I had a dream last night that I moved back into my tiny apartment at OCU. It had been vacant all these years, and there was rotting food in the refrigerator. I was hosting a wizard rock house party, but the place was way too small. I decided to paint a huge color wheel on one wall, but my paints kept drying up ( Read more... )

Today is the one year anniversary of the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. My HP friends went to Memphis on Friday for a wizard rock concert/house party, but I couldn't go because it would cost too much money and I would miss too much work. While one missed show doesn't seem like a big deal--and really isn't, in the grand scheme of ( Read more... )

I was feeling nostalgic the other night, as I often do, and I was also wondering if this guy from a band I interviewed the other day was a kid I went to middle school with (he wasn't; I had remembered the kid's name wrong), so I got out my eighth grade yearbook. Each of the eighth-graders had a page with our pictures on it where we listed a bunch ( Read more... )

Wednesday night, some of my wonderful friends and I went down to Dallas for a concert. We were eating dinner beforehand, and Ami was teasing her husband Michael about having gone to an inferior college (in her opinion). Ami, New Erin, and I all attended/will attend Oklahoma City University: Ami graduated in 1995, 2003 for me, and Erin will start ( Read more... )

I've been doing a lot of thinking about the fan relationship lately. When does having a fan quit being flattering and start being creepy? How does one become friends with the band rather than just stalking the band? These are the burning questions on my mind.

And is it possible to snub someone back? If they held you in such disdain to begin with ( Read more... )

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 I used to be one of those people who would rather ignore a problem than confront it, and now I'm realizing just how damn annoying those people can be.

In my job at the magazine, I have to call a lot of people to ask for quotes and interviews. And when those people choose to ignore my call rather than return it to tell me they're not interested, it ( Read more... )

Six times!

Yep, including the masthead, my name appears six times in the new issue of Oklahoma Today, which is not yet on newsstands. We got preview copies in the office today, and I've spent most of the afternoon reading it (instead of working on the three assignments I got today, but there will be plenty of time for that later ( Read more... )

I got a query phone call from a woman this afternoon wanting to pitch the magazine an interview with Toby Keith. Yawn. Like we haven't done that before...

Anyhow, in her pitch, she told me she's from Bakersfield, which is considered "the Oklahoma of the west," at which point I thought to myself, That is perhaps the weirdest statement I've heard so ( Read more... )

 An email I got today at my work account:

THE WORLD'S FIRST TOWEL TO FUNCTION AS A SURVIVAL TOOL:

BIODEGRADABLE, POCKET-SIZE TOWEL SAVES LIVES, FILTERS COFFEE, AND KEEPS THE KIDS BUSY THIS SUMMER

June 10, 2008 - (Jamaica, NY) - After thousands of years of "regular" towel use, Lightload Towels presents a towel that functions as a real survival tool.

It ( Read more... )