Hypes and Gripes

• Gripes to the new Missouri license plate, which replaces the old homely-but-simple green-fade design (the squiggly mark meant “water!”) with a plate sporting a sinful font, a non-hyphenated “Show Me” (tsk tsk) and a bluebird. If you ever had a reason to pay extra for a customized plate (for your school, the Cardinals, a charity, whatever) you now have our full permission to do so.

• Hypes to original hobos. The guy standing at Sunshine and 65 on a recent Tuesday with the sign “Spaceship Broken, Need Parts” was hilarious, in a macabre sort of way. If we’d had some fries or a five-dollar bill, we’d have handed them to him. Or, you know, a photon generator.

• Gripes to whomever vandalized the bathroom at 1984 arcade Friday night 7/18. We had glow-in-the-dark artwork up on the walls, and some knucklehead ripped part of it off and broke other parts. We have already replaced some of it, and it’s going to be better than ever. We HAD the coolest bathroom in all of downtown, and we will again!—Submitted by reader Devin Durham, owner, 1984

• Gripes to cell phone-makers, and the providers (in our experience, T-Mobile) that depend on them to make money. If you’re telling us that simply taking your phone into the bathroom while you shower can damage it beyond repair—and is therefore not subject to a free replacement—then we’re telling you that you’re standing behind some weak-ass product.

• Gripes to Kenny Hulshof’s promotional team, which sent out a campaign text message at 1:30 a.m. on a recent Saturday morning. We’re sure it was an accident, but it was still a very rude awakening.

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