October 15 2007 at 09:18:20 Name: DolfanBob Topic: Don Woods Email: MiamiPhin@yahoo.com Comments: I just watched Don Woods on Channel 8's Good Day
Tulsa. He looks great and he drew a Channel 8 Gusty.
I had a Gusty drawn on air and given to me when I was about eight years old,
circa 1969. I wish that I had been able to hang on to that all these years.
They are talking about how Gusty is Oklahoma's state cartoon. They also showed
Gusty jumping into a 'Fraidy hole. Good stuff.
October 15 2007 at 08:59:46 Name: Mike Bruchas Topic: "Walks" Comments: Have friends on various local cancer and breast
cancer walks in the next few weeks to raise money. Remember way back when
moms often were neighborhood drive volunteers for polio, March of Dimes and
groups like that?
Are you old enough to remember school drives for money for the Red Cross,
TB, the American Lung Association and UNICEF? You brought in your dimes and
quarters and got a tin plate pin for donating. The UNICEF stuff often happened
at Halloween and if you trick or treated for them in the Midwest, folks often
did not like kids asking for money instead of candy! So we had these little
special donation cans which identified us as UNICEF volunteers, which we
could not open. Still it did not work well in IL. We took candy anyway and
did the UNICEF thing only once or twice and stopped volunteering.
October 15 2007 at 08:35:17 Name: Scott Topic: Roto-Sphere
Comments: If memory serves me (and it prolly don't...) a Chevy
dealer on the edge of downtown had a big thingy like that. I think is was...White
or Wilkerson???
I was just a kid so who knows what I was really seeing!
I too was thinking possibly Bill White Chevrolet had a
Roto-Sphere.
October 14 2007 at 09:29:32 Name: Mitch Gray Topic: Roto Email: North of Y'all Comments: I may be incorrect, but could your Roto-Sphere have
been located at Pennington's on Brookside? Or maybe Boot's Drive-in on Sheridan
between 15th and 21st across from F & M Bank? That would be pre Shotgun
Sam's.
I think there is one in Chouteau on the west side of Hwy 69. Good luck!
(Later) Whoops! Should have watched the You Tube first! Now I don't
think there is a Roto in Chouteau.
October 14 2007 at 02:12:44 Name: roy lee Topic: Coneys 'n' stuff Email: beerdrunk@coxdotnet Comments: My last trip to Coney Island (downtown) was as usual,
pretty good and fun to hang out there. A few weeks ago I had to get my windshield
replaced and had Coney Island(er) right next door. The child behind the counter
said "what do you want?" I said "3 with everything" and I got a plate of
what amounted to hot dog soup. Next time, I'll leave it to the professionals.
October 14 2007 at 00:27:39 Name: Mike Bruchas Topic: Foodies
Comments: If anyone at the Fair had/has any new food creation
sightings, let us know. I was hoping that maybe Wall-eye on a stick had arrived.
The newly expanded Culver's fast food and ice cream chain has put commercially
produced wall-eye as a fresh fish alternative in IL and IN.
I spent 20 minutes today at the Sugarloaf Craft Fest in Rockville, MD talking
to a gentleman from the Leonard Mountain soup outfit. I asked where in OK
is Leonard and he said East of Bixby! Neat soup mixes and they are experimenting
with chili mixes, too. They seem to be the only industry in town there...I
asked if wasn't Leonard the town where Ike Horn had a furniture factory and
the man was unsure whom Ike Horn was.
October 13 2007 at 11:19:34 Name: Webmaster Topic: Roto-Sphere Comments:
Mr. Ace Jackelope asked me by email if Tulsa ever had a Roto-Sphere (watch
above video to see one in action). I know for sure that we did, but can't
quite remember where it was. Could it have been at a car lot on 11th
Street?
Here is Ace's
blog entry on the topic. He is working as a photographer at
Trek Expo this weekend in Tulsa.
October 12 2007 at 22:44:51 Name: Mike Bruchas Topic: Coneys, Chili & Chew Comments: In DC, Hard Times Cafe and the Weenie Beanie
by WETA can possibly do a good coney but not like in Tulsa or in Br'er Broo's
area! Hard Times serves Cincinnati Chili, Texas Chili, Vegan Chili, I think
now Venison Chili and some other variation but they often burn the dogs.
Boo. And the chili dogs are like $5 each!
Re Dr. Chew's review of MICHAEL CLAYTON: go see
it; good li'l film! But Wisconsin doubles for parts of NYC! In the credits,
not from any in-scene cheese appearances!
October 12 2007 at 21:48:30 Name:
Ken Broo Topic: Chili Comparison Email: ken at kenbroo dot com Comments: I have the unique perspective of dining many times
at Ike's, The Coney I-lander and here in Cincinnati at the numerous Skyline
Chili parlors.
All are unique in their own way. The thing that sets Skyline apart from the
others is that their (secret) recipe includes cocoa and cinnamon. That may
sound a bit gross. But the flavor of the chili has less 'bite' to it. Also,
Skyline uses a mild Wisconsin cheddar cheese for its topping.
If you order a 'three way' in Cincinnati (in a chili parlor, not to an undercover
cop), you get chili and cheese over spaghetti. Avoid the four way (onions)
and five way (onions and beans) and your co-workers will thank you later.
I'd invite any of the good folks at Tulsa TV Memories to dine with me at
a Skyline parlor here in Cincinnati. But, I'll only pick up the tab if your
name is Lee Woodward.
Great to hear from you, Ken!
Be sure to check out Ken's podcasts on his web site,
KenBroo.com.
October 12 2007 at 15:10:29 Name: Scott Linder Topic: Skyline delights....
Comments: Mike, I'm glad you enjoyed your visit to Skyline. If
you recall, I specified Skyline chili as a part of my mock
Coney Islander recipe a couple of years ago. The dry chili mix works
just fine and cans of the finished product are available on the
Skyline website for those who are impatient
or kitchen-impaired...
October 12 2007 at 14:38:16 Name: Mike Bruchas Topic: Skyline Chili franchises in the
Midwest
Comments: They come close to Coney I-Landers. They serve a chili
sandwich: chili, cheese, onions, but NO DOG on the bun. I had to have one
besides regular coneys. The Lundys and I had coneys for lunch Sunday when
I was in Indy. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
Amazingly, you can order the highly-rated
Skyline
Chili Mix from Amazon.com.
October 12 2007 at 14:34:49 Name: Mike Bruchas Topic: OIO series Comments: I think Jimmy Leake dba Leake TV had ownership
but may have donated all to OETA.
My "Oil in the Osage" 3/4" U-matic tape print was looking bad when I bumped
it to another format - I forget what else that I have. Channel 8 mixed all
to 2" from film originally and Scott Blaker did stellar work on selecting
music for all.
Bob Welsh, Paul Fletcher Murray and others did the best photography on the
shows. Some of the last ones were so-so.
Murray also shot Bob Gregory's special on The Cotswolds in England (I loved
it then) and may have done old car race stuff in the UK that Jimmy Leake
and I think Ike Horn participated in.
October 12 2007 at 13:42:35 Name: Scott Linder Topic: "The Gilcrease Story"
Comments: Speaking of tv/radio series, does anyone recall "The
Gilcrease Story" on KVOO? Ed Wheeler wrote and voiced it, and Mo Billington
did production. I hope it has been archived somewhere....
October 12 2007 at 09:10:03 Name: Jim Reid Topic: Oil in Oklahoma Ownership Comments: I would doubt that Gregory owns the series
although he may have the ear of whoever does. It may be owned by the Leake
family, although it also might be owned by Albritton, the current owners
of Channel 8. The shows (except for the last couple including the Getty show)
were produced on film, not tape, so they should be around somewhere. If they
were processed with Eastman film, as many 70s films were, they might be fire
engine red by now.
October 11 2007 at 18:48:48 Name: Dick Loftin Topic: Oil in Oklahoma Email: dloftin1 at cox dot net Comments: I have been wondering about this for some time....
What happened to the great Oil in Oklahoma series that Bob Gregory produced?
I wonder if Bob could make a deal with Jack Frank's company to release them?
It certainly would fit in with Jack's Tulsa series.
That's a really good idea. I looked for OiO in the library, but found
only the book version. I'll see if I can get the idea to Bob Gregory.
October 11 2007 at 02:48:44 Name: roy lee Topic: Vaughn Meader Email: beerdrunk at cox dot net Comments: You can find a copy on LP at any thrift store if
you go often enough. I took it to show and tell in 4th grade, long after
his career was shot down. The teacher was the only one who got the jokes.
October 10 2007 at 23:17:15 Name: Webmaster Topic: Rick Alan West Comments:
Here is a longer article about
Rick
Alan West in the Tulsa World today. I met him when we were on the Tulsa
Radio Icons committee in 2005, and he was a very nice guy.
October 10 2007 at 21:47:49 Name: Jim Reid Topic: Kennedy Comedian Comments: His name was Vaughn Meader.
October 10 2007 at 21:36:34 Name: Lloyd W.Chisholm Topic: Comedian impersonator, did John Kennedy
(Vann Meter) Email: lloydchisholm@cox.net Comments: Wow, now I'm going way back ...can anyone remember
a funny comedy album that was called "The First Family"? It was performed
by an impersonator whom I believe was named "Vann Meter" (or Van Meator).
He was a right-on dead-ringer take-off of the late Great John F. Kennedy
and my wife and I are trying to find out how many albums he may have made
and whether any of them are still available out there.
I remember hearing the different cuts on KAKC Radio and on KELI 1430 AM but
right after the assassination, I understand that Mr. Meter decided to stand
down and stop any and all future recordings of our beloved President and
after 1963, I can't remember any thing about this very funny and very gifted
comedian and impersonator. Anyone who can help, just let me know on my e-mail
address. Thanks a lot. Lloyd
October 10 2007 at 09:01:55 Name: Dick Loftin Topic: Rick Alan West Comments: I've been in Canada and just learned about
Rick's passing.
What a pro, what a gentleman, and a Tulsa Radio Legend. I worked with him
in the 80s at KRAV and have the highest respect for him as a broadcaster
I could truly look up to.
I honestly thought he would be one of the last guys standing in Tulsa radio.
It is truly sad to learn of his passing. Prayers to all of his friends and
family.
October 09 2007 at 17:50:12 Name: Scott Linder Topic: Ike's Chili
Comments: Gary, on several occasions I have tried to duplicate
or come close to the Ike's Chili recipe, with no success. It's a light-bodied
low-spice chili with very pleasant flavors that are difficult to identify.
It eats well alone with saltines, yet stands-up well to pasta in the popular
"three-way".
I think the mild character of the chili may merely be a basic component of
the larger dining experience at Ike's. I'm not sure that the taste is the
same when consumed elsewhere. There's something about the sparse furnishings,
the aromas that greet you when you enter, mysterious cooks in the kitchen,
the waxed-paper "tubes" of saltines and the variety of seasonings on the
Formica tables that make it special: the hot sauce, cayenne, black pepper
and that large shaker of chili powder... all those things that allow us to
make the chili very special to each of us. Gee, I remember when you ordered
a Coke in the bottle...
Maybe I'll try to replicate the chili again... but it will never taste the
same if I'm not at the parlor.
October 09 2007 at 10:52:29 Name: Webmaster Topic: Rick Alan West
Comments:
I'm sad to report that veteran radio man Rick Alan West (Alan Caperton)
passed away yesterday.
Tulsa World
notice
October 08 2007 at 23:26:08 Name: Jim Reid Topic: Ike's Chili Comments: I get back to Tulsa once or twice a year. Every
time I do, I drop by and pick up three or four pints of chili at Ike's and
freeze it for the trip back to Dallas.
October 08 2007 at 17:44:12 Name: Gary Topic: Ike's Chili Comments: I have been away from Tulsa for more than 30
yrs... Two of my favorite memories of Tulsa are Cain's Ballroom and Ike's
Chili. Does anyone have a copycat recipe for Ike's Chili? Thanks...Gary
October 08 2007 at 07:22:07 Name: Kenny Bolen Topic: Uncle Willy's Wheat Do-nuts! Email: kwerks@comcast.net Comments: For Mom:
I may not have the name correct, but as kid, we use to get these wheat donuts
that were out of this world. I grew up in the West Tulsa area in the 40s
and 50s and wonder if anyone would have some information about the establishment.
Better yet, maybe a recipe???
October 07 2007 at 15:03:37 Name: Jack D. Topic: Sgt. Spybuck
Comments: I just stumbled onto this site and can't stop reading!
I remember back in 1971 when Sgt. Spybuck was killed in a shootout with Truman
Trowbridge. It was a huge story at the time. Trowbridge received a life sentence
and eighteen years later was killed in prison by another inmate. Does anyone
know who was charged with killing Trowbridge?
I hate to speak ill of the dead, but you know...what goes around, eventually
comes around.
October 06 2007 at 11:58:34 Name: Lurker for Years Topic: Radio
Comments: John "Records" Landecker does afternoons on WZZN Classic
Hits and Oldies 94.7 in Chicago. Thanks for reminding me about 740 in Toronto.
Now that winter and long nights are coming I can listen to it again.
October 06 2007 at 07:15:23 Name: Webmaster Topic: The Bobo Comments:
October 05 2007 at 18:44:38 Name: John Hillis Topic: SuperCFL Comments: WCFL (the voice of Labor, SuperCFL, the big
1000) is still a powerhouse AM--not with those call letters--owned by Disney,
not the unions anymore, coming in clearly at nights here in Kornfield Kounty.
Not that its ESPN programming is much to listen to.
There was a time when ABC's WLS killer nighttime signal showed up in something
like 40 different Arbitron markets at night--including being something like
#2 or 3 in Atlanta. Johh "Records is truly my middle name" Landecker is the
DJ I recall.
There was a small boomlet a few years ago where a few blowtorch AM's tried
going back to the 50's and 60's (reverb, heritage jocks). Alas, the audience
had moved on, and AM is largely a wasteland of syndicated yak, religious,
and foreign language programming. A few signals hold out in this end of the
country (740 in Toronto, which CBC gave up and is my current fave--dooming
it to ignoble death) but radio here (and in the rest of the world I've been
to of late) is an FM thing.
My book, which is in glorious black and white AM mono, will hopefully be
finished by the end of November and then comes the real fun, finding an agent,
publisher, etc. Somebody who's been through the process likens it to putting
the baby on display and inviting people to say how ugly it is. Yum!
October 05 2007 at 15:03:39 Name: Konig Topic: John Wayne TV Memorials and Oklahoma
Memories Footage of John Wayne in Tulsa Parade Email:
kasumii_kenshirou@yahoo.com Comments: Hello,
I am a big collector of John Wayne footage and I'm looking for any TV memorials
for John Wayne that aired on Tulsa TV in 1979 or the years after. TV Memorials
for the Duke are always in-depth with pictures, videos, and interviews like
a documentary instead of a few words like others may have.
I'm also looking for the Oklahoma Memories program that has John Wayne in
a Tulsa, OK Parade. If anyone can help me find any videos of John Wayne in
Tulsa, OK I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.
October 05 2007 at 07:50:54 Name: Erick Topic: Fair Email: ericktul@yahoo.com Comments: Actually, everything I have seen or heard indicate
that fair attendance is up, while vendor business is down.
October 05 2007 at 07:01:54 Name: Henry Fleming Topic: Super CFL Email: hflem 29 @ aol dot com Comments: Larry Lujack owned his slot on WCFL in Chicago and
he is in the Radio Hall of Fame for it. He did a lot of things that probably
had the executives pulling their hair out in the 70's. Seems like he was
one of the people that allowed humorous DJs and groups to become much more
important than the music they were playing.
October 04 2007 at 21:47:19 Name: Daniel Wright Topic: Tony's Nook and Cranny Bookstore Comments: Does anyone remember Tony's Nook and Cranny
Bookstore? We used to trade a lot of paperbacks there. It would have closed
around 1997 or so.
October 04 2007 at 21:12:39 Name: Mike Bruchas Topic: Found in a box tonight Comments: The Lienkes of Norman 45 rpm single - Genevieve
and I Won't Let Go.
Steve Ripley with Gus Hardin 45 - Who's to Say and Kaw-Liga
James Galway 45 - Shenandoah and The Wayward Wind
Santana one-sided 33 1/3 mini of Hold On (copyright 1982)
Congress of Wonders 45 - Radio Phil on one side and The Nudes - talks about
Nixon...as I recall got a lotta play on the Fantasy label.
Yipes! I can't play the 45s on anything.
(Later) Found a Parlophone Aussie EP that came from Honest John's. 45 rpm
sized, but cut for 33 1/3 with small hole. Norwegian Wood with Paperback
Writer, We Can Work it Out, Day Tripper also. Amazing that us in the US weren't
big EP fans.
October 04 2007 at 17:49:35 Name: Jeff H Topic: Tulsa State Fair Email: Where's Fall??? The leaves
will change around Christmas at this rate. Comments: Just finished watching the local newscast on Channel
6. There was a story that Fair gate passes and midway passes are down vs.
figures from last year. The midway passes were off 22% and officials think
the Bell's fiasco is to blame.
Film at 10 pm or 9 pm if you watch 12/19 or 23.
October 04 2007 at 13:31:54 Name: Mike Bruchas Topic: That "Doctor" Hillis...Radio call
letters
Comments: He are silly! When is yer tome gonna be done?
While sorting stuff, came across a book on old-time Chicago radio that I
forgot that I owned. Learned something about the WCFL antenna farm in my
home town. It had long been owned by the Chicago Federation of Labor (hint
W-CFL) As noted previously here, in the 60s and 70s, they were WLS' big rival.
In the 70s, ownership changed and they went Christian (long before Contemp
Christian music hit) and kind of dropped off the ratings radar.
The station has been sold again and became some low-power AM sports station,
maybe just repeating ESPN Ocho or something. But way, way back when, it was
WENR radio and famous for early day news coverage.
In all of my lifetime, had known it only as WCFL till it became WCFC (We're
Christ For Chicago).
October 03 2007 at 20:23:40 Name: Gardner
McKay Topic: Me
Comments: Dang, I was good looking!
Posthumous narcissism?
October 02 2007 at 19:28:10 Name: John Hillis Topic: Roy and Candy's Comments: Roy and Candy's gone?
Next thing you'll tell me is that 1170 ain't Big
Country...Oh.
Well, next thing you'll tell me is Wednesday isn't Chicken Fried Steak Day
at Nelson's Buffeteria....Oh.
I'm going to have to write an angry letter to the editor of the Tulsa
Tribune.....Oh.
That does it. I'm going to have to go right to the top on this. Get me Mayor
LaFortune!
Do you want Mayor Robert LaFortune, or his nephew, Mayor Bill?
October 02 2007 at 16:38:30 Name: Randal Topic: St. Michael's Alley
Comments: Visited Tulsa this weekend to enjoy the State Fair.
Parked where Bell's once stood. Depressed by the demise of the amusement
park that will be forever linked with my youth, I then decided to visit
St. Michael's. I hoped to have a drink and recall
better days. St. Michael's was CLOSED! The notice on the door referenced
non-payment of rent. Very sad indeed.
October 02 2007 at 11:49:09 Name: Mike Bruchas Topic: Darrell Barton/Bob Dicks
Comments: OK's great videographer Darrell Barton took a course
at the recent Missouri Photo Workshops in stills work. Yep stills. Here is
a link to a
story
on him at work. What a great guy!
Was going thru stuff and packing; any old-timers from 6 remember a Robert
or Bob Dicks? His name is on the address labels of those old, old NBC newsreels
sent to 6 that I have "in my collection". Previously mentioned here: a weekly
newsreel which local stations voiced over on weekends. Sadly the scripts
which were sent with did not survive with the shippers and prints in b &
w.
October 01 2007 at 22:41:20 Name: TG Topic: Coney I-lander Comments: The folks at Coney I-lander can seal a brown
paper bag like no one I know.
October 01 2007 at 19:03:21 Name: Mike Bruchas Topic: Ken Ragsdale
Comments: Ken is a marvel in OK, a print scribe, then TV reporter,
now a successful investments guy. He and Dr. Vince Orza at OCU are 2 of my
favorite folks to have worked with who both know News and Business.
October 01 2007 at 17:05:07 Name: roy lee Topic: Art on the Square Email: beerdrunk at cox.net Comments: This is just a shameless plug for my mom's booth
at this Saturday's "Art on the Square" show this Saturday at Utica Square.
We'll be in front of the Olive Garden from 10 am to 5 pm. There will be a
few other artists there as well (actually, 132 of them!) Come on down!!
October 01 2007 at 15:32:44 Name: Molly Lairamore, Listen Recordings (via email to webmaster) Topic: "Then Came Bronson", "The Great Escape",
"Bullitt", "CHiPs" stuntman Bud Ekins Email:
friends@michaelparks.com Comments: Hello, friends of Michael Parks,
Michael Parks told me yesterday that he was visiting Bud Ekins at Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center in L.A. Bud apparently is very ill and Michael asked me to
help him get the word out to all Bud's fans who might send him good wishes
or prayers or good thoughts/vibes, etc.
Here is a photo of Bud in action here on
TTM. We wish him a speedy recovery.
October 01 2007 at 14:47:07 Name: Ken Ragsdale Topic: Community Care Radio Theatre Email:
Ragsdaleandassoc@aol.com Comments: I would commend to you the "Community Care Radio
Theatre" hosted by Joe Riddle and airing 6 PM to 9 PM CDT Sunday evenings
on KRMG/740AM and on the website. It's old time
radio programs with commentary by Riddle.
Riddle also includes the commercials ("Have you triiiied Wheaties, the best
breakfast food in the land") and the original ID's ("You're listening to
the Red Network of the National Broadcasting Company.")
As an aside, KRMG continues to show up in the latest Oklahoma City radio
ratings, albeit at the bottom of the list. There was a time, when local
programming was unique to each station and market, KRMG's showing was more
robust.
October 01 2007 at 12:34:49 Name: Webmaster Topic: Roy & Candy's
Comments:
New article in Tulsa Today:
Farewell
to Roy & Candy's Music by Jim Downing. Also check out Jim's 4-part
series,
"Tulsa
Rocks", about the history of popular music in Tulsa.
September 30 2007 at 23:08:22 Name: Jim Reid Topic: Brush with Spiro Comments: I got Spiro Agnew's autograph when he was at
the Rep. Governor's Conference at the Camelot in '68. Also got Rockefeller,
Romney, and got my picture in the paper getting Reagan's autograph. I was
12 years old, and this was about a month after Bobby Kennedy was killed.
Me and my friend just walked in and camped near the elevator. Nobody even
asked us what we where doing.
September 28 2007 at 22:16:40 Name: Gary Chew Topic: Not Spiro, OK, but Agnew Email: Just SW of the Donner Party
Family Grill Comments:
Talking about Vice President Agnew on a recent post here reminds me of two
things I hope are far enough in the past to not rile anyone now. That's not
what's intended.
First: I made up a bumper sticker out the actual Nixon/Agnew sticker, then,
into Noxious/Agnew. I was just young and foolish then, because it was before
Watergate.
Second: I still have a copy of that great, but short publication titled,
"The Wit and Wisdom of Spiro T. Agnew.
There is nothing printed on its pages.
Delmo Doin' The Mozart Mash---It was a graveyard smash!
September 27 2007 at 18:32:38 Name: Mike Bruchas Topic: Me Comments: To Scott Thompson - sent ya an e-mail! Thanks
for askin'!
September 27 2007 at 16:15:17 Name: Scott Thompson Topic: Trying to reach Mike Bruchas Email:
scott.thompson@newson6.net Comments: Mike: Could you send me an email? I'd like to find
out about your work at National Geographic. Thanks very much!
September 26 2007 at 21:26:25 Name: Mike Bruchas Topic: Being "a scribe" Comments: Bro Hillis, are you still working for Loudoun
County on the side? At least you folks are empty-nesters!
My former co-worker Stuart Clark is working on his second sci-fi novel while
being Mr. Mom and doing work for the Nat Geo "by wire" from NYC. So you scribes
are all "home-based bidnesses" I guess!
My last day at the Nat Geo in DC is 9/28 and I am movin' back to the family
homestead in IL in October. In fine WLS/WGN/WBBM country! Who knows, Harry
Volkman may reappear on the airways there from time to time.
September 26 2007 at 21:15:06 Name: David Batterson Topic: "...beat on, boats against the
current" Email:
davidbat[at]yahoo[dot]com Comments: Or to put it a different way (all together now):
"Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream."
September 26 2007 at 20:50:05 Name: John Hillis Topic: Books 'n' Bruchas
Comments: The book may well be a color-outside-the-lines. Or you
may use a 1st grade big fist-sized pencil to fill it in.
Actually, I'm finding myself enjoying the process of writing when I get myself
chained to the keyboard. Having a universe of one's own making is fun, even
when a character decides to run off in a different direction than the outline
prescribes. A couple of mine have.
I don't know if any of this will ever find its way to Steve's Sundries, but
it's fun to think that it might.
September 25 2007 at 22:54:14 Name: F. Scott John Well-Donne Topic: For Whom the Bell Tolls Email: Where the dark fields of
the republic roll on under the night dot com Comments: A few days ago, the latest edition of "Yellowbook"
materialized at the foot of the driveway. This evening, prior to tossing
the previous edition, I searched for useful unexpired coupons.
And there it was: "Buy 1, Get 2 Free. Any Pay-One-Price Ride Pass. Coupon
not valid on the 4th of July or during the Tulsa State Fair. Expires October
2007."
Bell's Amusement Park.
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the
past."
September 25 2007 at 15:29:24 Name: Mike Bruchas Topic: Bro Hillis/Kenneth Miller Comments: Your forthcoming book: will we be able to color
in it?
Remember the old Spiro Agnew Vice Presidential Library joke? It had 2 books
but he had colored in only 1.
Cleaning out my apartment for my move back to Chicago this week. I have way
too much junk, like a saved Washington Post section on the opening of Newschannel
8 when John Hillis was but a young'un!
-----
Mr. Miller was the father of Chris Miller; he passed the other day. I never
knew til I read his obit that he was a Bataan Death March survivor.
His son, Chris, who many many years ago worked at ORU in TV production, ran
a TV remote production truck in Tulsa and has been Tom Roberts' business
partner in TV systems integration and now trade association work for as long
as I can remember.
September 24 2007 at 22:42:17 Name: Webmaster Topic: Previous GroupBlog summary
Comments:
Archived GroupBlog 252, where we just heard
tales of "Jeopardy!" from John Hillis and me...
Ken Broo