In Case You Missed It

By CHRIS PACKHAM

• A dude in Wichita named Marcus Johnson stuck it to The Man by driving his Lincoln Town Car straight through The Man’s house, City Hall, causing a reported $200,000 in damage. Nadia Pflaum linked a YouTube video of a camcorder video of a web video of Johnson’s arraignment. That’s “One… two… three levels of abstraction! AH AH AH AH AH!”

• David Martin commented on Hillary Clinton’s new campaign office in the accursed Metropolitan Towers building at 75th Street and Holmes – from whence no political campaign can escape alive! If only Democrats would learn from the horrifying example of the Alvin Brooks campaign. “That’s old man Abnos’ Metropolitan Towers building… Nobody goes in there anymore!”

• Peter Rugg spoke with Canadian filmmakers Ashley Baylen and Sarah Bauder, who are relying on, and documenting, the kindness of strangers.

• The Pitch is now officially at the vanguard of sites that post Web videos of camcorders pointing at video screens. Bonus: This one is extra annoying, featuring phrases like “Off the hook” (twice!), “Check your attitude at the door,” and “I’m the guy who colors outside the lines!” Note: We’re offering a $10 reward to anyone who has ever actually seen Stretch cook anything at Grinders in real life.

• Many readers commented on Justin Kendall’s feature story about the murders of Anthony Rios and Olivia Raya. Some of those readers reached the expressive limits of prose, and had to resort to rapping on Justin’s voice mail.

• Carolyn Szczepanski wrote about Kansas City Explorer tennis player Jarmila Gajdosova, who took six games from reigning Australian Open champ Serena Williams.

• Monica Watrous doesn’t read her own newspaper, and at a certain point you just have to call her on it. Which C.J. Janovy did. C.J. also wrote about Mayor Mark Funkhouser sort of thinking out loud about maybe fleshing out the police force by waiving the requirement that police recruits have felony-free records.

Meanwhile, on the Wayward Blog

• On the Wayward Blog’s Monday Music Junkie, Andy Vihstadt unhinged his jaw and swallowed tracks by the Gutter Twins, Futureheads, Del tha Funkee Homosapien and She and Him. Then he lay bloated with his distended belly to the sun, like a python digesting a baby rabbit.

• My empty, symbolic legislative resolution denouncing gangsta rap brings all the boys to the yard. They’re like, “It’s better than Conference Committee Report Brief S.B. 23.” Damn right, it’s better than Conference Committee Report Brief S.B. 23. I could second your motion introducing the resolution to the floor, but I would have to ensure that we have a quorum.

• Nadia Pflaum wrote about a barroom brawl at the Peanut.