Kansas City News Blog

Dan from Gone Mild writes a fantastic essay on the importance of a vibrant Kansas City Star. "If you think you can do without the Star because you get all the local news you need from the blogs, you're horribly mistaken," Dan writes. "You're still getting your local news from the Star -- it's just getting filtered by bloggers, or you're dependent on the Star's website."

Dan's son, Sam Ryan, co-writes the video-gaming blog Hardcasual with Chris Plante. Hardcausal made WordPress' top 100 blogs of the day. Easy to see why, what with the Hardcasual style NSA fun.

Erin in the Real World's friends, Nick and Hurricane, are good people. Erin tells a nail-biter of a story about them saving a family trapped in a house fire Sunday night.

Blue Girl apologizes to Alvin Brooks about that whole voting for Mark Funkhouser thing. Get in line. 

Midtown Miscreant restrains himself from killing his inconsiderate, hipster neighbors. "Last night these upstairs douche nozzles showed their ass more than Richard Simmons in a Bath House," MM writes. Uh, yeah.
 
Finally, my blog blood brother, Chris Packham, wrote some snotty shit on tha Internet yesterday. Highly recommended reading for teenage runaways. -- Justin Kendall