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ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE #7

ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE #7

Episode #7 – “Reading Rainbow: Science Edition” In this edition of OOM, our fair hosts take a break from the scientific and embark on a literary quest to inform your earholes of radium and space vomiting. Subscribe to us via iTunes or subscribe to us on Tumblr!

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Snikt! #4: Featuring The Nerdiest Conversation of All Time

Brandon, Grace and Daniel talk about comics, Daniel gets a mild concussion, and fantasy Star Trek bridge crews are discussed. Set phasers for fun!

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SNIKT! the OKC.NET Comics Podcast #3

Grace, Daniel, Brandon. A cat or two. Snikt! “Full of talk-meat for your ear pleasure.”- Brandon Stauffer Listen to it now and then go buy comics!

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Book Review: Herbert Mitgang- Dangerous Dossiers.

Herbert Mitgang. Dangerous Dossiers. New York. Primus. 1996. 340 pages. ISBN 1-55611-485-0 Much has been written about the FBI’s COINTELPRO operations; the cold war era domestic spying operation that tracked civil rights workers, leftists, and other “subversives”. Less well known is the widespread surveillance of artists and writers of the same era. Allen Ginsburg, James [...]

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Person of Interest: M. Scott Carter

The old maxim “never ever judge a book by its cover,” could also be said of the book’s author. M. Scott Carter maybe a political journalist for The Journal Record, but the nature of his day job does not restrict his interests in what he chooses to write about as a novelist. Rather, his career [...]

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In Defense of Bodice Ripping

  Hi, my name is Natalee, and I read romance novels. I can hear it now. “Those books,” you sneer, “are full of misogynistic so-called heroes and simpering, spineless heroines that only perpetuate a negative stereotype of women. It’s anti-feminist.” You are so, so, wrong. Romance novels are the only genre of literature that is [...]

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SNIKT! The Comics Podcast #2

  Brandon Stauffer, Daniel Page, and Grace Gordon philosophize about if Superman is awesome or just a little too wholesome, whether evil is intrinsic in human nature, and their favorite comic book movies. They settle all of these issues in about 15 minutes.

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SNIKT! podcast #1: Turn The Page

Daniel Page, Brandon Stauffer, and Grace Gordon talk about…a little bit of everything, but mostly comic books. Mostly. They discuss Grace’s ridiculously comic book name, Brandon’s comic neophyte-ism (not a word), and…yeah, just lots of stuff. Listen! It will make you feel like you have friends!      

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Road Letter, Love Letter – Re-Assessing Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” with books, thoughts and local artists.

Road Letter, Love Letter – Re-Assessing Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” with books, thoughts and local artists.

I like songs about drifters, books about the same/ They both seem to make me feel a little less insane–Isaac Brock, “The World at Large” Lately when I think about Jack Kerouac I think about a story told by his old friend David Amram, a French horn player, composer, farmer, gifted talker and poet who [...]

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My Holiday with Nick Hornby

My Holiday with Nick Hornby

Every year, our family escapes the normally drab, gray Oklahoma winter for several days of waist-high snow and skiing in Colorado, but this year, the snow we left was almost as high as the snow that greets us upon our arrival in Aspen. However, I feel somewhat consoled by the fact that we no longer [...]

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ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE #8

ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE #8

Episode #8: “Let’s Talk About Sex” w/Tanya Mendoza In this hot-button, controversial edition of Orders of Magnitude, Patricia and Mandy [...]

Comics Unite Fridays, OR I Eat Something Weird and Start to Feel Like I Live Here

They call it a Punch Wrap. It’s made up of a Pizza Hut personal pan pizza (your choice of meat [...]

35×40: Where the Buffalo Roam – Medicine Park

Just an hour and a half southwest of Oklahoma City, lying in the shadow of the Wichita Mountains, is the [...]

Poppin’ and Hoppin’

Is it Monday? That means it’s time for another installment of Beer Review Monday! The virtuous, backpack-clad Thunder play the [...]

Penguin Noir: Wizards

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