Leitch, not last night at Left Bank Books.

It's just after after nine o'clock Thursday night at Left Bank Books downtown, and Will Leitch is still going strong.

The writer-turned-blogger-turned-writer-again is seated at a desk in front of cookbooks and to the left of glossy-covered hardbacks on interior design and gardening. A line of about 30 white 20-somethings -- you know, stereotypical sports-blog guys -- has formed, waiting for Leitch to sign his new book.

"How you doing, sir?" he energetically asks before he opens the cover to Are We Winning? Fathers, Sons, and the Great Game in the New Century, his third book. He grabs one of the six pens next to him.

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Update: It turns out that an employee of Break Time -- Chris Shaw -- is the Powerball winner.

He tells Missourinet.com:

"I just knew it was big. I sold tickets all day yesterday. When I worked yesterday, I sold tickets all day, and then at the end of my shift I went ahead and bought a ticket and I bought my girlfriend a ticket. Then this morning she called me and told me that this store had sold it, we had sold it, and I thought no way, you know," Shaw said.

The story goes on to say:

Shaw mentioned he had just purchased a truck from a friend Wednesday night (he didn't find out that he won until Thursday morning). He was going to pay $100 a month for the truck. When asked if he'd buy a different truck now, it was clear the reality of his win hadn't sunk in yet.

"I don't know. I don't know I'll probably at least fix the motor in it you know what I mean? But I don't know if I'll buy, I don't know. Right now it's still a shock and awe, I can't even imagine that," Shaw said.

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A gas station attendant in Marshall, Missouri has sold a Powerball ticket now worth $258.5 million, after the numbers were picked during Wednesday night's drawing for the multi-state mega lottery.

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The Break Time location is at 1000 West College Street in Marshall, a town located between Kansas City and Columbia. Daily RFT called the gas station this morning, but after a few audible sighs on the other end of the line, it was evident the business has been inundated with media calls. (The hang-up hammered that sentiment home.) One would guess the management would be in good spirits, as the business is due to receive $50,000 from Powerball for selling the winning ticket.
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​TNA Wrestling brought its pay-per-view "Lockdown" to St. Louis yesterday (well, St. Charles anyway) and like any rasslin' event worth its tights included an impressive array of acrobatics and dirty tricks.

Here, in ascending order, are the Top 5:

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​TNA Wrestling brought its pay-per-view "Lockdown" to St. Louis yesterday (well, St. Charles anyway) and like any rasslin' event worth its tights included an impressive array of acrobatics and dirty tricks.

Here, in ascending order, are the Top 5:

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Last night the Social Media Club of St. Louis threw their one year anniversary party at Mosaic on Washington. We've covered several of their events since their launch at Atomic Cowboy back in '09. So, we thought we would catch up with one of their directors Brad Hogenmiller via video to get his feelings about how the club has grown. See some photos from the event after the jump. 
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King points thumb, wonders "How did she get on my program?"

​St. Louis Tea Party darling Dana Loesch got cut down last night by CNN host Larry King.

Asked by King to explain the goal of the Tea Party, Loesch began rattling off the predictable drivel of lower taxes, smaller government and the "intent of the founding fathers" when King cut her off.

King: "Last I checked Obama won the election. He ran on a campaign platform and won. That goes back to the founding fathers, too."

Later King asked Loesch if she was at all concerned about Tea Party members using the term "terrorism" when describing the president.

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John Boehner not happy about the tanning salon tax in the health care bill

​House minority leader John Boehner made himself the butt of many jokes when he proclaimed that the passage of health care reform was "Armageddon" that would "ruin our country," but Missouri senator Claire McCaskill had her own one-liner for the Republican from Ohio last night on The Colbert Report.

Referencing Colbert's remark earlier in the show that he got a suntan during last week's hiatus, McCaskill quipped about Boehner's fake-and-bake "orange" hue, drawing laughs from both the host and his audience.

Colbert added, "He looks like he tried to replace the core of a nuclear reactor, actually."

Mostly, though, McCaskill spent her five-minute appearance deflecting Colbert's tongue-extremely-in-cheek taunts that she was "one of the people who is destroying America."

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It's an incredible responsibility being governor of a major state. There's so much work to be done, so many photo ops to smile for, so many profane phone calls to be made, so many favors to be sold that it's a wonder the governor has time to sleep, let alone keep up with modern technology!

And so it was that on Celebrity Apprentice last night, Rod Blagojevich, faced with an ordinary MacBook, was rendered absolutely helpless in the face of such complex technology. "How do I turn this thing on?" he inquired of his project manager, former Olympian Michael Johnson. Somewhere, Steve Jobs is weeping. (Well, if Steve Jobs bothered to watch crap like this. One would sincerely hope he has better things to do.)

"There's a lot of technology that's passed me by," the former governor explained. "When you're governor, you've got 60,000 people working for you, they pretty much research for you. And before that I was a congressman, so I never had to learn it. So..."

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​Two important revelations about former governor Rod Blagojevich from last night's episode of Celebrity Apprentice:

1. Blago is still innocent.

2. Blago has a thing for balloons.

In this week's task, Donald Trump told the two teams to set up storefronts pimping Kodak's exciting new products. Blago graciously yielded the project manager title to Sinbad, citing the comedian's greater expertise with digital cameras.

The men's strategy was to allow visitors to have a Kodak moment with some of the celebrities. Folks could swing a bat with Darryl Strawberry, pretend to play guitar with Bret Michaels, crouch on the starting block with Michael Johnson, chop vegetables with Curtis Stone or make ferocious WWE faces with Goldberg.

Notice anyone who's missing?

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​It has been frequently labeled "the Citizen Kane of bad movies." For midnight events, it might be the Rocky Horror Picture Show for the twenty-first century. It is a new cult classic, stupid and inept without bottom, sloppy as ballpark nachos and clueless as a farm turkey. It is called, quite simply, The Room.

Over the weekend, the Tivoli twice screened this phenomenon that has volcano'd in popularity since it was released, to tumbleweed silence, in 2003. Written, produced and directed by hombre-misterioso Tommy Wiseau, The Room reportedly cost $6 million (including marketing) to make, yet ignores or violates all known film conventions, as if the last 100 years of cinema did not happen.

Its first public screening in St. Louis attracted the very same guilty-pleasure aficionados, curious couples, hardcore cineastes, and rowdy groups of friends who have transformed it all over the country into that most precious of commodities: a must-see with a crowd.

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