Rule, Brittaniea! Wrapped in plastic

Posts Tagged ‘Oklahoma’

Fujiyama Mama

In Video on 18 November 2009 tagged Girly, Listening, Oklahoma with 1 comment

The old hometown paper, of all sources, broke the story about Jack White’s planned collaboration with Miss Wanda Jackson. The Oklahoman also posted a short documentary about the OK native who proves yet again the old maxim the Okie girls are the shit.

‘Tis true

In Photo Album on 12 July 2009 tagged Girly, Oklahoma with 1 comment

Via JD.

Geronimo’s Bones

In Shorts on 11 March 2009 tagged Listening, Oklahoma with no comments

NPR had an interesting story today about Fort Sill, Skull and Bones, and the descendants of the Apache Geronimo.

Oklahoma’s Best BBQ

In Video on 26 January 2009 tagged Ha!, Oklahoma with 1 comment

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

In Internerd, Shorts on 20 January 2009 tagged Oklahoma, Texas with 1 comment

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 [...]

Überlist 2009

In Blog on 19 January 2009 tagged Family, Girly, Oklahoma, Writing with 1 comment

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 [...]

Solstice

In Blog on 21 December 2008 tagged Girly, Oklahoma with no comments

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 [...]

It’s the gift that will live and live

In Uncategorized on 9 December 2007 tagged Oklahoma with 2 comments

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 [...]

Part 7: The pioneer days are gone

In Blog on 24 August 2007 tagged Oklahoma, The Centennial Project with 1 comment

Thomas Catlege sums up his experiences as a pioneer and talks about how the world has changed in the 50 years since he settled in Oklahoma.
My wife and I are particularly proud of our family; we have taught them to work, to be self-reliant and honest and to make their own way in the world. [...]

Part 6: Building a Community

In Blog on 17 August 2007 tagged Oklahoma, The Centennial Project with 1 comment

Oklahoma Land Rush — public domain photo via Wikipedia
At the time of the opening and for several years afterwards there was not a railroad in the county. Outside the small villages, Lexington, in Cleveland County, and Purcell, in the Chickasaw country, were the nearest trading centers for those who lived in the southern part of [...]