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Fifteen years ago today
04.19.10 | Permalink | 7 CommentsFifteen years ago today, I was sleeping in, skipping class (as was known to happen). A loud boom—and I swore it shook me, but that couldn’t be right—woke me up. I think I was still living directly downstairs from Kristen Chenowith that year, and I added “dropping an anvil in the bathtub while I was […]
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hobby lobby, mardel, okc, oru
I used to work for the guy saving Oral Roberts University
Talk to Action has a great article up highlighting the role that Mart Green is playing in wresting control of Oral Roberts University away from its founding family. He’s given $70 million, and he’s using his leverage to completely redo the way things are done at ORU. And I used to work for him.
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okc, okc-zoo
My favorite animal at the OKC Zoo
07.10.07 | Permalink | 5 CommentsThe mighty T-Rex! Which would make me Uncle T-Rex. Though he was calling me Mister Uncle Chutney. Well, yet another identity crisis…
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okc, oklahoma-city, oklahoma-city-bombing
Twelve years since the OKC bombing
04.18.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Twelve years since the OKC bombingTomorrow will be the twelfth anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. One hundred and sixty-eight people died that day. We were there. We remember.
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9/11, April-19, okc, ze-frank
9/11 survivors: Something to look forward to now (from an OKC native)
09.13.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on 9/11 survivors: Something to look forward to now (from an OKC native)In a recent comment to the “But April 19” re-post, CP links us to this Ze Frank vidcast. A view asked Brooklyn-based Ze where he was on 9/11, and Ze tells it all. I was just a few miles away from the Murrah building the morning of April 19, and that next year I moved […]
