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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 18/09/2026

Word on the street is all the vendors were packed in by noon.

Row of vendor tents outside, all of which are shuttered.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 18/09/2026

This just in, the flickr pro lounge has as many people in it as one would expect.

Microsoft ass looking lounge with precisely one person in it, sitting in an uncomfortable looking chair.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 06/09/2026

Saying, when you live in south St. Louis city, you're only really alone when you want to be, or you deserve to be.

Middle aged white lady wearing grandma prescription sunglasses and a red swimsuit, hair covered with a beige hair wrap, holding an IKEA flip top bottle of kombucha while sitting in an inflatable swimming pool.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 30/08/2026

We randomly watched this movie on a free streaming service last night (I was ignorant of it, but Laine knew what it was and didn't say anything) and it was so good, I insisted we leave the house and purchase the Blu-ray today. At the mall. 😦🎬

Criterion Blu-ray copy of Lady Snow Blood, the best movie possibly ever.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 26/08/2026

I feel like St. Louis could turn the Ozark Hellbender benefit concert into a Dolly Parton party with very little effort. What are y'all doing on Friday? www.offbroadwaystl.com/shows/hellbe...

Gig poster for the Ozark Hellbender samander benefit concert Friday August 28th at Off Broadway

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 25/08/2026

My mom is five foot nothing and a total bad ass. She's been taking her lawn chair to the Ste. Genevieve county prison every Sunday and she makes signs to bring for all her old high school friends (50 year reunion in October). This one was my fave.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 22/08/2026

When you haven't sent a dumb snapchat to your oldest bestie in a little bit too long.

Text message screenshot of an image of a wood-framed embroidery art that reads "ho is you ok" answered with an image of a banana pudding in a square pan with a smiley face made out of Nilla wafers on top.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 09/08/2026

I live like, four neighborhoods away from The Grove, but someone abandoned a giant Urban Chestnut beer stein in the middle of the sidewalk at Brannon and Bancroft. I picked it up and put it on the fire plug. If you want it, it's yours.

Large glass beer stein with UCBC in blue lettering on it laying on its side in the middle of the sidewalk.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 27/07/2026

Finally put my birthday present together (6 months later). I have four raised beds but lettuce does not taste any good grown in St. Louis Summer heat. Suck it, cyclospora.

Click and Grow Bluetooth indoor planter planted with a butt ton of lettuces.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 24/07/2026

I'm a St. Louis girlie, ten toes down, but I got to see the CLYDESDALES deliver BEER on the main street of my mom's hometown today and it was EVERYTHING. Until today, the only thing Festus, Missouri ever gave me was grief.

Majestic enormous furry white hoofed chestnut carthorses in full tack walking down the street.

Carriage with dudes and more importantly, a Dalmatian sitting next to them, being pulled by CLYDESDALES.

Epic parade of CLYDESDALES on Festus Main Street.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 17/07/2026

It's our 23rd anniversary weekend and we're in Springfield, IL, with every other nerd in the Midwest, to see a Big Boy steam locomotive plow through town in the morning. 🚂 First stop, though. COZY DOG.

Poster of a 40s nurse bottle feeding a corn dog. Poster reads BIRTHPLACE OF THE CORN DOG.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 02/07/2026

New across-the-street neighbors are moving into Mrs. Howard's (RIP) bungalow. Yard signs of existing neighbors: BLACK LIVES MATTER, ABORTION IS HEALTHCARE, and Smokey the Bear standing with a shovel over the words FOXTROT DELTA TANGO (me).

Garden flag across the street neighbors installed just now. A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME WITHOUT PAWPRINTS.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 14/06/2026

The least gay thing I will do all month, but the album cover does have a rainbow on it. Dark Side of the Moon at Powell Hall. 🏳️‍🌈

The cover of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, a black triangle splitting light into a rainbow.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 13/06/2026

Sometimes life is too busy and unpredictable to plan a real camping trip so you have to improvise backyard day camping. Kinda love it.

Two hammock chairs set up in a city backyard with a camp table under a pop up screened porch. Table contains books on hiking and biking trails and a how to book about knots and also Korean rice cake snacks.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 13/06/2026

Pride month date nights look different for everyone. 🏳️‍🌈 Would normally miss anything with Jared Leto in it but I love Skeletor SO MUCH I can easily pretend it's not him. He better not mess this up for me.

Theater display of MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 12/06/2026

Things are better, there's a lot less murder anyway, but St. Louis used to be so much gayer. Sigh. 🏳️‍🌈

Libby screenshot of Gay and Lesbian St. Louis from the St. Louis Public library.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 22/05/2026

Friday off. Celebrating #worldgothday by tagging along to Clifton Heights with my wife to go to her goth haircut appointment. 🦇🦇🦇

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 17/05/2026

Was 49% sure this business was a trap for people who love puns. It's an odd place, but not a trap. Everything pretzel is top notch. Not traditional with the pretzels but recommended if you liked Auntie Anne's at the mall in 1997 (who didn't??)

A soft buttery pretzel twist sprinkled with everything bagel seasoning on a blue and white floral printed corelware plate.

A black and white printed memo with a clip art bell, text says "Our rear ding-dong does not work in strange weather. Please say hello!"

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 12/05/2026

In our house, the love language is entirely spontaneous gifts of knives and flashlights. Gave Laine a goth AF Opinel knife last month. This month, she gave me this tiny weird flashlight.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 11/05/2026

Just replaced my 40+ year old fridge and transitioned my magnet collection to the new one. The banana slug is from a trip to Hurricane Ridge in Washington State 25 years ago. I think that's the oldest one. Le Petit Prince is from my trip to Lyon in March.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 11/05/2026

Did AI tag this? Street art near North Broadway.

Street art that reads, "Oh, so you write? Be a lot cooler if you didn't."

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 10/05/2026

Smoke 'n Bones on Hampton is having a mother's day deal called "barbecue for three" which feeds like, seven people.

A giant platter covered in red checked wax paper and BBQ beans, potato salad, garlic toast, a full rack of ribs, pulled pork and smoked turkey.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 10/05/2026

This experimental short film event tonight has epic short sleeve button down energy. So far: black cats, capybaras, and orcas.

A shaker of nutritional yeast for your popcorn, ya filthy vegan.

Antique light fixture above a row of teal theater seats.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 09/05/2026

The Route 66 anniversary edition ice creams at Clementines are probably pretty great. Can only recommend Cherry Slush sorbet. Lemon Poppyseed is my fave vegan flavor of all time.

Cup of bright yellow and bright pink ice cream.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 09/05/2026

Our neighborhood dive bar has really good food and I'm kinda mad about it because otherwise I'd hate it here. The taco pizza tastes just like Fort Taco puffy tacos (RIP) and the hamburger pizza tastes like a perfect big mac.

A 9" thin crust taco pizza with a slice of hamburger pizza on loan.

A room-sized mural of cartoon characters, Homer Simpson, Garfield, Papa Smurf, Tom, Tweety Bird, Leonardo, Skeletor, Optimus Prime, Casper, Rosie.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 08/05/2026

Friday off. City backyard raised bed season opener. 🌱 Rode my bike to The Garden Shop on Hampton and got Biver farms seedlings and shop cat pets.

Pink cargo ebike loaded up with a tray of live plants.

Cash register at the Garden Shop on Hampton, large tabby cat parked on the shelf in front, sign says SOMETIMES WE NICE AND SOMETIMES WE BUSY.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 07/05/2026

These so-called mints from Schnucks aren't minty. They taste like the best sweet tarts you ever had in your LIFE. They taste like trailing an ice cream truck on your bike in July. 12/10

Red white and blue tin of Schnucks Mints in sugar free ROCKET POP flavor.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 06/05/2026

Odds are pretty good that our 1988 GE refrigerator was installed by the Slyman Bros Appliances in our neighborhood so we went in today to the them to come get it and bring us back a fresh one. 100 year old houses have small doorways.They have an excellent selection of 30" refrigerators.

Email from Slyman Bros Appliances saying your delivery has been scheduled.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 28/04/2026

Another sad bastard band checked off my bucket list.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 28/04/2026

Thai Country Kitchen in u-city claims to have been open since 1993, but I swear there was a long stretch where it wasn't available. We got in before they move locations in June. All other STL Thai food is inferior.

Aluminum pot full of green curry fish, red and green bell peppers.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 20/04/2026

St. Louis gets the mayor mispronouncing the word "welcome" in five different languages, while Atlanta gets a beautiful multimedia art installation. My friend did the sound design for this. @cshriner.bsky.social, your birds are still chirping.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 18/04/2026

Another day, another open house across the street. #southcitypride

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 17/04/2026

Our nonagenarian across the street neighbor died in February and her family just put the house on the market yesterday. Open house is this afternoon. They're asking a bougie amount of money for it. Entirely unrelated, we're eating supper on our front porch.

Front porch table set with a pot of Tuscan bean and kale soup and whitefish because we're hoosiers but we keep it classy.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 15/04/2026

(You should go. It's a nice, quiet thing to do this summer).

$Glowing golden geometric orb with cutouts throwing fractal shadows on the curved ceiling of a pavilion.$ Woodland path lined at the edges with glowing yellow diamond shapes suspended above the ground.

Woodland path lined at the edges with glowing yellow diamond shapes suspended above the ground.

Geometric blobs cut with dot shaped holes, stacked up on each other lit from within throwing shadows on the ground

Advertisement for Missouri Botanical Garden's PATTERNS IN NATURE the art of HYBYCOZO sculpture installation open all spring and summer.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 05/04/2026

That's not a Juggalo, that's a Bozo, and who here didn't assume Juggalos gathered in Missouri every year? If Missouri isn't attracting Juggalos annually, THAT should be the headline. What are we doing to fix this?

Screenshot of a spotlit circus clown in Bozo makeup and wig smiling coyly at the camera with a headline Juggalos to Gather in Missouri this Summer.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 31/03/2026

I'm flying back to the US without my flight insurance (my sweet witch bff is asleep in St. Louis). The worst that can happen is I make it back to the states, so DO YOUR WORST, FATE. Nobody wants to come here, obvs.

Brightly colored Paris mural in quartier Père-LaChaise with words that roughly translate to FIGHT WITH JOY.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 14/03/2026

It's 314 day. Post St. Louis.

The plaster bust of Vegas era Elvis Presley in the front window of O'Fashion Donuts on the Hill (locally known as Elvis Donuts).

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 13/03/2026

I love the DMV nearest my house. 😔

A mini bottle of Jack Daniels on a gray linoleum floor. Empty.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 08/03/2026

Had lunch catered by these gals yesterday and it was incredible. We were all fighting over their business cards until we remembered we have phones that can take pictures.

Business card for Cleotha and Joanne Lax, owners and chefs of CJs Catering and Eats 314-304-9519
No job too big or too small!

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 04/03/2026

Nothing has made me laugh this week except this promo email from the ice cream parlor in our neighborhood. We're going out for scoops of Pooh after work today. Just out here yelling SCOOPS OF POOH at the slightest provocatiion.

Screenshot of an email from Clementines Naughty and Nice creamery advertising the March flavors of the month, which are Winnie the Pooh themed. Says A HUNDRED YEARS OF POOH, FOUR VERY SCOOPABLE ADVENTURES.

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 03/03/2026

I think the only recourse is the violent amplification of Jesus as a source of radical acceptance, compassion, joy and solid party vibes. Good Time Jesus, your day has finally arrived..

Good Time Jesus

Jesus got up one day a little later than usual. He had been dreaming so deep there was nothing left in his head. What was it? A nightmare, dead bodies walking all around him, eyes rolled back, skin falling off. But he wasn’t afraid of that. It was a beautiful day. How ’bout some coffee? Don’t mind if I do. Take a little ride on my donkey, I love that donkey. Hell, I love everybody.

James Tate 1979

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gatewaygroupie @gatewaygroupie.com · 02/03/2026

Today was the opening reception of the final exhibition at the museum of contemporary religious art (MOCRA) at SLU and I got all choked up. The show is a retrospective and it was like visiting old friends. There were also lots of actual old friends in attendance there, too. The end of an era.

An oil painting by Vicente Telles called the Here Comes Vicente. Figure is wearing a T-shirt that says TRUTH X POWER, a burlap bean sack over their head, and a cactus on a string around their neck. They are holding a thin stick in one hand and in the other a tub of Morrell's Snow Cap lard with a pigeon perched on top of it. The pigeon has a tiny blue pot over its head.

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