Archive for June, 2008

Maybe he’ll pursue an acting career…

Published by
Patrick
 on June 30, 2008

The beautiful guy pictured above is Dan Murdock. Dan Murdock is the General Counsel of the Oklahoma Bar Association. If you’ve been following the news at all today, you may know that Dan was arrested Saturday night on an alleged sexual battery complaint. From an article at NewsOK.com (for the juicy stuff, skip the article and download the crime report.)

A crying woman told police Oklahoma City attorney Dan Murdock got her alone at Remington Park Saturday night, asked if she is a tease, then pulled down her top and bit her on the breast, police reported.

The woman said he also grabbed her by the hair, bit her neck and grabbed her outside her clothes in her genital area.

“But he didn’t rape me,” she told police in tears…

The woman, who is in her 30s, said she had talked with Murdock at the wedding shower (at Remington Park), according to the report. She said she had been drinking wine. She said he told her he was divorced.

She said he wanted to show her his other suite and she agreed.

“Once inside the suite, she realized there was no one in there but her and” Murdock, police reported.

Well, this proves some theories. Don’t trust an attorney (obviously). Don’t trust a Remington Park multi-suite holder. And don’t pull the top off a random drunk woman and bite her on the breast.

Anyway, as it always is, I’m sure there is another side to this story…and if there is, I’m sure we’ll never hear about it. While we wait, I would recommend for Mr. Murdock to do these things.

• Get a good criminal defense attorney

• Get a good divorce attorney

• Read some of his own calm soothing articles over at the Oklahoma Bar Association website. You know, articles like “Making Life Better for Others,” “The Content of Our Character,” and “Clean Out Your Closet.”

• Get in touch with Mike Gassaway and pursue an acting career.

(Sorry it is buried down here, but if you only do one thing all day, you’ll click the very last link. I wish I would have discovered it earlier.)

Category: Unusual. 25 Comments

Girl Goes Gay

Published by
Sarah
 on June 30, 2008

Cardboard Jim’s attendance at the OKC Pride Festival last weekend got me thinking. Who would it take for me, a practicing heterosexual female, to switch allegiances and go gay?  Since our readers seem to enjoy hot girl-on-girl action, and I aim to please, I thought this would be a good topic to tackle for my long awaited first post. Read it after the jump.

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Category: Cardboard Jim Traber, Lauren Richardson and Sally Kern. 10 Comments

Happy Lauren Richardson Day…

Published by
Patrick
 on June 28, 2008

What a special day it is for Oklahoma City!  According to her MySpace Page, June 28th is Ogle Madness champion Lauren Richardson’s birthday. Because of this, we are going to go ahead and designate today as Lauren Richardson Day for the state of Oklahoma.

Granted, in our little world, pretty much every day is Lauren Richardson Day, just like every day is Kids Day. But actually designating the holiday gives us a reason to celebrate.  Here are some ways how:

• Go to Braum’s and order a banana split with extra chocolate sauce. While you are at it, make sure your cherry falls off.

• Go to Lowe’s and start dancing on their quality lumber.

• Heckle and harass a bald minor league baseball player

• Prank call some lucky bastard named Trevor.

• Get insanely drunk and send Patrick a text message at 2:23am saying “Its my bday! Its my bday! Will u please come over?”

Anyway, until Jamie Cerreta Day, have fun celebrating.  Cardboard Jim and I are off to Braum’s and Lowe’s.

Category: Lauren Richardson. 5 Comments

Clark Matthews’ 2008 NBA Draft Diary

Published by
Clark Matthews
 on June 27, 2008

Most years, the NBA Draft is a night I plan for far in advance. That was particularly true last year when the Sonics drafted Kevin Durant as the marquee player to usher the team into Oklahoma City. This year, not so much.

It kind of snuck up on me. I’m in the middle of changing jobs, I was on vacation early in the week, and the Sonics having bad luck in the lottery basically combined to the distract me to the point that I was actually surprised to see a commercial advertising it when I was sitting in a restaurant in St. Louis on Tuesday. Needless to say, Part II of my draft preview is not going to be published. That isn’t to say I don’t have an interest, and I’ll prove that if you read my minute by minute thoughts after the jump.

You can also see how I covered the draft for HornetsCentral.com in 2006 and for this website in 2007.

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Category: Basketball in OKC, NBA in OKC and Sports. 8 Comments

This was unexpected…

Published by
Patrick
 on June 25, 2008

So, it looks like Fark (forum link) decided to link to Cardboard Jim’s gay pride experience at about 5:15 (CST) today. Here is what it said:

Some dorks get a life-sized cardboard cut-out of a local homophobic right wing sports radio host and take it to the Gay Pride Festival, with photo goodness

Some thoughts:

• The stats you see above are from the Wordpress stats engine. Keep in mind that in the Wordpress stats world, a day starts at 6pm. That means that 4,609 referrals you see from Fark “yesterday” actually took place from 5:15pm - 6:00pm…a 45-minute window. To put that volume in perspective, we usually get a couple of thousand visitors an average day.

• We were already on the verge of being booted by our hosting provider (or be forced to move to an expensive dedicated server), and this may have sealed the deal. We host this site (and the surprisingly still active) HornetsCentral.com on a $8 a month shared server through GoDaddy.com. Between the two, we are basically allotted 50 simultaneous hits at one time. Safe to say, we have exceeded that a few times today. (Hint Hint: if anyone knows of a good place to host TLO, maybe send us an email)

• We have no clue how this got submitted to Fark. I have a hunch that I was done by someone at OPUBCO.

• Clark Matthews was excited that we were referred to as “Dorks.”

• Jim Traber has to be proud of how popular is cardboard counterpart has become. Also, this publicity may boost the ratings for The Locker Room from a 0.1 to a 0.3.

12:30pm Update: We have already set a new traffic record today at The Lost Ogle with over 16,000 views and counting.  This easily surpasses the previous record of 12,000 views achieved when DeadSpin linked to our Sunni Kate Golloway post.  Call me crazy, but I think the picture of Sunni Kate is better than all the ones of Cardboard Jim combined.- Patrick

Category: Cardboard Jim Traber, Jim Traber, The Lost Ogle and Unusual. 21 Comments

Who’s # 2: Equal Time Provision

Published by
Clark Matthews
 on June 25, 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrvLsnV7No8

A couple of weeks ago, I published a post that divulged the Oklahomans who had made Barack Obama’s short list for Vice President. Honestly, I had planned to leave my discussion of the number two position at that, but then I received an angry email from Tony who claims to be an expert on political science.

He made the argument that our being ranked as the #5 most influential political blog in Oklahoma by BlogNetNews.com made us a legitimate member of the media. Then, because of this, he claimed that we are subject to the Communications Act of 1934, meaning we at TheLostOgle are now required to give equal coverage to Obama’s opponent, John McCain. Being that I checked with my lawyer, who posts as “Lrng2luvlaw” and his only advice on the matter was “McCain sucks”. I took that to mean Tony has a point.

It’s not like I have anything of merit to offer Senator McCain. The guy really knows what he is doing. For instance, last week he responded to Obama’s contention that electing McCain would be tantamount to a third term for George W. Bush by claiming that Obama was running for a “second (Jimmy) Carter administration.” You see, I would usually advise a guy who struggles with an image of being old and out-of-touch to select a pop culture reference that was younger than thirty years old. I guess that’s why I don’t get paid to advise politicians.

That being said, the Oklahomans who McCain is considering as a runningmate can be found after the jump.

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Category: Mick Cornett, Oklahoma Politics and Toby Keith. 21 Comments

The Travels of Cardboard Jim: The Oklahoma City Pride Festival

Published by
Patrick
 on June 24, 2008

In this installment of the Travels of Cardboard Jim, we decided to take Oklahoma’s favorite cardboard cut-out to the one place where we were least likely to see his human imitator: The Oklahoma City Gay Pride Festival.

So far, this has been the oddest out of Jim’s three documented adventures. When he crashed my brother’s graduation party, people loved him. At the Norman Music Festival, people begged to have their picture taken with him. But at the Pride Festival, nobody really knew who Jim Traber was. This made things difficult, because when we told people he was a right wing sports radio host, they really didn’t want to get their picture with him. Eventually, we just lied and said he was one of only a few openly gay former Major League Baseball Players and that he now hosts a late night TV show on FOX called the Locker Room. That’s half true, right?

Anyway, before a very stern, curious lady with short hair kind of ran us out of the festival, we were able to get a few good pictures of Cardboard Jim with all his fans, including Corporation Commissioner Jim Roth (pictured above), Oklahoma’s highest ranked openly gay official. Check them out after the jump.

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Category: Cardboard Jim Traber and Jim Roth. 24 Comments

Tulsa Tuesday - Oklahoma City Anorexic Finds Bricktown’s “No Grocery Zone” Uplifting

Published by
IrritatedTulsan
 on June 24, 2008

      

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – Nichols Hills anorexic Diane Finley tosses her gaunt arms up two-inches above their previous position each time she hears about Bricktown’s grocery woes.

Revitalized Bricktown has a three-mile wide “No Grocery Zone,” an area of town without a grocery store.

Finley, who has lived in Nichols Hills for 20 years, said she finds the “No Grocery Zone” uplifting.

“It’s a daily struggle to not eat,” Finley said.  “There are dozens and dozens and dozens of grocery stores throughout our city.  At least there’s one section of town where grocery stores are scarce.”

Finley almost moved to Bricktown two years ago, but changed her mind after Bally declined her request to move her membership to the YWCA.

“I exercise four hours a day,” Finley said.   “I had to make a tough call.  No Grocery Zone or fitness.”

Finley chose fitness.  Her mother, Judy Sloan, believes Finley made the right decision.

“Her health is my biggest concern and exercise is important,” Sloan said.  “Her ribs look amazing.”

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Category: Tulsa Tuesday. 10 Comments
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