Archive for April, 2008

Wilson, Oklahoma Seems Super Exciting

Published by
Tony
 at April 30, 2008


photo from flickr user “zoomar”

Say what you want about the town of Wilson, Oklahoma, that won’t change the most important thing: I’ve never heard of it.

As of this writing, the lead story on NewsOK.com is about a crime that occurred in the Carter County town of Wilson this weekend. Basically, a lady died, and her dog got sent to the pound. So a few kids, fearing that it would be put to sleep, hatched a plan to bust the dog out of the slammer and let it attend it’s owner’s funeral.

Fortunately, the town of Wilson has a top-notch police chief named Felix Hernandez and his department was able to use their awesome detective skills to deduce what had happened:

“The door to the pound was wide open and there was a guy with the dog in his arms,” Hernandez said.

Now that is some incredible police work!

I don’t know about all of you, but I am glad this story is in the news. It brings some much-needed press to the small town of Wilson, and it also teaches kids that Crime Doesn’t Pay. Except when it does. Am I right, Hooker I Just Skipped Out On Without Paying? High Five!

Category: Unusual. 5 Comments

Inflation is a Bitch

Published by
Clark Matthews
 at April 30, 2008

The only thing scarier than paying $3.50 for a gallon of gas is the suggestion that the price could triple over the next three years.  Prognosticators let us know that this escalation of energy prices will lead to the price of everything increasing, painting a picture so grim that it makes one want to run out and stock up on canned goods.  Oh, then the prognosticators tell you this.

While taking a mental break to steel my nerves so I could prep for a Mad Max type apocalypse calmly, I spent a little time on YouTube and found this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjmXsB3hz6Y

What jumped out at me first was:  “Wow, in 1968 you could list off the addresses of random people on television and tell the viewers the house’s value?”  Apparently, Patrick’s “Where They Live” gimmick was not as original as I had thought.  Next, though, I wanted to know where I could find me one of those $10,000 houses.  With the assistance the County Assessor’s website, I learned that those addresses are worth significantly more now.  (Apparently this “inflation” thing has been going on for awhile now.)  “How much more?” you might ask.  Read on. Continue reading ‘Inflation is a Bitch’

Category: Where they live.... 3 Comments

This is why Tony is leaving…

Published by
Patrick
 at April 29, 2008

tonyneysmith.jpg

Over the past week there has been a lot going on here at The Lost Ogle. Honestly, I’m not to sure what that “a lot” was, but it had a much higher priority than writing about OU basketball. That’s why we are a little bit behind in “reporting” that on Monday, April 22nd, the OU basketball team held their annual “Tip In Club Post Season Dinner.” At this dinner, they gave away the following awards:

The Brent Price Connection to the Community Award: Taylor Griffin
The Roy Marler/Hollis Price Inspirational Award: Beau Gerber
The Eduardo Najera Award for Toughness: Blake Griffin
The Mookie Blaylock Outstanding Defensive Player Award: David Godbold
The Stacey King Award for Team Leadership: Taylor Griffin
The Harvey Grant Award for Commitment and Overall Improvement: Cade Davis
The Choo Kennedy Award for rebounding: Blake Griffin
The Terry Evans Award for assists: Austin Johnson
The Alvan Adams Award for Academic Excellence: Gerber and Ryan Wright
The Tim McCalister Award for most minutes played: Johnson
The Wayman Tisdale Award for Most Valuable Player: Blake Griffin
The Senior Appreciation Award: Godbold and Longar Longar

Geeze, no wonder Tony Neysmith decided to transfer. Rumors are even swirling that that Jeff Capel awarded Omar Leary the “Chris Walker Award for This Guy Really Shouldn’t be on Scholarship” in a secret, back room ceremony, just to keep him happy and on the team.

Anyway, it should be noted this will hopefully be the last time we write about college basketball here at The Lost Ogle until next fall. That is until Eddie Sutton succumbs to temptation and gets arrested for drunk driving again, Kelvin Sampson gets fired from an NBA job for charging late night 900-number calls to his corporate card or Sean Sutton becomes the presenting sponsor of the Watonga Cheese Festival.

(p.s.- Honestly, I wrote that last little blurb as a tongue-in-cheek joke, but I wouldn’t be surprised at all if any of them happened. Hell, it would actually be kind of cool.)

Category: OU Basketball. 6 Comments

Bill Simonson Is Still A Douchebag.

Published by
Tony
 at April 28, 2008

The kiddos may not remember it — I barely do myself — but there used to be a guy named Bill Simonson who had a radio show in the Oklahoma City market. He made Jim Traber look humble. I mean, he actually called himself “Captain Huge.” It takes some world-class levels of self-loathing to be the kind of jerk this guy was. I was in, like, the 6th grade and could tell this guy had some serious issues. If ever there was a person who needed a hug from Angi Bruss, it was Bill Simonson.

Anyway, he never really caught on here, thank Gary England, and eventually moved on to Tulsa, where he ended up getting fired for making racist statements about John Blake. From there he moved on to Chicago, where he got beat up outside of Comiskey Park, and then I lost track of him…

…until a few weeks ago, when I heard him on a syndicated Sunday program on the Sports Animal. I almost drove off the road. The ghost of my childhood had returned, and hours with my shrink were needed to repair the damage. It was almost as traumatic as the time Mike Morgan showed up at my house in full Star Trek regalia, but that’s another story for another therapy session.

This is all a roundabout way of giving background to the following thing I ran across today on Deadspin: a blog entry, written by Simonson, that is possibly the stupidest thing I have read in my entire life. You can read it for yourself, but the crux of his argument is that a certain West Point grad is of poor character because he got drafted to play football and will not be going to Iraq.

I quote: “What is puzzling about Campbell’s story is that West Point is centered on building leadership qualities. Yes, the rules are there to help market the academy’s sports programs by giving good athletes the opt-out early parachute.

If Campbell was a leader and a man of the highest character, wouldn’t he turn down the Lions and honor his duty to this country?

Even before the Lions picked him, the Army had stooped to using him in uniform as a military mascot during the NFL draft.

Is this duty, honor, country?”

Seriously, read the whole thing, it’s hilarious (and be sure to check out the comments as well).

In celebration of this, after the jump, a trip down memory lane as Mel Bracht gets all righteous and calls (sort of) for Simonson to be fired.

Continue reading ‘Bill Simonson Is Still A Douchebag.’

Category: Oklahoma City Radio. 38 Comments

Cardboard Jim likes the ladies…

Published by
Patrick
 at April 27, 2008

cardboard-jim-wimgo.jpg

This past Saturday, Tony, Clark Matthews and I went to the Norman Music Festival. Not only did we get to go as official members of the media (which prompted George Lang to ask us “Why are you all here?”), but we also got to bring along our friend Cardboard Jim. Later this week, we will document his wimgoy Norman Music Festival experience in our second edition of the Travels of Cardboard Jim.

Other than a train roaring by every few minutes, the Norman Music Festival was pretty damn fun and pretty damn cool. We would like to give a big thanks to the organizers for letting people from the new viral, untraditional media cover this event. “Thank Yous” also go out to:

• The nice security guard who let us sneak two cases of Miller Lite into the festival.

• The WIMGO gals above for giving Jim a FREE t-shirt. Jim asked them WTF is Wimgo, but they couldn’t answer.

• Ibuprofen and Gatorade

Category: Jim Traber, Norman Music Festival, WTF is Wimgo and Wimgo. 19 Comments

Wanted: Chubby Johnson

Published by
Patrick
 at April 26, 2008

From tonight’s 6:00 pm broadcast at KOCO Channel 5. Please watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz7wf-HPxeY

There’s a little part of me that hopes Mr. Johnson is never caught, and that he goes on a notorious crime spree across the metro, burglarizing the lavish homes of local Gallardia residents, and causing old women to scream “My Jewels!” That would be awesome…just imagine how cool our nightly news would become and the the headlines that would appear in the Oklahoman when the OKCPD creates a special task force to track down the thief!

Anyway, if you have any info on Mr. Johnson’s wherabouts, please call crime stoppers…or any Metro Christie’s Toy box.

Category: KOCO and Unusual. 12 Comments

Ogle Madness: We Have A Winner!

Published by
Tony
 at April 25, 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X99ci3PC2T0

The votes have been tallied, and the first annual Ogle Madness is in the books. The winner, by a margin of anywhere between 2 and 16 votes** is KOKH morning show reporter (?) Lauren Richardson.

**The exact count is a bit hazy. There were more than a couple enterprising people attempting to stuff the ballot box for both of the candidates (Amy McRee, for instance, has a big fan at the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, Richardson at the United States Postal Service). In any event, we are fortunate that this is Clark Matthews’ specialty (surprisingly, he has one) and Lauren is the winner by a slim but clear margin.

Richardson’s rise to the top has been meteoric, as she wasn’t even known to any of us when we started this blog eleven months ago. Patrick in particular is proud of Richardson’s achievement, as he first brought her to the public consciousness last August. When informed of the results, Pat broke down into tears of pride. He also ate a burrito. But that was just because he was hungry. It didn’t have anything to do with Ogle Madness.

In recognition of Lauren Richardson’s victory, The Lost Ogle is excited to present her with these three prizes:

1. One free Lost Ogle t-shirt
2. One free pink bikini
3. Enshrinement in The Lost Ogle Hall of Fame

If you are Lauren Richardson and would like to collect these prizes, just shoot us an e-mail (thelostogle at gmail dot com) or a MySpace message. If you are not Lauren Richardson, better luck next year.

Category: Lauren Richardson and Ogle Madness. 13 Comments

Chris Callahan Exit Interview

Published by
Patrick
 at April 24, 2008

In 20 years, when Tony is the Governor of Oklahoma, Clark Matthews is the worlds top professional doubles checkers player, and I am Baptist Hospital waiting for a liver transplant, this post will be answer to the following trivia question:

Q: Who was the first person to ever be interviewed by The Lost Ogle?

A: Chris Callahan

Yeah, so it’s not Jesse Jane or Amy McRee or Wayne Coyne, but you have to start somewhere, right? I seriously doubt Mike Wallace’s first interview was with Gandhi, he probably started our by interviewing Tim Kurkjin or something.

Anyway, if you don’t know who Chris Callahan is, he is/was the weekend/back-up sports anchor on KOCO Channel 5. We have learned that today is his last day as a KOCO employee, as he has apparently decided to pulled a tuttlesuiterslohmanjones and leave the live, local, late breaking news leader. However, unlike those former KOCO’ers, Chris was kind enough to grant The Lost Ogle an exclusive totally real exit interview.

Check it out after the jump…

Continue reading ‘Chris Callahan Exit Interview’

Category: KOCO and Oklahoma City Media. 8 Comments

Get wasted this Saturday at the Norman Music Festival…

Published by
Patrick
 at April 23, 2008

As you surely know by now, the Norman Music Festival is taking place this Saturday somewhere along Main Street in downtown Norman. The concert should be pretty damn cool and you should go! But…if you don’t want to take my word for it, here are some reasons to go:

• You get to drive to Norman on a beautiful Saturday afternoon, get hammered, and then not have to watch OU destroy some terrible opponent. Seriously, when was the last time this happened. Usually when I find myself in downtown Norman on a Saturday afternoon, I’m at the Vista wondering if the waitress is flirting with me to get a bigger tip, or if she genuinely likes me. I’m also wondering why the hell I’m not at Campus Corner.

• See some weird ass bands. The Polyphonic Spree are headlining, The Chainsaw Kittens are reuniting and both Colourmusic and the Evangelicals will be playing. Even this weird band that I’ve never heard of will be there playing some strange instrument that I never knew existed.

• Wear a Lost Ogle T-shirt and get FREE admission!!! Yes, that’s right Ladies and Gentlemen, simple wear one of our “limited edition” Lost Ogle T-Shirts and you don’t have to pay a dime to get in the festival.

• Meet Cardboard Jim Traber. We heard from a good source that the Ultimate Cardboard Sports Mind will be on hand to take pictures with and interview the bands. This same source said he may even sign some autographs for a few lucky fans.

• Easily sneak in alcohol. This is actually more of a wish than a reason, but hopefully you can easily sneak alcohol into the festival. If not, bring your wallet.

Anyway, I hope the reasons above are good enough to convince you to go to the festival. If not, remember that if this one is a B.F.D, then next year’s festival will be bigger and better and maybe even weirder. If that doesn’t convince you, then you’re about as cool as Clark Matthews’ internet checkers tournament.

Category: Norman Music Festival. 8 Comments

Oklahoma is Having a Barack Attack

Published by
Clark Matthews
 at April 23, 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjXyqcx-mYY

To be fair, I was one of the early converts.  Back in 2004, even before his glorious speech at the Democratic National Convention, my wife brought him to my attention.  I remember the moment clearly.  It was a Thursday evening and I was headed to play flag football in the worst flag football league ever assembled by man.  After picking up one of my teammates, my cell phone rang and upon answering, my wife immediately began recounting a speech she had just seen.  It was hard to understand her since she kind of sounded like one of those girls you see screaming in the background whenever they show The Beatles first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.  She was sure he was going to be President.   As I hung up the phone my friend asked what that was all about.  “My wife is about to leave me for some dude named Obama something-or-other,” I told him.

“Osama who?” he asked.

And so it went in this state for four years.  Barack Obama became a rising star in American politics, was elected to the Senate by an astounding margin for a first time candidate, and by the Iowa caucuses of 2008, he looked like the only chance of slaying the Clinton juggernaut.  Meanwhile, Oklahomans generally thought of him as that black guy running for President.  Or, if they were anything like my Grandpa, they thought he was Arab.

It seems like the state is coming around.  (Not in time for our Super Tuesday primary, mind you, in which Hillary got something like 75% of the vote.)  In the past few weeks, while Obama was dealing with Clinton’s “kitchen sink” strategy in the run up to the Pennsylvania primary, the news out of Oklahoma has been all good for him. Continue reading ‘Oklahoma is Having a Barack Attack’

Category: Brad Henry and Oklahoma Politics. 14 Comments
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