Hello, Kansas City. Remember us? For eight scintillating months, we provided you with more news, commentary, snark, Ink mockery, funny photos, Star criticism, and deployments of the Royal We than you could handle. And then, distracted by day jobs and riven by Behind the Music-style turmoil (but not really), we made a pompous and preachy [...]
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Semi-Triumphant Returns: State Of The Line Is Back
Posted in Announcements, tagged Favrian Behavior, Out Of Retirement, Returns on November 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »
State Of The Line Will Fight No More Forever
Posted in Announcements, Farewell Tour on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
And so that’s it, we suppose. No sense getting caught up in sappy goodbyes or overwrought arguments for departure — we’ve done that already. In the end, all that’s worth saying is this: it has been a profound privilege and pleasure to work on this blog for the past nine months or so. We attracted [...]
In Which SOTL Shuffles Off This Mortal Coil
Posted in Announcements, Notes From Your Editor, SOTL facts on February 12, 2009 | 12 Comments »
A bit of a landscape-shifting news item today: we are announcing the passing of State of the Line into blogosphere oblivion. Next week will be the final one for our humble little site, and will likely be devoted to a series of retrospectives on our favorite subjects. This may come as a bit of surprise [...]
Treasury Secretary Dismayed To Discover “Jazz Hands” Manuever Fails To Deliver Desired Financial Market Reaction
Posted in Announcements, Comedy, Headlines, Money, Politics, Trivial, Uncategorized, tagged bank bailout, Timothy Geithner, Treasury Secretary on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
These aren’t the banking droids you’re looking for…
Best. Special-ops. Code name. Ever.
Posted in Announcements, Awesomeness, Headlines, KC Crime, Odd Behavior, Trivial, Uncategorized, tagged cocaine, money laundering, operation super chicken on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Seriously, how were law enforcement officials able to keep a straight face while conducting this investigation? ”Operation Super Chicken Ends Cocaine, Money Laundering“
Operation Super Chicken puts Kansas City restaurant owners, and others involved in a $2.3 million dollar cocaine, and money laundering scheme behind bars.
Juan Delgado, his wife Sylvia Delgado and other owners of the Super Pollo, [...]
Posted in Announcements, Headlines, Music, Regrettably Unfortunate Yet Chuckle-Inducing Headlines, Trivial, entertainment, tagged David Cook, kansas city on February 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Must…resist…making easy “sellout” jokes… “David Cook is a 6-minute sellout here“
Does that mean he only has nine minutes left on the fabricated pop phenomenon clock?
Lawmaker Proposes Reducing Kansas Counties to “Johnson County” and “Not Johnson County”
Posted in Announcements, Headlines, Politics, Trivial, Uncategorized, tagged Chris Steineger, Johnson County, Kansas on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A proposed merger of a different sort: “Lawmaker Suggests Fewer Counties In Kansas“
A state lawmaker is calling for a feasibility study of drastically reducing the number of counties in Kansas for greater efficiency.
Democratic Sen. Chris Steineger, of Kansas City, has introduced a bill that would create a 12-member county consolidation commission made up of people [...]
Chiefs Continue Tradition of Hiring Hollywood Talent, Sign “Borat” As New Head Coach
Posted in Announcements, Awesomeness, Chiefs, Comedy, Headlines, Sports, Trivial, Uncategorized, tagged Chiefs, EEOC, kansas city, Kevin James, Scott Pioli, Todd Haley on February 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
First the Chiefs chose Kevin James lookalike Scott Pioli as GM; today, they’ve announced the selection of Sacha Baron Cohen as head coach. Is the organization filling some sort of celebrity doppelgänger quota requirement related to some obscure EEOC guideline?
Behold:
UPDATE: We are not the only bloggers taking note of Todd Haley’s celeb-ish countenance — Nick Sloan notes that the coach also bears a [...]
Posted in Announcements, Awesomeness, Headlines, Politics, Trivial, entertainment, tagged Governor, New Mexico, Overland Park, Paul Rudd, Topeka, Val Kilmer on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This has absolutely zero impact on local politics, but rates a 10 for awesomeness: “Val Kilmer ponders running for N.M. governor.” Apparently being the voice of KITT in the lame “Knight Rider” update isn’t as fulfilling as he’d hoped.
Pros:
Military service (“Top Gun”)
Tough on crime (“Batman Forever”)
Despite liberal activism, appeals to evangelicals (voice of Moses in [...]
The Passing Of The Snark
Posted in Announcements, tagged Changes, Comments, Snark on November 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Various episodes of the past few weeks have got us thinking that snark, that ascendant tone of internet commentary and bane of the mainstream media, might have worn out its welcome in the halls of online discussion.
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