The first time I met an Asian person—Vietnamese, to be exact—it was in 1990, when I transferred to the Classen Fifth Year Center for the last month of the school year. Having grown up in a small...
The warm Oklahoma wind blew across the gravel parking lot at the rustic roadside dirt mall, located somewhere outside Okmulgee. Filled with a cadre of likeminded garbage pickers, trash humpers and...
In honor of this state’s most reverential nut, this past Saturday was a blissfully warm afternoon for the annual tradition of the Okmulgee Pecan Festival to take place; among all the famous treats...
During the 1980s and 1990s, OKC was deluged with numerous memorable commercials—many of which are still unparalleled today—from Tall Paul Auto Insurance to the Credit Jewelers cowboy. When I...
Aside from the recent spate of deadly weather currently plaguing this land, the biggest news in Oklahoma City this month has to be that, after so many years of wishing, hoping and praying, we finally...
This year’s most charming family film has pasty-clad breasts, head-thumping bouncers and a wide enough variety of booze and drugs to subdue even the rowdiest motorcycle gang—it’s called Red Dog...
I received a text a couple of days ago from a friend asking if I heard about the new python that the Oklahoma City Rattlesnake Museum recently acquired. My answer was, of course, no, followed by an...
Most of us have been lucky enough to have had that one magically clichéd summer job that, looking back on it now, probably could’ve been the basis for a coming-of-age teen comedy some years later...
Built on the well-refrigerated tomb of the old El Mariachi Supermercado, 3020 NW 16th, this positively post-apocalyptic center of commerce, now renamed Public Wholesale Supermercado, has opened its...
Once upon a time in Oklahoma City—and, quite possibly, the rest of this infernal country—it wasn’t such a strange sight to see teenagers of all sorts carting around cheap replicas of dangerous...
Although they’re a shell of what they once were, Mazzio’s seems to be just about everyone’s favorite homegrown pizza buffet—I’m guessing it’s the ranch dressing—but I’ve never...
No offense to the good people who live there, but after a couple of hours, there really ain’t that much to do in Noble. Once you eat at most of the restaurants and visit the Super Wal-Mart for the...
Recently, the Oklahoma City Thunder selected legendary Love’s Country Stores to be their first-ever uniform-destroying sponsor. Patrick and Hayley mocked it here. Having never been to one of these...
With discount DNA tests all the rage online these days, I recently took a 23 and Me and, jumpin’ Jehoshaphat, found out that my grandmother was an Irish princess! I’m kidding, for the most part...
I was recently at Quail Springs Mall attending a movie screening when, entering through the food court, I noticed a new restaurant—well I guess you could call it a restaurant—called Dragon’s...
As good as some of our grocery stores are here in Oklahoma City—and, for the most part, they are pretty good, I guess—I recently had the stark realization that none of them will ever be as...
Sometime ago, I found out that a person I had dated for a short period was not only claiming to now be a bruja, but that there was also the possibility of a maldición put on my head soon after we...
Having seen pictures online throughout the day of the various treasures that were being scored at the annual Friends of the Library Booksale, I decided to brave the fearsome Okie winds and head out...
I received some bad news from the doctor last week. Deep in my head and alone in my thoughts, I retreated to the one place in town where I can find the true solace that I longingly crave, my local...
I believe that when our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was on the cross, hanging off the fresh cedar while being in the most intense pain possible, that when he cried out “Why have you forsaken...
Many years ago, back when I was living in Colorado, I was dating a woman whose roots were in California, proving that just about everyone in the Mile High State is seemingly from somewhere else. When...
I had just gotten out of a movie at Harkins—Creed 2, if you must know—when I stepped through the theater’s exit into the surprisingly cool outside air, thinking that even though the temperature...
Oklahoma winters are, to me at least, always so post-apocalyptic. It doesn’t help matters that, around this time, the local news channels begin their yearly holiday of frightening the populace with...
Imagine if, for one night only, Ree Drummond, the Pioneer Woman, were to come over to your unsightly urban hovel and cook an amazing dinner of country favorites, all deeply-fried and cheese-riddled...
A few weeks ago, I profiled two rural pizza chains—Hunt Brothers and Simple Simon’s—learning more about both franchises than really I needed to. But, still, many people commented and sent...
