Keep St Joe Weird

The St Joe vlogger troupe, Srsly Guys?, pumps out merchandise in less time than it takes to make a bufriedo. By using the customizable merch storefront, ViralPrints, the Srsly crew is able to offer several prints in all sizes of both sexes and styles including spaghetti strap, tank top, hoodies, & sweatshirts. I’m hopeful that the finished product is far better than these stolen images from ViralPrint, though.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater St Joseph:

For 3 years Bowl for Kids Sake (BFKS) has been the largest and most important fundraiser for BBBS-St. Joseph! In 2008 this event raised more than $24,000 in important operating revenue. This accomplishment has enabled us to positively impact the lives of children and families in our community through quality mentoring relationships. We touch the lives of children who are most at-risk, and inspire them to become confident, competent and caring individuals in our community. Research has proven the unquestionable benefits of mentoring, and the need for our programs continues to grow at an unprecedented rate. Thank you for your support of the children we serve!

You can become a sponsor of team Keep St Joe Weird or see the list of bowling teams on bbbsstjoe.org

Of course there’s a Big Lebowski-themed team. You thought there wouldn’t be?

“Do you see what happens, Larry? DO YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FIND A STRANGER IN THE ALPS?!” (Keeping it PG-13 for the kids.)

It’s Your Call illustrated minibook Issue 4 

We’ve addressed the complaints about a gap and haven’t found any faults of our own. In fact, all publications have some service interruptions. You’re just holding the minibook wrong. All orders will come with a free Keep St Joe Weird sticker to show that there wasn’t ever a problem.

“Toxic and Timeless”

by Kristi Oh on sale at art.i.facts

Also, be sure to check out Kristi Oh’s blog for her sketches of Dancing Dan and James Montee.

The Worst. “A Podcast for Nice People.”

“a St. Joseph, MO-based weekly pop culture podcast hosted by Justin [Peacock] and Kellen [Perry].”

Co-mingling with the live performances from local musicians and guest-hosting by comedians and school librarians, there exists a wide range of topics, such as: “Minors With Eye Patches” or, “A Capri Sun Full of Beer” and, “The Ultimate White Trash Song,” padded with talk about roller derbies, Texas Tourism, Pikachu vs. The Boobcake, Weird Science, Futurama, E.T., Striptease, Pete & Pete and the entire plot of Brewster’s Millions.

Listen: theworstpodcast.tumblr.com

Subscribe via iTunes for free.

The Worst. on Facebook

Whoa! 107 degree heat index?

Press your face to the screen and feel the frosty relief of Christmas, err… Winter Holiday in July!

from stjosephskeptic.org:

  It was only four feet by eight feet, said simply, “Be Good For Goodness Sake”, and included the name of our organization and web site address. That one survived for three days until someone decided it was out of place surrounded by Christmassy style displays and ran off with it.

    For nearly 30 years the City of St. Joseph, Missouri, has turned its Krug Park into “Holiday Park” with close to a mile of lighted tunnels, snowmen, Santas and a crèche complete with the requisite shepherds and wise men. After several months delay processing a request, the Parks Department consented to the Skeptics display and we had the sign in place for the park opening the day after Thanksgiving. 

    Two days later the sign, three supporting posts and even the light provided by the parks department had disappeared. About the same time, our organization’s web site was attacked and filled with profanity.

For such a non-story, it created a maelstrom of emotions in the comments sections of not one, but three St Joseph News-Press articles with a combined 517 online comments. It would be wrong for me to say the New-Press was responsible for stirring the emotions of their readers to fatten their readership. Just as it would be wrong to say the St Joseph Skeptics Society meant any ill-will with such a well-meaning slogan.

Bromance

by Kellen Perry

Leading the Affordable Art Revolution, this re-appropriated painting is on sale for ONE dollar at Art.I.Facts consignment clothing, skate shop, art gallery, buy/sell/trade thrift store.

6118 King Hill Ave

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Yet another misinformed anti-Obama billboard has gone up. “You Liar” appeared in Elwood, KS (aka St Joe’s pimple) on US Hwy 36 West and is similar in design to the billboard on I-29 South anonymously and cowardly stating: “MARXIST”

It only makes sense that the political lowest-common-denominators choose billboards to voice their wacky opinions. Free market + advertising x really big bumper sticker = jorb well done

The owners of this new billboard, at least, had the integrity to claim responsibility. The Francis Marion Group is so full of contradictory wing-nuttery that I can only run down the basic tenets.  If you’re a masochist, feel free to browse on over. You can donate (or spread the wealth) to the group without worrying about The Man snooping on you while you’re there, FMG assures their “highly secure off-shore servers” are safe.

The FMG, (named for a Revolutionary War officer known for his guerrilla war tactics), alternately describe themselves as, “We, the Angry Americans,” “The Partisans,” “Minutemen of the 21st Century” & “The New Liberals” are calling for seditious armed insurrection against the ever-pervasive Socialists, they abide by Godwin’s Law when drawing parallels of Hitler and Mao to Obama with little subtlety on a billboard in Raymore, MO and take most of their direct action ques from South Carolina Republican, Joe Wilson’s outburst in 2009.

The Francis Marion Group, et al, believe all media (including blogs) are controlled by the wealthy socialist elite and are part of Democratic Socialism. The Francis Marion Group, therefore, exists to “educate the citizenry of the United States on the clearly Socialistic practices of our elected officials.”

The focus of the “You Liar” billboard in Elwood is on Value-Added Tax (VAT), this deficit-lowering idea is an obscure one in America, but known the world over…much like the Metric system or the World Cup.

Basically, a VAT is a tax that is injected into a product when it travels from inception to consumption. The shelf price of all consumer goods raise, thus lowering the deficit. Reagan’s Fed chairman responsible for lowering the deficit and current White House adviser, Paul Volker, supports a VAT, Reagan’s former economic White House adviser supports a VAT, Margaret Thatcher introduced a VAT in England in the 1980’s, so why then is this little ghost from Republicans past stirring the pile? Why the preemptive strike on something with so little political ground? Something Obama calls a “novel idea” for America, but doesn’t support.

A perceived notion that Obama is actually trying to fix the economy? You would rather he Herbert Hoover the economy?

I tend to space out when subjected to trips to the Shoppes at North Village. Upon one such trip, I was staring out the window trying to avoid eye contact with the village idiots and had a Freudian epiphany: These light posts resemble fallopian tubes.

With each new store, I imagine it was plopped out in the middle of the night from one of these lady lights. So the next time you find yourself in the “Village” watch your step, it might be consumer-grade afterbirth. 

Sorry…for blowing your mind.