St. Louis Post-Dispatch

No doubt about it this bird deserves a cake

Today with newspapers dying left and right it is good to know that the Post Dispatch Weather Bird is still flying high. If I was to pick the top St Louis institution it would be the Weather Bird. This bird has been flying high for over a century and shows no sign of giving up. Heat, frigid cold, floods, tornadoes, and blown calls that lost a world series the weather bird has survived them all. The Weather Bird is a trickster and uses some slick puns, some bad ones too, to get his message across. Weather bird will take on any politician and injustice and set the record straight. Weather Bird shows the heart of St Louis and displays it succinctly and compactly.

“ The Post was given a blank cake and I was asked if I could decorate it,” said Dan Martin Post-Dispatch artist who draws the Weather Bird.  Once Martin saw the cake he immediately knew it had to be a Weather Bird Cake. After the design was approved Martin got to work, decorating the cake using outdoor house paint.  “ For a couple of weeks I would go down to an abandoned part of the press room where the plate room was and paint. It’s been on display in the lobby but will now be perched outside through the end of the year.”

(From the Blog written by Suzanne Corbett)

Guest blogger - Rich

Ninety-eight down 152 to go.

Weather Bird and Cake artist Dan Martin