Much to the shock of stlsports, the Riverfront Times has named this blog the "Local Blog O' the Week", and let me tell you, it has been a long time coming. After a few weeks of grueling local investigative fake sports reporting, the staff has been rewarded with an amazing honor from a highly reputable and respected publication such as the RFT.
Stlsports is not really all that familiar with the Riverfront Times, which is sort of the "independent report on whatever the hell they feel like newspaper magazine" for St. Louis. Several years ago, while waiting at a MetroLink stop, I read an edition of the RFT for the first time, and while browsing came across a column called 'Savage Love', which I should have known better than to read from the title. A few sentences into it and I felt like I was reading a Playboy in a public place. That particular column included the story of someone's grandmother masturbating her pet parrot and how it disturbed the guy who wrote in to the columnist, Dan Savage. Really? That was disturbing? Well, nothing like turing the page to move on ... to twenty pages of 'adult' themed advertisements. However, the judging eyes of the old lady sitting next to me could not keep me away from the full page 'Spankys' ad, which cartooned out the many euphamisms for flogging the old dolphin, in case you can't read but are looking for a place like Spanky's. Perhaps going forward in the magazine was more appropriate, and I turned to hard hitting news about the hottest local restaurants and bars. What a publication.
Yessir, the RFT has a special place in the hearts of stlsports, and we here are thrilled to have its endorsement. Hopefully, we can next be recognized by Hustler magazine or the New York Times, two other well-regarded publications.
In an unrelated matter, the Riverfront Times has been named by stlsports the "Local Non-Post-Dispatch Printed News Publication O' the Week", just narrowly beating out For Rent Magazine.
[Check it out here.]
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