(a late entry in our Halloween horror fiction series, Sean Murphy has this heart stopping tale of outlaws and zombies) Lightening streaked across the darkened sky above the solemn group of hard-faced men. Morris, standing at the head of the grave, read passages from his worn black bible. The Zachary brothers, dressed in long [...]
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Schlock and Roll: Keeping It Campy With The Count
“How often does a grown man get to pretend to be Bela Lugosi? Not often enough.” -Neil Gaiman. John Ferguson prepares to take the set as Count Gregor. Photo by: Gene Glasser I can’t explain it. I am apprehensive to be an apologist for a counter-cultural movement born out of the fears and the [...]
The Freebird Question
Undoubtedly, it must be a Law with a capital “L”, for no state (precluding any that once flew a Confederate flag) would write this into their legal code, but a Law of Nature (or Science)…something like the Law of Gravity. It is some undeniable force, a universal and invariable fact of the physical universe. “At [...]
Old Paris Flea Market: Family Business
It isn’t exactly a newsflash anymore- Times are tough. I think we can all agree that the economy sucks. Shopping is no longer America’s favorite pastime, and for most of us the days of shopping in shiny high-tech malls, by catalog, or over the internet have lost most of their glamour. To regain some of [...]
The Family That Freaks Out Together…
I was recently gifted general admission floor tickets and a VIP backstage pass just a few days before “The Flaming Lips with Stardeath and White Dwarfs New Years Eve Freakout: 2010 Becomes 2011.” A decision had to be made: Enjoy the communal love and frenetic energy that is the party these bands have been throwing [...]
The Funky Flavor of Oklahoma History at Roxy’s
By Sean Murphy There is something fundamentally attractive about the old neighborhoods that draw me to Norman. Maybe it is that general appeal of homes converted to new purposes such as apartments for college students, or maybe it is the downtown area’s preservation of some of the oldest buildings in Oklahoma. Maybe I have seen [...]
The Top Ten Reasons why Top Ten Lists Suck
At this time of year we can expect to be flooded with a deluge of opinion and arbitrary ranking in the name of definitively listing the “Best of” or perhaps the “Top Ten” (or twenty, or even more ridiculously, the Top 100) of the year. I can honestly say I expected to see a few [...]
Two Olives Café: Moore to Eat
Coming south on Broadway through the center of Moore, you are likely to spot painted onto the brick of the Old School Business Center a sign with long arms of purple and green vines climbing towards the words “Two Olives”. Two Olives is one of the residents of the Old School Business Center, built into [...]
An Open Letter to the Progressives of Oklahoma:
By Sean Murphy The elections are over and educational funding wasn’t improved (and there was no sure bet that it would have been anyway). We are protected from the dangers of Sharia law preemptively, and we can sleep soundly knowing that this was not a way of playing on the ignorance and xenophobia of [...]
I Want to Go To There: Moore Than You Might Expect…
Article By Sean Murphy Photos by Amber Westin Normandin I am the co-owner of a craft consignment store called Handmade with HeART in Moore, Oklahoma. Where? Moore. You know, the place you drive by on I-35 on your way from Edmond or Oklahoma City to Norman. Believe it or not, there is more in Moore [...]
