The jokes of comedy: What have we learned this year? For one thing, we learned that a joke whose punchline is "Lipstick!!!" is always way funnier and more handicapped-accessible if you point to your lipstick when you tell it. Men: This also works for jokes about cocks. Nothing enhances a joke like a helpful little pantomime, or, in the case of saggy old Robin Williams, who looks like he recently opened the Ark of the Covenant, making parenthetical non-sequiturs in the voices of a faith-healing
Did you know that there's an office at 635 Woodland that collects reports from local police departments about suspicious activities in the metro area and analyzes them for terrorist threats? And that "suspicious activities" can include taking pictures of questionable aesthetic value, lurking around potential terrorist targets like power plants and oil refineries, or looking up subversive stuff on the 'net?
Amateur photographers who like staging photo shoots in the West Bottoms, you might wan
Over the past several months, Bombay Sapphire has spoken to more than 1,000 bartenders in a search for what will be the "Hottest Trends in Cocktail Culture for 2010." Apparently, vegetables and vinegar will be leading a trend towards savory drinks. But Bombay still recognized a sweet drink from one of Kansas City's bartenders -- Noah Robinson of the M&S Grill. His entry in the search for the country's most interesting bartender was the Jade Elixir, a combination of citrus, honey dew, gin