(3265,1,'2010-10-26 16:03:22','2010-10-26 21:03:22','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3243\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3243\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1612.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3243\" /></a>\n\nDid you know that you don\'t have to go to those big-box, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume?\n<!--more-->[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]\n\nIt\'s true. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3244\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3244\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16412-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3244\" /></a>\n\nOne option is to head to <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">Top Hat Magic & Costumes</a>, on the northwest corner of the 41st and Yale intersection. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3245\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3245\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1642-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3245\" /></a>\n\nWhere you can be anything from a flapper girl to a medieval knight to a wookie. The selection, even this close to Halloween, is still remarkable. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3246\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3246\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16161.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3246\" /></a>\n\nI have fond memories of my dad taking me to Top Hat so that we could check out all the weird and gross stuff that\'s available there together. My dad share a sense of humor that\'s appreciative of such things. \n\nLast week, I got to pay that favor forward by taking my son for the same reason. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3247\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3247\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1622.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3247\" /></a>\n\nHis first words as we walked through the door? \"Oh my gosh - look at <em>this</em>!\" \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3248\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3248\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16261-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3248\" /></a>\n\nAnd by <em>this</em> he meant, <em>everything in this entire store</em>, which I will now proceed to attempt to drag off the shelves and touch now.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3249\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3249\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16241-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3249\" /></a>\n\nI think all the squealing and grabbing made the staff a little nervous, but they still found it in their hearts to be hospitable. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3250\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3250\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1636.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3250\" /></a>\n\nThat they managed it even after the squealing and grabbing still hadn\'t stopped after five minutes or so speaks volumes of these people. And perhaps their long track record of experience in owning a magic and costume shop. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3251\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3251\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1635.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3251\" /></a>\n\nThat object that my son is, uh, investigating by pulling its legs apart and peering in between is a chicken hat. In case you were wondering what the poor, molesting thing was. \n\nDon\'t worry. We bought it. I mean, it was the only proper, polite thing to do after treating a thing in such a way.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3252\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3252\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16292.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3252\" /></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3253\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3253\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16201-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3253\" /></a> \n\nFor those of you still searching for a costume for Halloween, have no fear. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3254\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3254\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16231-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3254\" /></a>\n\nIf you can dream it up, Top Hat probably has it. Whether it\'s these \'80s earrings...\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3255\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3255\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16432.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3255\" /></a>\n\nOr this spare leg...\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3256\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3256\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3256\" /></a>\n\nOr one of those long cigarette-smoker thingies (which I just adore, by the way, even though smoking is terrible and you should never, ever try it, even on a recreational basis because <em>just say no</em>)...\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3257\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3257\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16462-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3257\" /></a>\n\nOr these spare, glue-on body parts...\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3260\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3260\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1660-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3260\" /></a>\n\nOr a mood ring...\n\nI\'ve gotta stop just a second here. Mood rings, people! MOOD RINGS! \n\nSorry. I\'m a child of the \'80s. Thus, I get all wistful when I see mood rings. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3258\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3258\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1653.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3258\" /></a>\n\nEven if what you need is a date to one of Tulsa\'s rockin\' Halloween parties, Steve Lancaster, Tulsa\'s own homegrown magician and illusionist, has it in his shop, which has had open doors to the community for more than 30 years. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3259\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3259\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16491.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3259\" /></a>\n\nSteve is a sweet man. But don\'t go walking around his store snapping your iPhone camera or you\'ll get a piece of his mind. \n\nUnless you put the photos on Facebook and tell all your friends that they can find the stuff in your photos at Top Hat. Then he\'s pretty much cool with that. \n\nDid you know that you can hire him to teach you magic tricks, one-on-one? And that you can hire him for your kid\'s birthday party? And that you can see him perform these amazing magic shows at the PAC downtown from time to time? It\'s all true.\n\nI love living in a town that has its own magician. It makes me feel very...magical. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3261\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3261\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16391.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3261\" /></a>\n\nThough there\'s still a lot to choose from in terms of costumes and props at Top Hat, I wouldn\'t delay if you\'re still looking for those things. When we stopped in to check the place out, it was super busy - at least a couple dozen folks came through and headed to the costume room during just our short, half-hour visit - and that was last week. \n\nThings are different this week. People are desperate. Searching for a costume could get ugly. \n\nBut Steve and his staff have been doing this for a long time. They have the experience and the know-how to keep things at or below a fever pitch. And they probably could help you in the event that you and another customer reach for the last zombie costume and grab it at the same time and commence grabbing and shoving and stabbing each other in the eyes with the hangers in an effort to wrest the costume from one another. \n\nBut I bet you\'d get a time-out. So I wouldn\'t do that if I were you. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3262\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3262\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1645-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3262\" /></a>\n\nSpeaking of zombie costumes, Steve mentioned while we were in that the most popular costumes this year are the classic ones - vampires, ghosts, Elvira, zombies, what have you - thanks to there not being a major, costume-influencing movie out in time for Halloween this year. He said that \'80s costumes are really popular, too. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3263\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3263\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16232-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3263\" /></a>\n\nThat\'s where these babies could come in handy. \n\nAnd if you wanted to wear them again, I totally wouldn\'t blame you. In fact, I might be willing to stab you in the eye with a hanger for them. \n\n<strong>Top Hat Magic & Costumes</strong>\nWhere: 4016 S. Yale Ave. \nWhen: Monday-Friday, 10am-8pm; Saturday, 10am-5:30pm; Sunday, 1-5pm (Halloween holiday hours)\nCall: (918) 663-5550\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">TopHatMagic.com</a>','Top Hat Magic and Costumes: A Local Hallowen','Did you know that you don\'t have to go to those big-box, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume? Thanks to Top Hat Magic & Costumes, It\'s true. ','inherit','open','open','','3242-revision','','','2010-10-26 16:03:22','2010-10-26 21:03:22','',3242,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3242-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(3273,1,'2010-10-26 16:09:31','2010-10-26 21:09:31','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3243\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3243\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3243\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1612.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nDid you know that you don\'t have to go to those generic, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume?\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\n\nIt\'s true.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3244\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3244\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3244\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16412-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nOne option is to head to <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</a>, on the northwest corner of the 41st and Yale intersection.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3245\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3245\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3245\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1642-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nWhere you can be anything from a flapper girl to a medieval knight to an Indian princess to a zoot suit pimp daddy G to a wookie. \n\nThe selection, even this close to Halloween, is remarkable.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3246\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3246\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3246\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16161.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nI have fond memories of my dad taking me to Top Hat so that we could check out all the weird and gross stuff that\'s available there. My dad and I share a sense of humor that\'s appreciative of such things.\n\nLast week, I got to pay that favor forward by taking my son for the same reason.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3247\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3247\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3247\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1622.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nHis first words as we walked through the door? \"Oh my gosh - look at <em>this</em>!\"\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3248\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3248\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3248\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16261-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nAnd by <em>this</em> he meant, <em>everything in this entire store</em>, which I will now proceed to attempt to drag off the shelves and touch n.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3249\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3249\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3249\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16241-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nI think all the squealing and grabbing made the staff a little nervous, but they still found it in their hearts to be hospitable.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3250\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3250\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3250\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1636.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nThat they managed it even after the squealing and grabbing still hadn\'t stopped after five minutes or so speaks volumes of these people. And perhaps their long track record of experience in owning a magic and costume shop.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3251\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3251\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3251\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1635.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nThat object that my son is, uh, investigating by pulling its legs apart and peering in between is a chicken hat. In case you were wondering what the poor, molesting thing was.\n\nDon\'t worry. We bought it. I mean, it was the only proper, polite thing to do after treating a thing in such a way.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3252\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3252\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3252\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16292.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3253\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3253\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3253\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16201-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nFor those of you still searching for a costume for Halloween, have no fear.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3254\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3254\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3254\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16231-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nIf you can dream it up, Top Hat probably has it. Whether it\'s these \'80s earrings...\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3255\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3255\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3255\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16432.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nOr this spare leg...\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3256\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3256\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3256\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nOr one of those long cigarette-smoker thingies (which I just adore, by the way, even though smoking is terrible and you should never, ever try it, even on a recreational basis because <em>just say no</em>)...\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3257\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3257\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3257\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16462-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nOr these spare, glue-on body parts...\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3260\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3260\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3260\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1660-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nOr a mood ring...\n\nI\'ve gotta stop just a second here. Mood rings, people! MOOD RINGS!\n\nSorry. I\'m a child of the \'80s. Thus, I get all wistful when I see mood rings.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3258\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3258\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3258\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1653.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nEven if what you need is a date to one of Tulsa\'s rockin\' Halloween parties, Steve Lancaster, Tulsa\'s own homegrown magician and illusionist, has it in his shop, which has had open doors to the community for more than 30 years.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3259\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3259\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3259\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16491.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nSteve is a sweet man. But don\'t go walking around his store snapping your iPhone camera or you\'ll get a piece of his mind.\n\nUnless you put the photos on Facebook and tell all your friends that they can find the stuff in your photos at Top Hat. Then he\'s pretty much cool with that.\n\nDid you know that you can hire him to teach you magic tricks, one-on-one? And that you can hire him for your kid\'s birthday party? And that you can see him perform these amazing magic shows at the PAC downtown from time to time? It\'s all true.\n\nI love living in a town that has its own magician. It makes me feel very...magical.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3261\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3261\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3261\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16391.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nThough there\'s still a lot to choose from in terms of costumes and props at Top Hat, I wouldn\'t delay if you\'re still looking for those things. When we stopped in to check the place out, it was super busy - at least a couple dozen folks came through and headed to the costume room during just our short, half-hour visit - and that was last week.\n\nThings are different this week. People are desperate. Searching for a costume could get ugly.\n\nBut Steve and his staff have been doing this for a long time. They have the experience and the know-how to keep things at or below a fever pitch. And they probably could help you in the event that you and another customer reach for the last zombie costume and grab it at the same time and commence grabbing and shoving and stabbing each other in the eyes with the hangers in an effort to wrest the costume from one another.\n\nBut I bet you\'d get a time-out. So I wouldn\'t do that if I were you.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3262\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3262\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3262\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1645-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nSpeaking of zombie costumes, Steve mentioned while we were in that the most popular costumes this year are the classic ones - vampires, ghosts, Elvira, zombies, what have you - thanks to there not being a major, costume-influencing movie out in time for Halloween this year. He said that \'80s costumes are really popular, too.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3263\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3263\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3263\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16232-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nThat\'s where these babies could come in handy.\n\nAnd if you wanted to wear them again, I totally wouldn\'t blame you. In fact, I might be willing to stab you in the eye with a hanger for them.\n\n<strong>Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</strong>\nWhere: 4016 S. Yale Ave.\nWhen: Monday-Friday, 10am-8pm; Saturday, 10am-5:30pm; Sunday, 1-5pm (Halloween holiday hours)\nCall: (918) 663-5550\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">TopHatMagic.com</a>','Top Hat Magic and Costumes: Shop Local This Halloween','Did you know that you don\'t have to go to those big-box, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume? Thanks to Top Hat Magic & Costumes, It\'s true. ','inherit','open','open','','3242-revision-9','','','2010-10-26 16:09:31','2010-10-26 21:09:31','',3242,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3242-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(3266,1,'2010-10-26 16:04:36','2010-10-26 21:04:36','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3243\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3243\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1612.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3243\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDid you know that you don\'t have to go to those big-box, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume?\r\n<!--more-->[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]\r\n\r\nIt\'s true. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3244\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3244\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16412-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3244\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne option is to head to <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">Top Hat Magic & Costumes</a>, on the northwest corner of the 41st and Yale intersection. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3245\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3245\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1642-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3245\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhere you can be anything from a flapper girl to a medieval knight to a wookie. The selection, even this close to Halloween, is still remarkable. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3246\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3246\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16161.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3246\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI have fond memories of my dad taking me to Top Hat so that we could check out all the weird and gross stuff that\'s available there together. My dad share a sense of humor that\'s appreciative of such things. \r\n\r\nLast week, I got to pay that favor forward by taking my son for the same reason. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3247\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3247\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1622.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3247\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHis first words as we walked through the door? \"Oh my gosh - look at <em>this</em>!\" \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3248\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3248\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16261-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3248\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd by <em>this</em> he meant, <em>everything in this entire store</em>, which I will now proceed to attempt to drag off the shelves and touch now.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3249\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3249\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16241-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3249\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI think all the squealing and grabbing made the staff a little nervous, but they still found it in their hearts to be hospitable. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3250\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3250\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1636.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3250\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat they managed it even after the squealing and grabbing still hadn\'t stopped after five minutes or so speaks volumes of these people. And perhaps their long track record of experience in owning a magic and costume shop. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3251\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3251\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1635.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3251\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat object that my son is, uh, investigating by pulling its legs apart and peering in between is a chicken hat. In case you were wondering what the poor, molesting thing was. \r\n\r\nDon\'t worry. We bought it. I mean, it was the only proper, polite thing to do after treating a thing in such a way.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3252\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3252\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16292.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3252\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3253\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3253\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16201-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3253\" /></a> \r\n\r\nFor those of you still searching for a costume for Halloween, have no fear. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3254\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3254\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16231-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3254\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf you can dream it up, Top Hat probably has it. Whether it\'s these \'80s earrings...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3255\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3255\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16432.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3255\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr this spare leg...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3256\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3256\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3256\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr one of those long cigarette-smoker thingies (which I just adore, by the way, even though smoking is terrible and you should never, ever try it, even on a recreational basis because <em>just say no</em>)...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3257\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3257\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16462-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3257\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr these spare, glue-on body parts...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3260\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3260\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1660-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3260\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr a mood ring...\r\n\r\nI\'ve gotta stop just a second here. Mood rings, people! MOOD RINGS! \r\n\r\nSorry. I\'m a child of the \'80s. Thus, I get all wistful when I see mood rings. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3258\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3258\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1653.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3258\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEven if what you need is a date to one of Tulsa\'s rockin\' Halloween parties, Steve Lancaster, Tulsa\'s own homegrown magician and illusionist, has it in his shop, which has had open doors to the community for more than 30 years. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3259\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3259\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16491.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3259\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSteve is a sweet man. But don\'t go walking around his store snapping your iPhone camera or you\'ll get a piece of his mind. \r\n\r\nUnless you put the photos on Facebook and tell all your friends that they can find the stuff in your photos at Top Hat. Then he\'s pretty much cool with that. \r\n\r\nDid you know that you can hire him to teach you magic tricks, one-on-one? And that you can hire him for your kid\'s birthday party? And that you can see him perform these amazing magic shows at the PAC downtown from time to time? It\'s all true.\r\n\r\nI love living in a town that has its own magician. It makes me feel very...magical. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3261\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3261\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16391.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3261\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThough there\'s still a lot to choose from in terms of costumes and props at Top Hat, I wouldn\'t delay if you\'re still looking for those things. When we stopped in to check the place out, it was super busy - at least a couple dozen folks came through and headed to the costume room during just our short, half-hour visit - and that was last week. \r\n\r\nThings are different this week. People are desperate. Searching for a costume could get ugly. \r\n\r\nBut Steve and his staff have been doing this for a long time. They have the experience and the know-how to keep things at or below a fever pitch. And they probably could help you in the event that you and another customer reach for the last zombie costume and grab it at the same time and commence grabbing and shoving and stabbing each other in the eyes with the hangers in an effort to wrest the costume from one another. \r\n\r\nBut I bet you\'d get a time-out. So I wouldn\'t do that if I were you. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3262\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3262\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1645-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3262\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSpeaking of zombie costumes, Steve mentioned while we were in that the most popular costumes this year are the classic ones - vampires, ghosts, Elvira, zombies, what have you - thanks to there not being a major, costume-influencing movie out in time for Halloween this year. He said that \'80s costumes are really popular, too. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3263\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3263\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16232-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3263\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat\'s where these babies could come in handy. \r\n\r\nAnd if you wanted to wear them again, I totally wouldn\'t blame you. In fact, I might be willing to stab you in the eye with a hanger for them. \r\n\r\n<strong>Top Hat Magic & Costumes</strong>\r\nWhere: 4016 S. Yale Ave. \r\nWhen: Monday-Friday, 10am-8pm; Saturday, 10am-5:30pm; Sunday, 1-5pm (Halloween holiday hours)\r\nCall: (918) 663-5550\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">TopHatMagic.com</a>','Top Hat Magic and Costumes: A Shop Local Halloween','Did you know that you don\'t have to go to those big-box, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume? Thanks to Top Hat Magic & Costumes, It\'s true. ','inherit','open','open','','3242-revision-2','','','2010-10-26 16:04:36','2010-10-26 21:04:36','',3242,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3242-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(3267,1,'2010-10-26 16:04:36','2010-10-26 21:04:36','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3243\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3243\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1612.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3243\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDid you know that you don\'t have to go to those big-box, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume?\r\n<!--more-->[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]\r\n\r\nIt\'s true. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3244\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3244\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16412-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3244\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne option is to head to <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">Top Hat Magic & Costumes</a>, on the northwest corner of the 41st and Yale intersection. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3245\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3245\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1642-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3245\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhere you can be anything from a flapper girl to a medieval knight to a wookie. The selection, even this close to Halloween, is still remarkable. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3246\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3246\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16161.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3246\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI have fond memories of my dad taking me to Top Hat so that we could check out all the weird and gross stuff that\'s available there together. My dad share a sense of humor that\'s appreciative of such things. \r\n\r\nLast week, I got to pay that favor forward by taking my son for the same reason. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3247\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3247\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1622.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3247\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHis first words as we walked through the door? \"Oh my gosh - look at <em>this</em>!\" \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3248\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3248\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16261-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3248\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd by <em>this</em> he meant, <em>everything in this entire store</em>, which I will now proceed to attempt to drag off the shelves and touch now.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3249\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3249\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16241-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3249\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI think all the squealing and grabbing made the staff a little nervous, but they still found it in their hearts to be hospitable. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3250\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3250\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1636.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3250\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat they managed it even after the squealing and grabbing still hadn\'t stopped after five minutes or so speaks volumes of these people. And perhaps their long track record of experience in owning a magic and costume shop. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3251\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3251\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1635.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3251\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat object that my son is, uh, investigating by pulling its legs apart and peering in between is a chicken hat. In case you were wondering what the poor, molesting thing was. \r\n\r\nDon\'t worry. We bought it. I mean, it was the only proper, polite thing to do after treating a thing in such a way.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3252\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3252\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16292.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3252\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3253\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3253\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16201-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3253\" /></a> \r\n\r\nFor those of you still searching for a costume for Halloween, have no fear. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3254\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3254\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16231-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3254\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf you can dream it up, Top Hat probably has it. Whether it\'s these \'80s earrings...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3255\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3255\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16432.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3255\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr this spare leg...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3256\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3256\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3256\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr one of those long cigarette-smoker thingies (which I just adore, by the way, even though smoking is terrible and you should never, ever try it, even on a recreational basis because <em>just say no</em>)...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3257\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3257\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16462-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3257\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr these spare, glue-on body parts...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3260\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3260\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1660-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3260\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr a mood ring...\r\n\r\nI\'ve gotta stop just a second here. Mood rings, people! MOOD RINGS! \r\n\r\nSorry. I\'m a child of the \'80s. Thus, I get all wistful when I see mood rings. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3258\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3258\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1653.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3258\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEven if what you need is a date to one of Tulsa\'s rockin\' Halloween parties, Steve Lancaster, Tulsa\'s own homegrown magician and illusionist, has it in his shop, which has had open doors to the community for more than 30 years. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3259\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3259\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16491.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3259\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSteve is a sweet man. But don\'t go walking around his store snapping your iPhone camera or you\'ll get a piece of his mind. \r\n\r\nUnless you put the photos on Facebook and tell all your friends that they can find the stuff in your photos at Top Hat. Then he\'s pretty much cool with that. \r\n\r\nDid you know that you can hire him to teach you magic tricks, one-on-one? And that you can hire him for your kid\'s birthday party? And that you can see him perform these amazing magic shows at the PAC downtown from time to time? It\'s all true.\r\n\r\nI love living in a town that has its own magician. It makes me feel very...magical. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3261\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3261\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16391.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3261\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThough there\'s still a lot to choose from in terms of costumes and props at Top Hat, I wouldn\'t delay if you\'re still looking for those things. When we stopped in to check the place out, it was super busy - at least a couple dozen folks came through and headed to the costume room during just our short, half-hour visit - and that was last week. \r\n\r\nThings are different this week. People are desperate. Searching for a costume could get ugly. \r\n\r\nBut Steve and his staff have been doing this for a long time. They have the experience and the know-how to keep things at or below a fever pitch. And they probably could help you in the event that you and another customer reach for the last zombie costume and grab it at the same time and commence grabbing and shoving and stabbing each other in the eyes with the hangers in an effort to wrest the costume from one another. \r\n\r\nBut I bet you\'d get a time-out. So I wouldn\'t do that if I were you. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3262\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3262\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1645-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3262\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSpeaking of zombie costumes, Steve mentioned while we were in that the most popular costumes this year are the classic ones - vampires, ghosts, Elvira, zombies, what have you - thanks to there not being a major, costume-influencing movie out in time for Halloween this year. He said that \'80s costumes are really popular, too. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3263\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3263\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16232-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3263\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat\'s where these babies could come in handy. \r\n\r\nAnd if you wanted to wear them again, I totally wouldn\'t blame you. In fact, I might be willing to stab you in the eye with a hanger for them. \r\n\r\n<strong>Top Hat Magic & Costumes</strong>\r\nWhere: 4016 S. Yale Ave. \r\nWhen: Monday-Friday, 10am-8pm; Saturday, 10am-5:30pm; Sunday, 1-5pm (Halloween holiday hours)\r\nCall: (918) 663-5550\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">TopHatMagic.com</a>','Top Hat Magic and Costumes: A Shop Local Halloween','Did you know that you don\'t have to go to those big-box, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume? Thanks to Top Hat Magic & Costumes, It\'s true. ','inherit','open','open','','3242-revision-3','','','2010-10-26 16:04:36','2010-10-26 21:04:36','',3242,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3242-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(3268,1,'2010-10-26 16:05:29','2010-10-26 21:05:29','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3243\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3243\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3243\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1612.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDid you know that you don\'t have to go to those big-box, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume?\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 true.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3244\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3244\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3244\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16412-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne option is to head to <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</a>, on the northwest corner of the 41st and Yale intersection.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3245\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3245\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3245\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1642-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhere you can be anything from a flapper girl to a medieval knight to a wookie. The selection, even this close to Halloween, is still remarkable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3246\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3246\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3246\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16161.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI have fond memories of my dad taking me to Top Hat so that we could check out all the weird and gross stuff that\'s available there together. My dad share a sense of humor that\'s appreciative of such things.\r\n\r\nLast week, I got to pay that favor forward by taking my son for the same reason.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3247\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3247\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3247\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1622.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHis first words as we walked through the door? \"Oh my gosh - look at <em>this</em>!\"\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3248\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3248\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3248\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16261-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd by <em>this</em> he meant, <em>everything in this entire store</em>, which I will now proceed to attempt to drag off the shelves and touch now.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3249\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3249\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3249\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16241-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI think all the squealing and grabbing made the staff a little nervous, but they still found it in their hearts to be hospitable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3250\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3250\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3250\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1636.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat they managed it even after the squealing and grabbing still hadn\'t stopped after five minutes or so speaks volumes of these people. And perhaps their long track record of experience in owning a magic and costume shop.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3251\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3251\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3251\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1635.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat object that my son is, uh, investigating by pulling its legs apart and peering in between is a chicken hat. In case you were wondering what the poor, molesting thing was.\r\n\r\nDon\'t worry. We bought it. I mean, it was the only proper, polite thing to do after treating a thing in such a way.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3252\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3252\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3252\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16292.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3253\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3253\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3253\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16201-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nFor those of you still searching for a costume for Halloween, have no fear.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3254\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3254\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3254\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16231-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf you can dream it up, Top Hat probably has it. Whether it\'s these \'80s earrings...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3255\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3255\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3255\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16432.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr this spare leg...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3256\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3256\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3256\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr one of those long cigarette-smoker thingies (which I just adore, by the way, even though smoking is terrible and you should never, ever try it, even on a recreational basis because <em>just say no</em>)...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3257\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3257\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3257\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16462-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr these spare, glue-on body parts...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3260\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3260\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3260\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1660-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr a mood ring...\r\n\r\nI\'ve gotta stop just a second here. Mood rings, people! MOOD RINGS!\r\n\r\nSorry. I\'m a child of the \'80s. Thus, I get all wistful when I see mood rings.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3258\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3258\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3258\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1653.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEven if what you need is a date to one of Tulsa\'s rockin\' Halloween parties, Steve Lancaster, Tulsa\'s own homegrown magician and illusionist, has it in his shop, which has had open doors to the community for more than 30 years.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3259\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3259\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3259\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16491.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSteve is a sweet man. But don\'t go walking around his store snapping your iPhone camera or you\'ll get a piece of his mind.\r\n\r\nUnless you put the photos on Facebook and tell all your friends that they can find the stuff in your photos at Top Hat. Then he\'s pretty much cool with that.\r\n\r\nDid you know that you can hire him to teach you magic tricks, one-on-one? And that you can hire him for your kid\'s birthday party? And that you can see him perform these amazing magic shows at the PAC downtown from time to time? It\'s all true.\r\n\r\nI love living in a town that has its own magician. It makes me feel very...magical.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3261\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3261\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3261\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16391.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThough there\'s still a lot to choose from in terms of costumes and props at Top Hat, I wouldn\'t delay if you\'re still looking for those things. When we stopped in to check the place out, it was super busy - at least a couple dozen folks came through and headed to the costume room during just our short, half-hour visit - and that was last week.\r\n\r\nThings are different this week. People are desperate. Searching for a costume could get ugly.\r\n\r\nBut Steve and his staff have been doing this for a long time. They have the experience and the know-how to keep things at or below a fever pitch. And they probably could help you in the event that you and another customer reach for the last zombie costume and grab it at the same time and commence grabbing and shoving and stabbing each other in the eyes with the hangers in an effort to wrest the costume from one another.\r\n\r\nBut I bet you\'d get a time-out. So I wouldn\'t do that if I were you.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3262\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3262\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3262\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1645-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSpeaking of zombie costumes, Steve mentioned while we were in that the most popular costumes this year are the classic ones - vampires, ghosts, Elvira, zombies, what have you - thanks to there not being a major, costume-influencing movie out in time for Halloween this year. He said that \'80s costumes are really popular, too.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3263\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3263\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3263\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16232-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat\'s where these babies could come in handy.\r\n\r\nAnd if you wanted to wear them again, I totally wouldn\'t blame you. In fact, I might be willing to stab you in the eye with a hanger for them.\r\n\r\n<strong>Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</strong>\r\nWhere: 4016 S. Yale Ave.\r\nWhen: Monday-Friday, 10am-8pm; Saturday, 10am-5:30pm; Sunday, 1-5pm (Halloween holiday hours)\r\nCall: (918) 663-5550\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">TopHatMagic.com</a>','Top Hat Magic and Costumes: Shop Local This Halloween','Did you know that you don\'t have to go to those big-box, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume? Thanks to Top Hat Magic & Costumes, It\'s true. ','inherit','open','open','','3242-revision-4','','','2010-10-26 16:05:29','2010-10-26 21:05:29','',3242,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3242-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(3269,1,'2010-10-26 16:05:29','2010-10-26 21:05:29','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3243\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3243\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3243\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1612.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDid you know that you don\'t have to go to those big-box, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume?\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 true.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3244\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3244\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3244\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16412-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne option is to head to <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</a>, on the northwest corner of the 41st and Yale intersection.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3245\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3245\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3245\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1642-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhere you can be anything from a flapper girl to a medieval knight to a wookie. The selection, even this close to Halloween, is still remarkable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3246\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3246\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3246\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16161.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI have fond memories of my dad taking me to Top Hat so that we could check out all the weird and gross stuff that\'s available there together. My dad share a sense of humor that\'s appreciative of such things.\r\n\r\nLast week, I got to pay that favor forward by taking my son for the same reason.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3247\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3247\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3247\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1622.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHis first words as we walked through the door? \"Oh my gosh - look at <em>this</em>!\"\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3248\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3248\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3248\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16261-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd by <em>this</em> he meant, <em>everything in this entire store</em>, which I will now proceed to attempt to drag off the shelves and touch now.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3249\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3249\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3249\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16241-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI think all the squealing and grabbing made the staff a little nervous, but they still found it in their hearts to be hospitable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3250\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3250\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3250\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1636.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat they managed it even after the squealing and grabbing still hadn\'t stopped after five minutes or so speaks volumes of these people. And perhaps their long track record of experience in owning a magic and costume shop.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3251\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3251\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3251\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1635.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat object that my son is, uh, investigating by pulling its legs apart and peering in between is a chicken hat. In case you were wondering what the poor, molesting thing was.\r\n\r\nDon\'t worry. We bought it. I mean, it was the only proper, polite thing to do after treating a thing in such a way.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3252\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3252\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3252\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16292.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3253\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3253\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3253\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16201-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nFor those of you still searching for a costume for Halloween, have no fear.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3254\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3254\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3254\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16231-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf you can dream it up, Top Hat probably has it. Whether it\'s these \'80s earrings...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3255\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3255\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3255\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16432.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr this spare leg...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3256\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3256\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3256\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr one of those long cigarette-smoker thingies (which I just adore, by the way, even though smoking is terrible and you should never, ever try it, even on a recreational basis because <em>just say no</em>)...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3257\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3257\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3257\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16462-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr these spare, glue-on body parts...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3260\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3260\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3260\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1660-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr a mood ring...\r\n\r\nI\'ve gotta stop just a second here. Mood rings, people! MOOD RINGS!\r\n\r\nSorry. I\'m a child of the \'80s. Thus, I get all wistful when I see mood rings.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3258\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3258\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3258\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1653.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEven if what you need is a date to one of Tulsa\'s rockin\' Halloween parties, Steve Lancaster, Tulsa\'s own homegrown magician and illusionist, has it in his shop, which has had open doors to the community for more than 30 years.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3259\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3259\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3259\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16491.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSteve is a sweet man. But don\'t go walking around his store snapping your iPhone camera or you\'ll get a piece of his mind.\r\n\r\nUnless you put the photos on Facebook and tell all your friends that they can find the stuff in your photos at Top Hat. Then he\'s pretty much cool with that.\r\n\r\nDid you know that you can hire him to teach you magic tricks, one-on-one? And that you can hire him for your kid\'s birthday party? And that you can see him perform these amazing magic shows at the PAC downtown from time to time? It\'s all true.\r\n\r\nI love living in a town that has its own magician. It makes me feel very...magical.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3261\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3261\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3261\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16391.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThough there\'s still a lot to choose from in terms of costumes and props at Top Hat, I wouldn\'t delay if you\'re still looking for those things. When we stopped in to check the place out, it was super busy - at least a couple dozen folks came through and headed to the costume room during just our short, half-hour visit - and that was last week.\r\n\r\nThings are different this week. People are desperate. Searching for a costume could get ugly.\r\n\r\nBut Steve and his staff have been doing this for a long time. They have the experience and the know-how to keep things at or below a fever pitch. And they probably could help you in the event that you and another customer reach for the last zombie costume and grab it at the same time and commence grabbing and shoving and stabbing each other in the eyes with the hangers in an effort to wrest the costume from one another.\r\n\r\nBut I bet you\'d get a time-out. So I wouldn\'t do that if I were you.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3262\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3262\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3262\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1645-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSpeaking of zombie costumes, Steve mentioned while we were in that the most popular costumes this year are the classic ones - vampires, ghosts, Elvira, zombies, what have you - thanks to there not being a major, costume-influencing movie out in time for Halloween this year. He said that \'80s costumes are really popular, too.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3263\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3263\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3263\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16232-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat\'s where these babies could come in handy.\r\n\r\nAnd if you wanted to wear them again, I totally wouldn\'t blame you. In fact, I might be willing to stab you in the eye with a hanger for them.\r\n\r\n<strong>Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</strong>\r\nWhere: 4016 S. Yale Ave.\r\nWhen: Monday-Friday, 10am-8pm; Saturday, 10am-5:30pm; Sunday, 1-5pm (Halloween holiday hours)\r\nCall: (918) 663-5550\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">TopHatMagic.com</a>','Top Hat Magic and Costumes: Shop Local This Halloween','Did you know that you don\'t have to go to those big-box, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume? Thanks to Top Hat Magic & Costumes, It\'s true. ','inherit','open','open','','3242-revision-5','','','2010-10-26 16:05:29','2010-10-26 21:05:29','',3242,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3242-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(3270,1,'2010-10-26 16:05:57','2010-10-26 21:05:57','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3243\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3243\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3243\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1612.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDid you know that you don\'t have to go to those generic, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume?\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 true.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3244\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3244\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3244\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16412-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne option is to head to <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</a>, on the northwest corner of the 41st and Yale intersection.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3245\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3245\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3245\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1642-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhere you can be anything from a flapper girl to a medieval knight to a wookie. The selection, even this close to Halloween, is still remarkable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3246\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3246\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3246\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16161.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI have fond memories of my dad taking me to Top Hat so that we could check out all the weird and gross stuff that\'s available there together. My dad share a sense of humor that\'s appreciative of such things.\r\n\r\nLast week, I got to pay that favor forward by taking my son for the same reason.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3247\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3247\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3247\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1622.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHis first words as we walked through the door? \"Oh my gosh - look at <em>this</em>!\"\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3248\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3248\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3248\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16261-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd by <em>this</em> he meant, <em>everything in this entire store</em>, which I will now proceed to attempt to drag off the shelves and touch now.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3249\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3249\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3249\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16241-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI think all the squealing and grabbing made the staff a little nervous, but they still found it in their hearts to be hospitable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3250\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3250\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3250\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1636.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat they managed it even after the squealing and grabbing still hadn\'t stopped after five minutes or so speaks volumes of these people. And perhaps their long track record of experience in owning a magic and costume shop.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3251\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3251\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3251\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1635.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat object that my son is, uh, investigating by pulling its legs apart and peering in between is a chicken hat. In case you were wondering what the poor, molesting thing was.\r\n\r\nDon\'t worry. We bought it. I mean, it was the only proper, polite thing to do after treating a thing in such a way.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3252\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3252\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3252\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16292.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3253\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3253\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3253\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16201-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nFor those of you still searching for a costume for Halloween, have no fear.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3254\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3254\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3254\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16231-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf you can dream it up, Top Hat probably has it. Whether it\'s these \'80s earrings...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3255\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3255\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3255\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16432.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr this spare leg...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3256\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3256\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3256\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr one of those long cigarette-smoker thingies (which I just adore, by the way, even though smoking is terrible and you should never, ever try it, even on a recreational basis because <em>just say no</em>)...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3257\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3257\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3257\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16462-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr these spare, glue-on body parts...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3260\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3260\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3260\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1660-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr a mood ring...\r\n\r\nI\'ve gotta stop just a second here. Mood rings, people! MOOD RINGS!\r\n\r\nSorry. I\'m a child of the \'80s. Thus, I get all wistful when I see mood rings.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3258\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3258\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3258\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1653.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEven if what you need is a date to one of Tulsa\'s rockin\' Halloween parties, Steve Lancaster, Tulsa\'s own homegrown magician and illusionist, has it in his shop, which has had open doors to the community for more than 30 years.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3259\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3259\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3259\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16491.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSteve is a sweet man. But don\'t go walking around his store snapping your iPhone camera or you\'ll get a piece of his mind.\r\n\r\nUnless you put the photos on Facebook and tell all your friends that they can find the stuff in your photos at Top Hat. Then he\'s pretty much cool with that.\r\n\r\nDid you know that you can hire him to teach you magic tricks, one-on-one? And that you can hire him for your kid\'s birthday party? And that you can see him perform these amazing magic shows at the PAC downtown from time to time? It\'s all true.\r\n\r\nI love living in a town that has its own magician. It makes me feel very...magical.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3261\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3261\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3261\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16391.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThough there\'s still a lot to choose from in terms of costumes and props at Top Hat, I wouldn\'t delay if you\'re still looking for those things. When we stopped in to check the place out, it was super busy - at least a couple dozen folks came through and headed to the costume room during just our short, half-hour visit - and that was last week.\r\n\r\nThings are different this week. People are desperate. Searching for a costume could get ugly.\r\n\r\nBut Steve and his staff have been doing this for a long time. They have the experience and the know-how to keep things at or below a fever pitch. And they probably could help you in the event that you and another customer reach for the last zombie costume and grab it at the same time and commence grabbing and shoving and stabbing each other in the eyes with the hangers in an effort to wrest the costume from one another.\r\n\r\nBut I bet you\'d get a time-out. So I wouldn\'t do that if I were you.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3262\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3262\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3262\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1645-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSpeaking of zombie costumes, Steve mentioned while we were in that the most popular costumes this year are the classic ones - vampires, ghosts, Elvira, zombies, what have you - thanks to there not being a major, costume-influencing movie out in time for Halloween this year. He said that \'80s costumes are really popular, too.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3263\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3263\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3263\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16232-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat\'s where these babies could come in handy.\r\n\r\nAnd if you wanted to wear them again, I totally wouldn\'t blame you. In fact, I might be willing to stab you in the eye with a hanger for them.\r\n\r\n<strong>Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</strong>\r\nWhere: 4016 S. Yale Ave.\r\nWhen: Monday-Friday, 10am-8pm; Saturday, 10am-5:30pm; Sunday, 1-5pm (Halloween holiday hours)\r\nCall: (918) 663-5550\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">TopHatMagic.com</a>','Top Hat Magic and Costumes: Shop Local This Halloween','Did you know that you don\'t have to go to those big-box, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume? Thanks to Top Hat Magic & Costumes, It\'s true. ','inherit','open','open','','3242-revision-6','','','2010-10-26 16:05:57','2010-10-26 21:05:57','',3242,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3242-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(3271,1,'2010-10-26 16:05:57','2010-10-26 21:05:57','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3243\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3243\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3243\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1612.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDid you know that you don\'t have to go to those generic, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume?\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 true.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3244\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3244\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3244\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16412-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne option is to head to <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</a>, on the northwest corner of the 41st and Yale intersection.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3245\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3245\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3245\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1642-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhere you can be anything from a flapper girl to a medieval knight to a wookie. The selection, even this close to Halloween, is still remarkable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3246\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3246\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3246\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16161.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI have fond memories of my dad taking me to Top Hat so that we could check out all the weird and gross stuff that\'s available there together. My dad share a sense of humor that\'s appreciative of such things.\r\n\r\nLast week, I got to pay that favor forward by taking my son for the same reason.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3247\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3247\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3247\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1622.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHis first words as we walked through the door? \"Oh my gosh - look at <em>this</em>!\"\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3248\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3248\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3248\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16261-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd by <em>this</em> he meant, <em>everything in this entire store</em>, which I will now proceed to attempt to drag off the shelves and touch now.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3249\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3249\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3249\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16241-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI think all the squealing and grabbing made the staff a little nervous, but they still found it in their hearts to be hospitable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3250\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3250\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3250\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1636.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat they managed it even after the squealing and grabbing still hadn\'t stopped after five minutes or so speaks volumes of these people. And perhaps their long track record of experience in owning a magic and costume shop.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3251\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3251\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3251\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1635.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat object that my son is, uh, investigating by pulling its legs apart and peering in between is a chicken hat. In case you were wondering what the poor, molesting thing was.\r\n\r\nDon\'t worry. We bought it. I mean, it was the only proper, polite thing to do after treating a thing in such a way.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3252\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3252\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3252\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16292.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3253\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3253\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3253\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16201-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nFor those of you still searching for a costume for Halloween, have no fear.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3254\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3254\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3254\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16231-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf you can dream it up, Top Hat probably has it. Whether it\'s these \'80s earrings...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3255\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3255\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3255\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16432.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr this spare leg...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3256\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3256\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3256\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr one of those long cigarette-smoker thingies (which I just adore, by the way, even though smoking is terrible and you should never, ever try it, even on a recreational basis because <em>just say no</em>)...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3257\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3257\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3257\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16462-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr these spare, glue-on body parts...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3260\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3260\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3260\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1660-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr a mood ring...\r\n\r\nI\'ve gotta stop just a second here. Mood rings, people! MOOD RINGS!\r\n\r\nSorry. I\'m a child of the \'80s. Thus, I get all wistful when I see mood rings.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3258\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3258\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3258\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1653.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEven if what you need is a date to one of Tulsa\'s rockin\' Halloween parties, Steve Lancaster, Tulsa\'s own homegrown magician and illusionist, has it in his shop, which has had open doors to the community for more than 30 years.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3259\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3259\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3259\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16491.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSteve is a sweet man. But don\'t go walking around his store snapping your iPhone camera or you\'ll get a piece of his mind.\r\n\r\nUnless you put the photos on Facebook and tell all your friends that they can find the stuff in your photos at Top Hat. Then he\'s pretty much cool with that.\r\n\r\nDid you know that you can hire him to teach you magic tricks, one-on-one? And that you can hire him for your kid\'s birthday party? And that you can see him perform these amazing magic shows at the PAC downtown from time to time? It\'s all true.\r\n\r\nI love living in a town that has its own magician. It makes me feel very...magical.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3261\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3261\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3261\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16391.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThough there\'s still a lot to choose from in terms of costumes and props at Top Hat, I wouldn\'t delay if you\'re still looking for those things. When we stopped in to check the place out, it was super busy - at least a couple dozen folks came through and headed to the costume room during just our short, half-hour visit - and that was last week.\r\n\r\nThings are different this week. People are desperate. Searching for a costume could get ugly.\r\n\r\nBut Steve and his staff have been doing this for a long time. They have the experience and the know-how to keep things at or below a fever pitch. And they probably could help you in the event that you and another customer reach for the last zombie costume and grab it at the same time and commence grabbing and shoving and stabbing each other in the eyes with the hangers in an effort to wrest the costume from one another.\r\n\r\nBut I bet you\'d get a time-out. So I wouldn\'t do that if I were you.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3262\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3262\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3262\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1645-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSpeaking of zombie costumes, Steve mentioned while we were in that the most popular costumes this year are the classic ones - vampires, ghosts, Elvira, zombies, what have you - thanks to there not being a major, costume-influencing movie out in time for Halloween this year. He said that \'80s costumes are really popular, too.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3263\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3263\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3263\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16232-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat\'s where these babies could come in handy.\r\n\r\nAnd if you wanted to wear them again, I totally wouldn\'t blame you. In fact, I might be willing to stab you in the eye with a hanger for them.\r\n\r\n<strong>Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</strong>\r\nWhere: 4016 S. Yale Ave.\r\nWhen: Monday-Friday, 10am-8pm; Saturday, 10am-5:30pm; Sunday, 1-5pm (Halloween holiday hours)\r\nCall: (918) 663-5550\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">TopHatMagic.com</a>','Top Hat Magic and Costumes: Shop Local This Halloween','Did you know that you don\'t have to go to those big-box, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume? Thanks to Top Hat Magic & Costumes, It\'s true. ','inherit','open','open','','3242-revision-7','','','2010-10-26 16:05:57','2010-10-26 21:05:57','',3242,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3242-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(3272,1,'2010-10-26 16:07:28','2010-10-26 21:07:28','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3243\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3243\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3243\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1612.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDid you know that you don\'t have to go to those generic, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume?\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 true.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3244\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3244\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3244\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16412-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne option is to head to <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</a>, on the northwest corner of the 41st and Yale intersection.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3245\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3245\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3245\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1642-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhere you can be anything from a flapper girl to a medieval knight to a wookie. The selection, even this close to Halloween, is remarkable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3246\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3246\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3246\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16161.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI have fond memories of my dad taking me to Top Hat so that we could check out all the weird and gross stuff that\'s available there. My dad and I share a sense of humor that\'s appreciative of such things.\r\n\r\nLast week, I got to pay that favor forward by taking my son for the same reason.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3247\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3247\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3247\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1622.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHis first words as we walked through the door? \"Oh my gosh - look at <em>this</em>!\"\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3248\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3248\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3248\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16261-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd by <em>this</em> he meant, <em>everything in this entire store</em>, which I will now proceed to attempt to drag off the shelves and touch now.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3249\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3249\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3249\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16241-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI think all the squealing and grabbing made the staff a little nervous, but they still found it in their hearts to be hospitable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3250\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3250\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3250\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1636.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat they managed it even after the squealing and grabbing still hadn\'t stopped after five minutes or so speaks volumes of these people. And perhaps their long track record of experience in owning a magic and costume shop.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3251\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3251\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3251\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1635.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat object that my son is, uh, investigating by pulling its legs apart and peering in between is a chicken hat. In case you were wondering what the poor, molesting thing was.\r\n\r\nDon\'t worry. We bought it. I mean, it was the only proper, polite thing to do after treating a thing in such a way.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3252\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3252\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3252\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16292.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3253\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3253\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3253\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16201-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nFor those of you still searching for a costume for Halloween, have no fear.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3254\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3254\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3254\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16231-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf you can dream it up, Top Hat probably has it. Whether it\'s these \'80s earrings...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3255\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3255\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3255\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16432.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr this spare leg...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3256\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3256\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3256\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr one of those long cigarette-smoker thingies (which I just adore, by the way, even though smoking is terrible and you should never, ever try it, even on a recreational basis because <em>just say no</em>)...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3257\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3257\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3257\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16462-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr these spare, glue-on body parts...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3260\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3260\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3260\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1660-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr a mood ring...\r\n\r\nI\'ve gotta stop just a second here. Mood rings, people! MOOD RINGS!\r\n\r\nSorry. I\'m a child of the \'80s. Thus, I get all wistful when I see mood rings.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3258\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3258\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3258\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1653.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEven if what you need is a date to one of Tulsa\'s rockin\' Halloween parties, Steve Lancaster, Tulsa\'s own homegrown magician and illusionist, has it in his shop, which has had open doors to the community for more than 30 years.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3259\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3259\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3259\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16491.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSteve is a sweet man. But don\'t go walking around his store snapping your iPhone camera or you\'ll get a piece of his mind.\r\n\r\nUnless you put the photos on Facebook and tell all your friends that they can find the stuff in your photos at Top Hat. Then he\'s pretty much cool with that.\r\n\r\nDid you know that you can hire him to teach you magic tricks, one-on-one? And that you can hire him for your kid\'s birthday party? And that you can see him perform these amazing magic shows at the PAC downtown from time to time? It\'s all true.\r\n\r\nI love living in a town that has its own magician. It makes me feel very...magical.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3261\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3261\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3261\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16391.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThough there\'s still a lot to choose from in terms of costumes and props at Top Hat, I wouldn\'t delay if you\'re still looking for those things. When we stopped in to check the place out, it was super busy - at least a couple dozen folks came through and headed to the costume room during just our short, half-hour visit - and that was last week.\r\n\r\nThings are different this week. People are desperate. Searching for a costume could get ugly.\r\n\r\nBut Steve and his staff have been doing this for a long time. They have the experience and the know-how to keep things at or below a fever pitch. And they probably could help you in the event that you and another customer reach for the last zombie costume and grab it at the same time and commence grabbing and shoving and stabbing each other in the eyes with the hangers in an effort to wrest the costume from one another.\r\n\r\nBut I bet you\'d get a time-out. So I wouldn\'t do that if I were you.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3262\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3262\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3262\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1645-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSpeaking of zombie costumes, Steve mentioned while we were in that the most popular costumes this year are the classic ones - vampires, ghosts, Elvira, zombies, what have you - thanks to there not being a major, costume-influencing movie out in time for Halloween this year. He said that \'80s costumes are really popular, too.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3263\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3263\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3263\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16232-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat\'s where these babies could come in handy.\r\n\r\nAnd if you wanted to wear them again, I totally wouldn\'t blame you. In fact, I might be willing to stab you in the eye with a hanger for them.\r\n\r\n<strong>Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</strong>\r\nWhere: 4016 S. Yale Ave.\r\nWhen: Monday-Friday, 10am-8pm; Saturday, 10am-5:30pm; Sunday, 1-5pm (Halloween holiday hours)\r\nCall: (918) 663-5550\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">TopHatMagic.com</a>','Top Hat Magic and Costumes: Shop Local This Halloween','Did you know that you don\'t have to go to those big-box, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume? Thanks to Top Hat Magic & Costumes, It\'s true. ','inherit','open','open','','3242-revision-8','','','2010-10-26 16:07:28','2010-10-26 21:07:28','',3242,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3242-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(3274,1,'2010-10-26 16:09:53','2010-10-26 21:09:53','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3243\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3243\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3243\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1612.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDid you know that you don\'t have to go to those generic, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume?\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 true.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3244\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3244\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3244\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16412-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne option is to head to <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</a>, on the northwest corner of the 41st and Yale intersection.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3245\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3245\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3245\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1642-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhere you can be anything from a flapper girl to a medieval knight to an Indian princess to a zoot suit pimp daddy G to a wookie. \r\n\r\nThe selection, even this close to Halloween, is remarkable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3246\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3246\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3246\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16161.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI have fond memories of my dad taking me to Top Hat so that we could check out all the weird and gross stuff that\'s available there. My dad and I share a sense of humor that\'s appreciative of such things.\r\n\r\nLast week, I got to pay that favor forward by taking my son for the same reason.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3247\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3247\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3247\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1622.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHis first words as we walked through the door? \"Oh my gosh - look at <em>this</em>!\"\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3248\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3248\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3248\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16261-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd by <em>this</em> he meant, <em>everything in this entire store</em>, which I will now proceed to attempt to drag off the shelves and touch with my grime-tastic toddler hands.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3249\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3249\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3249\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16241-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI think all the squealing and grabbing made the staff a little nervous, but they still found it in their hearts to be hospitable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3250\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3250\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3250\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1636.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat they managed it even after the squealing and grabbing still hadn\'t stopped after five minutes or so speaks volumes of these people. And perhaps their long track record of experience in owning a magic and costume shop.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3251\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3251\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3251\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1635.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat object that my son is, uh, investigating by pulling its legs apart and peering in between is a chicken hat. In case you were wondering what the poor, molesting thing was.\r\n\r\nDon\'t worry. We bought it. I mean, it was the only proper, polite thing to do after treating a thing in such a way.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3252\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3252\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3252\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16292.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3253\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3253\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3253\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16201-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nFor those of you still searching for a costume for Halloween, have no fear.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3254\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3254\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3254\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16231-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf you can dream it up, Top Hat probably has it. Whether it\'s these \'80s earrings...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3255\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3255\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3255\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16432.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr this spare leg...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3256\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3256\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3256\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr one of those long cigarette-smoker thingies (which I just adore, by the way, even though smoking is terrible and you should never, ever try it, even on a recreational basis because <em>just say no</em>)...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3257\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3257\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3257\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16462-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr these spare, glue-on body parts...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3260\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3260\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3260\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1660-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr a mood ring...\r\n\r\nI\'ve gotta stop just a second here. Mood rings, people! MOOD RINGS!\r\n\r\nSorry. I\'m a child of the \'80s. Thus, I get all wistful when I see mood rings.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3258\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3258\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3258\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1653.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEven if what you need is a date to one of Tulsa\'s rockin\' Halloween parties, Steve Lancaster, Tulsa\'s own homegrown magician and illusionist, has it in his shop, which has had open doors to the community for more than 30 years.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3259\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3259\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3259\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16491.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSteve is a sweet man. But don\'t go walking around his store snapping your iPhone camera or you\'ll get a piece of his mind.\r\n\r\nUnless you put the photos on Facebook and tell all your friends that they can find the stuff in your photos at Top Hat. Then he\'s pretty much cool with that.\r\n\r\nDid you know that you can hire him to teach you magic tricks, one-on-one? And that you can hire him for your kid\'s birthday party? And that you can see him perform these amazing magic shows at the PAC downtown from time to time? It\'s all true.\r\n\r\nI love living in a town that has its own magician. It makes me feel very...magical.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3261\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3261\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3261\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16391.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThough there\'s still a lot to choose from in terms of costumes and props at Top Hat, I wouldn\'t delay if you\'re still looking for those things. When we stopped in to check the place out, it was super busy - at least a couple dozen folks came through and headed to the costume room during just our short, half-hour visit - and that was last week.\r\n\r\nThings are different this week. People are desperate. Searching for a costume could get ugly.\r\n\r\nBut Steve and his staff have been doing this for a long time. They have the experience and the know-how to keep things at or below a fever pitch. And they probably could help you in the event that you and another customer reach for the last zombie costume and grab it at the same time and commence grabbing and shoving and stabbing each other in the eyes with the hangers in an effort to wrest the costume from one another.\r\n\r\nBut I bet you\'d get a time-out. So I wouldn\'t do that if I were you.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3262\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3262\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3262\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1645-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSpeaking of zombie costumes, Steve mentioned while we were in that the most popular costumes this year are the classic ones - vampires, ghosts, Elvira, zombies, what have you - thanks to there not being a major, costume-influencing movie out in time for Halloween this year. He said that \'80s costumes are really popular, too.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3263\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3263\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3263\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16232-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat\'s where these babies could come in handy.\r\n\r\nAnd if you wanted to wear them again, I totally wouldn\'t blame you. In fact, I might be willing to stab you in the eye with a hanger for them.\r\n\r\n<strong>Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</strong>\r\nWhere: 4016 S. Yale Ave.\r\nWhen: Monday-Friday, 10am-8pm; Saturday, 10am-5:30pm; Sunday, 1-5pm (Halloween holiday hours)\r\nCall: (918) 663-5550\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">TopHatMagic.com</a>','Top Hat Magic and Costumes: Shop Local This Halloween','Did you know that you don\'t have to go to those big-box, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume? Thanks to Top Hat Magic & Costumes, It\'s true. ','inherit','open','open','','3242-revision-10','','','2010-10-26 16:09:53','2010-10-26 21:09:53','',3242,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3242-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(3275,1,'2010-10-26 16:09:53','2010-10-26 21:09:53','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3243\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3243\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3243\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1612.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDid you know that you don\'t have to go to those generic, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume?\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 true.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3244\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3244\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3244\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16412-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne option is to head to <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</a>, on the northwest corner of the 41st and Yale intersection.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3245\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3245\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3245\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1642-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhere you can be anything from a flapper girl to a medieval knight to an Indian princess to a zoot suit pimp daddy G to a wookie. \r\n\r\nThe selection, even this close to Halloween, is remarkable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3246\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3246\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3246\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16161.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI have fond memories of my dad taking me to Top Hat so that we could check out all the weird and gross stuff that\'s available there. My dad and I share a sense of humor that\'s appreciative of such things.\r\n\r\nLast week, I got to pay that favor forward by taking my son for the same reason.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3247\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3247\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3247\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1622.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHis first words as we walked through the door? \"Oh my gosh - look at <em>this</em>!\"\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3248\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3248\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3248\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16261-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd by <em>this</em> he meant, <em>everything in this entire store</em>, which I will now proceed to attempt to drag off the shelves and touch with my grime-tastic toddler hands.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3249\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3249\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3249\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16241-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI think all the squealing and grabbing made the staff a little nervous, but they still found it in their hearts to be hospitable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3250\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3250\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3250\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1636.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat they managed it even after the squealing and grabbing still hadn\'t stopped after five minutes or so speaks volumes of these people. And perhaps their long track record of experience in owning a magic and costume shop.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3251\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3251\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3251\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1635.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat object that my son is, uh, investigating by pulling its legs apart and peering in between is a chicken hat. In case you were wondering what the poor, molesting thing was.\r\n\r\nDon\'t worry. We bought it. I mean, it was the only proper, polite thing to do after treating a thing in such a way.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3252\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3252\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3252\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16292.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3253\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3253\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3253\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16201-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nFor those of you still searching for a costume for Halloween, have no fear.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3254\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3254\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3254\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16231-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf you can dream it up, Top Hat probably has it. Whether it\'s these \'80s earrings...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3255\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3255\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3255\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16432.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr this spare leg...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3256\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3256\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3256\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr one of those long cigarette-smoker thingies (which I just adore, by the way, even though smoking is terrible and you should never, ever try it, even on a recreational basis because <em>just say no</em>)...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3257\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3257\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3257\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16462-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr these spare, glue-on body parts...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3260\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3260\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3260\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1660-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr a mood ring...\r\n\r\nI\'ve gotta stop just a second here. Mood rings, people! MOOD RINGS!\r\n\r\nSorry. I\'m a child of the \'80s. Thus, I get all wistful when I see mood rings.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3258\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3258\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3258\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1653.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEven if what you need is a date to one of Tulsa\'s rockin\' Halloween parties, Steve Lancaster, Tulsa\'s own homegrown magician and illusionist, has it in his shop, which has had open doors to the community for more than 30 years.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3259\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3259\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3259\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16491.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSteve is a sweet man. But don\'t go walking around his store snapping your iPhone camera or you\'ll get a piece of his mind.\r\n\r\nUnless you put the photos on Facebook and tell all your friends that they can find the stuff in your photos at Top Hat. Then he\'s pretty much cool with that.\r\n\r\nDid you know that you can hire him to teach you magic tricks, one-on-one? And that you can hire him for your kid\'s birthday party? And that you can see him perform these amazing magic shows at the PAC downtown from time to time? It\'s all true.\r\n\r\nI love living in a town that has its own magician. It makes me feel very...magical.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3261\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3261\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3261\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16391.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThough there\'s still a lot to choose from in terms of costumes and props at Top Hat, I wouldn\'t delay if you\'re still looking for those things. When we stopped in to check the place out, it was super busy - at least a couple dozen folks came through and headed to the costume room during just our short, half-hour visit - and that was last week.\r\n\r\nThings are different this week. People are desperate. Searching for a costume could get ugly.\r\n\r\nBut Steve and his staff have been doing this for a long time. They have the experience and the know-how to keep things at or below a fever pitch. And they probably could help you in the event that you and another customer reach for the last zombie costume and grab it at the same time and commence grabbing and shoving and stabbing each other in the eyes with the hangers in an effort to wrest the costume from one another.\r\n\r\nBut I bet you\'d get a time-out. So I wouldn\'t do that if I were you.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3262\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3262\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3262\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1645-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSpeaking of zombie costumes, Steve mentioned while we were in that the most popular costumes this year are the classic ones - vampires, ghosts, Elvira, zombies, what have you - thanks to there not being a major, costume-influencing movie out in time for Halloween this year. He said that \'80s costumes are really popular, too.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3263\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3263\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3263\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16232-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat\'s where these babies could come in handy.\r\n\r\nAnd if you wanted to wear them again, I totally wouldn\'t blame you. In fact, I might be willing to stab you in the eye with a hanger for them.\r\n\r\n<strong>Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</strong>\r\nWhere: 4016 S. Yale Ave.\r\nWhen: Monday-Friday, 10am-8pm; Saturday, 10am-5:30pm; Sunday, 1-5pm (Halloween holiday hours)\r\nCall: (918) 663-5550\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">TopHatMagic.com</a>','Top Hat Magic and Costumes: Shop Local This Halloween','Did you know that you don\'t have to go to those big-box, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume? Thanks to Top Hat Magic & Costumes, It\'s true. ','inherit','open','open','','3242-revision-11','','','2010-10-26 16:09:53','2010-10-26 21:09:53','',3242,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3242-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(3279,1,'2010-10-26 16:12:13','2010-10-26 21:12:13','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3243\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3243\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3243\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1612.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nDid you know that you don\'t have to go to those generic, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume?\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\n\nIt\'s true.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3244\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3244\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3244\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16412-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nOne option is to head to <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</a>, on the northwest corner of the 41st and Yale intersection.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3245\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3245\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3245\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1642-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nWhere you can be anything from a flapper girl to a medieval knight to an Indian princess to a zoot suit pimp daddy G to a wookie. \n\nThe selection, even this close to Halloween, is remarkable.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3246\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3246\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3246\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16161.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nI have fond memories of my dad taking me to Top Hat so that we could check out all the weird and gross stuff that\'s available there. My dad and I share a sense of humor that\'s appreciative of such things.\n\nLast week, I got to pay that favor forward by taking my son for the same reason.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3247\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3247\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3247\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1622.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nHis first words as we walked through the door? \"Oh my gosh - look at <em>this</em>!\"\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3248\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3248\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3248\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16261-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nAnd by <em>this</em> he meant, <em>everything in this entire store</em>, which I will now proceed to attempt to drag off the shelves and touch with my always-sticky toddler hands.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3249\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3249\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3249\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16241-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nI think all the squealing and grabbing made the staff a little nervous, but they still found it in their hearts to be hospitable.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3250\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3250\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3250\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1636.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nThat they managed it even after the squealing and grabbing still hadn\'t stopped after five minutes or so speaks volumes of these people. \n\nAnd perhaps of their long track record of experience in owning a magic and costume shop.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3251\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3251\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3251\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1635.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nThat object that my son is, uh, investigating is a chicken hat. In case you were wondering what the poor, molested thing was.\n\nDon\'t worry. We bought it. I mean, it was the only proper, polite thing to do after treating a thing in such a way.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3252\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3252\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3252\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16292.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3253\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3253\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3253\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16201-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nFor those of you still searching for a costume for Halloween, have no fear.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3254\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3254\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3254\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16231-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nIf you can dream it up, Top Hat probably has it. Whether it\'s these \'80s earrings...\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3255\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3255\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3255\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16432.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nOr this spare leg...\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3256\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3256\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3256\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nOr one of those long cigarette-smoker thingies (which I just adore, by the way, even though smoking is terrible and you should never, ever try it, even on a recreational basis because <em>just say no</em>)...\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3257\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3257\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3257\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16462-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nOr these spare, glue-on body parts...\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3260\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3260\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3260\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1660-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nOr a mood ring...\n\nI\'ve gotta stop just a second here. Mood rings, people! MOOD RINGS!\n\nSorry. I\'m a child of the \'80s. Thus, I get all wistful when I see mood rings.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3258\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3258\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3258\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1653.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nEven if what you need is a date to one of Tulsa\'s rockin\' Halloween parties, Steve Lancaster, Tulsa\'s own homegrown magician and illusionist, has it in his shop, which has had open doors to the community for more than 30 years.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3259\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3259\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3259\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16491.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nSteve is a sweet man. But don\'t go walking around his store snapping your iPhone camera or you\'ll get a piece of his mind.\n\nUnless you put the photos on Facebook and tell all your friends that they can find the stuff in your photos at Top Hat. Then he\'s pretty much cool with that.\n\nDid you know that you can hire him to teach you magic tricks, one-on-one? And that you can hire him for your kid\'s birthday party? And that you can see him perform these amazing magic shows at the PAC downtown from time to time? It\'s all true.\n\nI love living in a town that has its own magician. It makes me feel very...magical.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3261\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3261\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3261\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16391.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nThough there\'s still a lot to choose from in terms of costumes and props at Top Hat, I wouldn\'t delay if you\'re still looking for those things. When we stopped in to check the place out, it was super busy - at least a couple dozen folks came through and headed to the costume room during just our short, half-hour visit - and that was last week.\n\nThings are different this week. People are desperate. Searching for a costume could get ugly.\n\nBut Steve and his staff have been doing this for a long time. They have the experience and the know-how to keep things at or below a fever pitch. And they probably could help you in the event that you and another customer reach for the last zombie costume and grab it at the same time and commence grabbing and shoving and stabbing each other in the eyes with the hangers in an effort to wrest the costume from one another.\n\nBut I bet you\'d get a time-out. So I wouldn\'t do that if I were you.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3262\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3262\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3262\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1645-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nSpeaking of zombie costumes, Steve mentioned while we were in that the most popular costumes this year are the classic ones - vampires, ghosts, Elvira, zombies, what have you - thanks to there not being a major, costume-influencing movie out in time for Halloween this year. He said that \'80s costumes are really popular, too.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3263\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3263\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3263\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16232-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nThat\'s where these babies could come in handy.\n\nAnd if you wanted to wear them again, I totally wouldn\'t blame you. In fact, I might be willing to stab you in the eye with a hanger for them.\n\n<strong>Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</strong>\nWhere: 4016 S. Yale Ave.\nWhen: Monday-Friday, 10am-8pm; Saturday, 10am-5:30pm; Sunday, 1-5pm (Halloween holiday hours)\nCall: (918) 663-5550\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">TopHatMagic.com</a>','Top Hat Magic and Costumes: Shop Local This Halloween','Did you know that you don\'t have to go to those big-box, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume? Thanks to Top Hat Magic & Costumes, It\'s true. ','inherit','open','open','','3242-revision-15','','','2010-10-26 16:12:13','2010-10-26 21:12:13','',3242,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3242-revision-15/',0,'revision','',0),(3276,1,'2010-10-26 16:10:14','2010-10-26 21:10:14','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3243\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3243\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3243\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1612.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDid you know that you don\'t have to go to those generic, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume?\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 true.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3244\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3244\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3244\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16412-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne option is to head to <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</a>, on the northwest corner of the 41st and Yale intersection.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3245\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3245\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3245\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1642-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhere you can be anything from a flapper girl to a medieval knight to an Indian princess to a zoot suit pimp daddy G to a wookie. \r\n\r\nThe selection, even this close to Halloween, is remarkable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3246\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3246\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3246\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16161.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI have fond memories of my dad taking me to Top Hat so that we could check out all the weird and gross stuff that\'s available there. My dad and I share a sense of humor that\'s appreciative of such things.\r\n\r\nLast week, I got to pay that favor forward by taking my son for the same reason.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3247\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3247\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3247\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1622.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHis first words as we walked through the door? \"Oh my gosh - look at <em>this</em>!\"\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3248\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3248\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3248\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16261-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd by <em>this</em> he meant, <em>everything in this entire store</em>, which I will now proceed to attempt to drag off the shelves and touch with my always-sticky toddler hands.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3249\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3249\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3249\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16241-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI think all the squealing and grabbing made the staff a little nervous, but they still found it in their hearts to be hospitable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3250\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3250\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3250\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1636.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat they managed it even after the squealing and grabbing still hadn\'t stopped after five minutes or so speaks volumes of these people. And perhaps their long track record of experience in owning a magic and costume shop.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3251\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3251\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3251\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1635.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat object that my son is, uh, investigating by pulling its legs apart and peering in between is a chicken hat. In case you were wondering what the poor, molesting thing was.\r\n\r\nDon\'t worry. We bought it. I mean, it was the only proper, polite thing to do after treating a thing in such a way.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3252\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3252\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3252\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16292.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3253\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3253\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3253\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16201-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nFor those of you still searching for a costume for Halloween, have no fear.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3254\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3254\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3254\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16231-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf you can dream it up, Top Hat probably has it. Whether it\'s these \'80s earrings...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3255\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3255\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3255\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16432.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr this spare leg...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3256\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3256\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3256\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr one of those long cigarette-smoker thingies (which I just adore, by the way, even though smoking is terrible and you should never, ever try it, even on a recreational basis because <em>just say no</em>)...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3257\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3257\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3257\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16462-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr these spare, glue-on body parts...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3260\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3260\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3260\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1660-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr a mood ring...\r\n\r\nI\'ve gotta stop just a second here. Mood rings, people! MOOD RINGS!\r\n\r\nSorry. I\'m a child of the \'80s. Thus, I get all wistful when I see mood rings.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3258\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3258\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3258\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1653.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEven if what you need is a date to one of Tulsa\'s rockin\' Halloween parties, Steve Lancaster, Tulsa\'s own homegrown magician and illusionist, has it in his shop, which has had open doors to the community for more than 30 years.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3259\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3259\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3259\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16491.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSteve is a sweet man. But don\'t go walking around his store snapping your iPhone camera or you\'ll get a piece of his mind.\r\n\r\nUnless you put the photos on Facebook and tell all your friends that they can find the stuff in your photos at Top Hat. Then he\'s pretty much cool with that.\r\n\r\nDid you know that you can hire him to teach you magic tricks, one-on-one? And that you can hire him for your kid\'s birthday party? And that you can see him perform these amazing magic shows at the PAC downtown from time to time? It\'s all true.\r\n\r\nI love living in a town that has its own magician. It makes me feel very...magical.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3261\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3261\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3261\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16391.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThough there\'s still a lot to choose from in terms of costumes and props at Top Hat, I wouldn\'t delay if you\'re still looking for those things. When we stopped in to check the place out, it was super busy - at least a couple dozen folks came through and headed to the costume room during just our short, half-hour visit - and that was last week.\r\n\r\nThings are different this week. People are desperate. Searching for a costume could get ugly.\r\n\r\nBut Steve and his staff have been doing this for a long time. They have the experience and the know-how to keep things at or below a fever pitch. And they probably could help you in the event that you and another customer reach for the last zombie costume and grab it at the same time and commence grabbing and shoving and stabbing each other in the eyes with the hangers in an effort to wrest the costume from one another.\r\n\r\nBut I bet you\'d get a time-out. So I wouldn\'t do that if I were you.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3262\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3262\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3262\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1645-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSpeaking of zombie costumes, Steve mentioned while we were in that the most popular costumes this year are the classic ones - vampires, ghosts, Elvira, zombies, what have you - thanks to there not being a major, costume-influencing movie out in time for Halloween this year. He said that \'80s costumes are really popular, too.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3263\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3263\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3263\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16232-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat\'s where these babies could come in handy.\r\n\r\nAnd if you wanted to wear them again, I totally wouldn\'t blame you. In fact, I might be willing to stab you in the eye with a hanger for them.\r\n\r\n<strong>Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</strong>\r\nWhere: 4016 S. Yale Ave.\r\nWhen: Monday-Friday, 10am-8pm; Saturday, 10am-5:30pm; Sunday, 1-5pm (Halloween holiday hours)\r\nCall: (918) 663-5550\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">TopHatMagic.com</a>','Top Hat Magic and Costumes: Shop Local This Halloween','Did you know that you don\'t have to go to those big-box, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume? Thanks to Top Hat Magic & Costumes, It\'s true. ','inherit','open','open','','3242-revision-12','','','2010-10-26 16:10:14','2010-10-26 21:10:14','',3242,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3242-revision-12/',0,'revision','',0),(3277,1,'2010-10-26 16:10:14','2010-10-26 21:10:14','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3243\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3243\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3243\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1612.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDid you know that you don\'t have to go to those generic, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume?\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 true.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3244\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3244\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3244\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16412-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne option is to head to <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</a>, on the northwest corner of the 41st and Yale intersection.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3245\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3245\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3245\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1642-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhere you can be anything from a flapper girl to a medieval knight to an Indian princess to a zoot suit pimp daddy G to a wookie. \r\n\r\nThe selection, even this close to Halloween, is remarkable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3246\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3246\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3246\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16161.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI have fond memories of my dad taking me to Top Hat so that we could check out all the weird and gross stuff that\'s available there. My dad and I share a sense of humor that\'s appreciative of such things.\r\n\r\nLast week, I got to pay that favor forward by taking my son for the same reason.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3247\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3247\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3247\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1622.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHis first words as we walked through the door? \"Oh my gosh - look at <em>this</em>!\"\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3248\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3248\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3248\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16261-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd by <em>this</em> he meant, <em>everything in this entire store</em>, which I will now proceed to attempt to drag off the shelves and touch with my always-sticky toddler hands.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3249\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3249\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3249\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16241-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI think all the squealing and grabbing made the staff a little nervous, but they still found it in their hearts to be hospitable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3250\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3250\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3250\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1636.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat they managed it even after the squealing and grabbing still hadn\'t stopped after five minutes or so speaks volumes of these people. And perhaps their long track record of experience in owning a magic and costume shop.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3251\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3251\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3251\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1635.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat object that my son is, uh, investigating by pulling its legs apart and peering in between is a chicken hat. In case you were wondering what the poor, molesting thing was.\r\n\r\nDon\'t worry. We bought it. I mean, it was the only proper, polite thing to do after treating a thing in such a way.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3252\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3252\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3252\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16292.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3253\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3253\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3253\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16201-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nFor those of you still searching for a costume for Halloween, have no fear.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3254\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3254\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3254\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16231-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf you can dream it up, Top Hat probably has it. Whether it\'s these \'80s earrings...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3255\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3255\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3255\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16432.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr this spare leg...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3256\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3256\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3256\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr one of those long cigarette-smoker thingies (which I just adore, by the way, even though smoking is terrible and you should never, ever try it, even on a recreational basis because <em>just say no</em>)...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3257\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3257\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3257\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16462-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr these spare, glue-on body parts...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3260\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3260\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3260\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1660-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr a mood ring...\r\n\r\nI\'ve gotta stop just a second here. Mood rings, people! MOOD RINGS!\r\n\r\nSorry. I\'m a child of the \'80s. Thus, I get all wistful when I see mood rings.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3258\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3258\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3258\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1653.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEven if what you need is a date to one of Tulsa\'s rockin\' Halloween parties, Steve Lancaster, Tulsa\'s own homegrown magician and illusionist, has it in his shop, which has had open doors to the community for more than 30 years.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3259\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3259\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3259\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16491.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSteve is a sweet man. But don\'t go walking around his store snapping your iPhone camera or you\'ll get a piece of his mind.\r\n\r\nUnless you put the photos on Facebook and tell all your friends that they can find the stuff in your photos at Top Hat. Then he\'s pretty much cool with that.\r\n\r\nDid you know that you can hire him to teach you magic tricks, one-on-one? And that you can hire him for your kid\'s birthday party? And that you can see him perform these amazing magic shows at the PAC downtown from time to time? It\'s all true.\r\n\r\nI love living in a town that has its own magician. It makes me feel very...magical.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3261\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3261\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3261\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16391.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThough there\'s still a lot to choose from in terms of costumes and props at Top Hat, I wouldn\'t delay if you\'re still looking for those things. When we stopped in to check the place out, it was super busy - at least a couple dozen folks came through and headed to the costume room during just our short, half-hour visit - and that was last week.\r\n\r\nThings are different this week. People are desperate. Searching for a costume could get ugly.\r\n\r\nBut Steve and his staff have been doing this for a long time. They have the experience and the know-how to keep things at or below a fever pitch. And they probably could help you in the event that you and another customer reach for the last zombie costume and grab it at the same time and commence grabbing and shoving and stabbing each other in the eyes with the hangers in an effort to wrest the costume from one another.\r\n\r\nBut I bet you\'d get a time-out. So I wouldn\'t do that if I were you.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3262\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3262\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3262\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1645-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSpeaking of zombie costumes, Steve mentioned while we were in that the most popular costumes this year are the classic ones - vampires, ghosts, Elvira, zombies, what have you - thanks to there not being a major, costume-influencing movie out in time for Halloween this year. He said that \'80s costumes are really popular, too.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3263\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3263\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3263\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16232-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat\'s where these babies could come in handy.\r\n\r\nAnd if you wanted to wear them again, I totally wouldn\'t blame you. In fact, I might be willing to stab you in the eye with a hanger for them.\r\n\r\n<strong>Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</strong>\r\nWhere: 4016 S. Yale Ave.\r\nWhen: Monday-Friday, 10am-8pm; Saturday, 10am-5:30pm; Sunday, 1-5pm (Halloween holiday hours)\r\nCall: (918) 663-5550\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">TopHatMagic.com</a>','Top Hat Magic and Costumes: Shop Local This Halloween','Did you know that you don\'t have to go to those big-box, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume? Thanks to Top Hat Magic & Costumes, It\'s true. ','inherit','open','open','','3242-revision-13','','','2010-10-26 16:10:14','2010-10-26 21:10:14','',3242,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3242-revision-13/',0,'revision','',0),(3278,1,'2010-10-26 16:11:10','2010-10-26 21:11:10','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3243\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3243\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3243\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1612.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDid you know that you don\'t have to go to those generic, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume?\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 true.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3244\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3244\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3244\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16412-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne option is to head to <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</a>, on the northwest corner of the 41st and Yale intersection.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3245\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3245\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3245\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1642-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhere you can be anything from a flapper girl to a medieval knight to an Indian princess to a zoot suit pimp daddy G to a wookie. \r\n\r\nThe selection, even this close to Halloween, is remarkable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3246\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3246\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3246\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16161.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI have fond memories of my dad taking me to Top Hat so that we could check out all the weird and gross stuff that\'s available there. My dad and I share a sense of humor that\'s appreciative of such things.\r\n\r\nLast week, I got to pay that favor forward by taking my son for the same reason.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3247\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3247\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3247\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1622.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHis first words as we walked through the door? \"Oh my gosh - look at <em>this</em>!\"\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3248\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3248\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3248\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16261-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd by <em>this</em> he meant, <em>everything in this entire store</em>, which I will now proceed to attempt to drag off the shelves and touch with my always-sticky toddler hands.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3249\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3249\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3249\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16241-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI think all the squealing and grabbing made the staff a little nervous, but they still found it in their hearts to be hospitable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3250\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3250\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3250\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1636.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat they managed it even after the squealing and grabbing still hadn\'t stopped after five minutes or so speaks volumes of these people. \r\n\r\nAnd perhaps of their long track record of experience in owning a magic and costume shop.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3251\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3251\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3251\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1635.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat object that my son is, uh, investigating by pulling its legs apart and peering in between is a chicken hat. In case you were wondering what the poor, molesting thing was.\r\n\r\nDon\'t worry. We bought it. I mean, it was the only proper, polite thing to do after treating a thing in such a way.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3252\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3252\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3252\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16292.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3253\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3253\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3253\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16201-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nFor those of you still searching for a costume for Halloween, have no fear.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3254\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3254\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3254\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16231-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf you can dream it up, Top Hat probably has it. Whether it\'s these \'80s earrings...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3255\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3255\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3255\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16432.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr this spare leg...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3256\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3256\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3256\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr one of those long cigarette-smoker thingies (which I just adore, by the way, even though smoking is terrible and you should never, ever try it, even on a recreational basis because <em>just say no</em>)...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3257\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3257\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3257\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16462-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr these spare, glue-on body parts...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3260\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3260\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3260\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1660-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr a mood ring...\r\n\r\nI\'ve gotta stop just a second here. Mood rings, people! MOOD RINGS!\r\n\r\nSorry. I\'m a child of the \'80s. Thus, I get all wistful when I see mood rings.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3258\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3258\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3258\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1653.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEven if what you need is a date to one of Tulsa\'s rockin\' Halloween parties, Steve Lancaster, Tulsa\'s own homegrown magician and illusionist, has it in his shop, which has had open doors to the community for more than 30 years.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3259\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3259\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3259\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16491.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSteve is a sweet man. But don\'t go walking around his store snapping your iPhone camera or you\'ll get a piece of his mind.\r\n\r\nUnless you put the photos on Facebook and tell all your friends that they can find the stuff in your photos at Top Hat. Then he\'s pretty much cool with that.\r\n\r\nDid you know that you can hire him to teach you magic tricks, one-on-one? And that you can hire him for your kid\'s birthday party? And that you can see him perform these amazing magic shows at the PAC downtown from time to time? It\'s all true.\r\n\r\nI love living in a town that has its own magician. It makes me feel very...magical.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3261\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3261\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3261\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16391.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThough there\'s still a lot to choose from in terms of costumes and props at Top Hat, I wouldn\'t delay if you\'re still looking for those things. When we stopped in to check the place out, it was super busy - at least a couple dozen folks came through and headed to the costume room during just our short, half-hour visit - and that was last week.\r\n\r\nThings are different this week. People are desperate. Searching for a costume could get ugly.\r\n\r\nBut Steve and his staff have been doing this for a long time. They have the experience and the know-how to keep things at or below a fever pitch. And they probably could help you in the event that you and another customer reach for the last zombie costume and grab it at the same time and commence grabbing and shoving and stabbing each other in the eyes with the hangers in an effort to wrest the costume from one another.\r\n\r\nBut I bet you\'d get a time-out. So I wouldn\'t do that if I were you.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3262\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3262\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3262\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1645-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSpeaking of zombie costumes, Steve mentioned while we were in that the most popular costumes this year are the classic ones - vampires, ghosts, Elvira, zombies, what have you - thanks to there not being a major, costume-influencing movie out in time for Halloween this year. He said that \'80s costumes are really popular, too.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3263\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3263\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3263\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16232-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat\'s where these babies could come in handy.\r\n\r\nAnd if you wanted to wear them again, I totally wouldn\'t blame you. In fact, I might be willing to stab you in the eye with a hanger for them.\r\n\r\n<strong>Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</strong>\r\nWhere: 4016 S. Yale Ave.\r\nWhen: Monday-Friday, 10am-8pm; Saturday, 10am-5:30pm; Sunday, 1-5pm (Halloween holiday hours)\r\nCall: (918) 663-5550\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">TopHatMagic.com</a>','Top Hat Magic and Costumes: Shop Local This Halloween','Did you know that you don\'t have to go to those big-box, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume? Thanks to Top Hat Magic & Costumes, It\'s true. ','inherit','open','open','','3242-revision-14','','','2010-10-26 16:11:10','2010-10-26 21:11:10','',3242,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3242-revision-14/',0,'revision','',0),(3280,1,'2010-10-26 16:13:03','2010-10-26 21:13:03','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3243\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3243\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3243\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1612.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDid you know that you don\'t have to go to those generic, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume?\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 true.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3244\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3244\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3244\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16412-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne option is to head to <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</a>, on the northwest corner of the 41st and Yale intersection.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3245\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3245\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3245\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1642-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhere you can be anything from a flapper girl to a medieval knight to an Indian princess to a zoot suit pimp daddy G to a wookie. \r\n\r\nThe selection, even this close to Halloween, is remarkable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3246\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3246\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3246\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16161.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI have fond memories of my dad taking me to Top Hat so that we could check out all the weird and gross stuff that\'s available there. My dad and I share a sense of humor that\'s appreciative of such things.\r\n\r\nLast week, I got to pay that favor forward by taking my son for the same reason.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3247\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3247\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3247\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1622.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHis first words as we walked through the door? \"Oh my gosh - look at <em>this</em>!\"\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3248\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3248\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3248\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16261-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd by <em>this</em> he meant, <em>everything in this entire store</em>, which I will now proceed to attempt to drag off the shelves and touch with my always-sticky toddler hands.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3249\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3249\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3249\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16241-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI think all the squealing and grabbing made the staff a little nervous, but they still found it in their hearts to be hospitable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3250\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3250\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3250\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1636.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat they managed it even after the squealing and grabbing still hadn\'t stopped after five minutes or so speaks volumes of these people. \r\n\r\nAnd perhaps of their long track record of experience in owning a magic and costume shop.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3251\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3251\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3251\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1635.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat object that my son is, uh, investigating is a chicken hat. In case you were wondering what the poor, molested thing was.\r\n\r\nDon\'t worry. We bought it. I mean, it was the only proper, polite thing to do after treating a thing like we\'d bought it too many drinks and asked it back to our place.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3252\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3252\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3252\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16292.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3253\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3253\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3253\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16201-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nFor those of you still searching for a costume for Halloween, have no fear.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3254\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3254\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3254\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16231-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf you can dream it up, Top Hat probably has it. Whether it\'s these \'80s earrings...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3255\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3255\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3255\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16432.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr this spare leg...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3256\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3256\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3256\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr one of those long cigarette-smoker thingies (which I just adore, by the way, even though smoking is terrible and you should never, ever try it, even on a recreational basis because <em>just say no</em>)...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3257\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3257\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3257\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16462-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr these spare, glue-on body parts...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3260\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3260\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3260\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1660-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr a mood ring...\r\n\r\nI\'ve gotta stop just a second here. Mood rings, people! MOOD RINGS!\r\n\r\nSorry. I\'m a child of the \'80s. Thus, I get all wistful when I see mood rings.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3258\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3258\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3258\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1653.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEven if what you need is a date to one of Tulsa\'s rockin\' Halloween parties, Steve Lancaster, Tulsa\'s own homegrown magician and illusionist, has it in his shop, which has had open doors to the community for more than 30 years.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3259\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3259\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3259\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16491.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSteve is a sweet man. But don\'t go walking around his store snapping your iPhone camera or you\'ll get a piece of his mind.\r\n\r\nUnless you put the photos on Facebook and tell all your friends that they can find the stuff in your photos at Top Hat. Then he\'s pretty much cool with that.\r\n\r\nDid you know that you can hire him to teach you magic tricks, one-on-one? And that you can hire him for your kid\'s birthday party? And that you can see him perform these amazing magic shows at the PAC downtown from time to time? It\'s all true.\r\n\r\nI love living in a town that has its own magician. It makes me feel very...magical.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3261\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3261\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3261\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16391.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThough there\'s still a lot to choose from in terms of costumes and props at Top Hat, I wouldn\'t delay if you\'re still looking for those things. When we stopped in to check the place out, it was super busy - at least a couple dozen folks came through and headed to the costume room during just our short, half-hour visit - and that was last week.\r\n\r\nThings are different this week. People are desperate. Searching for a costume could get ugly.\r\n\r\nBut Steve and his staff have been doing this for a long time. They have the experience and the know-how to keep things at or below a fever pitch. And they probably could help you in the event that you and another customer reach for the last zombie costume and grab it at the same time and commence grabbing and shoving and stabbing each other in the eyes with the hangers in an effort to wrest the costume from one another.\r\n\r\nBut I bet you\'d get a time-out. So I wouldn\'t do that if I were you.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3262\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3262\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3262\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1645-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSpeaking of zombie costumes, Steve mentioned while we were in that the most popular costumes this year are the classic ones - vampires, ghosts, Elvira, zombies, what have you - thanks to there not being a major, costume-influencing movie out in time for Halloween this year. He said that \'80s costumes are really popular, too.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3263\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3263\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3263\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16232-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat\'s where these babies could come in handy.\r\n\r\nAnd if you wanted to wear them again, I totally wouldn\'t blame you. In fact, I might be willing to stab you in the eye with a hanger for them.\r\n\r\n<strong>Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</strong>\r\nWhere: 4016 S. Yale Ave.\r\nWhen: Monday-Friday, 10am-8pm; Saturday, 10am-5:30pm; Sunday, 1-5pm (Halloween holiday hours)\r\nCall: (918) 663-5550\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">TopHatMagic.com</a>','Top Hat Magic and Costumes: Shop Local This Halloween','Did you know that you don\'t have to go to those big-box, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume? Thanks to Top Hat Magic & Costumes, It\'s true. ','inherit','open','open','','3242-revision-16','','','2010-10-26 16:13:03','2010-10-26 21:13:03','',3242,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3242-revision-16/',0,'revision','',0),(3281,1,'2010-10-26 16:13:03','2010-10-26 21:13:03','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3243\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3243\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3243\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1612.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDid you know that you don\'t have to go to those generic, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume?\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 true.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3244\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3244\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3244\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16412-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne option is to head to <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</a>, on the northwest corner of the 41st and Yale intersection.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3245\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3245\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3245\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1642-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhere you can be anything from a flapper girl to a medieval knight to an Indian princess to a zoot suit pimp daddy G to a wookie. \r\n\r\nThe selection, even this close to Halloween, is remarkable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3246\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3246\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3246\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16161.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI have fond memories of my dad taking me to Top Hat so that we could check out all the weird and gross stuff that\'s available there. My dad and I share a sense of humor that\'s appreciative of such things.\r\n\r\nLast week, I got to pay that favor forward by taking my son for the same reason.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3247\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3247\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3247\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1622.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHis first words as we walked through the door? \"Oh my gosh - look at <em>this</em>!\"\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3248\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3248\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3248\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16261-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd by <em>this</em> he meant, <em>everything in this entire store</em>, which I will now proceed to attempt to drag off the shelves and touch with my always-sticky toddler hands.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3249\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3249\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3249\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16241-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI think all the squealing and grabbing made the staff a little nervous, but they still found it in their hearts to be hospitable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3250\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3250\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3250\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1636.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat they managed it even after the squealing and grabbing still hadn\'t stopped after five minutes or so speaks volumes of these people. \r\n\r\nAnd perhaps of their long track record of experience in owning a magic and costume shop.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3251\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3251\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3251\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1635.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat object that my son is, uh, investigating is a chicken hat. In case you were wondering what the poor, molested thing was.\r\n\r\nDon\'t worry. We bought it. I mean, it was the only proper, polite thing to do after treating a thing like we\'d bought it too many drinks and asked it back to our place.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3252\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3252\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3252\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16292.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3253\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3253\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3253\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16201-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nFor those of you still searching for a costume for Halloween, have no fear.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3254\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3254\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3254\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16231-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf you can dream it up, Top Hat probably has it. Whether it\'s these \'80s earrings...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3255\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3255\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3255\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16432.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr this spare leg...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3256\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3256\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3256\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr one of those long cigarette-smoker thingies (which I just adore, by the way, even though smoking is terrible and you should never, ever try it, even on a recreational basis because <em>just say no</em>)...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3257\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3257\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3257\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16462-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr these spare, glue-on body parts...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3260\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3260\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3260\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1660-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr a mood ring...\r\n\r\nI\'ve gotta stop just a second here. Mood rings, people! MOOD RINGS!\r\n\r\nSorry. I\'m a child of the \'80s. Thus, I get all wistful when I see mood rings.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3258\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3258\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3258\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1653.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEven if what you need is a date to one of Tulsa\'s rockin\' Halloween parties, Steve Lancaster, Tulsa\'s own homegrown magician and illusionist, has it in his shop, which has had open doors to the community for more than 30 years.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3259\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3259\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3259\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16491.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSteve is a sweet man. But don\'t go walking around his store snapping your iPhone camera or you\'ll get a piece of his mind.\r\n\r\nUnless you put the photos on Facebook and tell all your friends that they can find the stuff in your photos at Top Hat. Then he\'s pretty much cool with that.\r\n\r\nDid you know that you can hire him to teach you magic tricks, one-on-one? And that you can hire him for your kid\'s birthday party? And that you can see him perform these amazing magic shows at the PAC downtown from time to time? It\'s all true.\r\n\r\nI love living in a town that has its own magician. It makes me feel very...magical.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3261\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3261\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3261\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16391.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThough there\'s still a lot to choose from in terms of costumes and props at Top Hat, I wouldn\'t delay if you\'re still looking for those things. When we stopped in to check the place out, it was super busy - at least a couple dozen folks came through and headed to the costume room during just our short, half-hour visit - and that was last week.\r\n\r\nThings are different this week. People are desperate. Searching for a costume could get ugly.\r\n\r\nBut Steve and his staff have been doing this for a long time. They have the experience and the know-how to keep things at or below a fever pitch. And they probably could help you in the event that you and another customer reach for the last zombie costume and grab it at the same time and commence grabbing and shoving and stabbing each other in the eyes with the hangers in an effort to wrest the costume from one another.\r\n\r\nBut I bet you\'d get a time-out. So I wouldn\'t do that if I were you.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3262\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3262\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3262\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1645-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSpeaking of zombie costumes, Steve mentioned while we were in that the most popular costumes this year are the classic ones - vampires, ghosts, Elvira, zombies, what have you - thanks to there not being a major, costume-influencing movie out in time for Halloween this year. He said that \'80s costumes are really popular, too.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3263\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3263\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3263\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16232-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat\'s where these babies could come in handy.\r\n\r\nAnd if you wanted to wear them again, I totally wouldn\'t blame you. In fact, I might be willing to stab you in the eye with a hanger for them.\r\n\r\n<strong>Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</strong>\r\nWhere: 4016 S. Yale Ave.\r\nWhen: Monday-Friday, 10am-8pm; Saturday, 10am-5:30pm; Sunday, 1-5pm (Halloween holiday hours)\r\nCall: (918) 663-5550\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">TopHatMagic.com</a>','Top Hat Magic and Costumes: Shop Local This Halloween','Did you know that you don\'t have to go to those big-box, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume? Thanks to Top Hat Magic & Costumes, It\'s true. ','inherit','open','open','','3242-revision-17','','','2010-10-26 16:13:03','2010-10-26 21:13:03','',3242,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3242-revision-17/',0,'revision','',0),(3282,1,'2010-10-26 16:13:10','2010-10-26 21:13:10','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3243\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3243\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3243\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1612.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDid you know that you don\'t have to go to those generic, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume?\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 true.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3244\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3244\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3244\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16412-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne option is to head to <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</a>, on the northwest corner of the 41st and Yale intersection.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3245\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3245\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3245\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1642-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhere you can be anything from a flapper girl to a medieval knight to an Indian princess to a zoot suit pimp daddy G to a wookie. \r\n\r\nThe selection, even this close to Halloween, is remarkable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3246\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3246\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3246\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16161.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI have fond memories of my dad taking me to Top Hat so that we could check out all the weird and gross stuff that\'s available there. My dad and I share a sense of humor that\'s appreciative of such things.\r\n\r\nLast week, I got to pay that favor forward by taking my son for the same reason.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3247\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3247\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3247\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1622.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHis first words as we walked through the door? \"Oh my gosh - look at <em>this</em>!\"\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3248\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3248\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3248\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16261-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd by <em>this</em> he meant, <em>everything in this entire store</em>, which I will now proceed to attempt to drag off the shelves and touch with my always-sticky toddler hands.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3249\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3249\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3249\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16241-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI think all the squealing and grabbing made the staff a little nervous, but they still found it in their hearts to be hospitable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3250\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3250\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3250\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1636.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat they managed it even after the squealing and grabbing still hadn\'t stopped after five minutes or so speaks volumes of these people. \r\n\r\nAnd perhaps of their long track record of experience in owning a magic and costume shop.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3251\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3251\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3251\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1635.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat object that my son is, uh, investigating is a chicken hat. In case you were wondering what the poor, molested thing was.\r\n\r\nDon\'t worry. We bought it. I mean, it was the only proper, polite thing to do after treating a thing like we\'d bought it too many drinks and asked it back to our place.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3252\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3252\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3252\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16292.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3253\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3253\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3253\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16201-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nFor those of you still searching for a costume for Halloween, have no fear.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3254\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3254\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3254\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16231-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf you can dream it up, Top Hat probably has it. Whether it\'s these \'80s earrings...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3255\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3255\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3255\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16432.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr this spare leg...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3256\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3256\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3256\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr one of those long cigarette-smoker thingies (which I just adore, by the way, even though smoking is terrible and you should never, ever try it, even on a recreational basis because <em>just say no</em>)...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3257\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3257\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3257\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16462-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr these spare, glue-on body parts...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3260\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3260\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3260\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1660-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr a mood ring...\r\n\r\nI\'ve gotta stop just a second here. Mood rings, people! MOOD RINGS!\r\n\r\nSorry. I\'m a child of the \'80s. Thus, I get all wistful when I see mood rings.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3258\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3258\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3258\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1653.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEven if what you need is a date to one of Tulsa\'s rockin\' Halloween parties, Steve Lancaster, Tulsa\'s own homegrown magician and illusionist, has it in his shop, which has had open doors to the community for more than 30 years.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3259\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3259\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3259\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16491.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSteve is a sweet man. But don\'t go walking around his store snapping your iPhone camera or you\'ll get a piece of his mind.\r\n\r\nUnless you put the photos on Facebook and tell all your friends that they can find the stuff in your photos at Top Hat. Then he\'s pretty much cool with that.\r\n\r\nDid you know that you can hire him to teach you magic tricks, one-on-one? And that you can hire him for your kid\'s birthday party? And that you can see him perform these amazing magic shows at the PAC downtown from time to time? It\'s all true.\r\n\r\nI love living in a town that has its own magician. It makes me feel very...magical.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3261\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3261\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3261\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16391.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThough there\'s still a lot to choose from in terms of costumes and props at Top Hat, I wouldn\'t delay if you\'re still looking for those things. When we stopped in to check the place out, it was super busy - at least a couple dozen folks came through and headed to the costume room during just our short, half-hour visit - and that was last week.\r\n\r\nThings are different this week. People are desperate. Searching for a costume could get ugly.\r\n\r\nBut Steve and his staff have been doing this for a long time. They have the experience and the know-how to keep things at or below a fever pitch. And they probably could help you in the event that you and another customer reach for the last zombie costume and grab it at the same time and commence grabbing and shoving and stabbing each other in the eyes with the hangers in an effort to wrest the costume from one another.\r\n\r\nBut I bet you\'d get a time-out. So I wouldn\'t do that if I were you.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3262\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3262\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3262\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1645-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSpeaking of zombie costumes, Steve mentioned while we were in that the most popular costumes this year are the classic ones - vampires, ghosts, Elvira, zombies, what have you - thanks to there not being a major, costume-influencing movie out in time for Halloween this year. He said that \'80s costumes are really popular, too.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3263\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3263\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3263\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16232-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat\'s where these babies could come in handy.\r\n\r\nAnd if you wanted to wear them again, I totally wouldn\'t blame you. In fact, I might be willing to stab you in the eye with a hanger for them.\r\n\r\n<strong>Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</strong>\r\nWhere: 4016 S. Yale Ave.\r\nWhen: Monday-Friday, 10am-8pm; Saturday, 10am-5:30pm; Sunday, 1-5pm (Halloween holiday hours)\r\nCall: (918) 663-5550\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">TopHatMagic.com</a>','Top Hat Magic and Costumes: Shop Local This Halloween','Did you know that you don\'t have to go to those big-box, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume? Thanks to Top Hat Magic & Costumes, It\'s true. ','inherit','open','open','','3242-revision-18','','','2010-10-26 16:13:10','2010-10-26 21:13:10','',3242,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3242-revision-18/',0,'revision','',0),(3283,1,'2010-10-26 16:15:29','2010-10-26 21:15:29','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3243\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1612/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3243\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1612.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nDid you know that you don\'t have to go to those generic, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume?\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\n\nIt\'s true.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3244\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1641-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3244\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16412-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nOne option is to head to <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</a>, on the northwest corner of the 41st and Yale intersection.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3245\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1642/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3245\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1642-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nWhere you can be anything from a flapper girl to a medieval knight to an Indian princess to a zoot suit pimp daddy G to a wookie. \n\nThe selection, even this close to Halloween, is remarkable.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3246\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1616-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3246\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16161.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nI have fond memories of my dad taking me to Top Hat so that we could check out all the weird and gross stuff that\'s available there. My dad and I share a sense of humor that\'s appreciative of such things.\n\nLast week, I got to pay that favor forward by taking my son for the same reason.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3247\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1622/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3247\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1622.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nHis first words as we walked through the door? \"Oh my gosh - look at <em>this</em>!\"\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3248\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1626-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3248\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16261-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nAnd by <em>this</em> he meant, <em>everything in this entire store</em>, which I will now proceed to attempt to drag off the shelves and touch with my always-sticky toddler hands.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3249\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1624-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3249\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16241-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nI think all the squealing and grabbing made the staff a little nervous, but they still found it in their hearts to be hospitable.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3250\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1636/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3250\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1636.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nThat they managed it even after the squealing and grabbing still hadn\'t stopped after five minutes or so speaks volumes of these people. \n\nAnd perhaps of their long track record of experience in owning a magic and costume shop.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3251\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1635/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3251\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1635.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nThat object that my son is, uh, investigating is a chicken hat. In case you were wondering what the poor, molested thing was.\n\nDon\'t worry. We bought it. I mean, it was the only proper, polite thing to do after treating a thing like we\'d bought it too many drinks and asked it back to our place, only to get as far as the dark alley outside. \n\nHey, son? You didn\'t hear any of that. And if you did, Mommy has no idea what she\'s even talking about, so just click ignore and play with your chicken hat.\n\nAhem. \n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3252\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1629-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3252\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16292.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3253\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1620-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3253\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16201-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nFor those of you still searching for a costume for Halloween, have no fear.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3254\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1623-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3254\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16231-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nIf you can dream it up, Top Hat probably has it. Whether it\'s these \'80s earrings...\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3255\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1643-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3255\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16432.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nOr this spare leg...\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3256\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1644/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3256\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nOr one of those long cigarette-smoker thingies (which I just adore, by the way, even though smoking is terrible and you should never, ever try it, even on a recreational basis because <em>just say no</em>)...\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3257\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1646-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3257\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16462-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nOr these spare, glue-on body parts...\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3260\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1660/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3260\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1660-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nOr a mood ring...\n\nI\'ve gotta stop just a second here. Mood rings, people! MOOD RINGS!\n\nSorry. I\'m a child of the \'80s. Thus, I get all wistful when I see mood rings.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3258\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1653/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3258\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1653.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nEven if what you need is a date to one of Tulsa\'s rockin\' Halloween parties, Steve Lancaster, Tulsa\'s own homegrown magician and illusionist, has it in his shop, which has had open doors to the community for more than 30 years.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3259\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1649-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3259\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16491.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nSteve is a sweet man. But don\'t go walking around his store snapping your iPhone camera or you\'ll get a piece of his mind.\n\nUnless you put the photos on Facebook and tell all your friends that they can find the stuff in your photos at Top Hat. Then he\'s pretty much cool with that.\n\nDid you know that you can hire him to teach you magic tricks, one-on-one? And that you can hire him for your kid\'s birthday party? And that you can see him perform these amazing magic shows at the PAC downtown from time to time? It\'s all true.\n\nI love living in a town that has its own magician. It makes me feel very...magical.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3261\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1639-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3261\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16391.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nThough there\'s still a lot to choose from in terms of costumes and props at Top Hat, I wouldn\'t delay if you\'re still looking for those things. When we stopped in to check the place out, it was super busy - at least a couple dozen folks came through and headed to the costume room during just our short, half-hour visit - and that was last week.\n\nThings are different this week. People are desperate. Searching for a costume could get ugly.\n\nBut Steve and his staff have been doing this for a long time. They have the experience and the know-how to keep things at or below a fever pitch. And they probably could help you in the event that you and another customer reach for the last zombie costume and grab it at the same time and commence grabbing and shoving and stabbing each other in the eyes with the hangers in an effort to wrest the costume from one another.\n\nBut I bet you\'d get a time-out. So I wouldn\'t do that if I were you.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3262\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1645/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3262\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1645-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nSpeaking of zombie costumes, Steve mentioned while we were in that the most popular costumes this year are the classic ones - vampires, ghosts, Elvira, zombies, what have you - thanks to there not being a major, costume-influencing movie out in time for Halloween this year. He said that \'80s costumes are really popular, too.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3263\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1623-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3263\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16232-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nThat\'s where these babies could come in handy.\n\nAnd if you wanted to wear them again, I totally wouldn\'t blame you. In fact, I might be willing to stab you in the eye with a hanger for them.\n\n<strong>Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</strong>\nWhere: 4016 S. Yale Ave.\nWhen: Monday-Friday, 10am-8pm; Saturday, 10am-5:30pm; Sunday, 1-5pm (Halloween holiday hours)\nCall: (918) 663-5550\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">TopHatMagic.com</a>','Top Hat Magic and Costumes: Shop Local This Halloween','Did you know that you don\'t have to go to those big-box, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume? Thanks to Top Hat Magic & Costumes, It\'s true. ','inherit','open','open','','3242-autosave','','','2010-10-26 16:15:29','2010-10-26 21:15:29','',3242,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3242-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(3284,1,'2010-10-26 16:13:11','2010-10-26 21:13:11','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3243\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1612/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3243\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1612.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDid you know that you don\'t have to go to those generic, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume?\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 true.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3244\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1641-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3244\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16412-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne option is to head to <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</a>, on the northwest corner of the 41st and Yale intersection.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3245\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1642/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3245\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1642-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhere you can be anything from a flapper girl to a medieval knight to an Indian princess to a zoot suit pimp daddy G to a wookie. \r\n\r\nThe selection, even this close to Halloween, is remarkable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3246\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1616-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3246\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16161.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI have fond memories of my dad taking me to Top Hat so that we could check out all the weird and gross stuff that\'s available there. My dad and I share a sense of humor that\'s appreciative of such things.\r\n\r\nLast week, I got to pay that favor forward by taking my son for the same reason.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3247\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1622/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3247\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1622.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHis first words as we walked through the door? \"Oh my gosh - look at <em>this</em>!\"\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3248\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1626-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3248\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16261-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd by <em>this</em> he meant, <em>everything in this entire store</em>, which I will now proceed to attempt to drag off the shelves and touch with my always-sticky toddler hands.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3249\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1624-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3249\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16241-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI think all the squealing and grabbing made the staff a little nervous, but they still found it in their hearts to be hospitable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3250\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1636/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3250\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1636.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat they managed it even after the squealing and grabbing still hadn\'t stopped after five minutes or so speaks volumes of these people. \r\n\r\nAnd perhaps of their long track record of experience in owning a magic and costume shop.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3251\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1635/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3251\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1635.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat object that my son is, uh, investigating is a chicken hat. In case you were wondering what the poor, molested thing was.\r\n\r\nDon\'t worry. We bought it. I mean, it was the only proper, polite thing to do after treating a thing like we\'d bought it too many drinks and asked it back to our place.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3252\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1629-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3252\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16292.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3253\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1620-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3253\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16201-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nFor those of you still searching for a costume for Halloween, have no fear.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3254\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1623-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3254\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16231-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf you can dream it up, Top Hat probably has it. Whether it\'s these \'80s earrings...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3255\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1643-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3255\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16432.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr this spare leg...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3256\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1644/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3256\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr one of those long cigarette-smoker thingies (which I just adore, by the way, even though smoking is terrible and you should never, ever try it, even on a recreational basis because <em>just say no</em>)...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3257\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1646-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3257\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16462-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr these spare, glue-on body parts...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3260\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1660/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3260\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1660-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr a mood ring...\r\n\r\nI\'ve gotta stop just a second here. Mood rings, people! MOOD RINGS!\r\n\r\nSorry. I\'m a child of the \'80s. Thus, I get all wistful when I see mood rings.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3258\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1653/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3258\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1653.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEven if what you need is a date to one of Tulsa\'s rockin\' Halloween parties, Steve Lancaster, Tulsa\'s own homegrown magician and illusionist, has it in his shop, which has had open doors to the community for more than 30 years.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3259\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1649-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3259\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16491.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSteve is a sweet man. But don\'t go walking around his store snapping your iPhone camera or you\'ll get a piece of his mind.\r\n\r\nUnless you put the photos on Facebook and tell all your friends that they can find the stuff in your photos at Top Hat. Then he\'s pretty much cool with that.\r\n\r\nDid you know that you can hire him to teach you magic tricks, one-on-one? And that you can hire him for your kid\'s birthday party? And that you can see him perform these amazing magic shows at the PAC downtown from time to time? It\'s all true.\r\n\r\nI love living in a town that has its own magician. It makes me feel very...magical.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3261\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1639-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3261\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16391.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThough there\'s still a lot to choose from in terms of costumes and props at Top Hat, I wouldn\'t delay if you\'re still looking for those things. When we stopped in to check the place out, it was super busy - at least a couple dozen folks came through and headed to the costume room during just our short, half-hour visit - and that was last week.\r\n\r\nThings are different this week. People are desperate. Searching for a costume could get ugly.\r\n\r\nBut Steve and his staff have been doing this for a long time. They have the experience and the know-how to keep things at or below a fever pitch. And they probably could help you in the event that you and another customer reach for the last zombie costume and grab it at the same time and commence grabbing and shoving and stabbing each other in the eyes with the hangers in an effort to wrest the costume from one another.\r\n\r\nBut I bet you\'d get a time-out. So I wouldn\'t do that if I were you.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3262\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1645/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3262\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1645-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSpeaking of zombie costumes, Steve mentioned while we were in that the most popular costumes this year are the classic ones - vampires, ghosts, Elvira, zombies, what have you - thanks to there not being a major, costume-influencing movie out in time for Halloween this year. He said that \'80s costumes are really popular, too.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3263\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1623-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3263\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16232-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat\'s where these babies could come in handy.\r\n\r\nAnd if you wanted to wear them again, I totally wouldn\'t blame you. In fact, I might be willing to stab you in the eye with a hanger for them.\r\n\r\n<strong>Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</strong>\r\nWhere: 4016 S. Yale Ave.\r\nWhen: Monday-Friday, 10am-8pm; Saturday, 10am-5:30pm; Sunday, 1-5pm (Halloween holiday hours)\r\nCall: (918) 663-5550\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">TopHatMagic.com</a>','Top Hat Magic and Costumes: Shop Local This Halloween','Did you know that you don\'t have to go to those big-box, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume? Thanks to Top Hat Magic & Costumes, It\'s true. ','inherit','open','open','','3242-revision-19','','','2010-10-26 16:13:11','2010-10-26 21:13:11','',3242,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3242-revision-19/',0,'revision','',0),(3285,1,'2010-10-26 16:15:44','2010-10-26 21:15:44','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3243\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1612/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3243\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1612.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDid you know that you don\'t have to go to those generic, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume?\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 true.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3244\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1641-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3244\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16412-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne option is to head to <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</a>, on the northwest corner of the 41st and Yale intersection.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3245\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1642/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3245\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1642-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhere you can be anything from a flapper girl to a medieval knight to an Indian princess to a zoot suit pimp daddy G to a wookie. \r\n\r\nThe selection, even this close to Halloween, is remarkable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3246\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1616-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3246\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16161.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI have fond memories of my dad taking me to Top Hat so that we could check out all the weird and gross stuff that\'s available there. My dad and I share a sense of humor that\'s appreciative of such things.\r\n\r\nLast week, I got to pay that favor forward by taking my son for the same reason.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3247\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1622/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3247\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1622.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHis first words as we walked through the door? \"Oh my gosh - look at <em>this</em>!\"\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3248\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1626-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3248\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16261-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd by <em>this</em> he meant, <em>everything in this entire store</em>, which I will now proceed to attempt to drag off the shelves and touch with my always-sticky toddler hands.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3249\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1624-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3249\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16241-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI think all the squealing and grabbing made the staff a little nervous, but they still found it in their hearts to be hospitable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3250\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1636/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3250\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1636.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat they managed it even after the squealing and grabbing still hadn\'t stopped after five minutes or so speaks volumes of these people. \r\n\r\nAnd perhaps of their long track record of experience in owning a magic and costume shop.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3251\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1635/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3251\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1635.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat object that my son is, uh, investigating is a chicken hat. In case you were wondering what the poor, molested thing was.\r\n\r\nDon\'t worry. We bought it. I mean, it was the only proper, polite thing to do after treating a thing like we\'d bought it too many drinks and asked it back to our place, only to get as far as the dark alley outside. \r\n\r\nHey, son? You didn\'t hear any of that. And if you did, Mommy has no idea what she\'s even talking about, so just click ignore and try to think of a fancy name for your new chicken hat.\r\n\r\nAhem. \r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3252\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1629-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3252\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16292.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3253\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1620-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3253\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16201-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nFor those of you still searching for a costume for Halloween, have no fear.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3254\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1623-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3254\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16231-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf you can dream it up, Top Hat probably has it. Whether it\'s these \'80s earrings...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3255\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1643-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3255\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16432.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr this spare leg...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3256\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1644/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3256\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr one of those long cigarette-smoker thingies (which I just adore, by the way, even though smoking is terrible and you should never, ever try it, even on a recreational basis because <em>just say no</em>)...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3257\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1646-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3257\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16462-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr these spare, glue-on body parts...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3260\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1660/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3260\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1660-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr a mood ring...\r\n\r\nI\'ve gotta stop just a second here. Mood rings, people! MOOD RINGS!\r\n\r\nSorry. I\'m a child of the \'80s. Thus, I get all wistful when I see mood rings.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3258\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1653/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3258\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1653.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEven if what you need is a date to one of Tulsa\'s rockin\' Halloween parties, Steve Lancaster, Tulsa\'s own homegrown magician and illusionist, has it in his shop, which has had open doors to the community for more than 30 years.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3259\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1649-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3259\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16491.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSteve is a sweet man. But don\'t go walking around his store snapping your iPhone camera or you\'ll get a piece of his mind.\r\n\r\nUnless you put the photos on Facebook and tell all your friends that they can find the stuff in your photos at Top Hat. Then he\'s pretty much cool with that.\r\n\r\nDid you know that you can hire him to teach you magic tricks, one-on-one? And that you can hire him for your kid\'s birthday party? And that you can see him perform these amazing magic shows at the PAC downtown from time to time? It\'s all true.\r\n\r\nI love living in a town that has its own magician. It makes me feel very...magical.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3261\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1639-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3261\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16391.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThough there\'s still a lot to choose from in terms of costumes and props at Top Hat, I wouldn\'t delay if you\'re still looking for those things. When we stopped in to check the place out, it was super busy - at least a couple dozen folks came through and headed to the costume room during just our short, half-hour visit - and that was last week.\r\n\r\nThings are different this week. People are desperate. Searching for a costume could get ugly.\r\n\r\nBut Steve and his staff have been doing this for a long time. They have the experience and the know-how to keep things at or below a fever pitch. And they probably could help you in the event that you and another customer reach for the last zombie costume and grab it at the same time and commence grabbing and shoving and stabbing each other in the eyes with the hangers in an effort to wrest the costume from one another.\r\n\r\nBut I bet you\'d get a time-out. So I wouldn\'t do that if I were you.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3262\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1645/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3262\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1645-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSpeaking of zombie costumes, Steve mentioned while we were in that the most popular costumes this year are the classic ones - vampires, ghosts, Elvira, zombies, what have you - thanks to there not being a major, costume-influencing movie out in time for Halloween this year. He said that \'80s costumes are really popular, too.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3263\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1623-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3263\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16232-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat\'s where these babies could come in handy.\r\n\r\nAnd if you wanted to wear them again, I totally wouldn\'t blame you. In fact, I might be willing to stab you in the eye with a hanger for them.\r\n\r\n<strong>Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</strong>\r\nWhere: 4016 S. Yale Ave.\r\nWhen: Monday-Friday, 10am-8pm; Saturday, 10am-5:30pm; Sunday, 1-5pm (Halloween holiday hours)\r\nCall: (918) 663-5550\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">TopHatMagic.com</a>','Top Hat Magic and Costumes: Shop Local This Halloween','Did you know that you don\'t have to go to those big-box, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume? Thanks to Top Hat Magic & Costumes, It\'s true. ','inherit','open','open','','3242-revision-20','','','2010-10-26 16:15:44','2010-10-26 21:15:44','',3242,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3242-revision-20/',0,'revision','',0),(3286,1,'2010-10-26 16:15:44','2010-10-26 21:15:44','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3243\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1612/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3243\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1612.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDid you know that you don\'t have to go to those generic, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume?\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 true.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3244\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1641-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3244\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16412-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne option is to head to <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</a>, on the northwest corner of the 41st and Yale intersection.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3245\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1642/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3245\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1642-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhere you can be anything from a flapper girl to a medieval knight to an Indian princess to a zoot suit pimp daddy G to a wookie. \r\n\r\nThe selection, even this close to Halloween, is remarkable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3246\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1616-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3246\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16161.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI have fond memories of my dad taking me to Top Hat so that we could check out all the weird and gross stuff that\'s available there. My dad and I share a sense of humor that\'s appreciative of such things.\r\n\r\nLast week, I got to pay that favor forward by taking my son for the same reason.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3247\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1622/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3247\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1622.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHis first words as we walked through the door? \"Oh my gosh - look at <em>this</em>!\"\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3248\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1626-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3248\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16261-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd by <em>this</em> he meant, <em>everything in this entire store</em>, which I will now proceed to attempt to drag off the shelves and touch with my always-sticky toddler hands.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3249\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1624-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3249\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16241-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI think all the squealing and grabbing made the staff a little nervous, but they still found it in their hearts to be hospitable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3250\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1636/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3250\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1636.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat they managed it even after the squealing and grabbing still hadn\'t stopped after five minutes or so speaks volumes of these people. \r\n\r\nAnd perhaps of their long track record of experience in owning a magic and costume shop.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3251\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1635/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3251\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1635.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat object that my son is, uh, investigating is a chicken hat. In case you were wondering what the poor, molested thing was.\r\n\r\nDon\'t worry. We bought it. I mean, it was the only proper, polite thing to do after treating a thing like we\'d bought it too many drinks and asked it back to our place, only to get as far as the dark alley outside. \r\n\r\nHey, son? You didn\'t hear any of that. And if you did, Mommy has no idea what she\'s even talking about, so just click ignore and try to think of a fancy name for your new chicken hat.\r\n\r\nAhem. \r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3252\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1629-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3252\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16292.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3253\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1620-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3253\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16201-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nFor those of you still searching for a costume for Halloween, have no fear.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3254\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1623-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3254\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16231-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf you can dream it up, Top Hat probably has it. Whether it\'s these \'80s earrings...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3255\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1643-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3255\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16432.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr this spare leg...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3256\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1644/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3256\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr one of those long cigarette-smoker thingies (which I just adore, by the way, even though smoking is terrible and you should never, ever try it, even on a recreational basis because <em>just say no</em>)...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3257\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1646-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3257\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16462-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr these spare, glue-on body parts...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3260\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1660/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3260\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1660-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr a mood ring...\r\n\r\nI\'ve gotta stop just a second here. Mood rings, people! MOOD RINGS!\r\n\r\nSorry. I\'m a child of the \'80s. Thus, I get all wistful when I see mood rings.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3258\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1653/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3258\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1653.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEven if what you need is a date to one of Tulsa\'s rockin\' Halloween parties, Steve Lancaster, Tulsa\'s own homegrown magician and illusionist, has it in his shop, which has had open doors to the community for more than 30 years.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3259\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1649-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3259\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16491.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSteve is a sweet man. But don\'t go walking around his store snapping your iPhone camera or you\'ll get a piece of his mind.\r\n\r\nUnless you put the photos on Facebook and tell all your friends that they can find the stuff in your photos at Top Hat. Then he\'s pretty much cool with that.\r\n\r\nDid you know that you can hire him to teach you magic tricks, one-on-one? And that you can hire him for your kid\'s birthday party? And that you can see him perform these amazing magic shows at the PAC downtown from time to time? It\'s all true.\r\n\r\nI love living in a town that has its own magician. It makes me feel very...magical.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3261\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1639-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3261\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16391.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThough there\'s still a lot to choose from in terms of costumes and props at Top Hat, I wouldn\'t delay if you\'re still looking for those things. When we stopped in to check the place out, it was super busy - at least a couple dozen folks came through and headed to the costume room during just our short, half-hour visit - and that was last week.\r\n\r\nThings are different this week. People are desperate. Searching for a costume could get ugly.\r\n\r\nBut Steve and his staff have been doing this for a long time. They have the experience and the know-how to keep things at or below a fever pitch. And they probably could help you in the event that you and another customer reach for the last zombie costume and grab it at the same time and commence grabbing and shoving and stabbing each other in the eyes with the hangers in an effort to wrest the costume from one another.\r\n\r\nBut I bet you\'d get a time-out. So I wouldn\'t do that if I were you.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3262\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1645/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3262\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1645-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSpeaking of zombie costumes, Steve mentioned while we were in that the most popular costumes this year are the classic ones - vampires, ghosts, Elvira, zombies, what have you - thanks to there not being a major, costume-influencing movie out in time for Halloween this year. He said that \'80s costumes are really popular, too.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3263\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1623-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3263\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16232-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat\'s where these babies could come in handy.\r\n\r\nAnd if you wanted to wear them again, I totally wouldn\'t blame you. In fact, I might be willing to stab you in the eye with a hanger for them.\r\n\r\n<strong>Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</strong>\r\nWhere: 4016 S. Yale Ave.\r\nWhen: Monday-Friday, 10am-8pm; Saturday, 10am-5:30pm; Sunday, 1-5pm (Halloween holiday hours)\r\nCall: (918) 663-5550\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">TopHatMagic.com</a>','Top Hat Magic and Costumes: Shop Local This Halloween','Did you know that you don\'t have to go to those big-box, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume? Thanks to Top Hat Magic & Costumes, It\'s true. ','inherit','open','open','','3242-revision-21','','','2010-10-26 16:15:44','2010-10-26 21:15:44','',3242,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3242-revision-21/',0,'revision','',0),(3287,1,'2010-10-26 16:19:00','2010-10-26 21:19:00','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3243\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1612/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3243\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1612.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDid you know that you don\'t have to go to those generic, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume?\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 true.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3244\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1641-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3244\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16412-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne option is to head to <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</a>, on the northwest corner of the 41st and Yale intersection.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3245\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1642/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3245\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1642-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhere you can be anything from a flapper girl to a medieval knight to an Indian princess to a zoot suit pimp daddy G to a wookie. \r\n\r\nThe selection, even this close to Halloween, is remarkable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3246\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1616-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3246\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16161.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI have fond memories of my dad taking me to Top Hat so that we could check out all the weird and gross stuff that\'s available there. My dad and I share a sense of humor that\'s appreciative of such things.\r\n\r\nLast week, I got to pay that favor forward by taking my son for the same reason.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3247\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1622/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3247\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1622.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHis first words as we walked through the door? \"Oh my gosh - look at <em>this</em>!\"\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3248\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1626-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3248\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16261-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd by <em>this</em> he meant, <em>everything in this entire store</em>, which I will now proceed to attempt to drag off the shelves and touch with my always-sticky toddler hands.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3249\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1624-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3249\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16241-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI think all the squealing and grabbing made the staff a little nervous, but they still found it in their hearts to be hospitable.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3250\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1636/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3250\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1636.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat they managed it even after the squealing and grabbing still hadn\'t stopped after five minutes or so speaks volumes of these people. \r\n\r\nAnd perhaps of their long track record of experience in owning a magic and costume shop.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3251\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1635/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3251\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1635.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat object that my son is, uh, investigating is a chicken hat. In case you were wondering what the poor, molested thing was.\r\n\r\nDon\'t worry. We bought it. I mean, it was the only proper, polite thing to do after treating a thing like we\'d bought it too many drinks and asked it back to our place, only to get as far as the dark alley outside. \r\n\r\nHey, son? You didn\'t hear any of that. And if you did, Mommy has no idea what she\'s even talking about, so just click ignore and try to think of a fancy name for your new chicken hat.\r\n\r\nAhem. \r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3252\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1629-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3252\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16292.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3253\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1620-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3253\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16201-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nFor those of you still searching for a costume for Halloween, have no fear.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3254\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1623-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3254\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16231-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf you can dream it up, Top Hat probably has it. Whether it\'s these \'80s earrings...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3255\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1643-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3255\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16432.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr this spare leg...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3256\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1644/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3256\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr one of those long cigarette-smoker thingies (which I just adore, by the way, even though smoking is terrible and you should never, ever try it, even on a recreational basis because <em>just say no</em>)...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3257\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1646-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3257\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16462-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr these spare, glue-on body parts...\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3260\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1660/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3260\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1660-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr a mood ring...\r\n\r\nI\'ve gotta stop just a second here. Mood rings, people! MOOD RINGS!\r\n\r\nSorry. I\'m a child of the \'80s. Thus, I get all wistful when I see mood rings.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3258\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1653/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3258\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1653.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEven if what you need is a date to one of Tulsa\'s rockin\' Halloween parties, Steve Lancaster, Tulsa\'s own homegrown magician and illusionist, has it in his shop, which has had open doors to the community for more than 30 years.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3259\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1649-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3259\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16491.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSteve is a sweet man. But don\'t go walking around his store snapping your iPhone camera or you\'ll get a piece of his mind.\r\n\r\nUnless you put the photos on Facebook and tell all your friends that they can find the stuff in your photos at Top Hat. Then he\'s pretty much cool with that.\r\n\r\nDid you know that you can hire him to teach you magic tricks, one-on-one? And that you can hire him for your kid\'s birthday party? And that you can see him perform these amazing magic shows at the PAC downtown from time to time? It\'s all true.\r\n\r\nI love living in a town that has its own magician. It makes me feel very...magical.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3261\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1639-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3261\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16391.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThough there\'s still a lot to choose from in terms of costumes and props at Top Hat, I wouldn\'t delay if you\'re still looking for those things. When we stopped in to check the place out, it was super busy - at least a couple dozen folks came through and headed to the costume room during just our short, half-hour visit - and that was last week.\r\n\r\nThings are different this week. People are desperate. Searching for a costume could get ugly.\r\n\r\nBut Steve and his staff have been doing this for a long time. They have the experience and the know-how to keep things at or below a fever pitch. And they probably could help you in the event that you and another customer reach for the last zombie costume and grab it at the same time and commence grabbing and shoving and stabbing each other in the eyes with the hangers in an effort to wrest the costume from one another.\r\n\r\nBut I bet you\'d get a time-out. So I wouldn\'t do that if I were you.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3262\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1645/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3262\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1645-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSpeaking of zombie costumes, Steve mentioned while we were in that the most popular costumes this year are the classic ones - vampires, ghosts, Elvira, zombies, what have you - thanks to there not being a major, costume-influencing movie out in time for Halloween this year. He said that \'80s costumes are really popular, too.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3263\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/dsc_1623-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3263\" title=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16232-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Top Hat Magic and Costumes\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat\'s where these babies could come in handy.\r\n\r\nAnd if you wanted to wear them again, I totally wouldn\'t blame you. In fact, I might be willing to stab you in the eye with a hanger for them. I\'d probably be pretty nice about it, though. It\'d be the most amiable eye stabbing ever.\r\n\r\n<strong>Top Hat Magic &amp; Costumes</strong>\r\nWhere: 4016 S. Yale Ave.\r\nWhen: Monday-Friday, 10am-8pm; Saturday, 10am-5:30pm; Sunday, 1-5pm (Halloween holiday hours)\r\nCall: (918) 663-5550\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.tophatmagic.com/\">TopHatMagic.com</a>','Top Hat Magic and Costumes: Shop Local This Halloween','Did you know that you don\'t have to go to those big-box, pop-up clearinghouses for a killer Halloween costume? Thanks to Top Hat Magic & Costumes, It\'s true. ','inherit','open','open','','3242-revision-22','','','2010-10-26 16:19:00','2010-10-26 21:19:00','',3242,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3242-revision-22/',0,'revision','',0),(3288,1,'2010-10-26 17:57:53','2010-10-26 22:57:53','<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Starting line:</span> \"Dude, it\'s, like, cold.\" The temperature hovered at about 40 degrees for the duration of the race, forcing many to don less-than-flattering exercise wear. Sparkly leg warmers, acrylic (a.k.a. plastic) mittens and a variety of unfortunate head gear were in wide use.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">1K:</span> \"Count the number of people you pass and subtract the number of people who pass you, and we\'ll compare scores at the finish line.\" I don\'t see how this could have been doable, given that the race was probably two dozen racers deep from curb to curb. I guess it could have been a fun mechanism to employ to forget the chill, but then you would have missed the scenery.\n\n<a href=\"http://tulsarun.com/course_map.asp\">The course</a> began at 3rd and Boulder, stretched south to 15th, turned west to Denver, south again to Riverside Drive, east to the 23d Street Bridge, west back to Denver, up what I heard someone call \"Murder Mountain\" toward the BOK Center. Who would want to miss a chance to see all the parking lots - I mean, historic buildings - along the way?\n\nPerhaps the more challenging game would have been to see who could count the most empty parking spaces on the south part of the course.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">2K:</span> \"I wouldn\'t exactly call that motivational music.\" A band of kilted men playing bag pipes cheered us on about half way through the race. While it quickened my Irish blood, lots of folks were jonesin\' for some rock and roll.\n\nTwo years ago, the last time I ran Tulsa Run, speakers blaring the Rocky theme were set up a little before the half-way mark. I was laughing so hard I could barely keep up with my friend Sarah, who picked up and moved away earlier this year and left me to run this year\'s race by myself. Alone. And cold. And sleepy.\n\nI don\'t think she would have wanted to join me this year, anyway. I ditched her last year because I was too busy rounding out my second trimester, and she\'s doing just about the same thing this year. We don\'t think a fetus takes well to jostling - at least, not the first fetus. Maybe by the time we\'re pregnant with our third children, we\'ll be good and over all of that.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">3K:</span> I don\'t remember hearing anyone say anything interesting during this part of the race, but Tulsa county commission District 2 candidate <a href=\"http://www.karenkeith.org/\">Karen Keith</a> gave me a cup of water. Thanks, Karen.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">4K:</span> \"Oh, crap.\" *puff puff* \"Maybe if this hill had been at the beginning of the race, I could have done it.\" *wheeze wheeze* \"Without this hill, maybe this would actually be a run.\"\n\nWimps. If I made it up the hill on Denver between Riverside Drive and 15th Street, anyone can. Seriously. I had a baby earlier this year, an event for which I gained a cool 50 pounds, and though it\'s all off now, I\'m by no means a lean, mean, running machine. Still, I can definitely see why the racers heading up the hill were gasping, \"Good luck on the hill!\" at the slower among us gliding down toward the turnaround at the bridge.\n\nYeah, so I saw spots and leprechauns in the parking lot at QT, but I made it up the hill, dang it.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Finish:</span> \"Natasha Ball!\" \"waaaahhh!\" When the announcer said my name, Aaron cheered for me from the sideline. It was all too much for our baby boy, who screamed his head off with fear rather than excitement.\n\nThat\'s fine. His punishment is that he has to run with me next year, and I\'d better not hear any nonsense about shorter legs, smaller lungs, just having learned to walk earlier in the year, blah blah blah.\n\nThis year\'s race was great. Lots of fun, lots of excitement. It\'s definitely a great way to show off downtown.\n\nI\'ll post my results later. I was too busy grabbing bottles of water and a half-dozen candy bars, all free to the runners, after the race to check my official race time.\n\nHey, at least we can say I never made my motivation a mystery.','Overheard at the 31st Tulsa Run','','inherit','open','open','','66-autosave','','','2010-10-26 17:57:53','2010-10-26 22:57:53','',66,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/66-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(3289,1,'2008-10-25 15:45:00','2008-10-25 15:45:00','<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Starting line:</span> \"Dude, it\'s, like, cold.\" The temperature hovered at about 40 degrees for the duration of the race, forcing many to don less-than-flattering exercise wear. Sparkly leg warmers, acrylic (a.k.a. plastic) mittens and a variety of unfortunate head gear were in wide use.<br /><br /><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">1K:</span> \"Count the number of people you pass and subtract the number of people who pass you, and we\'ll compare scores at the finish line.\" I don\'t see how this could have been doable, given that the race was probably two dozen racers deep from curb to curb. I guess it could have been a fun mechanism to employ to forget the chill, but then you would have missed the scenery.<br /><br /><a href=\"http://tulsarun.com/course_map.asp\">The course</a> began at 3rd and Boulder, stretched south to 15th, turned west to Denver, south again to Riverside Drive, east to the 23d Street Bridge, west back to Denver, up what I heard someone call \"Murder Mountain\" toward the BOK Center. Who would want to miss a chance to see all the parking lots - I mean, historic buildings - along the way?<br /><br />Perhaps the more challenging game would have been to see who could count the most empty parking spaces on the south part of the course.<br /><br /><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">2K:</span> \"I wouldn\'t exactly call that motivational music.\" A band of kilted men playing bag pipes cheered us on about half way through the race. While it quickened my Irish blood, lots of folks were jonesin\' for some rock and roll.<br /><br />Two years ago, the last time I ran Tulsa Run, speakers blaring the Rocky theme were set up a little before the half-way mark. I was laughing so hard I could barely keep up with my friend Sarah, who picked up and moved away earlier this year and left me to run this year\'s race by myself. Alone. And cold. And sleepy.<br /><br />I don\'t think she would have wanted to join me this year, anyway. I ditched her last year because I was too busy rounding out my second trimester, and she\'s doing just about the same thing this year. We don\'t think a fetus takes well to jostling - at least, not the first fetus. Maybe by the time we\'re pregnant with our third children, we\'ll be good and over all of that.<br /><br /><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">3K:</span> I don\'t remember hearing anyone say anything interesting during this part of the race, but Tulsa county commission District 2 candidate <a href=\"http://www.karenkeith.org/\">Karen Keith</a> gave me a cup of water. Thanks, Karen.<br /><br /><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">4K:</span> \"Oh, crap.\" *puff puff* \"Maybe if this hill had been at the beginning of the race, I could have done it.\" *wheeze wheeze* \"Without this hill, maybe this would actually be a run.\"<br /><br />Wimps. If I made it up the hill on Denver between Riverside Drive and 15th Street, anyone can. Seriously. I had a baby earlier this year, an event for which I gained a cool 50 pounds, and though it\'s all off now, I\'m by no means a lean, mean, running machine. Still, I can definitely see why the racers heading up the hill were gasping, \"Good luck on the hill!\" at the slower among us gliding down toward the turnaround at the bridge.<br /><br />Yeah, so I saw spots and leprechauns in the parking lot at QT, but I made it up the hill, dang it.     <br /><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Finish:</span> \"Natasha Ball!\" \"waaaahhh!\" When the announcer said my name, Aaron cheered for me from the sideline. It was all too much for our baby boy, who screamed his head off with fear rather than excitement.<br /><br />That\'s fine. His punishment is that he has to run with me next year, and I\'d better not hear any nonsense about shorter legs, smaller lungs, just having learned to walk earlier in the year, blah blah blah.<br /><br />This year\'s race was great. Lots of fun, lots of excitement. It\'s definitely a great way to show off downtown.<br /><br />I\'ll post my results later. I was too busy grabbing bottles of water and a half-dozen candy bars, all free to the runners, after the race to check my official race time.<br /><br />Hey, at least we can say I never made my motivation a mystery.','Overheard at the 31st Tulsa Run','','inherit','open','open','','66-revision','','','2008-10-25 15:45:00','2008-10-25 15:45:00','',66,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2008/10/66-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(3291,1,'2010-10-26 22:46:46','2010-10-27 03:46:46','','Memorial Park Cemetery','','inherit','open','open','','dsc07873-2','','','2010-10-26 22:46:46','2010-10-27 03:46:46','',3290,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC07873.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3292,1,'2010-10-26 22:55:09','2010-10-27 03:55:09','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3291\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3291\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3291\" title=\"Memorial Park Cemetery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC07873-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Memorial Park Cemetery\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\n\nFrom inspiration for hitting the trails to how to cook a live lobster to growing a mustache for a cause, it\'s all in Tulsa blogs this week.\n\n<!--more-->\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\n\n<h2>Run, Tulsa, Run</h2>\nDid you hear? It\'s running season here in Tulsa, Oklahoma. During the months of October and November, there\'s a major run nearly every weekend, starting with <a href=\"http://www.tulsarun.com/\">Tulsa Run 2010</a> this Saturday.\n\nContrary to what you might think, many of us bloggers know how to peel our butts off a computer chair, lace up a pair of sneakers and pound the pavement to the beats coming through our iPods. Some of us are even training for long-distance runs this fall - 15K or, in a few cases, even longer. Check out these recent posts from Tulsa-area bloggers on that sport that seems to capture the hearts of so many Oklahomans at this time of year.\n\n<strong>The Marriage of an Undomestic</strong> - <a href=\"http://thereallt.blogspot.com/2010/10/molasses-and-other-running-rambles.html\">Molasses and Other Running Rambles</a>\n\n<strong>Running on Empty</strong> - <a href=\"http://fat-ass-to-fit-ass.blogspot.com/2010/10/why-i-run.html\">Why I Run</a>\n\n<strong>Hollyhouse Studio</strong> - <a href=\"http://hollyhousestudio.blogspot.com/2010/10/whys.html\">The WHYs</a>\n\n<strong>The Fitness Adventures</strong> - <a href=\"http://thefitnessadventures.blogspot.com/2010/10/decisions-questioning-my-choices.html\">Decisions &amp; Questioning My Choices</a>\n<h2>It\'s Fall, Y\'all</h2>\n<strong>The Art of Manliness</strong>. Been looking for an excuse to grow a sweet \'stache? Look no further - November is right around the corner, and <a href=\"http://artofmanliness.com/2010/10/22/fight-prostate-cancer-by-growing-a-mustache-the-2010-movember-contest\">men are being encouraged to grow mustaches to raise awareness for men\'s health issues, from prostate cancer to male depression</a>. Blogger Brett McKay makes the case in that trademark AoM style:\n<blockquote>Now I’m all for saving the world’s wonderful tata’s, but men have a cancer all of their own, and it unfortunately doesn’t get quite as much attention (I guess nobody wants to think about a guy’s junk when they’re peeling off the top of their yogurt.)</blockquote>\nReady to get growin\'? Join the mo-growing contest at AoM. Not only will you have a brag-worthy mustache to show for it at the end, but you could also end up with some sweet prizes that will have you declaring, \"I am all that is man.\"\n\n<strong>Young and Rentless</strong>. In case you didn\'t know, Fall is the season for tree planting here in Tulsa. <a href=\"http://youngandrentless.blogspot.com/2010/10/fall-season-for-planting.html\">Caitlin at Y&amp;R has some tips and an account of her first experience shopping and planting her very own tree</a>. Which is not as easy as it sounds, actually. And who doesn\'t love trees, especially at this time of year?\n\n<strong>The Red Dirt Chronicles</strong>. Three words: <a href=\"http://reddirtchronicles.com/2010/10/24/oversleep-y-silent-sunday-102410/\">It\'s persimmon season</a>. That is all.\n\n<strong>Real Food Tulsa</strong>. <a href=\"http://realfoodtulsa.blogspot.com/2010/10/foodie-friday-great-pumpkin-episode.html\">Penni at RFT has a recipe for pumpkin cookies with caramel icing, as well as for a creamy pumpkin pie with gingersnap crust and vanilla whipped cream</a>. The best part? There\'s no cooking involved. Penni\'s all about raw food, and she really knows how to pimp the stuff. Give it a shot - my bet is that with recipes this yum, you won\'t miss turning on your oven.\n\n<strong>The Errant Cook</strong>. Some people just can\'t wait for Thanksgiving to have a turkey dinner with all the trimmings. <a href=\"http://errantcook.blogspot.com/2010/10/happy-not-yet-thanksgiving.html\">Jennifer at TEC is one of them</a>. And why do we wait, anyway? Especially when one can whip up a pumpkin pie with fall leaves cut from pastry for the crust and have each piece topped with a dollop of homemade whipped cream like at Jennifer\'s house? Yowza.\n\n<strong>Hot off the Haywire</strong>. Have you heard about Clean Food Tulsa and the Oklahoma Food Coop? It\'s the locavore\'s answer to maintaining a diet derived as much from food grown and raised locally as possible even now that the farmers\' markets are closed, <a href=\"http://thehaywire.typepad.com/hot-off-the-haywire/2010/10/farm-fodder-page-26.html\">and the folks at Pork &amp; Greens, a local pork producer, has the scoop</a>. Plus, shopping for food online is kinda fun - and maybe a little addictive, too, especially when everything you order online is trucked in and dropped off at the same place and at the same time each week. See? Knowing where your food comes from can be convenient, even during the dead of winter.\n\n<strong>Tulsa Food Blog</strong>. <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/extras/tulsa-food-events/oktoberfest-bratwursts-beer-unity\">The TFB kids wax poetic about community in their recap of the 2010 OktoberFest Tulsa</a>. When there\'s that much beer and bratwurst and chicken dancing on the table with people you\'ve never met involved, it\'s kinda hard to blame \'em.\n\n<strong>Minivan Momma</strong>. Hey - get off my lawn! <a href=\"http://www.minivan-momma.com/2010/10/just-call-me-linus.html\">This story from Minivan Momma is exactly why I yell at passersby near my house like an 82-year-old man, especially when I have pumpkins on the porch</a>. But, all\'s well that ends well in MM\'s world, even when a rotting pumpkin turns into a pumpkin vine which produces blossoms that survive only long enough to be plucked by her kiddos in celebration and anticipationi of having home-grown pumpkins in the fall. Seriously. This story had me rolling on the floor, you guys.\n\n<strong>Knitting in the Wild</strong>. Denise at KitW notices how, after the rush of farmers\' market season, <a href=\"http://www.lostcityknits.com/2010/10/autumnal-settling-in.html\">the fall encourages her slow down and embrace the changes that surround her</a>. I\'ll always take a reminder to slow down, Denise - thanks for that.\n\n<strong>Hollyrocks</strong>. <a href=\"http://hollyrocksjewelry.blogspot.com/2010/10/its-about-that-time-again.html\">Holly has news - Indie Emporium is this weekend</a>! This is not your grandma\'s craft show, people. With a handmade fashion show (starring Holly as one of the models), make-and-take tables that offer you the chance to be a fabulous craftista and enough vendors to supply you with gifts for everyone on your holiday shopping list, IE is sure to capture the imagination of the crafter and the shopper in you that, now that fall is here, is just begging to be set free. It all gets started just outside of downtown Tulsa this Friday night - you can count on finding more details on this event in the weekend rundown here at TDT first thing Friday morning.\n<h2>There\'s Always Room for Randomness</h2>\n<strong>Tulsa Gal</strong>. Did you know that the Golden Driller, the Tulsa and oil boom icon that stands guard at the south entrance to the fairgrounds, is the most photographed landmark in this town? <a href=\"http://www.tulsagal.net/2010/10/golden-driller.html\">According to Nancy at Tulsa Gal, it is</a>. As per her usual, Nancy has several historic photos that explain how the Golden Driller came to exist, as well as a grab bag of interesting facts about one of our most quirky monuments.\n\n<strong>Crawdads in My Sink</strong>. Heather made me laugh again. First, <a href=\"http://crawdadsinmysink.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/major/\">there was her account of being in the gynecologist\'s office during the Oklahoma earthquake earlier this month</a>, featured in the last edition of Tulsa Blogs This Week. Now she\'s showing off <a href=\"http://crawdadsinmysink.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/im-not-a-redneck-you-are/\">the self-dubbed redneck TV antenna she and her husband fashioned out of the junk in their yard</a>. I\'m beginning to think this blog is going to become my new first stop for when I need a good, Okie-style laugh.\n\n<strong>Oklahoma Women\'s Network Blog</strong>. Did you know that the Oklahoma Department of Tourism includes a section on its website for fun trips for the ladies? Yeah. It does. <a href=\"http://oklahomawomen.blogspot.com/2010/10/chick-trips-in-oklahoma.html\">And what would this section be called but Chick Trips</a>, which features Oklahoma\'s vineyards and wineries, spas and shopping options. Now we\'ve just gotta get <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Gilbert\">Elizabeth Gilbert</a> to notice...\n\n<strong>Global Table Adventure</strong>. <a href=\"http://globaltableadventure.com/2010/10/21/recipe-boiled-lobster/\">Ever wonder how to cook live lobster? Sasha at GTA shows you how</a>. With photos. And maybe a few deep breaths and a tear or two.\n\n<strong>Tulsa SPCA</strong>. <a href=\"http://tulsaspca.blogspot.com/2010/10/if-you-are-looking-for-companion-that.html\">\'Tis the season to bring a new, fuzzy member home for the holidays - and for happily ever after, too</a>. This TSPCA blog just kills me. I wish I could buy a farm and adopt every single last one of those darling pups and kitties. But I\'m hoping that you all will help me spread the love instead. Because I\'m pretty sure my husband would be a little upset with me if I bought a farm and adopted all the animals at the TSPCA. Even though the cuteness overload with be of major proportions, but still. Throw a girl a bone here.\n\nWhat Tulsa blogs have you been reading this week?','Running, Lobster, Mustaches and All Things Fall : Tulsa Blogs This Week','From inspiration for hitting the trails to how to cook a live lobster to growing a mustache for a cause, it\'s all in Tulsa blogs this week. ','inherit','open','open','','3290-revision','','','2010-10-26 22:55:09','2010-10-27 03:55:09','',3290,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3290-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(3293,1,'2010-10-26 22:55:57','2010-10-27 03:55:57','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3291\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3291\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3291\" title=\"Memorial Park Cemetery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC07873-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Memorial Park Cemetery\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nFrom inspiration for hitting the trails to how to cook a live lobster to growing a mustache for a cause, it\'s all in Tulsa blogs this week.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Run, Tulsa, Run</h2>\r\nDid you hear? It\'s running season here in Tulsa, Oklahoma. During the months of October and November, there\'s a major run nearly every weekend, starting with <a href=\"http://www.tulsarun.com/\">Tulsa Run 2010</a> this Saturday.\r\n\r\nContrary to what you might think, many of us bloggers know how to peel our butts off a computer chair, lace up a pair of sneakers and pound the pavement to the beats coming through our iPods. Some of us are even training for long-distance runs this fall - 15K or, in a few cases, even longer. Check out these recent posts from Tulsa-area bloggers on that sport that seems to capture the hearts of so many Oklahomans at this time of year.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Marriage of an Undomestic</strong> - <a href=\"http://thereallt.blogspot.com/2010/10/molasses-and-other-running-rambles.html\">Molasses and Other Running Rambles</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Running on Empty</strong> - <a href=\"http://fat-ass-to-fit-ass.blogspot.com/2010/10/why-i-run.html\">Why I Run</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Hollyhouse Studio</strong> - <a href=\"http://hollyhousestudio.blogspot.com/2010/10/whys.html\">The WHYs</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Fitness Adventures</strong> - <a href=\"http://thefitnessadventures.blogspot.com/2010/10/decisions-questioning-my-choices.html\">Decisions &amp; Questioning My Choices</a>\r\n<h2>It\'s Fall, Y\'all</h2>\r\n<strong>The Art of Manliness</strong>. Been looking for an excuse to grow a sweet \'stache? Look no further - November is right around the corner, and <a href=\"http://artofmanliness.com/2010/10/22/fight-prostate-cancer-by-growing-a-mustache-the-2010-movember-contest\">men are being encouraged to grow mustaches to raise awareness for men\'s health issues, from prostate cancer to male depression</a>. Blogger Brett McKay makes the case in that trademark AoM style:\r\n<blockquote>Now I’m all for saving the world’s wonderful tata’s, but men have a cancer all of their own, and it unfortunately doesn’t get quite as much attention (I guess nobody wants to think about a guy’s junk when they’re peeling off the top of their yogurt.)</blockquote>\r\nReady to get growin\'? Join the mo-growing contest at AoM. Not only will you have a brag-worthy mustache to show for it at the end, but you could also end up with some sweet prizes that will have you declaring, \"I am all that is man.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>Young and Rentless</strong>. In case you didn\'t know, Fall is the season for tree planting here in Tulsa. <a href=\"http://youngandrentless.blogspot.com/2010/10/fall-season-for-planting.html\">Caitlin at Y&amp;R has some tips and an account of her first experience shopping and planting her very own tree</a>. Which is not as easy as it sounds, actually. And who doesn\'t love trees, especially at this time of year?\r\n\r\n<strong>The Red Dirt Chronicles</strong>. Three words: <a href=\"http://reddirtchronicles.com/2010/10/24/oversleep-y-silent-sunday-102410/\">It\'s persimmon season</a>. That is all.\r\n\r\n<strong>Real Food Tulsa</strong>. <a href=\"http://realfoodtulsa.blogspot.com/2010/10/foodie-friday-great-pumpkin-episode.html\">Penni at RFT has a recipe for pumpkin cookies with caramel icing, as well as for a creamy pumpkin pie with gingersnap crust and vanilla whipped cream</a>. The best part? There\'s no cooking involved. Penni\'s all about raw food, and she really knows how to pimp the stuff. Give it a shot - my bet is that with recipes this yum, you won\'t miss turning on your oven.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Errant Cook</strong>. Some people just can\'t wait for Thanksgiving to have a turkey dinner with all the trimmings. <a href=\"http://errantcook.blogspot.com/2010/10/happy-not-yet-thanksgiving.html\">Jennifer at TEC is one of them</a>. And why do we wait, anyway? Especially when one can whip up a pumpkin pie with fall leaves cut from pastry for the crust and have each piece topped with a dollop of homemade whipped cream like at Jennifer\'s house? Yowza.\r\n\r\n<strong>Hot off the Haywire</strong>. Have you heard about Clean Food Tulsa and the Oklahoma Food Coop? It\'s the locavore\'s answer to maintaining a diet derived as much from food grown and raised locally as possible even now that the farmers\' markets are closed, <a href=\"http://thehaywire.typepad.com/hot-off-the-haywire/2010/10/farm-fodder-page-26.html\">and the folks at Pork &amp; Greens, a local pork producer, has the scoop</a>. Plus, shopping for food online is kinda fun - and maybe a little addictive, too, especially when everything you order online is trucked in and dropped off at the same place and at the same time each week. See? Knowing where your food comes from can be convenient, even during the dead of winter.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa Food Blog</strong>. <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/extras/tulsa-food-events/oktoberfest-bratwursts-beer-unity\">The TFB kids wax poetic about community in their recap of the 2010 OktoberFest Tulsa</a>. When there\'s that much beer and bratwurst and chicken dancing on the table with people you\'ve never met involved, it\'s kinda hard to blame \'em.\r\n\r\n<strong>Minivan Momma</strong>. Hey - get off my lawn! <a href=\"http://www.minivan-momma.com/2010/10/just-call-me-linus.html\">This story from Minivan Momma is exactly why I yell at passersby near my house like an 82-year-old man, especially when I have pumpkins on the porch</a>. But, all\'s well that ends well in MM\'s world, even when a rotting pumpkin turns into a pumpkin vine which produces blossoms that survive only long enough to be plucked by her kiddos in celebration and anticipationi of having home-grown pumpkins in the fall. Seriously. This story had me rolling on the floor, you guys.\r\n\r\n<strong>Knitting in the Wild</strong>. Denise at KitW notices how, after the rush of farmers\' market season, <a href=\"http://www.lostcityknits.com/2010/10/autumnal-settling-in.html\">the fall encourages her slow down and embrace the changes that surround her</a>. I\'ll always take a reminder to slow down, Denise - thanks for that.\r\n\r\n<strong>Hollyrocks</strong>. <a href=\"http://hollyrocksjewelry.blogspot.com/2010/10/its-about-that-time-again.html\">Holly has news - Indie Emporium is this weekend</a>! This is not your grandma\'s craft show, people. With a handmade fashion show (starring Holly as one of the models), make-and-take tables that offer you the chance to be a fabulous craftista and enough vendors to supply you with gifts for everyone on your holiday shopping list, IE is sure to capture the imagination of the crafter and the shopper in you that, now that fall is here, is just begging to be set free. It all gets started just outside of downtown Tulsa this Friday night - you can count on finding more details on this event in the weekend rundown here at TDT first thing Friday morning.\r\n<h2>There\'s Always Room for Randomness</h2>\r\n<strong>Tulsa Gal</strong>. Did you know that the Golden Driller, the Tulsa and oil boom icon that stands guard at the south entrance to the fairgrounds, is the most photographed landmark in this town? <a href=\"http://www.tulsagal.net/2010/10/golden-driller.html\">According to Nancy at Tulsa Gal, it is</a>. As per her usual, Nancy has several historic photos that explain how the Golden Driller came to exist, as well as a grab bag of interesting facts about one of our most quirky monuments.\r\n\r\n<strong>Crawdads in My Sink</strong>. Heather made me laugh again. First, <a href=\"http://crawdadsinmysink.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/major/\">there was her account of being in the gynecologist\'s office during the Oklahoma earthquake earlier this month</a>, featured in the last edition of Tulsa Blogs This Week. Now she\'s showing off <a href=\"http://crawdadsinmysink.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/im-not-a-redneck-you-are/\">the self-dubbed redneck TV antenna she and her husband fashioned out of the junk in their yard</a>. I\'m beginning to think this blog is going to become my new first stop for when I need a good, Okie-style laugh.\r\n\r\n<strong>Oklahoma Women\'s Network Blog</strong>. Did you know that the Oklahoma Department of Tourism includes a section on its website for fun trips for the ladies? Yeah. It does. <a href=\"http://oklahomawomen.blogspot.com/2010/10/chick-trips-in-oklahoma.html\">And what would this section be called but Chick Trips</a>, which features Oklahoma\'s vineyards and wineries, spas and shopping options. Now we\'ve just gotta get <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Gilbert\">Elizabeth Gilbert</a> to notice...\r\n\r\n<strong>Global Table Adventure</strong>. <a href=\"http://globaltableadventure.com/2010/10/21/recipe-boiled-lobster/\">Ever wonder how to cook live lobster? Sasha at GTA shows you how</a>. With photos. And maybe a few deep breaths and a tear or two.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa SPCA</strong>. <a href=\"http://tulsaspca.blogspot.com/2010/10/if-you-are-looking-for-companion-that.html\">\'Tis the season to bring a new, fuzzy member home for the holidays - and for happily ever after, too</a>. This TSPCA blog just kills me. I wish I could buy a farm and adopt every single last one of those darling pups and kitties. But I\'m hoping that you all will help me spread the love instead. Because I\'m pretty sure my husband would be a little upset with me if I bought a farm and adopted all the animals at the TSPCA. Even though the cuteness overload with be of major proportions, but still. Throw a girl a bone here.\r\n\r\nWhat Tulsa blogs have you been reading this week?','Running, Lobster, Mustaches and All Things Fall : Tulsa Blogs This Week','From inspiration for hitting the trails to how to cook a live lobster to growing a mustache for a cause, it\'s all in Tulsa blogs this week. ','inherit','open','open','','3290-revision-2','','','2010-10-26 22:55:57','2010-10-27 03:55:57','',3290,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3290-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(3294,1,'2010-10-26 22:55:58','2010-10-27 03:55:58','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3291\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/running-lobster-mustaches-and-all-things-fall-tulsa-blogs-this-week/dsc07873-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3291\" title=\"Memorial Park Cemetery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC07873-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Memorial Park Cemetery\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nFrom inspiration for hitting the trails to how to cook a live lobster to growing a mustache for a cause, it\'s all in Tulsa blogs this week.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Run, Tulsa, Run</h2>\r\nDid you hear? It\'s running season here in Tulsa, Oklahoma. During the months of October and November, there\'s a major run nearly every weekend, starting with <a href=\"http://www.tulsarun.com/\">Tulsa Run 2010</a> this Saturday.\r\n\r\nContrary to what you might think, many of us bloggers know how to peel our butts off a computer chair, lace up a pair of sneakers and pound the pavement to the beats coming through our iPods. Some of us are even training for long-distance runs this fall - 15K or, in a few cases, even longer. Check out these recent posts from Tulsa-area bloggers on that sport that seems to capture the hearts of so many Oklahomans at this time of year.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Marriage of an Undomestic</strong> - <a href=\"http://thereallt.blogspot.com/2010/10/molasses-and-other-running-rambles.html\">Molasses and Other Running Rambles</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Running on Empty</strong> - <a href=\"http://fat-ass-to-fit-ass.blogspot.com/2010/10/why-i-run.html\">Why I Run</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Hollyhouse Studio</strong> - <a href=\"http://hollyhousestudio.blogspot.com/2010/10/whys.html\">The WHYs</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Fitness Adventures</strong> - <a href=\"http://thefitnessadventures.blogspot.com/2010/10/decisions-questioning-my-choices.html\">Decisions &amp; Questioning My Choices</a>\r\n<h2>It\'s Fall, Y\'all</h2>\r\n<strong>The Art of Manliness</strong>. Been looking for an excuse to grow a sweet \'stache? Look no further - November is right around the corner, and <a href=\"http://artofmanliness.com/2010/10/22/fight-prostate-cancer-by-growing-a-mustache-the-2010-movember-contest\">men are being encouraged to grow mustaches to raise awareness for men\'s health issues, from prostate cancer to male depression</a>. Blogger Brett McKay makes the case in that trademark AoM style:\r\n<blockquote>Now I’m all for saving the world’s wonderful tata’s, but men have a cancer all of their own, and it unfortunately doesn’t get quite as much attention (I guess nobody wants to think about a guy’s junk when they’re peeling off the top of their yogurt.)</blockquote>\r\nReady to get growin\'? Join the mo-growing contest at AoM. Not only will you have a brag-worthy mustache to show for it at the end, but you could also end up with some sweet prizes that will have you declaring, \"I am all that is man.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>Young and Rentless</strong>. In case you didn\'t know, Fall is the season for tree planting here in Tulsa. <a href=\"http://youngandrentless.blogspot.com/2010/10/fall-season-for-planting.html\">Caitlin at Y&amp;R has some tips and an account of her first experience shopping and planting her very own tree</a>. Which is not as easy as it sounds, actually. And who doesn\'t love trees, especially at this time of year?\r\n\r\n<strong>The Red Dirt Chronicles</strong>. Three words: <a href=\"http://reddirtchronicles.com/2010/10/24/oversleep-y-silent-sunday-102410/\">It\'s persimmon season</a>. That is all.\r\n\r\n<strong>Real Food Tulsa</strong>. <a href=\"http://realfoodtulsa.blogspot.com/2010/10/foodie-friday-great-pumpkin-episode.html\">Penni at RFT has a recipe for pumpkin cookies with caramel icing, as well as for a creamy pumpkin pie with gingersnap crust and vanilla whipped cream</a>. The best part? There\'s no cooking involved. Penni\'s all about raw food, and she really knows how to pimp the stuff. Give it a shot - my bet is that with recipes this yum, you won\'t miss turning on your oven.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Errant Cook</strong>. Some people just can\'t wait for Thanksgiving to have a turkey dinner with all the trimmings. <a href=\"http://errantcook.blogspot.com/2010/10/happy-not-yet-thanksgiving.html\">Jennifer at TEC is one of them</a>. And why do we wait, anyway? Especially when one can whip up a pumpkin pie with fall leaves cut from pastry for the crust and have each piece topped with a dollop of homemade whipped cream like at Jennifer\'s house? Yowza.\r\n\r\n<strong>Hot off the Haywire</strong>. Have you heard about Clean Food Tulsa and the Oklahoma Food Coop? It\'s the locavore\'s answer to maintaining a diet derived as much from food grown and raised locally as possible even now that the farmers\' markets are closed, <a href=\"http://thehaywire.typepad.com/hot-off-the-haywire/2010/10/farm-fodder-page-26.html\">and the folks at Pork &amp; Greens, a local pork producer, has the scoop</a>. Plus, shopping for food online is kinda fun - and maybe a little addictive, too, especially when everything you order online is trucked in and dropped off at the same place and at the same time each week. See? Knowing where your food comes from can be convenient, even during the dead of winter.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa Food Blog</strong>. <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/extras/tulsa-food-events/oktoberfest-bratwursts-beer-unity\">The TFB kids wax poetic about community in their recap of the 2010 OktoberFest Tulsa</a>. When there\'s that much beer and bratwurst and chicken dancing on the table with people you\'ve never met involved, it\'s kinda hard to blame \'em.\r\n\r\n<strong>Minivan Momma</strong>. Hey - get off my lawn! <a href=\"http://www.minivan-momma.com/2010/10/just-call-me-linus.html\">This story from Minivan Momma is exactly why I yell at passersby near my house like an 82-year-old man, especially when I have pumpkins on the porch</a>. But, all\'s well that ends well in MM\'s world, even when a rotting pumpkin turns into a pumpkin vine which produces blossoms that survive only long enough to be plucked by her kiddos in celebration and anticipationi of having home-grown pumpkins in the fall. Seriously. This story had me rolling on the floor, you guys.\r\n\r\n<strong>Knitting in the Wild</strong>. Denise at KitW notices how, after the rush of farmers\' market season, <a href=\"http://www.lostcityknits.com/2010/10/autumnal-settling-in.html\">the fall encourages her slow down and embrace the changes that surround her</a>. I\'ll always take a reminder to slow down, Denise - thanks for that.\r\n\r\n<strong>Hollyrocks</strong>. <a href=\"http://hollyrocksjewelry.blogspot.com/2010/10/its-about-that-time-again.html\">Holly has news - Indie Emporium is this weekend</a>! This is not your grandma\'s craft show, people. With a handmade fashion show (starring Holly as one of the models), make-and-take tables that offer you the chance to be a fabulous craftista and enough vendors to supply you with gifts for everyone on your holiday shopping list, IE is sure to capture the imagination of the crafter and the shopper in you that, now that fall is here, is just begging to be set free. It all gets started just outside of downtown Tulsa this Friday night - you can count on finding more details on this event in the weekend rundown here at TDT first thing Friday morning.\r\n<h2>There\'s Always Room for Randomness</h2>\r\n<strong>Tulsa Gal</strong>. Did you know that the Golden Driller, the Tulsa and oil boom icon that stands guard at the south entrance to the fairgrounds, is the most photographed landmark in this town? <a href=\"http://www.tulsagal.net/2010/10/golden-driller.html\">According to Nancy at Tulsa Gal, it is</a>. As per her usual, Nancy has several historic photos that explain how the Golden Driller came to exist, as well as a grab bag of interesting facts about one of our most quirky monuments.\r\n\r\n<strong>Crawdads in My Sink</strong>. Heather made me laugh again. First, <a href=\"http://crawdadsinmysink.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/major/\">there was her account of being in the gynecologist\'s office during the Oklahoma earthquake earlier this month</a>, featured in the last edition of Tulsa Blogs This Week. Now she\'s showing off <a href=\"http://crawdadsinmysink.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/im-not-a-redneck-you-are/\">the self-dubbed redneck TV antenna she and her husband fashioned out of the junk in their yard</a>. I\'m beginning to think this blog is going to become my new first stop for when I need a good, Okie-style laugh.\r\n\r\n<strong>Oklahoma Women\'s Network Blog</strong>. Did you know that the Oklahoma Department of Tourism includes a section on its website for fun trips for the ladies? Yeah. It does. <a href=\"http://oklahomawomen.blogspot.com/2010/10/chick-trips-in-oklahoma.html\">And what would this section be called but Chick Trips</a>, which features Oklahoma\'s vineyards and wineries, spas and shopping options. Now we\'ve just gotta get <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Gilbert\">Elizabeth Gilbert</a> to notice...\r\n\r\n<strong>Global Table Adventure</strong>. <a href=\"http://globaltableadventure.com/2010/10/21/recipe-boiled-lobster/\">Ever wonder how to cook live lobster? Sasha at GTA shows you how</a>. With photos. And maybe a few deep breaths and a tear or two.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa SPCA</strong>. <a href=\"http://tulsaspca.blogspot.com/2010/10/if-you-are-looking-for-companion-that.html\">\'Tis the season to bring a new, fuzzy member home for the holidays - and for happily ever after, too</a>. This TSPCA blog just kills me. I wish I could buy a farm and adopt every single last one of those darling pups and kitties. But I\'m hoping that you all will help me spread the love instead. Because I\'m pretty sure my husband would be a little upset with me if I bought a farm and adopted all the animals at the TSPCA. Even though the cuteness overload with be of major proportions, but still. Throw a girl a bone here.\r\n\r\nWhat Tulsa blogs have you been reading this week?','Running, Lobster, Mustaches and All Things Fall : Tulsa Blogs This Week','From inspiration for hitting the trails to how to cook a live lobster to growing a mustache for a cause, it\'s all in Tulsa blogs this week. ','inherit','open','open','','3290-revision-3','','','2010-10-26 22:55:58','2010-10-27 03:55:58','',3290,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3290-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(3295,1,'2010-10-26 22:58:44','2010-10-27 03:58:44','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3291\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/running-lobster-mustaches-and-all-things-fall-tulsa-blogs-this-week/dsc07873-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3291\" title=\"Memorial Park Cemetery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC07873-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Memorial Park Cemetery\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nFrom inspiration for hitting the trails to how to cook a live lobster to growing a mustache for a cause, it\'s all in Tulsa blogs this week.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Run, Tulsa, Run</h2>\r\nDid you hear? It\'s running season here in Tulsa, Oklahoma. During the months of October and November, there\'s a major run nearly every weekend, starting with <a href=\"http://www.tulsarun.com/\">Tulsa Run 2010</a> this Saturday.\r\n\r\nContrary to what you might think, many of us bloggers know how to peel our butts off a computer chair, lace up a pair of sneakers and pound the pavement to the beats coming through our iPods. Some of us are even training for long-distance runs this fall - 15K or, in a few cases, even longer. Check out these recent posts from Tulsa-area bloggers on that sport that seems to capture the hearts of so many Oklahomans at this time of year.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Marriage of an Undomestic</strong> - <a href=\"http://thereallt.blogspot.com/2010/10/molasses-and-other-running-rambles.html\">Molasses and Other Running Rambles</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Running on Empty</strong> - <a href=\"http://fat-ass-to-fit-ass.blogspot.com/2010/10/why-i-run.html\">Why I Run</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Hollyhouse Studio</strong> - <a href=\"http://hollyhousestudio.blogspot.com/2010/10/whys.html\">The WHYs</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Fitness Adventures</strong> - <a href=\"http://thefitnessadventures.blogspot.com/2010/10/decisions-questioning-my-choices.html\">Decisions &amp; Questioning My Choices</a>\r\n<h2>It\'s Fall, Y\'all</h2>\r\n<strong>The Art of Manliness</strong>. Been looking for an excuse to grow a sweet \'stache? Look no further - November is right around the corner, and <a href=\"http://artofmanliness.com/2010/10/22/fight-prostate-cancer-by-growing-a-mustache-the-2010-movember-contest\">men are being encouraged to grow mustaches to raise awareness for men\'s health issues, from prostate cancer to male depression</a>. Blogger Brett McKay makes the case in that trademark AoM style:\r\n<blockquote>Now I’m all for saving the world’s wonderful tata’s, but men have a cancer all of their own, and it unfortunately doesn’t get quite as much attention (I guess nobody wants to think about a guy’s junk when they’re peeling off the top of their yogurt.)</blockquote>\r\nReady to get growin\'? Join the mo-growing contest at AoM. Not only will you have a brag-worthy mustache to show for it at the end, but you could also end up with some sweet prizes that will have you declaring, \"I am all that is man.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>Young and Rentless</strong>. In case you didn\'t know, Fall is the season for tree planting here in Tulsa. <a href=\"http://youngandrentless.blogspot.com/2010/10/fall-season-for-planting.html\">Caitlin at Y&amp;R has some tips and an account of her first experience shopping and planting her very own tree</a>. Which is not as easy as it sounds, actually. And who doesn\'t love trees, especially at this time of year?\r\n\r\n<strong>The Red Dirt Chronicles</strong>. Three words: <a href=\"http://reddirtchronicles.com/2010/10/24/oversleep-y-silent-sunday-102410/\">It\'s persimmon season</a>. That is all.\r\n\r\n<strong>Real Food Tulsa</strong>. <a href=\"http://realfoodtulsa.blogspot.com/2010/10/foodie-friday-great-pumpkin-episode.html\">Penni at RFT has a recipe for pumpkin cookies with caramel icing, as well as for a creamy pumpkin pie with gingersnap crust and vanilla whipped cream</a>. The best part? There\'s no cooking involved. Penni\'s all about raw food, and she really knows how to pimp the stuff. Give it a shot - my bet is that with recipes this yum, you won\'t miss turning on your oven.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Errant Cook</strong>. Some people just can\'t wait for Thanksgiving to have a turkey dinner with all the trimmings. <a href=\"http://errantcook.blogspot.com/2010/10/happy-not-yet-thanksgiving.html\">Jennifer at TEC is one of them</a>. And why do we wait, anyway? Especially when one can whip up a pumpkin pie with fall leaves cut from pastry for the crust and have each piece topped with a dollop of homemade whipped cream like at Jennifer\'s house? Yowza.\r\n\r\n<strong>Hot off the Haywire</strong>. Have you heard about Clean Food Tulsa and the Oklahoma Food Coop? It\'s the locavore\'s answer to maintaining a diet derived as much from food grown and raised locally as possible even now that the farmers\' markets are closed, <a href=\"http://thehaywire.typepad.com/hot-off-the-haywire/2010/10/farm-fodder-page-26.html\">and the folks at Pork &amp; Greens, a local pork producer, has the scoop</a>. Plus, shopping for food online is kinda fun - and maybe a little addictive, too, especially when everything you order online is trucked in and dropped off at the same place and at the same time each week. See? Knowing where your food comes from can be convenient, even during the dead of winter.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa Food Blog</strong>. <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/extras/tulsa-food-events/oktoberfest-bratwursts-beer-unity\">The TFB kids wax poetic about community in their recap of the 2010 OktoberFest Tulsa</a>. When there\'s that much beer and bratwurst and chicken dancing on the table with people you\'ve never met involved, it\'s kinda hard to blame \'em.\r\n\r\n<strong>Minivan Momma</strong>. Hey - get off my lawn! <a href=\"http://www.minivan-momma.com/2010/10/just-call-me-linus.html\">This story from Minivan Momma is exactly why I yell at passersby near my house like an 82-year-old man, especially when I have pumpkins on the porch</a>. But, all\'s well that ends well in MM\'s world, even when a rotting pumpkin turns into a pumpkin vine which produces blossoms that survive only long enough to be plucked by her kiddos in celebration and anticipationi of having home-grown pumpkins in the fall. Seriously. This story had me rolling on the floor, you guys.\r\n\r\n<strong>Knitting in the Wild</strong>. Denise at KitW notices how, after the rush of farmers\' market season, <a href=\"http://www.lostcityknits.com/2010/10/autumnal-settling-in.html\">the fall encourages her slow down and embrace the changes that surround her</a>. I\'ll always take a reminder to slow down, Denise - thanks for that.\r\n\r\n<strong>Hollyrocks</strong>. <a href=\"http://hollyrocksjewelry.blogspot.com/2010/10/its-about-that-time-again.html\">Holly has news - Indie Emporium is this weekend</a>! This is not your grandma\'s craft show, people. With a handmade fashion show (starring Holly as one of the models), make-and-take tables that offer you the chance to be a fabulous craftista and enough vendors to supply you with gifts for everyone on your holiday shopping list, IE is sure to capture the imagination of the crafter and the shopper in you that, now that fall is here, is just begging to be set free. It all gets started just outside of downtown Tulsa this Friday night - you can count on finding more details on this event in the weekend rundown here at TDT first thing Friday morning.\r\n<h2>There\'s Always Room for Randomness</h2>\r\n<strong>Tulsa Gal</strong>. Did you know that the Golden Driller, the Tulsa and oil boom icon that stands guard at the south entrance to the fairgrounds, is the most photographed landmark in this town? <a href=\"http://www.tulsagal.net/2010/10/golden-driller.html\">According to Nancy at Tulsa Gal, it is</a>. As per her usual, Nancy has several historic photos that explain how the Golden Driller came to exist, as well as a grab bag of interesting facts about one of our most quirky monuments.\r\n\r\n<strong>Crawdads in My Sink</strong>. Heather made me laugh again. First, <a href=\"http://crawdadsinmysink.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/major/\">there was her account of being in the gynecologist\'s office during the Oklahoma earthquake earlier this month</a>, featured in the last edition of Tulsa Blogs This Week. Now she\'s showing off <a href=\"http://crawdadsinmysink.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/im-not-a-redneck-you-are/\">the self-dubbed redneck TV antenna she and her husband fashioned out of the junk in their yard</a>. I\'m beginning to think this blog is going to become my new first stop for when I need a good, Okie-style laugh.\r\n\r\n<strong>Oklahoma Women\'s Network Blog</strong>. Did you know that the Oklahoma Department of Tourism includes a section on its website for fun trips for the ladies? Yeah. It does. <a href=\"http://oklahomawomen.blogspot.com/2010/10/chick-trips-in-oklahoma.html\">And what would this section be called but Chick Trips</a>, which features Oklahoma\'s vineyards and wineries, spas and shopping options. Now we\'ve just gotta get <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Gilbert\">Elizabeth Gilbert</a> to notice...\r\n\r\n<strong>Global Table Adventure</strong>. <a href=\"http://globaltableadventure.com/2010/10/21/recipe-boiled-lobster/\">Ever wonder how to cook live lobster? Sasha at GTA shows you how</a>. With photos. And maybe a few deep breaths and a tear or two.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa SPCA</strong>. <a href=\"http://tulsaspca.blogspot.com/2010/10/if-you-are-looking-for-companion-that.html\">\'Tis the season to bring a new, fuzzy member home for the holidays - and for happily ever after, too</a>. This TSPCA blog just kills me. I wish I could buy a farm and adopt every single last one of those darling pups and kitties. But I\'m hoping that you all will help me spread the love instead. Because I\'m pretty sure my husband would be a little upset with me if I bought a farm and adopted all the animals at the TSPCA. Even though the cuteness overload with be of major proportions, but still. Throw a girl a bone here.\r\n\r\nWhat Tulsa blogs have you been reading this week?','Running, Lobster, Mustaches and All Things Fall: Tulsa Blogs This Week','From inspiration for hitting the trails to how to cook a live lobster to growing a mustache for a cause, it\'s all in Tulsa blogs this week. ','inherit','open','open','','3290-revision-4','','','2010-10-26 22:58:44','2010-10-27 03:58:44','',3290,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3290-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(4053,1,'2010-11-28 23:48:07','2010-11-29 04:48:07','<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. Instead, 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<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>\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 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, where the folks there have been making Broken Arrow visible from space for 28 years. 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. The lights display at Rhema is as pure a wonderland as you can get with the non-alcoholic egg nog types. \r\n\r\n<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>\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, 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: 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.\r\n\r\n<em><a href=\"http://uticasquare.com/\">Image from UticaSquare.com</a>.</em>','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. 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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, 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: 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-15','','','2010-11-28 23:58:01','2010-11-29 04:58:01','',4027,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/4027-revision-15/',0,'revision','',0),(4052,1,'2010-11-28 23:48:07','2010-11-29 04:48:07','<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. Instead, 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<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>\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 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, where the folks there have been making Broken Arrow visible from space for 28 years. 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. The lights display at Rhema is as pure a wonderland as you can get with the non-alcoholic egg nog types. \r\n\r\n<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>\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, 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: 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.\r\n\r\n<em><a href=\"http://uticasquare.com/\">Image from UticaSquare.com</a>.</em>','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. 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I have a little somethin-somethin for you to put into your calendars.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<h2><strong>Tulsa Blogger Meetup, Movie Night Edition</strong></h2>\r\nWhen: Wednesday, Jan. 5, 6:30pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.circlecinema.com/\">Circle Cinema</a>, 12 S. Lewis Ave.\r\n\r\nFor our first meetup of 2011 we\'ll cuddle up in <a href=\"http://www.circlecinema.com/\">Tulsa\'s own independent movie house</a> and watch <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/05/rock-n-roll-dreams-of-duncan/\">an independent movie that was made right here in T-Town</a>.\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/u0fuhyx-uyU?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/u0fuhyx-uyU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nYes! We get a private screening of the award-winning film <a href=\"http://www.duncanchristopherthemovie.com/\">The Rock \'n\' Roll Dreams of Duncan Christopher</a>! All to our freaking selves! For free!\r\n\r\nThis movie sold out so fast at <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/07/tulsa-united-film-festival-2010-rundown/\">Tulsa United Film Festival this summer</a> that it wouldn\'t surprise me if you missed out. But everything\'s OK now. Because you\'re going to get to see this film in its full glory, all in the Quad at Circle Cinema, which is, in my humble opinion, one of the coolest places in Tulsa, even when it\'s not full of bloggers and screening a movie about Tulsa\'s underground, super-competitive karaoke scene.\r\n\r\nOh, and another thing? Duncan Christopher star Jack Roberts will talk to us a bit about the movie, and the team over at the Tulsa-based public relations firm <a href=\"http://engineroompr.com/\">The Engine Room Creative Communications</a> will tell us about the grassroots social media and PR campaign they\'re building to take this movie to college campuses across the nation.\r\n\r\nAnd there may or may not be an appearance from a certain famous character from the movie:\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" 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/GKc3p5Fmkkw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/GKc3p5Fmkkw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nYeah. Word\'s on the street. I also hear there will be Duncan swag a-plenty.\r\n\r\nLike I mentioned above, <strong>admission to this event is free</strong>, but I probably won\'t let you in unless you have <strong>a donation, however small, of nonperishable food to contribute to the <a href=\"http://www.cfbeo.org/\">Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma</a></strong>. I\'ll have a karaoke superstar to bounce you if you try to sneak in, so if I were you, I wouldn\'t chance it.\r\n\r\nAnother thing? Only the first 45 folks to show up at this event get a seat. So get there strong, get there early, because these blogger meetups have been running at a, uh, somewhat larger capacity than just 45 heads.\r\n\r\nSee y\'all there!','Tulsa Blogger Meetup, Movie Night Edition','Calling all Tulsa bloggers! I have a little somethin-somethin for you to put into your calendars.','inherit','open','open','','4839-revision-16','','','2011-01-05 15:12:08','2011-01-05 20:12:08','',4839,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/01/4839-revision-16/',0,'revision','',0),(5017,1,'2011-01-05 15:11:36','2011-01-05 20:11:36','<object width=\"496\" height=\"304\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/yOZiodxXpjM?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/yOZiodxXpjM?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"496\" height=\"304\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nSee you there. And don\'t forget to show up early - seating\'s limited. ','A special message about tonight\'s Tulsa Blogger Meetup...','See you there. And don\'t forget to show up early - seating\'s limited. ','publish','open','open','','a-special-message-tulsa-blogger-meetup-duncan-christopher','','','2011-01-05 15:11:36','2011-01-05 20:11:36','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=5017',0,'post','',3),(5018,1,'2011-01-05 15:11:22','2011-01-05 20:11:22','<object width=\"496\" height=\"304\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/yOZiodxXpjM?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/yOZiodxXpjM?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"496\" height=\"304\"></embed></object>\n\nSee you there. And don\'t forget to show up early - seating\'s limited. ','A special message about tonight\'s Tulsa Blogger Meetup...','','inherit','open','open','','5017-revision','','','2011-01-05 15:11:22','2011-01-05 20:11:22','',5017,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/01/5017-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(5019,1,'2011-01-05 09:22:11','2011-01-05 14:22:11','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4844\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/tulsa-blogger-meetup-movie-night-edition/duncanchristopher/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4844\" title=\"Duncan Christopher Movie\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/duncanchristopher.jpg\" alt=\"Duncan Christopher Movie\" width=\"417\" height=\"604\" /></a>\r\n\r\nCalling all Tulsa bloggers! I have a little somethin-somethin for you to put into your calendars.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<h2><strong>Tulsa Blogger Meetup, Movie Night Edition</strong></h2>\r\nWhen: Wednesday, Jan. 5, 6:30pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.circlecinema.com/\">Circle Cinema</a>, 12 S. Lewis Ave.\r\n\r\nFor our first meetup of 2011 we\'ll cuddle up in <a href=\"http://www.circlecinema.com/\">Tulsa\'s own independent movie house</a> and watch <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/05/rock-n-roll-dreams-of-duncan/\">an independent movie that was made right here in T-Town</a>.\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/u0fuhyx-uyU?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/u0fuhyx-uyU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nYes! We get a private screening of the award-winning film <a href=\"http://www.duncanchristopherthemovie.com/\">The Rock \'n\' Roll Dreams of Duncan Christopher</a>! All to our freaking selves! For free!\r\n\r\nThis movie sold out so fast at <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/07/tulsa-united-film-festival-2010-rundown/\">Tulsa United Film Festival this summer</a> that it wouldn\'t surprise me if you missed out. But everything\'s OK now. Because you\'re going to get to see this film in its full glory, all in the Quad at Circle Cinema, which is, in my humble opinion, one of the coolest places in Tulsa, even when it\'s not full of bloggers and screening a movie about Tulsa\'s underground, super-competitive karaoke scene.\r\n\r\nOh, and another thing? Duncan Christopher star Jack Roberts will talk to us a bit about the movie, and the team over at the Tulsa-based public relations firm <a href=\"http://engineroompr.com/\">The Engine Room Creative Communications</a> will tell us about the grassroots social media and PR campaign they\'re building to take this movie to college campuses across the nation.\r\n\r\nAnd there may or may not be an appearance from a certain famous character from the movie:\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" 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/GKc3p5Fmkkw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/GKc3p5Fmkkw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nYeah. Word\'s on the street. I also hear there will be Duncan swag a-plenty.\r\n\r\nLike I mentioned above, <strong>admission to this event is free</strong>, but I probably won\'t let you in unless you have <strong>a donation, however small, of nonperishable food to contribute to the <a href=\"http://www.cfbeo.org/\">Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma</a></strong>. I\'ll have a karaoke superstar to bounce you if you try to sneak in, so if I were you, I wouldn\'t chance it.\r\n\r\nAnother thing? Only the first 45 folks to show up at this event get a seat. So get there strong, get there early, because these blogger meetups have been running at a, uh, somewhat larger capacity than just 45 heads.\r\n\r\nSee y\'all there!','Tulsa Blogger Meetup, Movie Night Edition','Calling all Tulsa bloggers! 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Well, sorta.\n\nIt was last year, when he was about 20 months old, when he was too small to walk the neighborhood so we took him in <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3856432363/\">his bad-ass jogging stroller</a>. So, does that even count as having done the trick-or-treat gig before?\n\n<!--more-->\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\n\nBy my estimation? No. In fact, I bet even his third year of trick-or-treating will feel a lot like the \"first-ever.\" That\'s one of the cool things about being a little kid: For the first few years of life, everything seems brand new and warrants an unabashed sense of wonder, even if you\'ve actually done whatever it is that\'s so amazing before. Because your memory span is not much longer than that of a goldfish.\n\nNot that there\'s anything wrong with that.\n\nSo, our son is going to go trick-or-treating on his own two feet this this year. Since he\'s somewhat afraid of his own costume - even though it\'s style after a bottle of his most favorite drink ever, it slips over his head, and when it comes to things being on his head he\'s kinda like that guy on There\'s Something About Mary who has that unfortunate and violent sensitivity about his ears - I wanted to get in a few practice runs before the big night.\n\nBefore we headed to my aunt\'s house to do just that, I wanted to first see if the kiddo had any idea about what we were about to do.\n\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Hey there, my snookie pie lovey bear little man baby (heh). Do you know what Halloween is?\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. I know what Halloween is.\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Yeah? So what is it?\n<strong>Son</strong>: Girls wear butterfly wings and boys wear chicken hats.\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Uh...\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/\">My chicken hat</a> is asleep over there. *points*\n<strong>TDT</strong>: In your toy box?\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. Chicken hat sleeping in toy box.\n<strong>TDT</strong>: So, hey. Do you know what trick-or-treating is?\n<strong>Son</strong>: *silence*\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Remember? It\'s that thing where you knock on the door or push the button (this is how this kid understands ringing a doorbell) and when someone answers you shout, \"Trick or treat!\" And then that person puts some candy in your trick-or-treat bag.\n<strong>Son</strong>: A <em>treat</em>???\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Yeah, a treat!\n<strong>Son</strong>: Can I have treat now?\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Sorry, we\'re fresh out of treats. But everyone will be happy to give you a treat on Halloween. You have to wear your costume, though.\n<strong>Son</strong>: *silence*\n<strong>TDT</strong>: But that\'s OK, because you have one. Remember?\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. I have a costume.\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Do you know what you\'re gonna be for Halloween?\n<strong>Son</strong>: Chicken hat.\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Actually, Daddy and I found a root beer costume for you.\n<strong>Son</strong>: Root beers? Go get root beers now???\n<strong>TDT</strong>: I have a feeling that this interview is over now.\n<strong>Son</strong>: Mommy?\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Uh-huh?\n<strong>Son</strong>: Hey, Mommy?\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Yeah?\n<strong>Son</strong>: We get in my car, go get root beers now??\n\nHis briefing thus disposed, we decided it was time for a semi-dry run of this trick-or-treat action. Off to my aunt\'s we went.\n\nAnd here\'s what happened there.\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/HZs4RK62SzA?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/HZs4RK62SzA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\n\nI think we\'re mostly good to go. As long as we can keep the boy moving instead of letting him stop after each house and eat his candy on the porch like he wanted during this practice run, I think we\'ll live to see Nov. 1.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3340\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3340\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1617.jpg\" alt=\"Root Beer Costume\" title=\"Root Beer Costume\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3340\" /></a>\n\nHow did <em>you</em> get your first-time trick-or-treaters ready for one of the biggest nights of his/her childhood?','Trick-or-Treat Lessons [VIDEO]','How did you get your first-time trick-or-treaters ready for one of the biggest nights of his/her childhood?','inherit','open','open','','3239-revision-2','','','2010-10-28 08:59:06','2010-10-28 13:59:06','',3239,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3239-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(3342,1,'2010-10-28 08:59:09','2010-10-28 13:59:09','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3339\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3339\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3339\" title=\"Root Beer Costume\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1618.jpg\" alt=\"Root Beer Costume\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOur son has been trick-or-treating before. Well, sorta.\r\n\r\nIt was last year, when he was about 20 months old, when he was too small to walk the neighborhood so we took him in <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3856432363/\">his bad-ass jogging stroller</a>. So, does that even count as having done the trick-or-treat gig before?\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\nBy my estimation? No. In fact, I bet even his third year of trick-or-treating will feel a lot like the \"first-ever.\" That\'s one of the cool things about being a little kid: For the first few years of life, everything seems brand new and warrants an unabashed sense of wonder, even if you\'ve actually done whatever it is that\'s so amazing before. Because your memory span is not much longer than that of a goldfish.\r\n\r\nNot that there\'s anything wrong with that.\r\n\r\nSo, our son is going to go trick-or-treating on his own two feet this this year. Since he\'s somewhat afraid of his own costume - even though it\'s style after a bottle of his most favorite drink ever, it slips over his head, and when it comes to things being on his head he\'s kinda like that guy on There\'s Something About Mary who has that unfortunate and violent sensitivity about his ears - I wanted to get in a few practice runs before the big night.\r\n\r\nBefore we headed to my aunt\'s house to do just that, I wanted to first see if the kiddo had any idea about what we were about to do.\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Hey there, my snookie pie lovey bear little man baby (heh). Do you know what Halloween is?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. I know what Halloween is.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Yeah? So what is it?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Girls wear butterfly wings and boys wear chicken hats.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Uh...\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/\">My chicken hat</a> is asleep over there. *points*\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: In your toy box?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. Chicken hat sleeping in toy box.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: So, hey. Do you know what trick-or-treating is?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: *silence*\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Remember? It\'s that thing where you knock on the door or push the button (this is how this kid understands ringing a doorbell) and when someone answers you shout, \"Trick or treat!\" And then that person puts some candy in your trick-or-treat bag.\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: A <em>treat</em>???\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Yeah, a treat!\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Can I have treat now?\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Sorry, we\'re fresh out of treats. But everyone will be happy to give you a treat on Halloween. You have to wear your costume, though.\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: *silence*\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: But that\'s OK, because you have one. Remember?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. I have a costume.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Do you know what you\'re gonna be for Halloween?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Chicken hat.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Actually, Daddy and I found a root beer costume for you.\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Root beers? Go get root beers now???\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: I have a feeling that this interview is over now.\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Mommy?\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Uh-huh?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Hey, Mommy?\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Yeah?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: We get in my car, go get root beers now??\r\n\r\nHis briefing thus disposed, we decided it was time for a semi-dry run of this trick-or-treat action. Off to my aunt\'s we went.\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s what happened there.\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/HZs4RK62SzA?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/HZs4RK62SzA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nI think we\'re mostly good to go. As long as we can keep the boy moving instead of letting him stop after each house and eat his candy on the porch like he wanted during this practice run, I think we\'ll live to see Nov. 1.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3340\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3340\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1617.jpg\" alt=\"Root Beer Costume\" title=\"Root Beer Costume\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3340\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHow did <em>you</em> get your first-time trick-or-treaters ready for one of the biggest nights of his/her childhood?','Trick-or-Treat Lessons [VIDEO]','How did you get your first-time trick-or-treaters ready for one of the biggest nights of his/her childhood?','inherit','open','open','','3239-revision-3','','','2010-10-28 08:59:09','2010-10-28 13:59:09','',3239,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3239-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(3343,1,'2010-10-28 08:59:09','2010-10-28 13:59:09','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3339\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/trick-or-treat-lessons/dsc_1618/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3339\" title=\"Root Beer Costume\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1618.jpg\" alt=\"Root Beer Costume\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOur son has been trick-or-treating before. Well, sorta.\r\n\r\nIt was last year, when he was about 20 months old, when he was too small to walk the neighborhood so we took him in <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3856432363/\">his bad-ass jogging stroller</a>. So, does that even count as having done the trick-or-treat gig before?\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\nBy my estimation? No. In fact, I bet even his third year of trick-or-treating will feel a lot like the \"first-ever.\" That\'s one of the cool things about being a little kid: For the first few years of life, everything seems brand new and warrants an unabashed sense of wonder, even if you\'ve actually done whatever it is that\'s so amazing before. Because your memory span is not much longer than that of a goldfish.\r\n\r\nNot that there\'s anything wrong with that.\r\n\r\nSo, our son is going to go trick-or-treating on his own two feet this this year. Since he\'s somewhat afraid of his own costume - even though it\'s style after a bottle of his most favorite drink ever, it slips over his head, and when it comes to things being on his head he\'s kinda like that guy on There\'s Something About Mary who has that unfortunate and violent sensitivity about his ears - I wanted to get in a few practice runs before the big night.\r\n\r\nBefore we headed to my aunt\'s house to do just that, I wanted to first see if the kiddo had any idea about what we were about to do.\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Hey there, my snookie pie lovey bear little man baby (heh). Do you know what Halloween is?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. I know what Halloween is.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Yeah? So what is it?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Girls wear butterfly wings and boys wear chicken hats.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Uh...\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/\">My chicken hat</a> is asleep over there. *points*\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: In your toy box?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. Chicken hat sleeping in toy box.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: So, hey. Do you know what trick-or-treating is?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: *silence*\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Remember? It\'s that thing where you knock on the door or push the button (this is how this kid understands ringing a doorbell) and when someone answers you shout, \"Trick or treat!\" And then that person puts some candy in your trick-or-treat bag.\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: A <em>treat</em>???\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Yeah, a treat!\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Can I have treat now?\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Sorry, we\'re fresh out of treats. But everyone will be happy to give you a treat on Halloween. You have to wear your costume, though.\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: *silence*\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: But that\'s OK, because you have one. Remember?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. I have a costume.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Do you know what you\'re gonna be for Halloween?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Chicken hat.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Actually, Daddy and I found a root beer costume for you.\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Root beers? Go get root beers now???\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: I have a feeling that this interview is over now.\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Mommy?\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Uh-huh?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Hey, Mommy?\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Yeah?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: We get in my car, go get root beers now??\r\n\r\nHis briefing thus disposed, we decided it was time for a semi-dry run of this trick-or-treat action. Off to my aunt\'s we went.\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s what happened there.\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/HZs4RK62SzA?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/HZs4RK62SzA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nI think we\'re mostly good to go. As long as we can keep the boy moving instead of letting him stop after each house and eat his candy on the porch like he wanted during this practice run, I think we\'ll live to see Nov. 1.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/trick-or-treat-lessons/dsc_1617/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3340\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1617.jpg\" alt=\"Root Beer Costume\" title=\"Root Beer Costume\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3340\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHow did <em>you</em> get your first-time trick-or-treaters ready for one of the biggest nights of his/her childhood?','Trick-or-Treat Lessons [VIDEO]','How did you get your first-time trick-or-treaters ready for one of the biggest nights of his/her childhood?','inherit','open','open','','3239-revision-4','','','2010-10-28 08:59:09','2010-10-28 13:59:09','',3239,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3239-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(3344,1,'2010-10-28 08:59:20','2010-10-28 13:59:20','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3339\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/trick-or-treat-lessons/dsc_1618/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3339\" title=\"Root Beer Costume\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1618.jpg\" alt=\"Root Beer Costume\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOur son has been trick-or-treating before. Well, sorta.\r\n\r\nIt was last year, when he was about 20 months old, when he was too small to walk the neighborhood so we took him in <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3856432363/\">his bad-ass jogging stroller</a>. So, does that even count as having done the trick-or-treat gig before?\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\nBy my estimation? No. In fact, I bet even his third year of trick-or-treating will feel a lot like the \"first-ever.\" That\'s one of the cool things about being a little kid: For the first few years of life, everything seems brand new and warrants an unabashed sense of wonder, even if you\'ve actually done whatever it is that\'s so amazing before. Because your memory span is not much longer than that of a goldfish.\r\n\r\nNot that there\'s anything wrong with that.\r\n\r\nSo, our son is going to go trick-or-treating on his own two feet this this year. Since he\'s somewhat afraid of his own costume - even though it\'s style after a bottle of his most favorite drink ever, it slips over his head, and when it comes to things being on his head he\'s kinda like that guy on There\'s Something About Mary who has that unfortunate and violent sensitivity about his ears - I wanted to get in a few practice runs before the big night.\r\n\r\nBefore we headed to my aunt\'s house to do just that, I wanted to first see if the kiddo had any idea about what we were about to do.\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Hey there, my snookie pie lovey bear little man baby (heh). Do you know what Halloween is?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. I know what Halloween is.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Yeah? So what is it?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Girls wear butterfly wings and boys wear chicken hats.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Uh...\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/\">My chicken hat</a> is asleep over there. *points*\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: In your toy box?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. Chicken hat sleeping in toy box.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: So, hey. Do you know what trick-or-treating is?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: *silence*\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Remember? It\'s that thing where you knock on the door or push the button (this is how this kid understands ringing a doorbell) and when someone answers you shout, \"Trick or treat!\" And then that person puts some candy in your trick-or-treat bag.\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: A <em>treat</em>???\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Yeah, a treat!\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Can I have treat now?\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Sorry, we\'re fresh out of treats. But everyone will be happy to give you a treat on Halloween. You have to wear your costume, though.\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: *silence*\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: But that\'s OK, because you have one. Remember?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. I have a costume.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Do you know what you\'re gonna be for Halloween?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Chicken hat.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Actually, Daddy and I found a root beer costume for you.\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Root beers? Go get root beers now???\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: I have a feeling that this interview is over now.\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Mommy?\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Uh-huh?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Hey, Mommy?\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Yeah?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: We get in my car, go get root beers now??\r\n\r\nHis briefing thus disposed, we decided it was time for a semi-dry run of this trick-or-treat action. Off to my aunt\'s we went.\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s what happened there.\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/HZs4RK62SzA?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/HZs4RK62SzA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nI think we\'re mostly good to go. As long as we can keep the boy moving instead of letting him stop after each house and eat his candy on the porch like he wanted during this practice run, I think we\'ll live to see Nov. 1.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/trick-or-treat-lessons/dsc_1617/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3340\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1617.jpg\" alt=\"Root Beer Costume\" title=\"Root Beer Costume\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3340\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHow did <em>you</em> get your first-time trick-or-treaters ready for one of the biggest nights of his/her childhood?','Trick-or-Treat Lessons [VIDEO]','How did you get your first-time trick-or-treaters ready for one of the biggest nights of his/her childhood?','inherit','open','open','','3239-revision-5','','','2010-10-28 08:59:20','2010-10-28 13:59:20','',3239,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3239-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(3345,1,'2010-10-28 08:59:20','2010-10-28 13:59:20','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3339\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/trick-or-treat-lessons-video/dsc_1618/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3339\" title=\"Root Beer Costume\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1618.jpg\" alt=\"Root Beer Costume\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOur son has been trick-or-treating before. Well, sorta.\r\n\r\nIt was last year, when he was about 20 months old, when he was too small to walk the neighborhood so we took him in <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3856432363/\">his bad-ass jogging stroller</a>. So, does that even count as having done the trick-or-treat gig before?\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\nBy my estimation? No. In fact, I bet even his third year of trick-or-treating will feel a lot like the \"first-ever.\" That\'s one of the cool things about being a little kid: For the first few years of life, everything seems brand new and warrants an unabashed sense of wonder, even if you\'ve actually done whatever it is that\'s so amazing before. Because your memory span is not much longer than that of a goldfish.\r\n\r\nNot that there\'s anything wrong with that.\r\n\r\nSo, our son is going to go trick-or-treating on his own two feet this this year. Since he\'s somewhat afraid of his own costume - even though it\'s style after a bottle of his most favorite drink ever, it slips over his head, and when it comes to things being on his head he\'s kinda like that guy on There\'s Something About Mary who has that unfortunate and violent sensitivity about his ears - I wanted to get in a few practice runs before the big night.\r\n\r\nBefore we headed to my aunt\'s house to do just that, I wanted to first see if the kiddo had any idea about what we were about to do.\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Hey there, my snookie pie lovey bear little man baby (heh). Do you know what Halloween is?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. I know what Halloween is.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Yeah? So what is it?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Girls wear butterfly wings and boys wear chicken hats.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Uh...\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/\">My chicken hat</a> is asleep over there. *points*\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: In your toy box?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. Chicken hat sleeping in toy box.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: So, hey. Do you know what trick-or-treating is?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: *silence*\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Remember? It\'s that thing where you knock on the door or push the button (this is how this kid understands ringing a doorbell) and when someone answers you shout, \"Trick or treat!\" And then that person puts some candy in your trick-or-treat bag.\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: A <em>treat</em>???\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Yeah, a treat!\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Can I have treat now?\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Sorry, we\'re fresh out of treats. But everyone will be happy to give you a treat on Halloween. You have to wear your costume, though.\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: *silence*\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: But that\'s OK, because you have one. Remember?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. I have a costume.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Do you know what you\'re gonna be for Halloween?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Chicken hat.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Actually, Daddy and I found a root beer costume for you.\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Root beers? Go get root beers now???\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: I have a feeling that this interview is over now.\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Mommy?\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Uh-huh?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Hey, Mommy?\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Yeah?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: We get in my car, go get root beers now??\r\n\r\nHis briefing thus disposed, we decided it was time for a semi-dry run of this trick-or-treat action. Off to my aunt\'s we went.\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s what happened there.\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/HZs4RK62SzA?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/HZs4RK62SzA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nI think we\'re mostly good to go. As long as we can keep the boy moving instead of letting him stop after each house and eat his candy on the porch like he wanted during this practice run, I think we\'ll live to see Nov. 1.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/trick-or-treat-lessons-video/dsc_1617/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3340\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1617.jpg\" alt=\"Root Beer Costume\" title=\"Root Beer Costume\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3340\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHow did <em>you</em> get your first-time trick-or-treaters ready for one of the biggest nights of his/her childhood?','Trick-or-Treat Lessons [VIDEO]','How did you get your first-time trick-or-treaters ready for one of the biggest nights of his/her childhood?','inherit','open','open','','3239-revision-6','','','2010-10-28 08:59:20','2010-10-28 13:59:20','',3239,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3239-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(3346,1,'2010-10-28 09:00:46','2010-10-28 14:00:46','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3339\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/trick-or-treat-lessons-video/dsc_1618/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3339\" title=\"Root Beer Costume\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1618.jpg\" alt=\"Root Beer Costume\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOur son has been trick-or-treating before. Well, sorta.\r\n\r\nIt was last year, when he was about 20 months old, when, because he was too small to walk the neighborhood, we took him in <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3856432363/\">his bad-ass jogging stroller</a> that can hop curbs and fly like the wind and run over other small children with ease. \r\n\r\nSo, does that even count as having done the trick-or-treat gig before?\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\nBy my estimation? No. In fact, I bet even his third year of trick-or-treating will feel a lot like the \"first-ever.\" That\'s one of the cool things about being a little kid: For the first few years of life, everything seems brand new and warrants an unabashed sense of wonder, even if you\'ve actually done whatever it is that\'s so amazing before. Because your memory span is not much longer than that of a goldfish.\r\n\r\nNot that there\'s anything wrong with that.\r\n\r\nSo, our son is going to go trick-or-treating on his own two feet this this year. Since he\'s somewhat afraid of his own costume - even though it\'s style after a bottle of his most favorite drink ever, it slips over his head, and when it comes to things being on his head he\'s kinda like that guy on There\'s Something About Mary who has that unfortunate and violent sensitivity about his ears - I wanted to get in a few practice runs before the big night.\r\n\r\nBefore we headed to my aunt\'s house to do just that, I wanted to first see if the kiddo had any idea about what we were about to do.\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Hey there, my snookie pie lovey bear little man baby (heh). Do you know what Halloween is?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. I know what Halloween is.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Yeah? So what is it?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Girls wear butterfly wings and boys wear chicken hats.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Uh...\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/\">My chicken hat</a> is asleep over there. *points*\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: In your toy box?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. Chicken hat sleeping in toy box.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: So, hey. Do you know what trick-or-treating is?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: *silence*\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Remember? It\'s that thing where you knock on the door or push the button (this is how this kid understands ringing a doorbell) and when someone answers you shout, \"Trick or treat!\" And then that person puts some candy in your trick-or-treat bag.\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: A <em>treat</em>???\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Yeah, a treat!\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Can I have treat now?\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Sorry, we\'re fresh out of treats. But everyone will be happy to give you a treat on Halloween. You have to wear your costume, though.\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: *silence*\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: But that\'s OK, because you have one. Remember?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. I have a costume.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Do you know what you\'re gonna be for Halloween?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Chicken hat.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Actually, Daddy and I found a root beer costume for you.\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Root beers? Go get root beers now???\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: I have a feeling that this interview is over now.\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Mommy?\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Uh-huh?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Hey, Mommy?\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Yeah?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: We get in my car, go get root beers now??\r\n\r\nHis briefing thus disposed, we decided it was time for a semi-dry run of this trick-or-treat action. Off to my aunt\'s we went.\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s what happened there.\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/HZs4RK62SzA?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/HZs4RK62SzA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nI think we\'re mostly good to go. As long as we can keep the boy moving instead of letting him stop after each house and eat his candy on the porch like he wanted during this practice run, I think we\'ll live to see Nov. 1.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/trick-or-treat-lessons-video/dsc_1617/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3340\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1617.jpg\" alt=\"Root Beer Costume\" title=\"Root Beer Costume\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3340\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHow did <em>you</em> get your first-time trick-or-treaters ready for one of the biggest nights of his/her childhood?','Trick-or-Treat Lessons [VIDEO]','How did you get your first-time trick-or-treaters ready for one of the biggest nights of his/her childhood?','inherit','open','open','','3239-revision-7','','','2010-10-28 09:00:46','2010-10-28 14:00:46','',3239,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3239-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(3347,1,'2010-10-28 09:00:46','2010-10-28 14:00:46','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3339\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/trick-or-treat-lessons-video/dsc_1618/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3339\" title=\"Root Beer Costume\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1618.jpg\" alt=\"Root Beer Costume\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOur son has been trick-or-treating before. Well, sorta.\r\n\r\nIt was last year, when he was about 20 months old, when, because he was too small to walk the neighborhood, we took him in <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3856432363/\">his bad-ass jogging stroller</a> that can hop curbs and fly like the wind and run over other small children with ease. \r\n\r\nSo, does that even count as having done the trick-or-treat gig before?\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\nBy my estimation? No. In fact, I bet even his third year of trick-or-treating will feel a lot like the \"first-ever.\" That\'s one of the cool things about being a little kid: For the first few years of life, everything seems brand new and warrants an unabashed sense of wonder, even if you\'ve actually done whatever it is that\'s so amazing before. Because your memory span is not much longer than that of a goldfish.\r\n\r\nNot that there\'s anything wrong with that.\r\n\r\nSo, our son is going to go trick-or-treating on his own two feet this this year. Since he\'s somewhat afraid of his own costume - even though it\'s style after a bottle of his most favorite drink ever, it slips over his head, and when it comes to things being on his head he\'s kinda like that guy on There\'s Something About Mary who has that unfortunate and violent sensitivity about his ears - I wanted to get in a few practice runs before the big night.\r\n\r\nBefore we headed to my aunt\'s house to do just that, I wanted to first see if the kiddo had any idea about what we were about to do.\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Hey there, my snookie pie lovey bear little man baby (heh). Do you know what Halloween is?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. I know what Halloween is.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Yeah? So what is it?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Girls wear butterfly wings and boys wear chicken hats.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Uh...\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/\">My chicken hat</a> is asleep over there. *points*\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: In your toy box?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. Chicken hat sleeping in toy box.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: So, hey. Do you know what trick-or-treating is?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: *silence*\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Remember? It\'s that thing where you knock on the door or push the button (this is how this kid understands ringing a doorbell) and when someone answers you shout, \"Trick or treat!\" And then that person puts some candy in your trick-or-treat bag.\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: A <em>treat</em>???\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Yeah, a treat!\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Can I have treat now?\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Sorry, we\'re fresh out of treats. But everyone will be happy to give you a treat on Halloween. You have to wear your costume, though.\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: *silence*\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: But that\'s OK, because you have one. Remember?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. I have a costume.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Do you know what you\'re gonna be for Halloween?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Chicken hat.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Actually, Daddy and I found a root beer costume for you.\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Root beers? Go get root beers now???\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: I have a feeling that this interview is over now.\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Mommy?\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Uh-huh?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Hey, Mommy?\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Yeah?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: We get in my car, go get root beers now??\r\n\r\nHis briefing thus disposed, we decided it was time for a semi-dry run of this trick-or-treat action. Off to my aunt\'s we went.\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s what happened there.\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/HZs4RK62SzA?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/HZs4RK62SzA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nI think we\'re mostly good to go. As long as we can keep the boy moving instead of letting him stop after each house and eat his candy on the porch like he wanted during this practice run, I think we\'ll live to see Nov. 1.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/trick-or-treat-lessons-video/dsc_1617/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3340\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1617.jpg\" alt=\"Root Beer Costume\" title=\"Root Beer Costume\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3340\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHow did <em>you</em> get your first-time trick-or-treaters ready for one of the biggest nights of his/her childhood?','Trick-or-Treat Lessons [VIDEO]','How did you get your first-time trick-or-treaters ready for one of the biggest nights of his/her childhood?','inherit','open','open','','3239-revision-8','','','2010-10-28 09:00:46','2010-10-28 14:00:46','',3239,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3239-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(3348,1,'2010-10-28 09:02:11','2010-10-28 14:02:11','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3339\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/trick-or-treat-lessons-video/dsc_1618/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3339\" title=\"Root Beer Costume\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1618.jpg\" alt=\"Root Beer Costume\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOur son has been trick-or-treating before. Well, sorta.\r\n\r\nIt was last year, when he was about 20 months old, when, because he was too small to walk the neighborhood, we took him in <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3856432363/\">his bad-ass jogging stroller</a> that can hop curbs and fly like the wind and run over other small children with ease. \r\n\r\nSo, does that even count as having done the trick-or-treat gig before?\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\nBy my estimation? No. In fact, I bet even his third year of trick-or-treating will feel a lot like the \"first-ever.\" That\'s one of the cool things about being a little kid: For the first few years of life, everything seems brand new and warrants an unabashed sense of wonder, even if you\'ve actually done whatever it is that\'s so amazing before. Because your memory span is not much longer than that of a goldfish.\r\n\r\nNot that there\'s anything wrong with that.\r\n\r\nSo, our son is going to go trick-or-treating on his own two feet this this year. Since he\'s somewhat afraid of his own costume - even though it\'s styled after a bottle of his most favorite drink ever (root beer - what else?), it slips over his head, and when it comes to things being on his head he\'s kinda like that guy on There\'s Something About Mary who has that unfortunate and violent sensitivity about his ears - I wanted to get in a few practice runs before the big night.\r\n\r\nBefore we headed to my aunt\'s house to do just that, I wanted to first see if the kiddo had any idea about what we were about to do.\r\n\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Hey there, my snookie pie lovey bear little man baby (heh). Do you know what Halloween is?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. I know what Halloween is.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Yeah? So what is it?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Girls wear butterfly wings and boys wear chicken hats.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Uh...\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/top-hat-magic-costumes-halloween/\">My chicken hat</a> is asleep over there. *points*\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: In your toy box?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. Chicken hat sleeping in toy box.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: So, hey. Do you know what trick-or-treating is?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: *silence*\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Remember? It\'s that thing where you knock on the door or push the button (this is how this kid understands ringing a doorbell) and when someone answers you shout, \"Trick or treat!\" And then that person puts some candy in your trick-or-treat bag.\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: A <em>treat</em>???\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Yeah, a treat!\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Can I have treat now?\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Sorry, we\'re fresh out of treats. But everyone will be happy to give you a treat on Halloween. You have to wear your costume, though.\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: *silence*\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: But that\'s OK, because you have one. Remember?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Yeah. I have a costume.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Do you know what you\'re gonna be for Halloween?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Chicken hat.\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Actually, Daddy and I found a root beer costume for you.\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Root beers? Go get root beers now???\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: I have a feeling that this interview is over now.\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Mommy?\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Uh-huh?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: Hey, Mommy?\r\n<strong>TDT</strong>: Yeah?\r\n<strong>Son</strong>: We get in my car, go get root beers now??\r\n\r\nHis briefing thus disposed, we decided it was time for a semi-dry run of this trick-or-treat action. Off to my aunt\'s we went.\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s what happened there.\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/HZs4RK62SzA?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/HZs4RK62SzA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nI think we\'re mostly good to go. As long as we can keep the boy moving instead of letting him stop after each house and eat his candy on the porch like he wanted during this practice run, I think we\'ll live to see Nov. 1.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/trick-or-treat-lessons-video/dsc_1617/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3340\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_1617.jpg\" alt=\"Root Beer Costume\" title=\"Root Beer Costume\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3340\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHow did <em>you</em> get your first-time trick-or-treaters ready for one of the biggest nights of his/her childhood?','Trick-or-Treat Lessons [VIDEO]','How did you get your first-time trick-or-treaters ready for one of the biggest nights of his/her childhood?','inherit','open','open','','3239-revision-9','','','2010-10-28 09:02:11','2010-10-28 14:02:11','',3239,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3239-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(3349,1,'2010-10-28 13:22:47','2010-10-28 18:22:47','','DSC_8955-1','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_8955-1','','','2010-10-28 13:22:47','2010-10-28 18:22:47','',3326,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_8955-1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3350,1,'2010-10-28 01:39:57','2010-10-28 06:39:57','<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/econ/5122779804/\" title=\"erin sees tulsa: tulsa run by econ, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4009/5122779804_f518b75e48_z.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" alt=\"erin sees tulsa: tulsa run\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn less than two days, most of this city will find itself gathered for a Tulsa tradition - the Tulsa Run. \r\n\r\nSome come to cheer on the runners, others to contribute by passing out water and most to sweat it out on a crisp, cool day following a course through our beautiful city. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/econ/5122176751/\" title=\"erin sees tulsa: tulsa run by econ, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4011/5122176751_2f4578254a_z.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" alt=\"erin sees tulsa: tulsa run\" /></a>\r\n\r\nRegardless of your reason, I hope this year\'s run has you falling in love with Tulsa and our community just that much more. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/econ/5122779804/\" title=\"erin sees tulsa: tulsa run by econ, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4009/5122779804_f518b75e48_z.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" alt=\"erin sees tulsa: tulsa run\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWell, that and I hope you kick some butt while you\'re at it.','','','inherit','open','open','','3326-revision-5','','','2010-10-28 01:39:57','2010-10-28 06:39:57','',3326,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/3326-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(4023,1,'2010-12-10 09:30:00','2010-12-10 14:30:00','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4397\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/shop-handmade-gifts-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/robotprint/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4397\" title=\"Vandroid\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/robotprint.jpg\" alt=\"Vandroid\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" /></a></p>\r\nDon\'t you just love that empty feeling you get when you\'re gifted an overpriced, mass-produced piece of plastic junk for Christmas?\r\n\r\nYeah. I love it like I love an ugly Christmas sweater-induced heat rash. Avoid being that guy this holiday season and take shopping local a step further by shopping handmade gifts from Tulsa vendors. <a href=\"http://www.christinesharpcrowe.com/\">Christine Sharp-Crowe of the collective of Tulsa expert crafters make:Tulsa</a> shows us how.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Handmade Gifts for the Ladies</h2>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4401\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/shop-handmade-gifts-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/bohemian/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4401\" title=\"Bohemian Romance\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Bohemian-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Bohemian Romance\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></p>\r\n<strong>Bohemian Romance</strong>\r\nSo much of the steampunk movement is geared towards the guys, but Bohemian Romance makes amazing steampunk jewelry for the ladies as well.\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.etsy.com/shop/bohemianromance\">Bohemian Romance on Etsy</a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4400\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/shop-handmade-gifts-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/sunshine/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4400\" title=\"Sunshine &amp; Carousels\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Sunshine.jpg\" alt=\"Sunshine &amp; Carousels\" width=\"480\" height=\"602\" /></a></p>\r\n<strong>Sunshine &amp; Carousels</strong>\r\nSunshine and Carousels\' line includes handmade hair accessories, shoe clips, art, statement pieces, jewelry and sashes, you know, something for everyone.\r\nWhere: Dolce Vita, <a href=\"http://www.etsy.com/people/sunshineandcarousels\">Sunshine and Carousels at Etsy</a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4399\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/shop-handmade-gifts-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/apron/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4399\" title=\"One Room Schoolhouse\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Apron-500x746.jpg\" alt=\"One Room Schoolhouse\" width=\"500\" height=\"746\" /></a></p>\r\n<strong>One Room Schoolhouse</strong>\r\nOne Room Schoolhouse makes something every lovely lady in your life needs: fashionable aprons (did I mention I have a collection of aprons in my kitchen? I need to add one of these to my own wishlist).\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.etsy.com/shop/oneroomschoolhouse\">One Room Schoolhouse on Etsy</a>\r\n<h2>Handmade Gifts for the Men</h2>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4398\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/shop-handmade-gifts-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/pocketwatch/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4398\" title=\"Gleeful Peacock\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/pocketwatch-500x374.jpg\" alt=\"Gleeful Peacock\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" /></a></p>\r\n<strong>Gleeful Peacock</strong>\r\nNot only does Gleeful Peacock make some of my favorite hair accessories (I can be seen sporting one of these almost every day of the week) and jewelry, but this year she is also making pocket watches – a perfect gift for the mister in your life.\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.etsy.com/shop/gleefulpeacock\">Gleeful Peacock on Etsy</a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4397\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/shop-handmade-gifts-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/robotprint/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4397\" title=\"Vandroid\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/robotprint.jpg\" alt=\"Vandroid\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" /></a></p>\r\n<strong>Vandroid</strong>\r\nWhat guy doesn’t need some robot wall art??? Ask my husband (or any other man I know) and the answer is none. Best gift ever!\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.etsy.com/shop/Vandroid\">Vandroid on Etsy</a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4396\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/shop-handmade-gifts-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/beltbuckle/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4396\" title=\"Two Dog Designs\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/beltbuckle-500x395.jpg\" alt=\"Two Dog Designs\" width=\"500\" height=\"395\" /></a></p>\r\n<strong>Two Dog Designs</strong>\r\nTwoDogDesigns makes unique handmade Bronze Belt Buckles.\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.etsy.com/shop/twodogdesigns\">Two Dog Designs on Etsy</a>\r\n<h2><strong>Handmade Gifts for the Kids / Teens</strong></h2>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4395\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/shop-handmade-gifts-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/hollyrocks/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4395\" title=\"Hollyrocks\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/hollyrocks-500x509.jpg\" alt=\"Hollyrocks\" width=\"500\" height=\"509\" /></a></p>\r\n<strong>HollyRocks</strong>\r\nHolly makes a variety of bright and colorful polymer clay items that are sure to please the young or young at heart. ($6-$12)\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.etsy.com/shop/hollyrocks\">HollyRocks</a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4394\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/shop-handmade-gifts-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/teether/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4394\" title=\"Sweet Baby Designs\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/teether-500x500.jpg\" alt=\"Sweet Baby Designs\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" /></a></p>\r\n<strong>Tweet Baby Designs</strong>\r\nLooking for gift for a baby or new parents? Tweet Baby Designs caries handmade amber, wooden, and fabric teething necklaces for little ones cutting those first teeth. ($15-$25)\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.etsy.com/shop/tweetbabydesigns\">Tweet Baby Designs</a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4393\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/shop-handmade-gifts-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/cuddlemonster/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4393\" title=\"cuddle monster\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/cuddlemonster-500x666.jpg\" alt=\"cuddle monster\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" /></a></p>\r\n<strong>Cuddle Monsters</strong>\r\nThese little monsters are such cutie little plushies!\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.etsy.com/shop/cuddlemonstre\">Cuddle Monsters on Etsy</a> or <a href=\"http://www.dwellingspaces.net/\">Dwelling Spaces</a>.\r\n<h2>Handmade Gifts for Anyone</h2>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4392\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/shop-handmade-gifts-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/christine/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4392\" title=\"Christine Sharp-Crowe\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/christine-500x666.jpg\" alt=\"Christine Sharp-Crowe\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" /></a></p>\r\n<strong>Christine Sharp-Crowe &amp; weather&amp;noise</strong>\r\nOkay, a little shameless self promotion here, but my new line of housewares includes Linen Tea Towels, Screenprinted Pillow Covers, Embroidery Hoop Wall Art and more.\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.christinesharpcrowe.com\">ChristineSharpCrowe.com</a>, <a href=\"http://www.christinesharpcrowe.com\">Dwelling Spaces</a>, Pamper Me on Brookside\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4391\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/shop-handmade-gifts-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/framed/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4391\" title=\"Samantha Lamb Photography\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/framed.jpg\" alt=\"Samantha Lamb Photography\" width=\"346\" height=\"480\" /></a></p>\r\n<strong>Samantha Lamb Photography</strong>\r\nSome of my favorite pieces of artwork in my home are courtesy of this lovely lady. She captures the essence of Oklahoma life in such a beautiful way.\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://samanthalambphotography.myshopify.com/collections/hand-framed-artwork-love-from-my-cottage-to-yours\">SamanthaLambPhotography.com</a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4390\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/shop-handmade-gifts-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/soap/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4390\" title=\"Indian Moon Soap Company\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/soap-500x374.jpg\" alt=\"Indian Moon Soap Company\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" /></a></p>\r\n<strong>Indian Moon Soap Co.</strong>\r\nI bought Indian Moon Soap at Indie Emporium this year and love it. I have to recommend the Lavender &amp; Rosemary because it smells SO amazing.\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.etsy.com/shop/indianmoonsoap?ref=seller_info\">Indian Moon Soap Co. on Etsy</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>So</strong>. Which goodies from local makers are you going to serve up under the Christmas tree this year?','Shop Handmade with Christine Sharp-Crowe of make:Tulsa: TDT Holiday Gift Guide 2010','Don\'t you just love that empty feeling you get when you\'re gifted an overpriced, mass-produced piece of plastic junk for Christmas? Yeah. I love it like I love an ugly Christmas sweater-induced heat rash.','publish','open','open','','shop-handmade-gifts-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010','','','2010-12-15 15:14:53','2010-12-15 20:14:53','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=4023',0,'post','',2),(5319,1,'2011-01-23 16:01:56','2011-01-23 21:01:56','<a title=\"Cherry Street Farmers Market Pie Contest 2009 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3909529964/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2575/3909529964_d78508e775.jpg\" alt=\"Cherry Street Farmers Market Pie Contest 2009\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nRegular readers of this blog know that I have a thing for pie.\r\n\r\nI come by it honestly. I\'ve been eating pie since I could eat solid food, and I\'m pretty sure that most of you out there have, too. Pie is treasured here in the U.S. of A., and perhaps especially in the south and here in the midwest. Where any time you feel a whimper coming on, there\'s sure to be a grandmother within close proximity who can sense it and instinctually jumps up to slap some sweet filling between two flaky crusts.\r\n\r\nThanks to the American Pie Council (yes, there\'s an American Pie Council), <a href=\"http://www.piecouncil.org/Events/NationalPieDay/\">today is National Pie Day</a>. Here are a few posts from here at TDT that will serve as good reading as you nibble on your celebratory slice.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/09/sweet-potato-pie-eat-local-for-holidays/\">Eating Local for the Holidays: A Tulsa-Grown Sweet Potato Pie</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/09/more-on-pie-merritts-bakery/\">More on Pie</a> (A behind-the-scenes video tour of the inner workings of Tulsa-based <a href=\"http://merrittsbakery.com/\">Merritt\'s Bakery</a>, which was celebrating its 30th anniversary at the time)</li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/oklahoma-pecans-foraging-haikey-creek-park/\">Oklahoma Pecans: Foraging, Family Style</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nEnjoy! And indulge.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/08/once-upon-pie-merritts-celebrates-30/\"></a>','Happy National Pie Day','Regular readers of this blog know that I have a thing for pie.','publish','open','open','','happy-national-pie-day','','http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/09/sweet-potato-pie-eat-local-for-holidays/\nhttp://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/09/more-on-pie-merritts-bakery/\nhttp://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/oklahoma-pecans-foraging-haikey-creek-park/','2011-01-23 16:10:56','2011-01-23 21:10:56','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=5319',0,'post','',6),(4026,1,'2010-12-03 09:15:00','2010-12-03 14:15:00','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/mazzios-pepperollies/dsc_1792/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4183\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1792-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Mazzio&#039;s Pepperollies\" title=\"Mazzio&#039;s Pepperollies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4183\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe other night I woke up with a start. I\'d had a recurring dream - a delicious, buttery, cheesy dream. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\nThese dreams come around at about this time every year. Coincidentally, an appetizer dish appears on the menu at Tulsa-based <a href=\"http://www.mazzios.com/\">Mazzio\'s Italian Eatery</a> at about this time every year, too. \r\n\r\nI\'m talking about - ready? - Pepperollies. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/mazzios-pepperollies/dsc_1793/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4184\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1793-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Mazzios Pepperollies\" title=\"Mazzios Pepperollies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4184\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf you\'ve never had Pepperollie\'s, let me explain: They\'re basically slices of pepperoni pizza in cinnamon roll form. They\'re crispy on the outside, soft on the inside and cheesy and buttery and garlicky all over. \r\n\r\nThat they\'re only available during the holidays is cruel, really. But the anticipation is sweet, and over the course of 365 days, it builds to a fever pitch. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/mazzios-pepperollies/dsc_1797/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4185\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1797-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Mazzios Pepperollies\" title=\"Mazzios Pepperollies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4185\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMy first job ever was as a Mazzio\'s call center rep. Know that lady who answers the phone when you call 664-4444? About 10 years ago, that was me. \r\n\r\nI\'m not sure if it\'s the same today, but back when I was a Mazzio\'s minion, employees used to get a pretty nice deal on the food. That\'s how my Pepperollies addiction began - with the promise of a discount, late-night snack. \r\n\r\nNow every Christmas I get together with my little sister, the first of many of my Pepperollies converts, to wolf down a dozen or so of these babies. \r\n\r\nOne of the fun things about eating a food item for that many years with another person is that the two of you begin to develop a jargon, a way to talk about the food in a way that just you and that individual understand.\r\n\r\nLike when I say, \"Hey, sis, don\'t hog the beauty queens,\" it\'s because she\'s got her mits on too many of these: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/mazzios-pepperollies/dsc_1809/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4186\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1809-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Mazzios Pepperollies\" title=\"Mazzios Pepperollies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4186\" /></a>\r\n\r\nA beauty queen is the perfect Pepperolli. It\'s form is perfectly circular, its height is delightfully average and the toast on the crust is a dreamy golden-brown. \r\n\r\nPlus, the cheese is bubbly. And crusty. \r\n\r\nAnd everyone knows I like my cheese like I like my men - bubbly and crusty. Ain\'t that right, honey? \r\n\r\nMy husband is nodding. Trust me.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/mazzios-pepperollies/dsc_1811/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4187\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1811.jpg\" alt=\"Mazzios Pepperollies\" title=\"Mazzios Pepperollies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4187\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThen there\'s the <a href=\"http://www.teamcoco.com/\">Conan O\'Brien</a>. The Conan O\'Brien is a dastardly handsome Pepperollie with some serious height.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/mazzios-pepperollies/dsc_1814-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4188\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1814-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Mazzios Pepperollies\" title=\"Mazzios Pepperollies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4188\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis is the pincher. A pincher Pepperollie is what happens when someone squeezes the Charmin, so to speak. \r\n\r\nThe upshot? It\'s perfect for dipping, and the shape helps to maximize the Pepperollie-to-mouth ratio. \r\n\r\nBut no matter what their shape, they all taste the same: Delicious. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/mazzios-pepperollies/dsc_1818/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4189\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1818.jpg\" alt=\"Mazzios Pepperollies\" title=\"Mazzios Pepperollies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4189\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI decided that this would be the year I\'d introduce my beloved Pepperollies to my son. \r\n\r\nHe\'s pretty much the pickiest eater on the planet. This kid has refused to eat a vegetable that\'s not a fried potato of some sort since his pureed baby food days. He hates spaghetti, the most kid-friendly food ever unless you\'re counting chicken nuggets, which I most certainly am not. \r\n\r\nAll this kid really wants to eat are dry Frosted Mini Wheats, black grapes and apple skin. No, really - he eats just the skin off of apples. He says the rest is yucky. \r\n\r\nAnd he\'s the most regular two-year-old on the face of the planet, but I digress. \r\n\r\nI was nervous about introducing him to Pepperollies, is what I\'m getting at. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/mazzios-pepperollies/dsc_1825/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4190\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1825.jpg\" alt=\"Mazzios Pepperollies\" title=\"Mazzios Pepperollies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4190\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/mazzios-pepperollies/dsc_1823/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4191\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1823.jpg\" alt=\"Mazzios Pepperollies\" title=\"Mazzios Pepperollies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4191\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe kid ate three. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/mazzios-pepperollies/dsc_1828/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4192\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1828.jpg\" alt=\"Mazzios Pepperollies\" title=\"Mazzios Pepperollies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4192\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThree whole Pepperollies. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/mazzios-pepperollies/dsc_1792/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4183\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1792-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Mazzio&#039;s Pepperollies\" title=\"Mazzio&#039;s Pepperollies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4183\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'m pretty sure they were a hit. \r\n\r\nMazzio\'s has a long history here in Tulsa. Here\'s how it goes: A guy named Ken Selby opened a place called The Pizza Parlor in 1961. He opened a second location in \'65 and changed the name to Ken\'s Pizza. Ten years later Ken\'s had become a 100-store chain here in Oklahoma. By 1979, Ken decided to build a restaurant around more casual dining space and a menu expanded from what he had available at Ken\'s. He decided to call it Mazzios. \r\n\r\nNow there are 166 Mazzios locations in 10 states. \r\n\r\nWhile that\'s a business of considerable size, in the grand scheme of things, it still means that Pepperolies are pretty exclusive little bites of awesome. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/mazzios-pepperollies/dsc_1797/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4185\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1797-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Mazzios Pepperollies\" title=\"Mazzios Pepperollies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4185\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd everyone knows that they taste their very best right here, in their city of origin. Especially me, your blogging friend, loser of retainers and certifiable Pepperollie addict. ','Mazzio\'s Pepperollies: My Love, My Addiction','These dreams come around at about this time every year. Coincidentally, an appetizer dish appears on the menu at Tulsa-based Mazzio\'s Italian Eatery at about this time every year, too. I\'m talking about - ready? - Pepperollies. ','publish','open','open','','mazzios-pepperollies','','','2010-12-03 10:28:36','2010-12-03 15:28:36','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=4026',0,'post','',7),(4027,1,'2010-11-28 22:30:00','2010-11-29 03:30:00','<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. ','publish','open','open','','christmas-lights-in-tulsa-2010','','','2010-12-15 15:16:51','2010-12-15 20:16:51','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=4027',0,'post','',10),(4028,1,'2010-12-02 09:00:00','2010-12-02 14:00:00','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/oklahoma-pecans-foraging-haikey-creek-park/dsc_1632/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4119\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1632-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Haikey Creek Park Pecans\" title=\"Haikey Creek Park Pecans\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4119\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn case you haven\'t been to Haikey Creek Park in Broken Arrow lately, here\'s a bit of advice: Watch your step. \r\n\r\nAlso, bring a bucket. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/oklahoma-pecans-foraging-haikey-creek-park/dsc_1619-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4120\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1619-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Haikey Creek Park Pecans\" title=\"Haikey Creek Park Pecans\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4120\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOklahoma is famous for a lot of things - cowboys, Indians and Head Country BBQ sauce, just to name a few. \r\n\r\nWe\'re also known around the world for something else: Our pecans. They\'re good. Really, really good. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/oklahoma-pecans-foraging-haikey-creek-park/dsc_1620-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4121\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1620-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Haikey Creek Park Pecans\" title=\"Haikey Creek Park Pecans\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4121\" /></a>. \r\n\r\nPecan trees grow like crazy around here, especially in low-lying areas around creeks and streams. Many farmers who keep pecan groves don\'t even need to irrigate - the trees like it here so much, they don\'t need much convincing to produce some of the tastiest, meatiest nuts around. \r\n\r\nThe winner in this situation? You, the Tulsa park-goer. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/oklahoma-pecans-foraging-haikey-creek-park/dsc_1641-4/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4122\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1641-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Haikey Creek Park Pecans\" title=\"Haikey Creek Park Pecans\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4122\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.parks.tulsacounty.org/HaikeyCreek.aspx\">Haikey Creek Park</a> is covered with hundreds of native pecan trees, and it doesn\'t cost a dime to grab a bucket or a pillowcase or whatever container you can get your hands on and head out there to forage to your heart\'s content.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/oklahoma-pecans-foraging-haikey-creek-park/dsc_1633-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4123\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1633.jpg\" alt=\"Haikey Creek Park Pecans\" title=\"Haikey Creek Park Pecans\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4123\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'ll tell you straight up: When it comes to native pecans, you work for the meat you get. The shells are hard and it takes some practice to crack them without breaking the nut (and your fingernails) apart. They\'re not like their store-bought, paper-shelled brethren in that way, but the upshot is that the native pecans are sweeter and much more flavorful.\r\n\r\nPlus, the kids love - and I mean <em>love</em> - to hunt them. It\'s like Easter in December, and without that freaky bunny hopping around. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/oklahoma-pecans-foraging-haikey-creek-park/dsc_1636-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4124\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1636.jpg\" alt=\"Haikey Creek Park Pecans\" title=\"Haikey Creek Park Pecans\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4124\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhen we went to Haikey Creek to go pecan hunting, the little suckers were everywhere. One can hardly take a step around the trees without crunching or slipping on pecans.  \r\n\r\nIn case you\'re new to this pecan hunting thing, here\'s what to look for when you get to the park: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/oklahoma-pecans-foraging-haikey-creek-park/dsc_1623-4/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4125\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1623-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Haikey Creek Park Pecans\" title=\"Haikey Creek Park Pecans\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4125\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee the pods? They\'re where the pecans fall from. Weird, I know. \r\n\r\nHere\'s a closer view: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/oklahoma-pecans-foraging-haikey-creek-park/dsc_1623closer/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4126\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1623closer.jpg\" alt=\"Haikey Creek Park Pecans\" title=\"Haikey Creek Park Pecans\" width=\"460\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4126\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI think they might be aliens. \r\n\r\nThis photo was taken a week ago. The trees were still loaded, which means that one could probably go to Haikey Creek once every day for the next few weeks and bring home a couple of pounds of pecans each time. Easy. \r\n\r\nIf you go pecan hunting with your kids, be sure to show them why the heck they\'re doing that they\'re doing. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/oklahoma-pecans-foraging-haikey-creek-park/dsc_1637-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4127\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1637-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Haikey Creek Park Pecans\" title=\"Haikey Creek Park Pecans\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4127\" /></a>\r\n\r\n\"Nuts!\" my son exclaimed when we finally showed him why he was, as he called it, searching for rocks. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/oklahoma-pecans-foraging-haikey-creek-park/dsc_1644-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4128\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_16441.jpg\" alt=\"Haikey Creek Park Pecans\" title=\"Haikey Creek Park Pecans\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4128\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd if you\'re hunting with older kids, let \'em break open and eat one of the pecans they find every once in awhile. The intermittent positive reinforcement will keep \'em hunting until you have enough nuts to make one of these: \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/oklahoma-pecans-foraging-haikey-creek-park/dsc_1790/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4129\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1790-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Haikey Creek Park Pecans\" title=\"Haikey Creek Park Pecans\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4129\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/tyler-florence/bourbon-and-chocolate-pecan-pie-recipe/index.html\">A bourbon chocolate pecan pie</a>. Which, as I now know from experience, adds a local flavor to any holiday feast that\'ll have your guests making sounds that would otherwise be appropriate only during a deep-tissue massage. \r\n\r\nYeah. Best Thanksgiving dessert ever. \r\n\r\nGood thing pecans keep until Christmas, because I\'m gonna need to go ahead and make some more of that. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/oklahoma-pecans-foraging-haikey-creek-park/dsc_1798/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4130\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1798-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Haikey Creek Park Pecans\" title=\"Haikey Creek Park Pecans\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4130\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLots more. \r\n\r\nI have memories of hunting pecans that go back to when I was just a little older than my son is now - it\'s an Okie tradition, really. Have you ever been pecan hunting? Leave your tips, tricks and war stories in the comments - I\'d love to hear about them. ','Oklahoma Pecans: Foraging, Family Style','Oklahoma is famous for a lot of things - cowboys, Indians and Head Country BBQ sauce, just to name a few. 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Wrestling is a guilty pleasure of mine for which I can thank my father and the Hulk Hogan finger puppets we played with together when I was a toddler, but I digress.\r\n\r\nSomething more exciting for the general populous than scoring wrestling tickets, coming right up: <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/?q=babysitter-worthy-willie-nelson-family-concert\">It\'s hot and ready on my blog at TulsaKids.com</a>.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>','Babysitter Worthy: Willie Nelson & Family in Concert','Need something a little more exciting to do this weekend than wait for WWE tickets go on sale Saturday morning?','private','open','open','','willie-nelson-babysitter-worthy','','','2011-07-10 11:44:39','2011-07-10 17:44:39','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=4030',0,'post','',0),(4031,1,'2010-12-06 17:30:00','2010-12-06 23:30:00','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/confessions-of-a-work-at-home-mom-kitchen-helper-tulsa-kids/img_0488/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4324\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/IMG_0488.jpg\" alt=\"Kitchen Helper Sage Culinary Studio\" title=\"Kitchen Helper Sage Culinary Studio\" width=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4324\" /></a></p>\r\n\r\nSometimes my son and I have these days when, though we\'ve been together since before the sun came up, I realize that we whiled away hours and hours and still somehow managed to not spend any quality time together. We were so busy running from one errand here, a meeting there, a pit stop for nap time and rushing home to greet my husband that we hardly said a word to each other all day outside of, \"Baby, I think we put your pants on backwards,\" and \"Mommy, my shoe fell off an hour ago in aisle nine.\"\r\n\r\nYeah, Not a good feeling.\r\n\r\nCooking dinner together is one of the ways we reconnect. Yes, you read that right - my two-year-old son helps me cook dinner. He\'s not dicing jalapenos or boiling live lobsters or anything, but he does enjoy helping me measure and add spices, and if there\'s something that needs stirring, my son\'s your man.\r\n\r\nThis would be impossible without this gadget we found here in Tulsa one day when we popped in to see what Sage Culinary Studio was all about when it first opened two years ago on Brookside. It\'s called the Kitchen Helper, and without it, my son and I couldn\'t have made together some of the memories of my motherhood that I hold so close to my heart.\r\n\r\nWhat the heck is the Kitchen Helper? <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/?q=confessions-work-home-mom-kitchen-helper\">Find out on my blog at TulsaKids.com</a>.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>','Confessions of a Work-at-Home Mom: The Kitchen Helper','Cooking dinner together is one of the ways we reconnect. 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My bright, mango-polished toenails peeking up at me from a pair of strappy sandals. Kids walking by with snocones of every color in the rainbow.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/02/summer-on-my-mind/dsc00414/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5720\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/DSC00414.jpg\" alt=\"Tulsa Parks\" title=\"Tulsa Parks\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5720\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSpending the time between dinner and bedtime at one of Tulsa\'s many public playgrounds.\r\n\r\nBecause yes, there\'s actually daylight between those two times here in Tulsa during the summer. Daylight, yes - 4 o\'clock sunsets, no.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/chandler-park/dsc_0693/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1725\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DSC_0693.jpg\" alt=\"Chandler Park\" title=\"Chandler Park\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1725\" /></a>\r\n\r\nPicnics.\r\n\r\nOh, the picnics.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/02/summer-on-my-mind/x2_1e60d94/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5722\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/x2_1e60d94.jpeg\" alt=\"Cherry Street Farmers Market\" title=\"Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5722\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOrange chipotle cream Cosmic Cones from the <a href=\"http://www.cherrystreetfarmersmarket.com/\">Cherry Street Farmers Market</a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/02/summer-on-my-mind/dsc_0702/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5723\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/DSC_0702.jpg\" alt=\"Linnaeus Garden\" title=\"Linnaeus Garden\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5723\" /></a>\r\n\r\nVisits to Tulsa\'s many magazine-cover worthy gardens.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/02/summer-on-my-mind/dsc_0684-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5724\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/DSC_0684.jpg\" alt=\"Oklahoma Centennial Botanical Garden\" title=\"Oklahoma Centennial Botanical Garden\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5724\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe skies.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/02/summer-on-my-mind/dsc_0132/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5725\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/DSC_0132-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field\" title=\"ONEOK Field\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5725\" /></a>\r\n\r\nNights spent sprawled on a homemade quilt on the lawn at ONEOK Field, the sound of cracking bats reporting from the field.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/02/summer-on-my-mind/dsc_0651/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5726\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/DSC_0651-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Summer&#039;s Fifth Night Utica Square\" title=\"Summer&#039;s Fifth Night Utica Square\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5726\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSummer\'s Fifth Night at <a href=\"http://www.uticasquare.com/\">Utica Square</a>.\r\n\r\n<code><a title=\"Stonehorse Cafe by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3374851924/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3562/3374851924_18573c01a7.jpg\" alt=\"Stonehorse Cafe\" width=\"500\" height=\"344\" /></a></code>\r\n\r\nDining alfresco - perhaps the signature way to take a meal in Tulsa, Oklahoma.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/02/summer-on-my-mind/dsc04941/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5727\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/DSC04941.jpg\" alt=\"Woodward Park\" title=\"Woodward Park\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5727\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe squirrels that get to live the good life at Woodward Park.\r\n\r\n<code><a title=\"DSC_0597 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4663335101/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4061/4663335101_2038134bbe.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0597\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></code>\r\n\r\nSwimming.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/02/summer-on-my-mind/picture-1-12/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5728\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Picture-1.png\" alt=\"QuikTrip\" title=\"QuikTrip\" width=\"477\" height=\"634\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5728\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe 49-cent fountain drink from QuikTrip.\r\n\r\nOh, my stars.\r\n\r\nKnowing that yet more (according to the latest models, perhaps much more) snow lies just on the other side of tomorrow, it\'s almost overwhelming to think of all the things that summer brings.\r\n\r\nBut now, at least we\'re all thinking about it together.','Summer On My Mind','As several inches of snow still hide my frozen lawn from view, stinky and sweaty doesn\'t sound half bad right about now.','inherit','open','open','','5718-revision-5','','','2011-02-07 23:15:31','2011-02-08 04:15:31','',5718,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/02/5718-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(4034,1,'2010-11-28 17:44:15','2010-11-28 22:44:15','','Christmas Light','','inherit','open','open','','iaza17806714975000','','','2010-11-28 17:44:15','2010-11-28 22:44:15','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/iaza17806714975000.gif',0,'attachment','image/gif',0),(4035,1,'2010-11-29 10:00:00','2010-11-29 15:00:00','','Christmas Lights List','','inherit','open','open','','4027-revision','','','2010-11-29 10:00:00','2010-11-29 15:00:00','',4027,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/4027-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(4036,1,'2010-11-28 18:01:57','2010-11-28 23:01:57','<small>View <a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-align: left;\" 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\">Get Your Lights On 2010</a> in a larger map</small>','Get Your Lights On 2010: Where to Find Christmas Lights in Tulsa','','inherit','open','open','','4027-revision-2','','','2010-11-28 18:01:57','2010-11-28 23:01:57','',4027,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/4027-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(4037,1,'2010-11-28 18:02:37','2010-11-28 23:02:37','<small>View <a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-align: left;\" 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\">Get Your Lights On 2010</a> in a larger map</small>','Get Your Lights On 2010: Where to Find Christmas Lights in Tulsa','','inherit','open','open','','4027-revision-3','','','2010-11-28 18:02:37','2010-11-28 23:02:37','',4027,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/4027-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(4038,1,'2010-12-06 22:00:00','2010-12-07 03:00:00','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/billys-at-the-bok/dsc_1682/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4005\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1682-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Tulsa Oilers\" title=\"Tulsa Oilers\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4005\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhere else can the average T-Town Joe get $2 beer, cheerleaders on ice and a good fight, all at one place and at one time, and all in an environment that\'s kid friendly? \r\n\r\nThere\'s really only one option, and it\'s at the <a href=\"http://www.bokcenter.com/\">BOK Center</a>, and it\'s on $2 Tuesday with the <a href=\"http://www.tulsaoilers.com/\">Tulsa Oilers</a>. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/billys-at-the-bok/dsc_1761/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4009\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1761-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"BOK Center Tulsa Oilers\" title=\"BOK Center Tulsa Oilers\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4009\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThere are so many reasons to love hockey. The fast pace. The skill the ice requires. The fights. The uniforms. \r\n\r\nThe players underneath the uniforms. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/billys-at-the-bok/dsc_1682/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4005\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1682-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Tulsa Oilers\" title=\"Tulsa Oilers\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4005\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf I hadn\'t found a rugged, super-studly ex-sniper turned geologist to marry, I think I would have liked to marry a hockey player. \r\n\r\nBut you didn\'t hear that from me.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/billys-at-the-bok/dsc_1752/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4008\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1752-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Billy&#039;s at the BOK\" title=\"Billy&#039;s at the BOK\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4008\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOur son appreciates a good fight as much as the next guy. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/tulsa-oilers-family-and-other-kinds-of-fun-on-ice/dsc_1669-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4268\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1669-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Tulsa Oilers\" title=\"Tulsa Oilers\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4268\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEven though he\'s not the one annoying other game-goers with his shouting of \"fight, fight, fight!\" every two seconds. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/tulsa-oilers-family-and-other-kinds-of-fun-on-ice/dsc_1768/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4269\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1768-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Tulsa Oilers\" title=\"Tulsa Oilers\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4269\" /></a>\r\n\r\nNope. That was me. But he stole <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/billys-at-the-bok/\">my burger from Billy\'s at the BOK</a>, so he lost his vote that determines how Mom gets to behave in public. \r\n\r\nIt wasn\'t long before my husband nudged me, nodded across the rink and said something along the lines of, \"Hey, honey - did you bring your telephoto lens?\"\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/tulsa-oilers-family-and-other-kinds-of-fun-on-ice/dsc_1679/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4270\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_1679.jpg\" alt=\"Tulsa OIlers\" title=\"Tulsa OIlers\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4270\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd what do you know, I did. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/billys-at-the-bok/dsc_1814/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4010\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1814-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Tulsa Oilers\" title=\"Tulsa Oilers\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4010\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhoever that guy is in the first picture, he seems pretty happy to me. \r\n\r\nEven though we don\'t know as much about hockey as we probably should, we were happy to be at the game, too. That we beat Quad City helped. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/tulsa-oilers-family-and-other-kinds-of-fun-on-ice/dsc_1779-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4273\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_17791-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Tulsa Oilers\" title=\"Tulsa Oilers\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4273\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf those aren\'t the faces of two people happy to be somewhere, then I don\'t know what is.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/billys-at-the-bok/dsc_1738-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4007\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_17381-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Billy&#039;s at the BOK\" title=\"Billy&#039;s at the BOK\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4007\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf you go to the game tonight, know that it\'s $2 Tuesday. That means that all beer and soft drinks are discounted to $2. \r\n\r\nNow a dinner at the BOK Center doesn\'t sound half bad, does it? Park once, walk once, baby. $2 beer helps it happen. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/billys-at-the-bok/dsc_1761/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4009\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1761-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"BOK Center Tulsa Oilers\" title=\"BOK Center Tulsa Oilers\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4009\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe Oilers are on a winning streak as of late. They\'ve won five out of their last six games, and they have a homestand of four games this week.  \r\n\r\nIf an Oilers game sounds like a good way to spend a Tuesday night like tonight, <a href=\"http://www.tickets.com/browse.cgi?pgid=2016651\">get your tickets here</a>. 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