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’
Category: Hinder, Jenni Carlson, Jim Traber, Mark Rodgers, Oklahoma City Media, Oklahoma Politics and The Lost Ogle.
Published by Tony at May 8, 2008
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.
Category: Jim Traber, Mark Rodgers and The Sports Animal.
Published by Patrick at May 1, 2008
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’
Category: Cardboard Jim Traber, Jim Traber and Norman Music Festival.
Published by Patrick at April 27, 2008
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.
Published by Patrick at February 8, 2008
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.
Category: Jim Traber, OSU Basketball, Oklahoma City Radio, Sports and The Sports Animal.
Published by Patrick at January 23, 2008
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’
Category: Jim Traber.
Published by Patrick at January 21, 2008
Yeah, The three of us are all kind of short on time this week.
You see, Clark Matthews just started his new job as a dishwasher at the Petroleum Club, while Tony has been busy wining and dining Oklahoma City’s finest at Junior’s. Me? I’ve been worrying why I have a picture of Jim Traber in my shower with a Yugoslavia exchange student named Vladimir.
Needless to say, I hope this satisfies all 23 of you all looking for a Monday post. And in a totally related note, I will begin very serious therapy very very soon.
Category: Jim Traber.
Let’s just say, hypothetically, that you, by stroke of luck, aquired a life-sized cutout of Jim Traber. Just out of curiosity, what would you do with it?
Category: Jim Traber.
Now that the ball has dropped and 2007 is gone, it is time for the New Year’s traditions. Growing up, my dad would always make us eat black eyed peas on January 1st because it supposedly brought forth good luck. Considering that they taste like something found in the cup seen in the video these people are watching, they damn well better bring some good fortune. Otherwise, I’d almost rather do as the Coney Island Polar Bear Club does for good luck and swim in freezing ocean water.
Of course the most common New Year’s tradition is the New Year’s Resolution. That’s where everyone makes a promise to give up a vice or improve their lifestyle in a way that will make this year better than the last…kind of like lent without the religion. And like lent, these resolutions are rarely followed up on for more than forty days.
Being slaves to tradition, we at TheLostOgle have resolved to be better people in 2008. I tried to think of something funnier than staying on top of housework, but seriously, my house is a pigsty. My son ambled out of the living room last night, and it took me a couple of minutes to find him. In order to avoid an Amber Alert narrowed down to Matthews’ Manor, I’m going to stick with that one.
I checked with Patrick, and his goal for 2008 is to create a drinking game for the Oklahoma Lottery Gameshow. Meanwhile, Tony plans to leave his apartment at some point during the year. After the jump, I have assigned some resolutions to a few other people, and in the comments section, you can provide your own plans for a better you. Continue reading ‘New Year’s Resolutions’
Category: Amy McRee, Brad Henry, Gary England, Jenni Carlson, Jim Traber, Oklahoma Politics and Toby Keith.
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