Let’s be honest here, we have had quite a bit of fun with Mary Fallin on this website. Therefore, it’s pretty cool that she decided to do this Q&A. Unfortunately, we’re now going to feel a little guilty when we make fun of her. Oh well, we’ll get used to it.
Anyway, Mary Fallin is our former Lieutenant Governor, represents the Oklahoma 5th district in the US House of Representatives and was an extra in this depressing Molly Ringwalk film that also starred the dude from Gremlins. Mary Fallin is also popular, a Republican and a strong favorite to be Oklahoma’s next Governor.
Check out our Q&A with here after the jump. And if you missed them, be sure to check out our QA’s with Jari Askins and Drew Edmondson after the jump.
Earlier this morning we posted a Lost Ogle Q&A with Jari Askins. Now we have a Q&A with the other person who wants to be the Democratic Party’s nominee for Governor: Drew Edmondson.
Drew is the current state Attorney General, and has been in that office since I was in high school. He’s led lawsuits against tobacco, poultry and even Frank Keating. He also may be the oldest living person to go by the name Drew. No what that means? Drew has experience.
Anyway, check out our Q&A with Drew after the jump.
A couple of weeks ago, we got the idea to do a Lost Ogle Q&A with the four “major” politicians running for the governor’s office. The guidelines were pretty simple. We’d send each candidates the same 15 “light-hearted” questions, and they’d have a few weeks to answer them.
I’m not sure if we should be surprised, flattered or feel naughty, but three of the four took us up on the offer. They were Lieutenant Governor Jari Askins (D), Attorney General Drew Edmondson (D) and Congresswoman Mary Fallin (R). State Senator Randy Brodgon (R) apparently decided not to participate in the Q&A. He was probably just too busy misinterpreting the constitution or thinking of potential nicknames for a state militia.
The first Q&A we are publishing this morning is with Democrat Jari Askins. She is the current Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma, a former judge and a former state representative. She’s also an active alumni of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority. There’s no word on if she’s ever tried to make it snow.
Anyway, check out our interview with the Lieutenant Governor after the jump. And check back in a couple of hours for our interviews with Edmondson and Fallin.
Yes, we have made fun of Steve Lackmeyer on occasion. The Oklahoman’s downtown beat writer has been the butt of jokes about a grown man wearing Bricktown-themed pajamas and Devon tower inspired erections. Today, though, we’re putting aside the snark because Steve did us a huge favor.
Steve is the director of RetroMetroOKC, a new history project that launched about a week ago. For people obsessed with the history of this area, like founders of obscure local social blogs, it is a GaryEnglandsend. As part of my recent series on Oklahomans doing cool things (see this article for the first post), Steve agreed to do a Q&A about the new website, what the project has in store, and how our readers can help it to be even better. Check it out:
Q: The mission statement of your project is: “Retro Metro OKC is dedicated to educating the community and its visitors about local history by collecting, preserving, displaying and interpreting materials reflecting the heritage of Oklahoma City.” How did your group come together and decide that an endeavor like this needed to happen?
A:It started with a lot of coffee. I’m good friends with Doug Loudenback, who has the popular history blog www.dougdawg.blogspot.com. I went to high school with Buddy Johnson, the archivist who runs the Oklahoma Room at the downtown library. Buddy had spent some time talking with assistant city planner A.J. Kirkpatrick about the need to better preserve and tell our city’s history. I was having similar discussions with Doug and Blair Humphreys. A.J. Kirkpatrick had a friend, Marc Weinmeister, who shared our vision, and, well…. it started with a lot of coffee. Within a few months we had added another dozen or so people with the diverse talent needed to pull this off.
We have a bit of a (deserved) reputation for being negative on this website. That changes today…not really. I am however starting to make an effort to showcase some of the cool things Oklahomans are doing that does not involve attempts to secede from the union (*cough* Randy Brogdon *cough*).
You grew up in Oklahoma City, so to prove your Oklahomaness, here’s a hypothetical: A tornado is coming, what are you doing?
hahaha! Okay, I grew up in Norman and Oklahoma City…I was in Norman till I was about 8.
Tornado: Well, what you SHOULD do is go to the basement and huddle under a mattress. What we’d do is stand on the front porch and watch the action.
Close. The correct answer is “play the Gary England Drinking Game.” You get a B.
Your first novel, High Before Homeroom, is being released June 22nd and is set in Oklahoma City. How big of a role does the 405 play in your story?
oh, Gary England. I haven’t heard that name in years! What are the components of the game? Is it, like, a shot for every warning or what? Wait, what comes after a “warning”? I forgot. Wow. Miss those tornados.
I was gonna mention drinking a Pabst while awaiting the impending doom on the porch, but I didn’t want to seem like an alkie.
The lead character in the book is obsessed with Kerouac…so the 405 is a big part of his fantasies. And (spoiler alert) he loses his virginity off a highway “scenic turnout”.
Actually, the original tattoo I wanted was just the outline of Oklahoma with the 405 running through and OKC starred…but then I got this crazy “artistic” tat artist instead, and now it looks like some weird psychedelic version of the state flag…
You may have noticed that during Oklahoma’s most recent winter weather catastrophe that our local media was missing a certain, uhm, voice. It was a voice of guidance. It was a voice of reason. And it was a voice that hated gardening clogs. Yes, it was the voice of Jonathan Conder. And during the spring snowstorm of 2010, it literally couldn’t save everyone. Why??? That voice now resides in Minnesota.
In this Lost Ogle Q&A, discover why Jonathan “JC” Conder has left the Sooner state, get a few of his winter weather driving tips (so that you never find yourself ashamed), and find out if Mike Morgan dresses up as Dracula for Halloween. It’s all after the jump.
It’s hard to believe, but it’s now been two weeks since our wildly successful Snuggie Pub Crawl. One of the things that made the event special — besides hundreds of people wearing Snuggies at a bar and Steve Hunt offering to buy me a beer— was the fact that Samuel Gordon Jewelers donated a $1,500 diamond as a door prize. Because they were nice enough to do that, we decided to name them the official jewelers of The Lost Ogle.
Also, because we are ridiculous sellouts and hope to have BLING! as a door prize for any future Lost Ogle events, we’ve decided to do a Lost Ogle Q&A with Dan Gordon. He’s a 4th generation jeweler and is pictured above with Amanda Kirkpatrick, who just happened to win the $1,500 diamond from the Snuggie Pub Crawl.
Over the past few years, we’ve had a bunch of people submit requests to be the subject of a Lost Ogle Q&A. Some of these requests came from people who wanted to share their love for us (Amy McRee, Jessica Schambach, Paul Folger), while a few others came from those seeking to set the record straight (The Mathis Brothers, Mike Morgan, Rumble). One person even claimed that he could contact the spirit of HoHo the Clown, but we think that person just wanted publicity (Brent Skarky).
Anyway, all the requests above were rejected for various reasons. When we were pitched a Q&A with someone from deadCENTER Film Festival, it nearly suffered a similar fate. But then we learned the person we would interview was named Cacky Poarch.
I’ll tell you what, I don’t know much, but one thing I do know is to never turn down the chance to talk to a chick named after capris . I also know to never turn down anything that has to do with midgets, ninjas or pandas. I know that because I’m smart.
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