Subject: Justin Kendall

• Grab Your Grimmett

  January 31, 2007

• Top Ten Reasons to Bring the Supersonics to KC

  May 22, 2007

• A Message from Phill Kline's People

  June 29, 2007

• In Case You Missed It

  January 12, 2008

• In Case You Missed It

  January 19, 2008

• Daily Briefs: Die-a-Beetus, Free Money From the Government, Guess Who God Hates

  January 23, 2008

• In Case You Missed It

  January 26, 2008

• In Case You Missed It

  February 1, 2008

• Daily Briefs: Suburban Blight, the Phelpses, Smoking Ban Fatalities

  April 4, 2008

• Rockfest Backwash: Tweets, tats, tits and randomness from the show.

  We reviewed the experience, now its time to see what has washed up on the Web since hard rock hooligans took over Liberty Memorial Park this past Saturday. But first, check out this amazing and oddly MO-centric (apparent) prison tat. credit: Berry AndersonYou may have caged this bird for a time, Missouri, be he lived to rock -- shirtless -- again! Viral video-wise, I haven't found anything to compare with last year's video of a hooligan taking on the cops, but here's a quickie stitched toget

  June 1, 2009

• Snuffleupagus

  April 2, 2009

• My Summer Vacation Partying with Head East in Omaha

  September 12, 2008

• Apologies for professional athletes made easy!

  October 23, 2008

• Best Halloween costume ever

  October 31, 2008

• Jason Whitlock has to poo

  By JUSTIN KENDALL First George Brett, and now self-proclaimed "Big Sexy." Deadspin has the latest Facebook status update from Star columnist Jason Whitlock. It ain't pretty.

  November 13, 2008

• Stealing Time: Obama, KCTV, JoCo GOP, Erin

  By JUSTIN KENDALL Brilliant at Breakfast is not happy with the "liberal" Wichita Eagle for attaching a photo of Barack Obama to a story on George Tiller's pre-trial hearing. Obama isn't a part of the Kline-Morrison-Tiller hate triangle, but he is considering repealing a global gag on overseas family planning groups, one that denies them U.S. funding if they mention the "a" word. "First Newsweek calls him the Antichrist, and now this?" Brilliant at Breakfast asks. "Has the entire journalism pro

  November 19, 2008

• Stealing Time: Troll calls Derek Donovan a douche

  It's hard out there for our buddy, Derek Donovan. The Kansas City Star's reader representative tries to explain why the daily dropped anonymous commenting from its Web site (a good move) and gets promptly called a douche bag. Guess the trolls still take their toll. Did you notice that Lewis Diuguid's column ended? News to me. Bottom Line points out that Diuguid doesn't sound happy about the death of his column. At least he still has a job.Midtown Miscreant reminds you why you should always have

  December 8, 2008

• Daily Briefs: In which TV shows are dismissively encapsulated as drinking games

  ARE YOU READY FOR SOME CHIEFSBALL? While I was messing around with the hobbit name generator, I heard on the radio that someone named "Carl Peterson" (hobbit name: Popo Sandydowns) has resigned from his position as first-base coach for the Kansas City Chiefs ball club. Now who will smack the butts of the point guards while they wait in the on-deck circle? I guess they'll have to hire somebody. ATTENTION LADIES: I don't know much about sports, but I have enormous hands, and I can palm a basketba

  December 16, 2008

• Parents regret not reporting boy missing ... after nine years

  Lovely story out of Sedgwick County, Kansas, where a pre-teen boy named Adam Herrman goes missing in 1999 and his adoptive parents patiently wait until just a few weeks ago to report him missing. Spectacular parenting, Doug and Valerie Herrman. But the money quotes come from the Herrman's attorney, Warner Eisenbise, who said the boy's parents "really rue the fact that they didn't" report him missing, "feel very guilty" and "were very worried about him." Oh, so clearly. -- Justin Kendall

  January 6, 2009

• Ass cracks and funny books

  After Pitch art director Zachary Trover's experience at B-Bop Comics last week, Justin Kendall and I went to Saturday's comic convention at the Doubletree Hotel in Overland Park. We hoped this would provide us with an opportunity to write about the more intelligent side of the comic world. We were wrong.

  February 2, 2009

• Daily Briefs: The Journalists of Journalism

  SCARY STORY, if you're a newspaper person such as a Dan Margolies, Legal Affairs columnist for The Kansas City Star and undefeated 1987 Missouri State arm wrestling champion, or a Jim Davis, the cartoonist who has personally slaved over every panel of the Garfield comic strip for the last 30 years because of his awesome integrity. Or really, anyone else who works in newspapers. The very, very fiscally solvent and not-at-all close to bankruptcy New York Times reports today that "some economists

  March 12, 2009

• Strip Tips

  September 22, 2005

• Prize Package

  June 8, 2006

• Seeing Stars

  July 20, 2006

• Calling All Karls

  November 23, 2006

• Who says public officials won’t say what they’re really thinking?

  March 19, 2009

• In the new economy, even jackasses have to work a little harder

  February 26, 2009

• Lovetown

  February 12, 2009

• Big-Screen View

  January 15, 2009

• Letters from the week of January 8

  January 8, 2009

• Power & Flight

  The BPU hires detectives, and the FAA fails to hire.

  November 13, 2008

• Letters

  June 12, 2008

• Letters for the week of April 10

  April 10, 2008

• Cheap Like Us

  Whether it's grocery-store coupons, liquor or music, we all need a deal sometimes.

  January 31, 2008

• Readers Tell Sex Police: Get Off

  After all, porn is one of the reasons God gave us eyes.

  November 8, 2007

• letters from the week of september 27

  September 27, 2007

• letters from the week of September 20

  September 20, 2007

• If you love protests so much, why don’t you marry one?

  April 23, 2009

• Letters from the week of June 14

  June 14, 2007

• Letters from the week of June 7

  Justin Kendall nailed this piece. Well-written, like a twisted pulp story. It could become a blockbuster movie.

  June 7, 2007

• Letters from the week of April 5

  “Every day, injured soldiers return from Iraq to suffer more than they should.”

  April 5, 2007

• Evel Doer

  Letters from the week of January 26

  January 26, 2006

• Free Fall

  Letters from the week of December 15, 2005

  December 15, 2005

• Spinning the Span

  August 18, 2005

• Low Rise

  May 14, 2009

• More throw in on DJ Jazzy Jeff allegedly getting thrown out of Power & Light

  As my colleague Justin Kendall reported early this morning on the Plog, DJ Jazzy Jeff had his set cut short last night at Power and Light for, I was told by witnesses, "playing hip-hop." I was at the show, but at the moment Jazzy and his MC, Skillz, allegedly got escorted out, I was inside of Raglan freakin' Road, buying a drink. Gah! The crowd was not rowdy at all. It was the most diverse crowd I've seen at P&L, and everyone seemed to be enjoying Jazzy's jams. I don't know what happened. Afterw

  June 7, 2009

• BPU boss keeps job for some reason

  The Kansas City Kansan reports that Board of Public Utilities General Manager Don Gray gets to keep his $170,000-a-year job for at least the next 18 months.BPUDon GrayPitch staff writer Justin Kendall has written extensively about the BPU, which provides water and electricity services. His stories -- and the eventual indictments against BPU officials -- depict a place where functionaries live like kings and accountability is virtually nonexistent. Sort of like the athletic department at Kansas S

  July 2, 2009

• This dork will take you to geek Valhalla

  Self-described "world's first full time professional video gamer" and Kansas City native Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendell wants to take you to the Woodstock of gaming. All you have to ​do is ask. Wendell just announced a contest for one lucky winner to get an all-expense paid trip to QuakeCon 2009 -- the four-day Quake contest starting August 13 at the Gaylord Texan Resort in Grapevine, Texas. All you have to do is e-mail the man at quakecon@fatal1ty.com with your name, address, gaming

  August 6, 2009

• For those who comment, we salute you ...

  ​Like Morrissey, the more we ignore Phill Kline, the closer he gets. When Justin Kendall pointed out yesterday that Kline's August 11 blog attack on "Obamacare" put the ex-Kansas attorney general just a little to the right of David Koresh's Branch Davidians, fur flew in the comments.Take, for example, "Allen": When government says,"thou shalt have an hysterectomy or vasectomy to save the general population," you pretty much will have to do it.No, really. Take Allen, someone.Hang on. Commenter

  August 14, 2009

• Ex-employees charged with poisoning salsa at Mi Ranchito

  Justin Kendall has the story of two former employees accused of poisoning the salsa at Mi Ranchito in Lenexa over on the Plog. Husband-and-wife duo Arnoldo Bazan, 30, and Yini De La Torre, 19, are accused of mixing a Methomyl-based pesticide into salsa and serving it to customers at Mi Ranchito's Lenexa location. Court documents allege that Bazan and De La Torre plotted to poison Mi Ranchito's customers, hoping to hurt the restaurant's business as well as hoping the blame would fall on

  November 6, 2009