(2757,1,'2010-10-08 09:36:43','2010-10-08 14:36:43','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2749\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/36352_104692399581826_100001231986457_26082_3212632_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2749\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/36352_104692399581826_100001231986457_26082_3212632_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/what-to-do-in-tulsa-this-weekend-8/\">Real, live luchadors will take control of downtown Tulsa this weekend at Luchapalooza</a>, pretty much the most exciting smack-down event of the entire freaking century.\r\n\r\nStarting on Saturday at 5pm, Luchapalooza goers can get choke holds, DDTs, elbow drops, clotheslines and so, so much more on Boston Avenue between Fifth and Sixth Streets. The event packs a dozen fights in all, including title matches and the awarding of big, beautiful, shiny championship belts.\r\n\r\nBoston will be closed to make room for the ring and tons of entertainment, including plenty for the kiddos to do between 5-8pm. Fights continue until midnight.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://elotetulsa.com/news-events\">Get the line-up of matches here</a>, and you can get to know the contenders <a href=\"http://elotetulsa.com/luchadores/getting-to-know-your-luchadors\">here</a>.\r\n\r\nIn anticipation of this mega-event, I snagged one of my very favorite of Tulsa\'s luchadors for a little Q&amp;A. What follows is my exchange with none other than Killa Whatt, <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001231986457\">who will shed his domestic routines and antics</a> to put the smack down on downtown and the luchador El Tluacuache Saturday night.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more-->\r\n[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"></p>\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2749\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/36352_104692399581826_100001231986457_26082_3212632_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2749\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/36352_104692399581826_100001231986457_26082_3212632_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Were you born in a luchador mask, cape and studly stretchy pants, or did some tragic and catastrophic life event propel you into your life as a luchador?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> I was born from a great storm in Ampere, a small village under the rule of a wicked baron. For years, the baron had trampled the people of Ampere under his boot of oppression. One night a powerful thunderstorm rolled through the land. A flash enveloped the sky and a spear of lightning so brilliant that it could only have been hurled straight from the hand of God struck the pole of a tent, throwing everyone inside to the ground. The bolt swam through the air at ferocious speed, darting from guard to guard until it had reduced their rifles to so much slag.\r\n\r\nA second bolt of lightning landed at the foot of the baron, knocking him on his prodigious buttocks. A ball of crackling energy emerged from the stricken floor, slowly taking the form of an almost too-perfect man. A scream of justice erupting from his lips, the storm-born hero called down the fury of the tempest, and immediately a wave of electricity charged through the clouds, tearing through the wretched ruler until only a charred mass of burning flesh remained.\r\n\r\nThe people, eager to know their savior, scrambled toward him to glimpse his face. But the hero, knowing that the sheer power of purity and justice emitting from his naked visage would blind the poor townspeople, quickly grabbed a nearby banner and wrapped it around his head in the form of a mask, its tail forming a cape, whipping in the wind behind him. As the villagers reached out to kiss the hands and grasp the cape of their liberator, he called out \"Justice has been served! You are free!\" Then he vanished in a flash of light and static, and the people heard the name Killa-Whatt echoing on the whispering wind.\r\n\r\nThe studly stretchy pants came later.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2747\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/26674_104072889643777_100001231986457_21923_2411562_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2747\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/26674_104072889643777_100001231986457_21923_2411562_n-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a> <em>Killa-Whatt keeps a tight lawn.</em></p>\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> What\'s your winning/signature move?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> The Shocker. Being 100% pure electricity, I’m able to jolt my opponents at will.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2748\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/28445_104387582945641_100001231986457_24045_1230786_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2748\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/28445_104387582945641_100001231986457_24045_1230786_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a><em>Even Killa-Whatt gots to take out the trash.</em></p>\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> What is your favorite food at Elote?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> Fish Tacos.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2752\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/30466_105883572796042_100001231986457_35162_3339370_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2752\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/30466_105883572796042_100001231986457_35162_3339370_n-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> The pint-sized one who appears in some of the photos/videos on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001231986457\">your Facebook page</a> - is he your sidekick, or is he a luchador in training?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> Gigga-Whatt is still in training, which is why he remains mask-less. However, I named him Gigga-Whatt because I know that one day he will become so powerful that he will surpass Killa-Whatt.\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Boxers or briefs?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> Boxers\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2746\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/37305_103779079673158_100001231986457_19785_584925_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2746\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/37305_103779079673158_100001231986457_19785_584925_n-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a><em>Checking Facebook</em></p>\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Who is your luchador inspiration?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> The Opossum. For a rodent, he has mastered a great many fighting styles. Which is why it will be bitter sweet when I destroy him Saturday at Luchapalooza.\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Describe your luchador training. Any tips or tricks?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> I regularly shadow-box electrical panels and suck on jumper cables. Plus Gigga-Whatt keeps me on a tight training schedule.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2753\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/13460_106209089430157_100001231986457_38359_6858475_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2753\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/13460_106209089430157_100001231986457_38359_6858475_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> How does one choose a luchador name? Any special meaning behind your luchador moniker?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> The Omega symbol that I wear symbolizes everything encompassed - all electrical calculations. By day I dawn the guise of an average electrician.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2745\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/33446_131532686897797_100001231986457_172592_5939610_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2745\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/33446_131532686897797_100001231986457_172592_5939610_n-500x666.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" /></a><em>Taking time to deliver the goods, especially to the men and women who serve our country. No thanks for me...you\'re the real heroes.</em></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>TDT:</strong> If you could be any kind of animal, what kind of animal would you be?</p>\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> An electric eel, of course.\r\n\r\n<em>All photos courtesy of Killa Whatt. While feisty, he is also generous.</em>','Interview with a Luchador','In anticipation of this mega-event, I snagged one of my very favorite of Tulsa\'s luchadors for a little Q&A.','inherit','open','open','','2461-revision-3','','','2010-10-08 09:36:43','2010-10-08 14:36:43','',2461,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/2461-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(2758,1,'2010-10-08 09:37:52','2010-10-08 14:37:52','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2749\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/36352_104692399581826_100001231986457_26082_3212632_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2749\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/36352_104692399581826_100001231986457_26082_3212632_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/what-to-do-in-tulsa-this-weekend-8/\">Real, live luchadors will take control of downtown Tulsa this weekend at Luchapalooza</a>, pretty much the most exciting smack-down event of the entire freaking century.\r\n\r\nStarting on Saturday at 5pm, Luchapalooza goers can get choke holds, DDTs, elbow drops, clotheslines and so, so much more on Boston Avenue between Fifth and Sixth Streets. The event packs a dozen fights in all, including title matches and the awarding of big, beautiful, shiny championship belts.\r\n\r\nBoston will be closed to make room for the ring and tons of entertainment, including plenty for the kiddos to do between 5-8pm. Fights continue until midnight.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://elotetulsa.com/news-events\">Get the line-up of matches here</a>, and you can get to know the contenders <a href=\"http://elotetulsa.com/luchadores/getting-to-know-your-luchadors\">here</a>.\r\n\r\nIn anticipation of this mega-event, I snagged one of my very favorite of Tulsa\'s luchadors for a little Q&amp;A. What follows is my exchange with none other than Killa Whatt, <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001231986457\">who will shed his domestic routines and antics</a> to put the smack down on downtown and the luchador El Tluacuache Saturday night.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more-->\r\n[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"></p>\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2749\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/36352_104692399581826_100001231986457_26082_3212632_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2749\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/36352_104692399581826_100001231986457_26082_3212632_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Were you born in a luchador mask, cape and studly stretchy pants, or did some tragic and catastrophic life event propel you into your life as a luchador?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> I was born from a great storm in Ampere, a small village under the rule of a wicked baron. For years, the baron had trampled the people of Ampere under his boot of oppression. One night a powerful thunderstorm rolled through the land. A flash enveloped the sky and a spear of lightning so brilliant that it could only have been hurled straight from the hand of God struck the pole of a tent, throwing everyone inside to the ground. The bolt swam through the air at ferocious speed, darting from guard to guard until it had reduced their rifles to so much slag.\r\n\r\nA second bolt of lightning landed at the foot of the baron, knocking him on his prodigious buttocks. A ball of crackling energy emerged from the stricken floor, slowly taking the form of an almost too-perfect man. A scream of justice erupting from his lips, the storm-born hero called down the fury of the tempest, and immediately a wave of electricity charged through the clouds, tearing through the wretched ruler until only a charred mass of burning flesh remained.\r\n\r\nThe people, eager to know their savior, scrambled toward him to glimpse his face. But the hero, knowing that the sheer power of purity and justice emitting from his naked visage would blind the poor townspeople, quickly grabbed a nearby banner and wrapped it around his head in the form of a mask, its tail forming a cape, whipping in the wind behind him. As the villagers reached out to kiss the hands and grasp the cape of their liberator, he called out \"Justice has been served! You are free!\" Then he vanished in a flash of light and static, and the people heard the name Killa-Whatt echoing on the whispering wind.\r\n\r\nThe studly stretchy pants came later.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2747\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/26674_104072889643777_100001231986457_21923_2411562_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2747\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/26674_104072889643777_100001231986457_21923_2411562_n-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a> <em>Killa-Whatt keeps a tight lawn.</em></p>\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> What\'s your winning/signature move?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> The Shocker. Being 100% pure electricity, I’m able to jolt my opponents at will.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2748\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/28445_104387582945641_100001231986457_24045_1230786_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2748\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/28445_104387582945641_100001231986457_24045_1230786_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a><em>Even Killa-Whatt gots to take out the trash.</em></p>\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> What is your favorite food at Elote?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> Fish Tacos.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2752\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/30466_105883572796042_100001231986457_35162_3339370_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2752\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/30466_105883572796042_100001231986457_35162_3339370_n-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> The pint-sized one who appears in some of the photos/videos on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001231986457\">your Facebook page</a> - is he your sidekick, or is he a luchador in training?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> Gigga-Whatt is still in training, which is why he remains mask-less. However, I named him Gigga-Whatt because I know that one day he will become so powerful that he will surpass Killa-Whatt.\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Boxers or briefs?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> Boxers\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2746\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/37305_103779079673158_100001231986457_19785_584925_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2746\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/37305_103779079673158_100001231986457_19785_584925_n-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a><em>Checking Facebook</em></p>\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Who is your luchador inspiration?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> The Opossum. For a rodent, he has mastered a great many fighting styles. Which is why it will be bitter sweet when I destroy him Saturday at Luchapalooza.\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Describe your luchador training. Any tips or tricks?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> I regularly shadow-box electrical panels and suck on jumper cables. Plus Gigga-Whatt keeps me on a tight training schedule.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2753\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/13460_106209089430157_100001231986457_38359_6858475_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2753\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/13460_106209089430157_100001231986457_38359_6858475_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> How does one choose a luchador name? Any special meaning behind your luchador moniker?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> The Omega symbol that I wear symbolizes everything encompassed - all electrical calculations. By day I dawn the guise of an average electrician.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2745\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/33446_131532686897797_100001231986457_172592_5939610_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2745\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/33446_131532686897797_100001231986457_172592_5939610_n-500x666.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" /></a><em>Taking time to deliver the goods, especially to the men and women who serve our country. No thanks for me...you\'re the real heroes.</em></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>TDT:</strong> If you could be any kind of animal, what kind of animal would you be?</p>\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> An electric eel, of course.\r\n\r\n<em>All photos courtesy of Killa Whatt. While feisty, he is also generous.</em>','Interview with a Luchador','In anticipation of this mega-event, I snagged one of my very favorite of Tulsa\'s luchadors for a little Q&A.','inherit','open','open','','2461-revision-4','','','2010-10-08 09:37:52','2010-10-08 14:37:52','',2461,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/2461-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(2762,1,'2010-10-08 09:40:24','2010-10-08 14:40:24','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2749\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/36352_104692399581826_100001231986457_26082_3212632_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2749\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/36352_104692399581826_100001231986457_26082_3212632_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/what-to-do-in-tulsa-this-weekend-8/\">Real, live luchadors will take control of downtown Tulsa this weekend at Luchapalooza</a>, which is pretty much the most exciting smack-down event of the entire freaking century.\r\n\r\nStarting on Saturday at 5pm, Luchapalooza goers can get choke holds, DDTs, elbow drops, clotheslines and so, so much more on Boston Avenue between Fifth and Sixth Streets. The event packs a dozen fights in all, including title matches and the awarding of big, beautiful, shiny championship belts.\r\n\r\nBoston will be closed to make room for the ring and tons of entertainment, including plenty for the kiddos to do between 5-8pm. Fights continue until midnight.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://elotetulsa.com/news-events\">Get the line-up of matches here</a>, and you can get to know the contenders <a href=\"http://elotetulsa.com/luchadores/getting-to-know-your-luchadors\">here</a>.\r\n\r\nIn anticipation of this mega-event, I snagged one of my very favorite of Tulsa\'s luchadors for a little Q&amp;A. What follows is my exchange with none other than Killa Whatt, <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001231986457\">who will shed his domestic routines and antics</a> to put the smack down on downtown and the luchador El Tluacuache Saturday night.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more-->\r\n[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"></p>\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2749\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/36352_104692399581826_100001231986457_26082_3212632_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2749\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/36352_104692399581826_100001231986457_26082_3212632_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Were you born in a luchador mask, cape and studly stretchy pants, or did some tragic and catastrophic life event propel you into your life as a luchador?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> I was born from a great storm in Ampere, a small village under the rule of a wicked baron. For years, the baron had trampled the people of Ampere under his boot of oppression. One night a powerful thunderstorm rolled through the land. A flash enveloped the sky and a spear of lightning so brilliant that it could only have been hurled straight from the hand of God struck the pole of a tent, throwing everyone inside to the ground. The bolt swam through the air at ferocious speed, darting from guard to guard until it had reduced their rifles to so much slag.\r\n\r\nA second bolt of lightning landed at the foot of the baron, knocking him on his prodigious buttocks. A ball of crackling energy emerged from the stricken floor, slowly taking the form of an almost too-perfect man. A scream of justice erupting from his lips, the storm-born hero called down the fury of the tempest, and immediately a wave of electricity charged through the clouds, tearing through the wretched ruler until only a charred mass of burning flesh remained.\r\n\r\nThe people, eager to know their savior, scrambled toward him to glimpse his face. But the hero, knowing that the sheer power of purity and justice emitting from his naked visage would blind the poor townspeople, quickly grabbed a nearby banner and wrapped it around his head in the form of a mask, its tail forming a cape, whipping in the wind behind him. As the villagers reached out to kiss the hands and grasp the cape of their liberator, he called out \"Justice has been served! You are free!\" Then he vanished in a flash of light and static, and the people heard the name Killa-Whatt echoing on the whispering wind.\r\n\r\nThe studly stretchy pants came later.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2747\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/26674_104072889643777_100001231986457_21923_2411562_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2747\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/26674_104072889643777_100001231986457_21923_2411562_n-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></p>\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> What\'s your winning/signature move?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> The Shocker. Being 100% pure electricity, I’m able to jolt my opponents at will.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2748\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/28445_104387582945641_100001231986457_24045_1230786_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2748\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/28445_104387582945641_100001231986457_24045_1230786_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> What is your favorite food at Elote?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> Fish Tacos.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2752\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/30466_105883572796042_100001231986457_35162_3339370_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2752\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/30466_105883572796042_100001231986457_35162_3339370_n-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> The pint-sized one who appears in some of the photos/videos on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001231986457\">your Facebook page</a> - is he your sidekick, or is he a luchador in training?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> Gigga-Whatt is still in training, which is why he remains mask-less. However, I named him Gigga-Whatt because I know that one day he will become so powerful that he will surpass Killa-Whatt.\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Boxers or briefs?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> Boxers\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2746\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/37305_103779079673158_100001231986457_19785_584925_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2746\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/37305_103779079673158_100001231986457_19785_584925_n-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></p>\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Who is your luchador inspiration?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> The Opossum. For a rodent, he has mastered a great many fighting styles. Which is why it will be bitter sweet when I destroy him Saturday at Luchapalooza.\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Describe your luchador training. Any tips or tricks?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> I regularly shadow-box electrical panels and suck on jumper cables. Plus Gigga-Whatt keeps me on a tight training schedule.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2753\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/13460_106209089430157_100001231986457_38359_6858475_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2753\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/13460_106209089430157_100001231986457_38359_6858475_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> How does one choose a luchador name? Any special meaning behind your luchador moniker?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> The Omega symbol that I wear symbolizes everything encompassed - all electrical calculations. By day I dawn the guise of an average electrician.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2745\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/33446_131532686897797_100001231986457_172592_5939610_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2745\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/33446_131532686897797_100001231986457_172592_5939610_n-500x666.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>TDT:</strong> If you could be any kind of animal, what kind of animal would you be?</p>\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> An electric eel, of course.\r\n\r\n<em>All photos courtesy of Killa Whatt. While feisty, he is also generous.</em>','Interview with a Luchador','In anticipation of this mega-event, I snagged one of my very favorite of Tulsa\'s luchadors for a little Q&A.','inherit','open','open','','2461-revision-8','','','2010-10-08 09:40:24','2010-10-08 14:40:24','',2461,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/2461-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(2759,1,'2010-10-08 09:37:52','2010-10-08 14:37:52','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2749\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/36352_104692399581826_100001231986457_26082_3212632_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2749\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/36352_104692399581826_100001231986457_26082_3212632_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/what-to-do-in-tulsa-this-weekend-8/\">Real, live luchadors will take control of downtown Tulsa this weekend at Luchapalooza</a>, pretty much the most exciting smack-down event of the entire freaking century.\r\n\r\nStarting on Saturday at 5pm, Luchapalooza goers can get choke holds, DDTs, elbow drops, clotheslines and so, so much more on Boston Avenue between Fifth and Sixth Streets. The event packs a dozen fights in all, including title matches and the awarding of big, beautiful, shiny championship belts.\r\n\r\nBoston will be closed to make room for the ring and tons of entertainment, including plenty for the kiddos to do between 5-8pm. Fights continue until midnight.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://elotetulsa.com/news-events\">Get the line-up of matches here</a>, and you can get to know the contenders <a href=\"http://elotetulsa.com/luchadores/getting-to-know-your-luchadors\">here</a>.\r\n\r\nIn anticipation of this mega-event, I snagged one of my very favorite of Tulsa\'s luchadors for a little Q&amp;A. What follows is my exchange with none other than Killa Whatt, <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001231986457\">who will shed his domestic routines and antics</a> to put the smack down on downtown and the luchador El Tluacuache Saturday night.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more-->\r\n[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"></p>\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2749\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/36352_104692399581826_100001231986457_26082_3212632_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2749\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/36352_104692399581826_100001231986457_26082_3212632_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Were you born in a luchador mask, cape and studly stretchy pants, or did some tragic and catastrophic life event propel you into your life as a luchador?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> I was born from a great storm in Ampere, a small village under the rule of a wicked baron. For years, the baron had trampled the people of Ampere under his boot of oppression. One night a powerful thunderstorm rolled through the land. A flash enveloped the sky and a spear of lightning so brilliant that it could only have been hurled straight from the hand of God struck the pole of a tent, throwing everyone inside to the ground. The bolt swam through the air at ferocious speed, darting from guard to guard until it had reduced their rifles to so much slag.\r\n\r\nA second bolt of lightning landed at the foot of the baron, knocking him on his prodigious buttocks. A ball of crackling energy emerged from the stricken floor, slowly taking the form of an almost too-perfect man. A scream of justice erupting from his lips, the storm-born hero called down the fury of the tempest, and immediately a wave of electricity charged through the clouds, tearing through the wretched ruler until only a charred mass of burning flesh remained.\r\n\r\nThe people, eager to know their savior, scrambled toward him to glimpse his face. But the hero, knowing that the sheer power of purity and justice emitting from his naked visage would blind the poor townspeople, quickly grabbed a nearby banner and wrapped it around his head in the form of a mask, its tail forming a cape, whipping in the wind behind him. As the villagers reached out to kiss the hands and grasp the cape of their liberator, he called out \"Justice has been served! You are free!\" Then he vanished in a flash of light and static, and the people heard the name Killa-Whatt echoing on the whispering wind.\r\n\r\nThe studly stretchy pants came later.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2747\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/26674_104072889643777_100001231986457_21923_2411562_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2747\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/26674_104072889643777_100001231986457_21923_2411562_n-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a> <em>Killa-Whatt keeps a tight lawn.</em></p>\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> What\'s your winning/signature move?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> The Shocker. Being 100% pure electricity, I’m able to jolt my opponents at will.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2748\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/28445_104387582945641_100001231986457_24045_1230786_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2748\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/28445_104387582945641_100001231986457_24045_1230786_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a><em>Even Killa-Whatt gots to take out the trash.</em></p>\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> What is your favorite food at Elote?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> Fish Tacos.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2752\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/30466_105883572796042_100001231986457_35162_3339370_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2752\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/30466_105883572796042_100001231986457_35162_3339370_n-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> The pint-sized one who appears in some of the photos/videos on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001231986457\">your Facebook page</a> - is he your sidekick, or is he a luchador in training?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> Gigga-Whatt is still in training, which is why he remains mask-less. However, I named him Gigga-Whatt because I know that one day he will become so powerful that he will surpass Killa-Whatt.\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Boxers or briefs?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> Boxers\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2746\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/37305_103779079673158_100001231986457_19785_584925_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2746\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/37305_103779079673158_100001231986457_19785_584925_n-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a><em>Checking Facebook</em></p>\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Who is your luchador inspiration?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> The Opossum. For a rodent, he has mastered a great many fighting styles. Which is why it will be bitter sweet when I destroy him Saturday at Luchapalooza.\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Describe your luchador training. Any tips or tricks?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> I regularly shadow-box electrical panels and suck on jumper cables. Plus Gigga-Whatt keeps me on a tight training schedule.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2753\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/13460_106209089430157_100001231986457_38359_6858475_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2753\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/13460_106209089430157_100001231986457_38359_6858475_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> How does one choose a luchador name? Any special meaning behind your luchador moniker?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> The Omega symbol that I wear symbolizes everything encompassed - all electrical calculations. By day I dawn the guise of an average electrician.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2745\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/33446_131532686897797_100001231986457_172592_5939610_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2745\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/33446_131532686897797_100001231986457_172592_5939610_n-500x666.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" /></a><em>Taking time to deliver the goods, especially to the men and women who serve our country. No thanks for me...you\'re the real heroes.</em></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>TDT:</strong> If you could be any kind of animal, what kind of animal would you be?</p>\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> An electric eel, of course.\r\n\r\n<em>All photos courtesy of Killa Whatt. While feisty, he is also generous.</em>','Interview with a Luchador','In anticipation of this mega-event, I snagged one of my very favorite of Tulsa\'s luchadors for a little Q&A.','inherit','open','open','','2461-revision-5','','','2010-10-08 09:37:52','2010-10-08 14:37:52','',2461,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/2461-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(2760,1,'2010-10-08 09:39:02','2010-10-08 14:39:02','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2749\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/36352_104692399581826_100001231986457_26082_3212632_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2749\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/36352_104692399581826_100001231986457_26082_3212632_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/what-to-do-in-tulsa-this-weekend-8/\">Real, live luchadors will take control of downtown Tulsa this weekend at Luchapalooza</a>, which is pretty much the most exciting smack-down event of the entire freaking century.\r\n\r\nStarting on Saturday at 5pm, Luchapalooza goers can get choke holds, DDTs, elbow drops, clotheslines and so, so much more on Boston Avenue between Fifth and Sixth Streets. The event packs a dozen fights in all, including title matches and the awarding of big, beautiful, shiny championship belts.\r\n\r\nBoston will be closed to make room for the ring and tons of entertainment, including plenty for the kiddos to do between 5-8pm. Fights continue until midnight.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://elotetulsa.com/news-events\">Get the line-up of matches here</a>, and you can get to know the contenders <a href=\"http://elotetulsa.com/luchadores/getting-to-know-your-luchadors\">here</a>.\r\n\r\nIn anticipation of this mega-event, I snagged one of my very favorite of Tulsa\'s luchadors for a little Q&amp;A. What follows is my exchange with none other than Killa Whatt, <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001231986457\">who will shed his domestic routines and antics</a> to put the smack down on downtown and the luchador El Tluacuache Saturday night.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more-->\r\n[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"></p>\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2749\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/36352_104692399581826_100001231986457_26082_3212632_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2749\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/36352_104692399581826_100001231986457_26082_3212632_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Were you born in a luchador mask, cape and studly stretchy pants, or did some tragic and catastrophic life event propel you into your life as a luchador?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> I was born from a great storm in Ampere, a small village under the rule of a wicked baron. For years, the baron had trampled the people of Ampere under his boot of oppression. One night a powerful thunderstorm rolled through the land. A flash enveloped the sky and a spear of lightning so brilliant that it could only have been hurled straight from the hand of God struck the pole of a tent, throwing everyone inside to the ground. The bolt swam through the air at ferocious speed, darting from guard to guard until it had reduced their rifles to so much slag.\r\n\r\nA second bolt of lightning landed at the foot of the baron, knocking him on his prodigious buttocks. A ball of crackling energy emerged from the stricken floor, slowly taking the form of an almost too-perfect man. A scream of justice erupting from his lips, the storm-born hero called down the fury of the tempest, and immediately a wave of electricity charged through the clouds, tearing through the wretched ruler until only a charred mass of burning flesh remained.\r\n\r\nThe people, eager to know their savior, scrambled toward him to glimpse his face. But the hero, knowing that the sheer power of purity and justice emitting from his naked visage would blind the poor townspeople, quickly grabbed a nearby banner and wrapped it around his head in the form of a mask, its tail forming a cape, whipping in the wind behind him. As the villagers reached out to kiss the hands and grasp the cape of their liberator, he called out \"Justice has been served! You are free!\" Then he vanished in a flash of light and static, and the people heard the name Killa-Whatt echoing on the whispering wind.\r\n\r\nThe studly stretchy pants came later.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2747\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/26674_104072889643777_100001231986457_21923_2411562_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2747\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/26674_104072889643777_100001231986457_21923_2411562_n-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a> <em>Killa-Whatt keeps a tight lawn.</em></p>\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> What\'s your winning/signature move?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> The Shocker. Being 100% pure electricity, I’m able to jolt my opponents at will.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2748\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/28445_104387582945641_100001231986457_24045_1230786_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2748\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/28445_104387582945641_100001231986457_24045_1230786_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a><em>Even Killa-Whatt gots to take out the trash.</em></p>\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> What is your favorite food at Elote?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> Fish Tacos.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2752\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/30466_105883572796042_100001231986457_35162_3339370_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2752\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/30466_105883572796042_100001231986457_35162_3339370_n-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> The pint-sized one who appears in some of the photos/videos on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001231986457\">your Facebook page</a> - is he your sidekick, or is he a luchador in training?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> Gigga-Whatt is still in training, which is why he remains mask-less. However, I named him Gigga-Whatt because I know that one day he will become so powerful that he will surpass Killa-Whatt.\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Boxers or briefs?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> Boxers\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2746\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/37305_103779079673158_100001231986457_19785_584925_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2746\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/37305_103779079673158_100001231986457_19785_584925_n-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a><em>Checking Facebook</em></p>\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Who is your luchador inspiration?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> The Opossum. For a rodent, he has mastered a great many fighting styles. Which is why it will be bitter sweet when I destroy him Saturday at Luchapalooza.\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Describe your luchador training. Any tips or tricks?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> I regularly shadow-box electrical panels and suck on jumper cables. Plus Gigga-Whatt keeps me on a tight training schedule.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2753\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/13460_106209089430157_100001231986457_38359_6858475_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2753\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/13460_106209089430157_100001231986457_38359_6858475_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> How does one choose a luchador name? Any special meaning behind your luchador moniker?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> The Omega symbol that I wear symbolizes everything encompassed - all electrical calculations. By day I dawn the guise of an average electrician.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2745\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/33446_131532686897797_100001231986457_172592_5939610_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2745\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/33446_131532686897797_100001231986457_172592_5939610_n-500x666.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" /></a><em>Taking time to deliver the goods, especially to the men and women who serve our country. No thanks for me...you\'re the real heroes.</em></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>TDT:</strong> If you could be any kind of animal, what kind of animal would you be?</p>\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> An electric eel, of course.\r\n\r\n<em>All photos courtesy of Killa Whatt. While feisty, he is also generous.</em>','Interview with a Luchador','In anticipation of this mega-event, I snagged one of my very favorite of Tulsa\'s luchadors for a little Q&A.','inherit','open','open','','2461-revision-6','','','2010-10-08 09:39:02','2010-10-08 14:39:02','',2461,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/2461-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(3624,1,'2010-11-11 12:05:01','2010-11-11 17:05:01','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3619\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/tulsa-veterans-day-freebies/dsc_1644-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3619\" title=\"Veterans Day Memorial Park Cemetery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Veterans Day Memorial Park Cemetery\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMy husband served in the Oklahoma Army National Guard for nine years. During that time he saw two overseas deployments and was part of some of the first troops on the ground after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. In fact, that\'s where he was for our first wedding anniversary, trying to help that city dig itself out from under one of the costliest and deadliest natural disasters in American history.\r\n\r\nLong story short: The man deserves some free food. So does the vet in your life. Here\'s where to find some in Tulsa.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<strong>Abuelo\'s Mexican Food</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 10909 East 71st Street\r\nService members and vets can buy one entree and two drinks and get second entree of equal or lesser value free.\r\n\r\n<strong>Applebee\'s Neighborhood Grill</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 4733 South Yale Avenue; 11104 East 41st Street; 9409 East 71st Street; 10461 South Memorial Drive\r\nAll vets and active duty military eat free from a limited menu today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Chili\'s</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 7212 South Olympia Avenue; 9009 East 71st Street\r\nVeterans and active duty dine for free from a special limited six item menu.\r\n\r\n<strong>Golden Corral</strong>\r\nWhere: 8144 East 21st Street; 9711 East 71st Street\r\nGolden Corral Restaurants’ Military Appreciation Monday free dinner will be available November 15 (NOT Veteran\'s Day), 5-9pm. Military retirees, veterans, active duty, National Guard and Reserves are all welcome.\r\n\r\n<strong>Hooters</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 8108 East 61st Street\r\nAll Veterans and active duty eat free. The free entrees must be selected from a special Vet er ans Day menu.\r\n\r\n<strong>Krispy Kreme</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 10128 East 71st Street\r\nAll active-duty, retirees and veterans get a free doughnut today. And yes, we verified that the Tulsa KK is participating - personally. Yum, yum.\r\n\r\n<strong>Outback Steakhouse</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 4723 South Yale Avenue; 9006 East 71st Street; 9710 Riverside Drive\r\nVeterans and active-duty military get a complimen­tary Bloomin’ Onion and non-alcoholic beverage today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Texas Roadhouse</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 11111 East 71st Street\r\nVets and service members get a free meal from opening until 4pm today.\r\n\r\n<strong>T.G.I. Friday’s</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 8221 East 61st Street; 7777 East Apache Street; 5359 East 41st Street\r\nVeterans and Service members can buy one get one free starting today and through the 14th.\r\n\r\n<strong>Arby\'s</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: There\'s lots - <a href=\"http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=arby\'s+tulsa,+OK&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8#q=arby%27s+tulsa,+OK&amp;hl=en&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;prmd=ivmc&amp;source=univ&amp;tbs=plcs:1&amp;tbo=u&amp;ei=9h_cTKrFFonQsAOXm7TlAw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=local_group&amp;ct=more-results&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CCoQtQMwAA&amp;fp=be246f9d44b1f219\">check here for a list/map</a>\r\nVets and service members get a free regular roast beef sandwich with military ID today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Lambrusco\'z</strong>\r\nWhere: 1344 East 41st Street\r\nVets and service members can enjoy a free dessert today. \r\n\r\nKnow of any others? Leave details in the comments.\r\n\r\n<em><a href=\"http://militaryadvantage.military.com/2010/11/veterans-day-discounts/\">Source: Military.com</a></em>','Veteran\'s Day Freebies in Tulsa','The vet/service member in your life deserves some free food. Where\'s where to find some in Tulsa.','inherit','open','open','','3618-revision-4','','','2010-11-11 12:05:01','2010-11-11 17:05:01','',3618,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3618-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(3627,1,'2010-11-11 12:08:43','2010-11-11 17:08:43','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3619\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/tulsa-veterans-day-freebies/dsc_1644-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3619\" title=\"Veterans Day Memorial Park Cemetery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Veterans Day Memorial Park Cemetery\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMy husband served in the Oklahoma Army National Guard for nine years. During that time he saw two overseas deployments and was part of some of the first troops on the ground after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. In fact, that\'s where he was for our first wedding anniversary, trying to help that city dig itself out from under one of the costliest and deadliest natural disasters in American history.\r\n\r\nLong story short: The man deserves some free food. So does the vet in your life. Here\'s where to find some in Tulsa.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<strong>Abuelo\'s Mexican Food</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 10909 East 71st Street\r\nService members and vets can buy one entree and two drinks and get second entree of equal or lesser value free.\r\n\r\n<strong>Applebee\'s Neighborhood Grill</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 4733 South Yale Avenue; 11104 East 41st Street; 9409 East 71st Street; 10461 South Memorial Drive\r\nAll vets and active duty military eat free from a limited menu today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Chili\'s</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 7212 South Olympia Avenue; 9009 East 71st Street\r\nVeterans and active duty dine for free from a special limited six item menu.\r\n\r\n<strong>Golden Corral</strong>\r\nWhere: 8144 East 21st Street; 9711 East 71st Street\r\nGolden Corral Restaurants’ Military Appreciation Monday free dinner will be available November 15 (NOT Veteran\'s Day), 5-9pm. Military retirees, veterans, active duty, National Guard and Reserves are all welcome.\r\n\r\n<strong>Hooters</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 8108 East 61st Street\r\nAll Veterans and active duty eat free. The free entrees must be selected from a special Vet er ans Day menu.\r\n\r\n<strong>Krispy Kreme</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 10128 East 71st Street\r\nAll active-duty, retirees and veterans get a free doughnut today. And yes, we verified that the Tulsa KK is participating - personally. Yum, yum.\r\n\r\n<strong>Outback Steakhouse</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 4723 South Yale Avenue; 9006 East 71st Street; 9710 Riverside Drive\r\nVeterans and active-duty military get a complimen­tary Bloomin’ Onion and non-alcoholic beverage today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Texas Roadhouse</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 11111 East 71st Street\r\nVets and service members get a free meal from opening until 4pm today.\r\n\r\n<strong>T.G.I. Friday’s</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 8221 East 61st Street; 7777 East Apache Street; 5359 East 41st Street\r\nVeterans and Service members can buy one get one free starting today and through the 14th.\r\n\r\n<strong>Arby\'s</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: There\'s lots - <a href=\"http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=arby\'s+tulsa,+OK&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8#q=arby%27s+tulsa,+OK&amp;hl=en&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;prmd=ivmc&amp;source=univ&amp;tbs=plcs:1&amp;tbo=u&amp;ei=9h_cTKrFFonQsAOXm7TlAw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=local_group&amp;ct=more-results&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CCoQtQMwAA&amp;fp=be246f9d44b1f219\">check here for a list/map</a>\r\nVets and service members get a free regular roast beef sandwich with military ID today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Lambrusco\'z</strong>\r\nWhere: 1344 East 41st Street\r\nVets and service members can enjoy a free dessert today. \r\n\r\n<strong>The Canebrake</strong>\r\nWhere: 33241 E. 732nd Road in Wagoner\r\nVets and service members eat free at The Canebrake any night this week or brunch on Sunday. \r\n\r\n\r\nKnow of any others? Leave details in the comments.\r\n\r\n<em><a href=\"http://militaryadvantage.military.com/2010/11/veterans-day-discounts/\">Source: Military.com</a></em>','Veteran\'s Day Freebies in Tulsa','The vet/service member in your life deserves some free food. Where\'s where to find some in Tulsa.','inherit','open','open','','3618-revision-7','','','2010-11-11 12:08:43','2010-11-11 17:08:43','',3618,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3618-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(3625,1,'2010-11-11 12:05:02','2010-11-11 17:05:02','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3619\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/tulsa-veterans-day-freebies/dsc_1644-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3619\" title=\"Veterans Day Memorial Park Cemetery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Veterans Day Memorial Park Cemetery\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMy husband served in the Oklahoma Army National Guard for nine years. During that time he saw two overseas deployments and was part of some of the first troops on the ground after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. In fact, that\'s where he was for our first wedding anniversary, trying to help that city dig itself out from under one of the costliest and deadliest natural disasters in American history.\r\n\r\nLong story short: The man deserves some free food. So does the vet in your life. Here\'s where to find some in Tulsa.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<strong>Abuelo\'s Mexican Food</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 10909 East 71st Street\r\nService members and vets can buy one entree and two drinks and get second entree of equal or lesser value free.\r\n\r\n<strong>Applebee\'s Neighborhood Grill</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 4733 South Yale Avenue; 11104 East 41st Street; 9409 East 71st Street; 10461 South Memorial Drive\r\nAll vets and active duty military eat free from a limited menu today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Chili\'s</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 7212 South Olympia Avenue; 9009 East 71st Street\r\nVeterans and active duty dine for free from a special limited six item menu.\r\n\r\n<strong>Golden Corral</strong>\r\nWhere: 8144 East 21st Street; 9711 East 71st Street\r\nGolden Corral Restaurants’ Military Appreciation Monday free dinner will be available November 15 (NOT Veteran\'s Day), 5-9pm. Military retirees, veterans, active duty, National Guard and Reserves are all welcome.\r\n\r\n<strong>Hooters</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 8108 East 61st Street\r\nAll Veterans and active duty eat free. The free entrees must be selected from a special Vet er ans Day menu.\r\n\r\n<strong>Krispy Kreme</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 10128 East 71st Street\r\nAll active-duty, retirees and veterans get a free doughnut today. And yes, we verified that the Tulsa KK is participating - personally. Yum, yum.\r\n\r\n<strong>Outback Steakhouse</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 4723 South Yale Avenue; 9006 East 71st Street; 9710 Riverside Drive\r\nVeterans and active-duty military get a complimen­tary Bloomin’ Onion and non-alcoholic beverage today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Texas Roadhouse</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 11111 East 71st Street\r\nVets and service members get a free meal from opening until 4pm today.\r\n\r\n<strong>T.G.I. Friday’s</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 8221 East 61st Street; 7777 East Apache Street; 5359 East 41st Street\r\nVeterans and Service members can buy one get one free starting today and through the 14th.\r\n\r\n<strong>Arby\'s</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: There\'s lots - <a href=\"http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=arby\'s+tulsa,+OK&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8#q=arby%27s+tulsa,+OK&amp;hl=en&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;prmd=ivmc&amp;source=univ&amp;tbs=plcs:1&amp;tbo=u&amp;ei=9h_cTKrFFonQsAOXm7TlAw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=local_group&amp;ct=more-results&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CCoQtQMwAA&amp;fp=be246f9d44b1f219\">check here for a list/map</a>\r\nVets and service members get a free regular roast beef sandwich with military ID today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Lambrusco\'z</strong>\r\nWhere: 1344 East 41st Street\r\nVets and service members can enjoy a free dessert today. \r\n\r\nKnow of any others? Leave details in the comments.\r\n\r\n<em><a href=\"http://militaryadvantage.military.com/2010/11/veterans-day-discounts/\">Source: Military.com</a></em>','Veteran\'s Day Freebies in Tulsa','The vet/service member in your life deserves some free food. Where\'s where to find some in Tulsa.','inherit','open','open','','3618-revision-5','','','2010-11-11 12:05:02','2010-11-11 17:05:02','',3618,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3618-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(2752,1,'2010-10-08 09:18:57','2010-10-08 14:18:57','','Killa Whatt','','inherit','open','open','','30466_105883572796042_100001231986457_35162_3339370_n','','','2010-10-08 09:18:57','2010-10-08 14:18:57','',2461,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/30466_105883572796042_100001231986457_35162_3339370_n.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(2753,1,'2010-10-08 09:32:53','2010-10-08 14:32:53','','Killa Whatt','','inherit','open','open','','13460_106209089430157_100001231986457_38359_6858475_n','','','2010-10-08 09:32:53','2010-10-08 14:32:53','',2461,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/13460_106209089430157_100001231986457_38359_6858475_n.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(2754,1,'2010-10-08 09:35:55','2010-10-08 14:35:55','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/what-to-do-in-tulsa-this-weekend-8/\">Real, live luchadors will take control of downtown Tulsa this weekend at Luchapalooza</a>, pretty much the smack-down event of the century.\n\nStarting on Saturday at 5pm, Luchapalooza goers can get choke holds, DDTs, elbow drops, clotheslines and so, so much more on Boston Avenue between Fifth and Sixth Streets. The event packs a dozen fights in all, including title matches and the awarding of big, beautiful, shiny championship belts.\n\nBoston will be closed to make room for the ring and tons of entertainment, including plenty for the kiddos to do between 5-8pm. Fights continue until midnight.\n\n<a href=\"http://elotetulsa.com/news-events\">Get the line-up of matches here</a>, and you can get to know the contenders <a href=\"http://elotetulsa.com/luchadores/getting-to-know-your-luchadors\">here</a>.\n\nIn anticipation of this mega-event, I snagged one of my very favorite of Tulsa\'s luchadors for a little Q&amp;A. What follows is my exchange with none other than Killa Whatt, <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001231986457\">who will shed his domestic routines and antics</a> to put the smack down on downtown and the luchador El Tluacuache Saturday night.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more-->\n[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"></p>\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2749\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2749\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2749\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/36352_104692399581826_100001231986457_26082_3212632_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Were you born in a luchador mask, cape and studly stretchy pants, or did some tragic and catastrophic life event propel you into your life as a luchador?\n\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> I was born from a great storm in Ampere, a small village under the rule of a wicked baron. For years, the baron had trampled the people of Ampere under his boot of oppression. One night a powerful thunderstorm rolled through the land. A flash enveloped the sky and a spear of lightning so brilliant that it could only have been hurled straight from the hand of God struck the pole of a tent, throwing everyone inside to the ground. The bolt swam through the air at ferocious speed, darting from guard to guard until it had reduced their rifles to so much slag.\n\nA second bolt of lightning landed at the foot of the baron, knocking him on his prodigious buttocks. A ball of crackling energy emerged from the stricken floor, slowly taking the form of an almost too-perfect man. A scream of justice erupting from his lips, the storm-born hero called down the fury of the tempest, and immediately a wave of electricity charged through the clouds, tearing through the wretched ruler until only a charred mass of burning flesh remained.\n\nThe people, eager to know their savior, scrambled toward him to glimpse his face. But the hero, knowing that the sheer power of purity and justice emitting from his naked visage would blind the poor townspeople, quickly grabbed a nearby banner and wrapped it around his head in the form of a mask, its tail forming a cape, whipping in the wind behind him. As the villagers reached out to kiss the hands and grasp the cape of their liberator, he called out \"Justice has been served! You are free!\" Then he vanished in a flash of light and static, and the people heard the name Killa-Whatt echoing on the whispering wind.\n\nThe studly stretchy pants came later.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2747\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2747\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2747\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/26674_104072889643777_100001231986457_21923_2411562_n-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a> <em>Killa-Whatt keeps a tight lawn.</em></p>\n<strong>TDT:</strong> What\'s your winning/signature move?\n\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> The Shocker. Being 100% pure electricity, I’m able to jolt my opponents at will.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2748\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2748\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2748\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/28445_104387582945641_100001231986457_24045_1230786_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a><em>Even Killa-Whatt gots to take out the trash.</em></p>\n<strong>TDT:</strong> What is your favorite food at Elote?\n\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> Fish Tacos.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2752\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2752\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2752\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/30466_105883572796042_100001231986457_35162_3339370_n-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\n\n<strong>TDT:</strong> The pint-sized one who appears in some of the photos/videos on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001231986457\">your Facebook page</a> - is he your sidekick, or is he a luchador in training?\n\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> Gigga-Whatt is still in training, which is why he remains mask-less. However, I named him Gigga-Whatt because I know that one day he will become so powerful that he will surpass Killa-Whatt.\n\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Boxers or briefs?\n\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> Boxers\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2746\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2746\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2746\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/37305_103779079673158_100001231986457_19785_584925_n-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a><em>Checking Facebook</em></p>\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Who is your luchador inspiration?\n\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> The Opossum. For a rodent, he has mastered a great many fighting styles. Which is why it will be bitter sweet when I destroy him Saturday at Luchapalooza.\n\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Describe your luchador training. Any tips or tricks?\n\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> I regularly shadow-box electrical panels and suck on jumper cables. Plus Gigga-Whatt keeps me on a tight training schedule.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2753\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2753\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2753\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/13460_106209089430157_100001231986457_38359_6858475_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\n<strong>TDT:</strong> How does one choose a luchador name? Any special meaning behind your luchador moniker?\n\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> The Omega symbol that I wear symbolizes everything encompassed - all electrical calculations. By day I dawn the guise of an average electrician.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2745\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2745\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2745\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/33446_131532686897797_100001231986457_172592_5939610_n-500x666.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" /></a><em>Taking time to deliver the goods, especially to the men and women who serve our country. No thanks for me...you\'re the real heroes.</em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>TDT:</strong> If you could be any kind of animal, what kind of animal would you be?</p>\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> An electric eel, of course.\n\n<em>All photos courtesy of Killa Whatt. While feisty, he is also generous.</em>','Interview with a Luchador','In anticipation of this mega-event, I snagged one of my very favorite of Tulsa\'s luchadors for a little Q&A.','inherit','open','open','','2461-revision','','','2010-10-08 09:35:55','2010-10-08 14:35:55','',2461,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/2461-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(2755,1,'2010-10-08 09:36:42','2010-10-08 14:36:42','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2749\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2749\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2749\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/36352_104692399581826_100001231986457_26082_3212632_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/what-to-do-in-tulsa-this-weekend-8/\">Real, live luchadors will take control of downtown Tulsa this weekend at Luchapalooza</a>, pretty much the most exciting smack-down event of the entire freaking century.\r\n\r\nStarting on Saturday at 5pm, Luchapalooza goers can get choke holds, DDTs, elbow drops, clotheslines and so, so much more on Boston Avenue between Fifth and Sixth Streets. The event packs a dozen fights in all, including title matches and the awarding of big, beautiful, shiny championship belts.\r\n\r\nBoston will be closed to make room for the ring and tons of entertainment, including plenty for the kiddos to do between 5-8pm. Fights continue until midnight.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://elotetulsa.com/news-events\">Get the line-up of matches here</a>, and you can get to know the contenders <a href=\"http://elotetulsa.com/luchadores/getting-to-know-your-luchadors\">here</a>.\r\n\r\nIn anticipation of this mega-event, I snagged one of my very favorite of Tulsa\'s luchadors for a little Q&amp;A. What follows is my exchange with none other than Killa Whatt, <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001231986457\">who will shed his domestic routines and antics</a> to put the smack down on downtown and the luchador El Tluacuache Saturday night.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more-->\r\n[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"></p>\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2749\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2749\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2749\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/36352_104692399581826_100001231986457_26082_3212632_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Were you born in a luchador mask, cape and studly stretchy pants, or did some tragic and catastrophic life event propel you into your life as a luchador?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> I was born from a great storm in Ampere, a small village under the rule of a wicked baron. For years, the baron had trampled the people of Ampere under his boot of oppression. One night a powerful thunderstorm rolled through the land. A flash enveloped the sky and a spear of lightning so brilliant that it could only have been hurled straight from the hand of God struck the pole of a tent, throwing everyone inside to the ground. The bolt swam through the air at ferocious speed, darting from guard to guard until it had reduced their rifles to so much slag.\r\n\r\nA second bolt of lightning landed at the foot of the baron, knocking him on his prodigious buttocks. A ball of crackling energy emerged from the stricken floor, slowly taking the form of an almost too-perfect man. A scream of justice erupting from his lips, the storm-born hero called down the fury of the tempest, and immediately a wave of electricity charged through the clouds, tearing through the wretched ruler until only a charred mass of burning flesh remained.\r\n\r\nThe people, eager to know their savior, scrambled toward him to glimpse his face. But the hero, knowing that the sheer power of purity and justice emitting from his naked visage would blind the poor townspeople, quickly grabbed a nearby banner and wrapped it around his head in the form of a mask, its tail forming a cape, whipping in the wind behind him. As the villagers reached out to kiss the hands and grasp the cape of their liberator, he called out \"Justice has been served! You are free!\" Then he vanished in a flash of light and static, and the people heard the name Killa-Whatt echoing on the whispering wind.\r\n\r\nThe studly stretchy pants came later.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2747\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2747\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2747\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/26674_104072889643777_100001231986457_21923_2411562_n-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a> <em>Killa-Whatt keeps a tight lawn.</em></p>\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> What\'s your winning/signature move?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> The Shocker. Being 100% pure electricity, I’m able to jolt my opponents at will.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2748\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2748\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2748\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/28445_104387582945641_100001231986457_24045_1230786_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a><em>Even Killa-Whatt gots to take out the trash.</em></p>\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> What is your favorite food at Elote?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> Fish Tacos.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2752\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2752\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2752\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/30466_105883572796042_100001231986457_35162_3339370_n-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> The pint-sized one who appears in some of the photos/videos on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001231986457\">your Facebook page</a> - is he your sidekick, or is he a luchador in training?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> Gigga-Whatt is still in training, which is why he remains mask-less. However, I named him Gigga-Whatt because I know that one day he will become so powerful that he will surpass Killa-Whatt.\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Boxers or briefs?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> Boxers\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2746\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2746\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2746\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/37305_103779079673158_100001231986457_19785_584925_n-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a><em>Checking Facebook</em></p>\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Who is your luchador inspiration?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> The Opossum. For a rodent, he has mastered a great many fighting styles. Which is why it will be bitter sweet when I destroy him Saturday at Luchapalooza.\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Describe your luchador training. Any tips or tricks?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> I regularly shadow-box electrical panels and suck on jumper cables. Plus Gigga-Whatt keeps me on a tight training schedule.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2753\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2753\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2753\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/13460_106209089430157_100001231986457_38359_6858475_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT:</strong> How does one choose a luchador name? Any special meaning behind your luchador moniker?\r\n\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> The Omega symbol that I wear symbolizes everything encompassed - all electrical calculations. By day I dawn the guise of an average electrician.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2745\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2745\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2745\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/33446_131532686897797_100001231986457_172592_5939610_n-500x666.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" /></a><em>Taking time to deliver the goods, especially to the men and women who serve our country. No thanks for me...you\'re the real heroes.</em></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>TDT:</strong> If you could be any kind of animal, what kind of animal would you be?</p>\r\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> An electric eel, of course.\r\n\r\n<em>All photos courtesy of Killa Whatt. While feisty, he is also generous.</em>','Interview with a Luchador','In anticipation of this mega-event, I snagged one of my very favorite of Tulsa\'s luchadors for a little Q&A.','inherit','open','open','','2461-revision-2','','','2010-10-08 09:36:42','2010-10-08 14:36:42','',2461,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/2461-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(2756,1,'2010-10-08 09:37:47','2010-10-08 14:37:47','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2749\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/36352_104692399581826_100001231986457_26082_3212632_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2749\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/36352_104692399581826_100001231986457_26082_3212632_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/what-to-do-in-tulsa-this-weekend-8/\">Real, live luchadors will take control of downtown Tulsa this weekend at Luchapalooza</a>, pretty much the most exciting smack-down event of the entire freaking century.\n\nStarting on Saturday at 5pm, Luchapalooza goers can get choke holds, DDTs, elbow drops, clotheslines and so, so much more on Boston Avenue between Fifth and Sixth Streets. The event packs a dozen fights in all, including title matches and the awarding of big, beautiful, shiny championship belts.\n\nBoston will be closed to make room for the ring and tons of entertainment, including plenty for the kiddos to do between 5-8pm. Fights continue until midnight.\n\n<a href=\"http://elotetulsa.com/news-events\">Get the line-up of matches here</a>, and you can get to know the contenders <a href=\"http://elotetulsa.com/luchadores/getting-to-know-your-luchadors\">here</a>.\n\nIn anticipation of this mega-event, I snagged one of my very favorite of Tulsa\'s luchadors for a little Q&amp;A. What follows is my exchange with none other than Killa Whatt, <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001231986457\">who will shed his domestic routines and antics</a> to put the smack down on downtown and the luchador El Tluacuache Saturday night.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more-->\n[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"></p>\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2749\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/36352_104692399581826_100001231986457_26082_3212632_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2749\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/36352_104692399581826_100001231986457_26082_3212632_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Were you born in a luchador mask, cape and studly stretchy pants, or did some tragic and catastrophic life event propel you into your life as a luchador?\n\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> I was born from a great storm in Ampere, a small village under the rule of a wicked baron. For years, the baron had trampled the people of Ampere under his boot of oppression. One night a powerful thunderstorm rolled through the land. A flash enveloped the sky and a spear of lightning so brilliant that it could only have been hurled straight from the hand of God struck the pole of a tent, throwing everyone inside to the ground. The bolt swam through the air at ferocious speed, darting from guard to guard until it had reduced their rifles to so much slag.\n\nA second bolt of lightning landed at the foot of the baron, knocking him on his prodigious buttocks. A ball of crackling energy emerged from the stricken floor, slowly taking the form of an almost too-perfect man. A scream of justice erupting from his lips, the storm-born hero called down the fury of the tempest, and immediately a wave of electricity charged through the clouds, tearing through the wretched ruler until only a charred mass of burning flesh remained.\n\nThe people, eager to know their savior, scrambled toward him to glimpse his face. But the hero, knowing that the sheer power of purity and justice emitting from his naked visage would blind the poor townspeople, quickly grabbed a nearby banner and wrapped it around his head in the form of a mask, its tail forming a cape, whipping in the wind behind him. As the villagers reached out to kiss the hands and grasp the cape of their liberator, he called out \"Justice has been served! You are free!\" Then he vanished in a flash of light and static, and the people heard the name Killa-Whatt echoing on the whispering wind.\n\nThe studly stretchy pants came later.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2747\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/26674_104072889643777_100001231986457_21923_2411562_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2747\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/26674_104072889643777_100001231986457_21923_2411562_n-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a> <em>Killa-Whatt keeps a tight lawn.</em></p>\n<strong>TDT:</strong> What\'s your winning/signature move?\n\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> The Shocker. Being 100% pure electricity, I’m able to jolt my opponents at will.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2748\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/28445_104387582945641_100001231986457_24045_1230786_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2748\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/28445_104387582945641_100001231986457_24045_1230786_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a><em>Even Killa-Whatt gots to take out the trash.</em></p>\n<strong>TDT:</strong> What is your favorite food at Elote?\n\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> Fish Tacos.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2752\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/30466_105883572796042_100001231986457_35162_3339370_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2752\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/30466_105883572796042_100001231986457_35162_3339370_n-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\n\n<strong>TDT:</strong> The pint-sized one who appears in some of the photos/videos on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001231986457\">your Facebook page</a> - is he your sidekick, or is he a luchador in training?\n\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> Gigga-Whatt is still in training, which is why he remains mask-less. However, I named him Gigga-Whatt because I know that one day he will become so powerful that he will surpass Killa-Whatt.\n\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Boxers or briefs?\n\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> Boxers\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2746\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/37305_103779079673158_100001231986457_19785_584925_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2746\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/37305_103779079673158_100001231986457_19785_584925_n-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a><em>Checking Facebook</em></p>\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Who is your luchador inspiration?\n\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> The Opossum. For a rodent, he has mastered a great many fighting styles. Which is why it will be bitter sweet when I destroy him Saturday at Luchapalooza.\n\n<strong>TDT:</strong> Describe your luchador training. Any tips or tricks?\n\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> I regularly shadow-box electrical panels and suck on jumper cables. Plus Gigga-Whatt keeps me on a tight training schedule.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2753\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/13460_106209089430157_100001231986457_38359_6858475_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2753\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/13460_106209089430157_100001231986457_38359_6858475_n.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\n<strong>TDT:</strong> How does one choose a luchador name? Any special meaning behind your luchador moniker?\n\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> The Omega symbol that I wear symbolizes everything encompassed - all electrical calculations. By day I dawn the guise of an average electrician.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2745\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/33446_131532686897797_100001231986457_172592_5939610_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2745\" title=\"Killa Whatt\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/33446_131532686897797_100001231986457_172592_5939610_n-500x666.jpg\" alt=\"Killa Whatt\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" /></a><em>Taking time to deliver the goods, especially to the men and women who serve our country. No thanks for me...you\'re the real heroes.</em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>TDT:</strong> If you could be any kind of animal, what kind of animal would you be?</p>\n<strong>K-Dub:</strong> An electric eel, of course.\n\n<em>All photos courtesy of Killa Whatt. While feisty, he is also generous.</em>','Interview with a Luchador','In anticipation of this mega-event, I snagged one of my very favorite of Tulsa\'s luchadors for a little Q&A.','inherit','open','open','','2461-autosave','','','2010-10-08 09:37:47','2010-10-08 14:37:47','',2461,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/2461-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(4536,1,'2010-09-27 14:47:41','2010-09-27 19:47:41','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita Restaurant in Tulsa, Oklahoma\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4596293446/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3417/4596293446_3ace17be93_o.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita Restaurant in Tulsa, Oklahoma\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></div>\r\nIf you still think Tulsa\'s Casa Bonita closed forever in 2005, you\'re not the only one.\r\n\r\n<a name=\"more\"></a>Native Tulsans remember Casa Bonita as the go-to family-friendly dining spot of the \'70s, \'80s and \'90s. Maybe you took your kids and spent an entire afternoon eating sopapillas and playing games in the arcade. Maybe you went there on a school bus for a field trip in the fifth grade.\r\n\r\nEither way, most of us T-Town originals have fond memories of Casa Bonita, the half-theme park, half-Tex-Mex restaurant at 21st and Sheridan.\r\n\r\nBut several years ago, much to the chagrin of us locals, Casa Bonita closed seemingly forever. The space reopened shortly after as Casa Viva, another family-oriented Mexican place, but things just weren\'t the same.\r\n\r\nBut then, in 2008, Casa Bonita re-opened. The dining room had been restored to its former kitschy glory, the Disney World-like play place we had all loved knowing was right in our back yard.\r\n\r\nWhen I mentioned <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/tashadoestulsa\">on Twitter</a> that I\'d be celebrating Cinco de Mayo at Casa Bonita with my family and friends, I saw a variety of reactions. First and foremost was the response from the know-it-alls \"informing\" me that Casa Bonita has been closed for years.\r\n\r\nDuh, Tasha. What kind of Tulsa blogger are you, anyway?\r\n\r\nBesides that came warnings about the Casa Bonita urban legend that has seemed to stand the test of time - that dinner there guarantees a night of praying to the porcelain god.\r\n\r\nWhich, of course, only made me want to go to Casa Bonita more. I ain\'t skeered.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4596290536/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3645/4596290536_a9c305d717.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nAnd as my husband will tell you, what Tasha wants, Tasha gets. Except when it comes to gold-plated toilet seats and a lifetime supply of my favorite Aveda shampoo. Those things are simply not in the cards, it seems.\r\n\r\nAt least, not until I win the lottery.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4596290390/\"><img src=\"http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1173/4596290390_00b4322a8e.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nSpeaking of my husband, he\'d never been to Casa Bonita before - at least, not recently enough to remember how things are done around there.\r\n\r\nFor his sake and for anyone out there who has yet to venture to this Tulsa tradition in the form of an Alamo-esque amusement park that just happens to also serve food, here\'s a guide on how to do Casa Bonita, TDT-style.\r\n\r\n<strong>Step 1: Enter the mouth of the beast</strong>.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4595674295/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4016/4595674295_b4369821e1.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\" /></a></div>\r\nWhich seems easy enough to do, right? Except, no one can seem to do it without pointing out to the rest of his/her party that \"casa bonita\" means \"beautiful house\" in Spanish, followed by a conversation about how funny it is that Spanish switches the places of nouns and adjectives.\r\n\r\nYou\'d think kids in Spanish 101 would be the only ones with a proclivity toward this type of behavior, but no.\r\n\r\nJust no.\r\n\r\n<strong>Step 2: File in line. </strong>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4595674389/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4030/4595674389_760cf10fac.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nI remember Sunday afternoons when the line to order at Casa Bonita would wrap around that corner and extend all the way to the front door.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4596290876/\"><img src=\"http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1142/4596290876_b5af410210.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nWhich wasn\'t the case when we visited. We thought the place would be packed given the spirit of the holiday.\r\n\r\nSadly for C-to-the-B, we were wrong. Maybe it\'s busier at lunchtime.\r\n\r\n<strong>Step 3: Order.</strong>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4596290986/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3302/4596290986_9885a57be5.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nThe menu is one of the simplest in town - it\'s quick-and-dirty style, with no surprises or opportunities for confusion. Simply order a combo meal and a drink (or, in the case of kids\' meals, just the combo - drinks are part of the package) and, boom, you\'re done. You don\'t even have to pay yet.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4595674881/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4028/4595674881_b715cd6350.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nFor two adults and a toddler, we spent about $25 including tip. Which isn\'t bad at all, considering our family of three usually averages $10 per plate here in Tulsa.\r\n\r\nBy the way, the service we got at the order counter was superb. There we found patience (don\'t let it ever be said that food writers are the indecisive ones when it comes time to order - my husband almost always takes that prize when we go out to eat), speed and a friendly smile.\r\n\r\nAnd that\'s the best way to start a meal, right there.\r\n\r\n<strong>4. Proceed to the trays and silverware. </strong>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4596291760/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3129/4596291760_e46601ba65.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4595675265/\"><img src=\"http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1382/4595675265_82c2c5f56d.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nGet a load of that face.\r\n\r\n\"Mom, to where in heck have you brought me? My little mind, it reels!\"\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4595675023/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4019/4595675023_4d97c9f66f.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4595675153/\"><img src=\"http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1089/4595675153_976015a3e4.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4595674745/\"><img src=\"http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1131/4595674745_92fa01106e.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4596291980/\"><img src=\"http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1072/4596291980_9b5caccd8f.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4596292136/\"><img src=\"http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1011/4596292136_dc7971840c.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nEvery native Tulsan remembers these multi-colored napkins, right? I mean, right? They\'re a virtual mainstay of my childhood, I swear.\r\n\r\n<strong>5: Pick up your order. </strong>\r\n\r\nThar she blows!\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4596292254/\"><img src=\"http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1217/4596292254_86cb3874f9.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nWell, almost. Our stuff was still on the way.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4596291876/\"><img src=\"http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1259/4596291876_ff4e99b47f.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nHere\'s where the staff helps diners get to their tables.\r\n\r\nIt\'s also when diners get their first feel for the full scope of the quirkiness and kitschiness and downright weirdness of all that is Casa Bonita decor.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4596292462/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3578/4596292462_66723581b1.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nThe color.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4596292568/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3370/4596292568_41a964ac88.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nThe fantastic.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4596293004/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4062/4596293004_3f091a1599.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nThe imitation.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4596292898/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3575/4596292898_c3297332b7.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nThe incongruity!\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4596294596/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4065/4596294596_687463c438.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nYes, that\'s a cave.\r\n\r\nActually, it\'s a \"cave.\" Or, as I like to call it, The Cave, The Cave, The Cave! With an exclamation point or five.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4595678303/\"><img src=\"http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1064/4595678303_226133bc87.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nAnd yes, you can eat in The Cave, The Cave, The Cave.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4596294794/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3155/4596294794_0928ca57ae.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nIt\'s romantic, actually. Not that anyone has ever taken me on a date to Casa Bonita or anything. But if someone ever does, they\'d better make sure we sit in the cave. If not, that person can bet that they\'ll be doing dishes after supper the next night. And they\'ll have vacuuming duty, too.\r\n\r\nMaybe even decorative bed pillow arranging duty. That\'s the <em>worst</em>.\r\n\r\nFor those of you who assume that a meal at Casa Bonita spells a call in to work the next morning with vague references to descriptors like \"burning\" and \"explosive,\" I\'m happy to report that all who dined with me at CB on Cinco de Mayo are not only still living, but experienced no discomfort after suppertime whatsoever.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4595676651/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3411/4595676651_09acf107eb.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nIn fact, the food was decent. Meaning, really decent. Meaning, I\'ve kinda been craving it ever since. Except for the salsa - it\'s just sad. But everything else was tasty. And Tex-Mexy.\r\n\r\nAnd cheesy.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4596293212/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4022/4596293212_c290333788.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<strong>6: Raise the flag when you need an extra fork, a refill or whatever would require the attention of the waitstaff. </strong>\r\n\r\nThis is my very favorite part about dining at Casa Bonita.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4596293376/\"><img src=\"http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1007/4596293376_0f4e33276f.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nThe flag!\r\n\r\nHere\'s how it works: a flag in the down position means all is well. It\'s the all-clear in the Casa Bonita world. It means every one at the table is happy, and it\'s a signal to the waitstaff they can tend to other duties.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4596293446/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3417/4596293446_3bb06073a5.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nA flag in the raised position is a cry for help. We need napkins! We need more chips! We need some time, love and tenderness!\r\n\r\nBy the way, don\'t be that guy who raises the flag to \"make sure it works.\" Or the guy who has never been to Casa Bonita and raises and lowers it a few times to, you know, test the waters, and then forgets to lower the flag again.\r\n\r\nIf a waitress stops by to ask if everything is okay four times in the span of 45 seconds, you know it\'s because you forgot to lower the dang flag.\r\n\r\n<strong>7: After supper\'s gone, order sopapillas. </strong>\r\n\r\nThis is my second-favorite part about dining at Casa Bonita.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4596293746/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3319/4596293746_3104d30a8a.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nIn case you\'ve never heard of a sopapilla, here\'s the story: They\'re fried pockets of dough. And...that\'s about it. Oh, and they\'re extra delicious with cinnamon, sugar and honey.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4596293638/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4060/4596293638_bbdc61ef4b.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nThe folks at Casa Bonita like to keep things simple. The sopapillas there are brought to the table after diners request them after dinner with honey only.\r\n\r\nWhich, honestly, is perfectly fine by me. No muss, no fuss.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4595677385/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3261/4595677385_15c67f02dd.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nDude.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4595677479/\"><img src=\"http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1011/4595677479_e33d43ba6a.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nThe only thing that could make that photo any more delicious-looking is if the honey were coming out of a bottle shaped like a bear.\r\n\r\nI\'m Tasha Ball, and I\'m just sayin\'.\r\n\r\nThe next step in a proper Casa Bonita dining experience would be to visit the arcade, where there\'s claw machines, skee ball and prizes galore. But a certain someone had been trying for the better part of a week to get over a cold and could no longer manage the sensory overload of our dinner outing.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4595677913/\"><img src=\"http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1406/4595677913_971ef23d8b.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nYeah, blondie. I\'m talking about you.\r\n\r\nSo, we headed instead to <strong>Step No. 9: Visit the treasure room. </strong>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4595678029/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3140/4595678029_6d3a59d3f5.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nEvery kid is given a gold, plastic coin at the table after the tickets are paid. Those coins are redeemable for a toy from the chest in the Treasure Room.\r\n\r\nThe toys are nothing to write home about, of course. We came away with an inch-long plastic airplane. But I think we all know what happens when you throw together a couple of toddlers and a chest full of super-cheap plastic toys.\r\n\r\nThat\'s right. A veritable feeding frenzy.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Casa Bonita by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4596294512/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3074/4596294512_93dc85eb4e.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Bonita\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nAnd it was good.\r\n\r\nAnd that\'s how it\'s done, folks - that\'s how you do Casa Bonita.\r\n\r\nWhat are your favorite memories of CB? Do you wish you could have <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=372159&amp;id=445726255306\">a Casa Bonita t-shirt</a>?\r\n\r\nIf you\'ve never been to Casa Bonita, will you be loading up the kids to give it a try? Tell it like it is in the comments.','Do Casa Bonita, TDT-Style','Most of us T-Town originals have fond memories of Casa Bonita, the half-theme park, half-Tex-Mex restaurant at 21st and Sheridan.','inherit','open','open','','594-revision-2','','','2010-09-27 14:47:41','2010-09-27 19:47:41','',594,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/594-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(4529,1,'2010-12-14 08:33:07','2010-12-14 13:33:07','The work-at-home gig isn\'t an easy or a glamorous one. As with any uphill battle, a plan is worth its weight in gold. That\'s why I follow these ten rules - or, as I like to call them, the Ten Commandments of the Work-at-Home Mom. \r\n\r\n1. Send your mate an occasional naughty DM. \r\n\r\nGet the rest of the rules on my blog at TulsaKids.com. \r\n\r\nOK, so this is my and my husband\'s idea of fun, but what I\'m say here basically is this: Find a way to reconnect with your mate as often as possible. It doesn\'t have to be a lot of time - five minutes counts - and it doesn\'t even have to involve text messages that you have to have your best friend swear to delete before your grandmother finds them in the unthinkable event that something were to happen to you and your love bunny. Sometimes a simple joke and a good laugh together is all you need to meet in the middle after a long day of working within the same four walls in which you also spend your evenings. \r\n\r\n2. Wash behind your ears and put on some clothes. \r\n\r\nWhen you work from home, sometimes it\'s a little too easy to slum it in your PJs all day. Don\'t do that. Rather than make a beeline for the desk in the morning, hop in the shower. Then, dress in something that you wouldn\'t be embarrassed about if someone were to drop by. My bet is that you\'ll find you make more widgets when you\'re wearing a nice pair of jeans and a starched cotton dress shirt than when you\'re sporting your bunny slippers and yesterday\'s work-out clothes. Ew. \r\n\r\n3. Be upfront with employers and/or clients. \r\n\r\nIf you work for yourself, be straight forward with those with whom you work about when you can be at your desk and when your presence in the backyard is absolutely required for the prevention of emergency room visits. They\'ll appreciate the heads up. \r\n\r\n4. Don\'t overcommit. \r\n\r\nOn the same note as the previous point, don\'t make promises to yourself or anyone else about what you are and are not able to do that you can\'t keep. \r\n','Confessions of a Work-at-Home Mom: The Rules of Engagement','','inherit','open','open','','4478-revision-4','','','2010-12-14 08:33:07','2010-12-14 13:33:07','',4478,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4478-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(4530,1,'2010-12-14 10:00:00','2010-12-14 15:00:00','','TDT Gift Guide','','inherit','open','open','','4473-revision','','','2010-12-14 10:00:00','2010-12-14 15:00:00','',4473,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4473-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(4534,1,'2010-12-16 12:10:41','2010-12-16 17:10:41','[caption id=\"\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"337\" caption=\"Working Mother\"]<img alt=\"Working Mother\" src=\"http://mummymayhem.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/working-mother.png\" title=\"Working Mother\" width=\"337\" height=\"489\" />[/caption]<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://mummymayhem.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/working-mother.png\" alt=\"\" /></p>\n\nThe work-at-home gig isn\'t an easy or a glamorous one. As with any uphill battle, a plan is worth its weight in gold. That\'s why I do my darnedest to follow these ten rules - or, as I like to call them, the Ten Rules of Engagement for the Work-at-Home Parent.\n\n<strong>1. Wear clean underwear.</strong> When you work from home, sometimes it\'s a little too easy to slum it in your PJs all day. Don\'t be that parent. Rather than make a beeline for the desk in the morning, hop in the shower. Then, dress in something that you wouldn\'t be embarrassed about if someone were to drop by unannounced (don\'t be <em>that</em> parent, either). My bet is that you\'ll find you make a few more widgets when you\'re wearing a nice pair of jeans and a starched cotton dress shirt than when you\'re still wearing your bunny slippers and yesterday\'s smelly work-out clothes.\n\nGet the rest of the rules on <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/?q=confessions-work-home-mom-rules-engagement-3\">my blog at TulsaKids.com</a>.\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>','Confessions of a Work-at-Home Mom: The Rules of Engagement','The work-at-home gig isn\'t an easy or a glamorous one. As with any uphill battle, a plan is worth its weight in gold. That\'s why I do my darnedest to follow these ten rules - or, as I like to call them, the Ten Rules of Engagement for the Work-at-Home Parent.','inherit','open','open','','4478-autosave','','','2010-12-16 12:10:41','2010-12-16 17:10:41','',4478,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4478-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(4535,1,'2010-12-16 12:09:39','2010-12-16 17:09:39','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://mummymayhem.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/working-mother.png\" alt=\"\" /></p>\r\n\r\nThe work-at-home gig isn\'t an easy or a glamorous one. As with any uphill battle, a plan is worth its weight in gold. That\'s why I do my darnedest to follow these ten rules - or, as I like to call them, the Ten Rules of Engagement for the Work-at-Home Parent.\r\n\r\n<strong>1. Wear clean underwear.</strong> When you work from home, sometimes it\'s a little too easy to slum it in your PJs all day. Don\'t be that parent. Rather than make a beeline for the desk in the morning, hop in the shower. Then, dress in something that you wouldn\'t be embarrassed about if someone were to drop by unannounced (don\'t be <em>that</em> parent, either). My bet is that you\'ll find you make a few more widgets when you\'re wearing a nice pair of jeans and a starched cotton dress shirt than when you\'re still wearing your bunny slippers and yesterday\'s smelly work-out clothes.\r\n\r\nGet the rest of the rules on <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/?q=confessions-work-home-mom-rules-engagement-3\">my blog at TulsaKids.com</a>.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>','Confessions of a Work-at-Home Mom: The Rules of Engagement','The work-at-home gig isn\'t an easy or a glamorous one. As with any uphill battle, a plan is worth its weight in gold. That\'s why I do my darnedest to follow these ten rules - or, as I like to call them, the Ten Rules of Engagement for the Work-at-Home Parent.','inherit','open','open','','4478-revision-8','','','2010-12-16 12:09:39','2010-12-16 17:09:39','',4478,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4478-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(4532,1,'2010-12-16 12:08:06','2010-12-16 17:08:06','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://mummymayhem.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/working-mother.png\" alt=\"\" /></p>\r\nThe work-at-home gig isn\'t an easy or a glamorous one. As with any uphill battle, a plan is worth its weight in gold. That\'s why I follow these ten rules - or, as I like to call them, the Ten Commandments of the Work-at-Home Mom.\r\n\r\n<strong>1. Wear clean underwear.</strong> When you work from home, sometimes it\'s a little too easy to slum it in your PJs all day. Don\'t be that parent. Rather than make a beeline for the desk in the morning, hop in the shower. Then, dress in something that you wouldn\'t be embarrassed about if someone were to drop by unannounced (don\'t be <em>that</em> parent, either). My bet is that you\'ll find you make a few more widgets when you\'re wearing a nice pair of jeans and a starched cotton dress shirt than when you\'re still wearing your bunny slippers and yesterday\'s smelly work-out clothes.\r\n\r\nGet the rest of the rules on <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/?q=confessions-work-home-mom-rules-engagement-3\">my blog at TulsaKids.com</a>.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>','Confessions of a Work-at-Home Mom: The Rules of Engagement','','inherit','open','open','','4478-revision-6','','','2010-12-16 12:08:06','2010-12-16 17:08:06','',4478,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4478-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(4533,1,'2010-12-16 12:09:24','2010-12-16 17:09:24','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://mummymayhem.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/working-mother.png\" alt=\"\" /></p>\r\n\r\nThe work-at-home gig isn\'t an easy or a glamorous one. As with any uphill battle, a plan is worth its weight in gold. That\'s why I do my darnedest to follow these ten rules - or, as I like to call them, the Ten Rules of Engagement for the Work-at-Home Parent.\r\n\r\n<strong>1. Wear clean underwear.</strong> When you work from home, sometimes it\'s a little too easy to slum it in your PJs all day. Don\'t be that parent. Rather than make a beeline for the desk in the morning, hop in the shower. Then, dress in something that you wouldn\'t be embarrassed about if someone were to drop by unannounced (don\'t be <em>that</em> parent, either). My bet is that you\'ll find you make a few more widgets when you\'re wearing a nice pair of jeans and a starched cotton dress shirt than when you\'re still wearing your bunny slippers and yesterday\'s smelly work-out clothes.\r\n\r\nGet the rest of the rules on <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/?q=confessions-work-home-mom-rules-engagement-3\">my blog at TulsaKids.com</a>.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>','Confessions of a Work-at-Home Mom: The Rules of Engagement','','inherit','open','open','','4478-revision-7','','','2010-12-16 12:09:24','2010-12-16 17:09:24','',4478,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4478-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(5184,1,'2010-08-30 14:41:36','2010-08-30 19:41:36','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1320\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/08/true-to-you-bra-salon-for-the-ladies/dsc00702/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1320\" title=\"True To You Bra Salon\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DSC00702.jpg\" alt=\"True To You Bra Salon\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nA few weeks ago I did something I\'ve never done before: A walked into a store to which I\'d never been, introduced myself to a woman I\'d never met, walked into a dressing room I\'d never seen and allowed said woman to measure my boobs.\r\n\r\nI\'m talking about my first trip to <a href=\"http://www.truetoyoubras.com/index.php\">True to You Bra Salon</a>, in south Tulsa just north of 61st and Lewis.\r\n\r\n<!--more--><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1321\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/08/true-to-you-bra-salon-for-the-ladies/dsc00703/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1321\" title=\"True To You Bra Salon\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DSC00703.jpg\" alt=\"True To You Bra Salon\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEarlier this week I wrote about <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/08/clays-barbershop-for-the-guys/\">Clay\'s Barbershop</a>. Unless you\'re a woman who needs a little work done on your beard from time to time, your interest in that post was probably somewhat limited. What better to balance a mega-manly blog post than a post about naughty lingerie?\r\n\r\nI knew you\'d agree. And something tells me the guys might stick around for this one, too.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1322\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/08/true-to-you-bra-salon-for-the-ladies/dsc00701/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1322\" title=\"True To You Bra Salon\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DSC00701.jpg\" alt=\"True To You Bra Salon\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'ll be the first to tell you that I\'m a big, big fan of pretty underthings. Since I had my son, though, this love of cute undies has been the bane of my existence.\r\n\r\nOnce there was a time (read: the wonderful years of high school and college) when I could buy bras at Wal-Mart and Target that were not only made in eye-popping colors or covered in lace or some other girlie design, but that also could do the job they were made to do from the time I put them on until the time I took them off hours and hours later.\r\n\r\nThose days are, shall we say, gone forever. And ever.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1323\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/08/true-to-you-bra-salon-for-the-ladies/dsc00735/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1323\" title=\"True To You Bra Salon\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DSC00735.jpg\" alt=\"True To You Bra Salon\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nNow, there\'s a time and a place for this sort of bra. But, not the times and places when you want to feel sexy. Or empowered. Or cuter than the mean girls from back in high school who just sauntered into your favorite bar and ordered a round of frozen tropical girlie drinks.\r\n\r\nYeah, we ladies who rank higher in the alphabet world need the support this kind of over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder can provide. But we also want to feel sexy. And empowered. And like we can walk right up to that bar, wink at those over-baked mean girls, shoot a shot of whiskey and pick up all their tabs.\r\n\r\nThe wonderful thing about a trip to True To You is that you don\'t have to spend hours sifting through what\'s on the racks, trying on dozens of styles in a sad attempt to find something sexy. And empowering. And something that works.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1324\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/08/true-to-you-bra-salon-for-the-ladies/dsc00734/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1324\" title=\"True To You Bra Salon\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DSC00734-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"True To You Bra Salon\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhat helps to make that possible is the 30-minute bra makeover that\'s available at True To You. Here\'s how it works:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>You walk into the store, which is in the shopping center just north of 61st and Lewis (if you\'re traveling north, the center is on your left; if you\'re traveling south, the center is on your right). That it\'s next to a yarn shop...</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1325\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/08/true-to-you-bra-salon-for-the-ladies/dsc00695/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1325\" title=\"True To You Bra Salon\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DSC00695-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"True To You Bra Salon\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd a donut shop...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1326\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/08/true-to-you-bra-salon-for-the-ladies/dsc00697/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1326\" title=\"True To You Bra Salon\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DSC00697-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"True To You Bra Salon\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDefinitely helped me find the place. Because Lord knows yarn shops and Daylight Donuts are always on my radar.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Once you arrive, ask for Laurie or Sherry. Tell them that you saw this post about their shop on TashaDoesTulsa.com (I mean, you know, if you want to tell them that part) and that your bra wardrobe is in some serious need of a makeover.</li>\r\n	<li>You\'ll be escorted to the adorable fitting area.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1327\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/08/true-to-you-bra-salon-for-the-ladies/dsc00737/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1327\" title=\"True To You Bra Salon\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DSC00737-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"True To You Bra Salon\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1328\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/08/true-to-you-bra-salon-for-the-ladies/dsc00727/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1328\" title=\"True To You Bra Salon\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DSC00727.jpg\" alt=\"True To You Bra Salon\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee? I told you. Adorable.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Laurie or Sherry will then bust out a bra fitting that could save your life. It\'s also a very, um, friendly time. Laurie helped me the day I was in, and while I normally would have been super-nervous to have some stranger running measuring tape all over an area normally reserved for traveling rock bands famous for their artful autographs (honey, if you\'re reading this, I\'m totally just kidding mostly), Laurie made me feel totally comfortable and at home. That they let you keep your old bra on the whole time helps, even if it looks like you pulled your old bra out of the Old Testament instead of your lingerie drawer that day. Not that I would know anything about this.</li>\r\n	<li>And ta-da! You\'re done. Odds are that you\'ll have a new bra size to memorize, especially if you\'ve never been fitted for a bra by a professional before. It\'s a liberating experience, I tell you. You\'ll want to shout your new bra size from the rooftops...of your mind.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nUnlike staff you might find at a big-box or mega-department store, Laurie and Shelly know what they carry in their salon. When they bring you a small, first-round selection of bras to try after your fitting, don\'t be surprised if they don\'t bring you bras in the new size they just made you commit to memory. They know exactly how each of the bras they carry fit, and since they just saw your boobs in almost all of their glory (you still had your old bra on, remember?), they have a pretty good idea of which bras will suit your build.\r\n\r\nThe bras Laurie brought me to try on were highly functional, yeah - I didn\'t know my girls could still do the things those bras made them do - but they were lovely, too. It was proof positive to me that the two can co-exist in the wonderful world of brassieres.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1329\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/08/true-to-you-bra-salon-for-the-ladies/dsc00710/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1329\" title=\"True To You Bra Salon\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DSC00710.jpg\" alt=\"True To You Bra Salon\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSorry, folks. I just didn\'t have the courage to model these for you. Guess I need to have a few more drinks before I head out on assignment next time.\r\n\r\nBy the way, that blue-and-flesh lacy thing up there? Totally pretty and feminine and surprisingly supportive. I was all, well, <em>hello</em>. Where have you ladies been my whole life? You\'re a little late, but thanks for finally showing up to the party. My husband sends his regards.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1330\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/08/true-to-you-bra-salon-for-the-ladies/dsc00723/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1330\" title=\"True To You Bra Salon\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DSC00723.jpg\" alt=\"True To You Bra Salon\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nNow, this one isn\'t so pretty on the hanger (or flung over the back of a chair afternoon-delight style, as pictured), but it\'s gorgeous on.\r\n\r\nSo gorgeous, in fact, that I bought two. And I\'m gonna buy more.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1331\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/08/true-to-you-bra-salon-for-the-ladies/dsc00708/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1331\" title=\"True To You Bra Salon\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DSC00708.jpg\" alt=\"True To You Bra Salon\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI love that I\'m in my mid-twenties and that I still have full permission to wear little bows on my bras. Can I get a hear, hear?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1332\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/08/true-to-you-bra-salon-for-the-ladies/dsc00719/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1332\" title=\"True To You Bra Salon\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DSC00719.jpg\" alt=\"True To You Bra Salon\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAdmittedly, you ladies who won all those perkiest breasts contests the boys in high school tried to keep secret but actually didn\'t really are going to have more choices in the sexy, less-is-more department. But still, the selection I found at True To You matched or beat the selection I\'ve found at any at big-box or department store. Plus, the service was unparalleled. The ladies there made me feel like I was the only woman in the store.\r\n\r\nAnd I love feeling like I\'m the only woman in the store.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1333\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/08/true-to-you-bra-salon-for-the-ladies/dsc00700/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1333\" title=\"True To You Bra Salon\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DSC00700.jpg\" alt=\"True To You Bra Salon\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTrue To You is a go-to place for bras, yeah, but that\'s not all they carry. Brides, you can grab your wedding day (and maybe even your wedding night) lingerie here.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1334\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/08/true-to-you-bra-salon-for-the-ladies/dsc00731/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1334\" title=\"True To You Bra Salon\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DSC00731-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"True To You Bra Salon\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMoms who find themselves in the eternal struggle to find a good nursing bra might want to stop in, too.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1335\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/08/true-to-you-bra-salon-for-the-ladies/dsc00732/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1335\" title=\"True To You Bra Salon\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DSC00732.jpg\" alt=\"True To You Bra Salon\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSound the trumpets! Spanx are in the hizouse!\r\n\r\nI love me some Spanx. They\'re comfy, they\'re durable and they make me look like a million bucks in what I like to call my TDT uniform (black I Heart Tulsa shirt with laceless Converse and jeans - <a href=\"http://andsosheblogs.com/tulsa/\">Carrisa over at And So She Blogs</a> doesn\'t recognize me unless I\'m wearing it).\r\n\r\nThey have their haters, but I\'m a big believer in shape wear, mostly because I\'m also a big believer in not walking around town with a wicked case of VPLS (Visible Panty Line Situation) or BFF (not Best Friends Forever, but instead Back Fat Fail). And yeah, Spanx are a little pricey, but they\'re 100-percent worth it. And who knows, maybe someday Sara Blakely will make Spanx for men.\r\n\r\nMen can only hope.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1336\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/08/true-to-you-bra-salon-for-the-ladies/dsc00730/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1336\" title=\"True To You Bra Salon\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DSC00730-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"True To You Bra Salon\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHey, moms-to-be. I order you to buy these right freaking now.\r\n\r\nAlong with my family, our dog and my hard drive, my pair of Power Mamas are on the list of things to grab in the event our house catches fire. I love them that much.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1320\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/08/true-to-you-bra-salon-for-the-ladies/dsc00702/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1320\" title=\"True To You Bra Salon\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DSC00702.jpg\" alt=\"True To You Bra Salon\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhat I\'m trying to say here is, if it covers your ta-tas or your hiney, it\'s a pretty safe bet that True to You is going to have it.\r\n\r\nNext time you\'re in the neighborhood, check it out. Just be sure to <a href=\"http://visitor.constantcontact.com/manage/optin?v=001uxu9h741ik3PkoVxEqmn2DFVsN_n3QGv\">sign up for the True To You e-mail newsletter</a> before you go. That way, if you see something you just can\'t live without, you can have it for $5 off.\r\n\r\n<strong>True To You Bra Salon</strong>\r\nWhen: Monday-Friday, 10am-5:30pm; Saturday, 10am-5pm\r\nWhere: 5952 S. 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Not a simple red or green cashmere number, but a big, fluffy sweater with bells, glitter and Santa, all designed to make you have an extra merry Christmas.\r\n\r\nWhile some people wear the Christmas sweater unintentionally, it\'s fun for folks who have a clue to wear these for giggles. But if you don\'t yet have a holiday monstrosity to wear to the next family function, you\'re in luck. Kate scoped out the places to get the best, cheapest bad sweaters - Kate, take us away.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\nFirst up I hit the Salvation Army thrift store near 21st and Sheridan. You know - the one at the opposite end of the shopping strip from <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/05/do-casa-bonita-tdt-style/\">Casa Bonita</a>.\r\n\r\nThere I found not one but three fancy sweatshirts featuring Nutcrackers and Bible quotes. I\'m currently trying to convince my BFFs to wear them to a trivia night before Christmas.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4540\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/ugly-christmas-sweater-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/picture-1-option/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4540\" title=\"Ugly Christmas Sweater Shopping\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Picture-1-Option.jpg\" alt=\"Ugly Christmas Sweater Shopping\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThen there\'s the sweater with the snowflake border to accentuate those extra holiday pounds you\'re carrying in your hips from one too many fruitcakes.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4541\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/ugly-christmas-sweater-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/picture-2-6/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4541\" title=\"Ugly Christmas Sweater Shopping\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Picture-2.jpg\" alt=\"Ugly Christmas Sweater Shopping\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr perhaps you\'d prefer to show your love of the holidays with a little burst of Tasmanian Devil energy.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4542\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/ugly-christmas-sweater-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/picture-3-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4542\" title=\"Ugly Christmas Sweater Shopping\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Picture-3.jpg\" alt=\"Ugly Christmas Sweater Shopping\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd finally this, which is not a Christmas sweater per se, but look at the shiny! And the shoulder pads!\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4543\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/ugly-christmas-sweater-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/picture-4-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4543\" title=\"Ugly Christmas Sweater Shopping\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Picture-4-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Ugly Christmas Sweater Shopping\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThen I headed across town to Community Thrift Store off Admiral and Sheridan.\r\n\r\nThere were quite a few more Christmas Sweaters to pick from at CTS. There was this lovely one, complete with a mock turtleneck and sparkly gold stars.\r\n\r\nSanta is riding the moon to deliver presents these days. I guess the sleigh is in the shop.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4544\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/ugly-christmas-sweater-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/picture-5-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4544\" title=\"Ugly Christmas Sweater Shopping\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Picture-5.jpg\" alt=\"Ugly Christmas Sweater Shopping\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou can have snowball sweater in almost every color. Perhaps choose his and hers for that work holiday party.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4545\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/ugly-christmas-sweater-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/picture-6-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4545\" title=\"Ugly Christmas Sweater Shopping\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Picture-6-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Ugly Christmas Sweater Shopping\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI also found this amazing, non-holiday sweater: A patchwork in beige leather.\r\n\r\nYes, you read leather.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/ugly-christmas-sweater-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/picture-7-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4546\" title=\"Ugly Christmas Sweater Shopping\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Picture-7.jpg\" alt=\"Ugly Christmas Sweater Shopping\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMy last stop was the Value Thrift Store store at 11th and Memorial, which was also ripe with Christmas sweater deliciousness.\r\n\r\nCheck out this tiny yet still awesomely cheesy sweater. You can start your kids off early with a stunted fashion sense.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4547\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/ugly-christmas-sweater-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/picture-8-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4547\" title=\"Ugly Christmas Sweater Shopping\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Picture-8-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Ugly Christmas Sweater Shopping\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSnowman patchwork! Satin snowmen!\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/ugly-christmas-sweater-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/picture-9-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4548\" title=\"Ugly Christmas Sweater Shopping\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Picture-9.jpg\" alt=\"Ugly Christmas Sweater Shopping\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHappy Holidays in flannel: You\'ll not only be wishing people well, you\'ll be encouraging them to rub your belly.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4549\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/ugly-christmas-sweater-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/picture-10/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4549\" title=\"Ugly Christmas Sweater Shopping\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Picture-10.jpg\" alt=\"Ugly Christmas Sweater Shopping\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis non-holiday gem is the perfect gift for that special man in your life.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4550\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/ugly-christmas-sweater-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/picture-11-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4550\" title=\"Ugly Christmas Sweater Shopping\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Picture-11.jpg\" alt=\"Ugly Christmas Sweater Shopping\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" /></a>\r\n\r\nA sweater with squirrels. Seriously.\r\n\r\nI know I got some ideas for my holiday party planning, and the best part was that none of these sweaters was more than $10.\r\n\r\nFestive and frugal - can\'t beat that.\r\n\r\nNeed more ugly Christmas sweater action? Check out the 2009 post here at TDT, <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/12/ugly-sweater-shopping-in-tulsa/\">Ugly Sweater Shopping in Tulsa</a>.','Shopping for the Perfect Ugly Christmas Sweater with Kate Huggins: TDT Holiday Gift Guide 2010','It\'s not Christmas until you spot someone, somewhere in a Christmas sweater.','publish','open','open','','ugly-christmas-sweater-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010','','','2010-12-16 13:47:20','2010-12-16 18:47:20','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=4527',0,'post','',2),(4528,1,'2010-12-16 00:13:49','2010-12-16 05:13:49','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Paul Petrov of the Ballet Russe, backstage at the JC Williamson New Year\'s Eve party, Theatre Royal, Sydney, 31 December 1936 / Sam Hood by State Library of New South Wales collection, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/3612597734/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3210/3612597734_a03c7f0fe0.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Petrov of the Ballet Russe, backstage at the JC Williamson New Year\'s Eve party, Theatre Royal, Sydney, 31 December 1936 / Sam Hood\" width=\"500\" height=\"369\" /></a></p>\r\n\r\nChampagne, fireworks, swanky parties, stuff to do for the kids and those silly 2010 glasses - you want it all this New Year\'s Eve, and you\'ve got it right here in Tulsa. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Swanky Parties</h2>\r\n<strong>New Years Eve Gala at Crowne Plaza Hotel</strong>\r\nWhen: Starting at 4pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111159658950064&amp;index=1\">Crowne Plaza Hotel</a>, 100 E. Second Street\r\nFor one price, get every NYE party in the hotel. Here\'s the line-up: Imzadi in the Tulsa Ballroom; Mid Life Crisis in Promenade Ballroom; Brian Lee &amp; Friends in the Upper Lobby; a Texas Hold \'Em Tournament, 4pm-7pm; Access to Cigar &amp; Martini Lounge in Oklahoma Ballroom and Photos Now Photography in Lower Lobby. Call Crowne Plaza at (918) 560-2219 to reserve your spot, and if you plan on celebrating with a few glasses of champagne, be sure to ask about the room packages available.\r\n\r\n<strong>Olive Drop New Year’s Party</strong>\r\nWhen: Starting at 7pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"/\">Price Tower Arts Center in Bartlesville</a>\r\nEnjoy a five-course meal prepared by Outlaws Gourmet Catering, drinks at Copper Bar, and a complimentary champagne toast at midnight, when a large olive will be lowered from the top of Price Tower - which is Frank Lloyd Wright\'s only realized skyscraper, by the way - into a martini glass. Dinner reservations are available with seatings at 7pm and 9pm. Call (918) 336-1000 for room reservations and for a spot at dinner.\r\n\r\n<strong>Velo Ball</strong>\r\nWhen: Starting at 9pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.jasonperryphoto.net/?p=133\">Hey Mambo</a>, 114 N. Boston Ave.\r\nIf you\'re looking for a cycle-centric NYE party, Hey Mambo is the place to be on the last night of 2010. The evening will include a Mustache Cup Goldsprints Roller Race Tournament from Superleggera Cycling and Multisport, a live DJ, hot food from the kitchen of Hey Mambo (which is really yum, if you ask me), Pabst Blue Ribbon on tap, plenty of prizes and photography of the evening by Jason Perry Photography. The restaurant bar (cash or charge) will be in full operation for the evening, too. <a href=\"http://www.jasonperryphoto.net/?p=133\">Individual passes are $35, couples are $60</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Crystal Ball 2011: A New Years Eve Masquerade</strong>\r\nWhen: Starting at 9pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsacrystalball.com/\">Enso Bar, Electric Circus and IDL Ballroom, all at 1st and Detroit</a>\r\nGet gussied up in your finest black and white NYE attire and disguise and beguile fellow revelers as you masquerade between three of the hottest clubs in Tulsa into the wee hours of the night. Entertainment includes the beats of the Panic! Crew, Steve Club and DJ Dilation &amp; Jimm-A. <a href=\"http://www.ticketstorm.com/event/skyyvodkapresentscrystalball2011anewyearsevemasquerade/idlballroom/tulsa/5868/\">Tickets are $15 per person or $20 per couple, and VIP packages are $25 per person, $40 per couple</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>New Years Eve Speakeasy</strong>\r\nWhen: Starting at 9pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://cosmo-cafe.com/\">Cosmo Cafe &amp; Bar</a>, 3334 S. Peoria Ave.\r\nBe prepared to be transported back to the era of classy attire, sexy jazz and stiff drinks. While you’re partying like it’s 1929, check out free champagne toast at midnight, accompanied by what Cosmo called “fancy stuff on crackers.” Heck, yes. Plus, if you show up in a 1920s get-up, you’ll get a bonus party favor.\r\n\r\n<h2>Performances</h2>\r\n\r\n<strong>Sylvia Browne</strong>\r\nWhen: 8pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.milliondollarelm.com/event-center\">Osage Event Center</a>, 951 W. 36 Street North\r\nAlways wanted to have your most pressing, personal questions answered by a psychic? This NYE is your chance. Tickets to see Sylvia are $30, or you can pay $100 and guarantee that you\'ll have your question answered. Stay tuned for the book signing after the lecture.\r\n\r\n<strong>Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey</strong>\r\nWhen: 9:15pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.cainsballroom.com/\">Cain\'s Ballroom</a>, 423 N. Main Street\r\nSpend New Years Eve in downtown Tulsa\'s historic Cain\'s Ballroom and see Tulsa\'s homegrown Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey as they play the music of Beyonce, Madonna and Lady Gaga at the same time. Tickets are $19 in advance, $25 in the day of. <a href=\"http://www.protixonline.com/View_Event.asp?id=404\">Get \'em here</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Zuits</strong>\r\nWhen: 9pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=114693148599132\">Joe Momma\'s</a>, 112 S. Elgin Ave.\r\nJoin us for a NYE celebration featuring live swing music with The Zuits starting at 9PM! We\'ll have a countdown and a champagne (of beers) toast at midnight!\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2>For a Family-Friendly New Years Eve</h2>\r\n\r\n<strong>New Year\'s Eve Night Out at the Tulsa Zoo</strong>\r\nWhen: 6pm New Years Eve - 10am New Years Day\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsazoo.org/EducationConservation/ClassesWorkshops/\">Tulsa Zoo & Living Museum</a>\r\nSend your kids for an exciting overnight at the zoo this NYE. Parents, you\'ll be free to ring in the New Year any way you choose while your 2nd-5th graders will be hanging out with the animals on this night time adventure. The kiddos will also get a dinner, breakfast and light snack. Cost is $55 per child. \r\n\r\n<strong>THE Party! Hahn Appliance Warehouse New Year\'s Eve on Brookside</strong>\r\nWhen: Starting at 9pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"https://www.newyearsevetulsa.com/pages.aspx?pageid=1\">Brookside (Peoria Avenue) between 36th and 39th Streets</a>\r\nThis second-ever event brought the community together last year to share in the excitement of a Times Square-esque, free outdoor street party complete with a lighted ball drop, fireworks, bands and entertainment, and they\'re going to do it even bigger and better to ring in 2011. A choice of outdoor and indoor activities along Brookside guarantees participants of all ages to can comfortably enjoy the festivities, even if our Oklahoma weather rears its ugly head. Look for live entertainment from Eric and the Adams (one of my favorite Tulsa bands) on an outdoor stage and dancing in the VIP Party Tent (<a href=\"https://www.newyearsevetulsa.com/Purchase_Tickets.aspx\">tickets to which are $75 per</a>). All proceeds raised by THE Party will benefit the <a href=\"http://www.cfbeo.org/\">Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>New Years Eve in the Blue Dome District</strong>\r\nWhen: 10pm-1am New Years Eve\r\nWhere: On Elgin Avenue between First and Second Streets\r\nPut a little bit of hip and historic into your New Years Eve celebration this year. Grab the kids (and feed them all manner of Pixie Stix and Fun Dip to keep them awake) and head to the Blue Dome District for some fireworks, as well as warm drinks for both the adults and the kids and beer for those 21 and over.  \r\n\r\n<h2>The New Year in Motion</h2>\r\n\r\n<strong>Race Into the New Year</strong>When: 11:45pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://tatur.org/RINY.html\">River Parks West Amphitheater</a>, 2100 W. Jackson Ave.\r\nRun from one year to the next with this sixth-annual 5K race along the Tulsa stretch of the Arkansas River. Look for a fun run, too - it\'ll start a bit earlier, at 11pm - as well as a live DJ, fireworks at the stroke of midnight, prizes and giveaways and champagne on the course. Don\'t miss out on the post-race plethora of food and drink, including black-eyed peas, cornbread, cookies and other treats. The race benefits the Tulsa Police Officers Memorial and supports <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/admiral-twin-drive-in-burns/\">the rebuilding of the Admiral Twin Drive-In</a>. The race fee is $25, or free for kids 5-11. <a href=\"https://secure.getmeregistered.com/get_information.php?event_id=3970\">Register here</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Polar Bear Plunge</strong>\r\nWhen: 1:11pm New Years Day (Get it? 1/1/11 at 1:11?)\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://tatur.org/PolarPlunge.html\">River Parks West Amphitheater</a>, 2100 W. Jackson Ave.\r\nHow big a boy are ya? If you can complete this race - a two-mile run that sends you plunging into three swimming pools - you\'ll have me convinced that you are all that is man (or woman!) for now and forever. The entry fee is $25 for those who dress in costume and $30 to those who chicken out. Look for free pizza, cold beer and drinks at the race, and the first 300 to sign up for the race get finishers\' tees. Proceeds benefit the River Parks Trail Systems. If after <a href=\"http://runnersworldtulsa.zenfolio.com/p451670097#h10dad90a\">looking at these photos from last year\'s Polar Bear Plunge</a> you still think you\'ve got what it takes, <a href=\"http://tatur.org/polarplungeregister.html\">register here</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Don\'t see your favorite NYE party on this list?</strong> No big - we can fix that. <a href=\"mailto:tasha@tashadoestulsa.com\">E-mail me with the details</a>. ','New Years Eve Tulsa 2010: Where to Celebrate','Champagne, fireworks, swanky parties, stuff to do for the kids and those silly 2011 glasses - here\'s where to get it all this New Years Eve in Tulsa.','inherit','open','open','','4166-revision-8','','','2010-12-16 00:13:49','2010-12-16 05:13:49','',4166,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4166-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(2743,1,'2010-10-08 07:53:29','2010-10-08 12:53:29','I\'m sorry in advance. But, I just had to share.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/0N5_y9ETTe4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/0N5_y9ETTe4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nSomething tells me we won\'t be sending this kid to engineering school, but you know what? I don\'t care. He can just stay home with me forever and ever and ever.\r\n\r\nAnd I\'ll make him something besides a corndog for dinner.','Short Arms = Corn Dog Strife','When you\'re two years old, your arms are just too short to properly enjoy a corn dog.','publish','open','open','','short-arms-corn-dog-strife','','','2010-10-08 07:53:29','2010-10-08 12:53:29','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=2743',0,'post','',8),(2744,1,'2010-10-08 07:53:09','2010-10-08 12:53:09','I\'m sorry in advance. But, I just had to share.\n\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/0N5_y9ETTe4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/0N5_y9ETTe4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\n\nSomething tells me we won\'t be sending this kid to engineering school, but you know what? I don\'t care. 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Sexy, magical things.\r\n\r\nAnd the size? It\'s enough to put you to sleep at your table.\r\n\r\nNot that that\'s a bad thing. I\'m just saying so that you\'ll know to bring a pillow along when you try Brady Tavern. Falling asleep on a bare table is just bad manners, no matter how good the burger is.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6045\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/02/brady-tavern-burger-love/dsc_1837-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6045\" title=\"Brady Tavern Downtown Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/DSC_18372-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Brady Tavern Downtown Tulsa\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'ll admit, I had mixed feelings about this restaurant opening as it was happening, and it wasn\'t because I had doubts about what it could become. It\'s hard, after all, to argue with something that <a href=\"http://www.mcnellies.com/\">the McNellie\'s Group</a> gets behind - it\'s pretty well documented in local lore that those people know a thing or two about food.\r\n\r\nBut the reason Brady Tavern opened where and when it did is because <a href=\"http://tulsafood.com/dinner/downtown-tulsa-lolas-at-the-bowery\">Lola\'s at the Bowery</a> shut its doors just weeks before the folks at McNellie\'s flipped it. The fare went from Spanish-style tapas to gourmet, chef-driven pub food.\r\n\r\nHere\'s what I\'ll say about Lola\'s: I liked the food. It lacked consistency, but more often than not, I was happy. I especially enjoyed the cakes, which were made in-house by Lola (not her real name, but since everyone else does, let\'s go with it). I\'ll always remember the huge <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3837459927/\">orange-chocolate ganache cake</a> my pal <a href=\"http://twitter.com/hwall\">Holly Wall</a> and I once bought, split and ate until all that were left were crumbs in just a matter of a couple of days.\r\n\r\nAnd then there was the miniature wedding cake Lola brought to my husband and I at our table when we were in celebrating the baby we knew we\'d have the following week. We didn\'t even order it; we told her what why we\'d come in, and she brought it to us. I loved that.\r\n\r\nBut when I began to hear reports of slow and discourteous service, I worried. When I experienced it myself, I was downright sad.\r\n\r\nIf anyone could take that space and run with it, though, it\'d be Elliot Nelson and his group. The folks in charge there have come a long way since they opened the doors to McNellie\'s Public House, up the road in the Blue Dome District at 1st and Elgin. When <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/mcnellies-group-moves-into-brady-district/\">I talked to Elliot late last year about how they drew up with the concept for Brady Tavern</a> and the excitements and challenges of moving into the Brady Arts District, he mentioned that since they\'d gone into the restaurant business, he and his partners had grown into their love for good food.\r\n\r\nI like to think of it like this: It\'s like McNellie\'s grew up, had a couple of kids, bought an SUV and a membership at a local CSA. Which, in the time since the opening of McNellie\'s in 2004 until now, is probably exactly what several of those folks did.\r\n\r\nSo, back to the burger. It\'s good. It\'s like the cousin of the burger at McNellie\'s - the cousin that went to Harvard and would drink a $20 glass of Cabernet with a Hot Pocket.\r\n\r\nAnd then there\'s this.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6046\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/02/brady-tavern-burger-love/dsc_1841-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6046\" title=\"Brady Tavern Downtown Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/DSC_18411-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Brady Tavern Downtown Tulsa\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMac and cheese. Or, as I should say, mac cooked just al dente and a variety of classy cheeses. And perfectly toasted bread crumbs.\r\n\r\nAnd, again, enough to eat and then pack a to-go box. And then eat again in the car with your fingers on the way home so that no one suspects that you could ever eat that much in a million years.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6047\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/02/brady-tavern-burger-love/dsc_1854/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6047\" title=\"Brady Tavern Downtown Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/DSC_18541-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Brady Tavern Downtown Tulsa\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhich was the image I was trying to portray when I visited Brady Tavern with a group of guys just as classy as my mac and cheese. I\'m really glad I played it safe, too, because as I found out later, <a href=\"http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/article.aspx?subjectID=274&articleID=20110127_457_WK9_CUTLIN983935\">someone was watching</a>.\r\n\r\nAfter all, it\'s not every day the far left side of a girl\'s face gets featured on the restaurant page in the Tulsa World. Or <a href=\"http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/article.aspx?subjectid=274&amp;articleid=20110202_371_0_Natash189547\">her appetite for chain restaurant roast beef just a few days later</a> in the same paper.\r\n\r\nI feel so famous. I mean, parts of my face feel famous. And my love of paper-thin beef isn\'t feeling too shabby, either.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6048\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/02/brady-tavern-burger-love/dsc_1843-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6048\" title=\"Brady Tavern Downtown Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/DSC_18432-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Brady Tavern Downtown Tulsa\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOther things I\'m digging about Brady Tavern:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>They kept the bar from Lola\'s, which is original to the Fox Hotel building in which Brady Tavern is now housed, and the bartender came up with pre-prohibition era-inspired cocktails. Cool.</li>\r\n	<li>Cooler: Brady Tavern offers seating at what\'s called a chef\'s table - basically, it\'s a chance to sit smack dab in the center of the craziness of a restaurant kitchen. These are getting to be pretty common along the coasts and in the bigger cities here in the U.S., but this is the first I\'ve heard of one in Tulsa. There are two at BT, and each sits 6-8. <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/jvergara\">My friend Jenny</a> had the pleasure of dining at one recently and had nothing but good things to say - which means a lot, coming from her.</li>\r\n	<li>The chef at Brady Tavern is Grant Vespasian. I became a fan of his when he worked under <a href=\"http://palacetulsa.com/\">James Shrader at Palace Cafe</a>, another of my favorite Tulsa chefs. Plus, I like saying Vespasian. Vespasian, Vespasian, Vespasian. Yes.</li>\r\n	<li>The folks at Brady Tavern bring bangers over from <a href=\"http://www.fasslerhall.com/\">Fassler Hall</a> to whip up some bangers and mash, with truffled potatoes and Irish whiskey gravy. I kid you not. And we all know that <a href=\"http://www.fasslerhall.com/\">I\'m a fan of Fassler Hall</a>. I mean, it\'s hard to argue with a good wiener.</li>\r\n	<li>Brady Tavern now offers a brunch service on Sundays from 10am-2pm. And I know how much you Tulsans love your brunch. We\'re a brunch-loving city if there ever was one.</li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.bradytavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Tavern_Dinner_02-18-113.pdf\">Bacon popcorn is on the appetizers menu</a>. And then there\'s <a href=\"http://www.bradytavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Brady_cocktailwine.pdf\">a bacon-infused old-fashioned on the cocktails menu</a>. It\'s OK, I\'ll wait while you mop your brains off your keyboards. My mind exploded when I realized this, too.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nBut you might not want to bother until you comb through these:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.bradytavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Tavern_Lunch_01_21_11.pdf\">Here\'s the lunch menu</a>.</li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.bradytavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Tavern_Dinner_02-18-113.pdf\">Here\'s the dinner menu</a>.</li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.bradytavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Brady_cocktailwine.pdf\">Here\'s the cocktail menu</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nHave you been to Brady Tavern? What\'d you have? What\'d you like? What didn\'t you like? If you had the burger, let me know if you think it deserves a spot on the list of Tulsa\'s bests.\r\n\r\nIf you hated it, well, you can slide it on down the bar to me. As my grandma always always said, a burger saved is a burger earned. I\'d like to think that goes double for the Tavern Burger.\r\n\r\n<strong>Brady Tavern</strong>\r\n201 N. Main Street\r\nMonday-Wednesday, 11am-12pm; Thursday-Saturday, 11am-2am; Sunday, 11am-12am\r\n(918) 949-9801 (reservations for dinner recommended)\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/1567241/restaurant/Brady-Arts-District/Brady-Tavern-Tulsa\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/1567241/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Brady Tavern on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Burger Love at Brady Tavern','It\'s not exactly top secret that I\'m a big fan of the burger. 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It means the gathering of Black Friday ads in anticipation of putting some smack down in the name of low prices and hot deals. It means an afternoon on the couch after this biggest dinner you\'ll eat all year.\r\n\r\nSo, yeah, that Thanksgiving is coming right up means all of those things. But it also means that several of our city\'s lights-on events are ready and raring to go. Here\'s where to find \'em.\r\n\r\n<strong>Lights On at Rhema</strong>\r\nWhen: Wednesday, Nov. 24, 6pm\r\nWhere: Rhema Bible College, 1025 West Kenosha Street\r\nWant to see the biggest display of Christmas lights in our part of the state come on all at once? Head out to Broken Arrow for the lights on event at Rhema Bible College. My bet is that the earth shudders when enough electricity to fire up millions of lights across an entire college campus is used at once, but I don\'t know - you\'ll just have to find out for yourself. Definitely bring the kids for this one. Admission is free and open to the public.\r\n\r\n<strong>Lights On! at Utica Square</strong>\r\nWhen: Thursday, Nov. 25 (Thanksgiving Day), 6:30pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://uticasquare.com/now_showing/now_showing_lights.asp\">Utica Square</a>, east of 21st Street between Utica and Yorktown\r\nPut away the turkey, bundle up the kids, and head over to Utica Square this Thanksgiving for Tulsa\'s 43rd annual lights-on tradition. Sip on some hot chocolate as you sing your favorite holiday carols with the Founders Chorus, and don\'t forget to stop by and see Santa Claus after he lights the more than 700,000 lights adorning 175 trees at Utica Square each season. If you\'re looking to start a new family tradition this year, consider this event your top pick. Admission is free and open to the public, but you might want to get around early because parking can be, on a scale of un-crazy to absolutely insane, downright institutional.\r\n\r\n<strong>Lights On at The Blue Whale</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, Nov. 26, 5pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/bluewhalek2c66\">The Blue Whale in Catoosa</a>, just off old Route 66\r\nEver wonder what our beloved, historic Blue Whale would look like decked out in lights? Good news - you get to find out this year! When you stop in for this lights-on event, be on the look-out for Christmas music, too, as well as a lighted snack shack and ark. \r\n\r\n<strong>Lights On in the Blue Dome District</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, Nov. 26, 7pm\r\nWhere: Downtown Tulsa\'s Blue Dome District, centered on 2nd and Elgin Ave. \r\nI\'ll give you three tries to guess what color the Christmas lights are going to be in the Blue Dome District for this lights-on event, but my bet is that you\'re only gonna need one. Don\'t miss this first-ever event in downtown\'s hip, happening BDD. \r\n\r\n<strong>Holiday on the Hill</strong>\r\nWhen: Tuesday, Nov. 30, 5pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.rsu.edu/\">Rogers State University in Claremore</a>, in front of Preparatory Hall, the gold-domed building at the campus main entrance\r\nDon\'t miss Claremore\'s RSU campus go up in more than 24,000 lights while Dr. David Blakely performs a reading of the holiday classic, \"T\'was the Night Before Christmas.\" Look also for performances by the RSU Choir and preschoolers from the RSU Child Development Center. All are encouraged to bring cameras and be ready for photo ops with Santa and Hunter the Hillcat. Free hot chocolate and hot apple cider will be served. It\'s all free and open to the public. \r\n\r\n<strong>River Lights at River Parks</strong>\r\nWhen: Dec. 4, 4-6pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.riverparks.org/\">41st Street Plaza</a>, 41st Street and Riverside Drive\r\nMark your calendars now for the second-annual River Parks River Lights, a holiday lights-on celebration that lines the banks of our Arkansas River. Featured performers at the event include the Spotlight Children’s Theater Group and Team Galaxy. Admission is free and open to the public.\r\n\r\n<h3>Other places to see Christmas lights in Tulsa</h3>\r\n\r\n<strong>Garden Glow @ Philbrook</strong>\r\nWhen: Started Saturday, Nov. 20, 5pm; Continues each evening until Dec. 31\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.philbrook.org/\">Philbrook Museum or Art</a>, 2727 S. Rockford Ave.\r\nThis third-annual, free event at one of Tulsa’s cherished landmarks is not to be missed. Spend some time perusing the exhibits at Philbrook and then head outside at dusk to see thousands of lights come to life in the garden.\r\n\r\n<strong>Garden of Lights</strong>\r\nStarting date: Thursday, Nov. 25, at dusk\r\nWhere: Honor Heights Park in Muskogee\r\nCount ‘em – one million lights, baby. It takes 120 acres to contain all that Christmas cheer at Muskogee’s Honor Heights Park. The fun continues through Dec. 31.\r\n\r\n<strong>Christmas Kingdom </strong>\r\nStarting date: Thursday, Nov. 25, 6pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.okcastle.com/ChristmasKingdom.html\">The Castle of Muskogee</a>, 3400 Fern Mountain Road\r\nThere’s nothing like a 20-foot inflatable to get a person into the holiday spirit. Get that and 999 other Christmas Inflatables, along with thousands of lights, in this fourth annual, free event. Check out the horse carriage rides starting at 6pm, and don’t miss Christmas in the Garden Room, cookies and hot chocolate (nightly from 6-10pm), tractor-drawn hay rides and a visit with Father Christmas (Fridays and Saturdays, 6-9pm). Check out the full calendar of events at OKCastle.com.\r\n\r\n<strong>Woolaroc Wonderland of Lights</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, Nov. 26, dusk\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.woolaroc.org/\">Woolaroc Museum &amp; Wildlife Preserve</a>, southwest of Bartlesville\r\nEver seen a buffalo with a red, glowing nose? You just might if you head to Woolaroc for its Wonderland of Lights. See 650,000 lights, sing carols, sit back for a wagon ride and a cup of cider, see Santa and sneak a peek at the Holiday Horseman, all on Oklahoma’s own 3,700-acre wildlife preserve. Just, whatever you do, don’t tip Rudolph. Admission is $8 for guests aged 12-64 and $6 for seniors. Children 11 and under get in free.\r\n\r\n<strong>Lights on the Hill</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, Nov. 26, 6pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=144648058916499&amp;index=1\">Chandler Park</a>, 6500 W. 21st Street\r\nChandler Park will be ablaze with the sights and sounds of the holiday spirit during November and December with their annual Lights on the Hill display. The best part? You don\'t even have to get out of your car. Take a take a drive through three miles of bright lights and whimsical displays in celebration of Christmas. If in the event you do feel like braving winter temperatures and climbing out of your car, the folks at Chandler Park will offer horse-drawn carriage rides and hot chocolate. Admission is free and open to the public.\r\n\r\nStay tuned, y\'all - the annual map of where to find Christmas lights in Tulsa is coming. Too bad there\'s no Santa Tracker-like system for this thing. That\'d be pretty cool.\r\n\r\nWhere do you go to find lights-on events in Tulsa? Enlighten us (sorry, I couldn’t help myself) in the comments.\r\n\r\n<em><a href=\"http://uticasquare.com/\">Image from UticaSquare.com</a>.</em>','Lights On Events in Tulsa','Thanksgiving is upon us, Tulsa, and that can only mean one thing.','inherit','open','open','','3812-revision-17','','','2010-12-16 00:21:05','2010-12-16 05:21:05','',3812,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/3812-revision-17/',0,'revision','',0),(4511,1,'2010-11-25 14:03:22','2010-11-25 19:03:22','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3895\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/christmas-lights-on-events-in-tulsa/lg_img_9758/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3895\" title=\"Utica Square Christmas Lights\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/lg_IMG_9758-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"Utica Square Christmas Lights\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThanksgiving is upon us, Tulsa, and that can only mean one thing.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\nActually, it means lots of things. It means frantic trips to grocery stores-turned-mine fields. It means the gathering of Black Friday ads in anticipation of putting some smack down in the name of low prices and hot deals. It means an afternoon on the couch after this biggest dinner you\'ll eat all year.\r\n\r\nSo, yeah, that Thanksgiving is coming right up means all of those things. But it also means that several of our city\'s lights-on events are ready and raring to go. Here\'s where to find \'em.\r\n\r\n<strong>Lights On at Rhema</strong>\r\nWhen: Wednesday, Nov. 24, 6pm\r\nWhere: Rhema Bible College, 1025 West Kenosha Street\r\nWant to see the biggest display of Christmas lights in our part of the state come on all at once? Head out to Broken Arrow for the lights on event at Rhema Bible College. My bet is that the earth shudders when enough electricity to fire up millions of lights across an entire college campus is used at once, but I don\'t know - you\'ll just have to find out for yourself. Definitely bring the kids for this one. Admission is free and open to the public.\r\n\r\n<strong>Lights On! at Utica Square</strong>\r\nWhen: Thursday, Nov. 25 (Thanksgiving Day), 6:30pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://uticasquare.com/now_showing/now_showing_lights.asp\">Utica Square</a>, east of 21st Street between Utica and Yorktown\r\nPut away the turkey, bundle up the kids, and head over to Utica Square this Thanksgiving for Tulsa\'s 43rd annual lights-on tradition. Sip on some hot chocolate as you sing your favorite holiday carols with the Founders Chorus, and don\'t forget to stop by and see Santa Claus after he lights the more than 700,000 lights adorning 175 trees at Utica Square each season. If you\'re looking to start a new family tradition this year, consider this event your top pick. Admission is free and open to the public, but you might want to get around early because parking can be, on a scale of un-crazy to absolutely insane, downright institutional.\r\n\r\n<strong>Lights On at The Blue Whale</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, Nov. 26, 5pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/bluewhalek2c66\">The Blue Whale in Catoosa</a>, just off old Route 66\r\nEver wonder what our beloved, historic Blue Whale would look like decked out in lights? Good news - you get to find out this year! When you stop in for this lights-on event, be on the look-out for Christmas music, too, as well as a lighted snack shack and ark. \r\n\r\n<strong>Lights On in the Blue Dome District</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, Nov. 26, 7pm\r\nWhere: Downtown Tulsa\'s Blue Dome District, centered on 2nd and Elgin Ave. \r\nI\'ll give you three tries to guess what color the Christmas lights are going to be in the Blue Dome District for this lights-on event, but my bet is that you\'re only gonna need one. Don\'t miss this first-ever event in downtown\'s hip, happening BDD. \r\n\r\n<strong>Holiday on the Hill</strong>\r\nWhen: Tuesday, Nov. 30, 5pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.rsu.edu/\">Rogers State University in Claremore</a>, in front of Preparatory Hall, the gold-domed building at the campus main entrance\r\nDon\'t miss Claremore\'s RSU campus go up in more than 24,000 lights while Dr. David Blakely performs a reading of the holiday classic, \"T\'was the Night Before Christmas.\" Look also for performances by the RSU Choir and preschoolers from the RSU Child Development Center. All are encouraged to bring cameras and be ready for photo ops with Santa and Hunter the Hillcat. Free hot chocolate and hot apple cider will be served. It\'s all free and open to the public. \r\n\r\n<strong>River Lights at River Parks</strong>\r\nWhen: Dec. 4, 4-6pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.riverparks.org/\">41st Street Plaza</a>, 41st Street and Riverside Drive\r\nMark your calendars now for the second-annual River Parks River Lights, a holiday lights-on celebration that lines the banks of our Arkansas River. Featured performers at the event include the Spotlight Children’s Theater Group and Team Galaxy. Admission is free and open to the public.\r\n\r\n<h3>Other places to see Christmas lights in Tulsa</h3>\r\n\r\n<strong>Garden Glow @ Philbrook</strong>\r\nWhen: Started Saturday, Nov. 20, 5pm; Continues each evening until Dec. 31\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.philbrook.org/\">Philbrook Museum or Art</a>, 2727 S. Rockford Ave.\r\nThis third-annual, free event at one of Tulsa’s cherished landmarks is not to be missed. Spend some time perusing the exhibits at Philbrook and then head outside at dusk to see thousands of lights come to life in the garden.\r\n\r\n<strong>Garden of Lights</strong>\r\nStarting date: Thursday, Nov. 25, at dusk\r\nWhere: Honor Heights Park in Muskogee\r\nCount ‘em – one million lights, baby. It takes 120 acres to contain all that Christmas cheer at Muskogee’s Honor Heights Park. The fun continues through Dec. 31.\r\n\r\n<strong>Christmas Kingdom </strong>\r\nStarting date: Thursday, Nov. 25, 6pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.okcastle.com/ChristmasKingdom.html\">The Castle of Muskogee</a>, 3400 Fern Mountain Road\r\nThere’s nothing like a 20-foot inflatable to get a person into the holiday spirit. Get that and 999 other Christmas Inflatables, along with thousands of lights, in this fourth annual, free event. Check out the horse carriage rides starting at 6pm, and don’t miss Christmas in the Garden Room, cookies and hot chocolate (nightly from 6-10pm), tractor-drawn hay rides and a visit with Father Christmas (Fridays and Saturdays, 6-9pm). Check out the full calendar of events at OKCastle.com.\r\n\r\n<strong>Woolaroc Wonderland of Lights</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, Nov. 26, dusk\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.woolaroc.org/\">Woolaroc Museum &amp; Wildlife Preserve</a>, southwest of Bartlesville\r\nEver seen a buffalo with a red, glowing nose? You just might if you head to Woolaroc for its Wonderland of Lights. See 650,000 lights, sing carols, sit back for a wagon ride and a cup of cider, see Santa and sneak a peek at the Holiday Horseman, all on Oklahoma’s own 3,700-acre wildlife preserve. Just, whatever you do, don’t tip Rudolph. Admission is $8 for guests aged 12-64 and $6 for seniors. Children 11 and under get in free.\r\n\r\n<strong>Lights on the Hill</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, Nov. 26, 6pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=144648058916499&amp;index=1\">Chandler Park</a>, 6500 W. 21st Street\r\nChandler Park will be ablaze with the sights and sounds of the holiday spirit during November and December with their annual Lights on the Hill display. The best part? You don\'t even have to get out of your car. Take a take a drive through three miles of bright lights and whimsical displays in celebration of Christmas. If in the event you do feel like braving winter temperatures and climbing out of your car, the folks at Chandler Park will offer horse-drawn carriage rides and hot chocolate. Admission is free and open to the public.\r\n\r\nStay tuned, y\'all - the annual map of where to find Christmas lights in Tulsa is coming. Too bad there\'s no Santa Tracker-like system for this thing. That\'d be pretty cool.\r\n\r\nWhere do you go to find lights-on events in Tulsa? Enlighten us (sorry, I couldn’t help myself) in the comments.\r\n\r\n<em><a href=\"http://uticasquare.com/\">Image from UticaSquare.com</a>.</em>','Lights On Events in Tulsa','Thanksgiving is upon us, Tulsa, and that can only mean one thing.','inherit','open','open','','3812-revision-16','','','2010-11-25 14:03:22','2010-11-25 19:03:22','',3812,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3812-revision-16/',0,'revision','',0),(4510,1,'2010-12-15 15:15:42','2010-12-15 20:15:42','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Paul Petrov of the Ballet Russe, backstage at the JC Williamson New Year\'s Eve party, Theatre Royal, Sydney, 31 December 1936 / Sam Hood by State Library of New South Wales collection, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/3612597734/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3210/3612597734_a03c7f0fe0.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Petrov of the Ballet Russe, backstage at the JC Williamson New Year\'s Eve party, Theatre Royal, Sydney, 31 December 1936 / Sam Hood\" width=\"500\" height=\"369\" /></a></p>\r\n\r\nChampagne, fireworks, swanky parties, stuff to do for the kids and those silly 2010 glasses - you want it all this New Year\'s Eve, and you\'ve got it right here in Tulsa. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Swanky Parties</h2>\r\n<strong>New Years Eve Gala at Crowne Plaza Hotel</strong>\r\nWhen: Starting at 4pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111159658950064&amp;index=1\">Crowne Plaza Hotel</a>, 100 E. Second Street\r\nFor one price, get every NYE party in the hotel. Here\'s the line-up: Imzadi in the Tulsa Ballroom; Mid Life Crisis in Promenade Ballroom; Brian Lee &amp; Friends in the Upper Lobby; a Texas Hold \'Em Tournament, 4pm-7pm; Access to Cigar &amp; Martini Lounge in Oklahoma Ballroom and Photos Now Photography in Lower Lobby. Call Crowne Plaza at (918) 560-2219 to reserve your spot, and if you plan on celebrating with a few glasses of champagne, be sure to ask about the room packages available.\r\n\r\n<strong>Olive Drop New Year’s Party</strong>\r\nWhen: Starting at 7pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"/\">Price Tower Arts Center in Bartlesville</a>\r\nEnjoy a five-course meal prepared by Outlaws Gourmet Catering, drinks at Copper Bar, and a complimentary champagne toast at midnight, when a large olive will be lowered from the top of Price Tower - which is Frank Lloyd Wright\'s only realized skyscraper, by the way - into a martini glass. Dinner reservations are available with seatings at 7pm and 9pm. Call (918) 336-1000 for room reservations and for a spot at dinner.\r\n\r\n<strong>Velo Ball</strong>\r\nWhen: Starting at 9pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.jasonperryphoto.net/?p=133\">Hey Mambo</a>, 114 N. Boston Ave.\r\nIf you\'re looking for a cycle-centric NYE party, Hey Mambo is the place to be on the last night of 2010. The evening will include a Mustache Cup Goldsprints Roller Race Tournament from Superleggera Cycling and Multisport, a live DJ, hot food from the kitchen of Hey Mambo (which is really yum, if you ask me), Pabst Blue Ribbon on tap, plenty of prizes and photography of the evening by Jason Perry Photography. The restaurant bar (cash or charge) will be in full operation for the evening, too. <a href=\"http://www.jasonperryphoto.net/?p=133\">Individual passes are $35, couples are $60</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Crystal Ball 2011: A New Years Eve Masquerade</strong>\r\nWhen: Starting at 9pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsacrystalball.com/\">Enso Bar, Electric Circus and IDL Ballroom, all at 1st and Detroit</a>\r\nGet gussied up in your finest black and white NYE attire and disguise and beguile fellow revelers as you masquerade between three of the hottest clubs in Tulsa into the wee hours of the night. Entertainment includes the beats of the Panic! Crew, Steve Club and DJ Dilation &amp; Jimm-A. <a href=\"http://www.ticketstorm.com/event/skyyvodkapresentscrystalball2011anewyearsevemasquerade/idlballroom/tulsa/5868/\">Tickets are $15 per person or $20 per couple, and VIP packages are $25 per person, $40 per couple</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>New Years Eve Speakeasy</strong>\r\nWhen: Starting at 9pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://cosmo-cafe.com/\">Cosmo Cafe &amp; Bar</a>, 3334 S. Peoria Ave.\r\nBe prepared to be transported back to the era of classy attire, sexy jazz and stiff drinks. While you’re partying like it’s 1929, check out free champagne toast at midnight, accompanied by what Cosmo called “fancy stuff on crackers.” Heck, yes. Plus, if you show up in a 1920s get-up, you’ll get a bonus party favor.\r\n\r\n<h2>Performances</h2>\r\n\r\n<strong>Sylvia Browne</strong>\r\nWhen: 8pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.milliondollarelm.com/event-center\">Osage Event Center</a>, 951 W. 36 Street North\r\nAlways wanted to have your most pressing, personal questions answered by a psychic? This NYE is your chance. Tickets to see Sylvia are $30, or you can pay $100 and guarantee that you\'ll have your question answered. Stay tuned for the book signing after the lecture.\r\n\r\n<h2>For a Family-Friendly New Years Eve</h2>\r\n\r\n<strong>THE Party! Hahn Appliance Warehouse New Year\'s Eve on Brookside</strong>\r\nWhen: Starting at 9pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"https://www.newyearsevetulsa.com/pages.aspx?pageid=1\">Brookside (Peoria Avenue) between 36th and 39th Streets</a>\r\nThis second-ever event brought the community together last year to share in the excitement of a Times Square-esque, free outdoor street party complete with a lighted ball drop, fireworks, bands and entertainment, and they\'re going to do it even bigger and better to ring in 2011. A choice of outdoor and indoor activities along Brookside guarantees participants of all ages to can comfortably enjoy the festivities, even if our Oklahoma weather rears its ugly head. Look for live entertainment from Eric and the Adams (one of my favorite Tulsa bands) on an outdoor stage and dancing in the VIP Party Tent (<a href=\"https://www.newyearsevetulsa.com/Purchase_Tickets.aspx\">tickets to which are $75 per</a>). All proceeds raised by THE Party will benefit the <a href=\"http://www.cfbeo.org/\">Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>New Years Eve in the Blue Dome District</strong>\r\nWhen: 10pm-1am New Years Eve\r\nWhere: On Elgin Avenue between First and Second Streets\r\nPut a little bit of hip and historic into your New Years Eve celebration this year. Grab the kids (and feed them all manner of Pixie Stix and Fun Dip to keep them awake) and head to the Blue Dome District for some fireworks, as well as warm drinks for both the adults and the kids and beer for those 21 and over.  \r\n\r\n<h2>The New Year in Motion</h2>\r\n\r\n<strong>Race Into the New Year</strong>When: 11:45pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://tatur.org/RINY.html\">River Parks West Amphitheater</a>, 2100 W. Jackson Ave.\r\nRun from one year to the next with this sixth-annual 5K race along the Tulsa stretch of the Arkansas River. Look for a fun run, too - it\'ll start a bit earlier, at 11pm - as well as a live DJ, fireworks at the stroke of midnight, prizes and giveaways and champagne on the course. Don\'t miss out on the post-race plethora of food and drink, including black-eyed peas, cornbread, cookies and other treats. The race benefits the Tulsa Police Officers Memorial and supports <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/admiral-twin-drive-in-burns/\">the rebuilding of the Admiral Twin Drive-In</a>. The race fee is $25, or free for kids 5-11. <a href=\"https://secure.getmeregistered.com/get_information.php?event_id=3970\">Register here</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Polar Bear Plunge</strong>\r\nWhen: 1:11pm New Years Day (Get it? 1/1/11 at 1:11?)\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://tatur.org/PolarPlunge.html\">River Parks West Amphitheater</a>, 2100 W. Jackson Ave.\r\nHow big a boy are ya? If you can complete this race - a two-mile run that sends you plunging into three swimming pools - you\'ll have me convinced that you are all that is man (or woman!) for now and forever. The entry fee is $25 for those who dress in costume and $30 to those who chicken out. Look for free pizza, cold beer and drinks at the race, and the first 300 to sign up for the race get finishers\' tees. Proceeds benefit the River Parks Trail Systems. If after <a href=\"http://runnersworldtulsa.zenfolio.com/p451670097#h10dad90a\">looking at these photos from last year\'s Polar Bear Plunge</a> you still think you\'ve got what it takes, <a href=\"http://tatur.org/polarplungeregister.html\">register here</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Don\'t see your favorite NYE party on this list?</strong> No big - we can fix that. <a href=\"mailto:tasha@tashadoestulsa.com\">E-mail me with the details</a>. ','New Years Eve Tulsa 2010: Where to Celebrate','Champagne, fireworks, swanky parties, stuff to do for the kids and those silly 2011 glasses - here\'s where to get it all this New Years Eve in Tulsa.','inherit','open','open','','4166-revision-7','','','2010-12-15 15:15:42','2010-12-15 20:15:42','',4166,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4166-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(3626,1,'2010-11-11 12:08:40','2010-11-11 17:08:40','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3619\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/tulsa-veterans-day-freebies/dsc_1644-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3619\" title=\"Veterans Day Memorial Park Cemetery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Veterans Day Memorial Park Cemetery\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMy husband served in the Oklahoma Army National Guard for nine years. During that time he saw two overseas deployments and was part of some of the first troops on the ground after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. In fact, that\'s where he was for our first wedding anniversary, trying to help that city dig itself out from under one of the costliest and deadliest natural disasters in American history.\r\n\r\nLong story short: The man deserves some free food. So does the vet in your life. Here\'s where to find some in Tulsa.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<strong>Abuelo\'s Mexican Food</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 10909 East 71st Street\r\nService members and vets can buy one entree and two drinks and get second entree of equal or lesser value free.\r\n\r\n<strong>Applebee\'s Neighborhood Grill</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 4733 South Yale Avenue; 11104 East 41st Street; 9409 East 71st Street; 10461 South Memorial Drive\r\nAll vets and active duty military eat free from a limited menu today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Chili\'s</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 7212 South Olympia Avenue; 9009 East 71st Street\r\nVeterans and active duty dine for free from a special limited six item menu.\r\n\r\n<strong>Golden Corral</strong>\r\nWhere: 8144 East 21st Street; 9711 East 71st Street\r\nGolden Corral Restaurants’ Military Appreciation Monday free dinner will be available November 15 (NOT Veteran\'s Day), 5-9pm. Military retirees, veterans, active duty, National Guard and Reserves are all welcome.\r\n\r\n<strong>Hooters</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 8108 East 61st Street\r\nAll Veterans and active duty eat free. The free entrees must be selected from a special Vet er ans Day menu.\r\n\r\n<strong>Krispy Kreme</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 10128 East 71st Street\r\nAll active-duty, retirees and veterans get a free doughnut today. And yes, we verified that the Tulsa KK is participating - personally. Yum, yum.\r\n\r\n<strong>Outback Steakhouse</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 4723 South Yale Avenue; 9006 East 71st Street; 9710 Riverside Drive\r\nVeterans and active-duty military get a complimen­tary Bloomin’ Onion and non-alcoholic beverage today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Texas Roadhouse</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 11111 East 71st Street\r\nVets and service members get a free meal from opening until 4pm today.\r\n\r\n<strong>T.G.I. Friday’s</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 8221 East 61st Street; 7777 East Apache Street; 5359 East 41st Street\r\nVeterans and Service members can buy one get one free starting today and through the 14th.\r\n\r\n<strong>Arby\'s</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: There\'s lots - <a href=\"http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=arby\'s+tulsa,+OK&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8#q=arby%27s+tulsa,+OK&amp;hl=en&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;prmd=ivmc&amp;source=univ&amp;tbs=plcs:1&amp;tbo=u&amp;ei=9h_cTKrFFonQsAOXm7TlAw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=local_group&amp;ct=more-results&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CCoQtQMwAA&amp;fp=be246f9d44b1f219\">check here for a list/map</a>\r\nVets and service members get a free regular roast beef sandwich with military ID today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Lambrusco\'z</strong>\r\nWhere: 1344 East 41st Street\r\nVets and service members can enjoy a free dessert today. \r\n\r\n<strong>The Canebrake</strong>\r\nWhere: 33241 E. 732nd Road in Wagoner\r\nVets and service members eat free at The Canebrake any night this week or brunch on Sunday. \r\n\r\n\r\nKnow of any others? Leave details in the comments.\r\n\r\n<em><a href=\"http://militaryadvantage.military.com/2010/11/veterans-day-discounts/\">Source: Military.com</a></em>','Veteran\'s Day Freebies in Tulsa','The vet/service member in your life deserves some free food. Where\'s where to find some in Tulsa.','inherit','open','open','','3618-revision-6','','','2010-11-11 12:08:40','2010-11-11 17:08:40','',3618,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3618-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(3628,1,'2010-11-11 12:10:11','2010-11-11 17:10:11','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3619\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/tulsa-veterans-day-freebies/dsc_1644-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3619\" title=\"Veterans Day Memorial Park Cemetery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Veterans Day Memorial Park Cemetery\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMy husband served in the Oklahoma Army National Guard for nine years. During that time he saw two overseas deployments and was part of some of the first troops on the ground after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. In fact, that\'s where he was for our first wedding anniversary, trying to help that city dig itself out from under one of the costliest and deadliest natural disasters in American history.\r\n\r\nLong story short: The man deserves some free food. So does the vet in your life. Here\'s where to find some in Tulsa.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<strong>Abuelo\'s Mexican Food</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 10909 East 71st Street\r\nService members and vets can buy one entree and two drinks and get second entree of equal or lesser value free.\r\n\r\n<strong>Applebee\'s Neighborhood Grill</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 4733 South Yale Avenue; 11104 East 41st Street; 9409 East 71st Street; 10461 South Memorial Drive\r\nAll vets and active duty military eat free from a limited menu today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Chili\'s</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 7212 South Olympia Avenue; 9009 East 71st Street\r\nVeterans and active duty dine for free from a special limited six item menu.\r\n\r\n<strong>Golden Corral</strong>\r\nWhere: 8144 East 21st Street; 9711 East 71st Street\r\nGolden Corral Restaurants’ Military Appreciation Monday free dinner will be available November 15 (NOT Veteran\'s Day), 5-9pm. Military retirees, veterans, active duty, National Guard and Reserves are all welcome.\r\n\r\n<strong>Hooters</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 8108 East 61st Street\r\nAll Veterans and active duty eat free. The free entrees must be selected from a special Vet er ans Day menu.\r\n\r\n<strong>Krispy Kreme</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 10128 East 71st Street\r\nAll active-duty, retirees and veterans get a free doughnut today. And yes, we verified that the Tulsa KK is participating - personally. Yum, yum.\r\n\r\n<strong>Outback Steakhouse</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 4723 South Yale Avenue; 9006 East 71st Street; 9710 Riverside Drive\r\nVeterans and active-duty military get a complimen­tary Bloomin’ Onion and non-alcoholic beverage today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Texas Roadhouse</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 11111 East 71st Street\r\nVets and service members get a free meal from opening until 4pm today.\r\n\r\n<strong>T.G.I. Friday’s</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 8221 East 61st Street; 7777 East Apache Street; 5359 East 41st Street\r\nVeterans and Service members can buy one get one free starting today and through the 14th.\r\n\r\n<strong>Arby\'s</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: There\'s lots - <a href=\"http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=arby\'s+tulsa,+OK&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8#q=arby%27s+tulsa,+OK&amp;hl=en&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;prmd=ivmc&amp;source=univ&amp;tbs=plcs:1&amp;tbo=u&amp;ei=9h_cTKrFFonQsAOXm7TlAw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=local_group&amp;ct=more-results&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CCoQtQMwAA&amp;fp=be246f9d44b1f219\">check here for a list/map</a>\r\nVets and service members get a free regular roast beef sandwich with military ID today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Lambrusco\'z</strong>\r\nWhere: 1344 East 41st Street\r\nVets and service members can enjoy a free dessert today. \r\n\r\n<strong>The Canebrake</strong>\r\nWhere: 33241 E. 732nd Road in Wagoner\r\nVets and service members eat free at The Canebrake any night this week or brunch on Sunday. \r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s</strong>\r\nWhere: 12140 East 96th Street North in Owasso\r\nVets and service members get 50 percent off with a military ID. \r\n\r\nKnow of any others? Leave details in the comments.\r\n\r\n<em><a href=\"http://militaryadvantage.military.com/2010/11/veterans-day-discounts/\">Source: Military.com</a></em>','Veteran\'s Day Freebies in Tulsa','The vet/service member in your life deserves some free food. Where\'s where to find some in Tulsa.','inherit','open','open','','3618-revision-8','','','2010-11-11 12:10:11','2010-11-11 17:10:11','',3618,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3618-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(3629,1,'2010-11-11 12:10:11','2010-11-11 17:10:11','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3619\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/tulsa-veterans-day-freebies/dsc_1644-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3619\" title=\"Veterans Day Memorial Park Cemetery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Veterans Day Memorial Park Cemetery\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMy husband served in the Oklahoma Army National Guard for nine years. During that time he saw two overseas deployments and was part of some of the first troops on the ground after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. In fact, that\'s where he was for our first wedding anniversary, trying to help that city dig itself out from under one of the costliest and deadliest natural disasters in American history.\r\n\r\nLong story short: The man deserves some free food. So does the vet in your life. Here\'s where to find some in Tulsa.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<strong>Abuelo\'s Mexican Food</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 10909 East 71st Street\r\nService members and vets can buy one entree and two drinks and get second entree of equal or lesser value free.\r\n\r\n<strong>Applebee\'s Neighborhood Grill</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 4733 South Yale Avenue; 11104 East 41st Street; 9409 East 71st Street; 10461 South Memorial Drive\r\nAll vets and active duty military eat free from a limited menu today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Chili\'s</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 7212 South Olympia Avenue; 9009 East 71st Street\r\nVeterans and active duty dine for free from a special limited six item menu.\r\n\r\n<strong>Golden Corral</strong>\r\nWhere: 8144 East 21st Street; 9711 East 71st Street\r\nGolden Corral Restaurants’ Military Appreciation Monday free dinner will be available November 15 (NOT Veteran\'s Day), 5-9pm. Military retirees, veterans, active duty, National Guard and Reserves are all welcome.\r\n\r\n<strong>Hooters</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 8108 East 61st Street\r\nAll Veterans and active duty eat free. The free entrees must be selected from a special Vet er ans Day menu.\r\n\r\n<strong>Krispy Kreme</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 10128 East 71st Street\r\nAll active-duty, retirees and veterans get a free doughnut today. And yes, we verified that the Tulsa KK is participating - personally. Yum, yum.\r\n\r\n<strong>Outback Steakhouse</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 4723 South Yale Avenue; 9006 East 71st Street; 9710 Riverside Drive\r\nVeterans and active-duty military get a complimen­tary Bloomin’ Onion and non-alcoholic beverage today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Texas Roadhouse</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 11111 East 71st Street\r\nVets and service members get a free meal from opening until 4pm today.\r\n\r\n<strong>T.G.I. Friday’s</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 8221 East 61st Street; 7777 East Apache Street; 5359 East 41st Street\r\nVeterans and Service members can buy one get one free starting today and through the 14th.\r\n\r\n<strong>Arby\'s</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: There\'s lots - <a href=\"http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=arby\'s+tulsa,+OK&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8#q=arby%27s+tulsa,+OK&amp;hl=en&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;prmd=ivmc&amp;source=univ&amp;tbs=plcs:1&amp;tbo=u&amp;ei=9h_cTKrFFonQsAOXm7TlAw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=local_group&amp;ct=more-results&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CCoQtQMwAA&amp;fp=be246f9d44b1f219\">check here for a list/map</a>\r\nVets and service members get a free regular roast beef sandwich with military ID today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Lambrusco\'z</strong>\r\nWhere: 1344 East 41st Street\r\nVets and service members can enjoy a free dessert today. \r\n\r\n<strong>The Canebrake</strong>\r\nWhere: 33241 E. 732nd Road in Wagoner\r\nVets and service members eat free at The Canebrake any night this week or brunch on Sunday. \r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s</strong>\r\nWhere: 12140 East 96th Street North in Owasso\r\nVets and service members get 50 percent off with a military ID. \r\n\r\nKnow of any others? Leave details in the comments.\r\n\r\n<em><a href=\"http://militaryadvantage.military.com/2010/11/veterans-day-discounts/\">Source: Military.com</a></em>','Veteran\'s Day Freebies in Tulsa','The vet/service member in your life deserves some free food. Where\'s where to find some in Tulsa.','inherit','open','open','','3618-revision-9','','','2010-11-11 12:10:11','2010-11-11 17:10:11','',3618,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3618-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(3630,1,'2010-11-11 12:14:07','2010-11-11 17:14:07','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3619\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/tulsa-veterans-day-freebies/dsc_1644-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3619\" title=\"Veterans Day Memorial Park Cemetery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Veterans Day Memorial Park Cemetery\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMy husband served in the Oklahoma Army National Guard for nine years. During that time he saw two overseas deployments and was part of some of the first troops on the ground after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. In fact, that\'s where he was for our first wedding anniversary, trying to help that city dig itself out from under one of the costliest and deadliest natural disasters in American history.\r\n\r\nLong story short: The man deserves some free food. So does the vet in your life. Here\'s where to find some in Tulsa.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<strong>Abuelo\'s Mexican Food</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 10909 East 71st Street\r\nService members and vets can buy one entree and two drinks and get second entree of equal or lesser value free.\r\n\r\n<strong>Applebee\'s Neighborhood Grill</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 4733 South Yale Avenue; 11104 East 41st Street; 9409 East 71st Street; 10461 South Memorial Drive\r\nAll vets and active duty military eat free from a limited menu today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Chili\'s</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 7212 South Olympia Avenue; 9009 East 71st Street\r\nVeterans and active duty dine for free from a special limited six item menu.\r\n\r\n<strong>Golden Corral</strong>\r\nWhere: 8144 East 21st Street; 9711 East 71st Street\r\nGolden Corral Restaurants’ Military Appreciation Monday free dinner will be available November 15 (NOT Veteran\'s Day), 5-9pm. Military retirees, veterans, active duty, National Guard and Reserves are all welcome.\r\n\r\n<strong>Hooters</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 8108 East 61st Street\r\nAll Veterans and active duty eat free. The free entrees must be selected from a special Vet er ans Day menu.\r\n\r\n<strong>Krispy Kreme</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 10128 East 71st Street\r\nAll active-duty, retirees and veterans get a free doughnut today. And yes, we verified that the Tulsa KK is participating - personally. Yum, yum.\r\n\r\n<strong>Outback Steakhouse</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 4723 South Yale Avenue; 9006 East 71st Street; 9710 Riverside Drive\r\nVeterans and active-duty military get a complimen­tary Bloomin’ Onion and non-alcoholic beverage today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Texas Roadhouse</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 11111 East 71st Street\r\nVets and service members get a free meal from opening until 4pm today.\r\n\r\n<strong>T.G.I. Friday’s</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: 8221 East 61st Street; 7777 East Apache Street; 5359 East 41st Street\r\nVeterans and Service members can buy one get one free starting today and through the 14th.\r\n\r\n<strong>Arby\'s</strong>\r\nWhere in Tulsa: There\'s lots - <a href=\"http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=arby\'s+tulsa,+OK&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8#q=arby%27s+tulsa,+OK&amp;hl=en&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;prmd=ivmc&amp;source=univ&amp;tbs=plcs:1&amp;tbo=u&amp;ei=9h_cTKrFFonQsAOXm7TlAw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=local_group&amp;ct=more-results&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CCoQtQMwAA&amp;fp=be246f9d44b1f219\">check here for a list/map</a>\r\nVets and service members get a free regular roast beef sandwich with military ID today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Lambrusco\'z</strong>\r\nWhere: 1344 East 41st Street\r\nVets and service members can enjoy a free dessert today. \r\n\r\n<strong>The Canebrake</strong>\r\nWhere: 33241 E. 732nd Road in Wagoner\r\nVets and service members eat free at The Canebrake any night this week or brunch on Sunday. \r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s</strong>\r\nWhere: 12140 East 96th Street North in Owasso\r\nVets and service members get 50 percent off with a military ID. \r\n\r\nKnow of any others? Leave details in the comments.\r\n\r\n<em><a href=\"http://militaryadvantage.military.com/2010/11/veterans-day-discounts/\">Source: Military.com</a></em>','Veteran\'s Day Freebies in Tulsa','The vet/service member in your life deserves some free food. Where\'s where to find some in Tulsa.','inherit','open','open','','3618-revision-10','','','2010-11-11 12:14:07','2010-11-11 17:14:07','',3618,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3618-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(3632,1,'2010-11-11 12:27:05','2010-11-11 17:27:05','','Kupcakz','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_1726','','','2010-11-11 12:27:05','2010-11-11 17:27:05','',3581,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1726.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3633,1,'2010-11-11 12:27:32','2010-11-11 17:27:32','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3632\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3632\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1726-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Kupcakz\" title=\"Kupcakz\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3632\" /></a>\n\nAt least, as of late, that’s how it seems. Within the past year, at least three new specialty cupcake shops have come to town, each with its own style, flair and strategy for competing in our midsized, Midwest market.\n\nGet the scoop on the cupcake invasion <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/industry_article.asp?cID=i&aID=66744196.7411265.675376.6759547.6541238.809&aID2=51943\">on the Food page in the latest edition of Tulsa Business Journal</a>.','Cupcake bakers compete for Tulsa\'s sweet tooth','When it comes to cake, Tulsa bakers prefer to make them a cup at a time.','inherit','open','open','','3581-revision','','','2010-11-11 12:27:32','2010-11-11 17:27:32','',3581,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3581-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(3634,1,'2010-11-11 12:28:12','2010-11-11 17:28:12','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3632\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3632\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1726-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Kupcakz\" title=\"Kupcakz\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3632\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAt least, as of late, that’s how it seems. Within the past year, at least three new specialty cupcake shops have come to town, each with its own style, flair and strategy for competing in our midsized, Midwest market.\r\n\r\nGet the scoop on the cupcake invasion <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/industry_article.asp?cID=i&aID=66744196.7411265.675376.6759547.6541238.809&aID2=51943\">on the Food page in the latest edition of Tulsa Business Journal</a>.','Cupcake bakers compete for Tulsa\'s sweet tooth','When it comes to cake, Tulsa bakers prefer to make them a cup at a time.','inherit','open','open','','3581-revision-2','','','2010-11-11 12:28:12','2010-11-11 17:28:12','',3581,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3581-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(3635,1,'2010-11-11 12:28:12','2010-11-11 17:28:12','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/cupcake-invasion/dsc_1726/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3632\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1726-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Kupcakz\" title=\"Kupcakz\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3632\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAt least, as of late, that’s how it seems. Within the past year, at least three new specialty cupcake shops have come to town, each with its own style, flair and strategy for competing in our midsized, Midwest market.\r\n\r\nGet the scoop on the cupcake invasion <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/industry_article.asp?cID=i&aID=66744196.7411265.675376.6759547.6541238.809&aID2=51943\">on the Food page in the latest edition of Tulsa Business Journal</a>.','Cupcake bakers compete for Tulsa\'s sweet tooth','When it comes to cake, Tulsa bakers prefer to make them a cup at a time.','inherit','open','open','','3581-revision-3','','','2010-11-11 12:28:12','2010-11-11 17:28:12','',3581,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3581-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(3636,1,'2010-11-11 12:30:01','2010-11-11 17:30:01','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/cupcake-invasion/dsc_1726/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3632\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1726-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Kupcakz\" title=\"Kupcakz\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3632\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAt least, as of late, that’s how it seems. Within the past year, at least three new specialty cupcake shops have come to town, each with its own style, flair and strategy for competing in our midsized, Midwest market.\r\n\r\nGet the scoop on the cupcake invasion <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/industry_article.asp?cID=i&aID=66744196.7411265.675376.6759547.6541238.809&aID2=51943\">on the Food page in the latest edition of Tulsa Business Journal</a>.','Cupcake bakers compete for Tulsa\'s sweet tooth','When it comes to cake, Tulsa bakers prefer to make them a cup at a time.','inherit','open','open','','3581-revision-4','','','2010-11-11 12:30:01','2010-11-11 17:30:01','',3581,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3581-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(3637,1,'2010-11-10 17:43:15','2010-11-10 22:43:15','<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4109884404/\" title=\"Philbrook Museum Gardens by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2677/4109884404_291e7acc9c.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum Gardens\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWelcome to Tulsa Kids Day Out, Second-Edition-Ever Edition! You\'re really gonna love the featured event this week. Know how I know? Because thousands (and thousands and thousands) of other Tulsa families do, too.\r\n\r\nGet out your calendars, parents, and <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/?q=tulsa-kids-day-out-free-second-saturday-philbrook-museum\">read all about it on my blog at TulsaKids.com</a>.','Tulsa Kids Day Out (Second-Edition-Ever Edition)','You\'re really gonna love the featured event this week. Know how I know? Because thousands (and thousands and thousands) of other Tulsa families do, too.','inherit','open','open','','3582-revision-2','','','2010-11-10 17:43:15','2010-11-10 22:43:15','',3582,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3582-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(4509,1,'2010-12-15 15:16:51','2010-12-15 20:16:51','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"510\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=117565210651590258383.00049624b5c89fed91591&amp;ll=36.578041,-95.61676&amp;spn=1.837229,3.348083&amp;iwloc=00049624ba4ac927b2a76&amp;output=embed\"></iframe><br /><small>View <a href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=117565210651590258383.00049624b5c89fed91591&amp;ll=36.578041,-95.61676&amp;spn=1.837229,3.348083&amp;iwloc=00049624ba4ac927b2a76&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">Get Your Lights On 2010</a> in a larger map</small></p>\r\n\r\nPut down that mammoth wad of Christmas lights - not even Clark Griswold would touch it with a ten-foot pole. \r\n\r\nInstead, brighten these wintry, early-occurring evenings that come to Tulsa at this time of year by taking your friends, family and that special someone on a tour of the millions - yes, <em>millions</em> - of little lights twinkling in and around town.\r\n\r\nHere\'s where to find \'em. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4142040433/\" title=\"Rhema Christmas Light Display by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2765/4142040433_ffab3dc2c3.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Rhema Christmas Light Display\" /></a></p>\r\n\r\n<strong>Christmas Lights at Rhema Bible College</strong>\r\nWhen: Now-Christmas\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.rhema.org/\">Rhema Bible College</a>, 1025 West Kenosha Street\r\nWant to see the largest display of Christmas lights in our part of the state? Head out to Rhema Bible College in Broken Arrow, where the folks there have been making the Tulsa area visible from space for 28 years and counting. My bet is that the earth shudders when enough electricity to fire up nearly 2 million lights across an entire college campus is used at once, but you\'ll never know unless you go see for yourself. Admission is free and open to the public, but you might want to bring some cash for a cup of hot chocolate or cider. The kicker? Once you fight the traffic and find parking, there really isn\'t one.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4156215289/\" title=\"Utica Square by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2533/4156215289_19a7f8989a.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Utica Square\" /></a></p>\r\n\r\n<strong>Christmas Lights at Utica Square</strong>\r\nWhen: Now-Christmas\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://uticasquare.com/now_showing/now_showing_lights.asp\">Utica Square</a>, east of 21st Street between Utica and Yorktown\r\nSip on some hot chocolate, take a stroll with the fam and take in the magic that is the 700,000 white Christmas lights twinkling in 175 trees at our park-like Utica Square. Don\'t forget to stop by and see Santa Claus on your way out. Pro tip: The larger-than-life nutcrackers make excellent backdrops for photos of both the awkward family and zany variety. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/things-to-do-in-tulsa-this-weekend-26/dsc_1794/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3983\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1794-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"The Blue Whale Christmas\" title=\"The Blue Whale Christmas\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3983\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Christmas Lights at The Blue Whale on Route 66</strong>\r\nWhen: Now-Christmas\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/bluewhalek2c66\">The Blue Whale in Catoosa</a>, just off old Route 66\r\nEver wonder what our beloved, historic Blue Whale would look like decked out in lights? Good news - you get to find out this year! Simply hit Route 66 to Catoosa - you can\'t miss it. And don\'t you dare forget that camera.\r\n\r\n<strong>Christmas Lights in the Blue Dome District</strong>\r\nWhen: Now-Christmas\r\nWhere: Downtown Tulsa\'s Blue Dome District, centered on 2nd and Elgin Ave. \r\nI\'ll give you three tries to guess what color the Christmas lights are going to be in the Blue Dome District for this lights-on event, but my bet is that you\'re only gonna need one. Don\'t miss this first-ever holiday lights display in downtown\'s hip and happening BDD. \r\n\r\n<strong>Christmas Kingdom </strong>\r\nWhen: Now-New Year\'s Eve, 6-10pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.okcastle.com/ChristmasKingdom.html\">The Castle of Muskogee</a>, 3400 Fern Mountain Road\r\nThere’s nothing like a 20-foot inflatable to get a person into the holiday spirit. Get that and 999 other Christmas Inflatables along with thousands of lights in this fifth-annual free event. Check out the horse carriage rides, the chance to make a Christmas tree ornament with Santa\'s Elves, tractor-drawn hay rides and even a visit with Father Christmas while you\'re there. <a href=\"http://www.okcastle.com/ChristmasKingdom.html\">Check out the full range of things to do at Christmas Kingdom here</a>.\r\n\r\n<object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/6wMtsKj6_Qs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"></param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"></param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/6wMtsKj6_Qs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\n<strong>Garden Glow @ Philbrook</strong>\r\nWhen: Started Saturday, Nov. 20, 5pm; Continues each evening until Dec. 31\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.philbrook.org/\">Philbrook Museum or Art</a>, 2727 S. Rockford Ave.\r\nThis third-annual event at one of Tulsa’s cherished landmarks is not to be missed. Spend some time perusing the exhibits at Philbrook and then head outside at dusk to see thousands of lights come to life in the garden.\r\n\r\n<strong>Garden of Lights</strong>\r\nStarting date: Now-Dec. 31\r\nWhere: Honor Heights Park in Muskogee\r\nCount ‘em – one million lights, baby. It takes 120 acres to contain all that Christmas cheer at Muskogee’s Honor Heights Park. The fun continues through Dec. 31.\r\n\r\n<strong>Holiday on the Hill</strong>\r\nWhen: Now-Christmas\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.rsu.edu/\">Rogers State University in Claremore</a>, in front of Preparatory Hall, the gold-domed building at the campus main entrance\r\nDon\'t miss Claremore\'s RSU campus go up in more than 24,000 lights while Dr. David Blakely performs a reading of the holiday classic, \"T\'was the Night Before Christmas.\" Look also for performances by the RSU Choir and preschoolers from the RSU Child Development Center. All are encouraged to bring cameras and be ready for photo ops with Santa and Hunter the Hillcat. Free hot chocolate and hot apple cider will be served. It\'s all free and open to the public. \r\n\r\n<strong>Lights on the Hill</strong>\r\nWhen: Now-Christmas\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=144648058916499&amp;index=1\">Chandler Park</a>, 6500 W. 21st Street\r\nChandler Park will be ablaze with the sights and sounds of the holiday spirit during November and December with their annual Lights on the Hill display. The best part? You don\'t even have to get out of your car. Take a take a drive through three miles of bright lights and whimsical displays in celebration of Christmas. If in the event you do feel like braving winter temperatures and climbing out of your car, the folks at Chandler Park will offer horse-drawn carriage rides and hot chocolate. Admission is free and open to the public.\r\n\r\n<strong>River Lights at River Parks</strong>\r\nWhen: Dec. 4, 4-6pm, until Christmas\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.riverparks.org/\">41st Street Plaza</a>, 41st Street and Riverside Drive\r\nMark your calendars now for the second-annual River Parks River Lights, a holiday lights-on celebration that lines the banks of our Arkansas River. Featured performers at the event include the Spotlight Children’s Theater Group and Team Galaxy. Admission is free and open to the public. And can you imagine how the Arkansas\'s gonna look as it reflects the glow of a smattering of Christmas lights? Ah. Perfect-o. \r\n\r\n<strong>Winterfest</strong>\r\nWhen: Now-Jan. 2\r\nWhere: 3rd and Frisco, just outside the BOK Center in downtown Tulsa\r\nWanna see the largest Christmas tree in the entire state of Oklahoma, bedecked with more than 35,000 lights? Then you\'ve gotta check out the new and improved third annual Winterfest celebration in downtown Tulsa. While you\'re there, relish the chance to ice skate outdoors (not always a sure thing when it comes to winter in Oklahoma) on a 9,000-square-foot ice rink, live entertainment, photo ops with the Segway Santa, amusement park-style rides and trips through the glittering streets of downtown by horse-drawn carriage. <a href=\"http://www.bokcenter.com//default.asp?bok=223&urlkeyword=Winterfest%202010\">Get the full scoop on what\'s going on at Winterfest right here</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Woolaroc Wonderland of Lights</strong>\r\nWhen: Now-Christmas\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.woolaroc.org/\">Woolaroc Museum &amp; Wildlife Preserve</a>, southwest of Bartlesville\r\nEver seen a buffalo with a red, glowing nose? You just might if you head to Woolaroc for its Wonderland of Lights. See 650,000 lights, sing carols, sit back for a wagon ride and a cup of cider, see Santa and sneak a peek at the Holiday Horseman, all on Oklahoma’s own 3,700-acre wildlife preserve. Whatever you do, don’t tip a sleeping Rudolph.\r\n\r\nSo. Where do you go to find lights-on events in Tulsa? Enlighten us (sorry, I couldn’t help myself) in the comments.','Get Your Lights On 2010: Where to Find Christmas Lights in Tulsa','Brighten these wintry, early-occurring evenings that come to Tulsa at this time of year by taking your friends, family and that special someone on a tour of the millions - yes, <em>millions</em> - of little lights twinkling in and around town. Here\'s where to find \'em. ','inherit','open','open','','4027-revision-19','','','2010-12-15 15:16:51','2010-12-15 20:16:51','',4027,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4027-revision-19/',0,'revision','',0),(4508,1,'2010-11-29 10:05:24','2010-11-29 15:05:24','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"510\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=117565210651590258383.00049624b5c89fed91591&amp;ll=36.578041,-95.61676&amp;spn=1.837229,3.348083&amp;iwloc=00049624ba4ac927b2a76&amp;output=embed\"></iframe><br /><small>View <a href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=117565210651590258383.00049624b5c89fed91591&amp;ll=36.578041,-95.61676&amp;spn=1.837229,3.348083&amp;iwloc=00049624ba4ac927b2a76&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">Get Your Lights On 2010</a> in a larger map</small></p>\r\n\r\nPut down that mammoth wad of Christmas lights - not even Clark Griswold would touch it with a ten-foot pole. \r\n\r\nInstead, brighten these wintry, early-occurring evenings that come to Tulsa at this time of year by taking your friends, family and that special someone on a tour of the millions - yes, <em>millions</em> - of little lights twinkling in and around town.\r\n\r\nHere\'s where to find \'em. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4142040433/\" title=\"Rhema Christmas Light Display by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2765/4142040433_ffab3dc2c3.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Rhema Christmas Light Display\" /></a></p>\r\n\r\n<strong>Christmas Lights at Rhema Bible College</strong>\r\nWhen: Now-Christmas\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.rhema.org/\">Rhema Bible College</a>, 1025 West Kenosha Street\r\nWant to see the largest display of Christmas lights in our part of the state? Head out to Rhema Bible College in Broken Arrow, where the folks there have been making the Tulsa area visible from space for 28 years and counting. My bet is that the earth shudders when enough electricity to fire up nearly 2 million lights across an entire college campus is used at once, but you\'ll never know unless you go see for yourself. Admission is free and open to the public, but you might want to bring some cash for a cup of hot chocolate or cider. The kicker? Once you fight the traffic and find parking, there really isn\'t one.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4156215289/\" title=\"Utica Square by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2533/4156215289_19a7f8989a.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Utica Square\" /></a></p>\r\n\r\n<strong>Christmas Lights at Utica Square</strong>\r\nWhen: Now-Christmas\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://uticasquare.com/now_showing/now_showing_lights.asp\">Utica Square</a>, east of 21st Street between Utica and Yorktown\r\nSip on some hot chocolate, take a stroll with the fam and take in the magic that is the 700,000 white Christmas lights twinkling in 175 trees at our park-like Utica Square. Don\'t forget to stop by and see Santa Claus on your way out. Pro tip: The larger-than-life nutcrackers make excellent backdrops for photos of both the awkward family and zany variety. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/things-to-do-in-tulsa-this-weekend-26/dsc_1794/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3983\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1794-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"The Blue Whale Christmas\" title=\"The Blue Whale Christmas\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3983\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Christmas Lights at The Blue Whale on Route 66</strong>\r\nWhen: Now-Christmas\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/bluewhalek2c66\">The Blue Whale in Catoosa</a>, just off old Route 66\r\nEver wonder what our beloved, historic Blue Whale would look like decked out in lights? Good news - you get to find out this year! Simply hit Route 66 to Catoosa - you can\'t miss it. And don\'t you dare forget that camera.\r\n\r\n<strong>Christmas Lights in the Blue Dome District</strong>\r\nWhen: Now-Christmas\r\nWhere: Downtown Tulsa\'s Blue Dome District, centered on 2nd and Elgin Ave. \r\nI\'ll give you three tries to guess what color the Christmas lights are going to be in the Blue Dome District for this lights-on event, but my bet is that you\'re only gonna need one. Don\'t miss this first-ever holiday lights display in downtown\'s hip and happening BDD. \r\n\r\n<strong>Christmas Kingdom </strong>\r\nWhen: Now-New Year\'s Eve, 6-10pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.okcastle.com/ChristmasKingdom.html\">The Castle of Muskogee</a>, 3400 Fern Mountain Road\r\nThere’s nothing like a 20-foot inflatable to get a person into the holiday spirit. Get that and 999 other Christmas Inflatables along with thousands of lights in this fifth-annual free event. Check out the horse carriage rides, the chance to make a Christmas tree ornament with Santa\'s Elves, tractor-drawn hay rides and even a visit with Father Christmas while you\'re there. <a href=\"http://www.okcastle.com/ChristmasKingdom.html\">Check out the full range of things to do at Christmas Kingdom here</a>.\r\n\r\n<object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/6wMtsKj6_Qs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"></param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"></param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/6wMtsKj6_Qs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\n<strong>Garden Glow @ Philbrook</strong>\r\nWhen: Started Saturday, Nov. 20, 5pm; Continues each evening until Dec. 31\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.philbrook.org/\">Philbrook Museum or Art</a>, 2727 S. Rockford Ave.\r\nThis third-annual event at one of Tulsa’s cherished landmarks is not to be missed. Spend some time perusing the exhibits at Philbrook and then head outside at dusk to see thousands of lights come to life in the garden.\r\n\r\n<strong>Garden of Lights</strong>\r\nStarting date: Now-Dec. 31\r\nWhere: Honor Heights Park in Muskogee\r\nCount ‘em – one million lights, baby. It takes 120 acres to contain all that Christmas cheer at Muskogee’s Honor Heights Park. The fun continues through Dec. 31.\r\n\r\n<strong>Holiday on the Hill</strong>\r\nWhen: Now-Christmas\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.rsu.edu/\">Rogers State University in Claremore</a>, in front of Preparatory Hall, the gold-domed building at the campus main entrance\r\nDon\'t miss Claremore\'s RSU campus go up in more than 24,000 lights while Dr. David Blakely performs a reading of the holiday classic, \"T\'was the Night Before Christmas.\" Look also for performances by the RSU Choir and preschoolers from the RSU Child Development Center. All are encouraged to bring cameras and be ready for photo ops with Santa and Hunter the Hillcat. Free hot chocolate and hot apple cider will be served. It\'s all free and open to the public. \r\n\r\n<strong>Lights on the Hill</strong>\r\nWhen: Now-Christmas\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=144648058916499&amp;index=1\">Chandler Park</a>, 6500 W. 21st Street\r\nChandler Park will be ablaze with the sights and sounds of the holiday spirit during November and December with their annual Lights on the Hill display. The best part? You don\'t even have to get out of your car. Take a take a drive through three miles of bright lights and whimsical displays in celebration of Christmas. If in the event you do feel like braving winter temperatures and climbing out of your car, the folks at Chandler Park will offer horse-drawn carriage rides and hot chocolate. Admission is free and open to the public.\r\n\r\n<strong>River Lights at River Parks</strong>\r\nWhen: Dec. 4, 4-6pm, until Christmas\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.riverparks.org/\">41st Street Plaza</a>, 41st Street and Riverside Drive\r\nMark your calendars now for the second-annual River Parks River Lights, a holiday lights-on celebration that lines the banks of our Arkansas River. Featured performers at the event include the Spotlight Children’s Theater Group and Team Galaxy. Admission is free and open to the public. And can you imagine how the Arkansas\'s gonna look as it reflects the glow of a smattering of Christmas lights? Ah. Perfect-o. \r\n\r\n<strong>Winterfest</strong>\r\nWhen: Now-Jan. 2\r\nWhere: 3rd and Frisco, just outside the BOK Center in downtown Tulsa\r\nWanna see the largest Christmas tree in the entire state of Oklahoma, bedecked with more than 35,000 lights? Then you\'ve gotta check out the new and improved third annual Winterfest celebration in downtown Tulsa. While you\'re there, relish the chance to ice skate outdoors (not always a sure thing when it comes to winter in Oklahoma) on a 9,000-square-foot ice rink, live entertainment, photo ops with the Segway Santa, amusement park-style rides and trips through the glittering streets of downtown by horse-drawn carriage. <a href=\"http://www.bokcenter.com//default.asp?bok=223&urlkeyword=Winterfest%202010\">Get the full scoop on what\'s going on at Winterfest right here</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Woolaroc Wonderland of Lights</strong>\r\nWhen: Now-Christmas\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.woolaroc.org/\">Woolaroc Museum &amp; Wildlife Preserve</a>, southwest of Bartlesville\r\nEver seen a buffalo with a red, glowing nose? You just might if you head to Woolaroc for its Wonderland of Lights. See 650,000 lights, sing carols, sit back for a wagon ride and a cup of cider, see Santa and sneak a peek at the Holiday Horseman, all on Oklahoma’s own 3,700-acre wildlife preserve. Whatever you do, don’t tip a sleeping Rudolph.\r\n\r\nSo. Where do you go to find lights-on events in Tulsa? Enlighten us (sorry, I couldn’t help myself) in the comments.','Get Your Lights On 2010: Where to Find Christmas Lights in Tulsa','Brighten these wintry, early-occurring evenings that come to Tulsa at this time of year by taking your friends, family and that special someone on a tour of the millions - yes, <em>millions</em> - of little lights twinkling in and around town. Here\'s where to find \'em. ','inherit','open','open','','4027-revision-18','','','2010-11-29 10:05:24','2010-11-29 15:05:24','',4027,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/4027-revision-18/',0,'revision','',0),(4507,1,'2010-12-15 15:16:12','2010-12-15 20:16:12','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/tasha-does-tulsa-gift-guide-2010/blu_grey_gradient_gallery/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3917\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/blu_grey_gradient_gallery-500x500.jpg\" alt=\"TDT Gift Guide 2010\" title=\"TDT Gift Guide 2010\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3917\" /></a>\r\n\r\n\"Great,\" you\'re saying under your breath. \"Another *insert expletive here* holiday gift guide - I need another one of these like I need a hole in my head.\" \r\n\r\nYeah, I know. The gift guides, they\'re everywhere, especially if you receive mail and have access to the Internet. And hopefully, here in the year 2010, most of us fall into at least one of those two categories. \r\n\r\nBut no where else you\'ll find a gift guide as beefy, as star-studded, as Tulsa-centric as this. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\nIt\'s been so tough not to leak any details of this year\'s gift guide. As you\'re about to find out, they are oh-so-juicy. I\'ve somehow managed to keep it all under wraps. \r\n\r\nThat is, until right now, at this moment.\r\n\r\nFirst I want to tell you about the <strong>celebrity-curated portions of the 2010 TDT Gift Guide</strong>. I\'ve invited a select few Tulsa people of note and coolness to share with us their picks for the top local gifts this holiday season. A few of these folks have already turned in their lists and let me tell you, you\'re gonna need to get your awesome goggles and your billfolds ready. \r\n\r\n<strong>You\'ll be hearing from me this year, too</strong>. I\'ll have my picks of top Tulsa gifts in categories like best for guys, the tastiest treats for the locavore on your list and presents for your loved ones that also give back to the community. \r\n\r\nThat <strong>you\'ll have a few chances to win some of the gifts featured here on the 2010 TDT Gift Guide</strong> is an added bonus that I think we can all appreciate. Because who doesn\'t love getting free stuff in exchange for shopping local? It\'s a pretty great deal, if you ask me. \r\n\r\nBut wait! There\'s more. \r\n\r\nA reason I hear pretty often from folks who grimace when I start in on <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/this-holiday-season-shop-tulsa/\">my whole shop local rant</a> is that compared to shopping online, shopping local is inconvenient. It involves driving a car, walking around a store and, most uncomfortable, wearing pants. Online shopping requires none of these things. \r\n\r\nAnd I think anyone in his/her right mind could admit that being able to shop for anything one could imagine while wearing nothing but the suit the man upstairs sent with us into this world is pretty rad. \r\n\r\n<strong>But what if you could both shop local <em>and</em> never leave your house?</strong> Then you could have what you love about shopping online and shopping local all at the same time, without any of the bullcrap that decreases the awesomeness of either experience. \r\n\r\nThanks to a new partnership between <a href=\"http://www.youbuywefly918.com/\">You Buy We Fly 918</a> and <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/\">TashaDoesTulsa.com</a>, you can. <strong>And you can save 10 percent doing it.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/tasha-does-tulsa-gift-guide-2010/ybwf-green/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4223\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/YBWF-green-500x282.jpg\" alt=\"You Buy We Fly\" title=\"You Buy We Fly\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4223\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAll you have to have to do to get the 10 percent discount with the folks at You Buy We Fly is get an idea of what it is you want from a Tulsa-based vendor, the YBWF phone number and the code that\'s available no where else but here at TDT. \r\n\r\n<strong>The You Buy We Fly number:</strong> (918) 906-0063\r\n<strong>The code</strong>: LOVERS SHOP LOCAL\r\n\r\nThat\'s it! Now you can look like a shop local hero without lifting a finger - all of your local-tastic gifts will be delivered right to your door. Everyone\'s going to want to be more like you. You might want to start looking for an agent, actually. \r\n\r\nStay tuned for the first installments of the TDT Gift Guide 2010, one from me and one from one of our guest celebrity curators. \r\n\r\nIn the meantime, feel free to check out last year\'s gift guide. The items mentioned there are still available and would look just as good clad in gift wrap this year as they did in 2009. \r\n\r\n<strong>TDT Gift Guide 2009</strong>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/11/dwelling-spaces-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2009/\">Dwelling Spaces</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/11/art-of-manliness-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2009/\">The Art of Manliness</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/11/sage-culinary-studio-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2009/\">Sage Culinary Studio</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/11/fresh-blend-handmade-boutique-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2009/\">Fresh Blend Handmade Boutique</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/11/abc-in-tulsa-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2009/\">ABC in Tulsa</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/12/philbrook-gift-shop-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2009/\">Philbrook Gift Shop</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/12/tulsa-snow-globe-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2009/\">Tulsa Snow Globe</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/12/breast-impressions-calendar-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2009/\">Breast Impressions Calendar</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/12/best-tulsa-memberships-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2009/\">Best Tulsa Memberships</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/12/tulsa-tshirt-tdt-holiday-gift-guide/\">The Tulsa T-Shirt</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/12/tulsa-ballet-the-nutcracker-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2009/\">Tulsa Ballet\'s The Nutcracker</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/12/gardners-used-books-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2009/\">Gardner\'s Used Books & Comics</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/12/original-man-candle-gadget-company-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2009/\">The Original Man Candle</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/12/holiday-gift-guide-cigar-box/\">The Cigar Box</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/12/last-minute-local-holiday-gift-ideas/\">Last-Minute Local Holiday Gift Ideas</a>\r\n\r\nHave fun shopping, y\'all - more in a bit! ','The Tasha Does Tulsa Gift Guide 2010','No where else you\'ll find a gift guide as beefy, as star-studded, as Tulsa-centric as this. ','inherit','open','open','','4016-revision-14','','','2010-12-15 15:16:12','2010-12-15 20:16:12','',4016,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4016-revision-14/',0,'revision','',0),(4506,1,'2010-12-03 18:05:43','2010-12-03 23:05:43','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/tasha-does-tulsa-gift-guide-2010/blu_grey_gradient_gallery/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3917\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/blu_grey_gradient_gallery-500x500.jpg\" alt=\"TDT Gift Guide 2010\" title=\"TDT Gift Guide 2010\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3917\" /></a>\r\n\r\n\"Great,\" you\'re saying under your breath. \"Another *insert expletive here* holiday gift guide - I need another one of these like I need a hole in my head.\" \r\n\r\nYeah, I know. The gift guides, they\'re everywhere, especially if you receive mail and have access to the Internet. And hopefully, here in the year 2010, most of us fall into at least one of those two categories. \r\n\r\nBut no where else you\'ll find a gift guide as beefy, as star-studded, as Tulsa-centric as this. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\nIt\'s been so tough not to leak any details of this year\'s gift guide. As you\'re about to find out, they are oh-so-juicy. I\'ve somehow managed to keep it all under wraps. \r\n\r\nThat is, until right now, at this moment.\r\n\r\nFirst I want to tell you about the <strong>celebrity-curated portions of the 2010 TDT Gift Guide</strong>. I\'ve invited a select few Tulsa people of note and coolness to share with us their picks for the top local gifts this holiday season. A few of these folks have already turned in their lists and let me tell you, you\'re gonna need to get your awesome goggles and your billfolds ready. \r\n\r\n<strong>You\'ll be hearing from me this year, too</strong>. I\'ll have my picks of top Tulsa gifts in categories like best for guys, the tastiest treats for the locavore on your list and presents for your loved ones that also give back to the community. \r\n\r\nThat <strong>you\'ll have a few chances to win some of the gifts featured here on the 2010 TDT Gift Guide</strong> is an added bonus that I think we can all appreciate. Because who doesn\'t love getting free stuff in exchange for shopping local? It\'s a pretty great deal, if you ask me. \r\n\r\nBut wait! There\'s more. \r\n\r\nA reason I hear pretty often from folks who grimace when I start in on <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/this-holiday-season-shop-tulsa/\">my whole shop local rant</a> is that compared to shopping online, shopping local is inconvenient. It involves driving a car, walking around a store and, most uncomfortable, wearing pants. Online shopping requires none of these things. \r\n\r\nAnd I think anyone in his/her right mind could admit that being able to shop for anything one could imagine while wearing nothing but the suit the man upstairs sent with us into this world is pretty rad. \r\n\r\n<strong>But what if you could both shop local <em>and</em> never leave your house?</strong> Then you could have what you love about shopping online and shopping local all at the same time, without any of the bullcrap that decreases the awesomeness of either experience. \r\n\r\nThanks to a new partnership between <a href=\"http://www.youbuywefly918.com/\">You Buy We Fly 918</a> and <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/\">TashaDoesTulsa.com</a>, you can. <strong>And you can save 10 percent doing it.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/tasha-does-tulsa-gift-guide-2010/ybwf-green/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4223\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/YBWF-green-500x282.jpg\" alt=\"You Buy We Fly\" title=\"You Buy We Fly\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4223\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAll you have to have to do to get the 10 percent discount with the folks at You Buy We Fly is get an idea of what it is you want from a Tulsa-based vendor, the YBWF phone number and the code that\'s available no where else but here at TDT. \r\n\r\n<strong>The You Buy We Fly number:</strong> (918) 906-0063\r\n<strong>The code</strong>: LOVERS SHOP LOCAL\r\n\r\nThat\'s it! Now you can look like a shop local hero without lifting a finger - all of your local-tastic gifts will be delivered right to your door. Everyone\'s going to want to be more like you. You might want to start looking for an agent, actually. \r\n\r\nStay tuned for the first installments of the TDT Gift Guide 2010, one from me and one from one of our guest celebrity curators. \r\n\r\nIn the meantime, feel free to check out last year\'s gift guide. The items mentioned there are still available and would look just as good clad in gift wrap this year as they did in 2009. \r\n\r\n<strong>TDT Gift Guide 2009</strong>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/11/dwelling-spaces-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2009/\">Dwelling Spaces</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/11/art-of-manliness-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2009/\">The Art of Manliness</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/11/sage-culinary-studio-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2009/\">Sage Culinary Studio</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/11/fresh-blend-handmade-boutique-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2009/\">Fresh Blend Handmade Boutique</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/11/abc-in-tulsa-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2009/\">ABC in Tulsa</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/12/philbrook-gift-shop-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2009/\">Philbrook Gift Shop</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/12/tulsa-snow-globe-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2009/\">Tulsa Snow Globe</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/12/breast-impressions-calendar-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2009/\">Breast Impressions Calendar</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/12/best-tulsa-memberships-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2009/\">Best Tulsa Memberships</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/12/tulsa-tshirt-tdt-holiday-gift-guide/\">The Tulsa T-Shirt</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/12/tulsa-ballet-the-nutcracker-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2009/\">Tulsa Ballet\'s The Nutcracker</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/12/gardners-used-books-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2009/\">Gardner\'s Used Books & Comics</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/12/original-man-candle-gadget-company-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2009/\">The Original Man Candle</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/12/holiday-gift-guide-cigar-box/\">The Cigar Box</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/12/last-minute-local-holiday-gift-ideas/\">Last-Minute Local Holiday Gift Ideas</a>\r\n\r\nHave fun shopping, y\'all - more in a bit! ','The Tasha Does Tulsa Gift Guide 2010','No where else you\'ll find a gift guide as beefy, as star-studded, as Tulsa-centric as this. ','inherit','open','open','','4016-revision-13','','','2010-12-03 18:05:43','2010-12-03 23:05:43','',4016,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4016-revision-13/',0,'revision','',0),(1792,1,'2010-09-03 17:57:21','2010-09-03 22:57:21','<strong>UPDATE//</strong>Ladies and gents, we have a winner!\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1813\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/melting-pot-football-fondue/picture-2-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1813\" title=\"Melting Pot Contest Winner\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Picture-2.png\" alt=\"Melting Pot Contest Winner\" width=\"165\" height=\"189\" /></a>\n\nJennifer Bare, you\'re holding the 6th entry - congrats! <a href=\"mailto:tasha@tashadoestulsa.com\">E-mail me</a> within 24 hours (it\'s 6pm on Friday now) to claim your prize.\n\nThanks to all for playing, and don\'t forget - there are only 40 spots open for Fondue and Football nights at The Melting Pot. Get \'em while they\'re hot!\n\n<strong>//</strong>\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1768\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/melting-pot-football-fondue/dsc_1276/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1768\" title=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1276-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nStop me if you\'ve heard this one (and if you\'re in Oklahoma, odds are 99.99 percent that you have): Football season in this state starts as <a href=\"http://www.soonersports.com/\">OU</a> and <a href=\"http://www.okstate.com/\">OSU</a> kick off this Saturday night. As in, just two days from now.\n\nSay it with me: Wooooooooooooooo! Football!\n\nAnd I meant all 15 of the o\'s, y\'all.\n\nAs much as I know how we Okies love to sit around a TV blaring the latest college or NFL game with a bowl of hot wings in one hand and a bowl of ranch dressing in the other, I know about a way to take your football spectating to the next level: <strong>the Fondue and Football series at </strong><a href=\"http://www.meltingpot.com/default.aspx\"><strong>The Melting Pot, at 300 Riverwalk Terrace in Jenks</strong></a>.\n\n<!--more-->Fondue and Football will be a way to share your love of football - the same love that compels you to do things like paint your face in your team\'s colors even when you\'re watching the game from home or to tackle anyone who walks in front of the flatscreen during gametime - with your bewildered and uninitiated loved ones.\n\nThe event, which lasts until the end of this month, kicks off next Thursday, Sept. 9, with <strong>Football Training Night</strong>.\n\nI just love that in a city like Tulsa, we can do stuff like combine our football and our fondue. We\'re <a href=\"http://ww3.tulsachamber.com/general.asp?id=334\">comfortably cosmopolitan</a> like that. Plus, lots of traditional football season foods translate to the world of fondue. For example, if you love chips and queso on game day, my bet is that you\'ll dig the cheese fondue at The Melting Pot.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1773\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/melting-pot-football-fondue/dsc_1312/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1773\" title=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1312.jpg\" alt=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nAnd probably the chocolate fondue, too.\n\nIn fact, it\'s hard not to like fondue. As a glance through the dining room at The Melting Pot on a Friday night will attest, a lot of people have serious trouble staying away from the stuff.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1772\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/melting-pot-football-fondue/dsc_1309/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1772\" title=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1309.jpg\" alt=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1771\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/melting-pot-football-fondue/dsc_1284/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1771\" title=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1284.jpg\" alt=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nLet\'s just put it this way: That this smile and that fondue pot appear in the same photo is not exactly a coincidence.\n\nFootball Training Night will be led by Steve Smith, a voice you\'ll remember from the KBEZ Morning Show. Steve\'s presentation from 7-9pm will give the significant others, friends and children of football fanatics a crash course in basic game rules, common terms and plays so that even if they don\'t pull up a chair to join their loved one every time there\'s a pigskin on TV, they\'ll at least know what all the hollering is about.\n\nOn the giant projection screen at The Melting Pot that night will be the NFL season opener, the Minnesota Vikings vs. the New Orleans Saints. Kickoff is at 7:30pm.\n\nOh, and another thing? Anyone who signs up for a Fondue and Football event this month (the events on Sept. 13th, 20th and 27th) is entered into a drawing for a tour of Marshall Brewery, which is right here in Tulsa near downtown at 6th and Wheeling. If you win this prize - personally, I\'d pay the $35 ticket price just for a chance at this - you get to invite seven of your buds to go with you.\n\nAnd then you\'ll be their favorite person. For forever. The winner of this contest will be chosen Sept. 27.\n\nBy the way, beginning at 5pm attendees of the Fondue and Football events on Sept. 13th, 20th and 27th get deals on beer from Marshall Brewing Company. Keep in mind that The Melting Pot is one of the few restaurants in Tulsa that carries all four of the main Marshall beers - Sundown Wheat, Atlas IPA, McNellie\'s Pub Ale and Old Pavilion Pilsner. So, that\'s a pretty nice bonus.\n\nYou\'d better get your tickets to Football Training Night and Fondue and Football while they\'re hot, y\'all, because there are only 40 spots open at each event.\n\nSo, here\'s what you do. Go ahead and grab a pair of tickets to Football Training Night. Then, enter to win <strong>a football fondue set, a cookbook from The Melting Pot and a pair of tickets to the Football Training Night event on Sept. 9</strong> (a prize package worth about $100).\n\n<img src=\"http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41mTnu0vFfL._SS500_.jpg\" alt=\"\" />\n\nCute, right?\n\nIf you win, you\'ll have a pair of tickets to give to one of your brothers in the fraternal order of football fans. You\'ll also have a bunch of stuff to keep and treasure. And to not tell your friends about. Because if you do, especially after they\'re welcomed to the world of fondue, they\'ll probably try to tackle you to the ground and steal it.\n\nEntering to win is simple. <strong>Simply leave a comment on this post before 3pm on Friday, Sept. 3</strong>. And, you\'re done.\n\nI\'ll announce the winners as chosen by <a href=\"http://www.Random.org\">Random.org</a> before 5pm on Friday. Good luck, everybody!\n\n<strong>The Melting Pot</strong>\nWhere: 300 Riverwalk Terrace, Ste. 190, at the RiverWalk Crossing in Jenks\nCall: (918) 299-8000\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.TheMeltingPot.com\">TheMeltingPot.com</a>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630934/restaurant/Tulsa/Southern-Hills/Melting-Pot-Jenks\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630934/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Melting Pot on Urbanspoon\" /></a>\n\n<em>Tasha\'s note: This giveaway is sponsored by The Melting Pot at RiverWalk Crossing in Jenks.</em>','The Melting Pot: Have Some Fondue with Your Football (Plus, a Giveaway)','Enter to win a football fondue set, a cookbook from The Melting Pot and a pair of tickets to the Football Training Night event on Sept. 9. Sharing is totally, completely optional. ','inherit','open','open','','1766-autosave','','','2010-09-03 17:57:21','2010-09-03 22:57:21','',1766,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/1766-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(1793,1,'2010-09-02 14:08:14','2010-09-02 19:08:14','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1768\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/melting-pot-football-fondue/dsc_1276/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1768\" title=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1276-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nStop me if you\'ve heard this one (and if you\'re in Oklahoma, odds are 99.99 percent that you have): Football season in this state starts as <a href=\"http://www.soonersports.com/\">OU</a> and <a href=\"http://www.okstate.com/\">OSU</a> kick off this Saturday night. As in, just two days from now.\r\n\r\nSay it with me: Wooooooooooooooo! Football!\r\n\r\nAnd I meant all 15 of the o\'s, y\'all.\r\n\r\nAs much as I know how we Okies love to sit around a TV blaring the latest college or NFL game with a bowl of hot wings in one hand and a bowl of ranch dressing in the other, I know about a way to take your football spectating to the next level: <strong>the Fondue and Football series at </strong><a href=\"http://www.meltingpot.com/default.aspx\"><strong>The Melting Pot, at 300 Riverwalk Terrace in Jenks</strong></a>.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->Fondue and Football will be a way to share your love of football - the same love that compels you to do things like paint your face in your team\'s colors even when you\'re watching the game from home or to tackle anyone who walks in front of the flatscreen during gametime - with your bewildered and uninitiated loved ones.\r\n\r\nThe event, which lasts until the end of this month, kicks off next Thursday, Sept. 9, with <strong>Football Training Night</strong>.\r\n\r\nI just love that in a city like Tulsa, we can do stuff like combine our football and our fondue. We\'re <a href=\"http://ww3.tulsachamber.com/general.asp?id=334\">comfortably cosmopolitan</a> like that. Plus, lots of traditional football season foods translate to the world of fondue. For example, if you love chips and queso on game day, my bet is that you\'ll dig the cheese fondue at The Melting Pot.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1773\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/melting-pot-football-fondue/dsc_1312/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1773\" title=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1312.jpg\" alt=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd probably the chocolate fondue, too.\r\n\r\nIn fact, it\'s hard not to like fondue. As a glance through the dining room at The Melting Pot on a Friday night will attest, a lot of people have serious trouble staying away from the stuff.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1772\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/melting-pot-football-fondue/dsc_1309/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1772\" title=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1309.jpg\" alt=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1771\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/melting-pot-football-fondue/dsc_1284/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1771\" title=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1284.jpg\" alt=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLet\'s just put it this way: That this smile and that fondue pot appear in the same photo is not exactly a coincidence.\r\n\r\nFootball Training Night will be led by Steve Smith, a voice you\'ll remember from the KBEZ Morning Show. Steve\'s presentation from 7-9pm will give the significant others, friends and children of football fanatics a crash course in basic game rules, common terms and plays so that even if they don\'t pull up a chair to join their loved one every time there\'s a pigskin on TV, they\'ll at least know what all the hollering is about.\r\n\r\nOn the giant projection screen at The Melting Pot that night will be the NFL season opener, the Minnesota Vikings vs. the New Orleans Saints. Kickoff is at 7:30pm.\r\n\r\nOh, and another thing? Anyone who signs up for a Fondue and Football event this month is entered into a drawing for a tour of Marshall Brewery, which is right here in Tulsa near downtown at 6th and Wheeling. If you win this prize - personally, I\'d pay the $35 ticket price just for a chance at this - you get to invite seven of your buds to go with you.\r\n\r\nAnd then you\'ll be their favorite person. For forever. The winner of this contest will be chosen Sept. 27.\r\n\r\nBy the way, beginning at 5pm Fondue and Football attendees get deals on beer from Marshall Brewing Company. Keep in mind that The Melting Pot is one of the few restaurants in Tulsa that carries all four of the main Marshall beers - Sundown Wheat, Atlas IPA, McNellie\'s Pub Ale and Old Pavilion Pilsner. So, that\'s a pretty nice bonus.\r\n\r\nYou\'d better get your tickets to Football Training Night and Fondue and Football while they\'re hot, y\'all, because there are only 40 spots open at each event.\r\n\r\nSo, here\'s what you do. Go ahead and grab a pair of tickets to Football Training Night. Then, enter to win <strong>a football fondue set, a cookbook from The Melting Pot and a pair of tickets to the Football Training Night event on Sept. 9</strong> (a prize package worth about $100).\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41mTnu0vFfL._SS500_.jpg\" alt=\"\" />\r\n\r\nCute, right?\r\n\r\nIf you win, you\'ll have a pair of tickets to give to one of your brothers in the fraternal order of football fans. You\'ll also have a bunch of stuff to keep and treasure. And to not tell your friends about. Because if you do, especially after they\'re welcomed to the world of fondue, they\'ll probably try to tackle you to the ground and steal it.\r\n\r\nEntering to win is simple. <strong>Simply leave a comment on this post before 3pm on Friday, Sept. 3</strong>. And, you\'re done.\r\n\r\nI\'ll announce the winners as chosen by <a href=\"http://www.Random.org\">Random.org</a> before 5pm on Friday. Good luck, everybody!\r\n\r\n<strong>The Melting Pot</strong>\r\nWhere: 300 Riverwalk Terrace, Ste. 190, at the RiverWalk Crossing in Jenks\r\nCall: (918) 299-8000\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.TheMeltingPot.com\">TheMeltingPot.com</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630934/restaurant/Tulsa/Southern-Hills/Melting-Pot-Jenks\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630934/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Melting Pot on Urbanspoon\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<em>Tasha\'s note: This giveaway is sponsored by The Melting Pot at RiverWalk Crossing in Jenks.</em>','The Melting Pot: Have Some Fondue with Your Football (Plus, a Giveaway)','Enter to win a football fondue set, a cookbook from The Melting Pot and a pair of tickets to the Football Training Night event on Sept. 9. Sharing is totally, completely optional. ','inherit','open','open','','1766-revision-5','','','2010-09-02 14:08:14','2010-09-02 19:08:14','',1766,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/1766-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(1794,1,'2010-09-03 08:43:11','2010-09-03 13:43:11','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1768\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/melting-pot-football-fondue/dsc_1276/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1768\" title=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1276-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nStop me if you\'ve heard this one (and if you\'re in Oklahoma, odds are 99.99 percent that you have): Football season in this state starts as <a href=\"http://www.soonersports.com/\">OU</a> and <a href=\"http://www.okstate.com/\">OSU</a> kick off this Saturday night. As in, just two days from now.\r\n\r\nSay it with me: Wooooooooooooooo! Football!\r\n\r\nAnd I meant all 15 of the o\'s, y\'all.\r\n\r\nAs much as I know how we Okies love to sit around a TV blaring the latest college or NFL game with a bowl of hot wings in one hand and a bowl of ranch dressing in the other, I know about a way to take your football spectating to the next level: <strong>the Fondue and Football series at </strong><a href=\"http://www.meltingpot.com/default.aspx\"><strong>The Melting Pot, at 300 Riverwalk Terrace in Jenks</strong></a>.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->Fondue and Football will be a way to share your love of football - the same love that compels you to do things like paint your face in your team\'s colors even when you\'re watching the game from home or to tackle anyone who walks in front of the flatscreen during gametime - with your bewildered and uninitiated loved ones.\r\n\r\nThe event, which lasts until the end of this month, kicks off next Thursday, Sept. 9, with <strong>Football Training Night</strong>.\r\n\r\nI just love that in a city like Tulsa, we can do stuff like combine our football and our fondue. We\'re <a href=\"http://ww3.tulsachamber.com/general.asp?id=334\">comfortably cosmopolitan</a> like that. Plus, lots of traditional football season foods translate to the world of fondue. For example, if you love chips and queso on game day, my bet is that you\'ll dig the cheese fondue at The Melting Pot.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1773\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/melting-pot-football-fondue/dsc_1312/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1773\" title=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1312.jpg\" alt=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd probably the chocolate fondue, too.\r\n\r\nIn fact, it\'s hard not to like fondue. As a glance through the dining room at The Melting Pot on a Friday night will attest, a lot of people have serious trouble staying away from the stuff.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1772\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/melting-pot-football-fondue/dsc_1309/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1772\" title=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1309.jpg\" alt=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1771\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/melting-pot-football-fondue/dsc_1284/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1771\" title=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1284.jpg\" alt=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLet\'s just put it this way: That this smile and that fondue pot appear in the same photo is not exactly a coincidence.\r\n\r\nFootball Training Night will be led by Steve Smith, a voice you\'ll remember from the KBEZ Morning Show. Steve\'s presentation from 7-9pm will give the significant others, friends and children of football fanatics a crash course in basic game rules, common terms and plays so that even if they don\'t pull up a chair to join their loved one every time there\'s a pigskin on TV, they\'ll at least know what all the hollering is about.\r\n\r\nOn the giant projection screen at The Melting Pot that night will be the NFL season opener, the Minnesota Vikings vs. the New Orleans Saints. Kickoff is at 7:30pm.\r\n\r\nOh, and another thing? Anyone who signs up for a Fondue and Football event this month (the events on Sept. 13th, 20th and 27th) is entered into a drawing for a tour of Marshall Brewery, which is right here in Tulsa near downtown at 6th and Wheeling. If you win this prize - personally, I\'d pay the $35 ticket price just for a chance at this - you get to invite seven of your buds to go with you.\r\n\r\nAnd then you\'ll be their favorite person. For forever. The winner of this contest will be chosen Sept. 27.\r\n\r\nBy the way, beginning at 5pm attendees of the Fondue and Football events on Sept. 13th, 20th and 27th get deals on beer from Marshall Brewing Company. Keep in mind that The Melting Pot is one of the few restaurants in Tulsa that carries all four of the main Marshall beers - Sundown Wheat, Atlas IPA, McNellie\'s Pub Ale and Old Pavilion Pilsner. So, that\'s a pretty nice bonus.\r\n\r\nYou\'d better get your tickets to Football Training Night and Fondue and Football while they\'re hot, y\'all, because there are only 40 spots open at each event.\r\n\r\nSo, here\'s what you do. Go ahead and grab a pair of tickets to Football Training Night. Then, enter to win <strong>a football fondue set, a cookbook from The Melting Pot and a pair of tickets to the Football Training Night event on Sept. 9</strong> (a prize package worth about $100).\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41mTnu0vFfL._SS500_.jpg\" alt=\"\" />\r\n\r\nCute, right?\r\n\r\nIf you win, you\'ll have a pair of tickets to give to one of your brothers in the fraternal order of football fans. You\'ll also have a bunch of stuff to keep and treasure. And to not tell your friends about. Because if you do, especially after they\'re welcomed to the world of fondue, they\'ll probably try to tackle you to the ground and steal it.\r\n\r\nEntering to win is simple. <strong>Simply leave a comment on this post before 3pm on Friday, Sept. 3</strong>. And, you\'re done.\r\n\r\nI\'ll announce the winners as chosen by <a href=\"http://www.Random.org\">Random.org</a> before 5pm on Friday. Good luck, everybody!\r\n\r\n<strong>The Melting Pot</strong>\r\nWhere: 300 Riverwalk Terrace, Ste. 190, at the RiverWalk Crossing in Jenks\r\nCall: (918) 299-8000\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.TheMeltingPot.com\">TheMeltingPot.com</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630934/restaurant/Tulsa/Southern-Hills/Melting-Pot-Jenks\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630934/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Melting Pot on Urbanspoon\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<em>Tasha\'s note: This giveaway is sponsored by The Melting Pot at RiverWalk Crossing in Jenks.</em>','The Melting Pot: Have Some Fondue with Your Football (Plus, a Giveaway)','Enter to win a football fondue set, a cookbook from The Melting Pot and a pair of tickets to the Football Training Night event on Sept. 9. Sharing is totally, completely optional. ','inherit','open','open','','1766-revision-6','','','2010-09-03 08:43:11','2010-09-03 13:43:11','',1766,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/1766-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(1978,1,'2010-09-11 15:56:16','2010-09-11 20:56:16','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1990\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/tulsa-state-fair-food-corn-dogs-funnel-cakes-and-fried-fun-on-a-stick/dsc_1138/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1990\" title=\"Corn Dog Kickoff 2010\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1138.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nJust in case you see me out and about today and you\'re wondering why I look so bloated and why my skin is slick with a sheen of grease and why I smell of fried cornbread batter, I\'ll just tell you.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->Because last night, I ate this.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1992\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/tulsa-state-fair-food-corn-dogs-funnel-cakes-and-fried-fun-on-a-stick/dsc_1141/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1992\" title=\"Corn Dog Kickoff 2010\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1141.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nA foot-long, freshly battered and fried corndog. With lots of mustard.\r\n\r\nAnd a few slices of chocolate-covered cheesecake on a stick, covered in nuts. And hot wings. And beer. And funnel cake.\r\n\r\nAnd cheese on a stick, my favorite fair food of all time.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1980\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/tulsa-state-fair-food-corn-dogs-funnel-cakes-and-fried-fun-on-a-stick/dsc_1078/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1980\" title=\"Corn Dog Kickoff 2010\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1078.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nNo, the fair hasn\'t rolled into town yet. That doesn\'t happen until the 30th of this month.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1994\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/tulsa-state-fair-food-corn-dogs-funnel-cakes-and-fried-fun-on-a-stick/dsc_1156/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1994\" title=\"Corn Dog Kickoff 2010\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1156-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLast night was <a href=\"http://www.exposquare.com/index.cfm?id=19\">the 2010 Corn Dog Kick-Off</a>, a Friends of the Fairgrounds fundraising event at Expo Square. A big part of the annual event is a preview of the food that\'s going to be at the fair that year.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1982\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/tulsa-state-fair-food-corn-dogs-funnel-cakes-and-fried-fun-on-a-stick/dsc_1092/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1982\" title=\"Corn Dog Kickoff 2010\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1092.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis is one way to do it: Dress people up to look like the food, hand them some balloons, put them on roller skates and send them for a few rounds around the Pavilion.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1987\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/tulsa-state-fair-food-corn-dogs-funnel-cakes-and-fried-fun-on-a-stick/dsc_1106/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1987\" title=\"Corn Dog Kickoff 2010\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1106.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnother way is to offer the food for free to anyone willing to wait in line for it.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1986\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/tulsa-state-fair-food-corn-dogs-funnel-cakes-and-fried-fun-on-a-stick/dsc_1104/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1986\" title=\"Corn Dog Kickoff 2010\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1104.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe line for corndogs was...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1983\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/tulsa-state-fair-food-corn-dogs-funnel-cakes-and-fried-fun-on-a-stick/dsc_1093/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1983\" title=\"Corn Dog Kickoff 2010\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1093-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nKinda long.\r\n\r\nIt is the most popular food at the fair, after all.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1988\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/tulsa-state-fair-food-corn-dogs-funnel-cakes-and-fried-fun-on-a-stick/dsc_1129/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1988\" title=\"Corn Dog Kickoff 2010\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1129.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBut, who can complain when this is at the end?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1990\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/tulsa-state-fair-food-corn-dogs-funnel-cakes-and-fried-fun-on-a-stick/dsc_1138/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1990\" title=\"Corn Dog Kickoff 2010\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1138.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1989\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/tulsa-state-fair-food-corn-dogs-funnel-cakes-and-fried-fun-on-a-stick/dsc_1132/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1989\" title=\"Corn Dog Kickoff 2010\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1132.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1991\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/tulsa-state-fair-food-corn-dogs-funnel-cakes-and-fried-fun-on-a-stick/dsc_1140/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1991\" title=\"Corn Dog Kickoff 2010\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1984\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/tulsa-state-fair-food-corn-dogs-funnel-cakes-and-fried-fun-on-a-stick/dsc_1097/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1984\" title=\"Corn Dog Kickoff 2010\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1097-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1993\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/tulsa-state-fair-food-corn-dogs-funnel-cakes-and-fried-fun-on-a-stick/dsc_1150/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1993\" title=\"Corn Dog Kickoff 2010\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1150-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1992\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/tulsa-state-fair-food-corn-dogs-funnel-cakes-and-fried-fun-on-a-stick/dsc_1141/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1992\" title=\"Corn Dog Kickoff 2010\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1141.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDudes. I can\'t wait for the Tulsa State Fair.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1981\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/tulsa-state-fair-food-corn-dogs-funnel-cakes-and-fried-fun-on-a-stick/dsc_1080/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1981\" title=\"Corn Dog Kickoff 2010\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1080.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOn what are you going to gorge yourself at the fair this year?','Tulsa State Fair Food: Corn Dogs, Funnel Cakes and Fried Fun On a Stick','Dudes. I can\'t wait for the Tulsa State Fair.','publish','open','open','','tulsa-state-fair-food-corn-dogs-funnel-cakes-and-fried-fun-on-a-stick','','','2010-09-11 16:08:02','2010-09-11 21:08:02','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=1978',0,'post','',3),(1796,1,'2010-09-03 15:13:25','2010-09-03 20:13:25','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1797\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/admiral-twin-drive-in-burns/dsc_0752/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1797\" title=\"Admiral Twin\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_0752-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Admiral Twin\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTDT isn\'t in the breaking news business, but today presented a sad exception to the rule.\r\n\r\nToday the Admiral Twin Drive-In Theater, a relic of 1950s automobile culture and one of Tulsa\'s prized pieces of Americana, burned to the ground.\r\n\r\nFrom <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/\">KRMG</a>:\r\n<blockquote>The smoke plume could be seen for miles...A cause is not immediately known. The theater looks to be a total loss.</blockquote>\r\nTulsa\'s  local news stations have video and photos:\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=13098236\">KOTV Channel 6</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.ktul.com/Global/story.asp?S=13098286\">KTUL Channel 8</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.kjrh.com/dpp/news/local_news/admiral-twin-drive-in-on-fire\">KJRH Channel 2</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.fox23.com/news/local/story/Admiral-Twin-Drive-In-Has-Burnt-Down/UL4ZTX8mhEqF8CYl9WOz9w.cspx\">FOX 23</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/article.aspx?subjectid=371&amp;articleid=20100903_11_0_Police608960\">Tulsa World brings an interview with owner Blake Smith</a>, along with information on the history of the attraction.\r\n\r\nFrom a TW quote from Smith:\r\n<blockquote>\"There is no insurance on that tower...what was the Admiral Twin Drive-in is no more....right now, the future does not look good for the Admiral Twin Drive-in.”</blockquote>\r\n<strong>For the best source of the most up-to-date information on this story, </strong><a href=\"http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23admiraltwin\"><strong>keep tabs on the #AdmiralTwin hashtag</strong></a><strong> on Twitter</strong>, where news stations as well as individuals will continue to post updates and links to continued coverage.\r\n\r\nAFTERMATH//\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-the-Admiral-Twin-Drive-in/152452301439952\">Save the Admiral Twin page on Facebook gains hundreds of \"likes\" in just over an hour</a>...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.boomtowntees.com/products/admiral-twin\">A portion of the proceeds of the sale of Admiral Twin t-shirts from Boomtown Tees benefit Select Cinemas, which operated Admiral Twin Drive-In</a>. Right now the t-shirt shop\'s website reports that the shirt is unavailable, but there might still be shirts in the store, at 114 S. Elgin Ave. Get \'em while they\'re hot.\r\n\r\nOur last trip to Admiral Twin was in early July. My husband and I went with our son to see Toy Story 2, an experience that echoed my first trip to the drive-in with my own parents in the \'90s. My memories of Admiral Twin in between these two trips include high school dates, date stories from my parents and grandparents and even a video shoot since I started blogging here at TashaDoesTulsa.com in which I got to learn how to thread the film for a movie on one the Twin\'s giant projectors.\r\n\r\nThis is a sad day for native and adopted Tulsans alike, many of whom have Admiral Twin stories of their own. Share yours in the comments.','Admiral Twin Drive-In Burns','Today the Admiral Twin Drive-In Theater, a relic of 1950s automobile culture and one of Tulsa\'s prized pieces of Americana, burned to the ground.\r\n','publish','open','open','','admiral-twin-drive-in-burns','','','2010-09-05 15:49:24','2010-09-05 20:49:24','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=1796',0,'post','',8),(1797,1,'2010-09-03 14:40:47','2010-09-03 19:40:47','','Admiral Twin','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_0752','','','2010-09-03 14:40:47','2010-09-03 19:40:47','',1796,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_0752.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(1798,1,'2010-09-03 15:12:39','2010-09-03 20:12:39','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1797\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=1797\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1797\" title=\"Admiral Twin\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_0752-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Admiral Twin\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nTDT isn\'t in the breaking news business, but today presented a sad exception to the norm.\n\nToday the Admiral Twin Drive-In Theater, a relic of 1950s automobile culture and one of Tulsa\'s prized pieces of Americana, burned to the ground.\n\nFrom <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/\">KRMG</a>:\n<blockquote>The smoke plume could be seen for miles...A cause is not immediately known. The theater looks to be a total loss.</blockquote>\nTulsa\'s  local news stations have video and photo:\n\n<a href=\"http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=13098236\">KOTV Channel 6</a>\n<a href=\"http://www.ktul.com/Global/story.asp?S=13098286\">KTUL Channel 8</a>\n<a href=\"http://www.kjrh.com/dpp/news/local_news/admiral-twin-drive-in-on-fire\">KJRH Channel 2</a>\n<a href=\"http://www.fox23.com/news/local/story/Admiral-Twin-Drive-In-Has-Burnt-Down/UL4ZTX8mhEqF8CYl9WOz9w.cspx\">FOX 23</a>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/article.aspx?subjectid=371&amp;articleid=20100903_11_0_Police608960\">Tulsa World brings an interview with owner Blake Smith</a>, along with information on the history of the attraction.\n\nFrom a TW quote from Smith:\n<blockquote>\"There is no insurance on that tower...what was the Admiral Twin Drive-in is no more....right now, the future does not look good for the Admiral Twin Drive-in.”</blockquote>\nOur last trip to Admiral Twin was in early July. My husband and I went with our son to see Toy Story 2, an experience that echoed my first trip to the drive-in with my own parents in the \'90s. My memories of Admiral Twin in between these two times include high school dates, date stories from my parents and grandparents and even a video shoot since I started blogging here at TashaDoesTulsa.com in which I got to learn how to thread the film for a movie on one the Twin\'s giant projectors.\n\nThis is a sad day for native and adopted Tulsans alike, many of whom have Admiral Twin stories of their own. Share yours in the comments.','Admiral Twin Burns','Today the Admiral Twin Drive-In Theater, a relic of 1950s automobile culture and one of Tulsa\'s prized pieces of Americana, burned to the ground.\n','inherit','open','open','','1796-revision','','','2010-09-03 15:12:39','2010-09-03 20:12:39','',1796,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/1796-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(1799,1,'2010-09-03 15:13:25','2010-09-03 20:13:25','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1797\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=1797\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1797\" title=\"Admiral Twin\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_0752-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Admiral Twin\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTDT isn\'t in the breaking news business, but today presented a sad exception to the norm.\r\n\r\nToday the Admiral Twin Drive-In Theater, a relic of 1950s automobile culture and one of Tulsa\'s prized pieces of Americana, burned to the ground.\r\n\r\nFrom <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/\">KRMG</a>:\r\n<blockquote>The smoke plume could be seen for miles...A cause is not immediately known. The theater looks to be a total loss.</blockquote>\r\nTulsa\'s  local news stations have video and photo:\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=13098236\">KOTV Channel 6</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.ktul.com/Global/story.asp?S=13098286\">KTUL Channel 8</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.kjrh.com/dpp/news/local_news/admiral-twin-drive-in-on-fire\">KJRH Channel 2</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.fox23.com/news/local/story/Admiral-Twin-Drive-In-Has-Burnt-Down/UL4ZTX8mhEqF8CYl9WOz9w.cspx\">FOX 23</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/article.aspx?subjectid=371&amp;articleid=20100903_11_0_Police608960\">Tulsa World brings an interview with owner Blake Smith</a>, along with information on the history of the attraction.\r\n\r\nFrom a TW quote from Smith:\r\n<blockquote>\"There is no insurance on that tower...what was the Admiral Twin Drive-in is no more....right now, the future does not look good for the Admiral Twin Drive-in.”</blockquote>\r\nOur last trip to Admiral Twin was in early July. My husband and I went with our son to see Toy Story 2, an experience that echoed my first trip to the drive-in with my own parents in the \'90s. My memories of Admiral Twin in between these two times include high school dates, date stories from my parents and grandparents and even a video shoot since I started blogging here at TashaDoesTulsa.com in which I got to learn how to thread the film for a movie on one the Twin\'s giant projectors.\r\n\r\nThis is a sad day for native and adopted Tulsans alike, many of whom have Admiral Twin stories of their own. Share yours in the comments.','Admiral Twin Drive-In Burns','Today the Admiral Twin Drive-In Theater, a relic of 1950s automobile culture and one of Tulsa\'s prized pieces of Americana, burned to the ground.\r\n','inherit','open','open','','1796-revision-2','','','2010-09-03 15:13:25','2010-09-03 20:13:25','',1796,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/1796-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(1800,1,'2010-09-03 15:52:13','2010-09-03 20:52:13','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1797\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/admiral-twin-drive-in-burns/dsc_0752/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1797\" title=\"Admiral Twin\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_0752-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Admiral Twin\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nTDT isn\'t in the breaking news business, but today presented a sad exception to the rule.\n\nToday the Admiral Twin Drive-In Theater, a relic of 1950s automobile culture and one of Tulsa\'s prized pieces of Americana, burned to the ground.\n\nFrom <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/\">KRMG</a>:\n<blockquote>The smoke plume could be seen for miles...A cause is not immediately known. The theater looks to be a total loss.</blockquote>\nTulsa\'s  local news stations have video and photos:\n\n<a href=\"http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=13098236\">KOTV Channel 6</a>\n<a href=\"http://www.ktul.com/Global/story.asp?S=13098286\">KTUL Channel 8</a>\n<a href=\"http://www.kjrh.com/dpp/news/local_news/admiral-twin-drive-in-on-fire\">KJRH Channel 2</a>\n<a href=\"http://www.fox23.com/news/local/story/Admiral-Twin-Drive-In-Has-Burnt-Down/UL4ZTX8mhEqF8CYl9WOz9w.cspx\">FOX 23</a>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/article.aspx?subjectid=371&amp;articleid=20100903_11_0_Police608960\">Tulsa World brings an interview with owner Blake Smith</a>, along with information on the history of the attraction.\n\nFrom a TW quote from Smith:\n<blockquote>\"There is no insurance on that tower...what was the Admiral Twin Drive-in is no more....right now, the future does not look good for the Admiral Twin Drive-in.”</blockquote>\n<strong>For the best source of the most up-to-date information on this story, </strong><a href=\"http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23admiraltwin\"><strong>keep tabs on the #AdmiralTwin hashtag</strong></a><strong> on Twitter</strong>, where news stations as well as individuals will continue to post updates and links to continued coverage.\n\nAFTERMATH//\n\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-the-Admiral-Twin-Drive-in/152452301439952\">Save the Admiral Twin page on Facebook gains hundreds of \"likes\" in just over an hour</a>...\n\n<a href=\"http://www.boomtowntees.com/products/admiral-twin\">A portion of the proceeds of the sale of Admiral Twin t-shirts from Boomtown Tees benefit Select Cinemas, which operated Admiral Twin Drive-In</a>. Right now the t-shirt shop\'s website reports that the shirt is unavailable, but there might still be shirts in the store, at 114 S. Elgin Ave. Get \'em while they\'re hot.\n\nOur last trip to Admiral Twin was in early July. My husband and I went with our son to see Toy Story 2, an experience that echoed my first trip to the drive-in with my own parents in the \'90s. My memories of Admiral Twin in between these two trips include high school dates, date stories from my parents and grandparents and even a video shoot since I started blogging here at TashaDoesTulsa.com in which I got to learn how to thread the film for a movie on one the Twin\'s giant projectors.\n\nThis is a sad day for native and adopted Tulsans alike, many of whom have Admiral Twin stories of their own. Share yours in the comments.','Admiral Twin Drive-In Burns','Today the Admiral Twin Drive-In Theater, a relic of 1950s automobile culture and one of Tulsa\'s prized pieces of Americana, burned to the ground.\n','inherit','open','open','','1796-autosave','','','2010-09-03 15:52:13','2010-09-03 20:52:13','',1796,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/1796-autosave/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wptdt_posts` VALUES (1801,1,'2010-09-03 15:13:25','2010-09-03 20:13:25','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1797\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/admiral-twin-drive-in-burns/dsc_0752/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1797\" title=\"Admiral Twin\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_0752-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Admiral Twin\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTDT isn\'t in the breaking news business, but today presented a sad exception to the norm.\r\n\r\nToday the Admiral Twin Drive-In Theater, a relic of 1950s automobile culture and one of Tulsa\'s prized pieces of Americana, burned to the ground.\r\n\r\nFrom <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/\">KRMG</a>:\r\n<blockquote>The smoke plume could be seen for miles...A cause is not immediately known. The theater looks to be a total loss.</blockquote>\r\nTulsa\'s  local news stations have video and photo:\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=13098236\">KOTV Channel 6</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.ktul.com/Global/story.asp?S=13098286\">KTUL Channel 8</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.kjrh.com/dpp/news/local_news/admiral-twin-drive-in-on-fire\">KJRH Channel 2</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.fox23.com/news/local/story/Admiral-Twin-Drive-In-Has-Burnt-Down/UL4ZTX8mhEqF8CYl9WOz9w.cspx\">FOX 23</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/article.aspx?subjectid=371&amp;articleid=20100903_11_0_Police608960\">Tulsa World brings an interview with owner Blake Smith</a>, along with information on the history of the attraction.\r\n\r\nFrom a TW quote from Smith:\r\n<blockquote>\"There is no insurance on that tower...what was the Admiral Twin Drive-in is no more....right now, the future does not look good for the Admiral Twin Drive-in.”</blockquote>\r\nOur last trip to Admiral Twin was in early July. My husband and I went with our son to see Toy Story 2, an experience that echoed my first trip to the drive-in with my own parents in the \'90s. My memories of Admiral Twin in between these two times include high school dates, date stories from my parents and grandparents and even a video shoot since I started blogging here at TashaDoesTulsa.com in which I got to learn how to thread the film for a movie on one the Twin\'s giant projectors.\r\n\r\nThis is a sad day for native and adopted Tulsans alike, many of whom have Admiral Twin stories of their own. Share yours in the comments.','Admiral Twin Drive-In Burns','Today the Admiral Twin Drive-In Theater, a relic of 1950s automobile culture and one of Tulsa\'s prized pieces of Americana, burned to the ground.\r\n','inherit','open','open','','1796-revision-3','','','2010-09-03 15:13:25','2010-09-03 20:13:25','',1796,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/1796-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(1802,1,'2010-09-03 15:15:59','2010-09-03 20:15:59','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1797\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/admiral-twin-drive-in-burns/dsc_0752/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1797\" title=\"Admiral Twin\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_0752-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Admiral Twin\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTDT isn\'t in the breaking news business, but today presented a sad exception to the norm.\r\n\r\nToday the Admiral Twin Drive-In Theater, a relic of 1950s automobile culture and one of Tulsa\'s prized pieces of Americana, burned to the ground.\r\n\r\nFrom <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/\">KRMG</a>:\r\n<blockquote>The smoke plume could be seen for miles...A cause is not immediately known. The theater looks to be a total loss.</blockquote>\r\nTulsa\'s  local news stations have video and photo:\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=13098236\">KOTV Channel 6</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.ktul.com/Global/story.asp?S=13098286\">KTUL Channel 8</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.kjrh.com/dpp/news/local_news/admiral-twin-drive-in-on-fire\">KJRH Channel 2</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.fox23.com/news/local/story/Admiral-Twin-Drive-In-Has-Burnt-Down/UL4ZTX8mhEqF8CYl9WOz9w.cspx\">FOX 23</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/article.aspx?subjectid=371&amp;articleid=20100903_11_0_Police608960\">Tulsa World brings an interview with owner Blake Smith</a>, along with information on the history of the attraction.\r\n\r\nFrom a TW quote from Smith:\r\n<blockquote>\"There is no insurance on that tower...what was the Admiral Twin Drive-in is no more....right now, the future does not look good for the Admiral Twin Drive-in.”</blockquote>\r\n<strong>For the best source of the most up-to-date information on this story, </strong><a href=\"http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23admiraltwin\"><strong>keep tabs on the #AdmiralTwin hashtag</strong></a><strong> on Twitter.</strong>\r\n\r\nOur last trip to Admiral Twin was in early July. My husband and I went with our son to see Toy Story 2, an experience that echoed my first trip to the drive-in with my own parents in the \'90s. My memories of Admiral Twin in between these two times include high school dates, date stories from my parents and grandparents and even a video shoot since I started blogging here at TashaDoesTulsa.com in which I got to learn how to thread the film for a movie on one the Twin\'s giant projectors.\r\n\r\nThis is a sad day for native and adopted Tulsans alike, many of whom have Admiral Twin stories of their own. Share yours in the comments.','Admiral Twin Drive-In Burns','Today the Admiral Twin Drive-In Theater, a relic of 1950s automobile culture and one of Tulsa\'s prized pieces of Americana, burned to the ground.\r\n','inherit','open','open','','1796-revision-4','','','2010-09-03 15:15:59','2010-09-03 20:15:59','',1796,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/1796-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(1812,1,'2010-09-03 15:51:08','2010-09-03 20:51:08','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1797\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/admiral-twin-drive-in-burns/dsc_0752/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1797\" title=\"Admiral Twin\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_0752-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Admiral Twin\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTDT isn\'t in the breaking news business, but today presented a sad exception to the rule.\r\n\r\nToday the Admiral Twin Drive-In Theater, a relic of 1950s automobile culture and one of Tulsa\'s prized pieces of Americana, burned to the ground.\r\n\r\nFrom <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/\">KRMG</a>:\r\n<blockquote>The smoke plume could be seen for miles...A cause is not immediately known. The theater looks to be a total loss.</blockquote>\r\nTulsa\'s  local news stations have video and photos:\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=13098236\">KOTV Channel 6</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.ktul.com/Global/story.asp?S=13098286\">KTUL Channel 8</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.kjrh.com/dpp/news/local_news/admiral-twin-drive-in-on-fire\">KJRH Channel 2</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.fox23.com/news/local/story/Admiral-Twin-Drive-In-Has-Burnt-Down/UL4ZTX8mhEqF8CYl9WOz9w.cspx\">FOX 23</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/article.aspx?subjectid=371&amp;articleid=20100903_11_0_Police608960\">Tulsa World brings an interview with owner Blake Smith</a>, along with information on the history of the attraction.\r\n\r\nFrom a TW quote from Smith:\r\n<blockquote>\"There is no insurance on that tower...what was the Admiral Twin Drive-in is no more....right now, the future does not look good for the Admiral Twin Drive-in.”</blockquote>\r\n<strong>For the best source of the most up-to-date information on this story, </strong><a href=\"http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23admiraltwin\"><strong>keep tabs on the #AdmiralTwin hashtag</strong></a><strong> on Twitter</strong>, where news stations as well as individuals will continue to post updates and links to continued coverage.\r\n\r\nAFTERMATH//\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-the-Admiral-Twin-Drive-in/152452301439952\">Save the Admiral Twin page on Facebook gains hundreds of \"likes\" in just over an hour</a>...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.boomtowntees.com/products/admiral-twin\">A portion of the proceeds of the sale of Admiral Twin t-shirts from Boomtown Tees benefit Select Cinemas, which operated Admiral Twin Drive-In</a>. Right now the t-shirt shop\'s website reports that the shirt is unavailable, but there might still be shirts in the store, at 114 S. Elgin Ave. Get \'em while they\'re hot.\r\n\r\nOur last trip to Admiral Twin was in early July. My husband and I went with our son to see Toy Story 2, an experience that echoed my first trip to the drive-in with my own parents in the \'90s. My memories of Admiral Twin in between these two trips include high school dates, date stories from my parents and grandparents and even a video shoot since I started blogging here at TashaDoesTulsa.com in which I got to learn how to thread the film for a movie on one the Twin\'s giant projectors.\r\n\r\nThis is a sad day for native and adopted Tulsans alike, many of whom have Admiral Twin stories of their own. Share yours in the comments.','Admiral Twin Drive-In Burns','Today the Admiral Twin Drive-In Theater, a relic of 1950s automobile culture and one of Tulsa\'s prized pieces of Americana, burned to the ground.\r\n','inherit','open','open','','1796-revision-14','','','2010-09-03 15:51:08','2010-09-03 20:51:08','',1796,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/1796-revision-14/',0,'revision','',0),(1813,1,'2010-09-03 17:54:07','2010-09-03 22:54:07','','Melting Pot Contest Winner','','inherit','open','open','','picture-2-3','','','2010-09-03 17:54:07','2010-09-03 22:54:07','',1766,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Picture-2.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1814,1,'2010-09-03 08:43:11','2010-09-03 13:43:11','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1768\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/melting-pot-football-fondue/dsc_1276/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1768\" title=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1276-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nStop me if you\'ve heard this one (and if you\'re in Oklahoma, odds are 99.99 percent that you have): Football season in this state starts as <a href=\"http://www.soonersports.com/\">OU</a> and <a href=\"http://www.okstate.com/\">OSU</a> kick off this Saturday night. As in, just two days from now.\r\n\r\nSay it with me: Wooooooooooooooo! Football!\r\n\r\nAnd I meant all 15 of the o\'s, y\'all.\r\n\r\nAs much as I know how we Okies love to sit around a TV blaring the latest college or NFL game with a bowl of hot wings in one hand and a bowl of ranch dressing in the other, I know about a way to take your football spectating to the next level: <strong>the Fondue and Football series at </strong><a href=\"http://www.meltingpot.com/default.aspx\"><strong>The Melting Pot, at 300 Riverwalk Terrace in Jenks</strong></a>.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->Fondue and Football will be a way to share your love of football - the same love that compels you to do things like paint your face in your team\'s colors even when you\'re watching the game from home or to tackle anyone who walks in front of the flatscreen during gametime - with your bewildered and uninitiated loved ones.\r\n\r\nThe event, which lasts until the end of this month, kicks off next Thursday, Sept. 9, with <strong>Football Training Night</strong>.\r\n\r\nI just love that in a city like Tulsa, we can do stuff like combine our football and our fondue. We\'re <a href=\"http://ww3.tulsachamber.com/general.asp?id=334\">comfortably cosmopolitan</a> like that. Plus, lots of traditional football season foods translate to the world of fondue. For example, if you love chips and queso on game day, my bet is that you\'ll dig the cheese fondue at The Melting Pot.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1773\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/melting-pot-football-fondue/dsc_1312/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1773\" title=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1312.jpg\" alt=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd probably the chocolate fondue, too.\r\n\r\nIn fact, it\'s hard not to like fondue. As a glance through the dining room at The Melting Pot on a Friday night will attest, a lot of people have serious trouble staying away from the stuff.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1772\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/melting-pot-football-fondue/dsc_1309/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1772\" title=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1309.jpg\" alt=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1771\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/melting-pot-football-fondue/dsc_1284/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1771\" title=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1284.jpg\" alt=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLet\'s just put it this way: That this smile and that fondue pot appear in the same photo is not exactly a coincidence.\r\n\r\nFootball Training Night will be led by Steve Smith, a voice you\'ll remember from the KBEZ Morning Show. Steve\'s presentation from 7-9pm will give the significant others, friends and children of football fanatics a crash course in basic game rules, common terms and plays so that even if they don\'t pull up a chair to join their loved one every time there\'s a pigskin on TV, they\'ll at least know what all the hollering is about.\r\n\r\nOn the giant projection screen at The Melting Pot that night will be the NFL season opener, the Minnesota Vikings vs. the New Orleans Saints. Kickoff is at 7:30pm.\r\n\r\nOh, and another thing? Anyone who signs up for a Fondue and Football event this month (the events on Sept. 13th, 20th and 27th) is entered into a drawing for a tour of Marshall Brewery, which is right here in Tulsa near downtown at 6th and Wheeling. If you win this prize - personally, I\'d pay the $35 ticket price just for a chance at this - you get to invite seven of your buds to go with you.\r\n\r\nAnd then you\'ll be their favorite person. For forever. The winner of this contest will be chosen Sept. 27.\r\n\r\nBy the way, beginning at 5pm attendees of the Fondue and Football events on Sept. 13th, 20th and 27th get deals on beer from Marshall Brewing Company. Keep in mind that The Melting Pot is one of the few restaurants in Tulsa that carries all four of the main Marshall beers - Sundown Wheat, Atlas IPA, McNellie\'s Pub Ale and Old Pavilion Pilsner. So, that\'s a pretty nice bonus.\r\n\r\nYou\'d better get your tickets to Football Training Night and Fondue and Football while they\'re hot, y\'all, because there are only 40 spots open at each event.\r\n\r\nSo, here\'s what you do. Go ahead and grab a pair of tickets to Football Training Night. Then, enter to win <strong>a football fondue set, a cookbook from The Melting Pot and a pair of tickets to the Football Training Night event on Sept. 9</strong> (a prize package worth about $100).\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41mTnu0vFfL._SS500_.jpg\" alt=\"\" />\r\n\r\nCute, right?\r\n\r\nIf you win, you\'ll have a pair of tickets to give to one of your brothers in the fraternal order of football fans. You\'ll also have a bunch of stuff to keep and treasure. And to not tell your friends about. Because if you do, especially after they\'re welcomed to the world of fondue, they\'ll probably try to tackle you to the ground and steal it.\r\n\r\nEntering to win is simple. <strong>Simply leave a comment on this post before 3pm on Friday, Sept. 3</strong>. And, you\'re done.\r\n\r\nI\'ll announce the winners as chosen by <a href=\"http://www.Random.org\">Random.org</a> before 5pm on Friday. Good luck, everybody!\r\n\r\n<strong>The Melting Pot</strong>\r\nWhere: 300 Riverwalk Terrace, Ste. 190, at the RiverWalk Crossing in Jenks\r\nCall: (918) 299-8000\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.TheMeltingPot.com\">TheMeltingPot.com</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630934/restaurant/Tulsa/Southern-Hills/Melting-Pot-Jenks\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630934/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Melting Pot on Urbanspoon\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<em>Tasha\'s note: This giveaway is sponsored by The Melting Pot at RiverWalk Crossing in Jenks.</em>','The Melting Pot: Have Some Fondue with Your Football (Plus, a Giveaway)','Enter to win a football fondue set, a cookbook from The Melting Pot and a pair of tickets to the Football Training Night event on Sept. 9. Sharing is totally, completely optional. ','inherit','open','open','','1766-revision-7','','','2010-09-03 08:43:11','2010-09-03 13:43:11','',1766,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/1766-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(1815,1,'2010-09-03 17:58:00','2010-09-03 22:58:00','<strong>UPDATE//</strong>Ladies and gents, we have a winner!\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1813\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/melting-pot-football-fondue/picture-2-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1813\" title=\"Melting Pot Contest Winner\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Picture-2.png\" alt=\"Melting Pot Contest Winner\" width=\"165\" height=\"189\" /></a>\r\n\r\nJennifer Bare, you\'re holding the 6th entry - congrats! <a href=\"mailto:tasha@tashadoestulsa.com\">E-mail me</a> (within 24 hours - it\'s 6pm on Friday now) to claim your prize.\r\n\r\nThanks to all for playing, and don\'t forget - there are only 40 spots open for Fondue and Football nights at The Melting Pot. Get \'em while they\'re hot!\r\n\r\n<strong>//</strong>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1768\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/melting-pot-football-fondue/dsc_1276/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1768\" title=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1276-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nStop me if you\'ve heard this one (and if you\'re in Oklahoma, odds are 99.99 percent that you have): Football season in this state starts as <a href=\"http://www.soonersports.com/\">OU</a> and <a href=\"http://www.okstate.com/\">OSU</a> kick off this Saturday night. As in, just two days from now.\r\n\r\nSay it with me: Wooooooooooooooo! Football!\r\n\r\nAnd I meant all 15 of the o\'s, y\'all.\r\n\r\nAs much as I know how we Okies love to sit around a TV blaring the latest college or NFL game with a bowl of hot wings in one hand and a bowl of ranch dressing in the other, I know about a way to take your football spectating to the next level: <strong>the Fondue and Football series at </strong><a href=\"http://www.meltingpot.com/default.aspx\"><strong>The Melting Pot, at 300 Riverwalk Terrace in Jenks</strong></a>.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->Fondue and Football will be a way to share your love of football - the same love that compels you to do things like paint your face in your team\'s colors even when you\'re watching the game from home or to tackle anyone who walks in front of the flatscreen during gametime - with your bewildered and uninitiated loved ones.\r\n\r\nThe event, which lasts until the end of this month, kicks off next Thursday, Sept. 9, with <strong>Football Training Night</strong>.\r\n\r\nI just love that in a city like Tulsa, we can do stuff like combine our football and our fondue. We\'re <a href=\"http://ww3.tulsachamber.com/general.asp?id=334\">comfortably cosmopolitan</a> like that. Plus, lots of traditional football season foods translate to the world of fondue. For example, if you love chips and queso on game day, my bet is that you\'ll dig the cheese fondue at The Melting Pot.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1773\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/melting-pot-football-fondue/dsc_1312/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1773\" title=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1312.jpg\" alt=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd probably the chocolate fondue, too.\r\n\r\nIn fact, it\'s hard not to like fondue. As a glance through the dining room at The Melting Pot on a Friday night will attest, a lot of people have serious trouble staying away from the stuff.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1772\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/melting-pot-football-fondue/dsc_1309/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1772\" title=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1309.jpg\" alt=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1771\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/melting-pot-football-fondue/dsc_1284/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1771\" title=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1284.jpg\" alt=\"The Melting Pot at Riverwalk Crossing in Jenks\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLet\'s just put it this way: That this smile and that fondue pot appear in the same photo is not exactly a coincidence.\r\n\r\nFootball Training Night will be led by Steve Smith, a voice you\'ll remember from the KBEZ Morning Show. Steve\'s presentation from 7-9pm will give the significant others, friends and children of football fanatics a crash course in basic game rules, common terms and plays so that even if they don\'t pull up a chair to join their loved one every time there\'s a pigskin on TV, they\'ll at least know what all the hollering is about.\r\n\r\nOn the giant projection screen at The Melting Pot that night will be the NFL season opener, the Minnesota Vikings vs. the New Orleans Saints. Kickoff is at 7:30pm.\r\n\r\nOh, and another thing? Anyone who signs up for a Fondue and Football event this month (the events on Sept. 13th, 20th and 27th) is entered into a drawing for a tour of Marshall Brewery, which is right here in Tulsa near downtown at 6th and Wheeling. If you win this prize - personally, I\'d pay the $35 ticket price just for a chance at this - you get to invite seven of your buds to go with you.\r\n\r\nAnd then you\'ll be their favorite person. For forever. The winner of this contest will be chosen Sept. 27.\r\n\r\nBy the way, beginning at 5pm attendees of the Fondue and Football events on Sept. 13th, 20th and 27th get deals on beer from Marshall Brewing Company. Keep in mind that The Melting Pot is one of the few restaurants in Tulsa that carries all four of the main Marshall beers - Sundown Wheat, Atlas IPA, McNellie\'s Pub Ale and Old Pavilion Pilsner. So, that\'s a pretty nice bonus.\r\n\r\nYou\'d better get your tickets to Football Training Night and Fondue and Football while they\'re hot, y\'all, because there are only 40 spots open at each event.\r\n\r\nSo, here\'s what you do. Go ahead and grab a pair of tickets to Football Training Night. Then, enter to win <strong>a football fondue set, a cookbook from The Melting Pot and a pair of tickets to the Football Training Night event on Sept. 9</strong> (a prize package worth about $100).\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41mTnu0vFfL._SS500_.jpg\" alt=\"\" />\r\n\r\nCute, right?\r\n\r\nIf you win, you\'ll have a pair of tickets to give to one of your brothers in the fraternal order of football fans. You\'ll also have a bunch of stuff to keep and treasure. And to not tell your friends about. Because if you do, especially after they\'re welcomed to the world of fondue, they\'ll probably try to tackle you to the ground and steal it.\r\n\r\nEntering to win is simple. <strong>Simply leave a comment on this post before 3pm on Friday, Sept. 3</strong>. And, you\'re done.\r\n\r\nI\'ll announce the winners as chosen by <a href=\"http://www.Random.org\">Random.org</a> before 5pm on Friday. Good luck, everybody!\r\n\r\n<strong>The Melting Pot</strong>\r\nWhere: 300 Riverwalk Terrace, Ste. 190, at the RiverWalk Crossing in Jenks\r\nCall: (918) 299-8000\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.TheMeltingPot.com\">TheMeltingPot.com</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630934/restaurant/Tulsa/Southern-Hills/Melting-Pot-Jenks\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630934/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Melting Pot on Urbanspoon\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<em>Tasha\'s note: This giveaway is sponsored by The Melting Pot at RiverWalk Crossing in Jenks.</em>','The Melting Pot: Have Some Fondue with Your Football (Plus, a Giveaway)','Enter to win a football fondue set, a cookbook from The Melting Pot and a pair of tickets to the Football Training Night event on Sept. 9. Sharing is totally, completely optional. ','inherit','open','open','','1766-revision-8','','','2010-09-03 17:58:00','2010-09-03 22:58:00','',1766,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/1766-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(1840,1,'2010-09-05 15:49:24','2010-09-05 20:49:24','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1797\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/admiral-twin-drive-in-burns/dsc_0752/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1797\" title=\"Admiral Twin\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_0752-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Admiral Twin\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTDT isn\'t in the breaking news business, but today presented a sad exception to the rule.\r\n\r\nToday the Admiral Twin Drive-In Theater, a relic of 1950s automobile culture and one of Tulsa\'s prized pieces of Americana, burned to the ground.\r\n\r\nFrom <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/\">KRMG</a>:\r\n<blockquote>The smoke plume could be seen for miles...A cause is not immediately known. The theater looks to be a total loss.</blockquote>\r\nTulsa\'s  local news stations have video and photos:\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=13098236\">KOTV Channel 6</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.ktul.com/Global/story.asp?S=13098286\">KTUL Channel 8</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.kjrh.com/dpp/news/local_news/admiral-twin-drive-in-on-fire\">KJRH Channel 2</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.fox23.com/news/local/story/Admiral-Twin-Drive-In-Has-Burnt-Down/UL4ZTX8mhEqF8CYl9WOz9w.cspx\">FOX 23</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/article.aspx?subjectid=371&amp;articleid=20100903_11_0_Police608960\">Tulsa World brings an interview with owner Blake Smith</a>, along with information on the history of the attraction.\r\n\r\nFrom a TW quote from Smith:\r\n<blockquote>\"There is no insurance on that tower...what was the Admiral Twin Drive-in is no more....right now, the future does not look good for the Admiral Twin Drive-in.”</blockquote>\r\n<strong>For the best source of the most up-to-date information on this story, </strong><a href=\"http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23admiraltwin\"><strong>keep tabs on the #AdmiralTwin hashtag</strong></a><strong> on Twitter</strong>, where news stations as well as individuals will continue to post updates and links to continued coverage.\r\n\r\nAFTERMATH//\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-the-Admiral-Twin-Drive-in/152452301439952\">Save the Admiral Twin page on Facebook gains hundreds of \"likes\" in just over an hour</a>...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.boomtowntees.com/products/admiral-twin\">A portion of the proceeds of the sale of Admiral Twin t-shirts from Boomtown Tees benefit Select Cinemas, which operated Admiral Twin Drive-In</a>. Right now the t-shirt shop\'s website reports that the shirt is unavailable, but there might still be shirts in the store, at 114 S. Elgin Ave. Get \'em while they\'re hot.\r\n\r\nOur last trip to Admiral Twin was in early July. My husband and I went with our son to see Toy Story 2, an experience that echoed my first trip to the drive-in with my own parents in the \'90s. My memories of Admiral Twin in between these two trips include high school dates, date stories from my parents and grandparents and even a video shoot since I started blogging here at TashaDoesTulsa.com in which I got to learn how to thread the film for a movie on one the Twin\'s giant projectors.\r\n\r\nThis is a sad day for native and adopted Tulsans alike, many of whom have Admiral Twin stories of their own. Share yours in the comments.','Admiral Twin Drive-In Burns','Today the Admiral Twin Drive-In Theater, a relic of 1950s automobile culture and one of Tulsa\'s prized pieces of Americana, burned to the ground.\r\n','inherit','open','open','','1796-revision-16','','','2010-09-05 15:49:24','2010-09-05 20:49:24','',1796,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/1796-revision-16/',0,'revision','',0),(1841,1,'2010-09-05 15:48:38','2010-09-05 20:48:38','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1822\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/dsc_1050-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1822\" title=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_10501-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLast week at about this time I was...on the couch. I hadn\'t eaten since the day before, but I was still too full of food to move.\r\n\r\n<!--more--><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1821\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/dsc_1047/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1821\" title=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1047-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'d been about 24 hours since I\'d participated in the first-annual taco eating contest at <a href=\"http://compadresgrill.com/\">Compadres Mexican Grill</a>, a local chain of restaurants specializing in food inspired by south-of-the-border noms.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1830\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/46040_437668732912_85786297912_5060847_1634741_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1830\" title=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest from Compadres Facebook\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/46040_437668732912_85786297912_5060847_1634741_n-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest from Compadres Facebook\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" /></a>\r\n\r\nA group of 15 Tulsans, myself included, took the challenge: To eat as many beef-and-cheese tacos as possible within five minutes. It was all part of an effort to raise money and awareness for <a href=\"http://www.pepcooftulsa.org/\">PEPCO, or People Empowering People Community Outreach</a>, a north Tulsa community center that closed earlier this year due to budget cuts.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1828\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/45161_437668842912_85786297912_5060862_3781698_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1828\" title=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest from Compadres Facebook\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/45161_437668842912_85786297912_5060862_3781698_n.jpg\" alt=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest from Compadres Facebook\" width=\"480\" height=\"720\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLook how ready we were! The fight was on.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1831\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/46684_437668912912_85786297912_5060870_2114167_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1831\" title=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest from Compadres Facebook\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/46684_437668912912_85786297912_5060870_2114167_n-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest from Compadres Facebook\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" /></a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1830\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/46040_437668732912_85786297912_5060847_1634741_n/\"></a>\r\n\r\nI was a proud competitor, but I admit, I didn\'t last long. Though I chewed and stuffed until my jaw muscles burned like a fire, I could only down five of the 10 tacos set in front of me within the time limit.\r\n\r\nWhich doesn\'t seem like much, does it? But it really is. Try it yourselves and you\'ll see.\r\n\r\nPlus, it was more than my fellow competitor Mary Ann Dutcher, Miss Oklahoma\'s Outstanding Teen 2010, could do. She ate one taco.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1829\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/45166_437669177912_85786297912_5060911_5734905_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1829\" title=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest from Compadres Facebook\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/45166_437669177912_85786297912_5060911_5734905_n-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest from Compadres Facebook\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne taco, y\'all. But hey, she\'s got a figure to maintain. We bloggers, we don\'t need figures. As long as we have a head for Twitter and Facebook profile photos, we\'re solid.\r\n\r\nAnother thing? I want a tiara. If I had a tiara, I would wear it all the time, every day - probably even in the shower and while mowing the lawn.\r\n\r\nBy the way, five tacos was the same amount eaten by <a href=\"http://www.newson6.com/Global/story.asp?S=7460592\">News on 6 reporter Chris Wright</a>.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1833\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/picture-7-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1833\" title=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest on KOTV\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Picture-7.png\" alt=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest on KOTV\" width=\"470\" height=\"394\" /></a>\r\n\r\n(Click the photo to see the video)\r\n\r\nWhich made me feel a little better. But wow, some of those competitors had some serious strategy. Next to me was <a href=\"http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4182/is_20100721/ai_n54586443/\">Geoffrey Simpson</a>, whose strategy was to take tiny sips of water as he took tiny bites of the tacos in an effort to be able to, you guessed it,  bypass the chewing process altogether.\r\n\r\nHardcore, Geoffrey. Hardcore.\r\n\r\nAnother strategy used by a few competitors in the contest was to dip the tacos in large glasses of water before chowing down, thus lubricating the whole thing for more efficient mastication.\r\n\r\nThese guys had obviously put a lot of thought into this tacoeating contest thing. Winning was paramount. They were intent on having their stomach capacity publicly lauded...a desire I totally understand, actually.\r\n\r\nIn the end, Manny Groll, Steven St. John and Greg Deardorff tied and advanced to a round of sudden death.\r\n\r\nThe term \"sudden death\" is not ironic here. No, not at all.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1826\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/dsc_1090/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1826\" title=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1090-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nUltimately, Manny emerged as the winner. The potentate de taco, if you will.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1825\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/dsc_1089/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1825\" title=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1089.jpg\" alt=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat fancy trophy wasn\'t all Manny took home as his prize. He also won a $250 gift certificate to Compadres.\r\n\r\nWhich, as I found out this week when I visited the restaurant again with the aim of trying anything but their beef-and-cheese tacos, is a really big deal. The portion sizes at Compadres are huge. The real bonus? The food is really, really good, from the beef chile relleno and the fajita chimichanga all the way down to the salsa and chips on the table. If for some reason you haven\'t tried this place, you must. <a href=\"http://compadresgrill.com/\">Choose your favorite special</a> (we hear that the Thursday special of fajitas for two, a bowl of queso and two house margaritas for $20 is pretty rockin\') and plan your trip to Compadres accordingly.\r\n\r\nThe taco eating contest at Compadres started last Saturday at 3pm. The hilarious thing was that I was due downtown for the <a href=\"http://oksteakcookoff.com/\">Oklahoma Championship Steak Cookoff</a> with my family by 5:30pm.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1832\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/dsc_1094/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1832\" title=\"Oklahoma Championship Steak Cookoff 2010\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1094-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Oklahoma Championship Steak Cookoff 2010\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOkay, okay. You can stop laughing at any time. I get it, and so do my arteries, hard and crusty though they are these days.\r\n\r\nThe second-annual Oklahoma Championship Steak Cook-off was a huge success, by the way. Though I didn\'t get there in time to try any, I heard from <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/\">Brian at Tulsa Food Blog</a> and <a href=\"http://www.joesburgersearch.com/\">Joe with Joe\'s Burger Search</a> that the variety of appetizers was mouth-watering. More than 50 teams cooked for upwards of 2,000 attendees throughout the day, where the main course was a 16-ounce Certified Angus beef ribeye.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1832\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/dsc_1094/\"></a>\r\n\r\nWhich is why, by Sunday, I was a useless, beef-filled lump, good for nothing but holding down my living room sofa.\r\n\r\nI\'m pretty sure my eyes went milky. And my husband said that for three days the back of my neck smelled like steak sweat, and not in a sexy way.\r\n\r\nSounds to me like I need to invest more of my time in the perfection of my Xtreme eating skills. I mean, I can\'t have anyone thinking that I eat like a girl. Five tacos and a 16-ounce ribeye in the space of two hours just ain\'t cuttin\' it.\r\n\r\nMan up, TDT. Man up.\r\n\r\nSo, have you ever participated in an eating contest before? If so, what was your strategy for the win? I must know. I must unlock the sacred secrets of the order of the belly busters.\r\n\r\n<strong>Compadres Mexican Grill</strong>\r\nWhere: In Tulsa at 7104 S. Sheridan; in Broken Arrow at 2200 W. New Orleans; in Owasso at 12551 E. 86th Street North\r\nCall: (918) 451-8970 (Broken Arrow); (918) 274-8970 (Owasso)\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.CompadresGrill.com\">CompadresGrill.com</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/1530356/restaurant/Woodland-Hills-71st-Street-Corridor/Compadres-Mexican-Grill-Tulsa\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/1530356/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Compadres Mexican Grill on Urbanspoon\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=198413&amp;id=85786297912&amp;ref=mf\"><em>Select photos courtesy of Compadres on Facebook</em></a><em>.</em>','Compadres, Oklahoma Championship Steak Cookoff: Beef (lots of it), it\'s what\'s for dinner.','It\'d been about 24 hours since I\'d participated in the first-annual taco eating contest at Compadres Mexican Grill, a local chain of restaurants specializing in food inspired by south-of-the-border noms.','inherit','open','open','','1820-revision-5','','','2010-09-05 15:48:38','2010-09-05 20:48:38','',1820,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/1820-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(1842,1,'2010-09-05 15:51:58','2010-09-05 20:51:58','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1822\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/dsc_1050-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1822\" title=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_10501-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLast week at about this time I was...on the couch. I hadn\'t eaten since the day before, but I was still too full of food to move.\r\n\r\n<!--more--><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1821\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/dsc_1047/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1821\" title=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1047-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'d been about 24 hours since I\'d participated in the first-annual taco eating contest at <a href=\"http://compadresgrill.com/\">Compadres Mexican Grill</a>, a local chain of restaurants specializing in food inspired by south-of-the-border noms.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1830\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/46040_437668732912_85786297912_5060847_1634741_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1830\" title=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest from Compadres Facebook\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/46040_437668732912_85786297912_5060847_1634741_n-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest from Compadres Facebook\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" /></a>\r\n\r\nA group of 15 Tulsans, myself included, took the challenge: To eat as many beef-and-cheese tacos as possible within five minutes. It was all part of an effort to raise money and awareness for <a href=\"http://www.pepcooftulsa.org/\">PEPCO, or People Empowering People Community Outreach</a>, a north Tulsa community center that closed earlier this year due to budget cuts.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1828\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/45161_437668842912_85786297912_5060862_3781698_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1828\" title=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest from Compadres Facebook\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/45161_437668842912_85786297912_5060862_3781698_n.jpg\" alt=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest from Compadres Facebook\" width=\"480\" height=\"720\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLook how ready we were! The fight was on.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1831\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/46684_437668912912_85786297912_5060870_2114167_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1831\" title=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest from Compadres Facebook\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/46684_437668912912_85786297912_5060870_2114167_n-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest from Compadres Facebook\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" /></a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1830\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/46040_437668732912_85786297912_5060847_1634741_n/\"></a>\r\n\r\nI was a proud competitor, but I admit, I didn\'t last long. Though I chewed and stuffed until my jaw muscles burned like a fire, I could only down five of the 10 tacos set in front of me within the time limit.\r\n\r\nWhich doesn\'t seem like much, does it? But it really is. Try it yourselves and you\'ll see.\r\n\r\nPlus, it was more than my fellow competitor Mary Ann Dutcher, Miss Oklahoma\'s Outstanding Teen 2010, could do. She ate one taco.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1829\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/45166_437669177912_85786297912_5060911_5734905_n/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1829\" title=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest from Compadres Facebook\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/45166_437669177912_85786297912_5060911_5734905_n-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest from Compadres Facebook\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne taco, y\'all. But hey, she\'s got a figure to maintain. We bloggers, we don\'t need figures. As long as we have a head for Twitter and Facebook profile photos, we\'re solid.\r\n\r\nAnother thing? I want a tiara. If I had a tiara, I would wear it all the time, every day - probably even in the shower and while mowing the lawn.\r\n\r\nBy the way, five tacos was the same amount eaten by <a href=\"http://www.newson6.com/Global/story.asp?S=7460592\">News on 6 reporter Chris Wright</a>.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1833\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/picture-7-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1833\" title=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest on KOTV\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Picture-7.png\" alt=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest on KOTV\" width=\"470\" height=\"394\" /></a>\r\n\r\n(<a href=\"http://www.newson6.com/Global/category.asp?C=121535&amp;clipId=5066605&amp;autostart=true\">Click here to see the video</a>)\r\n\r\nWhich made me feel a little better. But wow, some of those competitors had some serious strategy. Next to me was <a href=\"http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4182/is_20100721/ai_n54586443/\">Geoffrey Simpson</a>, whose strategy was to take tiny sips of water as he took tiny bites of the tacos in an effort to be able to, you guessed it,  bypass the chewing process altogether.\r\n\r\nHardcore, Geoffrey. Hardcore.\r\n\r\nAnother strategy used by a few competitors in the contest was to dip the tacos in large glasses of water before chowing down, thus lubricating the whole thing for more efficient mastication.\r\n\r\nThese guys had obviously put a lot of thought into this tacoeating contest thing. Winning was paramount. They were intent on having their stomach capacity publicly lauded...a desire I totally understand, actually.\r\n\r\nIn the end, Manny Groll, Steven St. John and Greg Deardorff tied and advanced to a round of sudden death.\r\n\r\nThe term \"sudden death\" is not ironic here. No, not at all.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1826\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/dsc_1090/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1826\" title=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1090-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nUltimately, Manny emerged as the winner. The potentate de taco, if you will.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1825\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/dsc_1089/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1825\" title=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1089.jpg\" alt=\"Compadres Taco Eating Contest\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat fancy trophy wasn\'t all Manny took home as his prize. He also won a $250 gift certificate to Compadres.\r\n\r\nWhich, as I found out this week when I visited the restaurant again with the aim of trying anything but their beef-and-cheese tacos, is a really big deal. The portion sizes at Compadres are huge. The real bonus? The food is really, really good, from the beef chile relleno and the fajita chimichanga all the way down to the salsa and chips on the table. If for some reason you haven\'t tried this place, you must. <a href=\"http://compadresgrill.com/\">Choose your favorite special</a> (we hear that the Thursday special of fajitas for two, a bowl of queso and two house margaritas for $20 is pretty rockin\') and plan your trip to Compadres accordingly.\r\n\r\nThe taco eating contest at Compadres started last Saturday at 3pm. The hilarious thing was that I was due downtown for the <a href=\"http://oksteakcookoff.com/\">Oklahoma Championship Steak Cookoff</a> with my family by 5:30pm.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1832\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/dsc_1094/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1832\" title=\"Oklahoma Championship Steak Cookoff 2010\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC_1094-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Oklahoma Championship Steak Cookoff 2010\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOkay, okay. You can stop laughing at any time. I get it, and so do my arteries, hard and crusty though they are these days.\r\n\r\nThe second-annual Oklahoma Championship Steak Cook-off was a huge success, by the way. Though I didn\'t get there in time to try any, I heard from <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/\">Brian at Tulsa Food Blog</a> and <a href=\"http://www.joesburgersearch.com/\">Joe with Joe\'s Burger Search</a> that the variety of appetizers was mouth-watering. More than 50 teams cooked for upwards of 2,000 attendees throughout the day, where the main course was a 16-ounce Certified Angus beef ribeye.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1832\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/dsc_1094/\"></a>\r\n\r\nWhich is why, by Sunday, I was a useless, beef-filled lump, good for nothing but holding down my living room sofa.\r\n\r\nI\'m pretty sure my eyes went milky. And my husband said that for three days the back of my neck smelled like steak sweat, and not in a sexy way.\r\n\r\nSounds to me like I need to invest more of my time in the perfection of my Xtreme eating skills. I mean, I can\'t have anyone thinking that I eat like a girl. Five tacos and a 16-ounce ribeye in the space of two hours just ain\'t cuttin\' it.\r\n\r\nMan up, TDT. Man up.\r\n\r\nSo, have you ever participated in an eating contest before? If so, what was your strategy for the win? I must know. I must unlock the sacred secrets of the order of the belly busters.\r\n\r\n<strong>Compadres Mexican Grill</strong>\r\nWhere: In Tulsa at 7104 S. Sheridan; in Broken Arrow at 2200 W. New Orleans; in Owasso at 12551 E. 86th Street North\r\nCall: (918) 451-8970 (Broken Arrow); (918) 274-8970 (Owasso)\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.CompadresGrill.com\">CompadresGrill.com</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/1530356/restaurant/Woodland-Hills-71st-Street-Corridor/Compadres-Mexican-Grill-Tulsa\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/1530356/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Compadres Mexican Grill on Urbanspoon\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=198413&amp;id=85786297912&amp;ref=mf\"><em>Select photos courtesy of Compadres on Facebook</em></a><em>.</em>','Compadres, Oklahoma Championship Steak Cookoff: Beef (lots of it), it\'s what\'s for dinner.','It\'d been about 24 hours since I\'d participated in the first-annual taco eating contest at Compadres Mexican Grill, a local chain of restaurants specializing in food inspired by south-of-the-border noms.','inherit','open','open','','1820-revision-6','','','2010-09-05 15:51:58','2010-09-05 20:51:58','',1820,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/1820-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(2824,1,'2010-10-10 15:06:54','2010-10-10 20:06:54','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2816\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2816\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2816\" title=\"Oklahoma Blogging Week\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/oklahoma.blogging.week_.jpg\" alt=\"Oklahoma Blogging Week\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBefore I post this week\'s round up of links to Tulsa blog posts worthy of your Sunday night Internet ogling, I wanted to send my thanks again to <a href=\"http://www.okprosperity.com/page.asp?content=startpage&amp;g=OKLAHOMA\">Oklahoma Prosperity Project</a>, <a href=\"http://blogging4jobs.com/\">Jessica at Xceptional HR</a> and <a href=\"http://www.themeltingpot.com/\">Becky at The Melting Pot</a> for making <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/oklahoma-blogging-week-tulsa-meetup/\">the Tulsa meetup during the first-ever Oklahoma Blogging Week</a> a success.\r\n\r\nAnd for the snacks. The snacks were good...real good.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more-->\r\n[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\nAnd thanks so much to the dozens of bloggers who took the time to come out and party in the way only bloggers can - while sipping a strong drink and blinking into the sunlight.\r\n\r\nHa! That \"while sipping a strong drink and blinking into the sunlight\" thing is totally, completely untrue. Except when it comes to me. Sipping a strong drink and blinking into the sunlight is a way of life for me, <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/anns-bakery-barbie-dress-cake/\">the one who orders a Barbie dress cake for her 27th birthday</a> and <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/07/savoys-famous-cinnamon-rolls-boy-and/\">allows her child to eat one-pound cinnamon rolls face-first in public</a> and <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/12/ugly-sweater-shopping-in-tulsa/\">takes photos of herself in dressing rooms and then posts them to the Internet</a>.\r\n\r\nBut, whatever. My mommy thinks I\'m special.\r\n\r\nAt any rate, it was a pleasure to meet those of you who were new to the blogger meetup group, and I enjoyed hanging out with my long-time blogging buddies, too.\r\n\r\nOne of the freebies available at the meetup was a local blog directory, complete with the blog name and URL of each person who RSVP\'d to the event. On the way home from The Melting Pot Thursday night I thought to myself, \"Gee, it\'d sure be a shame to not to share such a beefy list with my readers, who, judging by the number of questions I get each month on the topic, are just dying for links to more local blogs.\"\r\n\r\nThus:\r\n\r\nBrandi, Fancy Buffalo\r\n<a href=\"http://fancybuffalo.com\">fancybuffalo.com</a>\r\n\r\nJennifer, The Errant Cook\r\n<a href=\"http://errantcook.blogspot.com\">errantcook.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nShelley, The Tao of Cake\r\n<a href=\"http://taoofcake.blogspot.com\">taoofcake.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nMichele, The Chipper Muse\r\n<a href=\"http://thechippermuse.blogspot.com\">thechippermuse.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nT.J., Rock Rulz (a web show) and Scurds (and now, TDT!)\r\n<a href=\"youtube.com/RockRulzShow\">youtube.com/RockRulzShow</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://scurds.com\">scurds.com</a>\r\n\r\nMarty, The Napkin Dad\r\n<a href=\"http://napkindad.com\">napkindad.com</a>\r\n\r\nHeather, Crawdads in My Sink\r\n<a href=\"http://crawdadsinmysink.wordpress.com\">crawdadsinmysink.wordpress.com</a>\r\n\r\nSamantha, Neither Here Nor There\r\n<a href=\"http://peachneitherherenorthere.blogspot.com\">peachneitherherenorthere.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nSarah Gallagher, Gears and Shifts\r\n<a href=\"http://gearsandshifts.com\">gearsandshifts.com</a>\r\n\r\nCaitlin, Young and Rentless\r\n<a href=\"http://youngandrentless.blogspot.com\">youngandrentless.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nHoward, Winning the Game of Sales\r\n<a href=\"http://winningthegameofsales.com\">winningthegameofsales.com</a>\r\n\r\nCarla, Jill of All Trades\r\n<a href=\"http://crbh-ruminations.blogspot.com\">crbh-ruminations.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nJack, Wander Radio\r\n<a href=\"http://wanderradio.com/blog\">wanderradio.com/blog</a>\r\n\r\nHeidi, HeidiJenkins.com\r\n<a href=\"http://heidijenkins.com/Heidi_Jenkins/Blog/Blog.html\">heidijenkins.com/Heidi_Jenkins/Blog/Blog.html</a>\r\n\r\nKelly, Kellyology\r\n<a href=\"http://kellyology.net\">kellyology.net</a>\r\n\r\nLogan, Colonize the Moon\r\n<a href=\"http://colonize-the-moon.com\">colonize-the-moon.com</a>\r\n\r\nJennifer, Life with Lebedas\r\n<a href=\"http://lebedafamily.blogspot.com\">lebedafamily.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nSasha, Global Table Adventure\r\n<a href=\"http://globaltableadventure.com\">globaltableadventure.com</a>\r\n\r\nJenny, Crash Test Mommy\r\n<a href=\"http://crashtestmommy.net\">crashtestmommy.net</a>\r\n\r\nLeah, True Love in the Sooner Nation\r\n<a href=\"http://leah-barksdale.blogspot.com\">leah-barksdale.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nCindy, Got Mischief?\r\n<a href=\"http://lounginwithlindsay.blogspot.com\">got-mischief.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nLindsay, Loungin’ with Lindsay\r\n<a href=\"http://lounginwithlindsay.blogspot.com\">lounginwithlindsay.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nMeseidy, The Noshery\r\n<a href=\"http://thenoshery.com\">thenoshery.com</a>\r\n\r\nSarah, Money Saving Queen\r\n<a href=\"http://moneysavingqueen.com\">moneysavingqueen.com</a>\r\n\r\nNancy, Tulsa Gal\r\n<a href=\"http://tulsagal.net\">tulsagal.net</a>\r\n\r\nCourtney, The Generosity Project\r\n<a href=\"http://thegenerosityproject.net\">thegenerosityproject.net</a>\r\n\r\nDave, Accidentally Albino\r\n<a href=\"http://daveshort.tumblr.com\">daveshort.tumblr.com</a>\r\n\r\nAubree, The Southern Family\r\n<a href=\"http://www.thesouthernfamily.net/\">thesouthernfamily.net</a>\r\n\r\nKristy, Mommy Hates Cooking\r\n<a href=\"http://mommyhatescooking.com\">mommyhatescooking.com</a>\r\n\r\nCarrisa, And So She Blogs\r\n<a href=\"http://andsosheblogs.com\">andsosheblogs.com</a>\r\n\r\nLaurie, The Marriage of an Undomestic\r\n<a href=\"http://thereallt.blogspot.com\">thereallt.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nSherri, I.Crochet\r\n<a href=\"http://sherris-blog-at.tumblr.com\">sherris-blog-at.tumblr.com</a>\r\n\r\nCarolyn, The New Homemaker\r\n<a href=\"http://thenewhomemaker.wordpress.com \">thenewhomemaker.wordpress.com </a>\r\n\r\nThis list represents a mixed bag of topics, interests and people, so click freely.\r\n\r\nAnd if you showed up to the meetup and your blog isn\'t listed here, <a href=\"mailto:tasha@tashadoestulsa.com\">send me an e-mail</a> and I\'ll add you to the list.\r\n\r\nHappy reading, and I hope everyone had a fabulous Oklahoma Blogging Week!','Oklahoma Blogging Week: Links From the Tulsa Meetup','One of the freebies available at the meetup was a local blog directory, complete with the blog name and URL of each person who RSVP\'d to the event. On the way home from The Melting Pot Thursday night I thought to myself, \"Gee, it\'d sure be a shame to not to share such a beefy list with my readers.\" ','inherit','open','open','','2814-revision-9','','','2010-10-10 15:06:54','2010-10-10 20:06:54','',2814,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/2814-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(1845,1,'2010-09-07 02:21:18','2010-09-07 07:21:18','','Candy Sushi, from CutOutAndKeep.net','','inherit','open','open','','candysushi','','','2010-09-07 02:21:18','2010-09-07 07:21:18','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/candysushi.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3694,1,'2010-11-12 16:31:36','2010-11-12 21:31:36','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3678\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3678\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1717i.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3678\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa\'s Brady District is abuzz with things to come right now. It\'s already home to several business owners who are passionate about downtown Tulsa, as well as historic attractions like Cain\'s Ballroom and Brady Theater. Soon the area will be home a new art museum, more loft-style housing and a hotel in the spirit of the Marriott that went into the Atlas Life Building on Boston. \r\n\r\nAnd I haven\'t even mentioned the new restaurants. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3679\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3679\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1709.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3679\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/HeyMamboItaliano\">Hey Mambo Italiano</a>, at 114 N. Boston, was among the first of some of the new eat spots planned for the area when it opened earlier this fall.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3680\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3680\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1722-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3680\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'ve dined there twice so far, both times for lunch. The first time I ordered the stromboli (stuffed with pomodoro sauce, ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese and salami, $7) and laughed out loud when it came to the table. What they put on their menu as a lunch item could have easily fed four people. \r\n\r\nWhich, basically, made it perfect for someone like me. I ate half and took the other half home. When I fed it to my husband, a look of sadness and longing came over his face. He was all, \"I want to go to there.\" \r\n\r\nBut when I returned to Hey Mambo for a second taste, I took this guy instead. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3681\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3681\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1705.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3681\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHis manners are horrible, but he doesn\'t eat as much off my plate as the other guy. \r\n\r\nAnd I got to sit at a table with these ladies. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3682\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3682\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1704-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3682\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThey\'re some of the women of the media world here in Tulsa, and eating lots of food together is something we do pretty often. In fact, we\'ve started calling ourselves the Lunch Bunch. Which is pretty cute and kitschy considering we\'re all evil conspirators hell-bent on filling the world with our lies. \r\n\r\nJust kidding about some of that. But I\'m not going to tell you which parts.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3683\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3683\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1708.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3683\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhen I dine in the company of ladies I always order a salad to start. It just seems...properer. \r\n\r\nBut last time I ordered the garlic knots, and ever since I\'ve been wrestling with whether they\'re better at Hey Mambo or at <a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631484/restaurant/Expo-Square/Umbertos-Pizza-Tulsa\">Umberto\'s</a>, this uh-<em>mazing</em> pizza place here in Tulsa on 21st Street. It all made my brain smoke a little. It gets pretty hot in there sometimes, especially when there are thoughts happening. \r\n\r\nAnyway. That salad is the Insalata Mista, which is a wedge salad doused with a house-made giardino dressing, soffritto and, deliciously, bacon. If you order it on its own at lunch, it\'s $4. But if you order it with a slice of pizza like I did on my second trip to Hey Mambo, it\'s $7. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3684\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3684\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_17091.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3684\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMy fellow native westsider of the group ordered this, which is listed on the lunch menu as the Personal Baked Ziti. \r\n\r\nHa! Again with this \"personal\" business. I ask you, does that look like a personal-sized serving? \r\n\r\nDon\'t get me wrong - no one\'s complaining, at least not in this crowd. An $8 lunch that\'s big enough for leftovers has never been something to complain about in my world. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3687\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3687\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_17132.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3687\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTa-da! Here\'s the pizza that came with my salad, which I pretended to share with my son but really only gave him a few bites because we were dining with ladies and I didn\'t want it to seem like I ever ate an entire slice of pizza by myself or anything like that. \r\n\r\nSo, here\'s the deal with the pizza. It\'s good and I\'d definitely eat it again, but it\'s got a long way to go before it threatens the throne of my favorite pie in T-Town, which is available over at Joe Momma\'s at 2nd and Elgin. I loved the stromboli much, much more. That and the garlic knots are what I\'ll continue to recommend that everyone try - that is, at least, until I can swing by again to give the pizza another chance. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3678\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3678\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1717i.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3678\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne of the best parts about dining at Hey Mambo is getting chat with the owner, Scott Moore. He\'s got big dreams, he loves Tulsa and somehow, though he\'s a new restaurant owner, he\'s always in a bright, sunshiny mood. \r\n\r\nSleep deprivation affects different people in different ways, I guess. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3680\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3680\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1722-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3680\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo learn more about how Hey Mambo got its start, about the plans for the future of the restaurant and more about what the place has to offer at dinnertime, check out <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/article.asp?aID=26210785.6352808.670852.5410992.1658681.702&aID2=51595\">this article I wrote for Tulsa Business Journal a few weeks back</a>. If you do, you\'ll get to learn about Glacier Confection, which would be a great place to stop by between dinner at Hey Mambo and a show at Cain\'s or the Brady. \r\n\r\n<strong>Hey Mambo Italiano</strong>\r\nWhere: 114 N. Boston Ave. \r\nWhen: \r\nCall: \r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.heymambo.com/\">heymambo.com</a>','Hey Mambo Italiano','When I fed a bite of my leftover stromboli from Hey Mambo to my husband, a look of sadness and longing came over his face. He was all, \"I want to go to there.\" ','inherit','open','open','','3584-revision-7','','','2010-11-12 16:31:36','2010-11-12 21:31:36','',3584,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3584-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(4505,1,'2010-12-13 10:52:30','2010-12-13 15:52:30','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Paul Petrov of the Ballet Russe, backstage at the JC Williamson New Year\'s Eve party, Theatre Royal, Sydney, 31 December 1936 / Sam Hood by State Library of New South Wales collection, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/3612597734/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3210/3612597734_a03c7f0fe0.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Petrov of the Ballet Russe, backstage at the JC Williamson New Year\'s Eve party, Theatre Royal, Sydney, 31 December 1936 / Sam Hood\" width=\"500\" height=\"369\" /></a></p>\r\n\r\nChampagne, fireworks, swanky parties, stuff to do for the kids and those silly 2010 glasses - you want it all this New Year\'s Eve, and you\'ve got it right here in Tulsa. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Swanky Parties</h2>\r\n<strong>New Years Eve Gala at Crowne Plaza Hotel</strong>\r\nWhen: Starting at 4pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111159658950064&amp;index=1\">Crowne Plaza Hotel</a>, 100 E. Second Street\r\nFor one price, get every NYE party in the hotel. Here\'s the line-up: Imzadi in the Tulsa Ballroom; Mid Life Crisis in Promenade Ballroom; Brian Lee &amp; Friends in the Upper Lobby; a Texas Hold \'Em Tournament, 4pm-7pm; Access to Cigar &amp; Martini Lounge in Oklahoma Ballroom and Photos Now Photography in Lower Lobby. Call Crowne Plaza at (918) 560-2219 to reserve your spot, and if you plan on celebrating with a few glasses of champagne, be sure to ask about the room packages available.\r\n\r\n<strong>Olive Drop New Year’s Party</strong>\r\nWhen: Starting at 7pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"/\">Price Tower Arts Center in Bartlesville</a>\r\nEnjoy a five-course meal prepared by Outlaws Gourmet Catering, drinks at Copper Bar, and a complimentary champagne toast at midnight, when a large olive will be lowered from the top of Price Tower - which is Frank Lloyd Wright\'s only realized skyscraper, by the way - into a martini glass. Dinner reservations are available with seatings at 7pm and 9pm. Call (918) 336-1000 for room reservations and for a spot at dinner.\r\n\r\n<strong>Velo Ball</strong>\r\nWhen: Starting at 9pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.jasonperryphoto.net/?p=133\">Hey Mambo</a>, 114 N. Boston Ave.\r\nIf you\'re looking for a cycle-centric NYE party, Hey Mambo is the place to be on the last night of 2010. The evening will include a Mustache Cup Goldsprints Roller Race Tournament from Superleggera Cycling and Multisport, a live DJ, hot food from the kitchen of Hey Mambo (which is really yum, if you ask me), Pabst Blue Ribbon on tap, plenty of prizes and photography of the evening by Jason Perry Photography. The restaurant bar (cash or charge) will be in full operation for the evening, too. <a href=\"http://www.jasonperryphoto.net/?p=133\">Individual passes are $35, couples are $60</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Crystal Ball 2011: A New Years Eve Masquerade</strong>\r\nWhen: Starting at 9pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsacrystalball.com/\">Enso Bar, Electric Circus and IDL Ballroom, all at 1st and Detroit</a>\r\nGet gussied up in your finest black and white NYE attire and disguise and beguile fellow revelers as you masquerade between three of the hottest clubs in Tulsa into the wee hours of the night. Entertainment includes the beats of the Panic! Crew, Steve Club and DJ Dilation &amp; Jimm-A. <a href=\"http://www.ticketstorm.com/event/skyyvodkapresentscrystalball2011anewyearsevemasquerade/idlballroom/tulsa/5868/\">Tickets are $15 per person or $20 per couple, and VIP packages are $25 per person, $40 per couple</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>New Years Eve Speakeasy</strong>\r\nWhen: Starting at 9pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://cosmo-cafe.com/\">Cosmo Cafe &amp; Bar</a>, 3334 S. Peoria Ave.\r\nBe prepared to be transported back to the era of classy attire, sexy jazz and stiff drinks. While you’re partying like it’s 1929, check out free champagne toast at midnight, accompanied by what Cosmo called “fancy stuff on crackers.” Heck, yes. Plus, if you show up in a 1920s get-up, you’ll get a bonus party favor.\r\n\r\n<h2>Performances</h2>\r\n\r\n<strong>Sylvia Browne</strong>\r\nWhen: 8pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.milliondollarelm.com/event-center\">Osage Event Center</a>, 951 W. 36 Street North\r\nAlways wanted to have your most pressing, personal questions answered by a psychic? This NYE is your chance. Tickets to see Sylvia are $30, or you can pay $100 and guarantee that you\'ll have your question answered. Stay tuned for the book signing after the lecture.\r\n\r\n<h2>For a Family-Friendly New Years Eve</h2>\r\n\r\n<strong>THE Party! Hahn Appliance Warehouse New Year\'s Eve on Brookside</strong>\r\nWhen: Starting at 9pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"https://www.newyearsevetulsa.com/pages.aspx?pageid=1\">Brookside (Peoria Avenue) between 36th and 39th Streets</a>\r\nThis second-ever event brought the community together last year to share in the excitement of a Times Square-esque, free outdoor street party complete with a lighted ball drop, fireworks, bands and entertainment, and they\'re going to do it even bigger and better to ring in 2011. A choice of outdoor and indoor activities along Brookside guarantees participants of all ages to can comfortably enjoy the festivities, even if our Oklahoma weather rears its ugly head. Look for live entertainment from Eric and the Adams (one of my favorite Tulsa bands) on an outdoor stage and dancing in the VIP Party Tent (<a href=\"https://www.newyearsevetulsa.com/Purchase_Tickets.aspx\">tickets to which are $75 per</a>). All proceeds raised by THE Party will benefit the <a href=\"http://www.cfbeo.org/\">Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>New Years Eve in the Blue Dome District</strong>\r\nWhen: 10pm-1am New Years Eve\r\nWhere: On Elgin Avenue between First and Second Streets\r\nPut a little bit of hip and historic into your New Years Eve celebration this year. Grab the kids (and feed them all manner of Pixie Stix and Fun Dip to keep them awake) and head to the Blue Dome District for some fireworks, as well as warm drinks for both the adults and the kids and beer for those 21 and over.  \r\n\r\n<h2>The New Year in Motion</h2>\r\n\r\n<strong>Race Into the New Year</strong>When: 11:45pm New Years Eve\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://tatur.org/RINY.html\">River Parks West Amphitheater</a>, 2100 W. Jackson Ave.\r\nRun from one year to the next with this sixth-annual 5K race along the Tulsa stretch of the Arkansas River. Look for a fun run, too - it\'ll start a bit earlier, at 11pm - as well as a live DJ, fireworks at the stroke of midnight, prizes and giveaways and champagne on the course. Don\'t miss out on the post-race plethora of food and drink, including black-eyed peas, cornbread, cookies and other treats. The race benefits the Tulsa Police Officers Memorial and supports <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/admiral-twin-drive-in-burns/\">the rebuilding of the Admiral Twin Drive-In</a>. The race fee is $25, or free for kids 5-11. <a href=\"https://secure.getmeregistered.com/get_information.php?event_id=3970\">Register here</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Polar Bear Plunge</strong>\r\nWhen: 1:11pm New Years Day (Get it? 1/1/11 at 1:11?)\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://tatur.org/PolarPlunge.html\">River Parks West Amphitheater</a>, 2100 W. Jackson Ave.\r\nHow big a boy are ya? If you can complete this race - a two-mile run that sends you plunging into three swimming pools - you\'ll have me convinced that you are all that is man (or woman!) for now and forever. The entry fee is $25 for those who dress in costume and $30 to those who chicken out. Look for free pizza, cold beer and drinks at the race, and the first 300 to sign up for the race get finishers\' tees. Proceeds benefit the River Parks Trail Systems. If after <a href=\"http://runnersworldtulsa.zenfolio.com/p451670097#h10dad90a\">looking at these photos from last year\'s Polar Bear Plunge</a> you still think you\'ve got what it takes, <a href=\"http://tatur.org/polarplungeregister.html\">register here</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Don\'t see your favorite NYE party on this list?</strong> No big - we can fix that. <a href=\"mailto:tasha@tashadoestulsa.com\">E-mail me with the details</a>. ','New Years Eve Tulsa 2010: Where to Celebrate','Champagne, fireworks, swanky parties, stuff to do for the kids and those silly 2011 glasses - here\'s where to get it all this New Years Eve in Tulsa.','inherit','open','open','','4166-revision-6','','','2010-12-13 10:52:30','2010-12-13 15:52:30','',4166,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/4166-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(3656,1,'2010-11-11 23:59:39','2010-11-12 04:59:39','','Living Arts of Tulsa','','inherit','open','open','','avant-garde-4','','','2010-11-11 23:59:39','2010-11-12 04:59:39','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Avant-Garde-4.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(4504,1,'2010-12-15 15:15:12','2010-12-15 20:15:12','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3917\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/tasha-does-tulsa-gift-guide-2010/blu_grey_gradient_gallery/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3917\" title=\"TDT Gift Guide 2010\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/blu_grey_gradient_gallery-500x500.jpg\" alt=\"TDT Gift Guide 2010\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa\'s pretty rad, and the rest of the state isn\'t too shabby, either. So wouldn\'t it be cool if you could give what makes Oklahoma so great as a gift this Christmas?\r\n\r\nGood news - you can. Here are my picks of the top heartland gifts - the serious, the silly and the hip as hell - that\'s sure to offer something that\'ll please the Okie-proud on your list this year.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Wait!</span></strong> Before you dive into the gift guide, remember that you can get any gifts listed here that are available in the Tulsa area delivered straight to your door by <a href=\"http://www.youbuywefly918.com/\">You Buy We Fly 918</a>. <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/tasha-does-tulsa-gift-guide-2010/\">Click here to get the special 10-percent delivery discount for TDT readers</a>.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"https://aok.ok.gov/b2c/images/AOK-0314Vb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" /></p>\r\n<strong>Bombs Away Warrior Crew T-Shirt</strong>.\r\nBombs Away is owned and operated by the Oklahoma City artist, Dustin Oswald, is this is just one of the bad-ass t-shirts that he\'s come up with.\r\nPrice: $22\r\nGet it: <a href=\"https://aok.ok.gov/b2c/itemDetail.aspx?itemId=AOK-0314V&amp;mainCat=2\">OkieBoutique</a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"https://www.mockbros.com/images/chaps/100-08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" /></p>\r\n<strong>Mock Brothers Saddlery Rodeo Gear Chaps</strong>\r\nAround since 1941, Mock Brothers Saddlery is an Oklahoma institution. While I absolutely wouldn\'t mind if any of you guys out there want to purchase a pair of these chaps and wear them around in my general vicinity, you might want to check out Mock Brothers for yourself and see if you can\'t find something for your Okie wardrobe that\'s less...awesome and dream-inducing. Find it off of Highway 412 at 177th W. Ave., west of Sand Springs.\r\nPrice: Starting at $325\r\nGet it: <a href=\"https://www.mockbros.com/rodeogr.htm#chaps\">Mock Brothers Saddlery</a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"https://aok.ok.gov/b2c/images/AOK-0021b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" /></p>\r\n<strong>Tulsa Driller Charm</strong>\r\nIt\'s one of the quirkiest landmarks in the country, and you can wear a charm-sized replica of it on a necklace, on a bracelet, in your nose - you know, wherever you like to wear your charms.\r\nPrice: $8\r\nGet it: <a href=\"https://aok.ok.gov/b2c/itemDetail.aspx?itemId=AOK-0021&amp;mainCat=7\">OkieBoutique</a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"https://aok.ok.gov/b2c/images/AOK-0001b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" /></p>\r\n<strong>Oklahoma Travel Journal</strong>\r\nEver wish you had a way to record all of your Oklahoma experiences? Look no further. This journal is here to help. Plus, it\'s cute as all get out.\r\nPrice: $15.99\r\nGet it: <a href=\"https://aok.ok.gov/b2c/itemDetail.aspx?itemId=AOK-0001&amp;mainCat=23\">OkieBoutique</a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/30466_105883572796042_100001231986457_35162_3339370_n-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" /></p>\r\n<strong>Luchador Calendar</strong>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/interview-with-a-luchador/\">Did you know that Tulsa has its own luchador wrestling league</a>? It\'s true. Now you can give the gift of the bad-ass T-Town luchadors in calendar form, just in time to put the smack down on the other gifts under the tree this holiday season.\r\nPrice: $15\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://elotetulsa.com/luchadores\">Elote Cafe</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Colors of Oklahoma Music</strong>\r\nThere are at least three great selling points to this book: First, it\'s written by Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame inductee John Wooley, a venerable expert on Oklahoma music. Second, it\'s about, well, Oklahoma music. Third, it\'s available at Ida Red, one of my favorite stores for all things Tulsa, Oklahoma, and kick-ass local music (oh, and TOMS). You might enjoy giving this gift more than the recipient enjoys receiving it, but I don\'t know - you\'ll just have to rock-paper-scissors for it and let me know how it turns out.\r\nPrice: $17.95\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://idaredboutique.com/store/colors-of-oklahoma-music-by-john-wooley/\">Ida Red</a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4349\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/okie-centric-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/img_0565/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4349\" title=\"Tulsa\'s Haunted Memories\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/IMG_0565.jpg\" alt=\"Tulsa\'s Haunted Memories\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<strong>Tulsa Haunted Memories</strong>\r\nTulsa has its own ghosts of Christmas past, and you can add the gift of their stories, gathered and researched by the founder of Tulsa Spirit Tours and a member of the <a href=\"http://www.pittok.com/\">Paranormal Investigation Team of Tulsa</a>, to your loved ones\' stockings this season.\r\nPrice: $24.99\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.stevessundrybooksmags.com/photo_gallery.htm\">Steve\'s Sundry</a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4360\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/okie-centric-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/picture-2-5/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4360\" title=\"A Studio\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Picture-2.png\" alt=\"A Studio\" width=\"454\" height=\"438\" /></a></p>\r\n<strong>A Studio Concert Posters</strong>\r\nWant a poster to commemorate the time you saw your favorite band at Cain\'s Ballroom? Or the show at Brady Theater where you reconnected with a long-lost friend? Check out these posters at Dwelling Spaces, designed by the ultra-hip and nice guys behind Tulsa\'s own A Studio. All the cool kids are doing it.\r\nPrice: $10-25\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.dwellingspaces.net/site/dwelling_spaces/section/72\">Dwelling Spaces</a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"http://www.tulsametrofirefighterscalendar.com/images/0-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\r\n<strong>Tulsa Metro Hottest Firefighters Calendar</strong>\r\nThe thought that the average Tulsan could just bump into any of the gorgeous, highly chiseled guys featured in this calendar totally blows my mind. Hello, dusty, hunky fireman at the gas pump next to mine. Howdy, group of guys from the station who stopped in at Reasor\'s for dinner fixin\'s and are flexing their biceps as they sack their own groceries in the check-out next to me. Hi there, Mr. Firefighter who showed up at my house because I may or may not have called 911 just to see if I could land a tall, dark and handsome first responder. But rather than risk legal action by intentionally sounding a false alarm, you could just buy this calendar. (Don\'t be like me.)\r\nPrice: $15\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.stevessundrybooksmags.com/\">Steve\'s Sundry Books &amp; Magazines</a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"http://www.dwellingspaces.net/images/data/products/551_lg_img.jpg.mxw600.mxh600.jpg?1275249253\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" /></p>\r\n<strong>Bigfoot Sticker</strong>\r\nHe exists! At least, that\'s what we all want to believe, isn\'t it? Everyone on your shopping list is going to want to show their support of the Great Hairy One with this decal for their ride. Look for Bigfoot t-shirts, too.\r\nPrice: $4\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.dwellingspaces.net/site/dwelling_spaces/product/551\">Dwelling Spaces</a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4124/5071039442_d588259ac2_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" /></p>\r\n<strong>Pickles</strong>\r\nThere\'s not much that\'s more thoroughly Oklahoma than a fried pickle, and there aren\'t many Okies who\'d be too proud to accept them as gifts. Spring for these, made right here in Oklahoma in a little town called LaHoma. LaHoma, Oklahoma - say that three times fast. Photo from <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/boonecountydemocrats/\">BooneCoDems on Flickr</a>.\r\nPrice: $12\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.ladonnasonline.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=73_116&amp;products_id=429\">LaDonna\'s Fancy Foods</a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"http://www.dwellingspaces.net/images/data/products/561_lg_img.jpg.mxw600.mxh600.jpg?1280683511\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" /></p>\r\n<strong>Blue Whale T-Shirt</strong>\r\nThe t-shirt addict on your list is bound to love this tee, emblazoned with the image of everyone\'s favorite Route 66 landmark, the Blue Whale of Catoosa.\r\nPrice: $25\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.dwellingspaces.net/site/dwelling_spaces/product/561\">Dwelling Spaces</a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1199.snc4/155117_466873272103_145235792103_5803589_4575394_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" /></p>\r\n<strong>Golden Driller Throw Pillow</strong>\r\nEveryone on your guest list already has the <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=186866&amp;id=145235792103\">Golden Driller Shirt</a> (and if they don\'t, what the heck are you good for??) - now it\'s time to put the Golden Driller where the heart is.\r\nPrice: $30\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.dwellingspaces.net/\">Dwelling Spaces</a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4361\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/okie-centric-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/img_0553/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4361\" title=\"Tulsa Ballet\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/IMG_0553.jpg\" alt=\"Tulsa Ballet\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Autographed Ballet Slippers</strong>\r\nThe little girl in me jumped around and did a happy dance when I first stumbled upon these autographed ballerina shoes at the Tulsa Ballet\'s Leaps &amp; Grounds Cafe &amp; Boutique. The ones pictured were danced in and signed by soloist <a href=\"http://tulsaballet.org/staff.asp?id=90&amp;task=staffdisplay&amp;staffid=59\">Soo Youn Cho</a>, who was featured as Jordan in The Great Gatsby, and she also plays a role in Marcello Angelini\'s The Nutcracker. This is the only time you\'re going to be able to give used shoes as a gift for Christmas and not only be able to get away with it, but to also secure the biggest neck hug of your life from your favorite Tulsa Ballet fan. Don\'t forget that the <a href=\"http://www.tulsaballet.org/general.asp?id=235\">2011 Tulsa Ballet calendar</a> ($15) would make a great stocking stuffer - I\'ve seen it and the photography and design that went into this project are just stunning.\r\nPrice: $9\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://tulsaballet.org/general.asp?id=96\">Tulsa Ballet Leaps &amp; Grounds Cafe &amp; Boutique</a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0043/1452/products/AdmiralTwin_web_large.jpg?1288355117\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" /></p>\r\n<strong>Admiral Twin T-Shirt</strong>\r\nGot a friend who\'s mourning Tulsa\'s loss of the Admiral Twin Drive-In? Of course you do - who isn\'t? Every Tulsan has fond (and funky) memories of this mid-century landmark. Help the folks on your shopping list show their pride, support and love of our fallen twin screens.\r\nPrice: $20\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://boomtowntees.com/products/admiral-twin\">Boomtown Tees</a> (the online listing shows the shirt as unavailable, but it is, in fact, available - I double-checked)\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"http://www.mayabrenner.com/store/pc/catalog/s_neck_states_ok_big.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" /></p>\r\n<strong>Oklahoma Necklace</strong>\r\nYou saw it first on <a href=\"http://www.thepioneerwoman.com/\">ThePioneerWoman.com</a>, and I loved it so much that I couldn\'t resist showcasing here at TashaDoesTulsa.com, too. For the fancy lady in your life who deserves a gift that\'s a cut above.\r\nPrice: $130-300 (price = bling factor)\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.mayabrenner.com/store/pc/Oklahoma-5p144.htm\">MayaBrenner.com</a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"http://www.tulsahistory.org/wp/wp-content/gallery/photographic-repoductions/1980.63.182C.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\r\n<strong>Historic Tulsa Photographs</strong>\r\nFor the person on your nice list who has everything, there\'s nothing like a print of historic Tulsa images that stops visitors to a home or office in their tracks. I should know. I\'m known as The Gawker in some circles.\r\nPrice: Varies\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsahistory.org/learn/collections-and-research/photographs-for-sale/\">Tulsa Historical Society</a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"http://www.oklahomarock.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/newtulsasound.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\r\n<strong>The New Tulsa Sound</strong>\r\nEveryone could use a break from the same old Christmas songs this holiday season. Gift that gift this year, plus one that keeps on giving the gift of local music by the likes of Paul Benjamin Band, Gogo Plumbay, The Panda Resistance, Jesse Aycock, Sage Flower, Vandevander, Dead Sea Choir and Travis Fite with only one purchase - a copy of The New Tulsa Sound lets you do it. <a href=\"http://www.thecolonytulsa.com/#456/soundcloud\">Get a free preview of every track on the album here</a>.\r\nPrice: $9.99\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ColonyPresents\">Online</a>, <a href=\"http://www.idaredboutique.com/\">Ida Red</a>, <a href=\"http://www.dwellingspaces.net/\">Dwelling Spaces</a>, <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tulsa-OK/Shades-of-Brown/133998289971491\">Shades of Brown</a>, Cherry Street Coffeehouse, Starship Records, <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/getcolonized\">The Colony</a>, <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/fasslerhall\">Fassler Hall</a> and <a href=\"http://www.mcnellies.com/\">McNellies</a> (yeah, you\'ve got options, baby)\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"496\" height=\"304\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/q0-YZ2pLuMM?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"496\" height=\"304\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/q0-YZ2pLuMM?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\n<strong>Oklahoma Films</strong>\r\nDVDs make some of the best stocking stuffers, but don\'t settle for the $5 bin at Wal-Mart. Check out these movies instead, each filmed in Oklahoma. I have my eyes on The Outsiders set myself.\r\nPrice: $10-$26.98\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.reddirtemporium.com/filmedinok.php\">Red Dirt Emporium</a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"http://www.simplypersonalized.com/images/products/hp-your-town-satellite-jigsaw.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\r\n<strong>Your Favorite Oklahoma Place, Puzzle Style</strong>\r\nJust think - your pick of your favorite 24 square miles of our state, in print, on a 400-piece puzzle. It\'s based on an extract from the US Geological Survey mapping centered on your address of choice. The completed puzzle measures 12.25 X 18.5 inches and covers an area 6 miles east-to-west and 4 miles north-to-south with your given address at the center.\r\nPrice: $39.95\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.maps.com/map.aspx?cid=1478&amp;pid=17513\">Maps.com</a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"http://www.earthstores.com/gilcreasemuseumshop/images/zuniturq5.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\r\n<strong>Zuni Turquoise Jewelry</strong>\r\nI love this ring. I want this ring. My guess is that any lady on your gift list would, too. There\'s lots of jewelry available at the Gilcrease Museum gift shop, a rich source of Native American art, bronze statues, jewelry in turquoise, coral and silver, clothes and accessories, and there\'s bound to be something that\'ll put sparkles in the eyes of that special Okie someone.\r\nPrice: Ranges\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.earthstores.com/gilcreasemuseumshop/\">Gilcrease Museum</a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"http://blueridgeblog.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/12/13/alpaca_kisses.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" /></p>\r\n<strong>Alpacas</strong>\r\nNicole Kidman has them, so why shouldn\'t you? Besides, this is the cutest darned thing you could put under the Christmas tree, I\'m pretty sure - that is, if you can fit an alpaca under a Christmas tree. Photo from <a href=\"http://blueridgeblog.blogs.com/\">Blue Ridge Blog</a>.\r\nPrice: $15,000\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.brokenarrowalpacas.com/ForSale.htm\">Broken Arrow Alpacas</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>What Okie-centric gifts will you be giving this Christmas? </strong> Don\'t forget to check out <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/category/gift-guide/\">the Gift Guide category</a> here at TDT for even more Tulsa and Oklahoma gift ideas.','Oklahoma Gifts: TDT Holiday Gift Guide 2010','Tulsa\'s pretty rad, and the rest of the state isn\'t too shabby, either. Wouldn\'t it be cool if you could give the essence of Oklahoma as a gift this Christmas? 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I\'ve seen all the National Geographic movies about Egypt this and Egypt that. But it was time, I decided, to see some of that ancient action in real life.\r\n\r\nSo, we did. The first thing we saw upon stepping into the exhibit was a sarcophagus (which is larger than you think, by the way):\r\n\r\nMe: Hey, son? What\'s that? *I point to the sarcophagus*\r\nSon: A guy.\r\nMe: A guy?\r\nSon: A guy! With a nose on his face.\r\nMe: *blink blink*\r\nSon: Look over there! A cat!\r\n\r\nMy son loves cats. Coincidentally, so did the ancient Egyptians. Cats are a recurring theme in the exhibit at Philbrook, which greatly pleased my two-year-old, cat-deprived little man.\r\n\r\nUntil he realized he couldn\'t pet any of the cats in the exhibit. That he couldn\'t touch anything at all, actually. Then he kinda flipped out.\r\n\r\nThen I dropped my exhibit guide.\r\n\r\nThen my phone rang.\r\n\r\nThen a pair of Philbrook employees gave me the stink eye, which I deserved. I was supposed to have turned off my phone before entering the exhibit.\r\n\r\nThey started toward us.\r\n\r\nThen I got sweaty. I suddenly felt like we were in the Matrix.\r\n\r\nI managed to reach my back pocket to hit the ignore button, hold tightly to a seriously wriggly and pissed off child, dissuade the Philbrook agents and escape the exhibit, all while bent over backwards at the knees like a badass.\r\n\r\nI am the Neo of that place now.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1850\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/img_0285/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1850\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0285.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThen, we saw a cat outside. And despite my hypochondria and intense fear of ringworm, I let my son pet it.\r\n\r\nNice of me, huh?\r\n\r\nNot all stray cats have ringworm, as was previously assumed.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1852\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/img_0291/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1852\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0291.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThen we discovered this.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1851\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/img_0288/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1851\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0288.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s a piece called <a href=\"http://philbrookmuseum.blogspot.com/2010/05/one-of-our-favorite-things.html\">Oklahoma Autumn</a>. The artist is Eric Baker.\r\n\r\nIf I could design my dreams, this is how they would look.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1851\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/img_0288/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1851\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0288.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWow.\r\n\r\nWe wandered inside to eventually stumble upon this:\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1853\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/dsc08140/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1853\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08140-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd by \"this,\" I mean this:\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1856\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/3731495658_bff88f2738/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1856\" title=\"Modern Art at Philbrook, by indrasarrow on Flickr\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/3731495658_bff88f2738.jpg\" alt=\"Modern Art at Philbrook, by indrasarrow on Flickr\" width=\"367\" height=\"500\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI wrote <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/11/boy-saturday-and-philbrook-museum/\">here about our family trip to Philbrook last winter</a>. During that trip my son became very concerned about the well-being of this piece. The reason why is that, first of all, it doesn\'t exactly have its smiley face on.\r\n\r\nIt cries. Or whines, rather. And mumbles to itself. It frets. And its eyes move independently, which is something I\'ve always wanted to be able to do, actually.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1853\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/dsc08140/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1853\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08140-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLast time we visited Philbrook, this was called, in our little circle, The Piece Without a Name. We didn\'t know what it was, and though we adults were intrigued by it, we knew it upset our son. Not in a been-on-the-phone-with-you-cable-TV-jerks-for-forty-five-minutes-only-to-be-disconnected sort of way.\r\n\r\nMore like in a why-is-fishy-swimming-upside-down-daddy sort of way.\r\n\r\nSo, we left the modern art gallery and never looked back. That was, until last week.\r\n\r\nMy son has aged nearly a year since that family trip to Philbrook. Here\'s how his experience of this piece of art had changed:\r\n\r\n-The piece now has a name. It is - wait for it - Donut. I mean, I guess I can kinda see it - can you?\r\n-Kiddo is still very concerned about Donut\'s psychological health.\r\n-My son: \"Donut, what\'s wrong? Mommy, what\'s wrong with Donut? Why is Donut crying? Donut is sad.\"\r\n-Intermittently throughout the rest of our visit, my son asks about Donut: \"Is Donut okay? Go see Donut? Go see Donut now?\"\r\n-I was forced under threat of Meltdown in a Very Quiet, Echo-y Place to \"go see Donut right naaaoooow\" three - <em>three</em> - more times.\r\n-The first thing out of my son\'s mouth at the conclusion of our visit and as I put the key in the car ignition: \"Go see Donut...<em> naaaoooow</em>?\"\r\n-The first thing out of my son\'s mouth as his father came through the door of our humble abode: \"What\'s wrong with Donut? Go see Donut right now?\"\r\n-The first thing out of my husband\'s mouth at hearing this: \"Did you guys have donuts without me?\"\r\n-The first thing out of my son\'s mouth upon waking the next morning: \"Go see Donut now?\"\r\n\r\nThank goodness I have photos of this piece that I can pull up on this here com-puter at any time of the night or day. Otherwise, I\'d need to find another freelance job just to pay for the gas we\'d use driving back and forth to Philbrook 27 times a day to check on a piece of art created by someone whom, in my imagination, couldn\'t have possibly anticipated this particular response to this piece from a museum-goer.\r\n\r\nOne thing\'s for sure: I\'ll never be able to look at a donut straight faced again.\r\n\r\n<em><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/indrasarrow/3731495658/\">Modern Art at Philbrook photo by indrasarrow on Flickr</a>.</em>','Philbrook Museum: Donut Okay','Last week, when my son and I found ourselves with some time to kill, we decided to stop by Philbrook Museum. 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I\'ve seen all the National Geographic movies about Egypt this and Egypt that. But it was time, I decided, to see some of that ancient action in real life.\n\nSo, we did. The first thing we saw upon stepping into the exhibit was a sarcophagus (which is larger than you think, by the way):\n\nMe: Hey, son? What\'s that? *I point to the sarcophagus*\nSon: A guy.\nMe: A guy?\nSon: A guy! With a nose on his face.\nMe: *blink blink*\nSon: Look over there! A cat!\n\nMy son loves cats. Coincidentally, so did the ancient Egyptians. Cats are a recurring theme in the exhibit at Philbrook, which greatly pleased my two-year-old, cat-deprived little man.\n\nUntil he realized he couldn\'t pet any of the cats in the exhibit. That he couldn\'t touch anything at all, actually. Then he kinda flipped out.\n\nThen I dropped my exhibit guide.\n\nThen my phone rang.\n\nThen a pair of Philbrook employees gave me the stink eye, which I deserved. I was supposed to have turned off my phone before entering the exhibit.\n\nThey started toward us. I suddenly felt like we were in the Matrix.\n\nI managed to reach my back pocket to hit the ignore button, hold tightly to a seriously wriggly and pissed off child, dissuade the Philbrook agents and escape the exhibit, all while bent over backwards at the knees like a badass.\n\nI am the Neo of that place now.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1850\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=1850\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1850\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0285.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nThen, we saw a cat outside. And despite my hypochondria and intense fear of ringworm, I let my son pet it.\n\nNice of me, huh?\n\nNot all stray cats have ringworm, as was previously assumed.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1852\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=1852\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1852\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0291.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nThen we discovered this.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1851\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=1851\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1851\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0288.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nIt\'s a piece called <a href=\"http://philbrookmuseum.blogspot.com/2010/05/one-of-our-favorite-things.html\">Oklahoma Autumn</a>. The artist is Eric Baker.\n\nIf I could design my dreams, this is how they would look.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1851\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=1851\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1851\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0288.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nWow.\n\nWe wandered inside to eventually stumble upon this:\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1853\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=1853\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1853\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08140-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\n\nAnd by \"this,\" I mean this:\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1856\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=1856\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1856\" title=\"Modern Art at Philbrook, by indrasarrow on Flickr\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/3731495658_bff88f2738.jpg\" alt=\"Modern Art at Philbrook, by indrasarrow on Flickr\" width=\"367\" height=\"500\" /></a>\n\nI wrote <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/11/boy-saturday-and-philbrook-museum/\">here about our family trip to Philbrook last winter</a>. During that trip my son became very concerned about the well-being of this piece. The reason why is that, first of all, it doesn\'t exactly have its smiley face on.\n\nAnd then, it cries. Or whines, rather. And mumbles to itself. It frets. And its eyes move independently, which is something I\'ve always wanted to be able to do, actually.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1853\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=1853\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1853\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08140-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\n\nLast time we visited Philbrook, this was called, in our little circle, The Piece Without a Name. We didn\'t know what it was, and though we adults were intrigued by it, we knew it upset our son. Not in a been-on-the-phone-with-you-cable-TV-jerks-for-forty-five-minutes-only-to-be-disconnected sort of way.\n\nMore like in a why-is-fishy-swimming-upside-down-daddy sort of way.\n\nSo, we left the modern art gallery and never looked back. That was, until last week.\n\nMy son has aged nearly a year since that family trip to Philbrook. Here\'s how his experience of this piece of art had changed:\n\n-The piece now has a name. It is - wait for it - Donut. I mean, I guess I can kinda see it.\n-Kiddo is still very concerned about Donut\'s psychological state.\n-My son: \"Donut, what\'s wrong? Mommy, what\'s wrong with Donut? Why is Donut crying? Donut is sad.\"\n-Intermittently throughout the rest of our visit, my son asks about Donut: \"Is Donut okay? Go see Donut? Go see Donut now?\"\n-I was forced under threat of Meltdown in a Very Quiet, Echo-y Place to \"go see Donut right naaaoooow\" three - <em>three</em> - more times.\n-The first thing out of my son\'s mouth at the conclusion of our visit and as I put the key in the car ignition: \"Go see Donut...<em> naaaoooow</em>?\"\n-The first thing out of my son\'s mouth as his father came through the door of our humble abode: \"What\'s wrong with Donut? Go see Donut right now?\"\n-The first thing out of my husband\'s mouth at hearing this: \"Did you guys have donuts without me?\"\n-The first thing out of my son\'s mouth upon waking the next morning: \"Go see Donut now?\"\n\nThank goodness I have photos of this piece that I can pull up on this here com-puter at any time of the night or day. Otherwise, I\'d need to find another freelance job just to pay for the gas we\'d use driving back and forth to Philbrook 27 times a day to check on a piece of art created by someone whom, in my imagination, couldn\'t have possibly anticipated this particular response to this piece from a museum-goer.\n\nOne thing\'s for sure: I\'ll never be able to look at a donut straight faced again.\n\n<em><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/indrasarrow/3731495658/\">Modern Art at Philbrook photo by indrasarrow on Flickr</a>.</em>','Philbrook Museum: Donut Okay','Last week, when my son and I found ourselves with some time to kill, we decided to stop by Philbrook Museum. Little did I know that this visit to our hometown museum would change breakfast forever.','inherit','open','open','','1848-revision','','','2010-09-07 04:05:46','2010-09-07 09:05:46','',1848,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/1848-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(1858,1,'2010-09-07 04:05:48','2010-09-07 09:05:48','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1854\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=1854\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1854\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08158.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLast week, when my son and I found ourselves with some time to kill, we decided to stop by <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/11/boy-saturday-and-philbrook-museum/\">Philbrook Museum</a>.\r\n\r\nLittle did I know that this visit to our hometown museum would change breakfast forever.\r\n\r\n<!--more--><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1855\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=1855\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1855\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08209.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI wanted to visit because I knew time is running out on the <a href=\"http://www.philbrook.org/exhibitions/current/exhibition.cfm?id=45\">To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures</a> exhibit, at Philbrook until Sept. 12.\r\n\r\nI love Egyptian stuff. I\'ve seen all the National Geographic movies about Egypt this and Egypt that. But it was time, I decided, to see some of that ancient action in real life.\r\n\r\nSo, we did. The first thing we saw upon stepping into the exhibit was a sarcophagus (which is larger than you think, by the way):\r\n\r\nMe: Hey, son? What\'s that? *I point to the sarcophagus*\r\nSon: A guy.\r\nMe: A guy?\r\nSon: A guy! With a nose on his face.\r\nMe: *blink blink*\r\nSon: Look over there! A cat!\r\n\r\nMy son loves cats. Coincidentally, so did the ancient Egyptians. Cats are a recurring theme in the exhibit at Philbrook, which greatly pleased my two-year-old, cat-deprived little man.\r\n\r\nUntil he realized he couldn\'t pet any of the cats in the exhibit. That he couldn\'t touch anything at all, actually. Then he kinda flipped out.\r\n\r\nThen I dropped my exhibit guide.\r\n\r\nThen my phone rang.\r\n\r\nThen a pair of Philbrook employees gave me the stink eye, which I deserved. I was supposed to have turned off my phone before entering the exhibit.\r\n\r\nThey started toward us. I suddenly felt like we were in the Matrix.\r\n\r\nI managed to reach my back pocket to hit the ignore button, hold tightly to a seriously wriggly and pissed off child, dissuade the Philbrook agents and escape the exhibit, all while bent over backwards at the knees like a badass.\r\n\r\nI am the Neo of that place now.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1850\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=1850\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1850\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0285.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThen, we saw a cat outside. And despite my hypochondria and intense fear of ringworm, I let my son pet it.\r\n\r\nNice of me, huh?\r\n\r\nNot all stray cats have ringworm, as was previously assumed.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1852\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=1852\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1852\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0291.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThen we discovered this.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1851\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=1851\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1851\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0288.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s a piece called <a href=\"http://philbrookmuseum.blogspot.com/2010/05/one-of-our-favorite-things.html\">Oklahoma Autumn</a>. The artist is Eric Baker.\r\n\r\nIf I could design my dreams, this is how they would look.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1851\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=1851\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1851\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0288.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWow.\r\n\r\nWe wandered inside to eventually stumble upon this:\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1853\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=1853\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1853\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08140-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd by \"this,\" I mean this:\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1856\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=1856\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1856\" title=\"Modern Art at Philbrook, by indrasarrow on Flickr\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/3731495658_bff88f2738.jpg\" alt=\"Modern Art at Philbrook, by indrasarrow on Flickr\" width=\"367\" height=\"500\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI wrote <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/11/boy-saturday-and-philbrook-museum/\">here about our family trip to Philbrook last winter</a>. During that trip my son became very concerned about the well-being of this piece. The reason why is that, first of all, it doesn\'t exactly have its smiley face on.\r\n\r\nAnd then, it cries. Or whines, rather. And mumbles to itself. It frets. And its eyes move independently, which is something I\'ve always wanted to be able to do, actually.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1853\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=1853\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1853\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08140-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLast time we visited Philbrook, this was called, in our little circle, The Piece Without a Name. We didn\'t know what it was, and though we adults were intrigued by it, we knew it upset our son. Not in a been-on-the-phone-with-you-cable-TV-jerks-for-forty-five-minutes-only-to-be-disconnected sort of way.\r\n\r\nMore like in a why-is-fishy-swimming-upside-down-daddy sort of way.\r\n\r\nSo, we left the modern art gallery and never looked back. That was, until last week.\r\n\r\nMy son has aged nearly a year since that family trip to Philbrook. Here\'s how his experience of this piece of art had changed:\r\n\r\n-The piece now has a name. It is - wait for it - Donut. I mean, I guess I can kinda see it.\r\n-Kiddo is still very concerned about Donut\'s psychological state.\r\n-My son: \"Donut, what\'s wrong? Mommy, what\'s wrong with Donut? Why is Donut crying? Donut is sad.\"\r\n-Intermittently throughout the rest of our visit, my son asks about Donut: \"Is Donut okay? Go see Donut? Go see Donut now?\"\r\n-I was forced under threat of Meltdown in a Very Quiet, Echo-y Place to \"go see Donut right naaaoooow\" three - <em>three</em> - more times.\r\n-The first thing out of my son\'s mouth at the conclusion of our visit and as I put the key in the car ignition: \"Go see Donut...<em> naaaoooow</em>?\"\r\n-The first thing out of my son\'s mouth as his father came through the door of our humble abode: \"What\'s wrong with Donut? Go see Donut right now?\"\r\n-The first thing out of my husband\'s mouth at hearing this: \"Did you guys have donuts without me?\"\r\n-The first thing out of my son\'s mouth upon waking the next morning: \"Go see Donut now?\"\r\n\r\nThank goodness I have photos of this piece that I can pull up on this here com-puter at any time of the night or day. Otherwise, I\'d need to find another freelance job just to pay for the gas we\'d use driving back and forth to Philbrook 27 times a day to check on a piece of art created by someone whom, in my imagination, couldn\'t have possibly anticipated this particular response to this piece from a museum-goer.\r\n\r\nOne thing\'s for sure: I\'ll never be able to look at a donut straight faced again.\r\n\r\n<em><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/indrasarrow/3731495658/\">Modern Art at Philbrook photo by indrasarrow on Flickr</a>.</em>','Philbrook Museum: Donut Okay','Last week, when my son and I found ourselves with some time to kill, we decided to stop by Philbrook Museum. Little did I know that this visit to our hometown museum would change breakfast forever.','inherit','open','open','','1848-revision-2','','','2010-09-07 04:05:48','2010-09-07 09:05:48','',1848,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/1848-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(1859,1,'2010-09-07 04:05:48','2010-09-07 09:05:48','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1854\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/dsc08158/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1854\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08158.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLast week, when my son and I found ourselves with some time to kill, we decided to stop by <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/11/boy-saturday-and-philbrook-museum/\">Philbrook Museum</a>.\r\n\r\nLittle did I know that this visit to our hometown museum would change breakfast forever.\r\n\r\n<!--more--><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1855\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/dsc08209/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1855\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08209.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI wanted to visit because I knew time is running out on the <a href=\"http://www.philbrook.org/exhibitions/current/exhibition.cfm?id=45\">To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures</a> exhibit, at Philbrook until Sept. 12.\r\n\r\nI love Egyptian stuff. I\'ve seen all the National Geographic movies about Egypt this and Egypt that. But it was time, I decided, to see some of that ancient action in real life.\r\n\r\nSo, we did. The first thing we saw upon stepping into the exhibit was a sarcophagus (which is larger than you think, by the way):\r\n\r\nMe: Hey, son? What\'s that? *I point to the sarcophagus*\r\nSon: A guy.\r\nMe: A guy?\r\nSon: A guy! With a nose on his face.\r\nMe: *blink blink*\r\nSon: Look over there! A cat!\r\n\r\nMy son loves cats. Coincidentally, so did the ancient Egyptians. Cats are a recurring theme in the exhibit at Philbrook, which greatly pleased my two-year-old, cat-deprived little man.\r\n\r\nUntil he realized he couldn\'t pet any of the cats in the exhibit. That he couldn\'t touch anything at all, actually. Then he kinda flipped out.\r\n\r\nThen I dropped my exhibit guide.\r\n\r\nThen my phone rang.\r\n\r\nThen a pair of Philbrook employees gave me the stink eye, which I deserved. I was supposed to have turned off my phone before entering the exhibit.\r\n\r\nThey started toward us. I suddenly felt like we were in the Matrix.\r\n\r\nI managed to reach my back pocket to hit the ignore button, hold tightly to a seriously wriggly and pissed off child, dissuade the Philbrook agents and escape the exhibit, all while bent over backwards at the knees like a badass.\r\n\r\nI am the Neo of that place now.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1850\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/img_0285/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1850\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0285.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThen, we saw a cat outside. And despite my hypochondria and intense fear of ringworm, I let my son pet it.\r\n\r\nNice of me, huh?\r\n\r\nNot all stray cats have ringworm, as was previously assumed.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1852\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/img_0291/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1852\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0291.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThen we discovered this.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1851\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/img_0288/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1851\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0288.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s a piece called <a href=\"http://philbrookmuseum.blogspot.com/2010/05/one-of-our-favorite-things.html\">Oklahoma Autumn</a>. The artist is Eric Baker.\r\n\r\nIf I could design my dreams, this is how they would look.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1851\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/img_0288/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1851\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0288.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWow.\r\n\r\nWe wandered inside to eventually stumble upon this:\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1853\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/dsc08140/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1853\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08140-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd by \"this,\" I mean this:\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1856\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/3731495658_bff88f2738/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1856\" title=\"Modern Art at Philbrook, by indrasarrow on Flickr\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/3731495658_bff88f2738.jpg\" alt=\"Modern Art at Philbrook, by indrasarrow on Flickr\" width=\"367\" height=\"500\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI wrote <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/11/boy-saturday-and-philbrook-museum/\">here about our family trip to Philbrook last winter</a>. During that trip my son became very concerned about the well-being of this piece. The reason why is that, first of all, it doesn\'t exactly have its smiley face on.\r\n\r\nAnd then, it cries. Or whines, rather. And mumbles to itself. It frets. And its eyes move independently, which is something I\'ve always wanted to be able to do, actually.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1853\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/dsc08140/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1853\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08140-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLast time we visited Philbrook, this was called, in our little circle, The Piece Without a Name. We didn\'t know what it was, and though we adults were intrigued by it, we knew it upset our son. Not in a been-on-the-phone-with-you-cable-TV-jerks-for-forty-five-minutes-only-to-be-disconnected sort of way.\r\n\r\nMore like in a why-is-fishy-swimming-upside-down-daddy sort of way.\r\n\r\nSo, we left the modern art gallery and never looked back. That was, until last week.\r\n\r\nMy son has aged nearly a year since that family trip to Philbrook. Here\'s how his experience of this piece of art had changed:\r\n\r\n-The piece now has a name. It is - wait for it - Donut. I mean, I guess I can kinda see it.\r\n-Kiddo is still very concerned about Donut\'s psychological state.\r\n-My son: \"Donut, what\'s wrong? Mommy, what\'s wrong with Donut? Why is Donut crying? Donut is sad.\"\r\n-Intermittently throughout the rest of our visit, my son asks about Donut: \"Is Donut okay? Go see Donut? Go see Donut now?\"\r\n-I was forced under threat of Meltdown in a Very Quiet, Echo-y Place to \"go see Donut right naaaoooow\" three - <em>three</em> - more times.\r\n-The first thing out of my son\'s mouth at the conclusion of our visit and as I put the key in the car ignition: \"Go see Donut...<em> naaaoooow</em>?\"\r\n-The first thing out of my son\'s mouth as his father came through the door of our humble abode: \"What\'s wrong with Donut? Go see Donut right now?\"\r\n-The first thing out of my husband\'s mouth at hearing this: \"Did you guys have donuts without me?\"\r\n-The first thing out of my son\'s mouth upon waking the next morning: \"Go see Donut now?\"\r\n\r\nThank goodness I have photos of this piece that I can pull up on this here com-puter at any time of the night or day. Otherwise, I\'d need to find another freelance job just to pay for the gas we\'d use driving back and forth to Philbrook 27 times a day to check on a piece of art created by someone whom, in my imagination, couldn\'t have possibly anticipated this particular response to this piece from a museum-goer.\r\n\r\nOne thing\'s for sure: I\'ll never be able to look at a donut straight faced again.\r\n\r\n<em><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/indrasarrow/3731495658/\">Modern Art at Philbrook photo by indrasarrow on Flickr</a>.</em>','Philbrook Museum: Donut Okay','Last week, when my son and I found ourselves with some time to kill, we decided to stop by Philbrook Museum. Little did I know that this visit to our hometown museum would change breakfast forever.','inherit','open','open','','1848-revision-3','','','2010-09-07 04:05:48','2010-09-07 09:05:48','',1848,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/1848-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(1860,1,'2010-09-07 04:08:29','2010-09-07 09:08:29','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1854\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/dsc08158/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1854\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08158.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLast week, when my son and I found ourselves with some time to kill, we decided to stop by <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/11/boy-saturday-and-philbrook-museum/\">Philbrook Museum</a>.\r\n\r\nLittle did I know that this visit to our hometown museum would change breakfast forever.\r\n\r\n<!--more--><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1855\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/dsc08209/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1855\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08209.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI wanted to visit because I knew time is running out on the <a href=\"http://www.philbrook.org/exhibitions/current/exhibition.cfm?id=45\">To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures</a> exhibit, at Philbrook until Sept. 12.\r\n\r\nI love Egyptian stuff. I\'ve seen all the National Geographic movies about Egypt this and Egypt that. But it was time, I decided, to see some of that ancient action in real life.\r\n\r\nSo, we did. The first thing we saw upon stepping into the exhibit was a sarcophagus (which is larger than you think, by the way):\r\n\r\nMe: Hey, son? What\'s that? *I point to the sarcophagus*\r\nSon: A guy.\r\nMe: A guy?\r\nSon: A guy! With a nose on his face.\r\nMe: *blink blink*\r\nSon: Look over there! A cat!\r\n\r\nMy son loves cats. Coincidentally, so did the ancient Egyptians. Cats are a recurring theme in the exhibit at Philbrook, which greatly pleased my two-year-old, cat-deprived little man.\r\n\r\nUntil he realized he couldn\'t pet any of the cats in the exhibit. That he couldn\'t touch anything at all, actually. Then he kinda flipped out.\r\n\r\nThen I dropped my exhibit guide.\r\n\r\nThen my phone rang.\r\n\r\nThen a pair of Philbrook employees gave me the stink eye, which I deserved. I was supposed to have turned off my phone before entering the exhibit.\r\n\r\nThey started toward us.\r\n\r\nThen I got sweaty. I suddenly felt like we were in the Matrix.\r\n\r\nI managed to reach my back pocket to hit the ignore button, hold tightly to a seriously wriggly and pissed off child, dissuade the Philbrook agents and escape the exhibit, all while bent over backwards at the knees like a badass.\r\n\r\nI am the Neo of that place now.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1850\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/img_0285/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1850\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0285.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThen, we saw a cat outside. And despite my hypochondria and intense fear of ringworm, I let my son pet it.\r\n\r\nNice of me, huh?\r\n\r\nNot all stray cats have ringworm, as was previously assumed.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1852\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/img_0291/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1852\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0291.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThen we discovered this.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1851\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/img_0288/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1851\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0288.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s a piece called <a href=\"http://philbrookmuseum.blogspot.com/2010/05/one-of-our-favorite-things.html\">Oklahoma Autumn</a>. The artist is Eric Baker.\r\n\r\nIf I could design my dreams, this is how they would look.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1851\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/img_0288/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1851\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0288.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWow.\r\n\r\nWe wandered inside to eventually stumble upon this:\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1853\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/dsc08140/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1853\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08140-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd by \"this,\" I mean this:\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1856\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/3731495658_bff88f2738/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1856\" title=\"Modern Art at Philbrook, by indrasarrow on Flickr\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/3731495658_bff88f2738.jpg\" alt=\"Modern Art at Philbrook, by indrasarrow on Flickr\" width=\"367\" height=\"500\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI wrote <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/11/boy-saturday-and-philbrook-museum/\">here about our family trip to Philbrook last winter</a>. During that trip my son became very concerned about the well-being of this piece. The reason why is that, first of all, it doesn\'t exactly have its smiley face on.\r\n\r\nAnd then, it cries. Or whines, rather. And mumbles to itself. It frets. And its eyes move independently, which is something I\'ve always wanted to be able to do, actually.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1853\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/dsc08140/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1853\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08140-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLast time we visited Philbrook, this was called, in our little circle, The Piece Without a Name. We didn\'t know what it was, and though we adults were intrigued by it, we knew it upset our son. Not in a been-on-the-phone-with-you-cable-TV-jerks-for-forty-five-minutes-only-to-be-disconnected sort of way.\r\n\r\nMore like in a why-is-fishy-swimming-upside-down-daddy sort of way.\r\n\r\nSo, we left the modern art gallery and never looked back. That was, until last week.\r\n\r\nMy son has aged nearly a year since that family trip to Philbrook. Here\'s how his experience of this piece of art had changed:\r\n\r\n-The piece now has a name. It is - wait for it - Donut. I mean, I guess I can kinda see it.\r\n-Kiddo is still very concerned about Donut\'s psychological state.\r\n-My son: \"Donut, what\'s wrong? Mommy, what\'s wrong with Donut? Why is Donut crying? Donut is sad.\"\r\n-Intermittently throughout the rest of our visit, my son asks about Donut: \"Is Donut okay? Go see Donut? Go see Donut now?\"\r\n-I was forced under threat of Meltdown in a Very Quiet, Echo-y Place to \"go see Donut right naaaoooow\" three - <em>three</em> - more times.\r\n-The first thing out of my son\'s mouth at the conclusion of our visit and as I put the key in the car ignition: \"Go see Donut...<em> naaaoooow</em>?\"\r\n-The first thing out of my son\'s mouth as his father came through the door of our humble abode: \"What\'s wrong with Donut? Go see Donut right now?\"\r\n-The first thing out of my husband\'s mouth at hearing this: \"Did you guys have donuts without me?\"\r\n-The first thing out of my son\'s mouth upon waking the next morning: \"Go see Donut now?\"\r\n\r\nThank goodness I have photos of this piece that I can pull up on this here com-puter at any time of the night or day. Otherwise, I\'d need to find another freelance job just to pay for the gas we\'d use driving back and forth to Philbrook 27 times a day to check on a piece of art created by someone whom, in my imagination, couldn\'t have possibly anticipated this particular response to this piece from a museum-goer.\r\n\r\nOne thing\'s for sure: I\'ll never be able to look at a donut straight faced again.\r\n\r\n<em><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/indrasarrow/3731495658/\">Modern Art at Philbrook photo by indrasarrow on Flickr</a>.</em>','Philbrook Museum: Donut Okay','Last week, when my son and I found ourselves with some time to kill, we decided to stop by Philbrook Museum. Little did I know that this visit to our hometown museum would change breakfast forever.','inherit','open','open','','1848-revision-4','','','2010-09-07 04:08:29','2010-09-07 09:08:29','',1848,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/1848-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(1861,1,'2010-09-07 04:08:29','2010-09-07 09:08:29','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1854\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/dsc08158/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1854\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08158.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLast week, when my son and I found ourselves with some time to kill, we decided to stop by <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/11/boy-saturday-and-philbrook-museum/\">Philbrook Museum</a>.\r\n\r\nLittle did I know that this visit to our hometown museum would change breakfast forever.\r\n\r\n<!--more--><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1855\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/dsc08209/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1855\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08209.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI wanted to visit because I knew time is running out on the <a href=\"http://www.philbrook.org/exhibitions/current/exhibition.cfm?id=45\">To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures</a> exhibit, at Philbrook until Sept. 12.\r\n\r\nI love Egyptian stuff. I\'ve seen all the National Geographic movies about Egypt this and Egypt that. But it was time, I decided, to see some of that ancient action in real life.\r\n\r\nSo, we did. The first thing we saw upon stepping into the exhibit was a sarcophagus (which is larger than you think, by the way):\r\n\r\nMe: Hey, son? What\'s that? *I point to the sarcophagus*\r\nSon: A guy.\r\nMe: A guy?\r\nSon: A guy! With a nose on his face.\r\nMe: *blink blink*\r\nSon: Look over there! A cat!\r\n\r\nMy son loves cats. Coincidentally, so did the ancient Egyptians. Cats are a recurring theme in the exhibit at Philbrook, which greatly pleased my two-year-old, cat-deprived little man.\r\n\r\nUntil he realized he couldn\'t pet any of the cats in the exhibit. That he couldn\'t touch anything at all, actually. Then he kinda flipped out.\r\n\r\nThen I dropped my exhibit guide.\r\n\r\nThen my phone rang.\r\n\r\nThen a pair of Philbrook employees gave me the stink eye, which I deserved. I was supposed to have turned off my phone before entering the exhibit.\r\n\r\nThey started toward us.\r\n\r\nThen I got sweaty. I suddenly felt like we were in the Matrix.\r\n\r\nI managed to reach my back pocket to hit the ignore button, hold tightly to a seriously wriggly and pissed off child, dissuade the Philbrook agents and escape the exhibit, all while bent over backwards at the knees like a badass.\r\n\r\nI am the Neo of that place now.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1850\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/img_0285/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1850\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0285.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThen, we saw a cat outside. And despite my hypochondria and intense fear of ringworm, I let my son pet it.\r\n\r\nNice of me, huh?\r\n\r\nNot all stray cats have ringworm, as was previously assumed.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1852\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/img_0291/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1852\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0291.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThen we discovered this.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1851\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/img_0288/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1851\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0288.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s a piece called <a href=\"http://philbrookmuseum.blogspot.com/2010/05/one-of-our-favorite-things.html\">Oklahoma Autumn</a>. The artist is Eric Baker.\r\n\r\nIf I could design my dreams, this is how they would look.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1851\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/img_0288/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1851\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0288.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWow.\r\n\r\nWe wandered inside to eventually stumble upon this:\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1853\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/dsc08140/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1853\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08140-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd by \"this,\" I mean this:\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1856\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/3731495658_bff88f2738/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1856\" title=\"Modern Art at Philbrook, by indrasarrow on Flickr\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/3731495658_bff88f2738.jpg\" alt=\"Modern Art at Philbrook, by indrasarrow on Flickr\" width=\"367\" height=\"500\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI wrote <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/11/boy-saturday-and-philbrook-museum/\">here about our family trip to Philbrook last winter</a>. During that trip my son became very concerned about the well-being of this piece. The reason why is that, first of all, it doesn\'t exactly have its smiley face on.\r\n\r\nAnd then, it cries. Or whines, rather. And mumbles to itself. It frets. And its eyes move independently, which is something I\'ve always wanted to be able to do, actually.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1853\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/dsc08140/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1853\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08140-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLast time we visited Philbrook, this was called, in our little circle, The Piece Without a Name. We didn\'t know what it was, and though we adults were intrigued by it, we knew it upset our son. Not in a been-on-the-phone-with-you-cable-TV-jerks-for-forty-five-minutes-only-to-be-disconnected sort of way.\r\n\r\nMore like in a why-is-fishy-swimming-upside-down-daddy sort of way.\r\n\r\nSo, we left the modern art gallery and never looked back. That was, until last week.\r\n\r\nMy son has aged nearly a year since that family trip to Philbrook. Here\'s how his experience of this piece of art had changed:\r\n\r\n-The piece now has a name. It is - wait for it - Donut. I mean, I guess I can kinda see it.\r\n-Kiddo is still very concerned about Donut\'s psychological state.\r\n-My son: \"Donut, what\'s wrong? Mommy, what\'s wrong with Donut? Why is Donut crying? Donut is sad.\"\r\n-Intermittently throughout the rest of our visit, my son asks about Donut: \"Is Donut okay? Go see Donut? Go see Donut now?\"\r\n-I was forced under threat of Meltdown in a Very Quiet, Echo-y Place to \"go see Donut right naaaoooow\" three - <em>three</em> - more times.\r\n-The first thing out of my son\'s mouth at the conclusion of our visit and as I put the key in the car ignition: \"Go see Donut...<em> naaaoooow</em>?\"\r\n-The first thing out of my son\'s mouth as his father came through the door of our humble abode: \"What\'s wrong with Donut? Go see Donut right now?\"\r\n-The first thing out of my husband\'s mouth at hearing this: \"Did you guys have donuts without me?\"\r\n-The first thing out of my son\'s mouth upon waking the next morning: \"Go see Donut now?\"\r\n\r\nThank goodness I have photos of this piece that I can pull up on this here com-puter at any time of the night or day. Otherwise, I\'d need to find another freelance job just to pay for the gas we\'d use driving back and forth to Philbrook 27 times a day to check on a piece of art created by someone whom, in my imagination, couldn\'t have possibly anticipated this particular response to this piece from a museum-goer.\r\n\r\nOne thing\'s for sure: I\'ll never be able to look at a donut straight faced again.\r\n\r\n<em><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/indrasarrow/3731495658/\">Modern Art at Philbrook photo by indrasarrow on Flickr</a>.</em>','Philbrook Museum: Donut Okay','Last week, when my son and I found ourselves with some time to kill, we decided to stop by Philbrook Museum. Little did I know that this visit to our hometown museum would change breakfast forever.','inherit','open','open','','1848-revision-5','','','2010-09-07 04:08:29','2010-09-07 09:08:29','',1848,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/1848-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(1864,1,'2010-09-07 04:12:30','2010-09-07 09:12:30','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1854\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/dsc08158/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1854\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08158.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLast week, when my son and I found ourselves with some time to kill, we decided to stop by <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/11/boy-saturday-and-philbrook-museum/\">Philbrook Museum</a>.\r\n\r\nLittle did I know that this visit to our hometown museum would change breakfast forever.\r\n\r\n<!--more--><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1855\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/dsc08209/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1855\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08209.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI wanted to visit because I knew time is running out on the <a href=\"http://www.philbrook.org/exhibitions/current/exhibition.cfm?id=45\">To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures</a> exhibit, at Philbrook until Sept. 12.\r\n\r\nI love Egyptian stuff. I\'ve seen all the National Geographic movies about Egypt this and Egypt that. But it was time, I decided, to see some of that ancient action in real life.\r\n\r\nSo, we did. The first thing we saw upon stepping into the exhibit was a sarcophagus (which is larger than you think, by the way):\r\n\r\nMe: Hey, son? What\'s that? *I point to the sarcophagus*\r\nSon: A guy.\r\nMe: A guy?\r\nSon: A guy! With a nose on his face.\r\nMe: *blink blink*\r\nSon: Look over there! A cat!\r\n\r\nMy son loves cats. Coincidentally, so did the ancient Egyptians. Cats are a recurring theme in the exhibit at Philbrook, which greatly pleased my two-year-old, cat-deprived little man.\r\n\r\nUntil he realized he couldn\'t pet any of the cats in the exhibit. That he couldn\'t touch anything at all, actually. Then he kinda flipped out.\r\n\r\nThen I dropped my exhibit guide.\r\n\r\nThen my phone rang.\r\n\r\nThen a pair of Philbrook employees gave me the stink eye, which I deserved. I was supposed to have turned off my phone before entering the exhibit.\r\n\r\nThey started toward us.\r\n\r\nThen I got sweaty. I suddenly felt like we were in the Matrix.\r\n\r\nI managed to reach my back pocket to hit the ignore button, hold tightly to a seriously wriggly and pissed off child, dissuade the Philbrook agents and escape the exhibit, all while bent over backwards at the knees like a badass.\r\n\r\nI am the Neo of that place now.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1850\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/img_0285/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1850\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0285.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThen, we saw a cat outside. And despite my hypochondria and intense fear of ringworm, I let my son pet it.\r\n\r\nNice of me, huh?\r\n\r\nNot all stray cats have ringworm, as was previously assumed.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1852\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/img_0291/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1852\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0291.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThen we discovered this.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1851\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/img_0288/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1851\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0288.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s a piece called <a href=\"http://philbrookmuseum.blogspot.com/2010/05/one-of-our-favorite-things.html\">Oklahoma Autumn</a>. The artist is Eric Baker.\r\n\r\nIf I could design my dreams, this is how they would look.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1851\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/img_0288/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1851\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0288.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWow.\r\n\r\nWe wandered inside to eventually stumble upon this:\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1853\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/dsc08140/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1853\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08140-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd by \"this,\" I mean this:\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1856\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/3731495658_bff88f2738/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1856\" title=\"Modern Art at Philbrook, by indrasarrow on Flickr\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/3731495658_bff88f2738.jpg\" alt=\"Modern Art at Philbrook, by indrasarrow on Flickr\" width=\"367\" height=\"500\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI wrote <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/11/boy-saturday-and-philbrook-museum/\">here about our family trip to Philbrook last winter</a>. During that trip my son became very concerned about the well-being of this piece. The reason why is that, first of all, it doesn\'t exactly have its smiley face on.\r\n\r\nIt cries. Or whines, rather. And mumbles to itself. It frets. And its eyes move independently, which is something I\'ve always wanted to be able to do, actually.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1853\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/dsc08140/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1853\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08140-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLast time we visited Philbrook, this was called, in our little circle, The Piece Without a Name. We didn\'t know what it was, and though we adults were intrigued by it, we knew it upset our son. Not in a been-on-the-phone-with-you-cable-TV-jerks-for-forty-five-minutes-only-to-be-disconnected sort of way.\r\n\r\nMore like in a why-is-fishy-swimming-upside-down-daddy sort of way.\r\n\r\nSo, we left the modern art gallery and never looked back. That was, until last week.\r\n\r\nMy son has aged nearly a year since that family trip to Philbrook. Here\'s how his experience of this piece of art had changed:\r\n\r\n-The piece now has a name. It is - wait for it - Donut. I mean, I guess I can kinda see it - can you?\r\n-Kiddo is still very concerned about Donut\'s psychological health.\r\n-My son: \"Donut, what\'s wrong? Mommy, what\'s wrong with Donut? Why is Donut crying? Donut is sad.\"\r\n-Intermittently throughout the rest of our visit, my son asks about Donut: \"Is Donut okay? Go see Donut? Go see Donut now?\"\r\n-I was forced under threat of Meltdown in a Very Quiet, Echo-y Place to \"go see Donut right naaaoooow\" three - <em>three</em> - more times.\r\n-The first thing out of my son\'s mouth at the conclusion of our visit and as I put the key in the car ignition: \"Go see Donut...<em> naaaoooow</em>?\"\r\n-The first thing out of my son\'s mouth as his father came through the door of our humble abode: \"What\'s wrong with Donut? Go see Donut right now?\"\r\n-The first thing out of my husband\'s mouth at hearing this: \"Did you guys have donuts without me?\"\r\n-The first thing out of my son\'s mouth upon waking the next morning: \"Go see Donut now?\"\r\n\r\nThank goodness I have photos of this piece that I can pull up on this here com-puter at any time of the night or day. Otherwise, I\'d need to find another freelance job just to pay for the gas we\'d use driving back and forth to Philbrook 27 times a day to check on a piece of art created by someone whom, in my imagination, couldn\'t have possibly anticipated this particular response to this piece from a museum-goer.\r\n\r\nOne thing\'s for sure: I\'ll never be able to look at a donut straight faced again.\r\n\r\n<em><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/indrasarrow/3731495658/\">Modern Art at Philbrook photo by indrasarrow on Flickr</a>.</em>','Philbrook Museum: Donut Okay','Last week, when my son and I found ourselves with some time to kill, we decided to stop by Philbrook Museum. Little did I know that this visit to our hometown museum would change breakfast forever.','inherit','open','open','','1848-revision-8','','','2010-09-07 04:12:30','2010-09-07 09:12:30','',1848,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/1848-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(1862,1,'2010-09-07 04:11:34','2010-09-07 09:11:34','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1854\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/dsc08158/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1854\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08158.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLast week, when my son and I found ourselves with some time to kill, we decided to stop by <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/11/boy-saturday-and-philbrook-museum/\">Philbrook Museum</a>.\r\n\r\nLittle did I know that this visit to our hometown museum would change breakfast forever.\r\n\r\n<!--more--><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1855\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/dsc08209/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1855\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08209.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI wanted to visit because I knew time is running out on the <a href=\"http://www.philbrook.org/exhibitions/current/exhibition.cfm?id=45\">To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures</a> exhibit, at Philbrook until Sept. 12.\r\n\r\nI love Egyptian stuff. I\'ve seen all the National Geographic movies about Egypt this and Egypt that. But it was time, I decided, to see some of that ancient action in real life.\r\n\r\nSo, we did. The first thing we saw upon stepping into the exhibit was a sarcophagus (which is larger than you think, by the way):\r\n\r\nMe: Hey, son? What\'s that? *I point to the sarcophagus*\r\nSon: A guy.\r\nMe: A guy?\r\nSon: A guy! With a nose on his face.\r\nMe: *blink blink*\r\nSon: Look over there! A cat!\r\n\r\nMy son loves cats. Coincidentally, so did the ancient Egyptians. Cats are a recurring theme in the exhibit at Philbrook, which greatly pleased my two-year-old, cat-deprived little man.\r\n\r\nUntil he realized he couldn\'t pet any of the cats in the exhibit. That he couldn\'t touch anything at all, actually. Then he kinda flipped out.\r\n\r\nThen I dropped my exhibit guide.\r\n\r\nThen my phone rang.\r\n\r\nThen a pair of Philbrook employees gave me the stink eye, which I deserved. I was supposed to have turned off my phone before entering the exhibit.\r\n\r\nThey started toward us.\r\n\r\nThen I got sweaty. I suddenly felt like we were in the Matrix.\r\n\r\nI managed to reach my back pocket to hit the ignore button, hold tightly to a seriously wriggly and pissed off child, dissuade the Philbrook agents and escape the exhibit, all while bent over backwards at the knees like a badass.\r\n\r\nI am the Neo of that place now.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1850\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/img_0285/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1850\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0285.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThen, we saw a cat outside. And despite my hypochondria and intense fear of ringworm, I let my son pet it.\r\n\r\nNice of me, huh?\r\n\r\nNot all stray cats have ringworm, as was previously assumed.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1852\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/img_0291/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1852\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0291.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThen we discovered this.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1851\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/img_0288/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1851\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0288.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s a piece called <a href=\"http://philbrookmuseum.blogspot.com/2010/05/one-of-our-favorite-things.html\">Oklahoma Autumn</a>. The artist is Eric Baker.\r\n\r\nIf I could design my dreams, this is how they would look.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1851\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/img_0288/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1851\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0288.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWow.\r\n\r\nWe wandered inside to eventually stumble upon this:\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1853\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/dsc08140/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1853\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08140-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd by \"this,\" I mean this:\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1856\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/3731495658_bff88f2738/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1856\" title=\"Modern Art at Philbrook, by indrasarrow on Flickr\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/3731495658_bff88f2738.jpg\" alt=\"Modern Art at Philbrook, by indrasarrow on Flickr\" width=\"367\" height=\"500\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI wrote <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/11/boy-saturday-and-philbrook-museum/\">here about our family trip to Philbrook last winter</a>. During that trip my son became very concerned about the well-being of this piece. The reason why is that, first of all, it doesn\'t exactly have its smiley face on.\r\n\r\nAnd then, it cries. Or whines, rather. And mumbles to itself. It frets. And its eyes move independently, which is something I\'ve always wanted to be able to do, actually.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1853\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/dsc08140/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1853\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08140-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLast time we visited Philbrook, this was called, in our little circle, The Piece Without a Name. We didn\'t know what it was, and though we adults were intrigued by it, we knew it upset our son. Not in a been-on-the-phone-with-you-cable-TV-jerks-for-forty-five-minutes-only-to-be-disconnected sort of way.\r\n\r\nMore like in a why-is-fishy-swimming-upside-down-daddy sort of way.\r\n\r\nSo, we left the modern art gallery and never looked back. That was, until last week.\r\n\r\nMy son has aged nearly a year since that family trip to Philbrook. Here\'s how his experience of this piece of art had changed:\r\n\r\n-The piece now has a name. It is - wait for it - Donut. I mean, I guess I can kinda see it - can you?\r\n-Kiddo is still very concerned about Donut\'s psychological health.\r\n-My son: \"Donut, what\'s wrong? Mommy, what\'s wrong with Donut? Why is Donut crying? Donut is sad.\"\r\n-Intermittently throughout the rest of our visit, my son asks about Donut: \"Is Donut okay? Go see Donut? Go see Donut now?\"\r\n-I was forced under threat of Meltdown in a Very Quiet, Echo-y Place to \"go see Donut right naaaoooow\" three - <em>three</em> - more times.\r\n-The first thing out of my son\'s mouth at the conclusion of our visit and as I put the key in the car ignition: \"Go see Donut...<em> naaaoooow</em>?\"\r\n-The first thing out of my son\'s mouth as his father came through the door of our humble abode: \"What\'s wrong with Donut? Go see Donut right now?\"\r\n-The first thing out of my husband\'s mouth at hearing this: \"Did you guys have donuts without me?\"\r\n-The first thing out of my son\'s mouth upon waking the next morning: \"Go see Donut now?\"\r\n\r\nThank goodness I have photos of this piece that I can pull up on this here com-puter at any time of the night or day. Otherwise, I\'d need to find another freelance job just to pay for the gas we\'d use driving back and forth to Philbrook 27 times a day to check on a piece of art created by someone whom, in my imagination, couldn\'t have possibly anticipated this particular response to this piece from a museum-goer.\r\n\r\nOne thing\'s for sure: I\'ll never be able to look at a donut straight faced again.\r\n\r\n<em><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/indrasarrow/3731495658/\">Modern Art at Philbrook photo by indrasarrow on Flickr</a>.</em>','Philbrook Museum: Donut Okay','Last week, when my son and I found ourselves with some time to kill, we decided to stop by Philbrook Museum. Little did I know that this visit to our hometown museum would change breakfast forever.','inherit','open','open','','1848-revision-6','','','2010-09-07 04:11:34','2010-09-07 09:11:34','',1848,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/1848-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(1863,1,'2010-09-07 04:11:34','2010-09-07 09:11:34','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1854\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/dsc08158/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1854\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08158.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLast week, when my son and I found ourselves with some time to kill, we decided to stop by <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/11/boy-saturday-and-philbrook-museum/\">Philbrook Museum</a>.\r\n\r\nLittle did I know that this visit to our hometown museum would change breakfast forever.\r\n\r\n<!--more--><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1855\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/dsc08209/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1855\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08209.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI wanted to visit because I knew time is running out on the <a href=\"http://www.philbrook.org/exhibitions/current/exhibition.cfm?id=45\">To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures</a> exhibit, at Philbrook until Sept. 12.\r\n\r\nI love Egyptian stuff. I\'ve seen all the National Geographic movies about Egypt this and Egypt that. But it was time, I decided, to see some of that ancient action in real life.\r\n\r\nSo, we did. The first thing we saw upon stepping into the exhibit was a sarcophagus (which is larger than you think, by the way):\r\n\r\nMe: Hey, son? What\'s that? *I point to the sarcophagus*\r\nSon: A guy.\r\nMe: A guy?\r\nSon: A guy! With a nose on his face.\r\nMe: *blink blink*\r\nSon: Look over there! A cat!\r\n\r\nMy son loves cats. Coincidentally, so did the ancient Egyptians. Cats are a recurring theme in the exhibit at Philbrook, which greatly pleased my two-year-old, cat-deprived little man.\r\n\r\nUntil he realized he couldn\'t pet any of the cats in the exhibit. That he couldn\'t touch anything at all, actually. Then he kinda flipped out.\r\n\r\nThen I dropped my exhibit guide.\r\n\r\nThen my phone rang.\r\n\r\nThen a pair of Philbrook employees gave me the stink eye, which I deserved. I was supposed to have turned off my phone before entering the exhibit.\r\n\r\nThey started toward us.\r\n\r\nThen I got sweaty. I suddenly felt like we were in the Matrix.\r\n\r\nI managed to reach my back pocket to hit the ignore button, hold tightly to a seriously wriggly and pissed off child, dissuade the Philbrook agents and escape the exhibit, all while bent over backwards at the knees like a badass.\r\n\r\nI am the Neo of that place now.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1850\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/img_0285/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1850\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0285.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThen, we saw a cat outside. And despite my hypochondria and intense fear of ringworm, I let my son pet it.\r\n\r\nNice of me, huh?\r\n\r\nNot all stray cats have ringworm, as was previously assumed.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1852\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/img_0291/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1852\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0291.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThen we discovered this.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1851\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/img_0288/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1851\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0288.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s a piece called <a href=\"http://philbrookmuseum.blogspot.com/2010/05/one-of-our-favorite-things.html\">Oklahoma Autumn</a>. The artist is Eric Baker.\r\n\r\nIf I could design my dreams, this is how they would look.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1851\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/img_0288/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1851\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_0288.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWow.\r\n\r\nWe wandered inside to eventually stumble upon this:\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1853\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/dsc08140/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1853\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08140-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd by \"this,\" I mean this:\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1856\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/3731495658_bff88f2738/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1856\" title=\"Modern Art at Philbrook, by indrasarrow on Flickr\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/3731495658_bff88f2738.jpg\" alt=\"Modern Art at Philbrook, by indrasarrow on Flickr\" width=\"367\" height=\"500\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI wrote <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/11/boy-saturday-and-philbrook-museum/\">here about our family trip to Philbrook last winter</a>. During that trip my son became very concerned about the well-being of this piece. The reason why is that, first of all, it doesn\'t exactly have its smiley face on.\r\n\r\nAnd then, it cries. Or whines, rather. And mumbles to itself. It frets. And its eyes move independently, which is something I\'ve always wanted to be able to do, actually.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1853\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/philbrook-museum-donut-okay/dsc08140/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1853\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC08140-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLast time we visited Philbrook, this was called, in our little circle, The Piece Without a Name. We didn\'t know what it was, and though we adults were intrigued by it, we knew it upset our son. Not in a been-on-the-phone-with-you-cable-TV-jerks-for-forty-five-minutes-only-to-be-disconnected sort of way.\r\n\r\nMore like in a why-is-fishy-swimming-upside-down-daddy sort of way.\r\n\r\nSo, we left the modern art gallery and never looked back. That was, until last week.\r\n\r\nMy son has aged nearly a year since that family trip to Philbrook. Here\'s how his experience of this piece of art had changed:\r\n\r\n-The piece now has a name. It is - wait for it - Donut. I mean, I guess I can kinda see it - can you?\r\n-Kiddo is still very concerned about Donut\'s psychological health.\r\n-My son: \"Donut, what\'s wrong? Mommy, what\'s wrong with Donut? Why is Donut crying? Donut is sad.\"\r\n-Intermittently throughout the rest of our visit, my son asks about Donut: \"Is Donut okay? Go see Donut? Go see Donut now?\"\r\n-I was forced under threat of Meltdown in a Very Quiet, Echo-y Place to \"go see Donut right naaaoooow\" three - <em>three</em> - more times.\r\n-The first thing out of my son\'s mouth at the conclusion of our visit and as I put the key in the car ignition: \"Go see Donut...<em> naaaoooow</em>?\"\r\n-The first thing out of my son\'s mouth as his father came through the door of our humble abode: \"What\'s wrong with Donut? Go see Donut right now?\"\r\n-The first thing out of my husband\'s mouth at hearing this: \"Did you guys have donuts without me?\"\r\n-The first thing out of my son\'s mouth upon waking the next morning: \"Go see Donut now?\"\r\n\r\nThank goodness I have photos of this piece that I can pull up on this here com-puter at any time of the night or day. Otherwise, I\'d need to find another freelance job just to pay for the gas we\'d use driving back and forth to Philbrook 27 times a day to check on a piece of art created by someone whom, in my imagination, couldn\'t have possibly anticipated this particular response to this piece from a museum-goer.\r\n\r\nOne thing\'s for sure: I\'ll never be able to look at a donut straight faced again.\r\n\r\n<em><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/indrasarrow/3731495658/\">Modern Art at Philbrook photo by indrasarrow on Flickr</a>.</em>','Philbrook Museum: Donut Okay','Last week, when my son and I found ourselves with some time to kill, we decided to stop by Philbrook Museum. Little did I know that this visit to our hometown museum would change breakfast forever.','inherit','open','open','','1848-revision-7','','','2010-09-07 04:11:34','2010-09-07 09:11:34','',1848,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/1848-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(2795,1,'2010-10-09 12:55:38','2010-10-09 17:55:38','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2775\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2775\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2775\" title=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1678-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBirthday parties in my family have always been a big deal.\r\n\r\nAs a kid my birthday parties were <em>events</em>. More often than not, they were held at home. The dining room was covered in balloons and streamers, and the table was loaded with snacks, party favors and gifts. In the living room were party games, including one where kids would send a clothesline on the end of a fishing pole and line over a blue sheet covered in construction paper fish to catch a prize (the same game that I recently learned doubled as fishing game with naughty gag gifts as the catch once the kids went upstairs for naptime, but I digress).\r\n\r\nAt the center of these parties was always the cake. I\'ve had my fair share of amazing cakes over the years - Strawberry Shortcake, Care Bears, Sesame Street. Basically, all the \'80s classics a little girl could ask for. But the cake I remember most was the cake at my fourth birthday party - the one that looked like a Barbie ball gown.\r\n\r\nI celebrated my 27th birthday this week. Maybe it\'s because I\'m regretful that I\'ve officially entered into my late twenties, maybe it\'s because I still feel as young as ever (with a few minor, saggier exceptions), but when my mom and my Meme asked me what I wanted for my birthday, I told them that I wanted a Barbie cake like the one I had for my fourth birthday.\r\n\r\nTo keep things extra-consistent, I requested that the cake be ordered from the bakery that made my last Barbie cake.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2776\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2776\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2776\" title=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1665-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.annsbakery.com/\">Ann\'s Bakery</a>, just north of I-244 at 7 N. Harvard Avenue, has been in business here in Tulsa since 1938. The business has lasted through four generations of the family of founder Ann Bay who, with her husband, operated the bakery out of the ground floor of her home.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2775\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2775\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2775\" title=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1678-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.annsbakery.com/goodies.html\">There\'s more available at Ann\'s than just Barbie dress cakes</a>, of course. There\'s a variety of pastry, cookies and breakfast goodies at the shop, and Ann\'s is also a top choice amongst Tulsa\'s discriminating brides for wedding cakes. There\'s <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/09/cupping/\">Topeca coffee</a> there, too.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2777\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2777\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2777\" title=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1654-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2778\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2778\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2778\" title=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1662-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAre you seeing how beautiful those fall leaf cookies are? Wow. The color is incredible. They\'re almost too pretty to eat, really.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2779\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2779\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2779\" title=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1606-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMy son and I met my mom at Ann\'s yesterday to help her pick up the cake and to have breakfast together.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2780\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2780\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2780\" title=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1607-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMy mom chose a cream horn, I had a cheese danish. My son preferred the chocolate donut topped with Halloween sprinkles.\r\n\r\nBut of course.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2781\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2781\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2781\" title=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1603-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTrue to his style, though, he saw my breakfast...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2782\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2782\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2782\" title=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16011-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nKnew I was busy taking photos...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2783\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2783\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2783\" title=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1605-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd, well, I think we know what happened there.\r\n\r\nBut who could blame him when something like this is staring him in the face?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2784\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2784\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2784\" title=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16311-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2785\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2785\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2785\" title=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1624.jpg\" alt=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis lovely lady is Shannon Harris, and she represents the third generation at Ann\'s. I met Shannon at the <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/oklahoma-blogging-week-tulsa-meetup/\">Oklahoma Blogging Week Meetup</a> here in Tulsa Thursday night, and on Friday morning I met her mom, Sharon, and her daughter, Jordan.\r\n\r\nMy son is a sixth-generation Tulsan on both sides of my family, so it\'s rare that I meet someone else who has roots in Tulsa that are as deep as my family\'s. But I love it when I do.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2786\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2786\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2786\" title=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1646-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2787\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2787\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2787\" title=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1666-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2788\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2788\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2788\" title=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1698-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSo, about that Barbie dress cake.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2789\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2789\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2789\" title=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1718.jpg\" alt=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEvery time I look at this picture, the little girl in me jumps up and down and makes a sound that\'s a but like...\r\n\r\nSQUEEEE!!!!!!\r\n\r\nI mean, just look at the level of detail:\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2790\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2790\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2790\" title=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1694-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2791\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2791\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2791\" title=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1702.jpg\" alt=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nUnbelievable.\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s the best part: The cake looks exactly like the one I had at my fourth birthday party. I mean, to a T.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2792\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2792\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2792\" title=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1722-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd yes, I\'m wearing a princess crown. Don\'t knock it \'til you\'ve tried it.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2793\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2793\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2793\" title=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_17221-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann\'s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThanks goes to everyone at Ann\'s Bakery for continuing to be part of a family tradition that I hold so dear, even when it means taking a special order for a 27-year-old woman\'s Barbie dress cake that was ordered to be made according to a photo from 1987, and on a weekend when you have more than 20 wedding cakes to make and deliver.\r\n\r\nReally. From the bottom of my heart.\r\n\r\n<strong>Ann\'s Bakery</strong>\r\nWhere: 7 N. Harvard Avenue\r\nCall: (918) 834-2345\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.annsbakery.com/\">AnnsBakery.com</a>','Ann\'s Bakery: The 23-Year Tale of the Barbie Dress Cake','It\'s not every day that a hometown bakery has to take a special order for a 27-year-old woman\'s Barbie dress cake, to be made according to a photo from 1987. ','inherit','open','open','','2605-revision-2','','','2010-10-09 12:55:38','2010-10-09 17:55:38','',2605,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/2605-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(2794,1,'2010-10-09 12:54:59','2010-10-09 17:54:59','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2775\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2775\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1678-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" title=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2775\" /></a>\n\nBirthday parties in my family have always been a big deal. \n\nAs a kid my birthday parties were <em>events</em>. More often than not, they were held at home. The dining room was covered in balloons and streamers, and the table was loaded with snacks, party favors and gifts. In the living room were party games, including one where kids would send a clothesline on the end of a fishing pole and line over a blue sheet covered in construction paper fish to catch a prize (the same game that I recently learned doubled as fishing game with naughty gag gifts as the catch once the kids went upstairs for naptime, but I digress). \n\nAt the center of these parties was always the cake. I\'ve had my fair share of amazing cakes over the years - Strawberry Shortcake, Care Bears, Sesame Street. Basically, all the \'80s classics a little girl could ask for. But the cake I remember most was the cake at my fourth birthday party - the one that looked like a Barbie ball gown. \n\nI celebrated my 27th birthday this week. Maybe it\'s because I\'m regretful that I\'ve officially entered into my late twenties, maybe it\'s because I still feel as young as ever (with a few minor, saggier exceptions), but when my mom and my Meme asked me what I wanted for my birthday, I told them that I wanted a Barbie cake like the one I had for my fourth birthday. \n\nTo keep things extra-consistent, I requested that the cake be ordered from the bakery that made my last Barbie cake. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2776\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2776\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1665-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" title=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2776\" /></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.annsbakery.com/\">Ann\'s Bakery</a>, just north of I-244 at 7 N. Harvard Avenue, has been in business here in Tulsa since 1938. The business has lasted through four generations of the family of founder Ann Bay who, with her husband, operated the bakery out of the ground floor of her home. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2775\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2775\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1678-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" title=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2775\" /></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.annsbakery.com/goodies.html\">There\'s more available at Ann\'s than just Barbie dress cakes</a>, of course. There\'s a variety of pastry, cookies and breakfast goodies at the shop, and Ann\'s is also a top choice amongst Tulsa\'s discriminating brides for wedding cakes. There\'s <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/09/cupping/\">Topeca coffee</a> there, too. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2777\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2777\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1654-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" title=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2777\" /></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2778\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2778\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1662-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" title=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2778\" /></a>\n\nAre you seeing how beautiful those fall leaf cookies are? Wow. The color is incredible. They\'re almost too pretty to eat, really. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2779\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2779\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1606-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" title=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2779\" /></a>\n\nMy son and I met my mom at Ann\'s yesterday to help her pick up the cake and to have breakfast together. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2780\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2780\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1607-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" title=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2780\" /></a>\n\nMy mom chose a cream horn, I had a cheese danish. My son preferred the chocolate donut topped with Halloween sprinkles. \n\nBut of course. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2781\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2781\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1603-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" title=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2781\" /></a>\n\nTrue to his style, though, he saw my breakfast...\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2782\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2782\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16011-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" title=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2782\" /></a>\n\nKnew I was busy taking photos...\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2783\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2783\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1605-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" title=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2783\" /></a>\n\nAnd, well, I think we know what happened there. \n\nBut who could blame him when something like this is staring him in the face? \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2784\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2784\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16311-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" title=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2784\" /></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2785\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2785\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1624.jpg\" alt=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" title=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2785\" /></a>\n\nThis lovely lady is Shannon Harris, and she represents the third generation at Ann\'s. I met Shannon at the <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/oklahoma-blogging-week-tulsa-meetup/\">Oklahoma Blogging Week Meetup</a> here in Tulsa Thursday night, and on Friday morning I met her mom, Sharon, and her daughter, Jordan. \n\nMy son is a sixth-generation Tulsan on both sides of my family, so it\'s rare that I meet someone else who has roots in Tulsa that are as deep as my family\'s. But I love it when I do.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2786\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2786\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1646-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" title=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2786\" /></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2787\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2787\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1666-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" title=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2787\" /></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2788\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2788\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1698-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" title=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2788\" /></a>\n\nSo, about that Barbie dress cake. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2789\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2789\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1718.jpg\" alt=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" title=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2789\" /></a>\n\nEvery time I look at this picture, the little girl in me jumps up and down and makes a sound that\'s a but like...\n\nSQUEEEE!!!!!!\n\nI mean, just look at the level of detail: \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2790\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2790\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1694-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" title=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2790\" /></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2791\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2791\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1702.jpg\" alt=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" title=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2791\" /></a>\n\nUnbelievable.\n\nAnd here\'s the best part: The cake looks exactly like the one I had at my fourth birthday party. I mean, to a T. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2792\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2792\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1722-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" title=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2792\" /></a>\n \nAnd yes, I\'m wearing a princess crown. Don\'t knock it \'til you\'ve tried it. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2793\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2793\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_17221-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" title=\"Ann&#039;s Bakery\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2793\" /></a>\n \nThanks goes to everyone at Ann\'s Bakery for continuing to be part of a family tradition that I hold so dear, even when it means taking a special order for a 27-year-old woman\'s Barbie dress cake that was ordered to be made according to a photo from 1987, and on a weekend when you have more than 20 wedding cakes to make and deliver. \n\nReally. From the bottom of my heart.\n\n<strong>Ann\'s Bakery</strong>\nWhere: 7 N. Harvard Avenue\nCall: (918) 834-2345\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.annsbakery.com/\">AnnsBakery.com</a>','Ann\'s Bakery: The 23-Year Tale of the Barbie Dress Cake','It\'s not every day that a hometown bakery has to take a special order for a 27-year-old woman\'s Barbie dress cake, to be made according to a photo from 1987. ','inherit','open','open','','2605-revision','','','2010-10-09 12:54:59','2010-10-09 17:54:59','',2605,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/2605-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(1868,1,'2010-09-08 00:17:00','2010-09-08 05:17:00','','The Jungle Book, Encore Playhouse','','inherit','open','open','','indexelement162','','','2010-09-08 00:17:00','2010-09-08 05:17:00','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/indexelement162.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(2820,1,'2010-10-10 14:58:33','2010-10-10 19:58:33','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2816\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2816\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2816\" title=\"Oklahoma Blogging Week\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/oklahoma.blogging.week_.jpg\" alt=\"Oklahoma Blogging Week\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBefore I post this week\'s round up of links to Tulsa blog posts worthy of your Sunday night Internet ogling, I wanted to send my thanks again to Oklahoma Prosperity Project, Jessica at Xceptional HR and Becky at The Melting Pot for making the Tulsa meetup during the first-ever Oklahoma Blogging Week a success.\r\n\r\nAnd for the snacks. The snacks were good...real good.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more-->\r\n[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\nAnd thanks so much to the dozens of bloggers who took the time to come out and party in the way only bloggers can - while sipping a strong drink and blinking into the sunlight.\r\n\r\nHa! That \"while sipping a strong drink and blinking into the sunlight\" thing is totally, completely untrue. Except when it comes to me. Sipping a strong drink and blinking into the sunlight is a way of life for me, <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/anns-bakery-barbie-dress-cake/\">the one who orders a Barbie dress cake for her 27th birthday</a> and <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/07/savoys-famous-cinnamon-rolls-boy-and/\">allows her child to eat one-pound cinnamon rolls face-first in public</a> and <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/12/ugly-sweater-shopping-in-tulsa/\">takes photos of herself in dressing rooms and then posts them to the Internet</a>.\r\n\r\nBut, whatever. My mommy thinks I\'m special.\r\n\r\nAt any rate, it was a pleasure to meet those of you who were new to the blogger meetup group, and I enjoyed hanging out with my long-time blogging buddies, too.\r\n\r\nOne of the freebies available at the meetup was a local blog directory, complete with the blog name and URL of each person who RSVP\'d to the event. On the way home from The Melting Pot Thursday night I thought to myself, \"Gee, it\'d sure be a shame to not to share such a beefy list with my readers.\"\r\n\r\nThus:\r\n\r\nBrandi, Fancy Buffalo\r\n<a href=\"http://fancybuffalo.com\">fancybuffalo.com</a>\r\n\r\nJennifer, The Errant Cook\r\n<a href=\"http://errantcook.blogspot.com\">errantcook.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nShelley, The Tao of Cake\r\n<a href=\"http://taoofcake.blogspot.com\">taoofcake.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nMichele, The Chipper Muse\r\n<a href=\"http://thechippermuse.blogspot.com\">thechippermuse.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nT.J., Rock Rulz (a web show) and Scurds (and now, TDT!)\r\n<a href=\"youtube.com/RockRulzShow\">youtube.com/RockRulzShow</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://scurds.com\">scurds.com</a>\r\n\r\nMarty, The Napkin Dad\r\n<a href=\"http://napkindad.com\">napkindad.com</a>\r\n\r\nHeather, Crawdads in My Sink\r\n<a href=\"http://crawdadsinmysink.wordpress.com\">crawdadsinmysink.wordpress.com</a>\r\n\r\nSamantha, Neither Here Nor There\r\n<a href=\"http://peachneitherherenorthere.blogspot.com\">peachneitherherenorthere.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nSarah Gallagher, Gears and Shifts\r\n<a href=\"http://gearsandshifts.com\">gearsandshifts.com</a>\r\n\r\nCaitlin, Young and Rentless\r\n<a href=\"http://youngandrentless.blogspot.com\">youngandrentless.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nHoward, Winning the Game of Sales\r\n<a href=\"http://winningthegameofsales.com\">winningthegameofsales.com</a>\r\n\r\nCarla, Jill of All Trades\r\n<a href=\"http://crbh-ruminations.blogspot.com\">crbh-ruminations.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nJack, Wander Radio\r\n<a href=\"http://wanderradio.com/blog\">wanderradio.com/blog</a>\r\n\r\nHeidi, HeidiJenkins.com\r\n<a href=\"http://heidijenkins.com/Heidi_Jenkins/Blog/Blog.html\">heidijenkins.com/Heidi_Jenkins/Blog/Blog.html</a>\r\n\r\nKelly, Kellyology\r\n<a href=\"http://kellyology.net\">kellyology.net</a>\r\n\r\nLogan, Colonize the Moon\r\n<a href=\"http://colonize-the-moon.com\">colonize-the-moon.com</a>\r\n\r\nJennifer, Life with Lebedas\r\n<a href=\"http://lebedafamily.blogspot.com\">lebedafamily.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nSasha, Global Table Adventure\r\n<a href=\"http://globaltableadventure.com\">globaltableadventure.com</a>\r\n\r\nJenny, Crash Test Mommy\r\n<a href=\"http://crashtestmommy.net\">crashtestmommy.net</a>\r\n\r\nLeah, True Love in the Sooner Nation\r\n<a href=\"http://leah-barksdale.blogspot.com\">leah-barksdale.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nCindy, Got Mischief?\r\n<a href=\"http://lounginwithlindsay.blogspot.com\">got-mischief.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nLindsay, Loungin’ with Lindsay\r\n<a href=\"http://lounginwithlindsay.blogspot.com\">lounginwithlindsay.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nMeseidy, The Noshery\r\n<a href=\"http://thenoshery.com\">thenoshery.com</a>\r\n\r\nSarah, Money Saving Queen\r\n<a href=\"http://moneysavingqueen.com\">moneysavingqueen.com</a>\r\n\r\nNancy, Tulsa Gal\r\n<a href=\"http://tulsagal.net\">tulsagal.net</a>\r\n\r\nCourtney, The Generosity Project\r\n<a href=\"http://thegenerosityproject.net\">thegenerosityproject.net</a>\r\n\r\nDave, Accidentally Albino\r\n<a href=\"http://daveshort.tumblr.com\">daveshort.tumblr.com</a>\r\n\r\nAubree, The Southern Family\r\n<a href=\"http://www.thesouthernfamily.net/\">thesouthernfamily.net</a>\r\n\r\nKristy, Mommy Hates Cooking\r\n<a href=\"http://mommyhatescooking.com\">mommyhatescooking.com</a>\r\n\r\nCarrisa, And So She Blogs\r\n<a href=\"http://andsosheblogs.com\">andsosheblogs.com</a>\r\n\r\nLaurie, The Marriage of an Undomestic\r\n<a href=\"http://thereallt.blogspot.com\">thereallt.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nSherri, I.Crochet\r\n<a href=\"http://sherris-blog-at.tumblr.com\">sherris-blog-at.tumblr.com</a>\r\n\r\nCarolyn, The New Homemaker\r\n<a href=\"http://thenewhomemaker.wordpress.com \">thenewhomemaker.wordpress.com </a>\r\n\r\nThis list represents a mixed bag of topics, interests and people, so click freely. Happy reading!','Oklahoma Blogging Week: A Recap','One of the freebies available at the meetup was a local blog directory, complete with the blog name and URL of each person who RSVP\'d to the event. On the way home from The Melting Pot Thursday night I thought to myself, \"Gee, it\'d sure be a shame to not to share such a beefy list with my readers.\" ','inherit','open','open','','2814-revision-5','','','2010-10-10 14:58:33','2010-10-10 19:58:33','',2814,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/2814-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(2818,1,'2010-10-10 14:58:00','2010-10-10 19:58:00','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2816\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2816\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2816\" title=\"Oklahoma Blogging Week\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/oklahoma.blogging.week_.jpg\" alt=\"Oklahoma Blogging Week\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBefore I post this week\'s round up of links to Tulsa blog posts worthy of your Sunday night Internet ogling, I wanted to send my thanks again to Oklahoma Prosperity Project, Jessica at Xceptional HR and Becky at The Melting Pot for making the Tulsa meetup during the first-ever Oklahoma Blogging Week a success.\r\n\r\nAnd for the snacks. The snacks were good...real good.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more-->\r\n[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\nAnd thanks so much to the dozens of bloggers who took the time to come out and party in the way only bloggers can - while sipping a strong drink and blinking into the sunlight.\r\n\r\nHa! That \"while sipping a strong drink and blinking into the sunlight\" thing is totally, completely untrue. Except when it comes to me. Sipping a strong drink and blinking into the sunlight is a way of life for me, <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/anns-bakery-barbie-dress-cake/\">the one who orders a Barbie dress cake for her 27th birthday</a> and <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/07/savoys-famous-cinnamon-rolls-boy-and/\">allows her child to eat one-pound cinnamon rolls face-first in public</a> and <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/12/ugly-sweater-shopping-in-tulsa/\">takes photos of herself in dressing rooms and then posts them to the Internet</a>.\r\n\r\nBut, whatever. My mommy thinks I\'m special.\r\n\r\nAt any rate, it was a pleasure to meet those of you who were new to the blogger meetup group, and I enjoyed hanging out with my long-time blogging buddies, too.\r\n\r\nOne of the freebies available at the meetup was a local blog directory, complete with the blog name and URL of each person who RSVP\'d to the event. On the way home from The Melting Pot Thursday night I thought to myself, \"Gee, it\'d sure be a shame to not to share such a beefy list with my readers.\"\r\n\r\nThus:\r\n\r\nBrandi, Fancy Buffalo\r\n<a href=\"http://fancybuffalo.com\">fancybuffalo.com</a>\r\n\r\nJennifer, The Errant Cook\r\n<a href=\"http://errantcook.blogspot.com\">errantcook.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nShelley, The Tao of Cake\r\n<a href=\"http://taoofcake.blogspot.com\">taoofcake.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nMichele, The Chipper Muse\r\n<a href=\"http://thechippermuse.blogspot.com\">thechippermuse.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nT.J., Rock Rulz (a web show) and Scurds (and now, TDT!)\r\nyoutube.com/RockRulzShow\r\n<a href=\"http://scurds.com\">scurds.com</a>\r\n\r\nMarty, The Napkin Dad\r\n<a href=\"http://napkindad.com\">napkindad.com</a>\r\n\r\nHeather, Crawdads in My Sink\r\n<a href=\"http://crawdadsinmysink.wordpress.com\">crawdadsinmysink.wordpress.com</a>\r\n\r\nSamantha, Neither Here Nor There\r\n<a href=\"http://peachneitherherenorthere.blogspot.com\">peachneitherherenorthere.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nSarah Gallagher, Gears and Shifts\r\n<a href=\"http://gearsandshifts.com\">gearsandshifts.com</a>\r\n\r\nCaitlin, Young and Rentless\r\n<a href=\"http://youngandrentless.blogspot.com\">youngandrentless.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nHoward, Winning the Game of Sales\r\n<a href=\"http://winningthegameofsales.com\">winningthegameofsales.com</a>\r\n\r\nCarla, Jill of All Trades\r\n<a href=\"http://crbh-ruminations.blogspot.com\">crbh-ruminations.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nJack, Wander Radio\r\n<a href=\"http://wanderradio.com/blog\">wanderradio.com/blog</a>\r\n\r\nHeidi, HeidiJenkins.com\r\n<a href=\"http://heidijenkins.com/Heidi_Jenkins/Blog/Blog.html\">heidijenkins.com/Heidi_Jenkins/Blog/Blog.html</a>\r\n\r\nKelly, Kellyology\r\n<a href=\"http://kellyology.net\">kellyology.net</a>\r\n\r\nLogan, Colonize the Moon\r\n<a href=\"http://colonize-the-moon.com\">colonize-the-moon.com</a>\r\n\r\nJennifer, Life with Lebedas\r\n<a href=\"http://lebedafamily.blogspot.com\">lebedafamily.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nSasha, Global Table Adventure\r\n<a href=\"http://globaltableadventure.com\">globaltableadventure.com</a>\r\n\r\nJenny, Crash Test Mommy\r\n<a href=\"http://crashtestmommy.net\">crashtestmommy.net</a>\r\n\r\nLeah, True Love in the Sooner Nation\r\n<a href=\"http://leah-barksdale.blogspot.com\">leah-barksdale.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nCindy, Got Mischief?\r\n<a href=\"http://lounginwithlindsay.blogspot.com\">got-mischief.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nLindsay, Loungin’ with Lindsay\r\n<a href=\"http://lounginwithlindsay.blogspot.com\">lounginwithlindsay.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nMeseidy, The Noshery\r\n<a href=\"http://thenoshery.com\">thenoshery.com</a>\r\n\r\nSarah, Money Saving Queen\r\n<a href=\"http://moneysavingqueen.com\">moneysavingqueen.com</a>\r\n\r\nNancy, Tulsa Gal\r\n<a href=\"http://tulsagal.net\">tulsagal.net</a>\r\n\r\nCourtney, The Generosity Project\r\n<a href=\"http://thegenerosityproject.net\">thegenerosityproject.net</a>\r\n\r\nDave, Accidentally Albino\r\n<a href=\"http://daveshort.tumblr.com\">daveshort.tumblr.com</a>\r\n\r\nAubree, The Southern Family\r\n<a href=\"http://www.thesouthernfamily.net/\">thesouthernfamily.net</a>\r\n\r\nKristy, Mommy Hates Cooking\r\n<a href=\"http://mommyhatescooking.com\">mommyhatescooking.com</a>\r\n\r\nCarrisa, And So She Blogs\r\n<a href=\"http://andsosheblogs.com\">andsosheblogs.com</a>\r\n\r\nLaurie, The Marriage of an Undomestic\r\n<a href=\"http://thereallt.blogspot.com\">thereallt.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nSherri, I.Crochet\r\n<a href=\"http://sherris-blog-at.tumblr.com\">sherris-blog-at.tumblr.com</a>\r\n\r\nCarolyn, The New Homemaker\r\n<a href=\"http://thenewhomemaker.wordpress.com \">thenewhomemaker.wordpress.com </a>\r\n\r\nThis list represents a mixed bag of topics, interests and people, so click freely. Happy reading!','Oklahoma Blogging Week: A Recap','One of the freebies available at the meetup was a local blog directory, complete with the blog name and URL of each person who RSVP\'d to the event. On the way home from The Melting Pot Thursday night I thought to myself, \"Gee, it\'d sure be a shame to not to share such a beefy list with my readers.\" ','inherit','open','open','','2814-revision-3','','','2010-10-10 14:58:00','2010-10-10 19:58:00','',2814,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/2814-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(2819,1,'2010-10-10 14:58:00','2010-10-10 19:58:00','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2816\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=2816\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2816\" title=\"Oklahoma Blogging Week\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/oklahoma.blogging.week_.jpg\" alt=\"Oklahoma Blogging Week\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBefore I post this week\'s round up of links to Tulsa blog posts worthy of your Sunday night Internet ogling, I wanted to send my thanks again to Oklahoma Prosperity Project, Jessica at Xceptional HR and Becky at The Melting Pot for making the Tulsa meetup during the first-ever Oklahoma Blogging Week a success.\r\n\r\nAnd for the snacks. The snacks were good...real good.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more-->\r\n[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\nAnd thanks so much to the dozens of bloggers who took the time to come out and party in the way only bloggers can - while sipping a strong drink and blinking into the sunlight.\r\n\r\nHa! That \"while sipping a strong drink and blinking into the sunlight\" thing is totally, completely untrue. Except when it comes to me. Sipping a strong drink and blinking into the sunlight is a way of life for me, <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/anns-bakery-barbie-dress-cake/\">the one who orders a Barbie dress cake for her 27th birthday</a> and <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/07/savoys-famous-cinnamon-rolls-boy-and/\">allows her child to eat one-pound cinnamon rolls face-first in public</a> and <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/12/ugly-sweater-shopping-in-tulsa/\">takes photos of herself in dressing rooms and then posts them to the Internet</a>.\r\n\r\nBut, whatever. My mommy thinks I\'m special.\r\n\r\nAt any rate, it was a pleasure to meet those of you who were new to the blogger meetup group, and I enjoyed hanging out with my long-time blogging buddies, too.\r\n\r\nOne of the freebies available at the meetup was a local blog directory, complete with the blog name and URL of each person who RSVP\'d to the event. On the way home from The Melting Pot Thursday night I thought to myself, \"Gee, it\'d sure be a shame to not to share such a beefy list with my readers.\"\r\n\r\nThus:\r\n\r\nBrandi, Fancy Buffalo\r\n<a href=\"http://fancybuffalo.com\">fancybuffalo.com</a>\r\n\r\nJennifer, The Errant Cook\r\n<a href=\"http://errantcook.blogspot.com\">errantcook.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nShelley, The Tao of Cake\r\n<a href=\"http://taoofcake.blogspot.com\">taoofcake.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nMichele, The Chipper Muse\r\n<a href=\"http://thechippermuse.blogspot.com\">thechippermuse.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nT.J., Rock Rulz (a web show) and Scurds (and now, TDT!)\r\nyoutube.com/RockRulzShow\r\n<a href=\"http://scurds.com\">scurds.com</a>\r\n\r\nMarty, The Napkin Dad\r\n<a href=\"http://napkindad.com\">napkindad.com</a>\r\n\r\nHeather, Crawdads in My Sink\r\n<a href=\"http://crawdadsinmysink.wordpress.com\">crawdadsinmysink.wordpress.com</a>\r\n\r\nSamantha, Neither Here Nor There\r\n<a href=\"http://peachneitherherenorthere.blogspot.com\">peachneitherherenorthere.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nSarah Gallagher, Gears and Shifts\r\n<a href=\"http://gearsandshifts.com\">gearsandshifts.com</a>\r\n\r\nCaitlin, Young and Rentless\r\n<a href=\"http://youngandrentless.blogspot.com\">youngandrentless.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nHoward, Winning the Game of Sales\r\n<a href=\"http://winningthegameofsales.com\">winningthegameofsales.com</a>\r\n\r\nCarla, Jill of All Trades\r\n<a href=\"http://crbh-ruminations.blogspot.com\">crbh-ruminations.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nJack, Wander Radio\r\n<a href=\"http://wanderradio.com/blog\">wanderradio.com/blog</a>\r\n\r\nHeidi, HeidiJenkins.com\r\n<a href=\"http://heidijenkins.com/Heidi_Jenkins/Blog/Blog.html\">heidijenkins.com/Heidi_Jenkins/Blog/Blog.html</a>\r\n\r\nKelly, Kellyology\r\n<a href=\"http://kellyology.net\">kellyology.net</a>\r\n\r\nLogan, Colonize the Moon\r\n<a href=\"http://colonize-the-moon.com\">colonize-the-moon.com</a>\r\n\r\nJennifer, Life with Lebedas\r\n<a href=\"http://lebedafamily.blogspot.com\">lebedafamily.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nSasha, Global Table Adventure\r\n<a href=\"http://globaltableadventure.com\">globaltableadventure.com</a>\r\n\r\nJenny, Crash Test Mommy\r\n<a href=\"http://crashtestmommy.net\">crashtestmommy.net</a>\r\n\r\nLeah, True Love in the Sooner Nation\r\n<a href=\"http://leah-barksdale.blogspot.com\">leah-barksdale.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nCindy, Got Mischief?\r\n<a href=\"http://lounginwithlindsay.blogspot.com\">got-mischief.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nLindsay, Loungin’ with Lindsay\r\n<a href=\"http://lounginwithlindsay.blogspot.com\">lounginwithlindsay.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nMeseidy, The Noshery\r\n<a href=\"http://thenoshery.com\">thenoshery.com</a>\r\n\r\nSarah, Money Saving Queen\r\n<a href=\"http://moneysavingqueen.com\">moneysavingqueen.com</a>\r\n\r\nNancy, Tulsa Gal\r\n<a href=\"http://tulsagal.net\">tulsagal.net</a>\r\n\r\nCourtney, The Generosity Project\r\n<a href=\"http://thegenerosityproject.net\">thegenerosityproject.net</a>\r\n\r\nDave, Accidentally Albino\r\n<a href=\"http://daveshort.tumblr.com\">daveshort.tumblr.com</a>\r\n\r\nAubree, The Southern Family\r\n<a href=\"http://www.thesouthernfamily.net/\">thesouthernfamily.net</a>\r\n\r\nKristy, Mommy Hates Cooking\r\n<a href=\"http://mommyhatescooking.com\">mommyhatescooking.com</a>\r\n\r\nCarrisa, And So She Blogs\r\n<a href=\"http://andsosheblogs.com\">andsosheblogs.com</a>\r\n\r\nLaurie, The Marriage of an Undomestic\r\n<a href=\"http://thereallt.blogspot.com\">thereallt.blogspot.com</a>\r\n\r\nSherri, I.Crochet\r\n<a href=\"http://sherris-blog-at.tumblr.com\">sherris-blog-at.tumblr.com</a>\r\n\r\nCarolyn, The New Homemaker\r\n<a href=\"http://thenewhomemaker.wordpress.com \">thenewhomemaker.wordpress.com </a>\r\n\r\nThis list represents a mixed bag of topics, interests and people, so click freely. 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