This is a bright day for Kansas City. Regular readers will recall how depressed we were when we lost the regular contributions of Paulie, the elder statesman of Ink. The local online world has been a bit duller since his thoughts on love, life, and the Voodoo Lounge ceased to grace that site. Well, take heart: a reader and friend has alerted us to a Paulie Renaissance, this time on Pitch.com. Please enjoy his (very limited) new online home. And he’s already bringing the awesomeness. Check out the three locales he endorses: the Levee, the River Market Brewery, and — delightfully — the Waffle House. Oh, and one more thing: his MySpace page is now public. This should be fun. You’d better believe there’s more to come.
Update: So… Paulie has a YouTube channel. Will this go down as the greatest day in SOTL history?
YES! My life has meaning again.
I see he already has two events scheduled at the Voodoo Lounge.
He comes back to us at the turn of the tide as Paulie the White!
This is even better than the day I found a box of Thin Mints in my freezer that I didn’t know I had.
Words cannot describe the feeling of joy I have right now. This is like finding the Holy Grail. Whoever discovered this, I salute you, good sir!
[...] our good friend Paulie: “Call me when you get a Waffle [...]
[...] Ah, such an incredible double meaning. Out of INK. So much contained in so little. We tried to move on, tried to find other people we could follow. We even sought a replacement Paulie in the outer suburbs. Finally, in January, a friend of the blog alerted us to a jarring development: Paulie had resurfaced. [...]