After another late Friday night of closing the bar, mopping floors and cleaning bathrooms and all the Charlie Work that comes with the job, I passed out on the couch around 5 am. None of this is unusual, especially not the half-sandwich and half-beer on the coffee table that I was too tired to finish. Although I tried hard to sleep in, all these crazy annoying sounds were blasting from beyond my apartment. First, there was this unending sizzling hiss, like a cheap spoiler kit dragging across pavement. Then, an irrythmic drumming that I could only attribute to my hippie bro practicing bongos. As it turns out…
It’s the Year Of The Pig
#OKC #AsianDistrict #CNY #YearofthePig #GoldenPhoenix – @asiandistrictok https://t.co/L6EzhT6uNA
— OKC3D (@OKC3D) February 10, 2019
…the Asian buffet/pho restaurant down the street, Pho Kim Long, was hosting festivities. The hissing sound was sheets of firecrackers, and the bongo was actually somebody else with no natural rhythm playing drums. When I figured out what was going on, I couldn’t be mad. It’s pretty badass that we’ve got a vibrant Asian-American community in the heart of the city that puts on crazy celebrations in the parking lots of restaurants and grocery stores. And thankfully, unlike St Patrick’s Day and Cinco De Mayo, Chinese New Year hasn’t been appropriated by drunk bros… yet.
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There’s An Election This Week
Tuesday's election in OKC is CRITICAL for the future of OKC City Council. Don't let AOC/Bernie Sanders' group take over our great City. Each race has only 1 Republican running, VOTE TUESDAY and share the word. pic.twitter.com/w8VVQvb1tg
— OK Republican Party (@officialOKGOP) February 9, 2019
Out of all the tweets I could bring up about this Tuesday’s important city council election, none is more amazing than this one. That’s right, the official blue checkmarked Twitter account for the OK GOP posted what looks like a meme that Pawpaw posted on Facebook. City council isn’t even an actual partisan election. It’s also telling of how misguided our state Republicans are when they use “economic justice, full democracy, equal justice and human rights for all” as some kind of signifier for villainy. (And while you’re here, vote for James Cooper in Ward 2 and JoBeth Hammon in Ward 6.)
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New Governor, Same Ol’ Stitt
Governor Stitt's promise to sign every anti-abortion bill stirs mixed reaction https://t.co/Or2fraPbYh pic.twitter.com/JZMD9nl4fn
— KOKH FOX 25 (@OKCFOX) February 11, 2019
If you thought that when Kevin Stitt said he’d run the state like a business that he meant restricting women’s rights to healthcare in a very dangerous and negligent manner, congratulations! Bring your bingo card up front and we’ll give you a voucher that you can exchange for a free Unconstitutional Court Battle at any of our participating locations.
Along those lines:
Oklahoma lawmaker wants to stop commissioners from lobbying https://t.co/pd6MP4Uj1g pic.twitter.com/QSrAE4pGrP
— KFOR (@kfor) February 10, 2019
Between Calvey, Stitt, and Durant, Oklahoma sure has a Kevin problem.
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That Dang Dome
Everyone that has visited the top of the #Oklahoma capitol dome has signed their name. Check it out! #OKCapitolDome https://t.co/Jory0qo4Em
— Clayton Cummins (@ClaytonCummins) February 8, 2019
Did you know it’s also got a cream filling?
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Raining Piss
WATCH: I go inside the @OkCountySheriff jail where there's human waste 'raining' from the ceiling.
I put on my rain boots and found out why it's happening:@koconews @KOCO_FAST2 pic.twitter.com/t9wip6JI1F
— Christine Stanwood (@KOCOChristine) February 8, 2019
Ya know what a literal nightmare sounds like? Let’s start with a crumbling tower downtown where people are imprisoned, often for too long, and the floors are flooded with human excrement. It straight up sounds like a chapter out of Dante’s Inferno.
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Steven’s Sports Beat
Largest comeback victory in Thunder history. Big time defense and a huge rally erase a 26 point deficit. #ThunderUp pic.twitter.com/ipzXRzYoLt
— OKC THUNDER (@okcthunder) February 10, 2019
If you missed this game, it was epic. I was at a friend’s house, and to be honest we kind of tuned the game out and paid more attention to our card game. As we made a beer/pee break, we noticed the Thunder were up by 2 points. How’d that happen? Thunder magic baby.
Thunder Waive Guard Alex Abrines https://t.co/sqBRJwD9Ty pic.twitter.com/pkiqLpLWTR
— KFOR (@kfor) February 10, 2019
This is really sad not only for Thunder fans who wanted depth on the bench, but obviously for Abrines as well. We don’t know what he’s going through, but it’s major enough that his NBA career could be coming to a close. Hopefully, he’s able to come out of his struggles and get back to a fulfilling life.
"UNFORGETTABLE NIGHT": The @OU_MBBall team honored a special guest before last night's game — Newcastle teenager Caleb Freeman, who was in a coma for about two months after a crash in December 2017. https://t.co/dxIOS9hOij pic.twitter.com/DI1o4KCeZz
— KOCO-5 Oklahoma City (@koconews) February 10, 2019
FINALLY! Something in Lloyd Noble Center to not only be happy about, but to celebrate. Remember last week when I said OU may not win another Big 12 game? A recent Tweet compared OU basketball this season to OU football in 1996. OUch. When does baseball season start? Better yet, OU Softball just started, and they didn’t lose to a Big 12 foe last season.
Lawson, Agbaji lift No. 13 Kansas past Oklahoma State https://t.co/CDjYH5MjJz pic.twitter.com/CNO64ibNC8
— KOCO-5 Oklahoma City (@koconews) February 9, 2019
Unfortunately, the Pokes 90 miles to the north are not faring much better. The good news is the Aggies did manage to pull down a National Championship in meat packing or something like that. I bet it there’s a sign on 51 that will remind everyone. Better yet, maybe T-Boone can buy another football natty from the early 1900’s.
Curbside flowers:)) Dig that, I’m always down with new ways to help out our homeless population.
Sounds to me like the prisoners are causing the flooding by putting blankets, bedding, and whatever they can into the toilets. Perhaps they get what they deserve. Solution – STAY OUT OF JAIL.
Here you go libs, give me a lecture about the poor prisoners!
Wow. You’re so edgy.
I won’t waste a good lecture on someone unfamiliar to the concept of decency.
I guess with Trump at the “head” of your party you Republicans know all about piss.
“ROLL THE VIDEO TAPE”!!
Perhaps some are too young to remember that the OK County Jail was plagued with numerous raw sewage leaks, along with a laundry list of other significant problems on the day that it opened. In fact, most of the problems currently being addressed existed on opening day.
The building design was known to be critically flawed before construction began. Oversight of the design and construction was minimal at best and obviously ineffective. Consequently, this building will continue to be a financial sinkhole until the day that it is demolished.
Probably should appear on tha tv program “Engineering Disasters.”
Bravo to Christine Stanwood for being on the scene and wading through the story! They didn’t send any Ogles to wade through the sewage!?
No surprises here. GOP marketing FEAR FEAR FEAR.
Maybe the Thunder are making room for the return of dun dun dun (in decreasing frequency)
Enes Kanter – Steven Adams twin from another mother. (you weren’t expecting that Kevin fella were you).
It has been repeatedly documented that it is the *inmates* stuffing sheets and other items down the toilets, causing flooding and other damage. Regardless of how the building may have been engineered, if the inmates were not *intentionally* trying to cause problems every chance they get, by any means they can conceive, it would undoubtedly be much smaller. Since their disruptive actions are intentional it is not appropriate to ignore that fact as if they are blameless “victims.” And like it or not “Mike out West” is correct. If you don’t do anything to land your stupid butt in jail in the first place, it doesn’t matter what’s going on there. Baretta said it best; “don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.”
“Baretta” killed his wife.
Evidently you have never read reports citing sewage problems created by faulty design, sloppy construction techniques and unauthorized substitution of lower grade construction materials. Add to this the fact that the building was designed by a company that had zero prior experience in designing jails.
This building was plagued with these types of issues before it opened and inmates certainly have taken advantage at every opportunity . However, the inmate activities cited are but a symptom. Faulty design and construction is the problem. Continued efforts to address symptoms will never solve the problem and result in the continued waste of OK County taxpayer dollars.
The Billionaires got the tax cut their lobbyists worked so hard to get.
Clay Bennet is stepping down from the OU Board of Regents and I suspect that Ragina Gaylord is not far behind.
Texas is turning blue.
Fifty years from now OSU will declare themselves the 1951 National Champions and the Oklahoma City Detention center will be carried away by a vast swarm of sentient bio-genetically modified bloatflies.
See? Sometimes the glass is half full.
Pete, I think your comment is spot on…