mom and dad, you guys. They are robbing from the rich and giving to the poor. Over the last…
%{}% I wish I had a truck that transforms into an espresso cart, you guys, that is what I would ask for if I found a wish-granting magical fish, perhaps in a babbling brook, say, flowing out of a hidden grotto. Because when I’m bored and waiting outside the goddamn craft store for my girlfriend to get done picking out…
%{}% This is a new feature in which I tell you what’s hot and what’s not in 2009, according to my dog: Categories: News Tags: Hot or Not in 2009
The 2009 Responsible Pork Symposium was supposed to be in Kansas City this week. Then everyone lost their money and ruined it. This year’s summit was canceled because everyone’s completely broke, the Responsible Pork Web site says. That includes pork producers who probably can’t afford a plane ticket and stay, even if a room at the Airport Hilton comes at…
%{}% The Mid-America Regional Council stepped outside wearing its raincoat and galoshes, unfurled its money umbrella and waited for the torrent of federal stimulus money to come raining down all over it. Because when federal stimulus money comes raining down out of the sky, you’re going to get fucking soaked with money. Then, realizing the sun was still shining and…
Meet the new young human wreckage of today, aka Josephine Co. I’m all for shenanigans on tape, but this is just frightening, not to mention NSFW. The kids these days, I swear… Categories: Music Tags: emokids gone wild, Josephine Collective, shenanigans
Sometime around midnight, Airborne Toxic Event will not be crooning to a crowd at the Jackpot’s Web site in Lawrence. The overly dramatic California rockers have canceled tonight’s gig, along with tomorrow night’s show in Des Moines, Iowa, according to MySpace. Refunds for the Jackpot show will be offered at the point of purchase, according to the venue’s Web site….
Due, presumably, to popular demand, British buzz band the Ting Tings will play not one but two shows on Tuesday, April 7, at the Record Bar. For the first show, which is all-ages, the doors open at 5:30, show starts at 6, done by 9 p.m. CHANGEOVER. Doors open at 9:30 for the second show. Tickets for both shows are…
%{}% We all know that The Kansas City Star will be going through a fourth round of layoffs soon (I’ve heard early March), but we don’t know who or what they’ll be cutting. Until maybe yesterday. On his Bottom Line Communications blog, John Landsberg wrote that Chris here. I told Justin I was going to interrupt his next blog post…
Black Clover has leaked a song from the upcoming Mac Lethal release Special Reserve 4, and if you’re like me, you’re thinking, Four? How did I miss one through three?. Hey, at least Mac’s giving his fans plenty of fresh material, like, pretty much ’round the clock. In fact, this past Saturday, Lethalville put out the call for extras to…
%{}% OH HAHA, this is hilarious, the way things that are sad and make you want to smash your face against the nearest flat surface are absolutely hilarious. I should stipulate in advance that in order to make it all the way through the next sentence, I am totally going to have to stop in the middle for a wholesome…
Have you ever heard of the house wren? For birds, they’re huge assholes. Any ornithologists reading this are welcome to correct our admittedly limited expertise, but they build nests everywhere just so the females will have multiple choices of where to lay their eggs, and if they come across a spot that already has eggs in it, they peck holes in the eggs and kick…
%{}% Howdy, y’all, I’m Bobby Jindal, Governor of the great state of Louisiana. It’s just inspirin’ as the Blessed Virgin Mary’s face on a whole bag o’ tortillas seein’ America’s first black president givin’ his very first address to a joint session o’ congress with all the fixin’s an’ the trappin’s and the what-have-you’s. But as my pappy used to…
You have to admire a celebrity who isn’t afraid to drop their pants… unless that celebrity is named Pee Wee Hermann. Too easy? I apologize. Celebrity chef and buttttterrrr-lover Paula Deen was at the Food Network’s South Beach Wine & Food Festival when our sister food blog in Miami, Short Order, caught the beginning of her act — which can…
Right about now, scores of Missourians are shaking their piggy banks at state legislators in Jefferson City. When former Governor Matt Blunt kicked thousands off the Medicaid roles in 2005, disabled and elderly residents were told to do without basics like hearing aids. The outrage over the cuts led to animated protests, with activists dumping prosthetic limbs in the rotunda and chaining themselves to the doors…
Shon Pernice was arrested today for trying to steal a gun, KMBC Channel 9 reported. I’m working on getting the probable cause statement. Pernice’s wife Renee disappeared in early January. Detectives are now calling the investigation into her disappearance a “death investigation.” More when I know it. Categories: News Tags: Renee Pernice, Shon Pernice
Due to so much local stuff going on at the beginning of this week, I’m just now getting around to telling you that I spent this past weekend accomplishing one of my bucket-list items — judging a beer competition. It was not the boozy, raucous event that I had expected, which may have something to do with the fact it…
Flickr: Vincent.M If you weren’t able to make it to see Dr. Seps at 801 Chophouse last night but had your heart set on attending a wine dinner in the Power & Light District this week, Vinino’s Wine Bar has a four-course, four-wine monthly dinner tonight at 7. The $45-per-person meal doesn’t have a cutesy theme, nor is it tied…
%{}% Friday, the Tivoli will start running both parts of Steven Soderberg’s biographical Che as one four-and-a-half-hour-long presentation, without all the extras like “previews,” or “ending credits,” but with a ten-minute intermission which presumably occurs EXACTLY IN THE MIDDLE of Che Guevera’s life, even if he’s in the middle of a sentence or something, or else it’s not an “authentic”…
%{}% Tropicana I’m beginning to suspect Tropicana is just trying to drum up free press at this point. One month after announcing its new packaging that did away with the classic straw-in-an-orange logo, it’s bringing it back because of demand. The New York Times is calling this fiasco “Pepsi Co now has its own version of New Coke.” Pepsi owns…
