Like most Americans, I’ve experienced a wide range of childhood traumas that helped transform me into the flawed, chemically dependent, semi-functioning adult human that I am today. One of...
Hope you packed your SPF 1,000,000 sunscreen because it looks like this might be the hottest summer on record since, at the very least, 1945. With blustering blowhards who carry nuclear launch codes...
It’s utterly baffling that we’re living in the post-post-post-modern future of 2017 and somehow, Nazis are dominating our national conversation. On Friday, a plague of khaki-clad white...
A month or two ago, we told you about local rapper Barbie Doll. She’s the self-proclaimed “self-made millionaire” Westmoore grad who jet-sets across the country shooting fancy...
We like to criticize the local TV media on this site, but you have to give them credit for finding quirky characters with memorable names to interview for breaking news segments. They’re...
For the most part, Oklahoma’s US Senators usually represent the two major factions of the Oklahoma GOP. In James Lankford you have the boring, churchy, conservative, moralist – a skilled...
Forget the bright lights and Vegas-style gaming…the real jackpot at Thunderbird Casino is in their dining area! Driving east down Highway 9, past Norman and into rural oblivion, the eats are pretty...
In college, I took a wine and beer tasting course and made an A. Does that mean I have a beautifully refined palate capable of identifying the country of origin of the hops used to flavor your IPA...
It’s a great day to be a smoker in Oklahoma. Yesterday morning, The Oklahoma Supreme Court surprised absolutely no one (with a brain) by ruling the well-intentioned but unconstitutional...
I always remember being in the backseat of my parents car as a child driving past downtown. There was no movie theater, and Spaghetti Warehouse was about the only restaurant. Really, there...
We have some bad news for deviants who like to perform sex acts in steamy, public places. Earlier this week, the Oklahoma City YMCA announced they will be closing steam rooms and saunas at all Metro...
It looks like a local thief is going to get a great view of the upcoming solar eclipse!* Earlier this week, Oklahoma City police released surveillance footage of a Batman fanboy who confidently...
Before it was cool to complain about man-made earthquakes, the education funding crisis, botched executions, mass incarceration, opioid epidemic and all the other fun bad stuff affecting our state...
When Bob Stoops unexpectedly stepped down as the OU head football coach a few months ago, a wide range of rumors that were probably started by bitter OSU fans began to circulate around the Ogle Mole...
It’s pretty easy to get a crowd of Okies to agree that Texas is a garbage state. Sure, we may not be the hottest spot in the nation either, but our pride won’t allow us to enjoy ourselves...
It’s been a month since news leaked that Braum’s wants to destroy the Donnay Building on Classen Circle to make way for a new ice cream and dairy store location that nobody asked for, so...
Dean Blevins (a.k.a. the Ron Burgundy of the Oklahoma sports media landscape) is celebrating his 20 year anniversary with News 9 this week. He and his News 9 co-workers marked the occasion like...
Considering that it’s probably the one state dish that all of us, Native American or otherwise, collectively and continually crave, it seems as though the Indian Taco is the Brigadoon of local...
Over the weekend, I was doing my weekly hate read of The Oklahoman editorial page and ran across this amusing piece. Apparently Mary Fallin – the governor of the state with one of the highest...
Last week, a magnitude 4.2 earthquake rocked Edmond so much that Edmonites finally had something more to complain about than the price of locally sourced honey or that one neighbor’s house that...
Earlier this week. the good citizens of Oklahoma City were shocked by the closure of our wonderfully-beloved Las Vegas-style buffet Fuze. I’ve never been to Las Vegas, but I assume that buffets...
This Sunday night, Matchbox 20 and Counting Crows will be taking their 2017 “Brief History of Everything” Tour to the Zoo Amphitheatre. Tickets can be purchased here. Because gray is my...
Let’s be honest for a second. If you’re an Oklahoma City resident, there’s nothing more embarrassing than being spotted on the Bricktown Water Taxi. Although the Bricktown canal is...
It must be good to be Abigail Ogle. Just four years ago, she was buying Twitter followers and spending long hours locked away in the dungeons of KSBI Channel 52 editing high school...
There’s been a generation gap in our country going back at least as far the 1960’s, if not longer. The crusty old guard doesn’t understand the problems of the youth, and they both...