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.
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
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.
Continue reading ‘The Travels of Cardboard Jim: The Oklahoma City Pride Festival’
This is just a quick little post to let everyone know we have some cool things coming up this week.
Cool Thing #1: The Travels of Cardboard Jim Traber resume. Last time Jim visited the Norman Music Festival. This time he decided to visit the OKC Pride Festival. Oddly enough, the hippies in Norman seemed more accepting of Cardboard Jim than the people in attendance at the Pride Festival at Memorial Park.
Cool Thing #2: Sometime this week we hope to unveil our new interactive feature. Not to totally give it away, but it is kind of the exact opposite of a big feature the Oklahoma Gazette runs each year. I also want to say that it is the exact opposite of the stupid Reader’s Choice thing The Oklahoman does each year, but that thing has named Supercuts the best Hair Salon for something like 100 consecutive years, so they may actually be very similar.
Cool Thing #3: Clark Matthews Nude!
Anyway, we hope you swing by to check them out. We also hope you bring brownies. Magic brownies.
Last Sunday, I told you about the three of us going to the Norman Music Festival as “official” members of the media. It was kind of a neat experience to walk around the festival with a lanyard-clad press pass dangling around my neck, but what would really be cool is if next time we can get press credentials to something that isn’t “Free.” You know, like an OU football game or Nite Trips.
Anyway, I would say the advantages of having press credentials to a free Music Festival are:
• Security guards can be easily swayed to let you behind the road barriers
• George Lang will grant you an interview. And then cautiously laugh when your camcorder battery dies after the first question.
• People will be more prone to appear in a picture with our dear friend, Cardboard Jim Traber.
Oh yeah, I forgot that this was about Cardboard Jim Traber. He sure did cause a ruckus at the Norman Music Festival on Saturday. As the photos after the jump clearly illustrate, wherever he goes, mischief follows.
Continue reading ‘The Travels of Cardboard Jim: The Norman Music Festival’
Last week, we asked a hypothetical question. On Monday, we lazily teased it. Today, we introduce our new-hopefully-regular-series-that-will-probably-just-become-irregular: The Travels of Cardboard Jim.
And what is the first part of this series?
Just Cardboard Jim crashing a party at my house. You see, my little brother graduated from the prestigious University of Central Oklahoma this past December. To honor him–and to avoid buying a pricey gift–I decided to throw him a belated graduation party on Saturday. Little did I know that The Lost Ogle’s dear friend Cardboard Jim would show up and crash the party, creating a few wild stories for everyone.
Check out the photo timeline after the jump!
Continue reading ‘The Travels of Cardboard Jim: Patrick’s Party’
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