Saturday night was another great Meat Purveyor’s show at Daveys’ Uptown. The lead singer got drunk again, but was able to stay upright this time. Ditto for the bass player, who had to take a whiskey-induced potty break half-way through the set. They included covers of Rat, Abba, Ronnie Milsap, and a Madonna medley. Their newest album, Pain by Numbers, is really good.

Save the Kittens. Posted on Flickr by manteo.

Some links to coverage of the Republican National Convention in NYC, especially the protests.

rnc.conventionbloggers.com
TextAmerica’s RNC photos
Local blogger Heidi in NYC
New York City Indymedia
Flickr’s RNC photos
RNC Watch

Friday night the KC area got hit by some killer thunderstorms that dumped massive amounts of rain into Turkey and Brush Creeks. There was lots of flash flooding all over Midtown. Unfortunately the storm sewers in that area are really old, and sometimes heavy rains can cause them to overflow the septic sewers and into the rivers. That’s why many locals refer to Brush Creek as Flush Creek…

These pictures are of Brush Creek, between Madison and Jefferson.

This might be at least one of the horsemen of the appocalypse. Just imagine the horror of a boy band remaking a hair metal song. Now witness it for yourself.

Transbudda has a great list of reasons why most Baby Boomers don’t deserve the Social Security that they are almost eligible for. I would have listed things like crushing national debt, devasting pollution and environmental damage, endless suburban sprawl, mindless consumer culture, or Celine Dion - but Transbudda’s list is much funnier….

1. Macrame
2. Bob Seger
3. Alan Alda
Read the rest of the list…

These are a few months old, but still very relevant. The mosaic of George W. Bush is made from the faces of soldiers who have died in the occupation of Iraq. The John Ashcroft mosaic is made with porn.

medium (1 MB) and large (4.5 MB) (from American Leftist)

large version (from HubLog)

For some reason here in KC we keep putting ourselves through these cheesy public “art” exhibits. First, we jumped on the painted cow bandwagon that started in Chicago. Next it was the attack of the teddy bears. This year we have Mickey Mouse statues designed by B-listers like Brian McKnight, and Star Jones.

I propose that next year our public art project be snipe. It will be great! Local reality TV celebs like Melana Scantlin, Frankie Abernathy, and Dan Renzi can design the snipe statues. The Star can print up big maps of the snipe locations so that doe-eyed suburbanites can traipse around the inner city taking pictures of objects d’arte. Our crack TV reporters will of course provide Live Team Coverage and Pinpoint Super-duper Doppler Maps.

The best part of the whole thing? Statues of mythical animals would be invisible. We wouldn’t actually have to see these beasts littered around the Plaza or stumble into them on that 3 AM crawl home from Johnny Dare’s.

Fark.com has some great spoofs of The Shuttlecocks, a set of sculptures outside the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art here in KC.

Check it out…

Sotheby’s is handling the auction for Johnny and June Carter Cash’s estate sale. It’s a huge inventory of clothes, guitars, Grammy awards, and other memorabilia from Johnny and June’s lives and careers. There are even several items from the Carter Family. Hmmm…. I hear New York City is beautiful in September….

John Kerry used the famous Gates BBQ line to introduce himself to a crowd of over 22,000 Kansas Citians at Union Station last night. It was their last stop on a train tour across Missouri, and it was the biggest crowd yet on their coast-to-coast trip. I was there volunteering, and it was a beautiful night in a perfect setting between Union Station and the Liberty Memorial. The crowd was great. At one point while Kerry was talking about Bush, an elderly woman near me shouted “go get that mother fucker!” - if she had a bottle of malt liquor it would have been priceless. Michelle even got in on the action when John Edwards showed up for dinner at Stroud’s in the Northland, where she was eating with Amy and Jerry.

The volunteer gig turned out pretty cool when I got to sherpa for some of the press core and carry their crap onto the train. Unfortunately the press car was at the very end of the train, so I didn’t get a peek inside the Harry Truman car that Kerry is riding in. Playing Sherpa made me just miss meeting Mayor Kay Barnes, but I did get to herd State Senator and former mayor Charlie Wheeler and Jackson County Exec. Katheryn Shields. Here are some pictures of the event.