man on wire

cave of forgotten dreams

senna

rivers and tides

still bill

180 degrees south

I adore those, liked your list… agree pretty much spot on, and would love commentary on those….

I think that Kelly has actual brain damage, probably from the eariler bike accident. Her emotional lability and her sometimes quite garbled speech are strong indicators that this is the case. She seemed to be able to engage others appropriately in high school, so something obviously changed mentally, and I think it’s definitely a possibility that the change was caused by trauma to the brain.

It would be interesting to know if her obsessional behavior and depressive symptoms began before or after her bike accident.

And how about the sort that wants to talk about how nice it is that the ‘other’ people are happy/struggling/being inspiring, in a nice culturally relative way which totally does not address the fact that half the population (i.e. female) may be experiencing a life which is in some ways rather a lot less than nice.

Bigger reponse here: http://campfirefff.tumblr.com/post/21437049253/doco-filmmakers-please-dont-do-worthy

On balance — thanks Colin — I think what motivates doco filmmakers is always worth poking around about… so thanks.

Richard

Incredibly, I’ve been here 14 years now. I married an Oklahoman and I call this home. Despite it’s flaws, I love my city. I work in an agency that was housed in the Journal Record building 17 years ago. Many of my co-workers’ were injured in the bombing and carry scars that I see every day across the boardroom table. The names I see in my inbox every day are carved on the survivor’s plaque at the Memorial and today I listened to my boss tell the story of what happened to her that day. I couldn’t imagine going through that with these people that I work with, respect, admire and care about. But they did.

Life has a funny way of reminding us that we are all connected. A terrible thing can happen to someone else, somewhere else but someday it may become a part of our landscape.

I was at home, sleeping in, on that day. My husband came in, turned the TV on, and showed me what was happening. I fell to my knees. After the initial shock, I grabbed the phone and for what felt like hours, tried to get a call to go through to someone, anyone, to tell me that my mom was okay. She worked 2 blocks away from the site. Finally, after what was realistically only probably 45 minutes, I talked to my aunt (her twin) and found out that mom was okay and that my dad was trying to find her to meet up. She initially thought that her building had been hit by a plane.
I found out on the 4th day that I had lost someone. My babysitter from childhood worked in the credit union. She was my Sunday school teacher from the time that I was 4 years old. I played with her kids for years and it suddenly hit me that they no longer had a mom.
Time does heal wounds and I know that someday I will muster up the courage to go inside the building and not just the grounds of the memorial. I don’t know when that will be but when the time comes, I have a question for you: are there lots of Kleenex boxes throughout or should I bring my own?

This is a narrow view of what a documentary is that is directly contradicted by legendary British documentarian John Grierson, who is credited with coining the word “documentary.” Grierson famously said, “I look on cinema as a pulpit, and use it as a propagandist.”

Seriously, offer some more constructive crit, and promote great, little seen docs. Much more valuable use of your time.

Cheers,
DMCG

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/travel/04frugalweb-1.html?pagewanted=all

That said, if you’re going to make comments about this specific Pho place, as someone who had to read your “views” to approve your “comment” on this site, I would suggest you offer up specific examples of how it’s done properly elsewhere, otherwise your comment comes off less informative and more like someone who has an axe to grind or thinks their taste on the matter is the end all, be all on the subject of Pho places in OKC. Which gives me a major case of the “eye rolls,” because I know Pho places that other people love and I dislike, and vice versa.

Summing it up, I rather know more about the alternatives than how one specific place fails to provide an adequate product.

Pho Lien Hoa has served it’s time as a pho restaurant and has slipped away from being one of the best. As they are now, they are mediocre and other pho restaurants pass them in quality, quantity, service, and/or overall cleanliness.

I agree that it’s somewhat cynical to appropriate the Trayvon Martin case to raise awareness of this one, but I think it was actually two distinct events that got combined into one.

What?!? So, if he had a deadly weapon while displaying the intent to use it, the officers can’t respond in kind?

I’m no police sympathizer, but as far as I’ve read, this fine, upstanding citizen just cashed the check he wrote himself.

What’s worse, his family and the veritable masterminds of OccupyOKC are trying leverage the actual tragedy of an innocent victim (T. Martin) to try and lend this CRIMINAL’s case some validity. But hey, they’re both black, so they are obviously related, right?

I would say they should be embarrassed of themselves, but it’s obvious they lack the reasoning faculties to get there on their own.

P.S. Sorry to pollute your blog with a comment.

If you’re ever back in town, I think it’d be awesome to have you guys play a show at the Facebook office here. I’ve been telling everyone within earshot about DEERPEOPLE, and I think it could be a cool show. Hit me up if you’re around.

To address comments:

As far as calling them out by name….when the company starts paying me to advertise for them in a state that is dominated by conservative beliefs, I will start advertising them.

When this happened, I investigated with two people close to me- one was a long standing employee of the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission well-versed in employment law, and another a private attorney who had previously worked for the state. Both are close to my family and received no monetary compensation. I have filed an EEOC claim before and it went nowhere- merely “we will take your information and get back to you” and nothing else. The attorney said it would honestly be hard to find anyone to take a case in a right-to-work/fire state. My advice from the OESC consultation was “you should have just kept your mouth shut.” I was only told the “hindsight” corrections, and quoted the at-will regime one more time.

I did personally confuse one thing in this article (burn me at the stake!) – I attributed the state questions of sharia law and mandatory english to 2008 when they were 2010 ballot questions. (all I remember in this regard was how I felt about them and how things are now, and what implications they hold for the future) If you feel that makes me no longer credible to remember that I got fired for “voting for that N______ or F_______” then so be it.

Once again, thanks for taking the time to read.

my name ees josh.

i ham from shekahgo.

i read this.

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As far as I know, no one has tested whether this is more or less common in Oklahoma, but with all the dust (and thus soil bacteria) in the air, that would be an interesting hypothesis to test!

If you’re taking requests for topics I’d love to know if there’s any connection between Oklahoma’s crazy hail storms and bacteria.

And find your legislators here: http://www.oklegislature.gov/FindMyLegislature.aspx

If you’d like to be updated on the anti-woman bills that still face our legislature, you can text your name and/or email address to 650 492 7521.

Thanks for being aware!

I kind of know, when I call my Oklahoma Senator or State lawmaker, they will ignore me, bide their time until I get off the line, but I had never seen them gather at the windows and mock me. These are those 1 -ercenters (my comuter doesn’t acce t that letter versus the rest of the 99%

We’re going to all have to understand that we are the 99%. I am and you are, even if you’re doing real well. You are still just the 99.

You ain’t the one.

I’m not a deeply religious person, but I think thing happen for a reason (not just the random cause and effect reason you can attribute to anything). Give it some time, focus on the positive and everything will work out. I’m not sure I ever told you about the time I quit my job at ExxonMobil to go to school at OU, which I then hated and started working part-time at Abercrombie&Fitch. It was easily the worst part of my life to date, I hated the shallow people I worked with, I hated that I had to drive to Norman to make minimum wage, I hated that I wasn’t doing comedy. One day, a particularly douchey manager at A&F told me to refold a wall of women’s jeans, I walked out. Just quit on the spot. TWO HOURS LATER, as I drove around Norman wondering what I was going to do with my life, I got a call from a friend I hadn’t talked to in over year, asking me to submit a resume to the Governor’s office.

So, when shit gets bad, just know that you just have to hang in there and that something great is right around the corner. I believe in you Leah. Don’t tell the other guys, but you are the most talented comic to come out of OKC. And I love you.

As far as these findings, I was never a fan of the “Einstein Was Wrong” headlines, but you’re right in that it makes a better headline. In my experience, scientists almost always object to headlines because they are misleading, but alas, it always happens.

I guess I’m taking more of a “wait and see” approach to this story. I find it extremely compelling, and I definitely appreciate the link to the story! Thanks for listening to the podcast!

This specific quote is from a piece he published in HuffPost (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/victor-stenger/no-cause-to-dispute-einst_b_982429.html), but it is more or less what he said in his lecture. He had some neat graphs too! Physics is definitely not my area of expertise, but from what I have read from reputable science news sources, this seems to be the consensus. “Einstein Was Wrong” just makes a better headline in mainstream news

Sorry to nitpick, but I thought you would appreciate this aspect to the story. I was also under the impression that faster-than-light speed was impossible before I heard Stenger. But anyway, I wanted to say again how much I enjoyed the podcast. Keep up the good work!

The President of Friends of Kebyar, Nelson Brackin, was warned time and again about the mental attitude of the Bavinger Family as pertains to the University of Oklahoma. He did little or nothing in his position as the
representative of the major Goff organization.

The University and Friends of Kebyar were asked on numerous occassions to help the Bavingers, raise money to preserve the house. Neither organization wanted to work with Bob Bavinger, even to the degree of trying to coax him into a more workable foundation to share responsibility and ownership. Bob Bavinger took the attitude, correctly or not, that these organizations were working against or in competition with his established Bavinger House Conservancy.

In fact, true or not, Bob Bavinger sincerely believed the University was even responsible for his mother’s death – which he stated often. He did not TRUST the OU administration.

The University of Oklahoma bolstred this mistrust by attempting to fund raise in secret to make an offer to the Bavinger Family. Senior members of the OU Faculty, as well as others – “in the know,” seemingly did absolutely nothing to warn those more recent Faculty members interested in obtaining the house, about what a sensative situation existed between OU and the Bavingers. Eventually word got back to the Bavingers, that OU was making some plans to obtain the house – pretty much reinforcing the Bavinger family mistrust of OU.

The result was that in a mistaken act of desperation, Bob tore the house down. Had OU or FOK tried to work with the Bavingers, the destruction of the house, would likely have not happened.

It is fairly obvious that there is plenty of blame to go around. But unfortunately none of this will bring back the Bavinger house.

Also agreed that no one does “Blue Christmas” like Elvis.

I don’t know what your comedy is like but I enjoyed your writing. It was very funny and moving.

Tanisha

Thanks for the suggestion; we are following up with an inquiry to them today.