What the hell is going on in Pontoon Beach?

The sleepy little southern Illinois town is all over the news this week and before we go any further, please remember that the city is more pontoon than it is beach. In fact, there may never be another city more appropriately named in America.

Last weekend I was in a bar in Edwardsville. The bartender recommended some vodka.

“It’s made in Pontoon Beach”, he said.

Turns out my buddy, who works in the alcohol distribution business, said he’d heard of this vodka and that it’d scored really high on this point system people that care about this shit use. Then on Tuesday, the proprietors of the brand turned up at the Riverfront Times ‘Best Of’ party and I tasted the stuff. It’s actually damn good.

St. Louis is becoming a town with a bunch of burnt out signs.

First the iconic ‘Budweiser’ sign that resides in Soulard was feared to have been shorted out. But it turns out the Brewery is being cautious and keeping it off as the rain continues to pound the region, fearing that the water will kill portions of the sign.

Turns out our friends at Busch Stadium can’t shake the Brewer’s legacy after all and have turned off the ‘S’ in the Cardinals sign over Musial Bridge.

Or they’re just letting the World Champions home fall apart. I mean, who would have guessed that ‘The Big Ad’ on Clark was built on the cheap?