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Category: Personal stuff & other interests

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Personal stuff & other interests

5 year blogiversary, or, my Thanksgiving story

I started blogging on Thanksgiving weekend in 2003. I was inspired by an Oklahoma blog I started reading shortly after moving to the state in January. That blog: JMBzine and …

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Rosie O'Donnell's new variety show to debut Nov. 26 on NBC

I love Rosie O’Donnell. I know a lot of people don’t, including lefties, gays and women. But I do. Her talk show may have saved my live; during a very …

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Two short videos of OKC's Join the Impact! rally

My friend (and long-time Okie blogger) James of JMBzine shot this with his new mini video camera. Don’t know the woman’s name who is speaking. Darla managed to catch James …

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Studs Terkel interview with Mary Owsley and Peggy Terry about Oklahoma City during the depression

Just by chance today I caught This American Life program on NPR when they were noting the recent passing of Studs Terkel by playing a few of the pieces from …

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Is this recycling program a scam, or what?

The El Reno City Council has unanimously approved a “Voluntary Recycling Program” for the OEMA to run a new curbside recycling service that would entail city utility customers paying an …

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Challenge to Morning Joe crew from lefty in Oklahoma

Willie Geist Campaigns For McCain On The Upper West Side, Rejected By New Yorkers (VIDEO). One of the snotty a-holes on the Morning Joe show went into Manhattan in McCain …

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Stop stalling — donate to Obama now

If you plan to vote for Obama, but haven’t yet made a contribution — maybe you’ve been meaning to, but just haven’t gotten around to it — this would be …

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9-11 Remembrances

Today most media outlets aired some kind of 9-11 themed programming. I heard that MSNBC even re-broadcast the NBC news coverage from seven years ago (which I watched live) . …

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2007 Oklahoma Green Party annual meeting

I just posted the minutes of last Sunday’s annual meeting of the Green Party of Oklahoma, along with some pictures I took, on the party’s web site. We had a …

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