A Preview of the New Shout! Bookmarklet
Here’s the preview video I’ve made (and no one’s cared to watch) about the new beta Shout! submitting bookmarklet:
ToastedRav.com/Shout Bookmarklet v1.1 Preview from Mike Flynn on Vimeo.
Check out Shout! and submit your stories at toastedrav.com/shout
Today’s Ugly Ass Website: KMOX.com
For those not from St. Louis, KMOX is a really big and old new radio station. Below is their website located at kmox.com. Clearly they aren’t familiar with what makes a good website and thus, they are today’s Ugly Ass Website:
Click on it for the full size.
24 Hot Dogs in 24 Hours at 24 Places: 9.11.2008
UPDATE: I forgot to mention, that if you want even MORE updates throughout the day, be sure to check my Twitter account and this post along with the ToastedRav.com page. Hint: Hell Yeah Bitch! .com will have the stuff we can’t say on the “family” website.
Tomorrow is 9/11. Don’t waste the day sitting around and watching reenactments on MSNBC, thats boring! Do something exciting and come for a stop (or two, or 24!) on ToastedRav.com’s Tour de Frankfurter!
Right now you are saying to yourself: “I really think I should watch all the 9/11 stuff because I’m an American and I think its the law or some junk…but it does intrigue me! Tell me more about this Tour de Frankfurter.”
From our site (because I’m too lazy to type it again):
Think it’s possible to eat 24 hot dogs at 24 places in 24 hours in this town? The ToastedRav staff is combing the town to find out. We’re touring St. Louis for 24 hours, stopping at two dozen places, eating a hot dog at each one. It’s a feat that the ToastedRav doctors have strongly advised us not to attempt. But seriously, what do doctors really know anyway? This ill-advised journey that’s already getting some attention (and here and here and here) and we’re nearly certain we’ll regret it on September 12…but we’ll puke on that bridge when we get there.
Thats way better right?! I’m so excited I can’t even remember what 9/11 is all about now! …it was something about terrorists and AIDS right?
Check out the schedule and all kinds of other fun stuff at the post on ToastedRav.com!
Those People Aren’t From St. Louis.
By now, all the national news networks have successfully beat the story of the two kidnapped boys found together in one Michael Devlin’s apartment. Its an amazing story, no doubt, and there is some interesting technology / gaming links being explored on BoingBoing, but thats not what I want to talk about today. Today I’m here to set the record straight on where all of those very nice and noble, but totally redneck people the networks keep interviewing in relation to this story.
They aren’t from St. Louis.
On the local news they have been correctly described as being from their small town from outside St. Louis, but on the national news, I keep noticing a redneck interview with “St. Louis resident and neighbor to…blah blah blah.” That description is simply not going to cut it. The large man that for some reason where camouflage to work is not from St. Louis, he is from a small town roughly an hour from St. Louis. For the record, I am from St. Louis, and I am not currently and do not own or regularly wear any camouflage clothing.
This public service announcement is now complete. We ask that you simply keep the above fact in mind as you watch the countless news reports with their mistaken locations for the people interviewed as well as the widely assumed forthcoming Lifetime Movie.
St. Louis Named Most Dangerous City
Apparently, I’m a bad-ass. Its true. How could anyone not bad-ass live everyday in the most dangerous city in the nation? Well, I guess there has to be some group of non-bad asses in the city for the bad asses to kill or beat up. If we were all bad asses, then it would just be the fightin’-est city and not the most dangerous. That being said, I think its pretty safe to say I’m clearly in the bad ass part of the population. …As if you guys all didn’t know that already.
I guess I should also throw some congratulations at Brick, New Jersey for being the safest, or as I like to call “Pussyville USA”
Yahoo! News: St. Louis named most dangerous U.S. city
Update (10/31/06 1:33pm): A local radio station created this funny promo and is now basting it all over our local airwaves.
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The Cardinals Are Baseball’s 2006 World Champs
I still can’t believe that it happened…especially in this year with the problems we had. Amazing. To tell you the truth, it really hasn’t hit me yet. I’ll probably be sitting in a meeting on Tuesday and I just stand up and freak out when I finally happens. We ran downtown last night after it happened and the greatest night of my life continued. (I hope the pictures I took with my phone turn out. If so, I’ll have them posted later.) Yes, last night was the greatest night of my life. I can only hope that the day I get married and the day my future children are born can both at least come close to the night the Cardinals won the World Series. Some day I’ll be in the hospital and the doctor will pass me my newly born child and I’ll look into his eyes and say “Hmmm…pretty close. This is almost as cool as that night when the Cardinals won the World Series. You guys remember that? Now that was a night! Am I right?”
Awesome.
Update:
Thanks for the kind congratulatory words for both the city and the team from DaringFireball. Sorry about your Yankees John.
Yadi Does It!
I guess I won’t be shaving the playoff beard tonight! Yadier “I batted just above the mendoza line all season” Molina hits a homerun in the top of the ninth to pave the way for a knee-buckling curve ball strikeout thrown by his battery-mate Adam Wainwright (and a fellow Brother of the Beard) to one Carlos Beltran for a trip to the World Series. This is the second trip to the World Series in the last three years for St. Louis and their 17th National League pennant all time.
A commenter on Dave Winer’s blog, a Mets fan, said this game wasn’t good. I replied and I’ll just quote my previous comment to save time:
…I think this was one of the better games in the playoffs. It was tight all game, two good starting pitching jobs (I still can’t believe thats the same Oliver Perez), and amazing catch, a clutch homerun, and a bases loaded bottom of the ninth 2 out strike out Is there another great baseball moment that didn’t happen in this game? It was a fantastic game, regardless of the outcome or who you were rooting for. Great season for the Mets and a surprising continuation for the Cardinals.
It was a great series by the Mets, and they had a great season and a great game 7, but something got into these Cardinals. I don’t know if it was being called an “underdog” for the first time in years, but these Cardinals came together in all sorts of ways including Yadi finding his bat, Rolen actually getting a key hit or two, and Jeff Weaver and his Great Dane hoped in their van and solved “The Mystery of the Left-Handed Hitters”. Zoinks! Have yourselves a Scooby Snack or two Cardinals, you’ve earned it…but keep going, this post-season that no one saw coming isn’t over yet. Detroit will be really tough, but the Cards have been picked to lose the last two series too so who knows.