Archive for the ‘ Kansas City ’ Category
I went for a morning walk (aka ‘Starbucks run’) and took this picture. Not a person in sight, but that will all change in a few hours. [ READ MORE ]
I think it was Adam that mentioned googlemaps somewhere (I can’t find it now), but I decided to do one for our last year on the Plaza. Enjoy. [ READ MORE ]
I got a campus-wide email this evening from the UMKC police. They are looking for a suspect who ‘exposed himself’ with the following description. The suspect is described as an African American or Hispanic male, possibly interracial; 5’10; 175 pounds; medium build; black curly hair; and light colored eyes.The suspect was reported as having abnormally small [ READ MORE ]
I was surfing around lawrence.com the other day and came across Arthur Dodge and the Horsefeathers. I listened to one of their mp3s, Anything To Do With the Moonlight and was instantly hooked. He reminds of a young Bruce Springsteen (of course I just recently learned what a young Boss even sounded like) and maybe [ READ MORE ]
On my drive into work this morning I caught the tail-end of a story about the local Lawrence media company, The World Co. Among other entities, they run ljworld.com and the hip lawrence.com. You can listen to the story, but it basically says how much ahead of its peers The World Co. is by running [ READ MORE ]
I can’t believe it! I accidently saw Rachel’s email (she told me not to look because she was expecting some email from all her boyfriends – how could I not look?) and to my surprise I saw an email from TICKETMASTER. That means only one thing – concerts. But who could we be seeing? My [ READ MORE ]
The Royals home opener is today. I enjoy the drive into work on home-opener day because the The KC Star employees are always out selling papers on every street corner all over KC. [ READ MORE ]
Rachel and I went down to the Crossroads Arts District this afternoon and left somewhat disappointed. I had seen a new ‘Dry Goods’ shop Friday and thought it might be fun to check it out. It turns out that ‘dry goods’ means ’stuff I don’t want.’ I don’t know what I was expecting them to [ READ MORE ]
Deadly Bird Flu Could Spread Beyond Asia but not to KC. Don’t worry about the bird flu making its way to Kansas City. Last night while out on an evening walk, Rachel and I saw a ‘Bird Patrol’ vehicle circling through the Plaza. It was a really old Bronco II with a flashing orange light. I [ READ MORE ]