For the past 3 years I’ve have a small (30 gallon) saltwater tank at work by my desk.
One of the first fish I bought for it was a blue tang, or “Darcy” as every visitor under the age of 12 calls it.
A few weeks after I got it it contracted Hole In Head Disease, a fish disease that is almost always fatal. I tried all the speculated remedies (the cause is unknown and therefore so is a cure), and eventually the fish died.
I scooped its body from the tank, put it in a cup, and started walking to the restroom to flush it. But halfway down the hall the unexpected happened… the fish started flopping in the cup.
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For most of my life I had a vague memory fluttering in my head. A witch, serving pancakes in a breakfast restaurant, that when you eat them make you happy. The spell was shown by ...
Yesterday (Sunday, April 15) I set out to walk from Liberty, MO to Olathe, KS. I started out at the courthouse in Liberty Square. I wanted to end at the courthouse in downtown Olathe ...
For the past few years I've been keeping a meticulous record of ever bar I have visited. While I have been listing them by name here, several people have mentioned that my list would be more useful ...
This past Friday afternoon Seth joined me for another walking barhopping trip, this one through the Greater Downtown Area.
Apart from being able to say that we walked 6.5 miles and had 16 drinks at 14 bars (plus one extra drink/bar ...
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On the left: The current 5-day forecast for McMurdo Station in Antarctica.
On the right: The current 5-day forecast for Kansas City, Missouri.
Throughout 2009 I had drinks at 150 bars that I’d never been to before. Not a record, but still more than I expected to see.
The bars were spread among 51 cities in 8 states. More than half were in Nebraska, with more in Omaha than any other city.
So, in order, here is a brief rundown of each of the 150. :) Enjoy!
MOKansas CitySouth Plaza
#1 in 2009(#531 overall)
TuesdayJanuary 13
The Peanut (details)5000 Main (map)Kansas City, MO 64112(816) 753-94995.0 miles S from homeArguably the best of …
Wanting to get a few more bars in before 2009 comes to an end, I grabbed one of my brothers at headed east to fill in one of the holes in my map.
(See also: Scoot’s Complete Bar List)
We started our Saturday afternoon in Grain Valley, where we visited a bar that had only just had its grand opening a week earlier…
Seriously, this is getting ridiculous. After this and this and this it’s clear they haven’t a clue about showing proper respect for the Flag.
And now they’re at it again. Pearl Harbor Day was a week ago. And when December 8 arrived, everyone else paid attention and raised their flags back to full glory. But not the Jackson County Courthouse. They simply forgot all about it and are reliving Pearl Harbor day after day after day.
The following question woke me up in the middle of the night last night for who-knows-what reason, and I pondered it for several minutes before drifting back to sleep:
“Why do we have cole slaw?”
I mean really, why does it exist?
Here we have a food item that quite clearly appeals to none of the five senses.
Sight: It looks slimy, and it is white to off-white with flecks of orange, green, and purple. None of these are colors that particularly stimulate the brain to provide a sensation of appetite.
Smell: The scent is …
From a KCMO press release issued yesterday:
“The City of Kansas City, Mo., Public Works Department is alerting motorists that many streets in the Downtown and Crossroads areas will be temporarily closed at various times from Nov. 19 through Nov. 22. These closures are being made to accommodate the National Catholic Youth Conference.”
Why are these closures and parking restrictions taking place? So that the 300 school buses that will be used to shuttle attendees between their hotels and the conference will have a place to idle.
So, for four days this weekend, …
When Pizza Bar — the replacement for the failed Vinino in the Power & Light District — was preparing to open, the PR buzz spoke of skilled pizza chefs, top quality ingredients, and true New York Style pizza.
Well, I suppose they probably do sell frozen pizza in New York. Pizza Bar’s pizza tasted nothing like anything I’ve had in NY, but plenty like what I’ve had from a freezer box or a run-of-the-mill grocery store deli.
The other day I watched an old episode of “Criminal Minds” in which the team flew to Kansas City to investigate a serial killer. As in Kansas City, KS… which was portrayed as the main city, “across the river” from the Missouri side.
These two fallacies irritated me at the time. Then, today, I was looking to to see what exactly Star Wars In Concert is all about, and under Tour Dates I saw the following:
“Kansas City, KS — Sprint Center”
This annoyed me enough that I typed the phrase “kansas city …
