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Posted June 14, 2013
Oklahoma brings to mind college athletics. (There are other things like songs, Broadway music, places I have visited and other topics, but I?ve explored those already, as a continuing series like this forces me to range beyond the first thoughts of ?Oklahoma,? ?Tulsa Time,? and I-44.) Thoughts of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State could be because
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Posted June 13, 2013
Board games are pretty rad, and not just because they’re a relatively cheap and reusable excuse for social interaction. No, wait, that’s exactly why they are rad. My mistake.
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Posted June 12, 2013
The number of good actors that were in the ?Star Wars? prequels and somehow they still stunk tells me the power of the written word. (It also could be the power of editing, directing, or many other things but as a scribe, I choose the writing.) For example, I didn?t even know Rose Byrne was
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Posted June 11, 2013
The world lost a great artist recently, and a distressingly large percentage of the world doesn’t realize it. Arturo Vega, who was the Ramones’ guardo camino throughout their career, died a few days ago at age 65. He was, in his own humble way, responsible for a lot of that band’s legacy; as a designer,
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Posted June 4, 2013
I really like, nay, I?m not ashamed, I love numbers. I love the patterns they make. I love the different ways that people remember them. For example, if I say ?23? to anyone from Chicago, my guess is that they?ll think of Michael Jordan. You say that to any young person from St. Louis, and
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Posted May 31, 2013
When I went to broadcast journalism school, a moment I still remember clearly came during a lecture on local pronunciations. The lecturer discussed how in mid-Missouri, the city name Versailles is not pronounced like it would be in France, but rather a very Midwest ?Ver ? sales.? Everyone chuckled, but if I?m honest, I didn?t
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Posted May 31, 2013
The last time a pro wrestling promoter appeared in TSB’s Self Made Man column, he was a household name who revolutionized pro wrestling in the 1980s, and again in the 1990s, and became a billionaire in the process.
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Posted May 30, 2013
This week, we’re going to talk about Wesley Willis. Strap in. Wesley Willis, who died in 2003, was a paranoid schizophrenic musician and artist with a heavily callused forehead from headbutting fans and well-wishers. I’m not even kidding. Look at his picture, for God’s sakes.
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Posted May 23, 2013
If I were to rank songs that had cities for titles, I think ?El Paso? has to be in the top five. I know it can?t be number one, because ?Los Angeles? by X has that spot. (It?s an appropriate time to mention it as well, as a tribute to Ray Manzarek, who produced the
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