Posts Tagged by Oklahoma
Fire and hailstones
| May 18, 2010 | Filled under Blog, Video |
I’ve been obsessed with watching weather videos on Youtube lately. Metafilter is partly to blame, as is The Awl, but the real culprit is El Nino*, which is responsible for the worst winter Houston had in the past 30 years and also the fact that we’re probably gonna have one helluva hurrican’ season.
I also had this thing, when I was a kid, where I felt a kind of strong kinship to any object or event that I could remotely relate to my own personal history. For example, I loved to read stories about The Pilgrims’ Mayflower because my birthday was in May, and in some way felt that made me connected to it. It’s weird, I know. I have also always been fascinated by the eruption of Mt. St. Helens — it happened two days after I was born. I even have a Mt. St. Helens “emerald”, as the true emerald is the birthstone for May.
Best comment in the hailstorm thread: Our planet is fucking awesome.
*Which in Spanish means “the Nino”.
Category 5
| May 9, 2010 | Filled under Blog, Video |
Rick Mitchell + Jeff Corwin = Hank Schyma, my new crush. We bonded over tornadoes at the Art Car Ball.
This one makes me miss Oklahoma.
Oklahoma’s Best BBQ
| January 26, 2009 | Filled under Video |
Props to wherever I saw this first (I forgot who posted it) but I flipped when I realized it was from Oklahoma. Please, fellow Okies, report back to me if you have eaten here!
I live on a blue island
| January 20, 2009 | Filled under Internerd, Shorts |
I know the election was, like, two months ago but I just want to bring this to your attention: Texas vs. California.
Just for kicks, here’s Texas’ Hat.
I get to break out my old fist bump badge again today. Later this morning I’ll be live-blogging the Inauguration, hopefully from the Harris County Democratic Party’s soiree, for Houstonist.
Update: Here’s the post.
Überlist 2009
| January 19, 2009 | Filled under Blog |
The truth is that I haven’t written in a while because it’s taken some time for me to process the events of the holiday season.
Our trip to Oklahoma was as depressing as ever. Especially in winter. CLH had just come home two days before we left again, and on this particular trip I discovered that the only thing I really enjoy about Oklahoma are the sunsets and the banks. Every single sunset, even on a freezing overcast day, is the most beautiful sunset you’ll ever see. I’m convinced it has to do with all the wind and the red dust in the air. And all the cool mid-century modern buildings in Oklahoma? Well, almost all the ones still standing are churches, something I’d never noticed before. (more…)
Solstice
| December 21, 2008 | Filled under Blog |
I am barefoot, in the first neighborhood I remember from my childhood. I am playing basketball with the neighborhood boys in someone else’s driveway. There is no net, and it is the latest I have ever been allowed to stay outside at night. The sun is still out, it’s dusk, yet it feels like it must be 11 o’clock. I know that’s not possible, but the memory is still magical.
It’s the gift that will live and live
| December 9, 2007 | Filled under Uncategorized |
We at Rule are currently enjoying freezing rain and bone-chilling temperatures in Oklahoma, while weather forecasts in Houston call for an 80-degree weekend. We left our home Friday evening with 90 percent of our boxes still unpacked in order to attend our maternal grandparents’ 55th wedding anniversary in the state of our birth.
The snow is getting us into the holiday spirit, but we’ve yet to hear the B.C. Clark’s jingle, which signals the true start of Christmas. Posting will be light for the following weeks, assuming we’re able to drag ourselves out of the hotel’s down sheets and find a rouge wireless connection in Houston’s Montrose.
