Man About Town KC

Thiebaud was known for his paintings of pie slices, cakes and candy, but I have always been in love with his cityscapes.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

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Kansas City airport evacuated as authorities, including the FBI, investigate a potential threat Portions of Kansas City International Airport were being evacuated Sunday afternoon as authorities looked into a potential threat.

Portions of Kansas City International Airport were being evacuated Sunday afternoon as authorities looked into a potential threat.

The truth about World Cup ticket demand and why USA’s opener has struggled to sell out — The Athletic Six days after FIFA president Gianni Infantino claimed that “every” 2026 World Cup match is “already sold out,” FIFA, out of nowhere, launched an effort to sell World Cup tickets.

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An architectural watercolor painting.

A watercolor painting of wrestler Adam Page.

In light of the bigoted new anti-trans law in Kansas, I’m launching a charity auction to benefit Trans Continental Pipeline.

I’ll do a 12x16 watercolor painting of the auction winner’s choice. Wrestling, superhero, movie, wedding picture, pets, whatever you want!
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God bless America.

The Leimkuhler house in North Kansas City was moved, but I do not know what year.

Anthropic's Claude overtakes ChatGPT in App Store as users boycott over OpenAI's $200 million Pentagon contract | Fortune Protest campaigns across Reddit and X may have helped drive users away from OpenAI.

Anthropic’s Claude climbed to the No. 1 spot on Apple’s App Store, dethroning ChatGPT just days after OpenAI announced they company had supplanted Anthropic by striking a deal with the U.S. Department of War. https://bit.ly/4aJA0Ui

Did Jack the Ripper Once Call St. Louis Home? Francis Tumblety: The Strange Story of a Strange Man

If you have St. Louis connections or just appreciate urban culture and history, check out the Unseen St. Louis Substack.

This edition I found fascinating—St. Louis-related or not.

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If only Alamo wasn’t a bunch of dicks.

Just ONE of the F-15 jets that were destroyed in Kuwait cost the same amount as the entire KC Streetcar downtown starter line project.

Streetcars, rails, construction jobs, maintenance facility, wires... all of it.

Don't let them tell you we can't afford high quality modern transit.

"Thirty EB-5 investors haven't received $500,000 repayments from MFH Properties...."

"Investors in MFH Properties include Mariner Holdings CEO Marty Bicknell and Platform Ventures founders Ryan and Terry Anderson."

It’s amazing how not a single journalist will ask him to name the 8 wars he had stopped.

For the $99 deal, that is. TIA.

Is there a broadcast schedule somewhere?

FACT FOCUS: A look at Trump's false and misleading claims ahead of the State of the Union President Donald Trump is delivering the first State of the Union address of his second term. Priorities for the Republican’s administration have centered largely on the economy, immigration, crime, e...

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Email to USA Hockey

Formal invitation to the hockey team sent,,, if any people with connections to the hockey team wanna have them email my team my bio. I’m for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

“As Karen got to know the guards at the … ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. ‘Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,’ Karen says.”

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew https://theonion.com/aide-wearily-begins-5th-explanation-of-why-trump-cant-pardon-prince-andrew/

I helped produce marketing videos for this building shortly after the Fed moved. I don’t remember the developer/client then.

It’s a shame this building can’t attract a developer with real know-how and sufficient resources.

Maybe a company not going through bankruptcies like the current one.

I’ve never been certain of what to do at this turn.

Reset Kansas City’s future. Build a new Royals stadium at Truman and Troost | Opinion — The Kansas City Star What better place to honor our rich baseball history while also breaking a major socioeconomic barrier? | Opinion

This is the answer.

Connecting Crossroads and 18th & Vine. Downtown location. Highway access. History. Development potential. Existing restaurants, bars, and entertainment. Transit, including streetcar. Gates, Arthur Bryant’s, just like old times.

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Will be cool when all the Epstein pedofiles hiding in America can no longer travel for fear for being arrested.

Prairie Village developer linked to sale of Texas warehouses for ICE detention facility Flint Development has reportedly sold warehouse property near El Paso, Texas, to build an 8,500-bed immigration detention center. The company currently has several properties in the Kansas City metro.

Flint Development has reportedly sold warehouse property near El Paso, Texas, to build an 8,500-bed immigration detention center. The company currently has several properties in the Kansas City metro. (@johnsoncountypost.bsky.social)

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert averages roughly 2.4 million–2.7 million total viewers per night. The interview with James Talarico that the FCC (Trump) and cowardly CBS tried to suppress has more than 5 million views and counting.

“Yada yada yada, blah blah blah.”
—John Sherman

Wow.

The entire city budget for Lee's Summit, a city with ~107,000 people, is $379m, with $30m budgeted for law enforcement. About 8% of the overall total.

Kansas City MO, a city with ~520,000 people, has $734m dedicated to public safety. About 29% of the entire city budget.

Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

I never would have seen this if the FCC and CBS hadn't tried to suppress it. Trump fears Texas could turn blue. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

Stephen Colbert says CBS didn't air interview out of fear of FCC Colbert kicked off Monday's episode of "The Late Show" by saying that the network's lawyers told him he could not have Texas state Rep. James Talarico on the broadcast.

CBS is Trump TV. Less than two months after CBS News suddenly pulled a report on the regime’s prison camps, CBS lawyers told Stephen Colbert that he couldn’t air an interview with a Texas Democratic candidate.

This is what complicity looks like.