A while back my friend B hit me up with a proposal.   He needed to pick up a piece of furniture for his wife from her grandmother’s house in Macon, Georgia.
“Why don’t you ride with me to go get it?” he asked.   “We can spend 2 days driving down there, then 4 days driving back doing what we love to do.”
Hmmm…  a six-day-long barhopping adventure?   How could I possibly say ‘no’ to that?!?
We set out on Veteran’s Day — November 11, 2010, for a six-day journey that would include our …

For the past several months, Tony’s Kansas City has been bashing the composite sketch of the Waldo rapist as being terrible and not looking like anyone.
Then an arrest came this week, and the suspect does indeed look a lot like the composite sketch.  The lips on the sketch are a too thick and the sketch was deliberately drawn without age-defining features since the ages guessed by the victims varied so widely, but to me it looks very close.
TKC continues to deny that the sketch looks anything like the suspect, but …

Question 1: You find yourself driving the wrong way on a one-way street. Do you…

Speed up and drive as fast as you can to the far end of the street, despite the fact that no one entering traffic or stepping off a sidewalk will be looking in your direction?
Honk at all the incoming traffic for going the “wrong” way?
Get off this street as soon as possible by turning the wrong way on the first available one-way cross street?

If you chose any of the above, congratulations! …

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.

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.