Ever since returning to Oklahoma City around a decade ago, nearly every ex-girlfriend I’ve fallen in love with (and, of course, lost) has carried a flaming torch for Ted’s Café Escondido deep in...
My computer, on which I written these missives for many years, is my absolute life-blood. So, when working on an article last week, that trusty laptop of almost a decade went haywire on me, leaving...
As the limousine waited outside of the Fort Worth prison where he is currently incarcerated, I’m sure that the collective energy was as high as a mobile home furry orgy as Joe Exotic waited for his...
I know it’s been said before, but our long national nightmare is over…unless, of course, you live in Oklahoma. While the more austere of us will be celebrating this new era of hope, in many of...
I’ve driven by Frankie’s Italian Restaurant, 2724 W. Britton Rd., quite a few times, usually cracking a joke or two about the total lack of business out front, believing they were just another...
A few weeks ago, while taking Sean on a walk, a drunk passing me by asked if he was a pit-bull and, before I could answer, told me not to get him fixed. As I gripped the leash a bit tighter, he went...
I still remember when I picked up my first copy of Hitch, the official zine of Oklahoma City; it was in the much-missed Bollinger’s Books, where I spent to good lot of time and money in the early...
Even though Sen. James Lankford went ahead and decided not to object to the Electoral College certification for President Elect Joe Biden following last Wednesday’s white-storm on the U.S. capitol...
As I brought my currently moccasined feet down on the semi-comfortable patio made up of astroturf, we were not too far from Harding Middle School. It’s where I so badly wanted to be a punk...
Over the weekend, we received a flood of reports that Monty Marcum – one of the privileged guys who inherited Marcum’s Nursery from his parents – was an enthusiastic attendee of last...
As I write this sometime in the late hours of Wednesday night, right-wing politicos like Tucker Carlson and Sarah Palin are all over Fox News, telling their viewership that the disgusting level of...
It was after a few pure examples of absolute human error when we finally made it to the mixed-materials building that solidly holds, now and forever, Railhead Bar-B-Q, 13978 S. Douglas Blvd...
As the bell tolled for 2020, a small baby entered through the large door and took the still smoldering cigarette out of the old man’s limp hands. Freshly dead with a hard-fought and completely lost...
This year, as far as I’ve known, was a major headache. Even without the global pandemic that most of us are still suffering through, there’s been racial strife, political unrest and, of course...
Earlier this year, entertainment conglomerate Netflix chose Norman as one of six American cities to get a Main Street holiday makeover, promising an orgasmic yuletide euphoria for Christmas starved...
Thanks to the US Supreme Court’s McGirt ruling, the Seminole Tribe of Oklahoma has begun letting oil and gas companies to expect some new taxes on natural resources extracted from tribal...
With her bright eyes and a plastered-on smile, Debra Ivory – the owner and operator of George’s Happy Hog Bar-B-Q – always made anyone and everyone feel like they belonged there, that there’s...
With Ree having won the last couple of fried, creamy, gritty battles against me, I called in a special chef with a cerebro as big as his corazon, Mr. Danny Trejo. I knew he would not let me...
This time last year, Patrick thought it would be pure gold if, in December, I picked a moderately expensive restaurant to celebrate the end of the year with. While there are many places I could...
I know that to the forcefully ironic it might seem a little melodramatic to admit, but as the richly composed music of Tchaikovsky swelled—music that I must have heard a million times in television...
I don’t smoke, I don’t drink and I don’t do drugs. I used to be ashamed to admit that, but I’m 42 now and really don’t care what people think anymore. But that’s not to say I haven’t...
A Teutonic mist hung low over the desolate backroads of Moore, Oklahoma that evening. But, off in the distance, we could see bright lights shining upwards on a lone Germanic house, our dinner...
I have never eaten at Swadley’s Bar-B-Q, mostly because I’d rather spend my precious time writing about the small-town, country-based roadhouse smokehouses where mom and pop serve some of the...
I recently read this was one of the bleakest Black Fridays in Oklahoma shopping history although, if you’ve been out to many area stores, you probably wouldn’t know it, especially if you were at...
Despite sounding like a song title from one of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s most recent albums, Curtis Watson’s Restaurant, 12610 S. McLoud Rd. in McLoud, has been a hidden gem for the best catfish in...
