• Remember The 80’s? Michael Jackson

    One day I was researching looking at pictures of Michael Jackson’s 1984 Victory Tour which launched in Kansas City and then I saw this:

    This piece of art was published in a special issue of the Billboard Magazine where everyone from Michael’s accountant to the company which made his tapes took out ads to congratulate Michael Jackson (and slap their own backs in the process)on becoming the King of Pop.

    After the first picture I just couldn’t stop. Sorry…

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  • Kansas City Billboard News

    Few billboards in town that were not bought up by the multilevel marketer Google Fiber.

    Seeing this billboard inspired me to open my own all-natural breast cancer prevention clinic. During the daylight hours, women are welcome to receive a preventative dose of sunlight on my driveway, absolutely free. Please arrive topless for the best effect.

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  • I Went To Russia And All I Have To Show Is A Prison Tattoo

    When I was growing up® there was an old joke (which I may have told here before, but I only remember about three of these so I have to recycle): An American is walking around in Moscow and falls into an unmarked open manhole. He screams: “I can’t believe some idiot left a manhole open here without any warnings! Where were the cones, tape, warning red flags?”
    An old Russian passer-by says “When you were crossing the border did you see a giant red flag?”
    “Yes” -American replies,
    “That was your warning!” (I need to brush up on my dialogue punctuation, but you get the idea)
    Few Americans who comment here have actually been to Russia and they will confirm that being a foreigner there is like running a plow through a minefield, you never know when it’s gonna blow, but you are pretty sure it will, sooner or later. The only protection is your wallet but you can’t just go around openly paying people off, it’s an art. Apparently at there are enough foreigners who have not mastered the art of bribery to have a special international prison described by one unfortunate victim in his book Zone 22 ( I am pretty sure the same book is published in the US as Tomorrow You Go Home: One Man’s Harrowing Imprisonment in a Modern-Day Russian Gulag)

    zone-22 Tomorrow

    I haven’t read the book yet, I am waiting for my turn at the library, but there are plenty of blurbs around to suggest that if you don’t know what you are doing you may come back from Russia with a couple of prison tattoos instead of Matryoshkas for your girlfriend.
    If I like the book I may review it in a few weeks.

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  • Re:Your Wife

    This billboard on the Northbound I-35 past I-635 exit (mile marker 231.5) made me take another look; I still don’t know what it sells, but it’s about time your hot wife and I met.

    Whatever it’s supposed to advertise or if it’s just a joke I’ll take this over religious billboards any day.

    P.S. This photo is unretouched, go check for yourself.

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  • Behind The Iron Curtain: Stalin’s Corpse Moves Out Of The Tomb

    When Stalin died in 1953, his body was placed into the Tomb where he played Felix Unger to Lenin’s Oscar Madison for the next 8 years.

    They spruced up the front with Stalin’s name:

    May Day Celebrations in Moscow.1961. The front of the tomb still has both names.
    © Time Inc. James Whitmore
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