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...
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...
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 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...
When we last left our caffeinated heroes… Winter is coming, or so an old television show once warned me. My former neighbor Amy and I braved the chilly weather for another triple-play of coffee and...
I have to admit I’ve never been to Stillwater’s somewhat famous Eskimo Joe’s, a college-town eatery best known for their burgers, their cheese-fries and, especially, their wholly damaging...
When we last left our caffeinated heroes… Many moons go—actually sometime last month—my former neighbor Amy asked me to recommend a few area coffee-shops other than Starbucks. Like a stale pot...
I am overweight. I know this. I live with this. And I always have. Growing up, my father would become suddenly violent and constantly hurt me with his words and fists; when he was finally finished, I...
The last time I went bowling, it was sometime in the late 90s. Pins were drunkenly struck at the late 66 Bowl and their weekly Rock ‘n Bowl show that I often attended, despite not being punk or...
Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day or, as many racists still like to call it, Columbus Day! While many of us Natives will be honoring this day with a time of deep reflection, mostly to show the world...
I am fortunate enough to have been in the company of horses for a large part of my life, first when I grew up on a farm in Texas to, most recently, my mother’s stables in Slaughterville. I adore...
Record Store Day has always been an annual holiday for me, the equivalent of Christmas in many ways, when vinyl obsessives wait in front of their local record store early in the morning, always a...
In Oklahoma’s nouveau burlesque scene, Adele Wolf is a legend – the creator of a burgeoning movement that inspires just as much as it titillates, and giving her a career as an international jet...
As we know, many people in Oklahoma are indoctrinated from birth that homosexuals are damned to Hell and, if you associate with their likes, you’re damned right alongside them. Growing up, I...
I recently saw a poll that said 71% of Americans are afraid to go back to the movies. As I was about to turn 42 last weekend, my mortality always in question, I could really see that cinematic fear...
Once upon a time… The other day, the closest Starbucks to me—which still quite a distance, mind you—decided that they were going to start closing shop at 2:30 p.m., well before the internal...
Over the course of this dastardly pandemic, Oklahoma became irritatingly famous for such notorious news items as Governor Stitt getting Coronavirus from that large super-spreader convention headlined...
In my mostly questionable life, one of the few things that I have an absolute passion for, something that borders on a sad sexual frenzy, are gas station-based restaurants. TLO editor Patrick knows...
One of my ladyfriend’s favorite hobbies is antiquing on the weekends. While she typically enjoys finding things like rustic furniture, unique jewelry and other semi-conversational items on the...
Many times—more than I’d actually like to count—people have asked me if I was ever going to review the legendary Eskimo Joe’s in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Usually, I’ll try to change the...
On the most typical of sultry summer nights, for dinner, I happily make due with a half-cooked Lean Cuisine and a lukewarm Diet Coke. But, as this virus seems to rage on so do my spurts of culinary...
In the days long before the virus came and changed life in America, whenever I was about to have a pre-arranged procedure at the hospital, I usually liked to take in one last movie at a local...
As the country continued to burn last week, many Oklahomans on the internet were fuming when Barstool Sports shared an infographic inexplicably naming Tim Horton’s – the beloved Canadian...
Last year, I wrote a tribute to the Oklahoma First Lady of Low Prices, the incomparable Linda Soundtrak. The creator of this beloved character—better known as Linda Verin—reached out to tell me...
