Friday night in the big town: ABBA, chocolate, and princesses
Tony Hanadarko and I talked it over, readers, and we’ve decided that if we’re going to keep going to Lost Ogle trivia night, we’re going to have to set up a study group. Or, maybe drink less and pay attention to the questions more. Either way, we’ve got to do something. We totally got “pwned” last night by a team called “Release the Cracken.” Coincidentally, those smarty pants fellas on that team don’t strike me as the type to ever hear a woman use that phrase in the bedroom. Aw, snap! It doesn’t matter if you come in second if I make you look like a dork on teh webz!
Anyway, here’s your Friday Night in the Big Town!
January 27-28: ABBA-The Concert
There was a time, readers, when I had a very virginal roommate who was obsessed with the movie, Mamma Mia!, primarily, I assume, because she operated under the assumption that life was magical and falling in love was as simple as Pierce Brosnan shouting lyrics at Meryl Streep. Long story short, she blared that stupid soundtrack nearly everyday, and on my twenty-fourth birthday, I got rip-roaring drunk and apparently called her a Jesus Freak repeatedly until she took my drunk ass home. I don’t remember. No one knows for sure.
But what I do know is that ABBA brings out the worst in me. I can’t handle it. I want to like it, you know, so I can sing along with all the other women in the room who love it. But I can’t. So, if you’re the type of person who hears “Dancing Queen” and doesn’t fly into a fit of rage because there is something incredibly frustrating about the way the music sounds, then go support Waterloo, the top ABBA tribute band in the world at the OKC Philharmonic. If you see my old roommate, tell her I’m sorry I called her a Jesus Freak.
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We’d like to officially welcome KOKH’s Tiffany Tatro to Oklahoma City
The girl pictured above is Tiffany Tatro. She’s the new morning reporter for KOKH Fox 25. She’s apparently been on the job for a few months, but we didn’t know about it because we use all of our free time shopping, traveling and spending time with friends and family. Fortunately, though, an Ogle Mole alerted us to her presence.
Here’s her bio over at the terrible Fox 25 website.
Multi-media journalist, Tiffany Tatro, is a reporter for Fox 25 Primtetime News. Before arriving in Oklahoma City, Tiffany worked as reporter for KTAB, the CBS affiliate in Abilene, TX. There she covered a variety of stories from the massive wildfires to tornadoes. Tiffany also covered a high profile missing person case that led to a live appearance on CNN Headline News.
Born and raised in Phoenix, AZ she’s excited to see what the Sooner State has to offer. Tiffany graduated from Arizona State University. While she loves her Sun Devils, she is excited to cheer for OU and OSU!
When not working Tiffany enjoys shopping, traveling and spending time with friends and family.
Tiffany is looking forward to exploring OKC and meeting all the great people.
That’s neat. Did you notice the part about Arizona St? If I could go back in time and change anything about me or my life, I’d try to figure out a way to be tall and athletic. If that didn’t work, I’d just make sure I enrolled for a semester of college at ASU. The girls there are wild and crazy and usually attractive. They also do things like post pictures like this on Facebook:
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Ron Paul thought the Oklahoma City Bombing was a government conspiracy
Of all the candidates still in the race for president, I’d say that Ron Paul is one of my favorites. I like his overall consistency, his opposition to the Patriot Act and his admission that the “War on Drugs” is a failure. I also like his inability to ever win a presidential election.
But other than that, I’m not too fond of the extremist right-wing politician from Texas. His dream of an American Libertarian society is impractical and superficial, his stance on foreign policy is nuts, and he reminds me of one of those government conspiracy theorists who sleeps with tin foil on his head and passes out open currency pamphlets at state fairs and gun shows.
Paul reinforces that third belief in a recently dug-up column from one of his old newsletters. In an article from a 1995 issue of the Ron Paul Survivor Report, Paul gets all Alias on us and implies that the federal government may be behind the Oklahoma City bombing. He even drops a reference to false-flag recruiting spies.
Here’s the article (h/t BuzzFeed):
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Some lady attacked her boyfriend with an axe
The lady above is Brenda Macks. On January 8th, she probably ingested some illegal substance and allegedly attacked her boyfriend with a damn axe. Fortunately, her 8-year old son called 911 and saved the day.
From NewsOK.com:
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From the Mountain Top – Sports Musings From Someone Better Than You
Joe Pa died. And not just “his legend” or “metaphorically speaking”, both of which occurred last fall. The winningest coach in college football history passed away last weekend due to complications from guilt cancer. For better or worse, he now has to answer to a higher power, leaving us mere earthlings left to wonder what that sad old man really knew about another sad old man ass raping boys in the Penn State showers.
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State Rep Mark McCullough thinks the OETA Movie Club is too “edgy” and Apartheid documentaries too biased…
Before the official crazy season in Oklahoma politics begins on February 6th (a.k.a. the legislative session), a joint legislative committee holds a series of meetings called the Sunset Review. In the Review, they evaluate and assess specified agencies, boards and commissions.
One of those agencies under the microscope is OETA, Oklahoma’s statewide PBS affiliate. On Monday, the network’s Executive Director John McCarroll appeared in front of the Sunset Review committee to answer questions regarding things like budgets, funding and staffing.
He also answered a few direct questions from State Rep Mark McCullough, who wanted to know why the network would air a “biased” documentary on apartheid and allow BJ Wexler to show “edgy” films on the OETA Movie Club like Annie Hall and Lolita.
Here’s the audio:
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Gentle Travels: The Museum of Osteology
Greetings, readers. I’m coming at you this week from the Museum of Osteology, Oklahoma’s number one place for getting your bone on. Located right here in Oklahoma City, the museum caters to school groups and the public, and just about anyone who likes bones. So pull that freshly-pressed Ed Hardy skull shirt off the hanger and get up close and personal with oodles of dead things.
The fine staff at the Museum of Osteology believes that conservation begins through education and appreciation of the natural world. That’s all well and good, but if you think about it, perhaps showing kids how cool the remains of dead animals isn’t the way to go about it. I’m thinking that’s a surefire way to awaken their sociopathic tendencies were they start killing house cats for the bones, but what do I know? Anyway, the set up of the museum reminds me of an episode of Hoarders because you find just as many dead animals at the museum as you would inside a hoarder house, only the museum isn’t condemned or full of fecal matter. And sadly, it’s nothing like that scene in The Return of the King where Aragorn has to summon the ghost army and the avalanche of skulls comes tumbling down.
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State Senator Josh Brecheen Declares an Emergency…
Patrick has gone into great detail regarding State Senator Josh Brecheen’s disdain for science. The senator, pictured above and to the left, is taking another stab at undermining the study of science by introducing State Bill 1742. The bill not only establishes that Brecheen is declaring a war on evolution, but that Brecheen is also a terrible bill writer.
Esentially, the bill sounds innocuous. According to the bill’s introductory section, it simply provides assistance to teachers, promotes critical thinking, allows supplementary text, and does not promote a particular belief system. Wow, totally reasonable, right? Then, he declares an emergency.
Let’s look at the bill a little closer…
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