KC Confidential

Who doesn’t like a good tip?

Like, you should check out this new band, restaurant, etc, But at some point there is such a thing as to much of a good thing. And in the case of the 1014 Pitch Best Of KC  issue, it begins with the overtly pretentious lead in to the awards- an astonishingly stereotypical ode to somewhat tired cliches and narcissism. Check it:

“We are not morning people. Shut up — you aren’t, either. We like sunrises as much as the next Eagle Scout, we guess, but we prefer a sunset the color of a two-cherry Manhattan. We like Manhattans. We like a beer and a steak and a beer. We like to watch the sun go down behind the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. We like to watch early evening’s commuters look a moment at the Boulevard headquarters when it lights up. We like the blue glow of the Roasterie’s plane. We like to congratulate ourselves for doing what we set out to do today, give or take the grocery store and having to leave the Nelson-Atkins before we were ready. There’s tomorrow, too, and sometimes we like tomorrow better. We like to talk with our friends about where we might go for drinks, for dinner, for drinks again. We like plays. We like First Friday in the Crossroads and in the West Bottoms. We like club shows and dive bars. Some of us like our chances with someone we met tonight. Some of us like our chances with someone who keeps going home with us. We like that so much of what’s best to eat and drink and see and do and think about in the daytime can be done — sometimes better still — at night. We like night anywhere. But we love the nighttime most right here, when the best of Kansas City glows just right.”

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