Bob Barry Jr. and his friends are enjoying Ogle Madness, are you?
Today’s games come from the bottom half of the South Region. They will be played in at Arbuckle Wilderness in Davis. Here they are:
(6) Rick and Brad vs. (11) Biker Fox
(3) Thunder Girls vs. (14) Clark Matthews
(7) Regular Jim Traber vs. (10) Dave Morris
(2) Wayne Coyne vs. (15) Jonathan Meisner
Vote after the jump
Continue reading ‘Ogle Madness II: South Region, Lower Bracket!’
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
It has always bothered me that the shows I watch get cancelled because no one else watches them. Then, when said shows gets cancelled there is much angst and gnashing of teeth by the media and an outcry of injustice by more people than the statistics say ever tuned in. Then, the shows that are renewed (I’m looking at you According to Jim) seem to have no support.
So, I was a little jazzed when my wife recently fielded a call from the Nielsen Ratings organization, the group that accumulates the “ratings” that networks use in making programming decisions, requesting that we participate in their metered survey. For those of you who are curious, here is how it works. The Nielsen organization sends a technician who places a meter on your television/cable box/TiVo that tracks what shows are being viewed when your television is on. Using this information, the organization extrapolates our viewing habits as representing something like a million other TV watchers. (I’m not sure about that number because I haven’t really read the material they gave me.)
Despite protests from Steve Hunt who told me that it was a conspiracy by the government to steal my thoughts and sell them to big oil companies for use in covering up the contributions of Garret Morgan, we decided to participate. So, if future quality programs like Chuck, Scrubs, Friday Night Lights, and Pushing Daisies suddenly become highly rated hit shows while any reality-based crap starts tanking, you can thank me.
In addition to saving the shows I actually enjoy watching, I thought it might be fun to toy with the box and make it think I watch some local shows that probably have a viewer base of the hosts of the show and their immediate family. After the jump, I’ll tell you what they are. Continue reading ‘Meet the Nielsen’s’
First came the Jim Traber/Mark Rodgers tiff. Now, the state capitol is getting in the fighting mood. According to an Associated Press report:
Sen. Patrick Anderson, R-Enid, told the Tulsa World that Rep. Randy Terrill, R-Moore, tried to pick a fight with him, using words to the effect, “I’ll whip your ass.”
Now, we can argue all day and night about the vast array of meanings a phrase like “I’ll whip your ass” can take on, but let’s just assume it was the most common usage. That means TheLostOgle.com’s favorite state congressman is not only a racist, but a bit of a bully. But, why was he so upset that he went after a member of his own party?
Oh, the usual. Terrill introduced a new, racist, bill** trying to outlaw Spanish being spoken anywhere at anytime, and the outcry caused Senator Anderson to get overloaded with calls from constituents attempting to persuade him to vote for the bill. Of course, that outcry was created by Terrill robocalling Anderson’s district begging like minded people to flood Anderson with calls. For his part, Anderson passed on those concerns to Representative Xenophobe by way of forwarding every single call to Terrill’s office, including a a call from Mrs. Anderson requesting that her husband pick up some tamales on the way home.
So, as one can see, it was a perfectly rational argument between two grown men. Regardless, we at TheLostOgle have been wondering why there has been a rash of scuffles lately. Then, we found out that they are all staged in promoting a local Battle Royale wrestling event. It made perfect sense when we uncovered the teams: Continue reading ‘The Oklahoma Battle Royale’
photo from flickr user ~Aphrodite
Yesterday, Mark Rodgers and Jim Traber engaged in the world’s greatest only debate having to do with the University of Oklahoma baseball team. I’ll avoid keeping score, with the exception of grading the entire thing as FREAKING AWESOME AS HELL! Seriously, if the Sports Animal was like this all the time I would listen a lot more often.
You can find the audio here. It’s fifteen minutes long, but the good stuff really kicks in during the last 2-3 minutes or so.
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’
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
Dear Jesus,
This is Patrick from TheLostOgle.com. I know this is kind of late, but I’d like to go ahead and thank you for having the UPS guy accidentally drop off those Harry and David Pears at my house around Christmas. They were delicious. And I think my neighbor ended up getting another order at no charge, so it was a win-win for everyone.
Anyway, I got another favor to ask. When you get a moment, can you look into making Bob Knight the head coach for the Oklahoma State men’s basketball program next season? By making this happen, you would be doing a huge favor to several thousand people across Oklahoma.
You see, here in Oklahoma City there is a sports talk station called The Sports Animal. The most annoying host on The Sports Animal is a guy named Jim Traber (you’ve probably never heard of him). Yesterday, Mr. Traber vowed to basically no longer acknowledge, address or have anything to do with Oklahoma State men’s basketball program if they fired Sean Sutton and replaced him with Coach Knight. If this were to happen, we would hope that Mr. Traber would have to either quit his job and/or eat the biggest piece of humble pie ever made, which would be an amazing thing!
So Jesus, please please please do what you can and make Coach Knight the Cowboys next head coach. The people of Oklahoma and I would really appreciate it.
Your friend,
Patrick
p.s. - Go ahead and put this request in front of that Maggie Carlo thing I emailed you a few weeks ago. It can wait.
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