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Revenge of the Jedi OKC…

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

Here’s a fun fact for you.  The original title of the Ewok-infested “Return of the Jedi” was actually “Revenge of the Jedi,” but just a few weeks before the movie was to be released, George Lucas changed the name.  The reason?  He didn’t feel revenge was a Jedi concept.

Well, apparently Jedi OKC member Ryan McKinley is either a really bad Jedi Knight or the club’s equivalent of Chancellor Palpatine, because revenge is what he seeks.  Check out the real email he sent to our loyal advertisers in response to our Jedi OKC Meeting Minutes post:

My name is Ryan, and I live in Edmond.  In Oct. 2009, one of your advertising outlets, “The Lost Ogle”, posted a cruel article about a local community service group.  The group, JediOKC, uses Star Wars to reach out to the community, raise money for Integris Childrens Hospital and the MDA.   When our members attempted to clarify our club’s purpose in letter form Patrick from The Lost Ogle put up a new article on Aug. 31, 2010, further speaking meanly and profanely about our organization and its members. I could only guess as to his motives, so I will not speculate.

However, the posts by “The Lost Ogle” blog seems to be establishing a practice of using their public forum to vent personal vendettas, and they are using your money to do so.  I know that the blog is meant to be a satire/humor site, but with the cruelty of their recent posts, I felt you should be made aware of this fact as you spend precious profits supporting this blog.  I know that you are not personally responsible for the content of the site, but I feel that you have a decision to make about what sort of venues <TLO Advertiser> wishes to fund.

Yours,

Ryan McKinley
Edmond, OK

Wow.  I’d like to thank our advertisers for sharing their “precious profits” with us and standing by us during this “controversy.”  Because of your support, we at The Lost Ogle are filthy rich.  In fact, Clark Matthews just bought a lake house on Endor and I purchased the Mos Eisley Cantina.  We appreciate your support.

Since that’s out of the way, and to make it so that no one else has to guess or speculate about my sinister motives, let’s now address that email.

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Satan to Rise in OKC Civic Center!

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

I hate The Phantom of the Opera as much as anyone, but when I read the headline, I felt The Oklahoman was going too far in calling it a “Satanic group.”  Then, I actually read the article to learn that an actual group that worships the arch-angel had rented a room at OKC Civic Center.

The group, led by James Hale, a man who shares a name with a guy I once considered to be Satan, is holding an event that is parodizing (if that’s a word) the Catholic tradition of demon exorcism.  In essence, their goal is to unleash the devil onto the world.  It’s probably just me, but I assumed this happens in Oklahoma on the eve of every college football season when Sooner fans offer to sell their souls for another mythical national championship.  The fact that this one is being organized by someone who can be confused with the Burger King-swindling OU recruiting guru only reinforces that belief.

The real issue at hand, though, isn’t that a group of atheists are trying to get a rise out of Christians.  What will really be interesting is how the Christians handle it.  While introducing the story in last night’s broadcast KOCO’s Paul Folger told us, “tonight some Christians are outraged.”  In the piece that followed, I could hear the seething as they interviewed one Christian–a pastor at Trinity Baptist.  Baptists, Satanists–that sounded like a recipe for some great overreaction.  Here’s what Jeremy Stowe had to say:

Their desire to get their message out, it doesn’t surprise me…[We need] to show the community how to engage people who are different than us.   Not in protest, or crazy rallies, but in shining the light of Christ and loving them just as Christ loves us.

That’s the most subdued outrage I have ever heard, and it makes me think Eye Witness News 5 was a bit lazy in their reporting.  First of all, it should not have been difficult to locate a loony Christian to flip out and pretend these Satanic jokesters were an actual threat to society.  Folger obviously figured his reporters had done the grunt work to find one of those people.  Instead they found a reasonable, eloquent guy–from an uber conservative denomination, no less–who had a message all Oklahomans should heed.

It will be interesting to see if this issue blows over, or blows up.  As someone who has witnessed Edmond Public Schools remove Harry Potter books from their libraries because of an urban legend that claims a witch coven meets in the rural part of their city, I suspect the latter.

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The Jedi OKC Meeting Minutes

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Over the weekend, we received several referrals from a website called JediOKC.com.  It’s the official home page for the Oklahoma City Star Wars Fan and Collectors Club.  Apparently, a member of their community discovered an older Friday Night in the Big Town post that made fun of the group. In particular, it included a fake event called “Jedi OKC Singles Night.” Most of the message board Jedis didn’t think it was very funny. Check out some of the comments from their forum:

“Red Assassin chick”? LOL Idiots don’t even know what they are talking about! Way to stereo-type people and make yourselves look like total douchebags! – Slippe

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Love it. He didn’t report the activity correctly, didn’t report the nature of the event correctly, didn’t attempt to contact anyone from the club to get the bigger picture. He just played off knee-jerk douche-baggery notions of what he thinks the club is and went with it in the name of satire. It looks like he applies the same level of fact checking to his grammar checking…there were errors on his page that betray his humor and his writing skills both as sophmoric–high school, not college.

That said, all the press we get isn’t gonna be roses. I’d say we’re ahead of the curve. We have about 10 good interactions for every one of these self-proclaimed humorists. – Ryan

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I posted a reply saying that the report of our activity was false and said what we have really done for the community. It made the author look like a jerk I guess ( there was nothing bad in my post) because it was moderated and they refused to post it on the site. Funny when you look at the comments that did make it onto the discussion board. – MandalorianMaven

Ouch! I thought Jedis were supposed to be kind and understanding, not mean and salty. Also, aren’t Jedis allegedly good at predicting things and have a heightened sense of awareness? If so, the force must not be very strong with our Jedi, because it took them nine months to find this post.

That being said, we do apologize to Jedi OKC for making fun of them and relying upon easy stereotypes and cheap gimmicks to do so. To make it up to them — and to give you a glimpse of what it’s really like to be a member of Jedi OKC — we have obtained a secret copy of their most recent Board Meeting Minutes.  Keep in mind that many Bothan Spies died while obtaining this information. Check it out after the jump.

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Meet The Golden Huffer

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

When I was a kid, my favorite color in the 64-count box of Crayola crowns was gold.   It was shiny, metallic and I’d only let the pretty girls borrow it.   Something tells me that it may have been Dominick Thayer’s favorite crayon, too.  From NewsOK.com:

Oklahoma City police arrested a registered sex offender who is accused of threatening customers at a restaurant and trying to steal a soda truck while wearing shorts that exposed his buttocks and genitals…

An officer who had just finished his lunch was in the parking lot when he saw a shirtless and barefoot man walk into the restaurant, the report states. Part of the man’s buttocks were exposed.

The man walked quickly out of the restaurant moments later and headed toward an RC Cola delivery truck parked behind it, according to the report. He looked through the driver’s side window, got inside the truck and tried to start it.

The man soon jumped out and the officer ordered him to the ground at gunpoint, the report states. The man’s face and shorts were covered in gold paint, and his genitals were exposed through the shorts’ open zipper.

I’m having a hard time figuring out the weirdest part of this story.  Is it that some dude walked into a Chili’s with his genitals exposed and gold paint on his face and shorts, or is that he tried to steal a RC Cola delivery truck?

Seriously, what’s an RC Cola truck doing making a delivery at Chili’s?  Was the Shasta truck broken down?  Did we transport back to 1970?  The only places that still have RC Cola are some old auto mechanic shop in Southeast Oklahoma City and your grandma’s garage.

Also, why do so many cops eat at Chili’s?  I guess it’s good they’re around for the times an occasional bottomless gold plated sex offender stops by, but other than that, they’re annoying.  In fact, an abundance of cops is reason number 58 not to eat at Chili’s.  Reasons number 1 -57 involve each menu item that doesn’t have the work queso or perfect margarita in it.

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About those topless pics of Wayne Coyne’s wife…

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

A couple of weeks ago, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne officially joined the Twitter universe. He celebrated the occasion just like anyone else would by tweeting out topless and semi-nude pictures of his wife.

Check out the pics and censored-but-still-probably-NSFW-photos after the jump.

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Go Fighting Patriots!

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Usually, I’d rather read Oklahoman editorial articles all day than watch an MTV reality show about whiny high school kids, but tonight I may make an exception.  That exception is because the show “If You Really Knew Me” features a student from Putnam City West…my high school alma mater.

When I first saw this clip, I got a little bit jealous.  That’s because the only cool things that happened when I went to PC West was an occasional cancer fund drive and ditching school during an occasional cancer fund drive.  But I got over the jealousy pretty fast once I realized that when I went to the home of the Patriots, it wasn’t yet ghetto and we had an open campus for lunch.  Take that Class of 2011!

Anyway, even though I don’t know how to find MTV on my remote and I was in high school when these kids were born, I’m definitely going to watch this show or at least DVR it.  It will be cool to once again see J Hall, Senior Island and the courtyard by the library.  Maybe even they’ll show the assistant principal’s office and some cheerleaders doing the Patriot Shuffle to Push It.   And maybe, just maybe, they’ll show some kid get robbed or mugged for stepping on the school seal.  I heard that’s what they do to the kids now.

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Some dumb writer named OKC the 5th Worst Place to Live…

Friday, August 6th, 2010

Let’s admit it.  We’re all suckers for lists and rankings.  They are easy to read, easy to write and easy to debate.   That’s exactly why we write so damn many of them (example a, b, and c).

That being said, lists —and especially rankings —are easy to get wrong.   That’s not a very big deal if the list is published on an obscure local social blog that’s going more for a cheap laugh than the accuracy of its content.  But if the list is published on a financial website that’s part of AOL, you’d think they’d take it a bit more serious and not do something stupid like name Oklahoma City the “5th Worst Place to Live” in the United States.

Well, that’s exactly what some unemployed/underemployed freelance journalist Aaron Crowe did.  From the AOL website Wallet Pop.

5. Oklahoma City, Okla.

Population: 560,332

Oklahoma City is the unhealthiest city in the country, as measured by the American College of Sports Medicine’s annual fitness index. The index looks at 30 fitness indicators, including obesity and exercise rates, death rate from cardiovascular disease, acres of park land, number of primary care physicians per capita and percentage of residents who bicycle or walk to work.

The index compares the 50 largest metro areas on a 100-point scale; Oklahoma City received a score of 24.3, making it the most sluggish city in the U.S. The obesity rate is 30.2%, four points above average. It has an exercise rate of 71% and has half as many baseball diamonds, recreation centers and dog parks as most cities. Detroit and Las Vegas also performed poorly on the fitness index.

Yep, some freelance journalist — here’s his website — who looks and talks like he could play a serial killer on Dexter, ranked Oklahoma City as the fifth worst place to live in the United States.  And why is our town such a bad place to live?  Because we don’t like to exercise, we’re overweight and we don’t have a lot of parks.

Well, Mr. Uniformed Journalist whose career highlight is being the assistant metro editor for the Contra Costa Times, let me fill you in on something.  We’re kind of aware of those dreaded things you listed.  We know we’re fat, lazy and unhealthy, so we did this.  We also know that we don’t have enough parks and recreation centers, so we passed this.   And we think playing baseball is boring, so screw the “baseball diamonds.”

Basically, Mr. Creepy Looking Journalist dude, we’ve identified our city’s faults and are addressing them.  That’s one reason why Oklahoma City is a great place to live.  We’re improving, growing and getting better.  We also have strong economy, no traffic and a lot of good restaurants.  In fact, considering that you’re a portly job hunting fellow who drives a shitty car, I think you might actually benefit from living in what you labeled the 5th Worst Place to Live.

Anyway, since that little rant is now out of the way, let me at least say that I’m happy Aaron Crow didn’t throw out cheap hillbilly stereotypes like this guy.  And at least he didn’t make it seem like we live in the “Day After Tomorrow”  like this European douchebag. I guess those are positive things.

Also, if you want to email Aaron Crowe and let him know what you think about his list, he can be reached at aaron.crowe.consulting@gmail.com.  Or you can just call him at 925.482.5934.  Have fun.

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Is David Payne happy to see you?

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

Yesterday, an Ogle Mole emailed us this picture of Channel 4 weatherman David Payne.   It was originally posted on Twitter by Channel 4 morning anchor Ali Meyer.  The tweet had something to do with David being on Twitter.

Yeah, I didn’t notice anything odd about the picture at first either, but then the Ogle Mole wrote:

Here’s my burning question of the day: is that a cell phone in his pants, or is he just happy to see her?

A few seconds after reading that, I threw up in my mouth.

Anyway, I guess we should help out our Ogle Mole and try to answer some questions.  Does David Payne have a cell phone awkwardly positioned in his pants?  Does this photo explain why Scott Hines is always following David around?  And what does Bob Barry Jr. think about all this?  Is he jealous?  Speculate away.

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