About Us
TheLostOgle.com is an “obscure” social blog based out of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Our original mission statement back in 2007 was:
We are a group of young, amazing and strikingly attractive Oklahoma City residents that offer our “2-cents”, “rants” and “morning news styled opinions”on a variety of topics concerning Oklahoma City and the rest of the world. It’s a daunting task. In fact, it’s a task so daunting that only an Ogle brother could do it. That’s why we’re TheLostOgle.com.
Well, a lot’s changed since we wrote that . We now have many more readers, we’ve lost and gained some writers, and The Lost Ogle is an actual full time job and occupation for one of the site’s founders. Despite that, we still try to remain true to our original vision and each provide insightful (and occasionally funny) commentary, wisdom and rants on this state and city we call home.
Anyway, here’s a little bit about our editors and contributors:
Editors
Patrick
Publisher / Editor-In-Chief / Co-Founder
Patrick was born in Oklahoma City in 1978 and has lived in various parts of the metro his entire life. He had a preadolescence crush on Patti Suarez, a current crush on Joleen Chaney and a man crush on Gary England.
Patrick oversees all operations of The Lost Ogle, including ad sales, events, partnerships and social media. Before making The Lost Ogle his full time job, he worked for various companies doing Public Relations, Marketing and Advertising. He still does that stuff on the side.
When he is not writing for this site, he likes to drink beer with friends, listen to great music and watch and talk about sports. If you are a girl, Patrick lied about that, and actually likes puppies, long walks at Lake Hefner and to just cuddle-up and watch Glee. He also occasionally writes about himself in third-person and has premature gray hair. Both of those things are awesome.
If you want to contact Patrick about anything, like TLO advertising, content ideas or a lawsuit threat, email him at okcpatrick at gmail.com. You can follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/okcpatrick.
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Clark Matthews
Editor / Co-Founder
Clark Matthews is a world champion checkers player and the son of an amateur storm chaser. He was raised believing that Gary England was, in fact, a deity. His childhood was spent following “Those Terrible Twisters” presentations as if they were Phish concerts.
Clark Matthews’ is obsessed with politics, basketball and Oklahoma State Athletics. His goals in life are to win the American Checkers Society Level A Regional Tournament and to vote for Brad Henry when he campaigns as Gary’s running mate in the 2012 Presidential elections.
If you have something to discuss with Clark such as a great idea for a new Justice League of Oklahoma storyline or something about basketball, you can contact him at clarkFNmatthews at gmail dot com or follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ClarkMatthews.
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Contributors
Marisa
Contributing Writer/Advice Columnist
Marisa has been writing for The Lost Ogle since March of 2010. She handles “Gentle Readers,” The Lost Ogle’s weekly advice column, and “Friday Night in the Big Town,” a weekly guide to events each weekend.
When she’s not writing for the site, she can be found reading books, drinking whiskey or knitting quilts. Occasionally, she does all three at the same time.
You can follow her on Twitter at Twitter.com/GentleMarisa
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Gravy Train
Gravy was a founder of the now defunct Red Dirt Kings has signed and provides us with insightful, biting commentary about the quasi-local athletic scene and all other subjects tangential to said scene, which is pretty much everything I deem tangential to said scene.
He works at a prestigious downtown Oklahoma City law firm, enjoying the monotonous view of various empty buildings in the vicinity. His goal in life is to get a sterling reputation among local Gen X/Y centrist liberals, with the hope that he may one day have a picture with the cardboard Jim Traber.
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Bridges
Bridges grew up in Oklahoma and somehow got stuck. However, it’s not so bad to him.
He gets a kick out of tricking people into believing he is a liberal jerk. He get’s even more of a kick out of pretending to be a conservative ass. Essentially you can’t figure out his politics and probably would never tell you.
Bridges loves movies, reality tv, baseball, beer, and xbox even though he’s in his mid-30′s. Watch out ladies, he’s taken. But, what he loves more is picking apart things that may seem like common sense and talking about them even though we are made to feel we shouldn’t.
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Tony
Contributing Writer / Co-Founder
Tony is one of the three founding writers of The Lost Ogle. In June 2008, he decided to take a hiatus from the world of blogging to work on his epic novel: “Tears for Jennifer Reynolds.“ He occasionally posts interviews with local people he thinks the world should know about.
He was raised by Linda Soundtrak, the McCain brothers, and the BC Clark jingle. He misses the good old days, when Mayor Mick was a television sportscaster wearing a toupee and Molly Murphy’s was still around. His personal heroes are Mitch Jelniker, Jason Skurcenski, and Robo-Niner.
His lifelong goal is to see an MLS team arrive in Oklahoma City.
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