I caught "Pony Excess" last night, part of the ESPN "30 on 30" series, and it was one of the best films of the series. It was about SMU's football program in the 80s, the rampant cheating, and how they were the only school in NCAA history to get the "death penalty" - suspension of the entire football program.
Anyway, current Big XII Commissioner Dan Beebe, then an NCAA investigator on SMU is featured quite a bit, and they do show footage of the then NCAA headquarters at Shawnee Mission Parkway and Lamar.
On CBS Sunday Morning there was a piece on Amtrak and High Speed Rail. It featured a shot of the freight trains in the Crossroads with Stuart Hall Lofts prominently sitting in the background.
Also, on the weekend CBS News, they had a feature about a millionaire in Miami who was paying graffiti artists to decorate buildings in a run-down neighborhood to revitalize it and said there were plans for something similar in Kansas City. Anyone hear of this?
we actually turned on the TV at precisely the moment she was introduced. she was wearing ruby slippers, like dorothy, to really drive home the "kansas" angle.
Rugby movie about a guy who moved to KC from Scotland. Looks like they actually shot some scenes in KC! Also looks like they have make KC look very trashy...but who knows.
chrizow wrote:
we actually turned on the TV at precisely the moment she was introduced. she was wearing ruby slippers, like dorothy, to really drive home the "kansas" angle. :x
We turned it on (accidentally, really) just after she was introduced, evidently. She was explaining the shoes to the dude. My gf commented on her "tube tan" and changed the channel.
i guess it's good for that crowd in Lawrence to make an impression on their peers across the country, but I found the whole thing a little embarrassing.
i guess it's good for that crowd in Lawrence to make an impression on their peers across the country, but I found the whole thing a little embarrassing.
i guess it's good for that crowd in Lawrence to make an impression on their peers across the country, but I found the whole thing a little embarrassing.
It was nice to see Maddow do the show there, but I agree. It was a little overenthusiastic...like "look at us liberal Kansans!!! We're so liberal here!! See how cool we actually are!?!?!"
I didn't understand the constant cheering. Shut up and let her do the show!
I don't know. I think liberal Kansas have every right to be loud about it. Kansas gets pretty unfairly painted as an ultra-red state, when the real truth is simply that the conservative/liberal split is less drastic than most people (even in Kansas) imagine it. It is, however, a very stable split. I hear people in Missouri talk about Kansas like when you cross the state line a palpable shift to the right occurs, and that is simply not the case. 4 out of every ten voters in Kansas voted for Obama. That means if you get 10 Kansans who vote in a room, pretty consistently 6 of them are Republicans and 4 are Democrats. Not exactly the pervasive conservative dominance the media and popular culture paints.
While I was doing a bit of research, I came across this bit of information.
Carrie and Ellie Kemper both work for the NBC show, The Office. Carrie is a writer on the show, and Ellie plays the receptionist, Erin. They are the daughers of Commerce Bank CEO David Kemper, who lives in St. Louis.
CBS Sunday morning show had segment on planned KC Advertising Icon Museum, interviewed its director, show some of collection which includes not only physical objects, but also film clips. No mention of when and where this will ever be opened.
moderne wrote:
CBS Sunday morning show had segment on planned KC Advertising Icon Museum, interviewed its director, show some of collection which includes not only physical objects, but also film clips. No mention of when and where this will ever be opened.
Yea, I saw this. They did put up them emblem which said "open in 2011", although they did not mention the opening.
The very next segment featured a KC firm that specializes in ultra-cool business cards.
