Since I have so much relative free time on my hands, in-between the solemn recuperating, the constant blood tests and the extensive physical therapy, I’ve been doing a little bit of genealogy here...
Over 80 years ago, cyclopean aviator Wiley Post brought fame and glory to Dust Bowl ravaged Oklahoma by being the first person to fly solo around the world. After all of that toil on the ground and...
Living in the deserted wastelands of rural Oklahoma, most of the time, if you want a warm slice of moderately fresh pizza, you’re more than likely not gonna find a Domino’s or Pizza Hut, let...
Formerly a deserted Japanese (?) Steak (??) House (???) along a more upscale area of Strip-Club Row, the massive missive that is Seafood Island, 4700 W. Reno Ave., is an extravagant piece of Las...
Since leaving the hospital after my big to-do, the way some people lose their sex drive, well, I’ve lost my food drive. Being on a liquid diet for so long, you pretty much learn to stop eating...
Even though I’ve forgotten much of my more recent life leading up to and during my stroke, there’s one thing I clearly do remember and will never forget: that I had a pretty darn good hamburguesa...
Remington Park, 3 a.m. It was a chilly April night, only a few weeks before a cerebral hemorrhage tried to take my life, and, more importantly, miss the deadline for this story. The casino side of...
Gerardo Santillan has got to be the hardest working restaurateur in Oklahoma City. Santillan owns and operates La Queretana Bakery in the morning, delivering fresh-out-the-oven pan dulce, among other...
Let’s make no bones about it: most of us here are figuratively beaten-down-by-life adults but, for the most part, can take the suffering and drudgery that Oklahoma continues to heavily bear down on...
Opa, mis amigos! With America currently in the grips of a spanakopita night fever thanks to Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again currently (probably?) burning up the box-office, the big fat love affair with...
To paraphrase Bob Dylan, “I ain’t gonna work at Maguire’s Farm Store no more…but I’ll definitely purchase their fine sandwiches!” Truth be told, I never have worked there and never want...
I think I can see why hospital food gets the reputation that it does. While I’m sure the cooks down in the kitchen are doing their absolute best to prepare meals that are healthy and nourishing to...
If I’m being honest with you—and I’m always honest with you—it’s been my secret fantasy to shower with two hot nurses, a-scrubbin’ and a-bubblin’ my body and its assorted ephemera until...
To quote Tom Keifer, “You don’t know what you got ‘till it’s gone…” It takes a few years of living outside Oklahoma (or, of course, Texas) to fully appreciate the gratuitous nuances the...
According to that Liberal rag Raw Story, Tulsan Republican gubernatorial candidate Christopher Barnett—I’ve never heard of him either—is finding himself in hot amitriptyline after posting a...
Norman seems pretty laid-back, I guess. The few times I’ve been, I’ve definitely admired the “sun’s out, guns out” vibe the city does a decent job of playing up, a developmentally arrested...
While many lame duck politicians are happy to let the senioritis bite them hard and deep as they coast out the rest of their tour of duty, it seems as though Governor Mary Fallin is determined to not...
With Mother’s Day around corner, you’re probably frantically searching for the right gift for Mom. Instead of the standard gift of flowers, chocolates or Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman DVD box...
Tacoville seems a little too cool to be in Oklahoma City, doesn’t it? Ran out of a crumbling strip-mall in a bleak part of town where S.W. 29th crosses with Newcastle Road, this mostly modest...
Perhaps more than most other flyover states, Oklahoma is home to quite a few successful homegrown fast-food chains that, while many of us proudly frequent on a daily basis, we tend to do so while...
Yes, I know I’m the pendejo that’s late to the Abel’s game. Buried deep within the sprawling buffets, apartment complexes and recycled Wal-Marts that make up the flat beige enigma that is Warr...
True to their name, the reason why Fat Guy’s Burger Bar, 140 N. Greenwood in Tulsa, is so popular is they honestly don’t give a big fat… well… you know. We are continually inundated...
Many times, when my Caucasian amigos go for a night out at the movies with me, I tend to slightly embarrass them by going full Latino and pulling out a spare crying baby about 15 minutes into the...
Oklahoma City may not have as many superheroes as Metropolis, vigilantes as Gotham or mythological goddesses as Themiscyria, but when it comes to comic book writers, artists and creators, the Big...
Whenever most people wistfully think back about their grandmothers and in particular, her cooking, as the angelic harps of memory play and the silvery clouds of memory part, they are usually left...