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| The only reason Abong is not wearing the Pink Pussy Hat she stole from my friend Jinks last Monday is: KCPD did not seize it as evidence. They just handed it back to the victim, who was laughing hysterically with 911 operators as she reclaimed five items this perpetual thief had just stolen from Jinks' unlocked foyer. First of all, I'm shocked that Hyde Park homeowners leave their front doors unlocked nowadays.
But they do. And a man on the "unofficial Hyde Park neighborhood Facebook page" shared this photo of the mentally ill woman who keeps opening their front doors and pilfering through their foyers and coat racks at their front doors.
She is also widely known to steal mail. She has her alibi at the ready when challenged. "I'm her sister, just here to take in the mail and check on things," she yells.
If she is disappointed by the mail, (and who isn't, nowadays), she litters it about the yards around 36th and Campbell. So far none of the homeowners have asked the US Postal Service to prosecute her for mail fraud. KCPD do nothing about that.
The KCPD arrests her frequently. Just like last Monday--she was taken into custody, and because she was clever and knew the drill. She feigned "heart palpitations". Thus, she immediately got a free $1000 ride via ambulance with a fire truck escort to Truman Medical Center for what amounts to an informal tax-subsidized 'spa day'-- of warmth, a sponge bath, several hot meals, a conversation with staff and lots of kind and loving 'observation'. She was out by Wednesday--and captured once again on camera by the Hyde Park neighbors.
The neighbors tell me they know she is mentally ill. They don't feel she is dangerous, or armed. So they worry, codependently, that she might get shot if she breaks and enters a home where the owner uses a gun. "Stand Your Ground" rules vary depending on the frailty or disability of the homeowner being invaded, I am told by experts. It just takes one.
Something else I did not know: Western Missouri Mental Health Center closed a few years ago. That is the kind of place we used to take folks who are mentally ill, rather than common criminals.
One of the neighbors has chatted with her, claiming her name is Abong. She has a court date coming up, because Jinks, my friend from Sunday morning coffee in my old Hyde Park neighborhood, pressed charges. We will know more, then.
And the man who snapped this Facebook picand posted it Wed. night claimed Abong often wears the same blue bandanna. And carries two shopping bags, which she stuffs full of her "finds" of the day. She does not appear to sleep outdoors--she just loves day shopping in the lovely and unlocked Victorian foyers of Hyde Park.
So what happened to the Pink Pussy Hat?
Jinks, who has a long history of being a SJW/social justice warrior and foster care advocate, was phoned by a frail neighbor two doors away on Campbell, the 3600 block. "I think someone's breaking into my house...would you go check?"
Fearless and unarmed, except for her cell phone, Jinks saunters over to her neighbor's front sidewalk. She calls out to Abong, who gives her the standard, "No problem. I belong here. This is my sister's house..."
Jinks says, "No, it's not. We know all our neighbors. The real owner is upstairs. You need to leave...NOW!" Jinks then phones 911 as she walks home, even tho Abong is now following her, muttering loudly and incoherently, waving her arms.
911 operator asks, "What is she wearing?"
Jinks starts describing her pursuer: "Wearing a pink cap, a brown and grey striped scarf, a grey coat--...wait just a darn minute: that's MY striped scarf. And that's my coat. And Hell's bells--that is MY Pink Pussy Hat that my best friend knit especially for me, last year for the Women's March!! This woman must have robbed ME on her way to my neighbor's!!!
By this time, both Jinks and the 911 operator are laughing uncontrollably, barely able to dispatch the call. KCPD responded VERY quickly--about three minutes, on this Monday midday (right after the mailman had delivered.). The officers then appropriately made Jinks stand many feet away. And as Abong the Chronic Thief disrobed, instead of seizing each garment as evidence, which is customary, and policy--the cops just handed them back to Jinks!
In the two shopping bags were her down-filled puffy vest and another coat. A total of five items, including the "priceless and irreplaceable Pink Pussy Hat." Her artist friend is out of pink yarn and could not recreate it.
Jinks muttered to the officer, "Hey, we also had two cans of Boulevard chocolate beer sitting there just inside our front door, to keep it cold. Nobody liked the flavor. See if she got that, too!"
But alas, Abong had not stolen the two chocolate ales. Say what you will, she may just have a Courvoisier taste on a beer budget...
So Jinks got her Pink Pussy Hat back. And after her release from the hospital, Abong was photographed once again in Hyde Park (now she's on Facebook!) and toddling toward Troost. She is well known there among merchants, and has been caught shooting up in store restrooms.
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Monday, January 29, 2018
Hyde Park beset by Purloiner of Pink Pussy Hats! Enters Victorian Home Foyers Stealing Coats and Mail Daily. Police Are Perplexed...
Saturday, January 20, 2018
Governor Duct Tape--on the verge of being pushed out as Mo Governor?? A photo essay...
Here is the current pic of Missouri Governor Eric Greitens, aka Governor Duct Tape. With his reluctant wife, Sheena, following his admitting he tied up a hairdresser with duct tape in the Greitens' basement, and had Bondage and Domination style sex with her, while Sheena was in labor at the hospital delivering Greitens' second child in 2015.
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| "Eric, you arrogant narcissistic asshole. I'm stuck here singing Tammy Wynette, while I figure out how I'm supposed to support myself and our two kids. I need a good lawyer. And you need to find a new job. Maybe you can be the spokesman for Duct Tape???" |
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| Happier times. Greitens and Sheena's first date |
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| Governor Duct Tape's fantasy with the hairdresser in his basement: feral love. Oh, scratch my neck--that feels SOOOOO good! |
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| Greitens and his prom date--his fascination with duct tape and guns goes WAY back. |
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| It's no wonder Greitens was attracted to the hairdresser. He told her: "Darlin, you had me with that 12 pack of Budweiser... brewed just 4 miles from my wife's house! Oh, hold on, that's her calling from the hospital-- she's dilated to 7 centimeters. Hush for a second--don't make any moaning sounds-- I gotta take this call!" |
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| Waiting for the next shoe to drop? The St. Louis Post Dispatch is interviewing MORE of Governor Duct Tape's hotties this week. This one was his Homecoming date in college-- before he became a Rhodes Scholar. And a Navy Seal. And yes, that is an Arabic symbol on her skirt. Such a turn-on... |
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| Here, Greitens is practicing for his upcoming job interview-- as a hand model and spokesman promoting Duct Tape. Camo duct tape--it's what's for breakfast. Former Governor Duct Tape is coming soon to a Home Depot or Menard's near you. Autographs and selfies $7, make checks payable to the Sheena Greitens Alimony Fund. |
Monday, December 11, 2017
UPDATE: 23,400 HAVE SEEN BIG SONIA @Glenwood Arts --Last day is Thurs April19! (Ranchmart)
Big Sonia is an upbeat inspiring documentary about Kansas City's most beloved Holcaust survivor. It's breaking all records over the last 35 years of movie attendance at the Glenwood Arts theatre. In just the first ten days, 6153 Kansas Citians have seen it!
"And that's just showing on one screen," says theatre co-owner Brian Mossman, "whereas other blockbusters were shown on multiple screens throughout the day." He also noted that this film is the only documentary to generate such rave reviews and traffic. "All our other blockbuster films were narratives."
It's not even Chanukkah (Dec. 13) or Christmas (Dec 25)--or Kwanzaa (Dec 26)--but people of all faiths and the plain spiritual and the plain tuckered out from a long year and people in recovery and people who used to be imprisoned are ALL finding happiness and a mood boost from seeing this film. Many bring a loved one.
Sonia Warshawski's new leopard print sofa, from her new location at John's Tailoring, 95th & Nall, was borrowed for the photo shoots and autograph sessions the first weekend--but the sofa and one of her leopard print stroller jackets remain in the lobby of the Glenwood Arts.
And it's the strangest thing--folks are so moved and inspired and motivated by Big Sonia that even tho her public appearances have passed, audience members leaving the theatre linger to just sit, alone, on her sofa. Like it's a shrine to goodness and surviving whatever sadness THEY are in the process of enduring.
Mossman, not exactly a fashion icon, (he and his business partner, twin Ben Mossman, grew up in Spirit Lake, Iowa, sons of a highway patrol officer) asked me, "Is it true what she says? That animal prints never go out of fashion???"
I reassured him: "Absolutely, for women with confidence and flair. And that is just one more reason I am still wearing leopard prints or zebra or cheetah prints every single day the rest of the month--to remind me of Big Sonia and to be grateful for every blessing of every day."
For more details, read the previous post here on www.kcmopost.com, including 12 things you don't know, since you missed the Q&A. Also, read much more on the web site:
www.bigsonia.com
"And that's just showing on one screen," says theatre co-owner Brian Mossman, "whereas other blockbusters were shown on multiple screens throughout the day." He also noted that this film is the only documentary to generate such rave reviews and traffic. "All our other blockbuster films were narratives."
It's not even Chanukkah (Dec. 13) or Christmas (Dec 25)--or Kwanzaa (Dec 26)--but people of all faiths and the plain spiritual and the plain tuckered out from a long year and people in recovery and people who used to be imprisoned are ALL finding happiness and a mood boost from seeing this film. Many bring a loved one.
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| Sonia Warshawski, the star of Big Sonia, is hugged by Brian Mossman, co-owner of the Glenwood Arts Theatre, 95th & MISSION (Ranchmart South). For showtimes: http://www.fineartsgroup.com/theatres/glenwood/ |
Sonia Warshawski's new leopard print sofa, from her new location at John's Tailoring, 95th & Nall, was borrowed for the photo shoots and autograph sessions the first weekend--but the sofa and one of her leopard print stroller jackets remain in the lobby of the Glenwood Arts.
And it's the strangest thing--folks are so moved and inspired and motivated by Big Sonia that even tho her public appearances have passed, audience members leaving the theatre linger to just sit, alone, on her sofa. Like it's a shrine to goodness and surviving whatever sadness THEY are in the process of enduring.
Mossman, not exactly a fashion icon, (he and his business partner, twin Ben Mossman, grew up in Spirit Lake, Iowa, sons of a highway patrol officer) asked me, "Is it true what she says? That animal prints never go out of fashion???"
I reassured him: "Absolutely, for women with confidence and flair. And that is just one more reason I am still wearing leopard prints or zebra or cheetah prints every single day the rest of the month--to remind me of Big Sonia and to be grateful for every blessing of every day."
www.bigsonia.com
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Update: Over 4000 people saw Big Sonia at Glenwood Arts in week1! Biggest audience in 35 year history. Go see Big Sonia @ Glenwood Arts. This Holocaust survivor's story is 'bog-mindling'. 12 things you missed in the documentary...
I attended the Q&A Sat. night with the film's producers: Sonia's grandaughter, Leah Warshawski and her husband, Todd Soliday--plus Sonia's two daughters. Meanwhile, Sonia sat for most of five hours in the theatre lobby on her signature leopard skin sofa greeting wellwishers and posing for selfies. It was a joyous celebration. Over 2200 tickets were sold IN ADVANCE of opening weekend.
If you missed the Q&A, here are 12 things you don't know from the actual film.
1. Her son's career is a very successful poet and author (lives in Napa), who wrote a book about crowd funding for indie movies. So even tho Sonia was "hard on her son, compared to her daughters", I love the idea that but for him, this documentary might not have been made!
2. It was his daughter, Leah Warshawski, (Sonia's granddaughter) and her husband, Todd Soliday, who lavished 6 1/2 years making this heartwarming and inspiring documentary.
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| The orange scarf that Sonia Warshawski grabbed from her mother's outstretched hands, at Bergen Belsen in the last tearful moment, as the Nazis marched Sonia's mother to the crematorium. Sonia still sleeps with it every night in a special bag concealed in her pillow case.photo: Gloria Baker Feinstein. |
3. Three drones died in the making of the aerial shots of Sonia driving her big beige Oldsmobile to Metcalf South. Including a flock of geese that took out one drone. (The geese professed to be Canadian. But I think they were Nazi geese...)
4. It took 2 1/2 years just to get the aerial footage of Sonia driving. Per Todd, sometimes the drone was out of range to capture Sonia's driving (she does get alot of speeding tickets! Cops spot her leopard-wrapped steering wheel as she races down 95th St...). And several times, Sonia assumed they got the aerial footage on the first try, so she just drove home! Rather than pulling over and waiting to be told, "Take 2, grandma!"
5. The mystery of Big Sonia's vanity tag? 428 ONE. It stands for Fortunate One--a play on words concocted by her clever son, the writer. It was years into filming before the team realized they should have masked Sonia's real plate number. (due to asshat Holocaust deniers--who might stalk her or menace her.) So in 34 places in the film, the crew had to go in and correct the license tag. OY!!!!
6. The film claims John's Tailoring and Alterations (the shop owned by Sonia and her late husband, John, a fellow survivor) was "the last tenant in the vacant Metcalf South mall". At the Q&A, Brian Mossman chided Todd Soliday, saying, "Hey, I was here, too--upstairs!" referencing the fact that the Glenwood Arts theatres were also there. Todd replied, "I learned long ago as a filmmaker, never to let the facts get in the way of a great story." And, truth be told, Sonia's shop, John's Tailoring and Alterations WAS the last RETAIL tenant in the now-bulldozed mall. While the Glenwood Arts movie theatres upstairs were a theatre complex, not a retailer. So, no harm, no foul.
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| Big Sonia in John's Tailoring and Alterations shop in the now defunct Metcalf South mall, with her optimistic $1.50 Whatever pillow! Late husband John's photo is above her right shoulder. photo: Gloria BakerFeinstein |
7. Spoiler Alert!
Both the Glenwood Arts and Johns Tailoring relocated successfully. But only Big Sonia got "such a deal" from her former landlords, the families of two Russian Jewish immigrants and real estate tycoons, the late Sherman Dreiseszun and his nephew, the late Frank Morgan. And yes, that was due to the intervention of Vernon May, the mall's loyal security officer. This was all confirmed by Peter Newman, The Tax Man. He too is a Holocaust survivor. He and gorgeous wife, Bev, attended the Q&A. Newman has been Sonia's tax preparer for many decades.
8. John's Tailoring & Alterations was moved nearby, to 95th and Nall.
5600 W. 95th St. #102
Overland Park KS 66207
Open 10a to 5pm.
913/642-6225
A small spot at a 'very attractive rental rate', in the same building as Morgan's D&M investments, NW corner of 95th & Nall, the tall beige brick with white vertical stripes.
9. In the last scene, we see the new leopard sofa being moved into Sonia's new shop. And the filmmakers and Brian Mossman very ingeniously borrowed that same sofa for the Meet and Greet in the Glenwood Arts lobby last weekend.
10. If you spotted the leopard print luggage tags on the young student's luggage, as she visits middle schools and shares Sonia's indomitable story--guess what. The filmmakers thought of everything: they retailed those luggage tags--to help pay for the filming costs. You may buy one on the web site: www.BigSonia.com
11. As the film rolls out for distribution around the country, the team is even willing to host showings in non-theatres. Sonia attends and asks questions and inspires others.
12. She has hired staff to assist her at the tailor shop, so she can ALSO do visits to Lansing Prison with SueEllyn Fried--and as many teenage groups or 12 step groups as she can manage.
There is so much more info available on www.BigSonia.com website.
This film is a must see. I'm wearing leopard print the rest of the year in Sonia's honor.
My favorite Big Sonia quote, if you're having a bad day:
"My Mom told me, If you are feeling down--look further down. Then you'll be on top!"
And yes, another Sonia-ism is her darling dyslexic phrase of astonishment at all the good in the world:
"It's bog-mindling!"
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Two more days for KIFF:Ks Intl Film Fest at Glenwood Arts (95th/Mission) including Fade to Black. It's not about KCI. It's about Death With Dignity!
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Monday, November 6, 2017
Why vote NO? Ballot language says "demolish (both) existing terminals". Would you buy a car or cell phone with a contract that says, first we crush your trade-in--and lookee! here's a picture of what we MAY give you to drive in two years.
The new KCI plan is clearly a scam.
or a big screen TV
or a cell phone
based on such a sketchy "contract"--no plans, no budget, just a promise based on a 30 DAY OLD watercolor sketch without furniture or people!
BEFORE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY VOTE:
Read the ballot language: it authorizes the "demolish existing terminals"--think about that. A future blank check approval that legal eagles secretly embedded, to also include, down the road, without need for a future election: Wheeler downtown. Who knows what the city might do with that? Give it away to Richard Branson or Elon Musk or Jeff Bazos@Amazon??
THE OFFICIAL BALLOT LANGUAGE:
Shall the City of Kansas City be authorized to construct a new passenger terminal at Kansas City International Airport and demolish existing terminals as necessary, with all costs paid solely from the revenues derived by the City from the operation of its airports and related facilities, and without the issuance of general airport revenue bonds unless such general airport revenue bonds have received prior voter approval?
What's the rush? The city is afraid you'll come to your senses, that's what.
Just vote NO. They will be force to come back with a better plan. Don't fall for "Lame Duck Dying for a Legacy Plaque" Sly James' idle threat, "If you don't do what I want, right now, we won't repair, we won't remodel, we'll just do nothing for 50 years." My Dad tried those tactics in the 50's. If I didn't detail his 1953 Studebaker before supper, he was gonna lock me in my room for 50 years.
Finally, last week the City made a deal with Burns&Mac, the so-called losers in the bidding war. All they had to do was make a token $20,000 contribution to the $1.6 million campaign fund, and the city will, in turn, award them a $50 MILLION contract to be the city's "Owner's Representative."
Corruption. The City has an Aviation Department. THEY are the Owner's Representative. If they need to hire some engineers to supervise, they can hire them away from Burns & Mac--and I can assure you, it won't cost $50 MILLION!
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| Sly's Used Cars! JUST SIGN HERE: First we CRUSH your trade-in, SO THERE'S NO GOIN' BACK. We'll deliver you a brand new car...soon. Fingers crossed! If we can trust the airlines, the ones that drag unruly passengers off. Lookie here, see the picture I had a buddy draw on a cocktail napkin and then have a kid make a watercolor last month? TRUST US! We call this NEW KCI design the Cordish...I hope you'll like it. Cuz your old car's gone. |
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| Did T-Mobile demand you crush your old cell phone before handing you a new Samsung? Hell no. You're not that stupid. |
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or a cell phone
based on such a sketchy "contract"--no plans, no budget, just a promise based on a 30 DAY OLD watercolor sketch without furniture or people!
BEFORE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY VOTE:
Read the ballot language: it authorizes the "demolish existing terminals"--think about that. A future blank check approval that legal eagles secretly embedded, to also include, down the road, without need for a future election: Wheeler downtown. Who knows what the city might do with that? Give it away to Richard Branson or Elon Musk or Jeff Bazos@Amazon??
THE OFFICIAL BALLOT LANGUAGE:
Shall the City of Kansas City be authorized to construct a new passenger terminal at Kansas City International Airport and demolish existing terminals as necessary, with all costs paid solely from the revenues derived by the City from the operation of its airports and related facilities, and without the issuance of general airport revenue bonds unless such general airport revenue bonds have received prior voter approval?
What's the rush? The city is afraid you'll come to your senses, that's what.
Just vote NO. They will be force to come back with a better plan. Don't fall for "Lame Duck Dying for a Legacy Plaque" Sly James' idle threat, "If you don't do what I want, right now, we won't repair, we won't remodel, we'll just do nothing for 50 years." My Dad tried those tactics in the 50's. If I didn't detail his 1953 Studebaker before supper, he was gonna lock me in my room for 50 years.
Finally, last week the City made a deal with Burns&Mac, the so-called losers in the bidding war. All they had to do was make a token $20,000 contribution to the $1.6 million campaign fund, and the city will, in turn, award them a $50 MILLION contract to be the city's "Owner's Representative."
Corruption. The City has an Aviation Department. THEY are the Owner's Representative. If they need to hire some engineers to supervise, they can hire them away from Burns & Mac--and I can assure you, it won't cost $50 MILLION!
Sunday, November 5, 2017
You, me and Burning Man? 5:15p today at Ks Intl Film Fest, Glenwood Arts/(lower level of Ranchmart 95th & Mission
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