(5032,1,'2011-01-06 13:37:02','2011-01-06 18:37:02','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/sproutz-restaurant-review/img_0614/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4599\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/IMG_0614-500x460.jpg\" alt=\"Sproutz\" title=\"Sproutz\" width=\"500\" height=\"460\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4599\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf there’s one thing people like to do in this town we call Tulsa, it’s eat. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tulsafood.com/\">As featured today on TulsaFood.com</a>, here\'s a list of some of my latest restaurant and food finds. My bet is that you\'ll want to add them to your list of places to try.\r\n\r\nSproutz: Get around early for earth-friendly fare: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/sproutz-restaurant-review/\">Read More</a>\r\nDining Out (with kids): Play with food at Sprouts Play Cafe: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/sprouts-play-cafe-tulsa-kids/\">Read More</a>\r\nPrimetime Pizza: Root beer, crust bubbles and Main Street Jenks: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/\">Read More</a>\r\nMazzio’s Pepperollies: My love, my addiction: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/mazzios-pepperollies/\">Read More</a>\r\nBabysitter Worthy: Thursdays at Girouard Vines: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/girouard-vines-babysitter-worthy-tulsa-kids/\">Read More</a>\r\nMarshall Brewing Company: Six Pack City: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/marshall-brewing-six-pack-city-tulsa-business-journal/\">Read More</a>\r\nOklahoma Pecans: Foraging, family-style: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/marshall-brewing-six-pack-city-tulsa-business-journal/\">Read More</a>\r\n\r\nLooking for even more restaurant reviews and food news? <a href=\"http://tulsafood.com/\">Check out TulsaFood.com</a>, or head to the <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/category/restaurants/\">restaurants</a> and <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/category/food/\">food sections</a> here at TDT.\r\n\r\n','The Month in Food','If there’s one thing people like to do in this town we call Tulsa, it’s eat. 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My bet is that you\'ll want to add them to your list of places to try.\r\n\r\n<strong>Sproutz</strong>: Get around early for earth-friendly fare: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/sproutz-restaurant-review/\">Read More</a>\r\n<strong>Dining Out (with kids)</strong>: Play with food at Sprouts Play Cafe: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/sprouts-play-cafe-tulsa-kids/\">Read More</a>\r\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>: Root beer, crust bubbles and Main Street Jenks: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/\">Read More</a>\r\n<strong>Mazzio’s Pepperollies</strong>: My love, my addiction: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/mazzios-pepperollies/\">Read More</a>\r\n<strong>Babysitter Worthy</strong>: Thursdays at Girouard Vines: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/girouard-vines-babysitter-worthy-tulsa-kids/\">Read More</a>\r\n<strong>Marshall Brewing Company</strong>: Six Pack City: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/marshall-brewing-six-pack-city-tulsa-business-journal/\">Read More</a>\r\n<strong>Oklahoma Pecans</strong>: Foraging, family-style: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/marshall-brewing-six-pack-city-tulsa-business-journal/\">Read More</a>\r\n\r\nLooking for even more restaurant reviews and food news? <a href=\"http://tulsafood.com/\">Check out TulsaFood.com</a>, or head to the <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/category/restaurants/\">restaurants</a> and <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/category/food/\">food sections</a> here at TDT.\r\n\r\n','The Month in Food','If there’s one thing people like to do in this town we call Tulsa, it’s eat. 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My bet is that you\'ll want to add them to your list of places to try.\n\nSproutz: Get around early for earth-friendly fare: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/sproutz-restaurant-review/\">Read More</a>\nDining Out (with kids): Play with food at Sprouts Play Cafe: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/sprouts-play-cafe-tulsa-kids/\">Read More</a>\nPrimetime Pizza: Root beer, crust bubbles and Main Street Jenks: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/\">Read More</a>\nMazzio’s Pepperollies: My love, my addiction: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/mazzios-pepperollies/\">Read More</a>\nBabysitter Worthy: Thursdays at Girouard Vines: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/girouard-vines-babysitter-worthy-tulsa-kids/\">Read More</a>\nMarshall Brewing Company: Six Pack City: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/marshall-brewing-six-pack-city-tulsa-business-journal/\">Read More</a>\nOklahoma Pecans: Foraging, family-style: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/marshall-brewing-six-pack-city-tulsa-business-journal/\">Read More</a>\n\nLooking for even more restaurant reviews and food news? <a href=\"http://tulsafood.com/\">Check out TulsaFood.com</a>, or head to the <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/category/restaurants/\">restaurants</a> and <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/category/food/\">food sections</a> here at TDT.\n\n','The Month in Food: Tulsa Food Blog','If there’s one thing people like to do in this town we call Tulsa, it’s eat. 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My bet is that you\'ll want to add them to your list of places to try.\r\n\r\nSproutz: Get around early for earth-friendly fare: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/sproutz-restaurant-review/\">Read More</a>\r\nDining Out (with kids): Play with food at Sprouts Play Cafe: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/sprouts-play-cafe-tulsa-kids/\">Read More</a>\r\nPrimetime Pizza: Root beer, crust bubbles and Main Street Jenks: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/\">Read More</a>\r\nMazzio’s Pepperollies: My love, my addiction: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/mazzios-pepperollies/\">Read More</a>\r\nBabysitter Worthy: Thursdays at Girouard Vines: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/girouard-vines-babysitter-worthy-tulsa-kids/\">Read More</a>\r\nMarshall Brewing Company: Six Pack City: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/marshall-brewing-six-pack-city-tulsa-business-journal/\">Read More</a>\r\nOklahoma Pecans: Foraging, family-style: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/marshall-brewing-six-pack-city-tulsa-business-journal/\">Read More</a>\r\n\r\nLooking for even more restaurant reviews and food news? <a href=\"http://tulsafood.com/\">Check out TulsaFood.com</a>, or head to the <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/category/restaurants/\">restaurants</a> and <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/category/food/\">food sections</a> here at TDT.\r\n\r\n','The Month in Food','If there’s one thing people like to do in this town we call Tulsa, it’s eat. 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If that person lived in the Tulsa and just looked up from the calendar of things to do around town this weekend, he\'d probably mention parades, too, since a trio of them - yes, three Christmas parades - have banded together to take over Green Country in one ball of Christmas lights, marching bands and a very, very harried Santa.','private','open','open','','christmas-parades-galore-tulsa-kids-day-out','','','2011-07-10 11:44:49','2011-07-10 17:44:49','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=4149',0,'post','',3),(3435,1,'2010-11-01 15:24:11','2010-11-01 20:24:11','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-955\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/tulsa-blogger-meetup/dsc_0630/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-955\" title=\"Blue Dome\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DSC_0630.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Dome\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.fasslerhall.com/\">Fassler Hall</a> is now open, and they\'re a blogger-loving bunch. If you have a blog (or even if you\'re just blog curious) and you\'re in the Tulsa area, come on down to downtown\'s newest Blue Dome District eat spot for some free (!!!) samples of Fassler\'s gourmet, house-made sausages, and a wiener-tastic good time with your fellow bloggers.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\nAnd you know what goes good with free sausage samples? More sausage. And beer, of course. So feel free to stay for dinner, get your name in the latest edition of the Tulsa Blogger Directory (an easy, free way to get the word out about your blog to some of Tulsa\'s most influential media - your fellow bloggers! - and all you have to do is <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/fasslerhall#!/event.php?eid=153356328040808\">RSVP to this FB event to get the job done</a>) and enjoy a rousing edition of the newest feature of the Tulsa Blogger Meetup, the Blogger Open Mic.\r\n\r\nHere\'s what you add to your calendar:\r\n<blockquote><strong>Tulsa Blogger Meet-Up, Sample-A-Wiener Edition</strong>\r\nWhen: Wednesday, Nov. 10, 6:30pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.fasslerhall.com/\">Fassler Hall</a>, 304 S. Elgin Ave.</blockquote>\r\n<strong>Rules of Blogger Open Mic:</strong>\r\n1. You must send me an e-mail at <a href=\"mailto:tasha@tashadoestulsa.com\">tasha@tashadoestulsa.com</a> with the following subject line: Blog Talk\r\n2. You must provide me with at least your first name and your blog address.\r\n3. You must make me a sandwich.\r\n4. Just kidding about No. 3. Unless, of course, you want to. In which case, hold the mayo. I hate mayo.\r\n5. You must show up at the Sample-a-Wiener Edition of Tulsa Blogger Meetup.\r\n\r\nBecause if you don\'t, who else is going to stand up in front of a crowd of 50+ Tulsa bloggers and tell them, in 30 seconds or less, all about you and your kick-ass blog? No one. Not even me.\r\n\r\nEspecially if you don\'t make me that sandwich we talked about.\r\n\r\nCome one, come all Tulsa bloggers (and the Tulsa blog curious) to the Sample-a-Wiener edition of Tulsa Blogger Meetup - can\'t wait to see all of you!\r\n\r\n<strong>NOTE</strong>: To be included in the blogger directory <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/fasslerhall#!/event.php?eid=153356328040808\">you must reply to this FB event</a>. Because I\'m not psychic, people. I wish I was. But I\'m just not. 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Not even me.\n\nEspecially if you don\'t make me that sandwich we talked about.\n\nCome one, come all Tulsa bloggers (and the Tulsa blog curious) to the Sample-a-Wiener edition of Tulsa Blogger Meetup - can\'t wait to see all of you!\n\n<strong>NOTE</strong>: To be included in the blogger directory <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/fasslerhall#!/event.php?eid=153356328040808\">you must reply to this FB event</a>. Because I\'m not psychic, people. I wish I was. But I\'m just not. So throw me a bone here. 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If you have a blog (or even if you\'re just blog curious) and you\'re in the Tulsa area, come on down to downtown\'s newest Blue Dome District eat spot for some free (!!!) samples of Fassler\'s gourmet, house-made sausages, and a wiener-tastic good time with your fellow bloggers to boot.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]\r\n\r\nAnd you know what goes good with free sausage samples? More sausage. And beer, of course. So feel free to stay for dinner, get your name in the latest edition of the Tulsa Blogger Directory (an easy, free way to get the word out about your blog to some of Tulsa\'s most influential media - your fellow bloggers! - and all you have to do is <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/fasslerhall#!/event.php?eid=153356328040808\">RSVP to this FB event to get the job done</a>) and enjoy a rousing edition of the newest feature of the Tulsa Blogger Meetup, the Blogger Open Mic.\r\n\r\n<strong>Rules of Blogger Open Mic:</strong>\r\n1. You must send me an e-mail at <a href=\"mailto:tasha@tashadoestulsa.com\">tasha@tashadoestulsa.com</a> with the following subject line: Blog Talk\r\n2. You must provide me with at least your first name and your blog address.\r\n3. You must make me a sandwich.\r\n4. Just kidding about No. 3. Unless, of course, you want to. In which case, hold the mayo. I hate mayo.\r\n5. You must show up at the Sample-a-Wiener Edition of Tulsa Blogger Meetup.\r\n\r\nBecause if you don\'t, who else is going to stand up in front of a crowd of 50+ Tulsa bloggers and tell them, in 30 seconds or less, all about you and your kick-ass blog? No one. Not even me.\r\n\r\nEspecially if you don\'t make me that sandwich we talked about.\r\n\r\nCome one, come all Tulsa bloggers (and the Tulsa blog curious) to the Sample-a-Wiener edition of Tulsa Blogger Meetup - can\'t wait to see all of you!\r\n\r\n<strong>NOTE</strong>: To be included in the blogger directory <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/fasslerhall#!/event.php?eid=153356328040808\">you must reply to this FB event</a>. Because I\'m not psychic, people. I wish I was. But I\'m just not. So throw me a bone here. 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If you have a blog (or even if you\'re just blog curious) and you\'re in the Tulsa area, come on down to downtown\'s newest Blue Dome District eat spot for some free (!!!) samples of Fassler\'s gourmet, house-made sausages, and a wiener-tastic good time with your fellow bloggers to boot.\n\n<!--more-->\n\n[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]\n\nAnd you know what goes good with free sausage samples? More sausage. And beer, of course. So feel free to stay for dinner, get your name in the latest edition of the Tulsa Blogger Directory (an easy, free way to get the word out about your blog to some of Tulsa\'s most influential media - your fellow bloggers! - and all you have to do is <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/fasslerhall#!/event.php?eid=153356328040808\">RSVP to this FB event to get the job done</a>) and enjoy a rousing edition of the newest feature of the Tulsa Blogger Meetup, the Blogger Open Mic.\n\nHere\'s what you add to your calendar:\n<blockquote><strong>Tulsa Blogger Meet-Up, Sample-A-Wiener Edition</strong>\nWhen: Wednesday, Nov. 10, 6:30pm\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.fasslerhall.com/\">Fassler Hall</a>, 304 S. Elgin Ave.</blockquote>\n<strong>Rules of Blogger Open Mic:</strong>\n1. You must send me an e-mail at <a href=\"mailto:tasha@tashadoestulsa.com\">tasha@tashadoestulsa.com</a> with the following subject line: Blog Talk\n2. You must provide me with at least your first name and your blog address.\n3. You must make me a sandwich.\n4. Just kidding about No. 3. Unless, of course, you want to. In which case, hold the mayo. I hate mayo.\n5. You must show up at the Sample-a-Wiener Edition of Tulsa Blogger Meetup.\n\nBecause if you don\'t, who else is going to stand up in front of a crowd of 50+ Tulsa bloggers and tell them, in 30 seconds or less, all about you and your kick-ass blog? No one. Not even me.\n\nEspecially if you don\'t make me that sandwich we talked about.\n\nCome one, come all Tulsa bloggers (and the Tulsa blog curious) to the Sample-a-Wiener edition of Tulsa Blogger Meetup - can\'t wait to see all of you!\n\n<strong>NOTE</strong>: To be included in the blogger directory <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/fasslerhall#!/event.php?eid=153356328040808\">you must reply to this FB event</a>. Because I\'m not psychic, people. I wish I was. But I\'m just not. So throw me a bone here. 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If you have a blog (or even if you\'re just blog curious) and you\'re in the Tulsa area, come on down to downtown\'s newest Blue Dome District eat spot for some free (!!!) samples of Fassler\'s gourmet, house-made sausages, and a wiener-tastic good time with your fellow bloggers to boot.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]\r\n\r\nAnd you know what goes good with free sausage samples? More sausage. And beer, of course. So feel free to stay for dinner, get your name in the latest edition of the Tulsa Blogger Directory (an easy, free way to get the word out about your blog to some of Tulsa\'s most influential media - your fellow bloggers! - and all you have to do is <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/fasslerhall#!/event.php?eid=153356328040808\">RSVP to this FB event to get the job done</a>) and enjoy a rousing edition of the newest feature of the Tulsa Blogger Meetup, the Blogger Open Mic.\r\n\r\n<strong>Rules of Blogger Open Mic:</strong>\r\n1. You must send me an e-mail at <a href=\"mailto:tasha@tashadoestulsa.com\">tasha@tashadoestulsa.com</a> with the following subject line: Blog Talk\r\n2. You must provide me with at least your first name and your blog address.\r\n3. You must make me a sandwich.\r\n4. Just kidding about No. 3. Unless, of course, you want to. In which case, hold the mayo. I hate mayo.\r\n5. You must show up at the Sample-a-Wiener Edition of Tulsa Blogger Meetup.\r\n\r\nBecause if you don\'t, who else is going to stand up in front of a crowd of 50+ Tulsa bloggers and tell them, in 30 seconds or less, all about you and your kick-ass blog? No one. Not even me.\r\n\r\nEspecially if you don\'t make me that sandwich we talked about.\r\n\r\nCome one, come all Tulsa bloggers (and the Tulsa blog curious) to the Sample-a-Wiener edition of Tulsa Blogger Meetup - can\'t wait to see all of you!\r\n\r\n<strong>NOTE</strong>: To be included in the blogger directory <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/fasslerhall#!/event.php?eid=153356328040808\">you must reply to this FB event</a>. Because I\'m not psychic, people. I wish I was. But I\'m just not. So throw me a bone here. 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If you have a blog (or even if you\'re just blog curious) and you\'re in the Tulsa area, come on down to downtown\'s newest Blue Dome District eat spot for some free (!!!) samples of Fassler\'s gourmet, house-made sausages, and a wiener-tastic good time with your fellow bloggers to boot.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]\r\n\r\nAnd you know what goes good with free sausage samples? More sausage. And beer, of course. So feel free to stay for dinner, get your name in the latest edition of the Tulsa Blogger Directory (an easy, free way to get the word out about your blog to some of Tulsa\'s most influential media - your fellow bloggers! - and all you have to do is <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/fasslerhall#!/event.php?eid=153356328040808\">RSVP to this FB event to get the job done</a>) and enjoy a rousing edition of the newest feature of the Tulsa Blogger Meetup, the Blogger Open Mic.\r\n\r\nHere\'s what you add to your calendar:\r\n<blockquote><strong>Tulsa Blogger Meet-Up, Sample-A-Wiener Edition</strong>\r\nWhen: Wednesday, Nov. 10, 6:30pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.fasslerhall.com/\">Fassler Hall</a>, 304 S. Elgin Ave.</blockquote>\r\n<strong>Rules of Blogger Open Mic:</strong>\r\n1. You must send me an e-mail at <a href=\"mailto:tasha@tashadoestulsa.com\">tasha@tashadoestulsa.com</a> with the following subject line: Blog Talk\r\n2. You must provide me with at least your first name and your blog address.\r\n3. You must make me a sandwich.\r\n4. Just kidding about No. 3. Unless, of course, you want to. In which case, hold the mayo. I hate mayo.\r\n5. You must show up at the Sample-a-Wiener Edition of Tulsa Blogger Meetup.\r\n\r\nBecause if you don\'t, who else is going to stand up in front of a crowd of 50+ Tulsa bloggers and tell them, in 30 seconds or less, all about you and your kick-ass blog? No one. Not even me.\r\n\r\nEspecially if you don\'t make me that sandwich we talked about.\r\n\r\nCome one, come all Tulsa bloggers (and the Tulsa blog curious) to the Sample-a-Wiener edition of Tulsa Blogger Meetup - can\'t wait to see all of you!\r\n\r\n<strong>NOTE</strong>: To be included in the blogger directory <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/fasslerhall#!/event.php?eid=153356328040808\">you must reply to this FB event</a>. Because I\'m not psychic, people. I wish I was. But I\'m just not. So throw me a bone here. Or a delicious, gourmet wiener.','Tulsa Blogger Meetup, Sample-A-Wiener Edition','If you have a blog (or even if you\'re just blog curious) and you\'re in the Tulsa area, come on down to downtown\'s newest Blue Dome District eat spot for some free (!!!) samples of Fassler\'s gourmet, house-made sausages, and a wiener-tastic good time with your fellow bloggers to boot.','inherit','open','open','','3435-revision-4','','','2010-11-01 15:38:32','2010-11-01 20:38:32','',3435,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3435-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(3442,1,'2010-11-01 15:38:32','2010-11-01 20:38:32','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-955\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/tulsa-blogger-meetup/dsc_0630/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-955\" title=\"Blue Dome\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DSC_0630.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Dome\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.fasslerhall.com/\">Fassler Hall</a> is open, and they\'re a blogger-loving bunch. If you have a blog (or even if you\'re just blog curious) and you\'re in the Tulsa area, come on down to downtown\'s newest Blue Dome District eat spot for some free (!!!) samples of Fassler\'s gourmet, house-made sausages, and a wiener-tastic good time with your fellow bloggers to boot.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]\r\n\r\nAnd you know what goes good with free sausage samples? More sausage. And beer, of course. So feel free to stay for dinner, get your name in the latest edition of the Tulsa Blogger Directory (an easy, free way to get the word out about your blog to some of Tulsa\'s most influential media - your fellow bloggers! - and all you have to do is <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/fasslerhall#!/event.php?eid=153356328040808\">RSVP to this FB event to get the job done</a>) and enjoy a rousing edition of the newest feature of the Tulsa Blogger Meetup, the Blogger Open Mic.\r\n\r\nHere\'s what you add to your calendar:\r\n<blockquote><strong>Tulsa Blogger Meet-Up, Sample-A-Wiener Edition</strong>\r\nWhen: Wednesday, Nov. 10, 6:30pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.fasslerhall.com/\">Fassler Hall</a>, 304 S. Elgin Ave.</blockquote>\r\n<strong>Rules of Blogger Open Mic:</strong>\r\n1. You must send me an e-mail at <a href=\"mailto:tasha@tashadoestulsa.com\">tasha@tashadoestulsa.com</a> with the following subject line: Blog Talk\r\n2. You must provide me with at least your first name and your blog address.\r\n3. You must make me a sandwich.\r\n4. Just kidding about No. 3. Unless, of course, you want to. In which case, hold the mayo. I hate mayo.\r\n5. You must show up at the Sample-a-Wiener Edition of Tulsa Blogger Meetup.\r\n\r\nBecause if you don\'t, who else is going to stand up in front of a crowd of 50+ Tulsa bloggers and tell them, in 30 seconds or less, all about you and your kick-ass blog? No one. Not even me.\r\n\r\nEspecially if you don\'t make me that sandwich we talked about.\r\n\r\nCome one, come all Tulsa bloggers (and the Tulsa blog curious) to the Sample-a-Wiener edition of Tulsa Blogger Meetup - can\'t wait to see all of you!\r\n\r\n<strong>NOTE</strong>: To be included in the blogger directory <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/fasslerhall#!/event.php?eid=153356328040808\">you must reply to this FB event</a>. Because I\'m not psychic, people. I wish I was. But I\'m just not. So throw me a bone here. Or a delicious, gourmet wiener.','Tulsa Blogger Meetup, Sample-A-Wiener Edition','If you have a blog (or even if you\'re just blog curious) and you\'re in the Tulsa area, come on down to downtown\'s newest Blue Dome District eat spot for some free (!!!) samples of Fassler\'s gourmet, house-made sausages, and a wiener-tastic good time with your fellow bloggers to boot.','inherit','open','open','','3435-revision-5','','','2010-11-01 15:38:32','2010-11-01 20:38:32','',3435,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3435-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(3443,1,'2010-11-01 15:41:12','2010-11-01 20:41:12','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-955\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/tulsa-blogger-meetup/dsc_0630/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-955\" title=\"Blue Dome\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DSC_0630.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Dome\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.fasslerhall.com/\">Fassler Hall</a> is open, and they\'re a blogger-loving bunch. If you have a blog (or even if you\'re just blog curious) and you\'re in the Tulsa area, come on down to downtown\'s newest Blue Dome District eat spot for some free (!!!) samples of Fassler\'s gourmet, house-made sausages, and a wiener-tastic good time with your fellow bloggers to boot.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\nAnd you know what goes good with free sausage samples? More sausage. And beer, of course. So feel free to stay for dinner, get your name in the latest edition of the Tulsa Blogger Directory (an easy, free way to get the word out about your blog to some of Tulsa\'s most influential media - your fellow bloggers! - and all you have to do is <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/fasslerhall#!/event.php?eid=153356328040808\">RSVP to this FB event to get the job done</a>) and enjoy a rousing edition of the newest feature of the Tulsa Blogger Meetup, the Blogger Open Mic.\r\n\r\nHere\'s what you add to your calendar:\r\n<blockquote><strong>Tulsa Blogger Meet-Up, Sample-A-Wiener Edition</strong>\r\nWhen: Wednesday, Nov. 10, 6:30pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.fasslerhall.com/\">Fassler Hall</a>, 304 S. Elgin Ave.</blockquote>\r\n<strong>Rules of Blogger Open Mic:</strong>\r\n1. You must send me an e-mail at <a href=\"mailto:tasha@tashadoestulsa.com\">tasha@tashadoestulsa.com</a> with the following subject line: Blog Talk\r\n2. You must provide me with at least your first name and your blog address.\r\n3. You must make me a sandwich.\r\n4. Just kidding about No. 3. Unless, of course, you want to. In which case, hold the mayo. I hate mayo.\r\n5. You must show up at the Sample-a-Wiener Edition of Tulsa Blogger Meetup.\r\n\r\nBecause if you don\'t, who else is going to stand up in front of a crowd of 50+ Tulsa bloggers and tell them, in 30 seconds or less, all about you and your kick-ass blog? No one. Not even me.\r\n\r\nEspecially if you don\'t make me that sandwich we talked about.\r\n\r\nCome one, come all Tulsa bloggers (and the Tulsa blog curious) to the Sample-a-Wiener edition of Tulsa Blogger Meetup - can\'t wait to see all of you!\r\n\r\n<strong>NOTE</strong>: To be included in the blogger directory <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/fasslerhall#!/event.php?eid=153356328040808\">you must reply to this FB event</a>. Because I\'m not psychic, people. I wish I was. But I\'m just not. So throw me a bone here. Or a delicious, gourmet wiener.','Tulsa Blogger Meetup, Sample-A-Wiener Edition','If you have a blog (or even if you\'re just blog curious) and you\'re in the Tulsa area, come on down to downtown\'s newest Blue Dome District eat spot for some free (!!!) samples of Fassler\'s gourmet, house-made sausages, and a wiener-tastic good time with your fellow bloggers to boot.','inherit','open','open','','3435-revision-6','','','2010-11-01 15:41:12','2010-11-01 20:41:12','',3435,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3435-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(3444,1,'2010-11-01 15:41:13','2010-11-01 20:41:13','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-955\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/tulsa-blogger-meetup/dsc_0630/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-955\" title=\"Blue Dome\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DSC_0630.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Dome\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.fasslerhall.com/\">Fassler Hall</a> is open, and they\'re a blogger-loving bunch. If you have a blog (or even if you\'re just blog curious) and you\'re in the Tulsa area, come on down to downtown\'s newest Blue Dome District eat spot for some free (!!!) samples of Fassler\'s gourmet, house-made sausages, and a wiener-tastic good time with your fellow bloggers to boot.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\nAnd you know what goes good with free sausage samples? More sausage. And beer, of course. So feel free to stay for dinner, get your name in the latest edition of the Tulsa Blogger Directory (an easy, free way to get the word out about your blog to some of Tulsa\'s most influential media - your fellow bloggers! - and all you have to do is <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/fasslerhall#!/event.php?eid=153356328040808\">RSVP to this FB event to get the job done</a>) and enjoy a rousing edition of the newest feature of the Tulsa Blogger Meetup, the Blogger Open Mic.\r\n\r\nHere\'s what you add to your calendar:\r\n<blockquote><strong>Tulsa Blogger Meet-Up, Sample-A-Wiener Edition</strong>\r\nWhen: Wednesday, Nov. 10, 6:30pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.fasslerhall.com/\">Fassler Hall</a>, 304 S. Elgin Ave.</blockquote>\r\n<strong>Rules of Blogger Open Mic:</strong>\r\n1. You must send me an e-mail at <a href=\"mailto:tasha@tashadoestulsa.com\">tasha@tashadoestulsa.com</a> with the following subject line: Blog Talk\r\n2. You must provide me with at least your first name and your blog address.\r\n3. You must make me a sandwich.\r\n4. Just kidding about No. 3. Unless, of course, you want to. In which case, hold the mayo. I hate mayo.\r\n5. You must show up at the Sample-a-Wiener Edition of Tulsa Blogger Meetup.\r\n\r\nBecause if you don\'t, who else is going to stand up in front of a crowd of 50+ Tulsa bloggers and tell them, in 30 seconds or less, all about you and your kick-ass blog? No one. Not even me.\r\n\r\nEspecially if you don\'t make me that sandwich we talked about.\r\n\r\nCome one, come all Tulsa bloggers (and the Tulsa blog curious) to the Sample-a-Wiener edition of Tulsa Blogger Meetup - can\'t wait to see all of you!\r\n\r\n<strong>NOTE</strong>: To be included in the blogger directory <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/fasslerhall#!/event.php?eid=153356328040808\">you must reply to this FB event</a>. Because I\'m not psychic, people. I wish I was. But I\'m just not. So throw me a bone here. Or a delicious, gourmet wiener.','Tulsa Blogger Meetup, Sample-A-Wiener Edition','If you have a blog (or even if you\'re just blog curious) and you\'re in the Tulsa area, come on down to downtown\'s newest Blue Dome District eat spot for some free (!!!) samples of Fassler\'s gourmet, house-made sausages, and a wiener-tastic good time with your fellow bloggers to boot.','inherit','open','open','','3435-revision-7','','','2010-11-01 15:41:13','2010-11-01 20:41:13','',3435,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3435-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(3447,1,'2010-11-01 15:42:42','2010-11-01 20:42:42','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-955\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/tulsa-blogger-meetup/dsc_0630/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-955\" title=\"Blue Dome\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DSC_0630.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Dome\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.fasslerhall.com/\">Fassler Hall</a> is now open, and they\'re a blogger-loving bunch. If you have a blog (or even if you\'re just blog curious) and you\'re in the Tulsa area, come on down to downtown\'s newest Blue Dome District eat spot for some free (!!!) samples of Fassler\'s gourmet, house-made sausages, and a wiener-tastic good time with your fellow bloggers.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\nAnd you know what goes good with free sausage samples? More sausage. And beer, of course. So feel free to stay for dinner, get your name in the latest edition of the Tulsa Blogger Directory (an easy, free way to get the word out about your blog to some of Tulsa\'s most influential media - your fellow bloggers! - and all you have to do is <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/fasslerhall#!/event.php?eid=153356328040808\">RSVP to this FB event to get the job done</a>) and enjoy a rousing edition of the newest feature of the Tulsa Blogger Meetup, the Blogger Open Mic.\r\n\r\nHere\'s what you add to your calendar:\r\n<blockquote><strong>Tulsa Blogger Meet-Up, Sample-A-Wiener Edition</strong>\r\nWhen: Wednesday, Nov. 10, 6:30pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.fasslerhall.com/\">Fassler Hall</a>, 304 S. Elgin Ave.</blockquote>\r\n<strong>Rules of Blogger Open Mic:</strong>\r\n1. You must send me an e-mail at <a href=\"mailto:tasha@tashadoestulsa.com\">tasha@tashadoestulsa.com</a> with the following subject line: Blog Talk\r\n2. You must provide me with at least your first name and your blog address.\r\n3. You must make me a sandwich.\r\n4. Just kidding about No. 3. Unless, of course, you want to. In which case, hold the mayo. I hate mayo.\r\n5. You must show up at the Sample-a-Wiener Edition of Tulsa Blogger Meetup.\r\n\r\nBecause if you don\'t, who else is going to stand up in front of a crowd of 50+ Tulsa bloggers and tell them, in 30 seconds or less, all about you and your kick-ass blog? No one. Not even me.\r\n\r\nEspecially if you don\'t make me that sandwich we talked about.\r\n\r\nCome one, come all Tulsa bloggers (and the Tulsa blog curious) to the Sample-a-Wiener edition of Tulsa Blogger Meetup - can\'t wait to see all of you!\r\n\r\n<strong>NOTE</strong>: To be included in the blogger directory <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/fasslerhall#!/event.php?eid=153356328040808\">you must reply to this FB event</a>. Because I\'m not psychic, people. I wish I was. But I\'m just not. So throw me a bone here. Or a delicious, gourmet wiener.','Tulsa Blogger Meetup, Sample-A-Wiener Edition','If you have a blog (or even if you\'re just blog curious) and you\'re in the Tulsa area, come on down to downtown\'s newest Blue Dome District eat spot for some free (!!!) samples of Fassler\'s gourmet, house-made sausages, and a wiener-tastic good time with your fellow bloggers to boot.','inherit','open','open','','3435-revision-10','','','2010-11-01 15:42:42','2010-11-01 20:42:42','',3435,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3435-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(3445,1,'2010-11-01 15:42:13','2010-11-01 20:42:13','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-955\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/tulsa-blogger-meetup/dsc_0630/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-955\" title=\"Blue Dome\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DSC_0630.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Dome\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.fasslerhall.com/\">Fassler Hall</a> is now open, and they\'re a blogger-loving bunch. If you have a blog (or even if you\'re just blog curious) and you\'re in the Tulsa area, come on down to downtown\'s newest Blue Dome District eat spot for some free (!!!) samples of Fassler\'s gourmet, house-made sausages, and a wiener-tastic good time with your fellow bloggers to boot.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\nAnd you know what goes good with free sausage samples? More sausage. And beer, of course. So feel free to stay for dinner, get your name in the latest edition of the Tulsa Blogger Directory (an easy, free way to get the word out about your blog to some of Tulsa\'s most influential media - your fellow bloggers! - and all you have to do is <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/fasslerhall#!/event.php?eid=153356328040808\">RSVP to this FB event to get the job done</a>) and enjoy a rousing edition of the newest feature of the Tulsa Blogger Meetup, the Blogger Open Mic.\r\n\r\nHere\'s what you add to your calendar:\r\n<blockquote><strong>Tulsa Blogger Meet-Up, Sample-A-Wiener Edition</strong>\r\nWhen: Wednesday, Nov. 10, 6:30pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.fasslerhall.com/\">Fassler Hall</a>, 304 S. Elgin Ave.</blockquote>\r\n<strong>Rules of Blogger Open Mic:</strong>\r\n1. You must send me an e-mail at <a href=\"mailto:tasha@tashadoestulsa.com\">tasha@tashadoestulsa.com</a> with the following subject line: Blog Talk\r\n2. You must provide me with at least your first name and your blog address.\r\n3. You must make me a sandwich.\r\n4. Just kidding about No. 3. Unless, of course, you want to. In which case, hold the mayo. I hate mayo.\r\n5. You must show up at the Sample-a-Wiener Edition of Tulsa Blogger Meetup.\r\n\r\nBecause if you don\'t, who else is going to stand up in front of a crowd of 50+ Tulsa bloggers and tell them, in 30 seconds or less, all about you and your kick-ass blog? No one. Not even me.\r\n\r\nEspecially if you don\'t make me that sandwich we talked about.\r\n\r\nCome one, come all Tulsa bloggers (and the Tulsa blog curious) to the Sample-a-Wiener edition of Tulsa Blogger Meetup - can\'t wait to see all of you!\r\n\r\n<strong>NOTE</strong>: To be included in the blogger directory <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/fasslerhall#!/event.php?eid=153356328040808\">you must reply to this FB event</a>. Because I\'m not psychic, people. I wish I was. But I\'m just not. So throw me a bone here. Or a delicious, gourmet wiener.','Tulsa Blogger Meetup, Sample-A-Wiener Edition','If you have a blog (or even if you\'re just blog curious) and you\'re in the Tulsa area, come on down to downtown\'s newest Blue Dome District eat spot for some free (!!!) samples of Fassler\'s gourmet, house-made sausages, and a wiener-tastic good time with your fellow bloggers to boot.','inherit','open','open','','3435-revision-8','','','2010-11-01 15:42:13','2010-11-01 20:42:13','',3435,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3435-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(3446,1,'2010-11-01 15:42:13','2010-11-01 20:42:13','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-955\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/tulsa-blogger-meetup/dsc_0630/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-955\" title=\"Blue Dome\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DSC_0630.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Dome\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.fasslerhall.com/\">Fassler Hall</a> is now open, and they\'re a blogger-loving bunch. If you have a blog (or even if you\'re just blog curious) and you\'re in the Tulsa area, come on down to downtown\'s newest Blue Dome District eat spot for some free (!!!) samples of Fassler\'s gourmet, house-made sausages, and a wiener-tastic good time with your fellow bloggers to boot.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\nAnd you know what goes good with free sausage samples? More sausage. And beer, of course. So feel free to stay for dinner, get your name in the latest edition of the Tulsa Blogger Directory (an easy, free way to get the word out about your blog to some of Tulsa\'s most influential media - your fellow bloggers! - and all you have to do is <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/fasslerhall#!/event.php?eid=153356328040808\">RSVP to this FB event to get the job done</a>) and enjoy a rousing edition of the newest feature of the Tulsa Blogger Meetup, the Blogger Open Mic.\r\n\r\nHere\'s what you add to your calendar:\r\n<blockquote><strong>Tulsa Blogger Meet-Up, Sample-A-Wiener Edition</strong>\r\nWhen: Wednesday, Nov. 10, 6:30pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.fasslerhall.com/\">Fassler Hall</a>, 304 S. Elgin Ave.</blockquote>\r\n<strong>Rules of Blogger Open Mic:</strong>\r\n1. You must send me an e-mail at <a href=\"mailto:tasha@tashadoestulsa.com\">tasha@tashadoestulsa.com</a> with the following subject line: Blog Talk\r\n2. You must provide me with at least your first name and your blog address.\r\n3. You must make me a sandwich.\r\n4. Just kidding about No. 3. Unless, of course, you want to. In which case, hold the mayo. I hate mayo.\r\n5. You must show up at the Sample-a-Wiener Edition of Tulsa Blogger Meetup.\r\n\r\nBecause if you don\'t, who else is going to stand up in front of a crowd of 50+ Tulsa bloggers and tell them, in 30 seconds or less, all about you and your kick-ass blog? No one. Not even me.\r\n\r\nEspecially if you don\'t make me that sandwich we talked about.\r\n\r\nCome one, come all Tulsa bloggers (and the Tulsa blog curious) to the Sample-a-Wiener edition of Tulsa Blogger Meetup - can\'t wait to see all of you!\r\n\r\n<strong>NOTE</strong>: To be included in the blogger directory <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/fasslerhall#!/event.php?eid=153356328040808\">you must reply to this FB event</a>. Because I\'m not psychic, people. I wish I was. But I\'m just not. So throw me a bone here. Or a delicious, gourmet wiener.','Tulsa Blogger Meetup, Sample-A-Wiener Edition','If you have a blog (or even if you\'re just blog curious) and you\'re in the Tulsa area, come on down to downtown\'s newest Blue Dome District eat spot for some free (!!!) samples of Fassler\'s gourmet, house-made sausages, and a wiener-tastic good time with your fellow bloggers to boot.','inherit','open','open','','3435-revision-9','','','2010-11-01 15:42:13','2010-11-01 20:42:13','',3435,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3435-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(3452,1,'2010-11-02 10:01:23','2010-11-02 15:01:23','','Election Day','','inherit','open','open','','03','','','2010-11-02 10:01:23','2010-11-02 15:01:23','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/03.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(4204,1,'2009-12-01 03:15:00','2009-12-01 03:15:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4149076188/\" title=\"Philbrook Museum Gift Shop by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Philbrook Museum Gift Shop\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2638/4149076188_decda6a7b1.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a><br /></div><br />While I was doing research for this gift guide, I came across some rather original suggestions, ranging from the cute and unique to the downright strange.<br /><br />One suggestion in particular was, I think, smart thinking. <a href=\"http://ttownmoms.com/\">Leave it to the head mom over at Ttownmoms.com, Trisha Swindle</a>, to come up with a clever, cost-effective way to shop with local vendors this holiday season without breaking the bank. Her idea? <a href=\"http://philbrook.org/\">Shop for stocking stuffers at the gift shop in Philbrook Museum</a>.<br /><br /><a name=\'more\'></a><br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4148316621/\" title=\"Philbrook Museum Gift Shop by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Philbrook Museum Gift Shop\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2698/4148316621_98eaa6fd7f.jpg\" width=\"375\" /></a><br /></div><br />Wow. Look at all of these doo-dads. Each seems guaranteed to cause the kiddos to flip out on Christmas morning. After all, these aren\'t your run-of-the-mill, good-for-Christmas-morning-only type of gifts. They\'re engaging, they\'re educational and they\'re great for skill building - all really, really good things if you\'re one of those who\'d prefer not support your children when they\'re 32 1/2.<br /><br />Plus, when you buy from the gift shop at Philbrook, you\'re benefitting the museum, not some large corporation offering rock-bottom prices, endless up-selling, free shipping and a gold-plated toilet seat, just for good measure.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4148316783/\" title=\"Philbrook Museum Gift Shop by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Philbrook Museum Gift Shop\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2567/4148316783_9d8b39b933.jpg\" width=\"375\" /></a><br /></div><br />At the Philbrook gift shop, you can spend little, or you can spend big. Either way, there\'s something for just about everybody on your shopping list - even your friendly neighborhood robot geek.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4148317005/\" title=\"Philbrook Museum Gift Shop by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Philbrook Museum Gift Shop\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2681/4148317005_a568b18c86.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a><br /></div><br />My husband nearly broke his jaw asking me so many times if we could buy this little sucker. Of course, I refused - not because I didn\'t want it, too (takes a robot geek to know a robot geek), but because I have to play hard to get from time to time. That my little act had to involve robots in this instance is the perfect illustration for that little pearl of wisdom, \"Life isn\'t always fair.\"<br /><br />And...moving on.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4149077036/\" title=\"Philbrook Museum Gift Shop by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Philbrook Museum Gift Shop\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2731/4149077036_73fb15b0d5.jpg\" width=\"375\" /></a><br /></div><br />The Philbrook gift shop could also serve as your one-stop Tulsa book shop this season. Easy, peasy, I say.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4148317333/\" title=\"Philbrook Museum Gift Shop by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Philbrook Museum Gift Shop\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2787/4148317333_8903cfff1c.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a><br /></div><br />See? Yet another reason to kick Ama-who.com to the curb.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4148317521/\" title=\"Philbrook Museum Gift Shop by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Philbrook Museum Gift Shop\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2519/4148317521_548ac32bcd.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a><br /></div><br />Speaking of <a href=\"http://philbrook.org/\">Philbrook Museum</a> and <a href=\"http://ttownmoms.com/\">Ttownmoms</a>, <a href=\"http://ttownmoms.com/data/assets/boards/ttownmoms/showthread.php?p=3073#post3073\">all Ttownmoms members get in free at Philbrook this Thursday from 6-8pm</a>. If you\'re a member of the site and you mention that fact at the front door, they\'ll let you on through, no questions asked. <br /><div><br /></div><div>Guess what you\'ll see. Dozens of beautiful, expertly decorated trees and gingerbread houses, that\'s what. Plus, the iconic Philbrook garden will be lit true to the season. It\'s all part of <a href=\"http://www.philbrook.org/support/events/2009_festival_of_trees.cfm\">the 25th annual Festival of Trees, a Tulsa tradition that benefits this world-class museum</a>.<br /><br />By the way, <a href=\"http://ttownmoms.com/register\">if you\'re not registered at Ttownmoms.com, then you\'re missing out, friends</a>. I like to call it the Facebook for Tulsa-area parents. When you sign up, you get your very own profile (complete with status updates), a blog, a place to show off all those photos of your kids - all of this, plus the resources and camaraderie that go along with being part of a community of parents. And, access to members-only, free events that kick royal butt, like this one.<br /><br />Check out the gift shop at Philbrook Museum this year for all of your stocking stuffing needs and more. And, if you buy the robot, please consider having me over for Christmas morning. I can make a mean stack of pancakes.<br /><br /><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Philbrook Museum</span><br />2727 S. Rockford Road<br /><a href=\"mailto:philbrookshop@philbrook.org\">philbrookshop@philbrook.org</a><br />Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 10am-5pm; Thursday until 8 pm; Sunday until 8 pm November 29 through December 31<br />(918) 748-5304<br /></div><div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/97d6646e-71bf-4714-9a14-be49348ad411/\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\"><img alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=97d6646e-71bf-4714-9a14-be49348ad411\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" /></a><script defer=\"defer\" src=\"http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js\" type=\"text/javascript\"></script><br /></div>','TDT Holiday Gift Guide: Philbrook Gift Shop','','inherit','open','open','','374-revision','','','2009-12-01 03:15:00','2009-12-01 03:15:00','',374,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/12/374-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(4203,1,'2010-12-03 15:36:07','2010-12-03 20:36:07','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4149076188/\" title=\"Philbrook Museum Gift Shop by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Philbrook Museum Gift Shop\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2638/4149076188_decda6a7b1.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div>\n\nWhile I was doing research for this gift guide, I came across some rather original suggestions, ranging from the cute and unique to the downright strange.\n\nOne suggestion in particular was, I think, smart thinking. <a href=\"http://ttownmoms.com/\">Leave it to the head mom over at Ttownmoms.com, Trisha Swindle</a>, to come up with a clever, cost-effective way to shop with local vendors this holiday season without breaking the bank. Her idea? <a href=\"http://philbrook.org/\">Shop for stocking stuffers at the gift shop in Philbrook Museum</a>.\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4148316621/\" title=\"Philbrook Museum Gift Shop by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Philbrook Museum Gift Shop\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2698/4148316621_98eaa6fd7f.jpg\" width=\"375\" /></a></div>\n\nWow. Look at all of these doo-dads. Each seems guaranteed to cause the kiddos to flip out on Christmas morning. After all, these aren\'t your run-of-the-mill, good-for-Christmas-morning-only type of gifts. They\'re engaging, they\'re educational and they\'re great for skill building - all really, really good things if you\'re one of those who\'d prefer not support your children when they\'re 32 1/2.\n\nPlus, when you buy from the gift shop at Philbrook, you\'re benefitting the museum, not some large corporation offering rock-bottom prices, endless up-selling, free shipping and a gold-plated toilet seat, just to get you to buy some worthless piece of junk.\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4148316783/\" title=\"Philbrook Museum Gift Shop by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Philbrook Museum Gift Shop\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2567/4148316783_9d8b39b933.jpg\" width=\"375\" /></a></div>\n\nAt the Philbrook gift shop, you can spend little, or you can spend big. Either way, there\'s something for just about everybody on your shopping list - even your friendly neighborhood robot geek.\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4148317005/\" title=\"Philbrook Museum Gift Shop by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Philbrook Museum Gift Shop\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2681/4148317005_a568b18c86.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div>\n\nMy husband nearly broke his jaw asking me so many times if we could buy this little sucker. Of course, I refused - not because I didn\'t want it, too (takes a robot geek to know a robot geek), but because I have to play hard to get from time to time. \n\nLife isn\'t always fair.\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4149077036/\" title=\"Philbrook Museum Gift Shop by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Philbrook Museum Gift Shop\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2731/4149077036_73fb15b0d5.jpg\" width=\"375\" /></a></div>\n\nThe Philbrook gift shop could also serve as your one-stop Tulsa book shop this season. \n\nEasy, peasy, I say.\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4148317333/\" title=\"Philbrook Museum Gift Shop by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Philbrook Museum Gift Shop\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2787/4148317333_8903cfff1c.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div>\n\nSee? Yet another reason to kick Ama-who.com to the curb.\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4148317521/\" title=\"Philbrook Museum Gift Shop by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Philbrook Museum Gift Shop\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2519/4148317521_548ac32bcd.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div>\n\nSpeaking of <a href=\"http://philbrook.org/\">Philbrook Museum</a> and <a href=\"http://ttownmoms.com/\">Ttownmoms</a>, <a href=\"http://ttownmoms.com/data/assets/boards/ttownmoms/showthread.php?p=3073#post3073\">all Ttownmoms members get in free at Philbrook this Thursday from 6-8pm</a>. If you\'re a member of the site and you mention that fact at the front door, they\'ll let you on through, no questions asked. \n\nGuess what you\'ll see. Dozens of beautiful, expertly decorated trees and gingerbread houses, that\'s what. Plus, the iconic Philbrook garden will be lit true to the season. It\'s all part of <a href=\"http://www.philbrook.org/support/events/2009_festival_of_trees.cfm\">the 25th annual Festival of Trees, a Tulsa tradition that benefits our very own world-class museum</a>.\n\nBy the way, <a href=\"http://ttownmoms.com/register\">if you\'re not registered at Ttownmoms.com, then you\'re missing out, friends</a>. I like to call it the Facebook for Tulsa-area parents. When you sign up, you get your very own profile (complete with status updates), a blog, a place to show off all those photos of your kids - all of this, plus the resources and camaraderie that go along with being part of a community of parents. And, access to members-only, free events that kick royal butt, like this one.\n\nCheck out the gift shop at Philbrook Museum this year for all of your stocking stuffing needs and more. And, if you buy the robot, please consider having me over for Christmas morning. I can make a mean stack of pancakes.\n\n<b>Philbrook Museum</span><br />2727 S. Rockford Road<br /><a href=\"mailto:philbrookshop@philbrook.org\">philbrookshop@philbrook.org</a><br />Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 10am-5pm; Thursday until 8 pm; Sunday until 8 pm November 29 through December 31<br />(918) 748-5304<br /></div><div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/97d6646e-71bf-4714-9a14-be49348ad411/\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\"><img alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=97d6646e-71bf-4714-9a14-be49348ad411\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" /></a><script defer=\"defer\" src=\"http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js\" type=\"text/javascript\"></script><br /></div>','TDT Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Philbrook Gift Shop','Wow. Look at all of these doo-dads. Each seems guaranteed to cause the kiddos to flip out on Christmas morning. ','inherit','open','open','','374-autosave','','','2010-12-03 15:36:07','2010-12-03 20:36:07','',374,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/374-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(3457,1,'2010-11-02 10:19:05','2010-11-02 15:19:05','','Tulsa Kids','','inherit','open','open','','tk-125x125-1','','','2010-11-02 10:19:05','2010-11-02 15:19:05','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/TK-125x125-1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3458,1,'2010-11-02 11:00:34','2010-11-02 16:00:34','<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/nsERCtBe3Ts?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/nsERCtBe3Ts?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nBy now we\'ve all received dozens of fliers and phone calls from multiple candidates running for office in our legislatures as well as from proponents and opponents of this or that state question.\r\n\r\nBut in downtown Tulsa tonight, there\'s a different kind of campaigning going on.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\nFor one, it\'s for a different race - that of the <a href=\"http://www.thetulseys.com/\">2010 Tulsey Awards</a>, an off-shoot of the Tulsa Entrepreneurial Spirit Awards in which each and every Tulsan has the chance to vote for his or her favorite entrepreneur. Think of it as the People\'s Choice Awards of the Tulsa ESAs - rowdier, more casual and, yeah, perhaps even more fun, depending on whom you ask.\r\n\r\nOne of the nominees for a Tulsey Award, <a href=\"http://modscrepes.com/\">Rusty Rowe of Mod\'s Coffee and Crepes</a>, is campaigning like I\'ve never seen any other candidate for the award campaign before: He has recorded nearly a dozen videos stating his case, and they\'ve been proliferating on YouTube and around Tulsa\'s corner of Facebook to the degree that they have, at least locally, gone viral.\r\n\r\nIn case you haven\'t seen them already, here they are, in order - and yes, at less than 1:30, each is worth every bit of your time allotted for procrastination on this Tuesday morning. 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value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/Hj7xHxqq1nM?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/Hj7xHxqq1nM?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\nNumber Five (starring <a href=\"http://www.dwellingspaces.net/\">Dwelling Spaces</a> owner and downtown celebrity Mary Beth Babcock (and her precious dog, Molly)):\r\n\r\n<object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/BjVVoMm2bUg?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/BjVVoMm2bUg?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\nNumber six (starring the \"raging success\" Blake Ewing of <a href=\"http://www.joemommas.com/\">Joe Momma\'s</a>, <a href=\"http://boomtowntees.com/\">Boomtown Tees</a> and <a href=\"http://www.themaxretropub.com/\">The Max Retropub</a> fame):\r\n\r\n<object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/mvTls2grQZc?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/mvTls2grQZc?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\nNumber Seven (starring Libby Auld, owner of <a href=\"http://www.elotetulsa.com/\">Elote Cafe</a>):\r\n\r\n<object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/HunlnlIW9P8?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/HunlnlIW9P8?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\nNumber Eight (starring pretty much the best campaign tagline ever, Rags to Riches, B!#@&amp;*S):\r\n\r\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/nsERCtBe3Ts?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"></param><param 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height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/Ve1g9hHy7q0?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/Ve1g9hHy7q0?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\nSo, that campaign party hazelnut syrup-drunk Rusty was talking about? Here are the details:\r\n\r\n<strong>Rowe, Rowe, Rowe Your Vote Campaign Party</strong>\r\n\r\nWhen: Tonight, Nov. 2, starting at 8pm\r\n\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=165115603507817\">The Max Retropub</a>, 114 S. Elgin Ave.\r\n\r\nMeet the man himself and play free Skee-Ball at the same time? Sounds like a deal to me. And I heard the Golden Driller himself is gonna be there. I guess he\'s willing to make an appearance in exchange for seeing the last and final and super-double-secret-probation edition of the Rowe, Rowe, Rowe Your Vote campaign videos, which is just another feature of this event.\r\n\r\nWhether or not you can make the party, be sure to check out <a href=\"http://thetulseys.com/vote/\">the voting page over at TheTulseys.com</a>. As a Tulsey winner myself (no joke - <a href=\"http://thetulseys.com/past-winners/2009-winners/\">TDT beat out the infinitely more worthy Phillips360 and Ping.fm in 2009</a>), I\'ll say that each and every one of the 2010 nominees are worthy of your consideration. A few of Tulsa\'s bloggers are up for awards, too, so be sure to keep them in mind as you cast your votes.\r\n\r\nYou can vote once per day, y\'all, so vote often for your favorite Tulsa businesspeople, starting today.\r\n\r\nAnd one more thing: Rags to Riches, B!#@&amp;*S!\r\n\r\nSorry. I just couldn\'t help myself. Whoever wrote that line totally gets me.','Rowe, Rowe, Rowe Your Vote: A Different Kind of Campaign','By now we\'ve all received dozens of fliers and phone calls from multiple candidates running for office in our legislatures as well as from proponents and opponents of this or that state question. But in downtown Tulsa tonight, there\'s a different kind of campaigning going on.','publish','open','open','','rusty-rowe-tulsey-awards-campaign','','\nhttp://thetulseys.com/vote/','2010-11-04 17:32:47','2010-11-04 22:32:47','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=3458',0,'post','',10),(3459,1,'2010-11-02 11:00:18','2010-11-02 16:00:18','&lt;object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/YxF423HHhEI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/YxF423HHhEI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;\n\nBy now we\'ve all received dozens of fliers and phone calls from multiple candidates running for office in our legislatures as well as from proponents and opponents of this or that state question.\n\nBut in downtown Tulsa tonight, there\'s a different kind of campaigning going on. For one, it\'s for a different race - that of the 2010 Tulsey Awards, an off-shoot of the Tulsa Entrepreneurial Spirit Awards in which each and every Tulsan has the chance to vote for his or her favorite entrepreneur. Think of it as the People\'s Choice Awards of the Tulsa ESAs - rowdier, more casual and, yeah, perhaps even more fun, depending on whom you ask.\n\nOne of the nominees for a Tulsey Award, Rusty Rowe of Mod\'s Coffee and Crepes, is campaigning like I\'ve never seen any other candidate for the award campaign before: He has recorded nearly a dozen videos stating his case, and they\'ve been proliferating on YouTube and around Tulsa\'s corner of Facebook to the degree that they have, at least locally, gone viral.\n\nIn case you haven\'t seen them already, here they are, in order - and yes, they\'re worth every bit of your energy for procrastination on this Tuesday morning. Be sure to tell me which is your favorite in the comments - I think I like the eighth one the best.\n\nNumber One:\n\n&lt;object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/BmFJIZ9-Qqs?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/BmFJIZ9-Qqs?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;\n\nNumber Two:\n\n&lt;object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/ZNjl9zGogBI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowFullScreen\" 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value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/mvTls2grQZc?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/mvTls2grQZc?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;\n\nNumber Seven (starring Libby Auld, owner of <a href=\"http://www.elotetulsa.com/\">Elote Cafe</a>):\n\n&lt;object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/HunlnlIW9P8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" 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Here are the details:\n\n<strong>Rowe, Rowe, Rowe Your Vote Campaign Party</strong>\n\nWhen: Tonight, Nov. 2, starting at 8pm\n\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=165115603507817\">The Max Retropub</a>, 114 S. Elgin Ave.\n\nMeet the man himself and play free Skee-Ball at the same time? Sounds like a deal to me. And I heard the Golden Driller himself is gonna be there. I guess he\'s willing to make an appearance in exchange for seeing the last and final and super-double-secret-probation edition of the Rowe, Rowe, Rowe Your Vote campaign videos, which is just another feature of this event.\n\nWhether or not you can make the party, be sure to check out <a href=\"http://thetulseys.com/vote/\">the voting page over at TheTulseys.com</a>. As a Tulsey winner myself, I\'ll say that each and every one of the 2010 nominees are worthy of your consideration. A few of Tulsa\'s bloggers are up for awards, too, so be sure to keep them in mind as you cast your votes.\n\nYou can vote once per day, y\'all, so vote often for your favorite Tulsa businesspeople, starting today.\n\nAnd one more thing: Rags to Riches, B!#@&amp;*S!\n\nSorry. I just couldn\'t help myself. Whoever wrote that line totally gets me.','Rowe, Rowe, Rowe Your Vote: A Different Kind of Campaign','By now we\'ve all received dozens of fliers and phone calls from multiple candidates running for office in our legislatures as well as from proponents and opponents of this or that state question. But in downtown Tulsa tonight, there\'s a different kind of campaigning going on.','inherit','open','open','','3458-revision','','','2010-11-02 11:00:18','2010-11-02 16:00:18','',3458,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3458-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(3464,1,'2010-11-02 11:08:53','2010-11-02 16:08:53','<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/nsERCtBe3Ts?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/nsERCtBe3Ts?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nBy now we\'ve all received dozens of fliers and phone calls from multiple candidates running for office in our legislatures as well as from proponents and opponents of this or that state question.\r\n\r\nBut in downtown Tulsa tonight, there\'s a different kind of campaigning going on.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\nFor one, it\'s for a different race - that of the <a href=\"http://www.thetulseys.com/\">2010 Tulsey Awards</a>, an off-shoot of the Tulsa Entrepreneurial Spirit Awards in which each and every Tulsan has the chance to vote for his or her favorite entrepreneur. Think of it as the People\'s Choice Awards of the Tulsa ESAs - rowdier, more casual and, yeah, perhaps even more fun, depending on whom you ask.\r\n\r\nOne of the nominees for a Tulsey Award, Rusty Rowe of Mod\'s Coffee and Crepes, is campaigning like I\'ve never seen any other candidate for the award campaign before: He has recorded nearly a dozen videos stating his case, and they\'ve been proliferating on YouTube and around Tulsa\'s corner of Facebook to the degree that they have, at least locally, gone viral.\r\n\r\nIn case you haven\'t seen them already, here they are, in order - and yes, they\'re worth every bit of your energy for procrastination on this Tuesday morning. Be sure to tell me which is your favorite in the comments - I think I like the eighth one the best.\r\n\r\nNumber One:\r\n\r\n<object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/BmFJIZ9-Qqs?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/BmFJIZ9-Qqs?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\nNumber Two:\r\n\r\n<object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/ZNjl9zGogBI?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 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value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/Hj7xHxqq1nM?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/Hj7xHxqq1nM?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\nNumber Five (starring <a href=\"http://www.dwellingspaces.net/\">Dwelling Spaces</a> owner and downtown celebrity Mary Beth Babcock (and her precious dog, Molly)):\r\n\r\n<object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/BjVVoMm2bUg?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/BjVVoMm2bUg?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\nNumber six (starring the \"raging success\" Blake Ewing of <a href=\"http://www.joemommas.com/\">Joe Momma\'s</a>, <a href=\"http://boomtowntees.com/\">Boomtown Tees</a> and <a href=\"http://www.themaxretropub.com/\">The Max Retropub</a> fame):\r\n\r\n<object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/mvTls2grQZc?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/mvTls2grQZc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" 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height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/Ve1g9hHy7q0?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/Ve1g9hHy7q0?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\nSo, that campaign party hazelnut syrup-drunk Rusty was talking about? Here are the details:\r\n\r\n<strong>Rowe, Rowe, Rowe Your Vote Campaign Party</strong>\r\n\r\nWhen: Tonight, Nov. 2, starting at 8pm\r\n\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=165115603507817\">The Max Retropub</a>, 114 S. Elgin Ave.\r\n\r\nMeet the man himself and play free Skee-Ball at the same time? Sounds like a deal to me. And I heard the Golden Driller himself is gonna be there. I guess he\'s willing to make an appearance in exchange for seeing the last and final and super-double-secret-probation edition of the Rowe, Rowe, Rowe Your Vote campaign videos, which is just another feature of this event.\r\n\r\nWhether or not you can make the party, be sure to check out <a href=\"http://thetulseys.com/vote/\">the voting page over at TheTulseys.com</a>. As a Tulsey winner myself, I\'ll say that each and every one of the 2010 nominees are worthy of your consideration. A few of Tulsa\'s bloggers are up for awards, too, so be sure to keep them in mind as you cast your votes.\r\n\r\nYou can vote once per day, y\'all, so vote often for your favorite Tulsa businesspeople, starting today.\r\n\r\nAnd one more thing: Rags to Riches, B!#@&amp;*S!\r\n\r\nSorry. I just couldn\'t help myself. Whoever wrote that line totally gets me.','Rowe, Rowe, Rowe Your Vote: A Different Kind of Campaign','By now we\'ve all received dozens of fliers and phone calls from multiple candidates running for office in our legislatures as well as from proponents and opponents of this or that state question. But in downtown Tulsa tonight, there\'s a different kind of campaigning going on.','inherit','open','open','','3458-revision-5','','','2010-11-02 11:08:53','2010-11-02 16:08:53','',3458,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3458-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(3460,1,'2010-11-02 11:14:27','2010-11-02 16:14:27','<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/nsERCtBe3Ts?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/nsERCtBe3Ts?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"></embed></object>\n\nBy now we\'ve all received dozens of fliers and phone calls from multiple candidates running for office in our legislatures as well as from proponents and opponents of this or that state question.\n\nBut in downtown Tulsa tonight, there\'s a different kind of campaigning going on.\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\n\nFor one, it\'s for a different race - that of the <a href=\"http://www.thetulseys.com/\">2010 Tulsey Awards</a>, an off-shoot of the Tulsa Entrepreneurial Spirit Awards in which each and every Tulsan has the chance to vote for his or her favorite entrepreneur. Think of it as the People\'s Choice Awards of the Tulsa ESAs - rowdier, more casual and, yeah, perhaps even more fun, depending on whom you ask.\n\nOne of the nominees for a Tulsey Award, <a href=\"http://modscrepes.com/\">Rusty Rowe of Mod\'s Coffee and Crepes</a>, is campaigning like I\'ve never seen any other candidate for the award campaign before: He has recorded nearly a dozen videos stating his case, and they\'ve been proliferating on YouTube and around Tulsa\'s corner of Facebook to the degree that they have, at least locally, gone viral.\n\nIn case you haven\'t seen them already, here they are, in order - and yes, they\'re worth every bit of your energy for procrastination on this Tuesday morning. Be sure to tell me which is your favorite in the comments - I think I like the eighth one the best.\n\nNumber One:\n\n<object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/BmFJIZ9-Qqs?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/BmFJIZ9-Qqs?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>\n\nNumber Two:\n\n<object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/ZNjl9zGogBI?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/ZNjl9zGogBI?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>\n\nNumber Three:\n\n<object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/YxF423HHhEI?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/YxF423HHhEI?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>\n\nNumber Four (starring international man of mystery <a href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/stevecluck\">Steve Cluck</a>):\n\n<object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/Hj7xHxqq1nM?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/Hj7xHxqq1nM?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>\n\nNumber Five (starring <a href=\"http://www.dwellingspaces.net/\">Dwelling Spaces</a> owner and downtown celebrity Mary Beth Babcock (and her precious dog, Molly)):\n\n<object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/BjVVoMm2bUg?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/BjVVoMm2bUg?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>\n\nNumber six (starring the \"raging success\" Blake Ewing of <a href=\"http://www.joemommas.com/\">Joe Momma\'s</a>, <a href=\"http://boomtowntees.com/\">Boomtown Tees</a> and <a href=\"http://www.themaxretropub.com/\">The Max Retropub</a> fame):\n\n<object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/mvTls2grQZc?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/mvTls2grQZc?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>\n\nNumber Seven (starring Libby Auld, owner of <a href=\"http://www.elotetulsa.com/\">Elote Cafe</a>):\n\n<object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/HunlnlIW9P8?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/HunlnlIW9P8?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>\n\nNumber Eight (starring pretty much the best campaign tagline ever, Rags to Riches, B!#@&amp;*S):\n\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/nsERCtBe3Ts?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/nsERCtBe3Ts?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"></embed></object>\n\nNumber Nine:\n\n<object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/sFtr4iCnlmo?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/sFtr4iCnlmo?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>\n\nNumber Ten (uploaded just this morning):\n\n<object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/Ve1g9hHy7q0?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/Ve1g9hHy7q0?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>\n\nSo, that campaign party hazelnut syrup-drunk Rusty was talking about? Here are the details:\n\n<strong>Rowe, Rowe, Rowe Your Vote Campaign Party</strong>\n\nWhen: Tonight, Nov. 2, starting at 8pm\n\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=165115603507817\">The Max Retropub</a>, 114 S. Elgin Ave.\n\nMeet the man himself and play free Skee-Ball at the same time? Sounds like a deal to me. And I heard the Golden Driller himself is gonna be there. I guess he\'s willing to make an appearance in exchange for seeing the last and final and super-double-secret-probation edition of the Rowe, Rowe, Rowe Your Vote campaign videos, which is just another feature of this event.\n\nWhether or not you can make the party, be sure to check out <a href=\"http://thetulseys.com/vote/\">the voting page over at TheTulseys.com</a>. As a Tulsey winner myself (no joke - <a href=\"http://thetulseys.com/past-winners/2009-winners/\">TDT beat out the infinitely more worthy Phillips360 and Ping.fm in 2009</a>), I\'ll say that each and every one of the 2010 nominees are worthy of your consideration. A few of Tulsa\'s bloggers are up for awards, too, so be sure to keep them in mind as you cast your votes.\n\nYou can vote once per day, y\'all, so vote often for your favorite Tulsa businesspeople, starting today.\n\nAnd one more thing: Rags to Riches, B!#@&amp;*S!\n\nSorry. I just couldn\'t help myself. Whoever wrote that line totally gets me.','Rowe, Rowe, Rowe Your Vote: A Different Kind of Campaign','By now we\'ve all received dozens of fliers and phone calls from multiple candidates running for office in our legislatures as well as from proponents and opponents of this or that state question. But in downtown Tulsa tonight, there\'s a different kind of campaigning going on.','inherit','open','open','','3458-autosave','','','2010-11-02 11:14:27','2010-11-02 16:14:27','',3458,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3458-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(3463,1,'2010-11-02 11:03:52','2010-11-02 16:03:52','&lt;object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/YxF423HHhEI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/YxF423HHhEI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;\r\n\r\nBy now we\'ve all received dozens of fliers and phone calls from multiple candidates running for office in our legislatures as well as from proponents and opponents of this or that state question.\r\n\r\nBut in downtown Tulsa tonight, there\'s a different kind of campaigning going on.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\nFor one, it\'s for a different race - that of the <a href=\"http://www.thetulseys.com/\">2010 Tulsey Awards</a>, an off-shoot of the Tulsa Entrepreneurial Spirit Awards in which each and every Tulsan has the chance to vote for his or her favorite entrepreneur. Think of it as the People\'s Choice Awards of the Tulsa ESAs - rowdier, more casual and, yeah, perhaps even more fun, depending on whom you ask.\r\n\r\nOne of the nominees for a Tulsey Award, Rusty Rowe of Mod\'s Coffee and Crepes, is campaigning like I\'ve never seen any other candidate for the award campaign before: He has recorded nearly a dozen videos stating his case, and they\'ve been proliferating on YouTube and around Tulsa\'s corner of Facebook to the degree that they have, at least locally, gone viral.\r\n\r\nIn case you haven\'t seen them already, here they are, in order - and yes, they\'re worth every bit of your energy for procrastination on this Tuesday morning. Be sure to tell me which is your favorite in the comments - I think I like the eighth one the best.\r\n\r\nNumber One:\r\n\r\n<object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/BmFJIZ9-Qqs?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/BmFJIZ9-Qqs?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\nNumber Two:\r\n\r\n&lt;object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/ZNjl9zGogBI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" 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value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/BjVVoMm2bUg?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/BjVVoMm2bUg?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;\r\n\r\nNumber six (starring the \"raging success\" Blake Ewing of <a href=\"http://www.joemommas.com/\">Joe Momma\'s</a>, <a href=\"http://boomtowntees.com/\">Boomtown Tees</a> and <a href=\"http://www.themaxretropub.com/\">The Max Retropub</a> fame):\r\n\r\n&lt;object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/mvTls2grQZc?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/mvTls2grQZc?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;\r\n\r\nNumber Seven (starring Libby Auld, owner of <a href=\"http://www.elotetulsa.com/\">Elote Cafe</a>):\r\n\r\n&lt;object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/HunlnlIW9P8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/HunlnlIW9P8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;\r\n\r\nNumber Eight (starring pretty much the best campaign tagline ever, Rags to Riches, B!#@&amp;*S):\r\n\r\n&lt;object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/nsERCtBe3Ts?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/nsERCtBe3Ts?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;\r\n\r\nNumber Nine:\r\n\r\n&lt;object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/sFtr4iCnlmo?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/sFtr4iCnlmo?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;\r\n\r\nNumber Ten (uploaded just this morning):\r\n\r\n&lt;object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/Ve1g9hHy7q0?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/Ve1g9hHy7q0?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;\r\n\r\nSo, that campaign party Hazlenut syrup-drunk Rusty was talking about? Here are the details:\r\n\r\n<strong>Rowe, Rowe, Rowe Your Vote Campaign Party</strong>\r\n\r\nWhen: Tonight, Nov. 2, starting at 8pm\r\n\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=165115603507817\">The Max Retropub</a>, 114 S. Elgin Ave.\r\n\r\nMeet the man himself and play free Skee-Ball at the same time? Sounds like a deal to me. And I heard the Golden Driller himself is gonna be there. I guess he\'s willing to make an appearance in exchange for seeing the last and final and super-double-secret-probation edition of the Rowe, Rowe, Rowe Your Vote campaign videos, which is just another feature of this event.\r\n\r\nWhether or not you can make the party, be sure to check out <a href=\"http://thetulseys.com/vote/\">the voting page over at TheTulseys.com</a>. As a Tulsey winner myself, I\'ll say that each and every one of the 2010 nominees are worthy of your consideration. A few of Tulsa\'s bloggers are up for awards, too, so be sure to keep them in mind as you cast your votes.\r\n\r\nYou can vote once per day, y\'all, so vote often for your favorite Tulsa businesspeople, starting today.\r\n\r\nAnd one more thing: Rags to Riches, B!#@&amp;*S!\r\n\r\nSorry. I just couldn\'t help myself. Whoever wrote that line totally gets me.','Rowe, Rowe, Rowe Your Vote: A Different Kind of Campaign','By now we\'ve all received dozens of fliers and phone calls from multiple candidates running for office in our legislatures as well as from proponents and opponents of this or that state question. But in downtown Tulsa tonight, there\'s a different kind of campaigning going on.','inherit','open','open','','3458-revision-4','','','2010-11-02 11:03:52','2010-11-02 16:03:52','',3458,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3458-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(3461,1,'2010-11-02 11:00:34','2010-11-02 16:00:34','&lt;object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/YxF423HHhEI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/YxF423HHhEI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;\r\n\r\nBy now we\'ve all received dozens of fliers and phone calls from multiple candidates running for office in our legislatures as well as from proponents and opponents of this or that state question.\r\n\r\nBut in downtown Tulsa tonight, there\'s a different kind of campaigning going on. For one, it\'s for a different race - that of the 2010 Tulsey Awards, an off-shoot of the Tulsa Entrepreneurial Spirit Awards in which each and every Tulsan has the chance to vote for his or her favorite entrepreneur. Think of it as the People\'s Choice Awards of the Tulsa ESAs - rowdier, more casual and, yeah, perhaps even more fun, depending on whom you ask.\r\n\r\nOne of the nominees for a Tulsey Award, Rusty Rowe of Mod\'s Coffee and Crepes, is campaigning like I\'ve never seen any other candidate for the award campaign before: He has recorded nearly a dozen videos stating his case, and they\'ve been proliferating on YouTube and around Tulsa\'s corner of Facebook to the degree that they have, at least locally, gone viral.\r\n\r\nIn case you haven\'t seen them already, here they are, in order - and yes, they\'re worth every bit of your energy for procrastination on this Tuesday morning. Be sure to tell me which is your favorite in the comments - I think I like the eighth one the best.\r\n\r\nNumber One:\r\n\r\n&lt;object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/BmFJIZ9-Qqs?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/BmFJIZ9-Qqs?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;\r\n\r\nNumber Two:\r\n\r\n&lt;object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/ZNjl9zGogBI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/ZNjl9zGogBI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;\r\n\r\nNumber Three:\r\n\r\n&lt;object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/YxF423HHhEI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/YxF423HHhEI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" 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value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/mvTls2grQZc?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/mvTls2grQZc?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;\r\n\r\nNumber Seven (starring Libby Auld, owner of <a href=\"http://www.elotetulsa.com/\">Elote Cafe</a>):\r\n\r\n&lt;object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/HunlnlIW9P8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/HunlnlIW9P8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;\r\n\r\nNumber Eight (starring pretty much the best campaign tagline ever, Rags to Riches, B!#@&amp;*S):\r\n\r\n&lt;object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/nsERCtBe3Ts?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/nsERCtBe3Ts?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;\r\n\r\nNumber Nine:\r\n\r\n&lt;object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/sFtr4iCnlmo?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/sFtr4iCnlmo?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;\r\n\r\nNumber Ten (uploaded just this morning):\r\n\r\n&lt;object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/Ve1g9hHy7q0?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/Ve1g9hHy7q0?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;\r\n\r\nSo, that campaign party Hazlenut syrup-drunk Rusty was talking about? Here are the details:\r\n\r\n<strong>Rowe, Rowe, Rowe Your Vote Campaign Party</strong>\r\n\r\nWhen: Tonight, Nov. 2, starting at 8pm\r\n\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=165115603507817\">The Max Retropub</a>, 114 S. Elgin Ave.\r\n\r\nMeet the man himself and play free Skee-Ball at the same time? Sounds like a deal to me. And I heard the Golden Driller himself is gonna be there. I guess he\'s willing to make an appearance in exchange for seeing the last and final and super-double-secret-probation edition of the Rowe, Rowe, Rowe Your Vote campaign videos, which is just another feature of this event.\r\n\r\nWhether or not you can make the party, be sure to check out <a href=\"http://thetulseys.com/vote/\">the voting page over at TheTulseys.com</a>. As a Tulsey winner myself, I\'ll say that each and every one of the 2010 nominees are worthy of your consideration. A few of Tulsa\'s bloggers are up for awards, too, so be sure to keep them in mind as you cast your votes.\r\n\r\nYou can vote once per day, y\'all, so vote often for your favorite Tulsa businesspeople, starting today.\r\n\r\nAnd one more thing: Rags to Riches, B!#@&amp;*S!\r\n\r\nSorry. I just couldn\'t help myself. Whoever wrote that line totally gets me.','Rowe, Rowe, Rowe Your Vote: A Different Kind of Campaign','By now we\'ve all received dozens of fliers and phone calls from multiple candidates running for office in our legislatures as well as from proponents and opponents of this or that state question. But in downtown Tulsa tonight, there\'s a different kind of campaigning going on.','inherit','open','open','','3458-revision-2','','','2010-11-02 11:00:34','2010-11-02 16:00:34','',3458,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3458-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(3462,1,'2010-11-02 11:02:20','2010-11-02 16:02:20','&lt;object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/YxF423HHhEI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/YxF423HHhEI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;\r\n\r\nBy now we\'ve all received dozens of fliers and phone calls from multiple candidates running for office in our legislatures as well as from proponents and opponents of this or that state question.\r\n\r\nBut in downtown Tulsa tonight, there\'s a different kind of campaigning going on.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\nFor one, it\'s for a different race - that of the <a href=\"http://www.thetulseys.com/\">2010 Tulsey Awards</a>, an off-shoot of the Tulsa Entrepreneurial Spirit Awards in which each and every Tulsan has the chance to vote for his or her favorite entrepreneur. Think of it as the People\'s Choice Awards of the Tulsa ESAs - rowdier, more casual and, yeah, perhaps even more fun, depending on whom you ask.\r\n\r\nOne of the nominees for a Tulsey Award, Rusty Rowe of Mod\'s Coffee and Crepes, is campaigning like I\'ve never seen any other candidate for the award campaign before: He has recorded nearly a dozen videos stating his case, and they\'ve been proliferating on YouTube and around Tulsa\'s corner of Facebook to the degree that they have, at least locally, gone viral.\r\n\r\nIn case you haven\'t seen them already, here they are, in order - and yes, they\'re worth every bit of your energy for procrastination on this Tuesday morning. Be sure to tell me which is your favorite in the comments - I think I like the eighth one the best.\r\n\r\nNumber One:\r\n\r\n&lt;object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/BmFJIZ9-Qqs?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/BmFJIZ9-Qqs?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;\r\n\r\nNumber Two:\r\n\r\n&lt;object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/ZNjl9zGogBI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param 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height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;\r\n\r\nNumber Nine:\r\n\r\n&lt;object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/sFtr4iCnlmo?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/sFtr4iCnlmo?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;\r\n\r\nNumber Ten (uploaded just this morning):\r\n\r\n&lt;object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"&gt;&lt;param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/Ve1g9hHy7q0?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=\"allowFullScreen\" 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Here are the details:\r\n\r\n<strong>Rowe, Rowe, Rowe Your Vote Campaign Party</strong>\r\n\r\nWhen: Tonight, Nov. 2, starting at 8pm\r\n\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=165115603507817\">The Max Retropub</a>, 114 S. Elgin Ave.\r\n\r\nMeet the man himself and play free Skee-Ball at the same time? Sounds like a deal to me. And I heard the Golden Driller himself is gonna be there. I guess he\'s willing to make an appearance in exchange for seeing the last and final and super-double-secret-probation edition of the Rowe, Rowe, Rowe Your Vote campaign videos, which is just another feature of this event.\r\n\r\nWhether or not you can make the party, be sure to check out <a href=\"http://thetulseys.com/vote/\">the voting page over at TheTulseys.com</a>. As a Tulsey winner myself, I\'ll say that each and every one of the 2010 nominees are worthy of your consideration. A few of Tulsa\'s bloggers are up for awards, too, so be sure to keep them in mind as you cast your votes.\r\n\r\nYou can vote once per day, y\'all, so vote often for your favorite Tulsa businesspeople, starting today.\r\n\r\nAnd one more thing: Rags to Riches, B!#@&amp;*S!\r\n\r\nSorry. I just couldn\'t help myself. Whoever wrote that line totally gets me.','Rowe, Rowe, Rowe Your Vote: A Different Kind of Campaign','By now we\'ve all received dozens of fliers and phone calls from multiple candidates running for office in our legislatures as well as from proponents and opponents of this or that state question. 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Think of it as the People\'s Choice Awards of the Tulsa ESAs - rowdier, more casual and, yeah, perhaps even more fun, depending on whom you ask.\r\n\r\nOne of the nominees for a Tulsey Award, <a href=\"http://modscrepes.com/\">Rusty Rowe of Mod\'s Coffee and Crepes</a>, is campaigning like I\'ve never seen any other candidate for the award campaign before: He has recorded nearly a dozen videos stating his case, and they\'ve been proliferating on YouTube and around Tulsa\'s corner of Facebook to the degree that they have, at least locally, gone viral.\r\n\r\nIn case you haven\'t seen them already, here they are, in order - and yes, they\'re worth every bit of your energy for procrastination on this Tuesday morning. Be sure to tell me which is your favorite in the comments - I think I like the eighth one the best.\r\n\r\nNumber One:\r\n\r\n<object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/BmFJIZ9-Qqs?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/BmFJIZ9-Qqs?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\nNumber Two:\r\n\r\n<object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/ZNjl9zGogBI?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 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Here are the details:\r\n\r\n<strong>Rowe, Rowe, Rowe Your Vote Campaign Party</strong>\r\n\r\nWhen: Tonight, Nov. 2, starting at 8pm\r\n\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=165115603507817\">The Max Retropub</a>, 114 S. Elgin Ave.\r\n\r\nMeet the man himself and play free Skee-Ball at the same time? Sounds like a deal to me. And I heard the Golden Driller himself is gonna be there. I guess he\'s willing to make an appearance in exchange for seeing the last and final and super-double-secret-probation edition of the Rowe, Rowe, Rowe Your Vote campaign videos, which is just another feature of this event.\r\n\r\nWhether or not you can make the party, be sure to check out <a href=\"http://thetulseys.com/vote/\">the voting page over at TheTulseys.com</a>. As a Tulsey winner myself (no joke - <a href=\"http://thetulseys.com/past-winners/2009-winners/\">TDT beat out the infinitely more worthy Phillips360 and Ping.fm in 2009</a>), I\'ll say that each and every one of the 2010 nominees are worthy of your consideration. A few of Tulsa\'s bloggers are up for awards, too, so be sure to keep them in mind as you cast your votes.\r\n\r\nYou can vote once per day, y\'all, so vote often for your favorite Tulsa businesspeople, starting today.\r\n\r\nAnd one more thing: Rags to Riches, B!#@&amp;*S!\r\n\r\nSorry. I just couldn\'t help myself. Whoever wrote that line totally gets me.','Rowe, Rowe, Rowe Your Vote: A Different Kind of Campaign','By now we\'ve all received dozens of fliers and phone calls from multiple candidates running for office in our legislatures as well as from proponents and opponents of this or that state question. 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Because I sure am.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\nThis month\'s Tulsa Blogger Meetup will offer <strong>insider tips and tricks for search engine optimization</strong>.\r\n\r\nWhat the heck is search engine optimization, you ask? Here\'s a definition I heard once that I like: It\'s the process of connecting your blog to searchers using engines like Google, Bing or Yahoo! who are looking for the information you provide on your site.\r\n\r\nThe info will be tailored specifically for bloggers, thanks to the expertise of <strong>Tulsa-based social media consultant, professional blogger and nationally-recognized speaker <a href=\"http://www.melanienelson.com\">Melanie Nelson</a></strong>.\r\n\r\nWhat I love about Melanie is this: First, she\'s smart. Second, she\'s not a fake. Third, she has a way of dispensing complex, up-to-date information on what\'s going on in social media in a way that\'s accessible and easy to implement.\r\n\r\nWhether you\'re looking to increase the conversion rates of visitors to your blog to repeat customers or you simply like the idea of more eyeballs poring over your online diary, SEO can help. And Melanie\'s going to share some tips on how to peer over the edge of the rabbit hole that is search engine optimization.\r\n\r\n<strong>If you\'re new to Tulsa Blogger Meetup</strong>, here\'s the gist of what we\'re about: About once each month we gather at a different Tulsa locale to either talk blogging, simply enjoy each others\' company or experience something new and uniquely Tulsa. So far we\'ve been found at restaurants and bars like <a href=\"http://www.joemommas.com/\">Joe Momma\'s</a>, Blue Dome Diner, <a href=\"http://www.siegis.com/\">Siegi\'s Sausage Factory</a> and <a href=\"http://www.fasslerhall.com/\">Fassler Hall</a>; we\'ve also hit <a href=\"http://www.philbrook.org/\">Philbrook Museum of Art</a> and <a href=\"http://www.tulsaopera.org/\">the Tulsa Performing Arts Center for an exclusive performance by Tulsa Opera</a>.\r\n\r\nWe\'re always up to something, and <strong>everyone from the professional blogger to the blog curious is welcome to join us</strong>.\r\n\r\nGrab dinner beforehand or bring it along. Looking forward to seeing you all there.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa Blogger Meetup, SEO Edition with Melanie Nelson of BloggingBasics101.com</strong>\r\nWhen: Thursday, March 31, 6:30-8pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsalibrary.org/\">Hardesty Regional Library</a> in the Maple Room, 8316 East 93rd Street\r\n\r\n<strong>Répondez s\'il vous plaît</strong>. Be sure to RSVP to Tulsa Blogger Meetup, SEO Edition on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=155382204521237\">the TashaDoesTulsa.com Facebook page</a>.','Tulsa Blogger Meetup, SEO Edition with Melanie Nelson of BloggingBasics101.com','Whether you\'re looking to increase the conversion of visitors to your blog to repeat customers or if you simply like the idea of more eyeballs poring over your online diary, SEO can help. And Melanie Nelson of BloggingBasics101.com is going to share some tips on how to get started. 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Because I sure am.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\nThis month\'s Tulsa Blogger Meetup will offer <strong>insider tips and tricks for search engine optimization</strong>.\r\n\r\nWhat the heck is search engine optimization, you ask? Here\'s a definition I heard once that I like: It\'s the process of connecting your blog to searchers using engines like Google, Bing or Yahoo! who are looking for the information you provide on your site.\r\n\r\nThe info will be tailored specifically for bloggers, thanks to the expertise of <strong>Tulsa-based social media consultant, professional blogger and nationally-recognized speaker <a href=\"http://www.melanienelson.com\">Melanie Nelson</a></strong>.\r\n\r\nWhat I love about Melanie is this: First, she\'s smart. Second, she\'s not a fake. Third, she has a way of dispensing complex, up-to-date information on what\'s going on in social media in a way that\'s accessible and easy to implement.\r\n\r\nWhether you\'re looking to increase the conversion rates of visitors to your blog to repeat customers or you simply like the idea of more eyeballs poring over your online diary, SEO can help. And Melanie\'s going to share some tips on how to peer over the edge of the rabbit hole that is search engine optimization.\r\n\r\n<strong>If you\'re new to Tulsa Blogger Meetup</strong>, here\'s the gist of what we\'re about: About once each month we gather at a different Tulsa locale to either talk blogging, simply enjoy each others\' company or experience something new and uniquely Tulsa. So far we\'ve been found at restaurants and bars like <a href=\"http://www.joemommas.com/\">Joe Momma\'s</a>, Blue Dome Diner, <a href=\"http://www.siegis.com/\">Siegi\'s Sausage Factory</a> and <a href=\"http://www.fasslerhall.com/\">Fassler Hall</a>; we\'ve also hit <a href=\"http://www.philbrook.org/\">Philbrook Museum of Art</a> and <a href=\"http://www.tulsaopera.org/\">the Tulsa Performing Arts Center for an exclusive performance by Tulsa Opera</a>.\r\n\r\nWe\'re always up to something, and <strong>everyone from the professional blogger to the blog curious is welcome to join us</strong>.\r\n\r\nGrab dinner beforehand or bring it along. Looking forward to seeing you all there.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa Blogger Meetup, SEO Edition with Melanie Nelson of BloggingBasics101.com</strong>\r\nWhen: Thursday, March 31, 6:30-8pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsalibrary.org/\">Hardesty Regional Library</a> in the Maple Room, 8316 East 93rd Street\r\n\r\n<strong>Répondez s\'il vous plaît</strong>. Be sure to RSVP to Tulsa Blogger Meetup, SEO Edition on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=155382204521237\">the TashaDoesTulsa.com Facebook page</a>.','Tulsa Blogger Meetup, SEO Edition with Melanie Nelson of BloggingBasics101.com','Whether you\'re looking to increase the conversion of visitors to your blog to repeat customers or if you simply like the idea of more eyeballs poring over your online diary, SEO can help. And Melanie Nelson of BloggingBasics101.com is going to share some tips on how to get started. 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It\'s also a place where parents can consign their kids\' clothing and toys and earn 70 percent by doing it.\n\nAnd to make this news even sweeter, <strong>Rhea Lana wants to give one lucky TDT reader a $50 gift certificate to spend at their sale later this month.</strong>\n\n<!--more-->\n\nFirst things first: To make sure you don\'t miss this sale, mark this down in your calendar:\n\n<strong>Rhea Lana Tulsa Sale</strong>\nWhen: Feb. 16-19\n<ul>\n	<li>Wednesday, Feb. 16: 9am-8pm</li>\n	<li>Thursday, Feb. 17: 9am-8pm</li>\n	<li>Friday, Feb. 18 (Half-price day!): 8:30am-7pm</li>\n	<li>Saturday, Feb. 19 (Half-price day!): 8:30am-12pm</li>\n</ul>\nWhere: <a href=\"http://southtulsa.rhealana.com/csssaleinfo.asp?init=ulnhg47grf\">The Shoppes at Regal Plaza, 105th and Memorial</a>\n\nWhat you find at this sale (where, by the way, there\'s no cost for parking or for admission): Baby stuff. Toys galore. Boys\' and girls\' clothing from just about any brand name or boutique you can imagine. Maternity wear. Games. Books. Enough outdoor goodies to make your back yard look like a playground.\n\nBasically, anything and everything that can make your life easier as a hardworking parent by pleasing both your kids and your pocketbook.\n\n<strong>To enter to win a $50 pass to this shopping wonderland</strong>, courtesy of Rhea Lana\'s South Tulsa, simply head to the comments section on this post and \'fess up:\n<h2><strong>What is your No. 1 bargain-hunting strategy? </strong></h2>\nWhether you\'re at a children\'s consignment event at Rhea Lana or sifting through the racks at your favorite vintage shop or barreling down the aisles at the grocery store, what\'s your top trick for saving a buck?\n\n<strong>I\'ll accept entries to this contest until Saturday, Feb. 5, at 10 a.m.</strong> I\'ll let Random.org choose the winner at that time, and I\'ll announce who won the prize shortly after.\n\nAfter you enter and while you\'re waiting to see if you\'re a winner, take a minute to check out <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rhea-Lanas-of-South-Tulsa/115747248488308\">the Rhea Lana Facebook page</a> and to <a href=\"http://southtulsa.rhealana.com/cssmailliststart1.asp?init=ulnhg47grf\">put your name and e-mail address on the Rhea Lana mailing list</a>. If you\'re looking for ways to make sure you don\'t miss a single snippet of news on this huge sale, liking Rhea Lana on FB and adding your name to their mailing list are both sure-fire ways to do just that.\n\nYou can also <a href=\"http://southtulsa.rhealana.com/cssparticipate.asp?init=ulnhg47grf\">sign up to become a consignor</a>.\n\nIf you\'re a mom-to-be, <a href=\"http://southtulsa.rhealana.com/cssmomstart1.asp?init=ulnhg47grf\">you can sign up for the Rhea Lana pre-sale</a>, which means you get first dibs on all the cutest baby goodies. You can shop early <a href=\"http://southtulsa.rhealana.com/cssworkinfo.asp?init=ulnhg47grf\">if you want to help as staff at the sale</a>, too.\n\nAnd if you want to learn even more about the Rhea Lana sale, <a href=\"http://southtulsa.rhealana.com/\">check them out on their website</a>.\n\nGood luck, everyone, and happy bargain secret sharing!','Win $50 from Rhea Lana’s South Tulsa','Cue Rhea Lana, a south Tulsa children\'s consignment event where Tulsa-area parents can save on gently used clothes that aren\'t only priced right, but that also rival what\'s on the racks at overpriced kids\' stores.','inherit','open','open','','5549-revision-5','','','2011-02-09 16:35:34','2011-02-09 21:35:34','',5549,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/02/5549-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(5029,1,'2011-01-06 13:37:02','2011-01-06 18:37:02','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/sproutz-restaurant-review/img_0614/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4599\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/IMG_0614-500x460.jpg\" alt=\"Sproutz\" title=\"Sproutz\" width=\"500\" height=\"460\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4599\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf there’s one thing people like to do in this town we call Tulsa, it’s eat. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tulsafood.com/\">As featured today on TulsaFood.com</a>, here\'s a list of some of my latest restaurant and food finds. My bet is that you\'ll want to add them to your list of places to try.\r\n\r\n<strong>Sproutz</strong>: Get around early for earth-friendly fare: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/sproutz-restaurant-review/\">Read More</a>\r\n<strong>Dining Out (with kids)</strong>: Play with food at Sprouts Play Cafe: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/sprouts-play-cafe-tulsa-kids/\">Read More</a>\r\n<strong>Primetime Pizza</strong>: Root beer, crust bubbles and Main Street Jenks: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/primetime-pizza-jenks/\">Read More</a>\r\n<strong>Mazzio’s Pepperollies</strong>: My love, my addiction: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/mazzios-pepperollies/\">Read More</a>\r\n<strong>Babysitter Worthy</strong>: Thursdays at Girouard Vines: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/girouard-vines-babysitter-worthy-tulsa-kids/\">Read More</a>\r\n<strong>Marshall Brewing Company</strong>: Six Pack City: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/marshall-brewing-six-pack-city-tulsa-business-journal/\">Read More</a>\r\n<strong>Oklahoma Pecans</strong>: Foraging, family-style: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/marshall-brewing-six-pack-city-tulsa-business-journal/\">Read More</a>\r\n\r\nLooking for even more restaurant reviews and food news? <a href=\"http://tulsafood.com/\">Check out TulsaFood.com</a>, or head to the <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/category/restaurants/\">restaurants</a> and <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/category/food/\">food sections</a> here at TDT.\r\n\r\n','The Month in Food','If there’s one thing people like to do in this town we call Tulsa, it’s eat. 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I\'m a mom. If you read TDT on a regular basis, that\'s something you probably know by now.\r\n\r\nThe fact that I spend my days with my two-year-old son is something I\'ll mention from time to time here at TDT, but it\'s not something that I\'ve wanted to dominate the site. I decided a long time ago that I wanted TDT to be a place where anyone, parent or not, could come to find things to do in Tulsa that s/he would find exciting and worth that oh-so-precious space in his/her personal calendar.\r\n\r\nAnd yet.\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/category/kids-and-families/\">See that Kids and Families category over there in the Insider\'s Guide to Tulsa</a>? It and the posts that belong there have always been some of the most popular features of this site. In fact, I hear often from readers who think that I could feature even more family-friendly content here at TDT and that it wouldn\'t be any skin off their nose.\r\n\r\nOne of the most oft-said things about Tulsa is that it\'s a family-friendly city, and boy, is that true. There\'s tons going on that\'s just for parents and families here in the area, and sadly, in an effort to balance coverage here at TDT, features of some of those things simply fall off the plate.\r\n\r\nBut, no longer! Because I have a big announcement. Ready?\r\n\r\nI\'m the new blogger at TulsaKids.com. Yay! I know, right? I can\'t believe that I get to blog for a magazine that I\'ve been reading since I was a kid myself.\r\n\r\nIn fact, the first story I ever published was one I wrote for Tulsa Kids through <a href=\"http://www.resonancetulsa.org/\">the Girls Unlimited summer camp program at Resonance Center for Women for girls interested in journalism careers</a>. You know, back in <em>the nineties</em>. When I\'d show up for camp wearing a ponytail on the side of my head and two pairs of socks, one teal and one purple. And when I\'d return home from camp to watch shows like Rugrats and Doug on Nickelodeon.\r\n\r\nAh, the nineties.\r\n\r\nWhat I\'m trying to say here is, it\'s sort of surreal to have the chance to write for this magazine as one of its new bloggers.\r\n\r\nThis new blog about all things family-friendly to do in Tulsa will have three parts:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>First up will be a pick of the most exciting event for kids in town that week.</li>\r\n	<li>Second will be an event that\'s guaranteed to be worth the dollars in your babysitting budget - basically, romantic ideas for date nights, news about thrilling concerts and the hippest, coolest events for parents who could use a night out on the town without the threat of surprise projectile vomit or incredibly inconvenient bathroom stop requests hanging over their heads. (That is, assuming your date isn\'t ill and that s/he doesn\'t have a bladder the size of a pea. In those cases, you\'re on your own.)</li>\r\n	<li>The third leg of the blog will offer a look into my own misadventures as a work-at-home mom whose purpose and occupation in life is to do Tulsa. When you\'re on the go with a two-year-old in a town like this, things are always bound to get...interesting. And sometimes sticky. And every once in awhile, poopy.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://tulsakids.com/?q=big-hello-and-first-tulsa-kids-day-out-kids-world-2010\">The first post, which is all about the Kids\' World 2010 event going on at Expo Square this weekend, is already up at TulsaKids.com</a>. Check it out and let me know what you think, because the babysitter-worthy event is coming up next.\r\n\r\nAnd trust me, you\'re not going to want to miss out on news about that event. Whew, baby.\r\n\r\nAnd as always, thanks for making TDT part of your daily procrastination plan. I\'d have to be in the laundry room much more often if it weren\'t for you guys, which is great because I hate that place. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.\r\n\r\nAnd from my chair-flattened, blogger butt.','TDT Does Tulsa Kids','I have a big announcement. It involves you and your kids. Are you ready for it? Are you sure you can take it?','inherit','open','open','','3471-revision-3','','','2010-11-03 17:02:50','2010-11-03 22:02:50','',3471,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3471-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(3476,1,'2010-11-03 17:07:15','2010-11-03 22:07:15','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3472\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/tulsa-kids-blog/dsc_0238/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3472\" title=\"Tulsa Zoo\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_0238-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Tulsa Zoo\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSurprise! I\'m a mom. If you read TDT on a regular basis, that\'s something you probably know by now.\r\n\r\nThe fact that I spend my days with my two-year-old son is something I\'ll mention from time to time here at TDT, but it\'s not something that I\'ve wanted to dominate the site. I decided a long time ago that I wanted TDT to be a place where anyone, parent or not, could come to find things to do in Tulsa that s/he would find exciting and worth that oh-so-precious space in his/her personal calendar.\r\n\r\nAnd yet.\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/category/kids-and-families/\">See that Kids and Families category over there in the Insider\'s Guide to Tulsa</a>? It and the posts that belong there have always been some of the most popular features of this site. In fact, I hear often from readers who think that I could feature even more family-friendly content here at TDT and that it wouldn\'t be any skin off their nose.\r\n\r\nOne of the most oft-said things about Tulsa is that it\'s a family-friendly city, and boy, is that true. There\'s tons going on that\'s just for parents and families here in the area, and sadly, in an effort to balance coverage here at TDT, features of some of those things simply fall off the plate.\r\n\r\nBut, no longer! Because I have a big announcement. Ready?\r\n\r\nI\'m the new blogger at TulsaKids.com. Yay! I know, right? I can\'t believe that I get to blog for a magazine that I\'ve been reading since I was a kid myself.\r\n\r\nIn fact, the first story I ever published was one I wrote for Tulsa Kids through <a href=\"http://www.resonancetulsa.org/\">the Girls Unlimited summer camp program at Resonance Center for Women for girls interested in journalism careers</a>. You know, back in <em>the nineties</em>. When I\'d show up for camp wearing a ponytail on the side of my head and two pairs of socks, one teal and one purple. And when I\'d return home from camp to watch shows like Rugrats and Doug on Nickelodeon.\r\n\r\nAh, the nineties.\r\n\r\nWhat I\'m trying to say here is, it\'s sort of surreal to have the chance to write for this magazine as one of its new bloggers.\r\n\r\nThis new blog about all things family-friendly to do in Tulsa will have three parts:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>First up will be a pick of the most exciting event for kids in town that week.</li>\r\n	<li>Second will be an event that\'s guaranteed to be worth the dollars in your babysitting budget - basically, romantic ideas for date nights, news about thrilling concerts and the hippest, coolest events for parents who could use a night out on the town without the threat of surprise projectile vomit or incredibly inconvenient bathroom stop requests hanging over their heads. (That is, assuming your date isn\'t ill and that s/he doesn\'t have a bladder the size of a pea. In those cases, you\'re on your own.)</li>\r\n	<li>The third leg of the blog will offer a look into my own misadventures as a work-at-home mom whose purpose and occupation in life is to do Tulsa. When you\'re on the go with a two-year-old in a town like this, things are always bound to get...interesting. And sometimes sticky. And every once in awhile, poopy.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://tulsakids.com/?q=big-hello-and-first-tulsa-kids-day-out-kids-world-2010\">The first post, which is all about the Kids\' World 2010 event going on at Expo Square this weekend, is already up at TulsaKids.com</a>. Check it out and let me know what you think, because the babysitter-worthy event is coming up next.\r\n\r\nAnd trust me, you\'re not going to want to miss out on news about that little shindig. Whew, baby.\r\n\r\nAnd as always, thanks for making TDT part of your daily procrastination plan. I\'d have to be in the laundry room much more often if it weren\'t for you guys, which is great because I hate that place. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.\r\n\r\nAnd from my chair-flattened, blogger butt.','TDT Does Tulsa Kids','I have a big announcement. It involves you and your kids. Are you ready for it? Are you sure you can take it?','inherit','open','open','','3471-revision-4','','','2010-11-03 17:07:15','2010-11-03 22:07:15','',3471,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3471-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(3477,1,'2010-11-03 17:08:21','2010-11-03 22:08:21','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3472\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/tulsa-kids-blog/dsc_0238/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3472\" title=\"Tulsa Zoo\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_0238-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Tulsa Zoo\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nSurprise! I\'m a mom. If you read TDT on a regular basis, that\'s something you probably know by now.\n\nThe fact that I spend my days with my two-year-old son is something I\'ll mention from time to time here at TDT, but it\'s not something that I\'ve wanted to dominate the site. I decided a long time ago that I wanted TDT to be a place where anyone, parent or not, could come to find things to do in Tulsa that s/he would find exciting and worth that oh-so-precious space in his/her personal calendar.\n\nAnd yet.\n<!--more-->\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/category/kids-and-families/\">See that Kids and Families category over there in the Insider\'s Guide to Tulsa</a>? It and the posts that belong there have always been some of the most popular features of this site. In fact, I hear often from readers who think that I could feature even more family-friendly content here at TDT and that it wouldn\'t be any skin off their nose.\n\nOne of the most oft-said things about Tulsa is that it\'s a family-friendly city, and boy, is that true. There\'s tons going on that\'s just for parents and families here in the area, and sadly, in an effort to balance coverage here at TDT, features of some of those things simply fall off the plate.\n\nBut, no longer! Because I have a big announcement. Ready?\n\n<a href=\"http://tulsakids.com/?q=big-hello-and-first-tulsa-kids-day-out-kids-world-2010\">I\'m the new blogger at TulsaKids.com</a>. Yay! I know, right? I can\'t believe that I get to blog for a magazine that I\'ve been reading since I was a kid myself.\n\nIn fact, the first story I ever published was one I wrote for Tulsa Kids through <a href=\"http://www.resonancetulsa.org/\">the Girls Unlimited summer camp program at Resonance Center for Women for girls interested in journalism careers</a>. You know, back in <em>the nineties</em>. When I\'d show up for camp wearing a ponytail on the side of my head and two pairs of socks, one teal and one purple. And when I\'d return home from camp to watch shows like Rugrats and Doug on Nickelodeon.\n\nAh, the nineties.\n\nWhat I\'m trying to say here is, it\'s sort of surreal to have the chance to write for this magazine as one of its new bloggers.\n\nThis new blog about all things family-friendly to do in Tulsa will have three parts:\n<ul>\n	<li>First up will be a pick of the most exciting event for kids in town that week.</li>\n	<li>Second will be an event that\'s guaranteed to be worth the dollars in your babysitting budget - basically, romantic ideas for date nights, news about thrilling concerts and the hippest, coolest events for parents who could use a night out on the town without the threat of surprise projectile vomit or incredibly inconvenient bathroom stop requests hanging over their heads. (That is, assuming your date isn\'t ill and that s/he doesn\'t have a bladder the size of a pea. In those cases, you\'re on your own.)</li>\n	<li>The third leg of the blog will offer a look into my own misadventures as a work-at-home mom whose purpose and occupation in life is to do Tulsa. When you\'re on the go with a two-year-old in a town like this, things are always bound to get...interesting. And sometimes sticky. And every once in awhile, poopy.</li>\n</ul>\n<a href=\"http://tulsakids.com/?q=big-hello-and-first-tulsa-kids-day-out-kids-world-2010\">The first post, which is all about the Kids\' World 2010 event going on at Expo Square this weekend, is already up at TulsaKids.com</a>. Check it out and let me know what you think, because the babysitter-worthy event is coming up next.\n\nAnd trust me, you\'re not going to want to miss out on news about that little shindig. Whew, baby.\n\nAnd as always, thanks for making TDT part of your daily procrastination plan. I\'d have to be in the laundry room much more often if it weren\'t for you guys, which is great because I hate that place. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.\n\nAnd from my chair-flattened, blogger butt.','TDT Does Tulsa Kids','I have a big announcement. It involves you and your kids. Are you ready for it? Are you sure you can take it?','inherit','open','open','','3471-autosave','','','2010-11-03 17:08:21','2010-11-03 22:08:21','',3471,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3471-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(3484,1,'2010-11-04 11:15:54','2010-11-04 16:15:54','Picture this: An unfamiliar place, grungy with urban decay. A room crowded with people, crushes of thirsty reporters and PR people lurking in every corner. The clanging of bar glasses and more brew than you could shake a stick at. \n\nAlso, a sea of beer-themed t-shirts. Hey, don\'t threaten me with a good time.\n\nThere\'s still time to get your tickets to the fifth edition of <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/industry_article.asp?cID=i&amp;aID=74033015.929481.647907.9858912.93142702.348&amp;aID2=49830\">one heckuva beer tasting event</a>, going on right here in Tulsa this Friday (Nov. 6) night, not at the traditional First Draft location, but instead at <a href=\"http://myspace.com/bluedomediner\">Blue Dome Diner on Second Street. \n\nCome for the beer, stay for the food, the wine (yes, wine - homemade, even), the people and the celebrity-judged t-shirt contest. All proceeds benefit the <a href=\"http://www.tulsapressclub.com/about/foundation.cfm\">Tulsa Press Club Foundation</a>, which grants scholarships to journalism students, the poor souls. \n\nIt\'s okay, though, you bright, eager, young journalism students. As long as beer is still part of working in journalism, it\'s okay. If the folks at Tulsa Press Club have anything to say about it, the beer ain\'t goin\' no where. \n\nGet your tickets at Tulsa Press Club, 415 S. Boston, or call 583.7787 to save your spot. As always, drink responsibly. Also as always, have fun and make merry.','We\'ll Keep Drinking Until We Get It Right','','inherit','open','open','','341-autosave','','','2010-11-04 11:15:54','2010-11-04 16:15:54','',341,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/341-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(3485,1,'2010-11-04 14:32:50','2010-11-04 19:32:50','UPDATE//Dudes and beer wenches, we have a winner!\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/first-draft-2010-tulsa-press-club/picture-1-7/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3514\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Picture-1.png\" alt=\"First Draft Contest\" title=\"First Draft Contest\" width=\"162\" height=\"184\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3514\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWow. 41 entries. Y\'all must really like your booze. \r\n\r\nAnd judging by your answers to my last-beer-death-row question, I have to compliment your taste. I hope to run into some of you folks at the bar sometime so I can learn about more beers to try.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/first-draft-2010-tulsa-press-club/picture-2-4/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3516\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Picture-2-500x293.png\" alt=\"First Draft Contest\" title=\"First Draft Contest\" width=\"500\" height=\"293\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3516\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe holder of the 33rd entry is David Ruckman! Congrats, David. Though jealous, your fellow beer lovers salute and congratulate you. \r\n\r\nThanks to everyone for playing, and remember, there\'s still time to reserve your tickets to First Draft 2010. Simply pick up the phone and call (918) 583-7737 and tell the nice person who answers your name and how many. \r\n\r\nAnd because it\'s always worth saying again and again - cheers!\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/first-draft-2010-tulsa-press-club/first-draft-promo/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3486\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/FIRSTDRAFTGLASS-500x458.jpg\" alt=\"First Draft\" title=\"First Draft\" width=\"500\" height=\"458\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3486\" /></a>\r\n\r\nPicture this: The room is bursting with people. The clanging of bar glasses and the low roar of the crowd fills the air and overflows into the heart of the Blue Dome District at Second Street and Elgin Avenue.\r\n\r\nMore than six dozen varieties of beer, 30 of which can\'t be found anywhere else in the state, are swimming around the room in glasses held by everyone from the guy in the Armani suit to the young parents who have escaped the duties of parenthood for the evening to the newspaper reporter who hasn\'t shopped for a new sport coat since 1971.\r\n\r\nNot that I know any newspaper reporters who haven\'t shopped for a new sport coat since 1971.\r\n\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\nAlso, there\'s a sea of beer-themed t-shirts. And chocolates filled with beer. And a group of Tulsans who know how to party in the most serious and refreshing of ways.\r\n\r\nHey, don\'t threaten me with a good time.\r\n\r\nI couldn\'t be talking about anything but <a href=\"http://www.tulsapressclub.org/articles/article.cfm?id=2\">First Draft, the No. 1 beer-tasting event of the season</a>. And guess what? It\'s happening this very Friday night.\r\n\r\nHere\'s what you\'re gonna copy into your calendar:\r\n\r\n<em><strong>First Draft</strong>\r\nWhen: Starting at 5:30pm\r\nWhere: Blue Dome Diner, 311 E. Second Street (just west of Second and Elgin)\r\n</em>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/first-draft-2010-tulsa-press-club/first-draft/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3487\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/BEERFILLEDCHOCOLATES-500x711.jpg\" alt=\"First Draft\" title=\"First Draft\" width=\"500\" height=\"711\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3487\" /></a>\r\n\r\nCome for the beer, stay for the food, the people, the Nouveau Chocolates (truffles filled with Lindeman\'s Framboise as well as chili pepper chocolate will be on hand) and the celebrity-judged beer-themed t-shirt contest. All proceeds benefit the <a href=\"http://www.tulsapressclub.com/about/foundation.cfm\">Tulsa Press Club Foundation</a>, which grants scholarships to journalism students, the poor souls.\r\n\r\nJust kidding about that \"poor souls\" thing. Because even if newspapers and radio and TV stations continue to cut back, you journalism grads can always start a blog. To learn about the possibilities, feel free to stop by the mansion I just bought in Maple Ridge. I\'ll tell my doorman, whom I\'ve gone through the legal pains to re-name Humphreys, to expect you.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/first-draft-2010-tulsa-press-club/el-cucuy-india-black-ale/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3488\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/ELCUCUYINDIABLACKALE-500x381.jpg\" alt=\"First Draft\" title=\"First Draft\" width=\"500\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3488\" /></a>\r\n\r\nParticipating brewers at First Draft 2010 include regional favorites like <a href=\"http://marshallbrewing.com/index.asp\">Marshall Brewing Co.</a> (who has brewed a special batch just for First Draft, by the way), <a href=\"http://www.chocbeer.com/\">Choc Beer</a>, <a href=\"http://www.coopaleworks.com/\">COOP Ale Works</a>, <a href=\"http://www.batteredboar.com/\">Battered Boar Brewing Co.</a>, <a href=\"http://www.mustangbrewing.com/\">Mustang Brewing Co.</a> and <a href=\"http://www.tallgrassbeer.com/\">Tallgrass Brewing Co</a>.\r\n\r\nOther notables include Chimay, Lindeman\'s, Left Hand and New Belgium Brewing Co. \r\n\r\nIn other words, your glass doesn\'t have a chance of running dry Friday night.\r\n\r\nPlus, KTUL NewsChannel 8\'s Kristin Dickerson will emcee the event. And I know how a lot of you guys feel about Kristin Dickerson. I mean, <a href=\"http://www.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en&q=kristin+dickerson&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1280&bih=664\">who could blame you</a>?\r\n\r\nTickets are $40 in advance and $50 at the door. Get \'em by calling (918) 583-7737 or by <a href=\"mailto:tami@tulsapressclub.com\">e-mailing Tami at the Tulsa Press Club</a>. Be sure and tell her TDT sent you.\r\n\r\nSo, there\'s that whole avenue, actually paying for tickets to this beer-tastic event. You can\'t go wrong by heading in this direction. I mean, there aren\'t many places where you can get a bottomless glass of beer for the price of a few drinks and a snack at the bar.\r\n\r\nBut, there\'s another way. If you\'d like <strong>two free tickets to First Draft 2010</strong> (a $100 value, y\'all), you could answer this question:\r\n\r\n<blockquote>You\'re on death row. You\'ve just been asked which beer you\'d like to have with your last meal. What do you order?</blockquote>\r\n\r\nSimple, right? <strong>I\'ll let Random.org pick the winners tonight at 8pm</strong>. I\'ll contact the winner and proclaim here his/her dominance over the losers shortly after.\r\n\r\nGood luck, but more important: Cheers, and see you on Friday night!\r\n\r\n<em>All photos are courtesy.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>Tasha’s note: This giveaway is sponsored by Tulsa Press Club.</em>','First Draft: Lots and lots of beer. And beer-filled chocolate. And beer with a side of beer. (Plus, a giveaway.)','More than six dozen varieties of beer, 30 of which can\'t be found anywhere else in the state, are swimming around the room in glasses held by everyone from the guy in the Armani suit to the young parents who have escaped the duties of parenthood for the evening to the newspaper reporter who hasn\'t shopped for a new sport coat since 1971.','publish','open','open','','first-draft-2010-tulsa-press-club','','','2010-11-05 09:48:59','2010-11-05 14:48:59','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=3485',0,'post','',46),(3486,1,'2010-11-04 12:20:48','2010-11-04 17:20:48','A First Draft glass of beer at the Tulsa Press club on Nov. 2, 2009 TOM GILBERT/Tulsa World','First Draft','','inherit','open','open','','first-draft-promo','','','2010-11-04 12:20:48','2010-11-04 17:20:48','',3485,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/FIRSTDRAFTGLASS.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3488,1,'2010-11-04 12:23:21','2010-11-04 17:23:21','Eric Marshall holds up the Marshall Brewing Companies limited release El Cucuy India black ale at Marshall Brewery on Nov. 1, 2010.  The beer will be introduced at Tulsa Press Club\'s first draft event on Nov 6, 2010.  TOM GILBERT/Tulsa World','First Draft','','inherit','open','open','','el-cucuy-india-black-ale','','','2010-11-04 12:23:21','2010-11-04 17:23:21','',3485,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/ELCUCUYINDIABLACKALE.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3489,1,'2010-11-04 12:38:15','2010-11-04 17:38:15','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3486\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3486\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/FIRSTDRAFTGLASS-500x458.jpg\" alt=\"First Draft\" title=\"First Draft\" width=\"500\" height=\"458\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3486\" /></a>\n\nPicture this: The room is bursting with people. The clanging of bar glasses and the low roar of the crowd fills the air and overflows into the heart of the Blue Dome District at Second Street and Elgin Avenue.\n\nMore than six dozen varieties of beer, 30 of which can\'t be found anywhere else in the state, are swimming around the room in glasses held by everyone from the guy in the Armani suit to the young parents who have escaped the duties of parenthood for the evening to the newspaper reporter who hasn\'t shopped for a new sport coat since 1971.\n\nNot that I know any newspaper reporters who haven\'t shopped for a new sport coat since 1971.\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\n\nAlso, there\'s a sea of beer-themed t-shirts. And chocolates filled with beer. And a group of Tulsans who know how to party in the most serious and refreshing of ways.\n\nHey, don\'t threaten me with a good time.\n\nI couldn\'t be talking about anything but <a href=\"http://www.tulsapressclub.org/articles/article.cfm?id=2\">First Draft, the No. 1 beer-tasting event of the season</a>. And guess what? It\'s happening this very Friday night.\n\nHere\'s what you\'re gonna copy into your calendar:\n\n<em><strong>First Draft</strong>\nWhen: Starting at 5:30pm\nWhere: Blue Dome Diner, 311 E. Second Street (just west of Second and Elgin)\n</em>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3487\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3487\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/BEERFILLEDCHOCOLATES-500x711.jpg\" alt=\"First Draft\" title=\"First Draft\" width=\"500\" height=\"711\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3487\" /></a>\n\nCome for the beer, stay for the food, the people, the Nouveau Chocolates (truffles filled with Lindeman\'s Framboise as well as chili pepper chocolate will be on hand) and the celebrity-judged beer-themed t-shirt contest. All proceeds benefit the <a href=\"http://www.tulsapressclub.com/about/foundation.cfm\">Tulsa Press Club Foundation</a>, which grants scholarships to journalism students, the poor souls.\n\nJust kidding about that \"poor souls\" thing. Because even if newspapers and radio and TV stations continue to cut back, you journalism grads can always start a blog. To learn about the possibilities, feel free to stop by the mansion I just bought in Maple Ridge. I\'ll tell my doorman, whom I\'ve gone through the legal pains to re-name Humphreys, to expect you.\n\nHeh.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3488\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3488\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/ELCUCUYINDIABLACKALE-500x381.jpg\" alt=\"First Draft\" title=\"First Draft\" width=\"500\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3488\" /></a>\n\nParticipating brewers at First Draft 2010 include regional favorites like <a href=\"http://marshallbrewing.com/index.asp\">Marshall Brewing Co.</a> (who has brewed a special batch just for First Draft, by the way), <a href=\"http://www.chocbeer.com/\">Choc Beer</a>, <a href=\"http://www.coopaleworks.com/\">COOP Ale Works</a>, <a href=\"http://www.batteredboar.com/\">Battered Boar Brewing Co.</a>, <a href=\"http://www.mustangbrewing.com/\">Mustang Brewing Co.</a> and <a href=\"http://www.tallgrassbeer.com/\">Tallgrass Brewing Co</a>.\n\nOther notables include Chimay, Lindeman\'s, Left Hand and New Belgium Brewing Co. \n\nIn other words, your glass doesn\'t have a chance of running dry Friday night.\n\nPlus, KTUL NewsChannel 8\'s Kristin Dickerson will emcee the event. And I know how a lot of you guys feel about Kristin Dickerson. I mean, <a href=\"http://www.google.com/images?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=kristin+dickerson&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;source=og&amp;sa=N&amp;hl=en&amp;tab=wi&amp;biw=1280&amp;bih=664\">who could blame you</a>?\n\nTickets are $40 in advance and $50 at the door. Get \'em by calling (918) 583-7737 or by <a href=\"mailto:tami@tulsapressclub.com\">e-mailing Tami at the Tulsa Press Club</a>. Be sure and tell her TDT sent you.\n\nSo, there\'s that whole avenue, actually paying for tickets to this beer-tastic event. You can\'t go wrong by heading in this direction. I mean, there aren\'t many places where you can get a bottomless beer glass for the price of a few beers and a snack at the bar.\n\nBut, there\'s another way. If you\'d like <strong>two free tickets to First Draft 2010</strong> (a $100 value, y\'all), you could answer this question:\n\n<blockquote>You\'re on death row. You\'ve just been asked which beer you\'d like to have with your last meal. What do you order?</blockquote>\n\nSimple right? <strong>I\'ll let Random.org pick the winners tonight at 5pm</strong>. I\'ll contact the winner and proclaim here his/her dominance over the losers shortly after.\n\nGood luck, but more important: Cheers, and see you on Friday night!\n\n<em>All photos are courtesy.</em>\n\n<em>Tasha’s note: This giveaway is sponsored by Tulsa Press Club.</em>','First Draft: Lots and lots of beer. And beer-filled chocolate. And beer with a side of beer. (Plus, a giveaway!)','More than six dozen varieties of beer, 30 of which can\'t be found anywhere else in the state, are swimming around the room in glasses held by everyone from the guy in the Armani suit to the young parents who have escaped the duties of parenthood for the evening to the newspaper reporter who hasn\'t shopped for a new sport coat since 1971.','inherit','open','open','','3485-revision','','','2010-11-04 12:38:15','2010-11-04 17:38:15','',3485,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3485-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(4418,1,'2010-12-10 16:13:36','2010-12-10 21:13:36','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4419\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/shop-books-tulsa-author-jeff-martin-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/hardesty/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4419\" title=\"Hardesty Regional Library\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Hardesty.jpg\" alt=\"Hardesty Regional Library\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></p>\r\nWe all have a bookworm on our shopping lists this holiday season. <a href=\"http://www.jeffmartinauthor.com/\">Renowned local author and co-founder of Booksmart Tulsa Jeff Martin</a> joins TDT with a few of his top picks of books with an Oklahoma connection.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Wait!</span></strong> Before you dive into the gift guide, remember that you can get any gifts listed here that are available in the Tulsa area delivered straight to your door by <a href=\"http://www.youbuywefly918.com/\">You Buy We Fly 918</a>. <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/tasha-does-tulsa-gift-guide-2010/\">Click here to get the special 10-percent delivery discount for TDT readers</a>.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4420\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/shop-books-tulsa-author-jeff-martin-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/mantle/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4420\" title=\"Mickey Mantle\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Mantle.jpg\" alt=\"Mickey Mantle\" width=\"326\" height=\"500\" /></a></p>\r\n\r\n<h2>The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and The End of America\'s Childhood, by Jane Leavy</h2>\r\nI’m not really what you would call a sports fan, but I’ve always been fascinated by the interesting characters that make up our collective athletic history. Let me put it this way, I’ll skip Monday Night Football and watch Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel instead. One of these fascinating personalities was none other than Mickey Mantle, born and raised in tiny Commerce, Oklahoma. We all know the story about the home run race against Roger Maris in 1961. As far as sports heroes go, you might think you know everything you need to know about Mantle. But unless you’ve read this fantastic book by Jane Leavy, you don’t know a damn thing. Baseball fan or not, you need to check this out. Wow.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4421\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/shop-books-tulsa-author-jeff-martin-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/brokitsu/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4421\" title=\"Brojitsu\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/brokitsu.jpg\" alt=\"Brojitsu\" width=\"312\" height=\"500\" /></a></p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Bro-Jitsu: The Martial Art of Sibling Smackdown, by Daniel H. Wilson</h2>\r\nAfter delighting us with books like How To Survive a Robot Uprising and Where’s My Jetpack, this native Tulsan and Ph.D. in Robotics turns his sights to one of humankind’s oldest conflicts, sibling rivalry. In a sort of handbook, he tells the young reader (suggested for grades 6-9, but funny for anyone) how to get the upper hand. Written with tongue placed firmly in cheek, this is a must for anyone ever subjected to wedgies, wet willies and other familial torture techniques. And by the way, Wilson’s next book, the awesomely titled Robopocalypse (Summer 2011) is being adapted to film by none other than Steven Spielberg.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4422\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/shop-books-tulsa-author-jeff-martin-tdt-holiday-gift-guide-2010/russell/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4422\" title=\"Russell\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Russell.jpg\" alt=\"Russell\" width=\"316\" height=\"476\" /></a></p>\r\n\r\n<h2>The Insane Train: A Hook Runyon Mystery, by Sheldon Russell</h2>\r\nLast year Sheldon Russell quietly entered the fray and staked his claim as one of our state’s best contemporary novelists. He might be the best. With 2009’s The Yard Dog, a gritty, taut and historically accurate mystery set in Oklahoma at the end of WWII. There are so many amazing characters and surprises; I don’t want to give too much away. But you\'d better hurry up and read that one so you can move on to Russell’s follow-up, The Insane Train. Publisher’s Weekly calls the book “outstanding.” I think that’s an understatement.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"270\" 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://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5211559&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=1&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"270\" src=\"http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5211559&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=1&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\n<em>TDT Note: While you\'re out, pick up a copy of Jeff Martin\'s The Customer is Always Wrong: The Retail Chronicle and My Dog Ate My Nobel Prize. I\'m sure he won\'t mind. They\'re available at <a href=\"http://www.dwellingspaces.net/\">Dwelling Spaces</a> and <a href=\"http://www.stevessundrybooksmags.com\">Steve\'s Sundry Books &amp; Magazines</a>.</em>','Shop Books With Tulsa Author Jeff Martin: TDT Holiday Gift Guide 2010','We all have a bookworm on our shopping lists this holiday season. 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Let me put it this way, I’ll skip Monday Night Football and watch Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel instead. One of these fascinating personalities was none other than Mickey Mantle, born and raised in tiny Commerce, Oklahoma. We all know the story about the home run race against Roger Maris in 1961. As far as sports heroes go, you might think you know everything you need to know about Mantle. But unless you’ve read this fantastic book by Jane Leavy, you don’t know a damn thing. Baseball fan or not, you need to check this out. Wow.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4421\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4421\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4421\" title=\"Brojitsu\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/brokitsu.jpg\" alt=\"Brojitsu\" width=\"312\" height=\"500\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>Bro-Jitsu: The Martial Art of Sibling Smackdown, by Daniel H. Wilson</h2>\n<h2>After delighting us with books like How To Survive a Robot Uprising and Where’s My Jetpack, this native Tulsan and Ph.D. in Robotics turns his sights to one of humankind’s oldest conflicts, sibling rivalry. In a sort of handbook, he tells the young reader (suggested for grades 6-9, but funny for anyone) how to get the upper hand. Written with tongue placed firmly in cheek, this is a must for anyone ever subjected to wedgies, wet willies and other familial torture techniques. And by the way, Wilson’s next book, the awesomely titled Robopocalypse (Summer 2011) is being adapted to film by none other than Steven Spielberg.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4422\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=4422\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4422\" title=\"Russell\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Russell.jpg\" alt=\"Russell\" width=\"316\" height=\"476\" /></a></p>\n</h2>\n<h2>The Insane Train: A Hook Runyon Mystery, by Sheldon Russell</h2>\nLast year Sheldon Russell quietly entered the fray and staked his claim as one of our state’s best contemporary novelists. He might be the best. With 2009’s The Yard Dog, a gritty, taut and historically accurate mystery set in Oklahoma at the end of WWII. There are so many amazing characters and surprises; I don’t want to give too much away. But you\'d better hurry up and read that one so you can move on to Russell’s follow-up, The Insane Train. Publisher’s Weekly calls the book “outstanding.” I think that’s an understatement.\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"270\" 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://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5211559&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=1&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"270\" src=\"http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5211559&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=1&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\n\n<em>TDT Note: While you\'re out, pick up a copy of Jeff Martin\'s The Customer is Always Wrong: The Retail Chronicle and My Dog Ate My Nobel Prize. I\'m sure he won\'t mind. They\'re available at <a href=\"http://www.dwellingspaces.net\"></a>Dwelling Spaces and <a href=\"stevessundrybooksmags.com/\"></a>Steve\'s Sundry Books &amp; Magazines.</em>','Shop Books With Tulsa Author Jeff Martin: TDT Holiday Gift Guide 2010','We all have a bookworm on our shopping lists this holiday season. 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Here\'s this week\'s sampling.\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<h2>\'Tis the Season</h2>\r\n<strong>The Art of Manliness</strong>: <a href=\"http://artofmanliness.com/2010/11/09/15-ways-to-winterize-your-home/\">15 Ways to Winterize Your Home</a>, <a href=\"http://artofmanliness.com/2010/11/08/how-to-make-a-football-by-hand-the-leather-head-sports-football-giveaway/\">How to Make a Football by Hand</a> and (new baby news!) <a href=\"http://artofmanliness.com/2010/10/27/welcome-the-newest-member-of-the-mckay-family-and-aom-team-augustus-george-mckay/\">Augustus George McKay</a>. Not only have the McKays welcomed their first bundle of joy into this world (and gave him probably the best baby name of which I\'ve heard, ever), but they\'re also writing about how a classic pigskin comes to be and how to protect your home against whatever winter might have to throw at it this year. Congrats,  friends! Thanks for bringing more usefulness (and cuteness) into this crazy world.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa Ballet</strong>: <a href=\"http://tulsa-ballet.blogspot.com/2010/11/nutcracker-past-present-and-future.html\">The Nutcracker: Past, Present and Future</a>. Ever wonder how Tulsa\'s favorite and longest-running ballet (which opens for 2010 on Dec. 11, by the way) got its start? There\'s a post at Tulsa Ballet\'s blog about it. Pretty interesting stuff, y\'all.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa Gentleman</strong>: <a href=\"http://tulsagentleman.blogspot.com/2010/11/ruby-tuesday-tunnel-of-trees.html\">Tunnel of Trees</a>. The trees in the oldest parts of town are undoubtedly the most beautiful in town when fall rolls around. Now that the first freeze has come and gone and most of the color of the leaves went with it, enjoy this shot of a tunnel of trees in their full, colorful glory.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Daly Dose</strong>: <a href=\"http://thedalydoseblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/need-good-laugh-read-these-cards.html\">Read These Cards</a> and <a href=\"http://thedalydoseblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/we-joined-organic-food-co-op-anners.html\">Anner\'s</a>. Looking for some less-than-traditional cards to send out this holiday season? Ashley found some, and guess what - you can get \'em right here in Tulsa. Plus, check out her trip to Anner\'s Wellness Works, an organic food co-op here in Tulsa that promises to be a source for those of you looking to put together locally-inspired feasts this season.\r\n\r\n<strong>Crash Test Mommy</strong>: <a href=\"http://crashtestmommy.net/2010/10/freebies-shutterfly/\">Freebies from Shutterfly</a>. Or, you could make your own darned Christmas cards. Jenny tells us how we can a few dozen of them for free.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Pioneer Woman</strong>: <a href=\"http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/category/holidays/thanksgiving/\">Thanksgiving cooking</a>.<strong> </strong>Everyone\'s favorite cook has been whipping up dish after dish (after dish after dish - let the photo above serve as proof) that\'s sure to impress on any holiday table. Get \'em all, including those from the archives, at the link above.  And yes, there\'s some green bean casserole in there for you crazies who\'ll each such things.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Noshery</strong>: <a href=\"http://thenoshery.com/2010/11/01/turkey-and-sweet-potato-croquettes/\">Turkey and Sweet Potato Croquettes</a> and <a href=\"http://thenoshery.com/2010/11/09/sweet-potato-gnocchi-with-gouda-cheese-sauce/\">Sweet Potato Gnocchi with Gouda Cheese Sauce</a>. Speaking of holiday cooking, Meseidy at The Noshery has <a href=\"http://thenoshery.com/2010/11/01/turkey-and-sweet-potato-croquettes/\">these</a>, which look to me like little bite-sized Thanksgiving dinners. In a word: Yum. And then there\'s the sweet potato gnocchi. Good lord have mercy. Meseidy, me thinks you\'re gonna have to give us bloggers a course in food photography. Seems you\'ve mastered it, yo.\r\n\r\n<strong>Global Table Adventure</strong>: <a href=\"http://globaltableadventure.com/2010/11/04/recipe-smoked-turkey-with-pumpkin-seed-sauce/\">Smoked Turkey with Egusi Sauce</a>. Don\'t think you can stand one more year of a day after day of leftovers from a traditional turkey dinner? Not to worry. Sasha at Global Table Adventure serves up a turkey dish that just might become the new go-to recipe for the centerpiece of your holiday meal.\r\n\r\n<strong>Living on This Farm</strong>: <a href=\"http://livingonthisfarm.blogspot.com/2010/10/wild-persimmons.html\">Wild Persimmons</a>. Lisa has hundreds of wild persimmon trees on her 400-acre farm just off Route 66. They might be scarce now that the season\'s first freeze has swept the plains, but at least <a href=\"http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/storespecials/TLS_specials.pdf\">persimmons are on sale at Whole Foods right now</a>. Except, they\'re from California. Ouch! I think I feel Lisa sending me stabby vibes.\r\n\r\n<strong>Kellyology</strong>: <a href=\"http://www.kellyology.net/2010/10/saving-kelly-starting-young.html\">Starting Young</a>. Now that the holiday shopping season is here, it might be a good time to start talking to your kids about wise money management and the importance of saving and giving. Kelly has some classic, easy-to-follow advice.\r\n\r\n<strong>It\'s in the Details</strong>: <a href=\"http://tulsadetails.blogspot.com/2010/11/my-first-fire-in-my-fireplace.html\">My First Fire</a>. Katie lit up her fire place for the first time not just for the season, but for the first time ever in her new place (a pretty good feeling, I must agree). And, of course, she took a photo. Which is hard to cuddle beside or to warm your hands with, but still - around here, it counts.\r\n\r\n<strong>Grey Eye Designs Studio</strong>: <a href=\"http://greyeyedesigns.blogspot.com/2010/11/beating-winter-blues.html\">Beating the Winter Blues</a>. Brigid has some advice on how to beat the winter blues. And who among us couldn\'t use some tips on this now that the sun is setting at five freaking thirty? Ugh. Help us, Brigid. Help us.\r\n\r\n<strong>Running on Empty</strong>: <a href=\"http://fat-ass-to-fit-ass.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-running-plan.html\">The Running Plan</a> and <a href=\"http://fat-ass-to-fit-ass.blogspot.com/2010/11/eating-healthy-at-hooters.html\">Eating Healthy at Hooter\'s</a>. As the <a href=\"http://www.route66marathon.com/\">Route 66 Marathon</a> looms at just two weeks away, running season is still going strong here in T-Town. Kate has a plan for those who are interested in running and are starting at the beginning of a training program - get it at the link above. And you know what? It works. I know because it\'s how I got started, and I just up and ran 10K the other day. Thanks goes to Kate and <a href=\"http://moving4life.com/\">Shawna at Moving 4 Life</a> for the continued inspiration and training tips. And, let\'s not forget that Kate has a guest post from a guy who\'s working to lose some poundage for his impending nuptuals and was forced to find some healthful options at  the place where everyone goes \"for the wings.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>A Day in the Life of Okie Rednecks</strong>: <a href=\"http://brodricks.blogspot.com/2010/10/my-first-deer-of-2010.html\">My First Deer of 2010</a>. I\'m always fascinated by the content featured on this blog - it\'s like the Okie life I somehow missed living. On Halloween this post about the author\'s first deer of the year showed up in my reader and I couldn\'t help but be amazed. As someone who went to high school in a part of town where it was perfectly acceptable to miss class to spend a morning in a tree stand but who was raised mostly as a city girl, I\'m always intrigued by a couple who are in a race against each other to put the biggest deer head on the living room wall.\r\n\r\n<strong>In the Sweet Life</strong>: <a href=\"http://annsbakerytulsa.blogspot.com/2010/11/bigfoot-and-baking.html\">Bigfoot and Baking</a>. What do they have in common? Shannon tells us at the new official blog of <a href=\"http://www.annsbakery.com/\">Ann\'s Bakery</a>, a historic mainstay here in Tulsa.\r\n<h2>When Bloggers Get Miffed</h2>\r\n<strong>The School of Hard Knox</strong>. <a href=\"http://teresaknox.careerpathblog.com/spiritual-moment/\">SPIRITual Moment</a>. Have you been to the SpiritBank Event Center? Teresa Knox has. To say the least, she was not impressed.\r\n\r\n<strong>Running 4 Life</strong>: <a href=\"http://moving4life.com/2010/11/boobie-prize/\">Boobie Prize</a>. I saw this and wondered about it, too, but Shawna at Running 4 Life took the time to blog about it: That there are fewer awards for female runners than male runners at <a href=\"http://www.tulsarun.com/\">Tulsa Run 2010</a>, a race in which more women than men finished last year. Not only does Shawna wonder what the heck is up, but she established an award for those un-rewarded females who placed alongside their ribbon-earning male counterparts: The Boobie Prize.\r\n<h2>Other Fun Stuff</h2>\r\n<strong>Tulsa Food Blog</strong>: <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/brunch/brunch-like-the-irish-at-killkennys-pub\">Brunch Like the Irish at Kilkenny\'s Pub</a>, <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/tulsa-hamburgers/still-in-love-with-hamburgers\">Still in Love with Hamburgers</a> and <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/downtown/yokozuna-downtown-sushi\">Yokozuna Revived my Faith in Tulsa\'s Sushi Scene</a>. Brian at Tulsa Food Blog has been blogging up a storm, and he has three great posts about Tulsa unique foodie stops up right now, including a pictorial tour of the burgers of Tulsa. Dieters beware!\r\n\r\n<strong>The Daly Dose </strong>(again!). <a href=\"http://thedalydoseblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/romantic-getaway-frank-lloyd-wright.html\">Romantic Getaway Frank Lloyd Wright Style</a>. Ashley and her husband celebrated their first wedding anniversary with a stay at the only realized FLW skyscraper, just a hop, skip and a jump from Tulsa in Bartlesville, OK. And, of course, she took lots of great (and adorable) photos.\r\n\r\n<strong> This Land Press</strong>: <a href=\"http://thislandpress.com/11/07/2010/rusty-and-colleen/\">Rusty and Colleen</a>. Rusty and Colleen are the couple behind one of downtown\'s newest restaurants, <a href=\"http://modscrepes.com/\">Mod\'s Coffee and Crepes</a>. Snuggle up with your significant other down by the fire and read the story of how they got together.\r\n\r\n<strong> Coffee pr0n</strong>: <a href=\"http://topecacoffee.blogspot.com/2010/10/specialty-coffee-is-it-worth-it.html\">Specialty Coffee, Is It Worth It?</a> As a foodie who lives in a coffee town but is compelled to be highly budget conscious, I wrestle with this question all the time. Topeca roaster John Cunningham presents both lines of reasoning.\r\n\r\n<strong> Adventures of Becky and the Danger Boys</strong>: <a href=\"http://beckyanddangerboys.blogspot.com/2010/11/years-supply.html\">Year\'s Supply</a>. Ever wonder what a year\'s supply of diapers might look like? Well, it\'s something like this.\r\n\r\n<strong>Living on This Farm</strong> (again!): <a href=\"http://livingonthisfarm.blogspot.com/2010/11/last-week-we-had-very-large-fish-for.html\">Fish Bones</a>. Because you know you\'re like me and are intrigued by the concept of a giant rogue fish head.\r\n\r\nWhat Tulsa blogs have you been reading this week?\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/category/holidays/?view=3#archive-posts\">Image from ThePioneerWoman.com</a>.','Bigfoot, Baking, Eating Healthy at Hooters and How to Make a Football With Your Bare Hands: In Tulsa Blogs This Week','As always, there\'s tons of wild and zany and useful stuff going down in Tulsa\'s blogosphere. 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Here\'s this week\'s sampling.\n<h2>\'Tis the Season</h2>\n<strong>The Art of Manliness</strong>: <a href=\"http://artofmanliness.com/2010/11/09/15-ways-to-winterize-your-home/\">15 Ways to Winterize Your Home</a>, <a href=\"http://artofmanliness.com/2010/11/08/how-to-make-a-football-by-hand-the-leather-head-sports-football-giveaway/\">How to Make a Football by Hand</a> and (new baby news!) <a href=\"http://artofmanliness.com/2010/10/27/welcome-the-newest-member-of-the-mckay-family-and-aom-team-augustus-george-mckay/\">Augustus George McKay</a>. Not only have the McKays welcomed their first bundle of joy into this world (and gave him probably the best baby name of which I\'ve heard, ever), but they\'re also writing about how a classic pigskin comes to be and how to protect your home against whatever winter might have to throw at it this year. Congrats,  friends! Thanks for bringing more usefulness (and cuteness) into this crazy world.\n\n<strong>Tulsa Ballet</strong>: <a href=\"http://tulsa-ballet.blogspot.com/2010/11/nutcracker-past-present-and-future.html\">The Nutcracker: Past, Present and Future</a>. Ever wonder how Tulsa\'s favorite and longest-running ballet (which opens for 2010 on Dec. 11, by the way) got its start? There\'s a post at Tulsa Ballet\'s blog about it. Pretty interesting stuff, y\'all.\n\n<strong>Tulsa Gentleman</strong>: <a href=\"http://tulsagentleman.blogspot.com/2010/11/ruby-tuesday-tunnel-of-trees.html\">Tunnel of Trees</a>. The trees in the oldest parts of town are undoubtedly the most beautiful when fall rolls around. Now that the first freeze has come and gone and most of the color of the leaves went with it, enjoy this shot of a tunnel of trees in full, colorful fanfare.\n\n<strong>The Daly Dose</strong>: <a href=\"http://thedalydoseblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/need-good-laugh-read-these-cards.html\">Read These Cards</a> and <a href=\"http://thedalydoseblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/we-joined-organic-food-co-op-anners.html\">Anner\'s</a>. Looking for some less-than-traditional cards to send out this holiday season? Ashley found some, and guess what - you can get \'em right here in Tulsa. Plus, check out her trip to Anner\'s Wellness Works, an organic food co-op here in Tulsa that promises to be a source for those of you looking to put together locally-inspired feasts this season.\n\n<strong>Crash Test Mommy</strong>: <a href=\"http://crashtestmommy.net/2010/10/freebies-shutterfly/\">Freebies from Shutterfly</a>. Or, you could make your own darned Christmas cards. Jenny tells us how we can a few dozen of them for free.\n\n<strong>The Pioneer Woman</strong>: <a href=\"http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/category/holidays/thanksgiving/\">Thanksgiving cooking</a>.<strong> </strong>Everyone\'s favorite cook has been whipping up dish after dish (after dish after dish - let the photo above serve as proof) that\'s sure to impress on any holiday table. Get \'em all, including those from the archives, at the link above.  And yes, there\'s some green bean casserole in there for you crazies who\'ll each such things.\n\n<strong>The Noshery</strong>: <a href=\"http://thenoshery.com/2010/11/01/turkey-and-sweet-potato-croquettes/\">Turkey and Sweet Potato Croquettes</a> and <a href=\"http://thenoshery.com/2010/11/09/sweet-potato-gnocchi-with-gouda-cheese-sauce/\">Sweet Potato Gnocchi with Gouda Cheese Sauce</a>. Speaking of holiday cooking, Meseidy at The Noshery has <a href=\"http://thenoshery.com/2010/11/01/turkey-and-sweet-potato-croquettes/\">these</a>, which look to me like little bite-sized Thanksgiving dinners. In a word: Yum. And then there\'s the sweet potato gnocchi. Good lord have mercy. Meseidy, me thinks you\'re gonna have to give us bloggers a course in food photography. Seems you\'ve mastered it, yo.\n\n<strong>Global Table Adventure</strong>: <a href=\"http://globaltableadventure.com/2010/11/04/recipe-smoked-turkey-with-pumpkin-seed-sauce/\">Smoked Turkey with Egusi Sauce</a>. Don\'t think you can stand one more year of a day after day of leftovers from a traditional turkey dinner? Not to worry. Sasha at Global Table Adventure serves up a turkey dish that just might become the new go-to recipe for the centerpiece of your holiday meal.\n\n<strong>Living on This Farm</strong>: <a href=\"http://livingonthisfarm.blogspot.com/2010/10/wild-persimmons.html\">Wild Persimmons</a>. Lisa has hundreds of wild persimmon trees on her 400-acre farm just off Route 66. They might be scarce now that the season\'s first freeze has swept the plains, but at least <a href=\"http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/storespecials/TLS_specials.pdf\">persimmons are on sale at Whole Foods right now</a>. Except, they\'re from California. Ouch! I think I feel Lisa sending me stabby vibes.\n\n<strong>Kellyology</strong>: <a href=\"http://www.kellyology.net/2010/10/saving-kelly-starting-young.html\">Starting Young</a>. Now that the holiday shopping season is here, it might be a good time to start talking to your kids about wise money management and the importance of saving and giving. Kelly has some classic, easy-to-follow advice.\n\n<strong>It\'s in the Details</strong>: <a href=\"http://tulsadetails.blogspot.com/2010/11/my-first-fire-in-my-fireplace.html\">My First Fire</a>. Katie lit up her fire place for the first time not just for the season, but for the first time ever in her new place (a pretty good feeling, I must agree). And, of course, she took a photo. Which is hard to cuddle beside or to warm your hands with, but still - around here, it counts.\n\n<strong>Grey Eye Designs Studio</strong>: <a href=\"http://greyeyedesigns.blogspot.com/2010/11/beating-winter-blues.html\">Beating the Winter Blues</a>. Brigid has some advice on how to beat the winter blues. And who among us couldn\'t use some tips on this now that the sun is setting at five freaking thirty? Ugh. Help us, Brigid. Help us.\n\n<strong>Running on Empty</strong>: <a href=\"http://fat-ass-to-fit-ass.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-running-plan.html\">The Running Plan</a> and <a href=\"http://fat-ass-to-fit-ass.blogspot.com/2010/11/eating-healthy-at-hooters.html\">Eating Healthy at Hooter\'s</a>. As the <a href=\"http://www.route66marathon.com/\">Route 66 Marathon</a> looms at just two weeks away, running season is still going strong here in T-Town. Kate has a plan for those who are interested in running and are starting at the beginning of a training program - get it at the link above. And you know what? It works. I know because it\'s how I got started, and I just up and ran 10K the other day. Thanks goes to Kate and <a href=\"http://moving4life.com/\">Shawna at Moving 4 Life</a> for the continued inspiration and training tips. And, let\'s not forget that Kate has a guest post from a guy who\'s working to lose some poundage for his impending nuptuals and was forced to find some healthful options at  the place where everyone goes \"for the wings.\"\n\n<strong>A Day in the Life of Okie Rednecks</strong>: <a href=\"http://brodricks.blogspot.com/2010/10/my-first-deer-of-2010.html\">My First Deer of 2010</a>. I\'m always fascinated by the content featured on this blog - it\'s like the Okie life I somehow missed living. On Halloween this post about the author\'s first deer of the year showed up in my reader and I couldn\'t help but be amazed. As someone who went to high school in a part of town where it was perfectly acceptable to miss class to spend a morning in a tree stand but who was raised mostly as a city girl, I\'m always intrigued by a couple who are in a race against each other to put the biggest deer head on the living room wall.\n\n<strong>In the Sweet Life</strong>: <a href=\"http://annsbakerytulsa.blogspot.com/2010/11/bigfoot-and-baking.html\">Bigfoot and Baking</a>. What do they have in common? Shannon tells us at the new official blog of <a href=\"http://www.annsbakery.com/\">Ann\'s Bakery</a>, a historic mainstay here in Tulsa.\n<h2>When Bloggers Get Miffed</h2>\n<strong>The School of Hard Knox</strong>. <a href=\"http://teresaknox.careerpathblog.com/spiritual-moment/\">SPIRITual Moment</a>. Have you been to the SpiritBank Event Center? Teresa Knox has. To say the least, she was not impressed.\n\n<strong>Running 4 Life</strong>: <a href=\"http://moving4life.com/2010/11/boobie-prize/\">Boobie Prize</a>. I saw this and wondered about it, too, but Shawna at Running 4 Life took the time to blog about it: That there are fewer awards for female runners than male runners at <a href=\"http://www.tulsarun.com/\">Tulsa Run 2010</a>, a race in which more women than men finished last year. Not only does Shawna wonder what the heck is up, but she established an award for those un-rewarded females who placed alongside their ribbon-earning male counterparts: The Boobie Prize.\n<h2>Other Fun Stuff</h2>\n<strong>Tulsa Food Blog</strong>: <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/brunch/brunch-like-the-irish-at-killkennys-pub\">Brunch Like the Irish at Kilkenny\'s Pub</a>, <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/tulsa-hamburgers/still-in-love-with-hamburgers\">Still in Love with Hamburgers</a> and <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/downtown/yokozuna-downtown-sushi\">Yokozuna Revived my Faith in Tulsa\'s Sushi Scene</a>. Brian at Tulsa Food Blog has been blogging up a storm, and he has three great posts about Tulsa unique foodie stops up right now, including a pictorial tour of the burgers of Tulsa. Dieters beware!\n\n<strong>The Daly Dose </strong>(again!). <a href=\"http://thedalydoseblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/romantic-getaway-frank-lloyd-wright.html\">Romantic Getaway Frank Lloyd Wright Style</a>. Ashley and her husband celebrated their first wedding anniversary with a stay at the only realized FLW skyscraper, just a hop, skip and a jump from Tulsa in Bartlesville, OK. And, of course, she took lots of great (and adorable) photos.\n\n<strong> This Land Press</strong>: <a href=\"http://thislandpress.com/11/07/2010/rusty-and-colleen/\">Rusty and Colleen</a>. Rusty and Colleen are the couple behind one of downtown\'s newest restaurants, <a href=\"http://modscrepes.com/\">Mod\'s Coffee and Crepes</a>. Snuggle up with your significant other down by the fire and read the story of how they got together.\n\n<strong> Coffee pr0n</strong>: <a href=\"http://topecacoffee.blogspot.com/2010/10/specialty-coffee-is-it-worth-it.html\">Specialty Coffee, Is It Worth It?</a> As a foodie who lives in a coffee town but is compelled to be highly budget conscious, I wrestle with this question all the time. Topeca roaster John Cunningham presents both lines of reasoning.\n\n<strong> Adventures of Becky and the Danger Boys</strong>: <a href=\"http://beckyanddangerboys.blogspot.com/2010/11/years-supply.html\">Year\'s Supply</a>. Ever wonder what a year\'s supply of diapers might look like? Well, it\'s something like this.\n\n<strong>Living on This Farm</strong> (again!): <a href=\"http://livingonthisfarm.blogspot.com/2010/11/last-week-we-had-very-large-fish-for.html\">Fish Bones</a>. Because you know you\'re like me and are intrigued by the concept of a giant rogue fish head.\n\nWhat Tulsa blogs have you been reading this week?\n\n<a href=\"http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/category/holidays/?view=3#archive-posts\">Image from ThePioneerWoman.com</a>.','Bigfoot and Baking, Eating Healthy at Hooters and How to Make a Football: In Tulsa Blogs This Week','As always, there\'s tons of wild and zany and useful stuff going down in Tulsa\'s blogosphere. Here\'s this week\'s sampling.','inherit','open','open','','3572-revision','','','2010-11-09 15:07:36','2010-11-09 20:07:36','',3572,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3572-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(3575,1,'2010-11-09 15:08:00','2010-11-09 20:08:00','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3573\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3573\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3573\" title=\"Pioneer Woman Thanksgiving Cooking\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Picture-11-500x306.png\" alt=\"Pioneer Woman Thanksgiving Cooking\" width=\"500\" height=\"306\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAs always, there\'s tons of wild and zany and useful stuff going down in Tulsa\'s blogosphere. Here\'s this week\'s sampling.\r\n<h2>\'Tis the Season</h2>\r\n<strong>The Art of Manliness</strong>: <a href=\"http://artofmanliness.com/2010/11/09/15-ways-to-winterize-your-home/\">15 Ways to Winterize Your Home</a>, <a href=\"http://artofmanliness.com/2010/11/08/how-to-make-a-football-by-hand-the-leather-head-sports-football-giveaway/\">How to Make a Football by Hand</a> and (new baby news!) <a href=\"http://artofmanliness.com/2010/10/27/welcome-the-newest-member-of-the-mckay-family-and-aom-team-augustus-george-mckay/\">Augustus George McKay</a>. Not only have the McKays welcomed their first bundle of joy into this world (and gave him probably the best baby name of which I\'ve heard, ever), but they\'re also writing about how a classic pigskin comes to be and how to protect your home against whatever winter might have to throw at it this year. Congrats,  friends! Thanks for bringing more usefulness (and cuteness) into this crazy world.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa Ballet</strong>: <a href=\"http://tulsa-ballet.blogspot.com/2010/11/nutcracker-past-present-and-future.html\">The Nutcracker: Past, Present and Future</a>. Ever wonder how Tulsa\'s favorite and longest-running ballet (which opens for 2010 on Dec. 11, by the way) got its start? There\'s a post at Tulsa Ballet\'s blog about it. Pretty interesting stuff, y\'all.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa Gentleman</strong>: <a href=\"http://tulsagentleman.blogspot.com/2010/11/ruby-tuesday-tunnel-of-trees.html\">Tunnel of Trees</a>. The trees in the oldest parts of town are undoubtedly the most beautiful when fall rolls around. Now that the first freeze has come and gone and most of the color of the leaves went with it, enjoy this shot of a tunnel of trees in full, colorful fanfare.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Daly Dose</strong>: <a href=\"http://thedalydoseblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/need-good-laugh-read-these-cards.html\">Read These Cards</a> and <a href=\"http://thedalydoseblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/we-joined-organic-food-co-op-anners.html\">Anner\'s</a>. Looking for some less-than-traditional cards to send out this holiday season? Ashley found some, and guess what - you can get \'em right here in Tulsa. Plus, check out her trip to Anner\'s Wellness Works, an organic food co-op here in Tulsa that promises to be a source for those of you looking to put together locally-inspired feasts this season.\r\n\r\n<strong>Crash Test Mommy</strong>: <a href=\"http://crashtestmommy.net/2010/10/freebies-shutterfly/\">Freebies from Shutterfly</a>. Or, you could make your own darned Christmas cards. Jenny tells us how we can a few dozen of them for free.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Pioneer Woman</strong>: <a href=\"http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/category/holidays/thanksgiving/\">Thanksgiving cooking</a>.<strong> </strong>Everyone\'s favorite cook has been whipping up dish after dish (after dish after dish - let the photo above serve as proof) that\'s sure to impress on any holiday table. Get \'em all, including those from the archives, at the link above.  And yes, there\'s some green bean casserole in there for you crazies who\'ll each such things.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Noshery</strong>: <a href=\"http://thenoshery.com/2010/11/01/turkey-and-sweet-potato-croquettes/\">Turkey and Sweet Potato Croquettes</a> and <a href=\"http://thenoshery.com/2010/11/09/sweet-potato-gnocchi-with-gouda-cheese-sauce/\">Sweet Potato Gnocchi with Gouda Cheese Sauce</a>. Speaking of holiday cooking, Meseidy at The Noshery has <a href=\"http://thenoshery.com/2010/11/01/turkey-and-sweet-potato-croquettes/\">these</a>, which look to me like little bite-sized Thanksgiving dinners. In a word: Yum. And then there\'s the sweet potato gnocchi. Good lord have mercy. Meseidy, me thinks you\'re gonna have to give us bloggers a course in food photography. Seems you\'ve mastered it, yo.\r\n\r\n<strong>Global Table Adventure</strong>: <a href=\"http://globaltableadventure.com/2010/11/04/recipe-smoked-turkey-with-pumpkin-seed-sauce/\">Smoked Turkey with Egusi Sauce</a>. Don\'t think you can stand one more year of a day after day of leftovers from a traditional turkey dinner? Not to worry. Sasha at Global Table Adventure serves up a turkey dish that just might become the new go-to recipe for the centerpiece of your holiday meal.\r\n\r\n<strong>Living on This Farm</strong>: <a href=\"http://livingonthisfarm.blogspot.com/2010/10/wild-persimmons.html\">Wild Persimmons</a>. Lisa has hundreds of wild persimmon trees on her 400-acre farm just off Route 66. They might be scarce now that the season\'s first freeze has swept the plains, but at least <a href=\"http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/storespecials/TLS_specials.pdf\">persimmons are on sale at Whole Foods right now</a>. Except, they\'re from California. Ouch! I think I feel Lisa sending me stabby vibes.\r\n\r\n<strong>Kellyology</strong>: <a href=\"http://www.kellyology.net/2010/10/saving-kelly-starting-young.html\">Starting Young</a>. Now that the holiday shopping season is here, it might be a good time to start talking to your kids about wise money management and the importance of saving and giving. Kelly has some classic, easy-to-follow advice.\r\n\r\n<strong>It\'s in the Details</strong>: <a href=\"http://tulsadetails.blogspot.com/2010/11/my-first-fire-in-my-fireplace.html\">My First Fire</a>. Katie lit up her fire place for the first time not just for the season, but for the first time ever in her new place (a pretty good feeling, I must agree). And, of course, she took a photo. Which is hard to cuddle beside or to warm your hands with, but still - around here, it counts.\r\n\r\n<strong>Grey Eye Designs Studio</strong>: <a href=\"http://greyeyedesigns.blogspot.com/2010/11/beating-winter-blues.html\">Beating the Winter Blues</a>. Brigid has some advice on how to beat the winter blues. And who among us couldn\'t use some tips on this now that the sun is setting at five freaking thirty? Ugh. Help us, Brigid. Help us.\r\n\r\n<strong>Running on Empty</strong>: <a href=\"http://fat-ass-to-fit-ass.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-running-plan.html\">The Running Plan</a> and <a href=\"http://fat-ass-to-fit-ass.blogspot.com/2010/11/eating-healthy-at-hooters.html\">Eating Healthy at Hooter\'s</a>. As the <a href=\"http://www.route66marathon.com/\">Route 66 Marathon</a> looms at just two weeks away, running season is still going strong here in T-Town. Kate has a plan for those who are interested in running and are starting at the beginning of a training program - get it at the link above. And you know what? It works. I know because it\'s how I got started, and I just up and ran 10K the other day. Thanks goes to Kate and <a href=\"http://moving4life.com/\">Shawna at Moving 4 Life</a> for the continued inspiration and training tips. And, let\'s not forget that Kate has a guest post from a guy who\'s working to lose some poundage for his impending nuptuals and was forced to find some healthful options at  the place where everyone goes \"for the wings.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>A Day in the Life of Okie Rednecks</strong>: <a href=\"http://brodricks.blogspot.com/2010/10/my-first-deer-of-2010.html\">My First Deer of 2010</a>. I\'m always fascinated by the content featured on this blog - it\'s like the Okie life I somehow missed living. On Halloween this post about the author\'s first deer of the year showed up in my reader and I couldn\'t help but be amazed. As someone who went to high school in a part of town where it was perfectly acceptable to miss class to spend a morning in a tree stand but who was raised mostly as a city girl, I\'m always intrigued by a couple who are in a race against each other to put the biggest deer head on the living room wall.\r\n\r\n<strong>In the Sweet Life</strong>: <a href=\"http://annsbakerytulsa.blogspot.com/2010/11/bigfoot-and-baking.html\">Bigfoot and Baking</a>. What do they have in common? Shannon tells us at the new official blog of <a href=\"http://www.annsbakery.com/\">Ann\'s Bakery</a>, a historic mainstay here in Tulsa.\r\n<h2>When Bloggers Get Miffed</h2>\r\n<strong>The School of Hard Knox</strong>. <a href=\"http://teresaknox.careerpathblog.com/spiritual-moment/\">SPIRITual Moment</a>. Have you been to the SpiritBank Event Center? Teresa Knox has. To say the least, she was not impressed.\r\n\r\n<strong>Running 4 Life</strong>: <a href=\"http://moving4life.com/2010/11/boobie-prize/\">Boobie Prize</a>. I saw this and wondered about it, too, but Shawna at Running 4 Life took the time to blog about it: That there are fewer awards for female runners than male runners at <a href=\"http://www.tulsarun.com/\">Tulsa Run 2010</a>, a race in which more women than men finished last year. Not only does Shawna wonder what the heck is up, but she established an award for those un-rewarded females who placed alongside their ribbon-earning male counterparts: The Boobie Prize.\r\n<h2>Other Fun Stuff</h2>\r\n<strong>Tulsa Food Blog</strong>: <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/brunch/brunch-like-the-irish-at-killkennys-pub\">Brunch Like the Irish at Kilkenny\'s Pub</a>, <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/tulsa-hamburgers/still-in-love-with-hamburgers\">Still in Love with Hamburgers</a> and <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/downtown/yokozuna-downtown-sushi\">Yokozuna Revived my Faith in Tulsa\'s Sushi Scene</a>. Brian at Tulsa Food Blog has been blogging up a storm, and he has three great posts about Tulsa unique foodie stops up right now, including a pictorial tour of the burgers of Tulsa. Dieters beware!\r\n\r\n<strong>The Daly Dose </strong>(again!). <a href=\"http://thedalydoseblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/romantic-getaway-frank-lloyd-wright.html\">Romantic Getaway Frank Lloyd Wright Style</a>. Ashley and her husband celebrated their first wedding anniversary with a stay at the only realized FLW skyscraper, just a hop, skip and a jump from Tulsa in Bartlesville, OK. And, of course, she took lots of great (and adorable) photos.\r\n\r\n<strong> This Land Press</strong>: <a href=\"http://thislandpress.com/11/07/2010/rusty-and-colleen/\">Rusty and Colleen</a>. Rusty and Colleen are the couple behind one of downtown\'s newest restaurants, <a href=\"http://modscrepes.com/\">Mod\'s Coffee and Crepes</a>. Snuggle up with your significant other down by the fire and read the story of how they got together.\r\n\r\n<strong> Coffee pr0n</strong>: <a href=\"http://topecacoffee.blogspot.com/2010/10/specialty-coffee-is-it-worth-it.html\">Specialty Coffee, Is It Worth It?</a> As a foodie who lives in a coffee town but is compelled to be highly budget conscious, I wrestle with this question all the time. Topeca roaster John Cunningham presents both lines of reasoning.\r\n\r\n<strong> Adventures of Becky and the Danger Boys</strong>: <a href=\"http://beckyanddangerboys.blogspot.com/2010/11/years-supply.html\">Year\'s Supply</a>. Ever wonder what a year\'s supply of diapers might look like? Well, it\'s something like this.\r\n\r\n<strong>Living on This Farm</strong> (again!): <a href=\"http://livingonthisfarm.blogspot.com/2010/11/last-week-we-had-very-large-fish-for.html\">Fish Bones</a>. Because you know you\'re like me and are intrigued by the concept of a giant rogue fish head.\r\n\r\nWhat Tulsa blogs have you been reading this week?\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/category/holidays/?view=3#archive-posts\">Image from ThePioneerWoman.com</a>.','Bigfoot, Baking, Eating Healthy at Hooters and How to Make a Football With Your Bare Hands: In Tulsa Blogs This Week','As always, there\'s tons of wild and zany and useful stuff going down in Tulsa\'s blogosphere. Here\'s this week\'s sampling.','inherit','open','open','','3572-revision-2','','','2010-11-09 15:08:00','2010-11-09 20:08:00','',3572,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3572-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(3576,1,'2010-11-09 15:08:01','2010-11-09 20:08:01','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3573\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/tulsa-blogs-9/picture-1-8/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3573\" title=\"Pioneer Woman Thanksgiving Cooking\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Picture-11-500x306.png\" alt=\"Pioneer Woman Thanksgiving Cooking\" width=\"500\" height=\"306\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAs always, there\'s tons of wild and zany and useful stuff going down in Tulsa\'s blogosphere. Here\'s this week\'s sampling.\r\n<h2>\'Tis the Season</h2>\r\n<strong>The Art of Manliness</strong>: <a href=\"http://artofmanliness.com/2010/11/09/15-ways-to-winterize-your-home/\">15 Ways to Winterize Your Home</a>, <a href=\"http://artofmanliness.com/2010/11/08/how-to-make-a-football-by-hand-the-leather-head-sports-football-giveaway/\">How to Make a Football by Hand</a> and (new baby news!) <a href=\"http://artofmanliness.com/2010/10/27/welcome-the-newest-member-of-the-mckay-family-and-aom-team-augustus-george-mckay/\">Augustus George McKay</a>. Not only have the McKays welcomed their first bundle of joy into this world (and gave him probably the best baby name of which I\'ve heard, ever), but they\'re also writing about how a classic pigskin comes to be and how to protect your home against whatever winter might have to throw at it this year. Congrats,  friends! Thanks for bringing more usefulness (and cuteness) into this crazy world.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa Ballet</strong>: <a href=\"http://tulsa-ballet.blogspot.com/2010/11/nutcracker-past-present-and-future.html\">The Nutcracker: Past, Present and Future</a>. Ever wonder how Tulsa\'s favorite and longest-running ballet (which opens for 2010 on Dec. 11, by the way) got its start? There\'s a post at Tulsa Ballet\'s blog about it. Pretty interesting stuff, y\'all.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa Gentleman</strong>: <a href=\"http://tulsagentleman.blogspot.com/2010/11/ruby-tuesday-tunnel-of-trees.html\">Tunnel of Trees</a>. The trees in the oldest parts of town are undoubtedly the most beautiful when fall rolls around. Now that the first freeze has come and gone and most of the color of the leaves went with it, enjoy this shot of a tunnel of trees in full, colorful fanfare.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Daly Dose</strong>: <a href=\"http://thedalydoseblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/need-good-laugh-read-these-cards.html\">Read These Cards</a> and <a href=\"http://thedalydoseblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/we-joined-organic-food-co-op-anners.html\">Anner\'s</a>. Looking for some less-than-traditional cards to send out this holiday season? Ashley found some, and guess what - you can get \'em right here in Tulsa. Plus, check out her trip to Anner\'s Wellness Works, an organic food co-op here in Tulsa that promises to be a source for those of you looking to put together locally-inspired feasts this season.\r\n\r\n<strong>Crash Test Mommy</strong>: <a href=\"http://crashtestmommy.net/2010/10/freebies-shutterfly/\">Freebies from Shutterfly</a>. Or, you could make your own darned Christmas cards. Jenny tells us how we can a few dozen of them for free.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Pioneer Woman</strong>: <a href=\"http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/category/holidays/thanksgiving/\">Thanksgiving cooking</a>.<strong> </strong>Everyone\'s favorite cook has been whipping up dish after dish (after dish after dish - let the photo above serve as proof) that\'s sure to impress on any holiday table. Get \'em all, including those from the archives, at the link above.  And yes, there\'s some green bean casserole in there for you crazies who\'ll each such things.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Noshery</strong>: <a href=\"http://thenoshery.com/2010/11/01/turkey-and-sweet-potato-croquettes/\">Turkey and Sweet Potato Croquettes</a> and <a href=\"http://thenoshery.com/2010/11/09/sweet-potato-gnocchi-with-gouda-cheese-sauce/\">Sweet Potato Gnocchi with Gouda Cheese Sauce</a>. Speaking of holiday cooking, Meseidy at The Noshery has <a href=\"http://thenoshery.com/2010/11/01/turkey-and-sweet-potato-croquettes/\">these</a>, which look to me like little bite-sized Thanksgiving dinners. In a word: Yum. And then there\'s the sweet potato gnocchi. Good lord have mercy. Meseidy, me thinks you\'re gonna have to give us bloggers a course in food photography. Seems you\'ve mastered it, yo.\r\n\r\n<strong>Global Table Adventure</strong>: <a href=\"http://globaltableadventure.com/2010/11/04/recipe-smoked-turkey-with-pumpkin-seed-sauce/\">Smoked Turkey with Egusi Sauce</a>. Don\'t think you can stand one more year of a day after day of leftovers from a traditional turkey dinner? Not to worry. Sasha at Global Table Adventure serves up a turkey dish that just might become the new go-to recipe for the centerpiece of your holiday meal.\r\n\r\n<strong>Living on This Farm</strong>: <a href=\"http://livingonthisfarm.blogspot.com/2010/10/wild-persimmons.html\">Wild Persimmons</a>. Lisa has hundreds of wild persimmon trees on her 400-acre farm just off Route 66. They might be scarce now that the season\'s first freeze has swept the plains, but at least <a href=\"http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/storespecials/TLS_specials.pdf\">persimmons are on sale at Whole Foods right now</a>. Except, they\'re from California. Ouch! I think I feel Lisa sending me stabby vibes.\r\n\r\n<strong>Kellyology</strong>: <a href=\"http://www.kellyology.net/2010/10/saving-kelly-starting-young.html\">Starting Young</a>. Now that the holiday shopping season is here, it might be a good time to start talking to your kids about wise money management and the importance of saving and giving. Kelly has some classic, easy-to-follow advice.\r\n\r\n<strong>It\'s in the Details</strong>: <a href=\"http://tulsadetails.blogspot.com/2010/11/my-first-fire-in-my-fireplace.html\">My First Fire</a>. Katie lit up her fire place for the first time not just for the season, but for the first time ever in her new place (a pretty good feeling, I must agree). And, of course, she took a photo. Which is hard to cuddle beside or to warm your hands with, but still - around here, it counts.\r\n\r\n<strong>Grey Eye Designs Studio</strong>: <a href=\"http://greyeyedesigns.blogspot.com/2010/11/beating-winter-blues.html\">Beating the Winter Blues</a>. Brigid has some advice on how to beat the winter blues. And who among us couldn\'t use some tips on this now that the sun is setting at five freaking thirty? Ugh. Help us, Brigid. Help us.\r\n\r\n<strong>Running on Empty</strong>: <a href=\"http://fat-ass-to-fit-ass.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-running-plan.html\">The Running Plan</a> and <a href=\"http://fat-ass-to-fit-ass.blogspot.com/2010/11/eating-healthy-at-hooters.html\">Eating Healthy at Hooter\'s</a>. As the <a href=\"http://www.route66marathon.com/\">Route 66 Marathon</a> looms at just two weeks away, running season is still going strong here in T-Town. Kate has a plan for those who are interested in running and are starting at the beginning of a training program - get it at the link above. And you know what? It works. I know because it\'s how I got started, and I just up and ran 10K the other day. Thanks goes to Kate and <a href=\"http://moving4life.com/\">Shawna at Moving 4 Life</a> for the continued inspiration and training tips. And, let\'s not forget that Kate has a guest post from a guy who\'s working to lose some poundage for his impending nuptuals and was forced to find some healthful options at  the place where everyone goes \"for the wings.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>A Day in the Life of Okie Rednecks</strong>: <a href=\"http://brodricks.blogspot.com/2010/10/my-first-deer-of-2010.html\">My First Deer of 2010</a>. I\'m always fascinated by the content featured on this blog - it\'s like the Okie life I somehow missed living. On Halloween this post about the author\'s first deer of the year showed up in my reader and I couldn\'t help but be amazed. As someone who went to high school in a part of town where it was perfectly acceptable to miss class to spend a morning in a tree stand but who was raised mostly as a city girl, I\'m always intrigued by a couple who are in a race against each other to put the biggest deer head on the living room wall.\r\n\r\n<strong>In the Sweet Life</strong>: <a href=\"http://annsbakerytulsa.blogspot.com/2010/11/bigfoot-and-baking.html\">Bigfoot and Baking</a>. What do they have in common? Shannon tells us at the new official blog of <a href=\"http://www.annsbakery.com/\">Ann\'s Bakery</a>, a historic mainstay here in Tulsa.\r\n<h2>When Bloggers Get Miffed</h2>\r\n<strong>The School of Hard Knox</strong>. <a href=\"http://teresaknox.careerpathblog.com/spiritual-moment/\">SPIRITual Moment</a>. Have you been to the SpiritBank Event Center? Teresa Knox has. To say the least, she was not impressed.\r\n\r\n<strong>Running 4 Life</strong>: <a href=\"http://moving4life.com/2010/11/boobie-prize/\">Boobie Prize</a>. I saw this and wondered about it, too, but Shawna at Running 4 Life took the time to blog about it: That there are fewer awards for female runners than male runners at <a href=\"http://www.tulsarun.com/\">Tulsa Run 2010</a>, a race in which more women than men finished last year. Not only does Shawna wonder what the heck is up, but she established an award for those un-rewarded females who placed alongside their ribbon-earning male counterparts: The Boobie Prize.\r\n<h2>Other Fun Stuff</h2>\r\n<strong>Tulsa Food Blog</strong>: <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/brunch/brunch-like-the-irish-at-killkennys-pub\">Brunch Like the Irish at Kilkenny\'s Pub</a>, <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/tulsa-hamburgers/still-in-love-with-hamburgers\">Still in Love with Hamburgers</a> and <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/downtown/yokozuna-downtown-sushi\">Yokozuna Revived my Faith in Tulsa\'s Sushi Scene</a>. Brian at Tulsa Food Blog has been blogging up a storm, and he has three great posts about Tulsa unique foodie stops up right now, including a pictorial tour of the burgers of Tulsa. Dieters beware!\r\n\r\n<strong>The Daly Dose </strong>(again!). <a href=\"http://thedalydoseblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/romantic-getaway-frank-lloyd-wright.html\">Romantic Getaway Frank Lloyd Wright Style</a>. Ashley and her husband celebrated their first wedding anniversary with a stay at the only realized FLW skyscraper, just a hop, skip and a jump from Tulsa in Bartlesville, OK. And, of course, she took lots of great (and adorable) photos.\r\n\r\n<strong> This Land Press</strong>: <a href=\"http://thislandpress.com/11/07/2010/rusty-and-colleen/\">Rusty and Colleen</a>. Rusty and Colleen are the couple behind one of downtown\'s newest restaurants, <a href=\"http://modscrepes.com/\">Mod\'s Coffee and Crepes</a>. Snuggle up with your significant other down by the fire and read the story of how they got together.\r\n\r\n<strong> Coffee pr0n</strong>: <a href=\"http://topecacoffee.blogspot.com/2010/10/specialty-coffee-is-it-worth-it.html\">Specialty Coffee, Is It Worth It?</a> As a foodie who lives in a coffee town but is compelled to be highly budget conscious, I wrestle with this question all the time. Topeca roaster John Cunningham presents both lines of reasoning.\r\n\r\n<strong> Adventures of Becky and the Danger Boys</strong>: <a href=\"http://beckyanddangerboys.blogspot.com/2010/11/years-supply.html\">Year\'s Supply</a>. Ever wonder what a year\'s supply of diapers might look like? Well, it\'s something like this.\r\n\r\n<strong>Living on This Farm</strong> (again!): <a href=\"http://livingonthisfarm.blogspot.com/2010/11/last-week-we-had-very-large-fish-for.html\">Fish Bones</a>. Because you know you\'re like me and are intrigued by the concept of a giant rogue fish head.\r\n\r\nWhat Tulsa blogs have you been reading this week?\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/category/holidays/?view=3#archive-posts\">Image from ThePioneerWoman.com</a>.','Bigfoot, Baking, Eating Healthy at Hooters and How to Make a Football With Your Bare Hands: In Tulsa Blogs This Week','As always, there\'s tons of wild and zany and useful stuff going down in Tulsa\'s blogosphere. Here\'s this week\'s sampling.','inherit','open','open','','3572-revision-3','','','2010-11-09 15:08:01','2010-11-09 20:08:01','',3572,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3572-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(3577,1,'2010-11-09 15:09:40','2010-11-09 20:09:40','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3573\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/tulsa-blogs-9/picture-1-8/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3573\" title=\"Pioneer Woman Thanksgiving Cooking\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Picture-11-500x306.png\" alt=\"Pioneer Woman Thanksgiving Cooking\" width=\"500\" height=\"306\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAs always, there\'s tons of wild and zany and useful stuff going down in Tulsa\'s blogosphere. Here\'s this week\'s sampling.\r\n<h2>\'Tis the Season</h2>\r\n<strong>The Art of Manliness</strong>: <a href=\"http://artofmanliness.com/2010/11/09/15-ways-to-winterize-your-home/\">15 Ways to Winterize Your Home</a>, <a href=\"http://artofmanliness.com/2010/11/08/how-to-make-a-football-by-hand-the-leather-head-sports-football-giveaway/\">How to Make a Football by Hand</a> and (new baby news!) <a href=\"http://artofmanliness.com/2010/10/27/welcome-the-newest-member-of-the-mckay-family-and-aom-team-augustus-george-mckay/\">Augustus George McKay</a>. Not only have the McKays welcomed their first bundle of joy into this world (and gave him probably the best baby name of which I\'ve heard, ever), but they\'re also writing about how a classic pigskin comes to be and how to protect your home against whatever winter might have to throw at it this year. Congrats,  friends! Thanks for bringing more usefulness (and cuteness) into this crazy world.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa Ballet</strong>: <a href=\"http://tulsa-ballet.blogspot.com/2010/11/nutcracker-past-present-and-future.html\">The Nutcracker: Past, Present and Future</a>. Ever wonder how Tulsa\'s favorite and longest-running ballet (which opens for 2010 on Dec. 11, by the way) got its start? There\'s a post at Tulsa Ballet\'s blog about it. Pretty interesting stuff, y\'all.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa Gentleman</strong>: <a href=\"http://tulsagentleman.blogspot.com/2010/11/ruby-tuesday-tunnel-of-trees.html\">Tunnel of Trees</a>. The trees in the oldest parts of town are undoubtedly the most beautiful in town when fall rolls around. Now that the first freeze has come and gone and most of the color of the leaves went with it, enjoy this shot of a tunnel of trees in their full, colorful glory.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Daly Dose</strong>: <a href=\"http://thedalydoseblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/need-good-laugh-read-these-cards.html\">Read These Cards</a> and <a href=\"http://thedalydoseblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/we-joined-organic-food-co-op-anners.html\">Anner\'s</a>. Looking for some less-than-traditional cards to send out this holiday season? Ashley found some, and guess what - you can get \'em right here in Tulsa. Plus, check out her trip to Anner\'s Wellness Works, an organic food co-op here in Tulsa that promises to be a source for those of you looking to put together locally-inspired feasts this season.\r\n\r\n<strong>Crash Test Mommy</strong>: <a href=\"http://crashtestmommy.net/2010/10/freebies-shutterfly/\">Freebies from Shutterfly</a>. Or, you could make your own darned Christmas cards. Jenny tells us how we can a few dozen of them for free.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Pioneer Woman</strong>: <a href=\"http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/category/holidays/thanksgiving/\">Thanksgiving cooking</a>.<strong> </strong>Everyone\'s favorite cook has been whipping up dish after dish (after dish after dish - let the photo above serve as proof) that\'s sure to impress on any holiday table. Get \'em all, including those from the archives, at the link above.  And yes, there\'s some green bean casserole in there for you crazies who\'ll each such things.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Noshery</strong>: <a href=\"http://thenoshery.com/2010/11/01/turkey-and-sweet-potato-croquettes/\">Turkey and Sweet Potato Croquettes</a> and <a href=\"http://thenoshery.com/2010/11/09/sweet-potato-gnocchi-with-gouda-cheese-sauce/\">Sweet Potato Gnocchi with Gouda Cheese Sauce</a>. Speaking of holiday cooking, Meseidy at The Noshery has <a href=\"http://thenoshery.com/2010/11/01/turkey-and-sweet-potato-croquettes/\">these</a>, which look to me like little bite-sized Thanksgiving dinners. In a word: Yum. And then there\'s the sweet potato gnocchi. Good lord have mercy. Meseidy, me thinks you\'re gonna have to give us bloggers a course in food photography. Seems you\'ve mastered it, yo.\r\n\r\n<strong>Global Table Adventure</strong>: <a href=\"http://globaltableadventure.com/2010/11/04/recipe-smoked-turkey-with-pumpkin-seed-sauce/\">Smoked Turkey with Egusi Sauce</a>. Don\'t think you can stand one more year of a day after day of leftovers from a traditional turkey dinner? Not to worry. Sasha at Global Table Adventure serves up a turkey dish that just might become the new go-to recipe for the centerpiece of your holiday meal.\r\n\r\n<strong>Living on This Farm</strong>: <a href=\"http://livingonthisfarm.blogspot.com/2010/10/wild-persimmons.html\">Wild Persimmons</a>. Lisa has hundreds of wild persimmon trees on her 400-acre farm just off Route 66. They might be scarce now that the season\'s first freeze has swept the plains, but at least <a href=\"http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/storespecials/TLS_specials.pdf\">persimmons are on sale at Whole Foods right now</a>. Except, they\'re from California. Ouch! I think I feel Lisa sending me stabby vibes.\r\n\r\n<strong>Kellyology</strong>: <a href=\"http://www.kellyology.net/2010/10/saving-kelly-starting-young.html\">Starting Young</a>. Now that the holiday shopping season is here, it might be a good time to start talking to your kids about wise money management and the importance of saving and giving. Kelly has some classic, easy-to-follow advice.\r\n\r\n<strong>It\'s in the Details</strong>: <a href=\"http://tulsadetails.blogspot.com/2010/11/my-first-fire-in-my-fireplace.html\">My First Fire</a>. Katie lit up her fire place for the first time not just for the season, but for the first time ever in her new place (a pretty good feeling, I must agree). And, of course, she took a photo. Which is hard to cuddle beside or to warm your hands with, but still - around here, it counts.\r\n\r\n<strong>Grey Eye Designs Studio</strong>: <a href=\"http://greyeyedesigns.blogspot.com/2010/11/beating-winter-blues.html\">Beating the Winter Blues</a>. Brigid has some advice on how to beat the winter blues. And who among us couldn\'t use some tips on this now that the sun is setting at five freaking thirty? Ugh. Help us, Brigid. Help us.\r\n\r\n<strong>Running on Empty</strong>: <a href=\"http://fat-ass-to-fit-ass.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-running-plan.html\">The Running Plan</a> and <a href=\"http://fat-ass-to-fit-ass.blogspot.com/2010/11/eating-healthy-at-hooters.html\">Eating Healthy at Hooter\'s</a>. As the <a href=\"http://www.route66marathon.com/\">Route 66 Marathon</a> looms at just two weeks away, running season is still going strong here in T-Town. Kate has a plan for those who are interested in running and are starting at the beginning of a training program - get it at the link above. And you know what? It works. I know because it\'s how I got started, and I just up and ran 10K the other day. Thanks goes to Kate and <a href=\"http://moving4life.com/\">Shawna at Moving 4 Life</a> for the continued inspiration and training tips. And, let\'s not forget that Kate has a guest post from a guy who\'s working to lose some poundage for his impending nuptuals and was forced to find some healthful options at  the place where everyone goes \"for the wings.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>A Day in the Life of Okie Rednecks</strong>: <a href=\"http://brodricks.blogspot.com/2010/10/my-first-deer-of-2010.html\">My First Deer of 2010</a>. I\'m always fascinated by the content featured on this blog - it\'s like the Okie life I somehow missed living. On Halloween this post about the author\'s first deer of the year showed up in my reader and I couldn\'t help but be amazed. As someone who went to high school in a part of town where it was perfectly acceptable to miss class to spend a morning in a tree stand but who was raised mostly as a city girl, I\'m always intrigued by a couple who are in a race against each other to put the biggest deer head on the living room wall.\r\n\r\n<strong>In the Sweet Life</strong>: <a href=\"http://annsbakerytulsa.blogspot.com/2010/11/bigfoot-and-baking.html\">Bigfoot and Baking</a>. What do they have in common? Shannon tells us at the new official blog of <a href=\"http://www.annsbakery.com/\">Ann\'s Bakery</a>, a historic mainstay here in Tulsa.\r\n<h2>When Bloggers Get Miffed</h2>\r\n<strong>The School of Hard Knox</strong>. <a href=\"http://teresaknox.careerpathblog.com/spiritual-moment/\">SPIRITual Moment</a>. Have you been to the SpiritBank Event Center? Teresa Knox has. To say the least, she was not impressed.\r\n\r\n<strong>Running 4 Life</strong>: <a href=\"http://moving4life.com/2010/11/boobie-prize/\">Boobie Prize</a>. I saw this and wondered about it, too, but Shawna at Running 4 Life took the time to blog about it: That there are fewer awards for female runners than male runners at <a href=\"http://www.tulsarun.com/\">Tulsa Run 2010</a>, a race in which more women than men finished last year. Not only does Shawna wonder what the heck is up, but she established an award for those un-rewarded females who placed alongside their ribbon-earning male counterparts: The Boobie Prize.\r\n<h2>Other Fun Stuff</h2>\r\n<strong>Tulsa Food Blog</strong>: <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/brunch/brunch-like-the-irish-at-killkennys-pub\">Brunch Like the Irish at Kilkenny\'s Pub</a>, <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/tulsa-hamburgers/still-in-love-with-hamburgers\">Still in Love with Hamburgers</a> and <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/downtown/yokozuna-downtown-sushi\">Yokozuna Revived my Faith in Tulsa\'s Sushi Scene</a>. Brian at Tulsa Food Blog has been blogging up a storm, and he has three great posts about Tulsa unique foodie stops up right now, including a pictorial tour of the burgers of Tulsa. Dieters beware!\r\n\r\n<strong>The Daly Dose </strong>(again!). <a href=\"http://thedalydoseblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/romantic-getaway-frank-lloyd-wright.html\">Romantic Getaway Frank Lloyd Wright Style</a>. Ashley and her husband celebrated their first wedding anniversary with a stay at the only realized FLW skyscraper, just a hop, skip and a jump from Tulsa in Bartlesville, OK. And, of course, she took lots of great (and adorable) photos.\r\n\r\n<strong> This Land Press</strong>: <a href=\"http://thislandpress.com/11/07/2010/rusty-and-colleen/\">Rusty and Colleen</a>. Rusty and Colleen are the couple behind one of downtown\'s newest restaurants, <a href=\"http://modscrepes.com/\">Mod\'s Coffee and Crepes</a>. Snuggle up with your significant other down by the fire and read the story of how they got together.\r\n\r\n<strong> Coffee pr0n</strong>: <a href=\"http://topecacoffee.blogspot.com/2010/10/specialty-coffee-is-it-worth-it.html\">Specialty Coffee, Is It Worth It?</a> As a foodie who lives in a coffee town but is compelled to be highly budget conscious, I wrestle with this question all the time. Topeca roaster John Cunningham presents both lines of reasoning.\r\n\r\n<strong> Adventures of Becky and the Danger Boys</strong>: <a href=\"http://beckyanddangerboys.blogspot.com/2010/11/years-supply.html\">Year\'s Supply</a>. Ever wonder what a year\'s supply of diapers might look like? Well, it\'s something like this.\r\n\r\n<strong>Living on This Farm</strong> (again!): <a href=\"http://livingonthisfarm.blogspot.com/2010/11/last-week-we-had-very-large-fish-for.html\">Fish Bones</a>. Because you know you\'re like me and are intrigued by the concept of a giant rogue fish head.\r\n\r\nWhat Tulsa blogs have you been reading this week?\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/category/holidays/?view=3#archive-posts\">Image from ThePioneerWoman.com</a>.','Bigfoot, Baking, Eating Healthy at Hooters and How to Make a Football With Your Bare Hands: In Tulsa Blogs This Week','As always, there\'s tons of wild and zany and useful stuff going down in Tulsa\'s blogosphere. Here\'s this week\'s sampling.','inherit','open','open','','3572-revision-4','','','2010-11-09 15:09:40','2010-11-09 20:09:40','',3572,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3572-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(3578,1,'2010-11-09 15:09:40','2010-11-09 20:09:40','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3573\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/tulsa-blogs-9/picture-1-8/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3573\" title=\"Pioneer Woman Thanksgiving Cooking\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Picture-11-500x306.png\" alt=\"Pioneer Woman Thanksgiving Cooking\" width=\"500\" height=\"306\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAs always, there\'s tons of wild and zany and useful stuff going down in Tulsa\'s blogosphere. Here\'s this week\'s sampling.\r\n<h2>\'Tis the Season</h2>\r\n<strong>The Art of Manliness</strong>: <a href=\"http://artofmanliness.com/2010/11/09/15-ways-to-winterize-your-home/\">15 Ways to Winterize Your Home</a>, <a href=\"http://artofmanliness.com/2010/11/08/how-to-make-a-football-by-hand-the-leather-head-sports-football-giveaway/\">How to Make a Football by Hand</a> and (new baby news!) <a href=\"http://artofmanliness.com/2010/10/27/welcome-the-newest-member-of-the-mckay-family-and-aom-team-augustus-george-mckay/\">Augustus George McKay</a>. Not only have the McKays welcomed their first bundle of joy into this world (and gave him probably the best baby name of which I\'ve heard, ever), but they\'re also writing about how a classic pigskin comes to be and how to protect your home against whatever winter might have to throw at it this year. Congrats,  friends! Thanks for bringing more usefulness (and cuteness) into this crazy world.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa Ballet</strong>: <a href=\"http://tulsa-ballet.blogspot.com/2010/11/nutcracker-past-present-and-future.html\">The Nutcracker: Past, Present and Future</a>. Ever wonder how Tulsa\'s favorite and longest-running ballet (which opens for 2010 on Dec. 11, by the way) got its start? There\'s a post at Tulsa Ballet\'s blog about it. Pretty interesting stuff, y\'all.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa Gentleman</strong>: <a href=\"http://tulsagentleman.blogspot.com/2010/11/ruby-tuesday-tunnel-of-trees.html\">Tunnel of Trees</a>. The trees in the oldest parts of town are undoubtedly the most beautiful in town when fall rolls around. Now that the first freeze has come and gone and most of the color of the leaves went with it, enjoy this shot of a tunnel of trees in their full, colorful glory.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Daly Dose</strong>: <a href=\"http://thedalydoseblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/need-good-laugh-read-these-cards.html\">Read These Cards</a> and <a href=\"http://thedalydoseblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/we-joined-organic-food-co-op-anners.html\">Anner\'s</a>. Looking for some less-than-traditional cards to send out this holiday season? Ashley found some, and guess what - you can get \'em right here in Tulsa. Plus, check out her trip to Anner\'s Wellness Works, an organic food co-op here in Tulsa that promises to be a source for those of you looking to put together locally-inspired feasts this season.\r\n\r\n<strong>Crash Test Mommy</strong>: <a href=\"http://crashtestmommy.net/2010/10/freebies-shutterfly/\">Freebies from Shutterfly</a>. Or, you could make your own darned Christmas cards. Jenny tells us how we can a few dozen of them for free.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Pioneer Woman</strong>: <a href=\"http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/category/holidays/thanksgiving/\">Thanksgiving cooking</a>.<strong> </strong>Everyone\'s favorite cook has been whipping up dish after dish (after dish after dish - let the photo above serve as proof) that\'s sure to impress on any holiday table. Get \'em all, including those from the archives, at the link above.  And yes, there\'s some green bean casserole in there for you crazies who\'ll each such things.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Noshery</strong>: <a href=\"http://thenoshery.com/2010/11/01/turkey-and-sweet-potato-croquettes/\">Turkey and Sweet Potato Croquettes</a> and <a href=\"http://thenoshery.com/2010/11/09/sweet-potato-gnocchi-with-gouda-cheese-sauce/\">Sweet Potato Gnocchi with Gouda Cheese Sauce</a>. Speaking of holiday cooking, Meseidy at The Noshery has <a href=\"http://thenoshery.com/2010/11/01/turkey-and-sweet-potato-croquettes/\">these</a>, which look to me like little bite-sized Thanksgiving dinners. In a word: Yum. And then there\'s the sweet potato gnocchi. Good lord have mercy. Meseidy, me thinks you\'re gonna have to give us bloggers a course in food photography. Seems you\'ve mastered it, yo.\r\n\r\n<strong>Global Table Adventure</strong>: <a href=\"http://globaltableadventure.com/2010/11/04/recipe-smoked-turkey-with-pumpkin-seed-sauce/\">Smoked Turkey with Egusi Sauce</a>. Don\'t think you can stand one more year of a day after day of leftovers from a traditional turkey dinner? Not to worry. Sasha at Global Table Adventure serves up a turkey dish that just might become the new go-to recipe for the centerpiece of your holiday meal.\r\n\r\n<strong>Living on This Farm</strong>: <a href=\"http://livingonthisfarm.blogspot.com/2010/10/wild-persimmons.html\">Wild Persimmons</a>. Lisa has hundreds of wild persimmon trees on her 400-acre farm just off Route 66. They might be scarce now that the season\'s first freeze has swept the plains, but at least <a href=\"http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/storespecials/TLS_specials.pdf\">persimmons are on sale at Whole Foods right now</a>. Except, they\'re from California. Ouch! I think I feel Lisa sending me stabby vibes.\r\n\r\n<strong>Kellyology</strong>: <a href=\"http://www.kellyology.net/2010/10/saving-kelly-starting-young.html\">Starting Young</a>. Now that the holiday shopping season is here, it might be a good time to start talking to your kids about wise money management and the importance of saving and giving. Kelly has some classic, easy-to-follow advice.\r\n\r\n<strong>It\'s in the Details</strong>: <a href=\"http://tulsadetails.blogspot.com/2010/11/my-first-fire-in-my-fireplace.html\">My First Fire</a>. Katie lit up her fire place for the first time not just for the season, but for the first time ever in her new place (a pretty good feeling, I must agree). And, of course, she took a photo. Which is hard to cuddle beside or to warm your hands with, but still - around here, it counts.\r\n\r\n<strong>Grey Eye Designs Studio</strong>: <a href=\"http://greyeyedesigns.blogspot.com/2010/11/beating-winter-blues.html\">Beating the Winter Blues</a>. Brigid has some advice on how to beat the winter blues. And who among us couldn\'t use some tips on this now that the sun is setting at five freaking thirty? Ugh. Help us, Brigid. Help us.\r\n\r\n<strong>Running on Empty</strong>: <a href=\"http://fat-ass-to-fit-ass.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-running-plan.html\">The Running Plan</a> and <a href=\"http://fat-ass-to-fit-ass.blogspot.com/2010/11/eating-healthy-at-hooters.html\">Eating Healthy at Hooter\'s</a>. As the <a href=\"http://www.route66marathon.com/\">Route 66 Marathon</a> looms at just two weeks away, running season is still going strong here in T-Town. Kate has a plan for those who are interested in running and are starting at the beginning of a training program - get it at the link above. And you know what? It works. I know because it\'s how I got started, and I just up and ran 10K the other day. Thanks goes to Kate and <a href=\"http://moving4life.com/\">Shawna at Moving 4 Life</a> for the continued inspiration and training tips. And, let\'s not forget that Kate has a guest post from a guy who\'s working to lose some poundage for his impending nuptuals and was forced to find some healthful options at  the place where everyone goes \"for the wings.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>A Day in the Life of Okie Rednecks</strong>: <a href=\"http://brodricks.blogspot.com/2010/10/my-first-deer-of-2010.html\">My First Deer of 2010</a>. I\'m always fascinated by the content featured on this blog - it\'s like the Okie life I somehow missed living. On Halloween this post about the author\'s first deer of the year showed up in my reader and I couldn\'t help but be amazed. As someone who went to high school in a part of town where it was perfectly acceptable to miss class to spend a morning in a tree stand but who was raised mostly as a city girl, I\'m always intrigued by a couple who are in a race against each other to put the biggest deer head on the living room wall.\r\n\r\n<strong>In the Sweet Life</strong>: <a href=\"http://annsbakerytulsa.blogspot.com/2010/11/bigfoot-and-baking.html\">Bigfoot and Baking</a>. What do they have in common? Shannon tells us at the new official blog of <a href=\"http://www.annsbakery.com/\">Ann\'s Bakery</a>, a historic mainstay here in Tulsa.\r\n<h2>When Bloggers Get Miffed</h2>\r\n<strong>The School of Hard Knox</strong>. <a href=\"http://teresaknox.careerpathblog.com/spiritual-moment/\">SPIRITual Moment</a>. Have you been to the SpiritBank Event Center? Teresa Knox has. To say the least, she was not impressed.\r\n\r\n<strong>Running 4 Life</strong>: <a href=\"http://moving4life.com/2010/11/boobie-prize/\">Boobie Prize</a>. I saw this and wondered about it, too, but Shawna at Running 4 Life took the time to blog about it: That there are fewer awards for female runners than male runners at <a href=\"http://www.tulsarun.com/\">Tulsa Run 2010</a>, a race in which more women than men finished last year. Not only does Shawna wonder what the heck is up, but she established an award for those un-rewarded females who placed alongside their ribbon-earning male counterparts: The Boobie Prize.\r\n<h2>Other Fun Stuff</h2>\r\n<strong>Tulsa Food Blog</strong>: <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/brunch/brunch-like-the-irish-at-killkennys-pub\">Brunch Like the Irish at Kilkenny\'s Pub</a>, <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/tulsa-hamburgers/still-in-love-with-hamburgers\">Still in Love with Hamburgers</a> and <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/downtown/yokozuna-downtown-sushi\">Yokozuna Revived my Faith in Tulsa\'s Sushi Scene</a>. Brian at Tulsa Food Blog has been blogging up a storm, and he has three great posts about Tulsa unique foodie stops up right now, including a pictorial tour of the burgers of Tulsa. Dieters beware!\r\n\r\n<strong>The Daly Dose </strong>(again!). <a href=\"http://thedalydoseblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/romantic-getaway-frank-lloyd-wright.html\">Romantic Getaway Frank Lloyd Wright Style</a>. Ashley and her husband celebrated their first wedding anniversary with a stay at the only realized FLW skyscraper, just a hop, skip and a jump from Tulsa in Bartlesville, OK. And, of course, she took lots of great (and adorable) photos.\r\n\r\n<strong> This Land Press</strong>: <a href=\"http://thislandpress.com/11/07/2010/rusty-and-colleen/\">Rusty and Colleen</a>. Rusty and Colleen are the couple behind one of downtown\'s newest restaurants, <a href=\"http://modscrepes.com/\">Mod\'s Coffee and Crepes</a>. Snuggle up with your significant other down by the fire and read the story of how they got together.\r\n\r\n<strong> Coffee pr0n</strong>: <a href=\"http://topecacoffee.blogspot.com/2010/10/specialty-coffee-is-it-worth-it.html\">Specialty Coffee, Is It Worth It?</a> As a foodie who lives in a coffee town but is compelled to be highly budget conscious, I wrestle with this question all the time. Topeca roaster John Cunningham presents both lines of reasoning.\r\n\r\n<strong> Adventures of Becky and the Danger Boys</strong>: <a href=\"http://beckyanddangerboys.blogspot.com/2010/11/years-supply.html\">Year\'s Supply</a>. Ever wonder what a year\'s supply of diapers might look like? Well, it\'s something like this.\r\n\r\n<strong>Living on This Farm</strong> (again!): <a href=\"http://livingonthisfarm.blogspot.com/2010/11/last-week-we-had-very-large-fish-for.html\">Fish Bones</a>. Because you know you\'re like me and are intrigued by the concept of a giant rogue fish head.\r\n\r\nWhat Tulsa blogs have you been reading this week?\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/category/holidays/?view=3#archive-posts\">Image from ThePioneerWoman.com</a>.','Bigfoot, Baking, Eating Healthy at Hooters and How to Make a Football With Your Bare Hands: In Tulsa Blogs This Week','As always, there\'s tons of wild and zany and useful stuff going down in Tulsa\'s blogosphere. Here\'s this week\'s sampling.','inherit','open','open','','3572-revision-5','','','2010-11-09 15:09:40','2010-11-09 20:09:40','',3572,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3572-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(3579,1,'2010-11-09 15:10:47','2010-11-09 20:10:47','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3573\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/tulsa-blogs-9/picture-1-8/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3573\" title=\"Pioneer Woman Thanksgiving Cooking\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Picture-11-500x306.png\" alt=\"Pioneer Woman Thanksgiving Cooking\" width=\"500\" height=\"306\" /></a>\r\nAs always, there\'s tons of wild and zany and useful stuff going down in Tulsa\'s blogosphere. Here\'s this week\'s sampling.\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<h2>\'Tis the Season</h2>\r\n<strong>The Art of Manliness</strong>: <a href=\"http://artofmanliness.com/2010/11/09/15-ways-to-winterize-your-home/\">15 Ways to Winterize Your Home</a>, <a href=\"http://artofmanliness.com/2010/11/08/how-to-make-a-football-by-hand-the-leather-head-sports-football-giveaway/\">How to Make a Football by Hand</a> and (new baby news!) <a href=\"http://artofmanliness.com/2010/10/27/welcome-the-newest-member-of-the-mckay-family-and-aom-team-augustus-george-mckay/\">Augustus George McKay</a>. Not only have the McKays welcomed their first bundle of joy into this world (and gave him probably the best baby name of which I\'ve heard, ever), but they\'re also writing about how a classic pigskin comes to be and how to protect your home against whatever winter might have to throw at it this year. Congrats,  friends! Thanks for bringing more usefulness (and cuteness) into this crazy world.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa Ballet</strong>: <a href=\"http://tulsa-ballet.blogspot.com/2010/11/nutcracker-past-present-and-future.html\">The Nutcracker: Past, Present and Future</a>. Ever wonder how Tulsa\'s favorite and longest-running ballet (which opens for 2010 on Dec. 11, by the way) got its start? There\'s a post at Tulsa Ballet\'s blog about it. Pretty interesting stuff, y\'all.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa Gentleman</strong>: <a href=\"http://tulsagentleman.blogspot.com/2010/11/ruby-tuesday-tunnel-of-trees.html\">Tunnel of Trees</a>. The trees in the oldest parts of town are undoubtedly the most beautiful in town when fall rolls around. Now that the first freeze has come and gone and most of the color of the leaves went with it, enjoy this shot of a tunnel of trees in their full, colorful glory.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Daly Dose</strong>: <a href=\"http://thedalydoseblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/need-good-laugh-read-these-cards.html\">Read These Cards</a> and <a href=\"http://thedalydoseblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/we-joined-organic-food-co-op-anners.html\">Anner\'s</a>. Looking for some less-than-traditional cards to send out this holiday season? Ashley found some, and guess what - you can get \'em right here in Tulsa. Plus, check out her trip to Anner\'s Wellness Works, an organic food co-op here in Tulsa that promises to be a source for those of you looking to put together locally-inspired feasts this season.\r\n\r\n<strong>Crash Test Mommy</strong>: <a href=\"http://crashtestmommy.net/2010/10/freebies-shutterfly/\">Freebies from Shutterfly</a>. Or, you could make your own darned Christmas cards. Jenny tells us how we can a few dozen of them for free.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Pioneer Woman</strong>: <a href=\"http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/category/holidays/thanksgiving/\">Thanksgiving cooking</a>.<strong> </strong>Everyone\'s favorite cook has been whipping up dish after dish (after dish after dish - let the photo above serve as proof) that\'s sure to impress on any holiday table. Get \'em all, including those from the archives, at the link above.  And yes, there\'s some green bean casserole in there for you crazies who\'ll each such things.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Noshery</strong>: <a href=\"http://thenoshery.com/2010/11/01/turkey-and-sweet-potato-croquettes/\">Turkey and Sweet Potato Croquettes</a> and <a href=\"http://thenoshery.com/2010/11/09/sweet-potato-gnocchi-with-gouda-cheese-sauce/\">Sweet Potato Gnocchi with Gouda Cheese Sauce</a>. Speaking of holiday cooking, Meseidy at The Noshery has <a href=\"http://thenoshery.com/2010/11/01/turkey-and-sweet-potato-croquettes/\">these</a>, which look to me like little bite-sized Thanksgiving dinners. In a word: Yum. And then there\'s the sweet potato gnocchi. Good lord have mercy. Meseidy, me thinks you\'re gonna have to give us bloggers a course in food photography. Seems you\'ve mastered it, yo.\r\n\r\n<strong>Global Table Adventure</strong>: <a href=\"http://globaltableadventure.com/2010/11/04/recipe-smoked-turkey-with-pumpkin-seed-sauce/\">Smoked Turkey with Egusi Sauce</a>. Don\'t think you can stand one more year of a day after day of leftovers from a traditional turkey dinner? Not to worry. Sasha at Global Table Adventure serves up a turkey dish that just might become the new go-to recipe for the centerpiece of your holiday meal.\r\n\r\n<strong>Living on This Farm</strong>: <a href=\"http://livingonthisfarm.blogspot.com/2010/10/wild-persimmons.html\">Wild Persimmons</a>. Lisa has hundreds of wild persimmon trees on her 400-acre farm just off Route 66. They might be scarce now that the season\'s first freeze has swept the plains, but at least <a href=\"http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/storespecials/TLS_specials.pdf\">persimmons are on sale at Whole Foods right now</a>. Except, they\'re from California. Ouch! I think I feel Lisa sending me stabby vibes.\r\n\r\n<strong>Kellyology</strong>: <a href=\"http://www.kellyology.net/2010/10/saving-kelly-starting-young.html\">Starting Young</a>. Now that the holiday shopping season is here, it might be a good time to start talking to your kids about wise money management and the importance of saving and giving. Kelly has some classic, easy-to-follow advice.\r\n\r\n<strong>It\'s in the Details</strong>: <a href=\"http://tulsadetails.blogspot.com/2010/11/my-first-fire-in-my-fireplace.html\">My First Fire</a>. Katie lit up her fire place for the first time not just for the season, but for the first time ever in her new place (a pretty good feeling, I must agree). And, of course, she took a photo. Which is hard to cuddle beside or to warm your hands with, but still - around here, it counts.\r\n\r\n<strong>Grey Eye Designs Studio</strong>: <a href=\"http://greyeyedesigns.blogspot.com/2010/11/beating-winter-blues.html\">Beating the Winter Blues</a>. Brigid has some advice on how to beat the winter blues. And who among us couldn\'t use some tips on this now that the sun is setting at five freaking thirty? Ugh. Help us, Brigid. Help us.\r\n\r\n<strong>Running on Empty</strong>: <a href=\"http://fat-ass-to-fit-ass.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-running-plan.html\">The Running Plan</a> and <a href=\"http://fat-ass-to-fit-ass.blogspot.com/2010/11/eating-healthy-at-hooters.html\">Eating Healthy at Hooter\'s</a>. As the <a href=\"http://www.route66marathon.com/\">Route 66 Marathon</a> looms at just two weeks away, running season is still going strong here in T-Town. Kate has a plan for those who are interested in running and are starting at the beginning of a training program - get it at the link above. And you know what? It works. I know because it\'s how I got started, and I just up and ran 10K the other day. Thanks goes to Kate and <a href=\"http://moving4life.com/\">Shawna at Moving 4 Life</a> for the continued inspiration and training tips. And, let\'s not forget that Kate has a guest post from a guy who\'s working to lose some poundage for his impending nuptuals and was forced to find some healthful options at  the place where everyone goes \"for the wings.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>A Day in the Life of Okie Rednecks</strong>: <a href=\"http://brodricks.blogspot.com/2010/10/my-first-deer-of-2010.html\">My First Deer of 2010</a>. I\'m always fascinated by the content featured on this blog - it\'s like the Okie life I somehow missed living. On Halloween this post about the author\'s first deer of the year showed up in my reader and I couldn\'t help but be amazed. As someone who went to high school in a part of town where it was perfectly acceptable to miss class to spend a morning in a tree stand but who was raised mostly as a city girl, I\'m always intrigued by a couple who are in a race against each other to put the biggest deer head on the living room wall.\r\n\r\n<strong>In the Sweet Life</strong>: <a href=\"http://annsbakerytulsa.blogspot.com/2010/11/bigfoot-and-baking.html\">Bigfoot and Baking</a>. What do they have in common? Shannon tells us at the new official blog of <a href=\"http://www.annsbakery.com/\">Ann\'s Bakery</a>, a historic mainstay here in Tulsa.\r\n<h2>When Bloggers Get Miffed</h2>\r\n<strong>The School of Hard Knox</strong>. <a href=\"http://teresaknox.careerpathblog.com/spiritual-moment/\">SPIRITual Moment</a>. Have you been to the SpiritBank Event Center? Teresa Knox has. To say the least, she was not impressed.\r\n\r\n<strong>Running 4 Life</strong>: <a href=\"http://moving4life.com/2010/11/boobie-prize/\">Boobie Prize</a>. I saw this and wondered about it, too, but Shawna at Running 4 Life took the time to blog about it: That there are fewer awards for female runners than male runners at <a href=\"http://www.tulsarun.com/\">Tulsa Run 2010</a>, a race in which more women than men finished last year. Not only does Shawna wonder what the heck is up, but she established an award for those un-rewarded females who placed alongside their ribbon-earning male counterparts: The Boobie Prize.\r\n<h2>Other Fun Stuff</h2>\r\n<strong>Tulsa Food Blog</strong>: <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/brunch/brunch-like-the-irish-at-killkennys-pub\">Brunch Like the Irish at Kilkenny\'s Pub</a>, <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/tulsa-hamburgers/still-in-love-with-hamburgers\">Still in Love with Hamburgers</a> and <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/downtown/yokozuna-downtown-sushi\">Yokozuna Revived my Faith in Tulsa\'s Sushi Scene</a>. Brian at Tulsa Food Blog has been blogging up a storm, and he has three great posts about Tulsa unique foodie stops up right now, including a pictorial tour of the burgers of Tulsa. Dieters beware!\r\n\r\n<strong>The Daly Dose </strong>(again!). <a href=\"http://thedalydoseblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/romantic-getaway-frank-lloyd-wright.html\">Romantic Getaway Frank Lloyd Wright Style</a>. Ashley and her husband celebrated their first wedding anniversary with a stay at the only realized FLW skyscraper, just a hop, skip and a jump from Tulsa in Bartlesville, OK. And, of course, she took lots of great (and adorable) photos.\r\n\r\n<strong> This Land Press</strong>: <a href=\"http://thislandpress.com/11/07/2010/rusty-and-colleen/\">Rusty and Colleen</a>. Rusty and Colleen are the couple behind one of downtown\'s newest restaurants, <a href=\"http://modscrepes.com/\">Mod\'s Coffee and Crepes</a>. Snuggle up with your significant other down by the fire and read the story of how they got together.\r\n\r\n<strong> Coffee pr0n</strong>: <a href=\"http://topecacoffee.blogspot.com/2010/10/specialty-coffee-is-it-worth-it.html\">Specialty Coffee, Is It Worth It?</a> As a foodie who lives in a coffee town but is compelled to be highly budget conscious, I wrestle with this question all the time. Topeca roaster John Cunningham presents both lines of reasoning.\r\n\r\n<strong> Adventures of Becky and the Danger Boys</strong>: <a href=\"http://beckyanddangerboys.blogspot.com/2010/11/years-supply.html\">Year\'s Supply</a>. Ever wonder what a year\'s supply of diapers might look like? Well, it\'s something like this.\r\n\r\n<strong>Living on This Farm</strong> (again!): <a href=\"http://livingonthisfarm.blogspot.com/2010/11/last-week-we-had-very-large-fish-for.html\">Fish Bones</a>. Because you know you\'re like me and are intrigued by the concept of a giant rogue fish head.\r\n\r\nWhat Tulsa blogs have you been reading this week?\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/category/holidays/?view=3#archive-posts\">Image from ThePioneerWoman.com</a>.','Bigfoot, Baking, Eating Healthy at Hooters and How to Make a Football With Your Bare Hands: In Tulsa Blogs This Week','As always, there\'s tons of wild and zany and useful stuff going down in Tulsa\'s blogosphere. Here\'s this week\'s sampling.','inherit','open','open','','3572-revision-6','','','2010-11-09 15:10:47','2010-11-09 20:10:47','',3572,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3572-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(3581,1,'2010-11-11 11:00:00','2010-11-11 16:00:00','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/cupcake-invasion/dsc_1726/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3632\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1726-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Kupcakz\" title=\"Kupcakz\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3632\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAt least, as of late, that’s how it seems. Within the past year, at least three new specialty cupcake shops have come to town, each with its own style, flair and strategy for competing in our midsized, Midwest market.\r\n\r\nGet the scoop on the cupcake invasion <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/industry_article.asp?cID=i&aID=66744196.7411265.675376.6759547.6541238.809&aID2=51943\">on the Food page in the latest edition of Tulsa Business Journal</a>.','Cupcake bakers compete for Tulsa\'s sweet tooth','When it comes to cake, Tulsa bakers prefer to make them a cup at a time.','publish','open','open','','cupcake-invasion','','','2010-11-11 12:30:01','2010-11-11 17:30:01','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=3581',0,'post','',1),(3584,1,'2010-11-12 15:25:00','2010-11-12 20:25:00','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3678\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/hey-mambo-italiano-restaurant-review/dsc_1717i/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3678\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1717i.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa\'s Brady Arts District is abuzz with things to come right now. It\'s already home to several business owners who are passionate about downtown Tulsa, as well as historic attractions like Cain\'s Ballroom and Brady Theater. Soon the area will be home a new art museum, more loft-style housing and a hotel in the spirit of the Marriott that went into the Atlas Life Building on Boston.\r\n\r\nAnd I haven\'t even mentioned the new restaurants.\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3679\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/hey-mambo-italiano-restaurant-review/dsc_1709/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3679\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1709.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/HeyMamboItaliano\">Hey Mambo Italiano</a>, at 114 N. Boston, was among the first of some of the new eat spots planned for the area when it opened earlier this fall.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3680\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/hey-mambo-italiano-restaurant-review/dsc_1722-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3680\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1722-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'ve dined there twice so far, both times for lunch. My first time in I ordered the stromboli (stuffed with pomodoro sauce, ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese and salami, $7) and laughed out loud when it came to the table. What they put on their menu as a lunch item could have easily fed four people.\r\n\r\nWhich, basically, made it perfect for someone like me. I ate half and took the other half home. When I fed it to my husband, a look of sadness and longing came over his face. He was all, \"I want to go to there.\"\r\n\r\nBut when I returned to Hey Mambo for a second taste, I took this guy instead.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3681\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/hey-mambo-italiano-restaurant-review/dsc_1705/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3681\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1705.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHis manners are horrible, but he doesn\'t eat as much off my plate as the other guy does.\r\n\r\nAnd I got to sit at a table with these ladies.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3682\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/hey-mambo-italiano-restaurant-review/dsc_1704/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3682\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1704-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThey\'re some of the women of the media world here in Tulsa, and eating lots of food together is something we do pretty often. In fact, we\'ve started calling ourselves the Lunch Bunch. Which is pretty cute and kitschy considering we\'re all evil conspirators hell-bent on filling the world with our lies.\r\n\r\nJust kidding about some of that. But I\'m not going to tell you which parts.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3683\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/hey-mambo-italiano-restaurant-review/dsc_1708/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3683\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1708.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhen I dine in the company of ladies I always order a salad to start. It just seems...properer.\r\n\r\nBut last time I ordered the garlic knots, and ever since I\'ve been wrestling with whether they\'re better at Hey Mambo or at <a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631484/restaurant/Expo-Square/Umbertos-Pizza-Tulsa\">Umberto\'s</a>, this uh-<em>mazing</em> pizza place here in Tulsa on 21st Street. It all made my brain smoke a little. It gets pretty hot in there sometimes, especially when there are thoughts happening.\r\n\r\nAnyway. That salad is the Insalata Mista, which is a wedge salad doused with a house-made giardino dressing, soffritto and, deliciously, bacon. If you order it on its own at lunch, it\'s $4. But if you order it with a slice of pizza like I did on my second trip to Hey Mambo, it\'s $7.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3684\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/hey-mambo-italiano-restaurant-review/dsc_1709-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3684\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_17091.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMy fellow native westsider of the group ordered this, which is listed on the lunch menu as the Personal Baked Ziti.\r\n\r\nHa! Again with this \"personal\" business. I ask you, does that look like a personal-sized serving?\r\n\r\nDon\'t get me wrong - no one\'s complaining about food overload, at least not in this crowd. An $8 lunch that\'s big enough for leftovers is never something to get snooty about.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3687\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/hey-mambo-italiano-restaurant-review/dsc_1713-4/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3687\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_17132.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTa-da! Here\'s the pizza that came with my salad, which I pretended to share with my son but really only gave him a few bites because we were dining with ladies and I didn\'t want it to seem like I ever eat an entire slice of pizza by myself or anything like that.\r\n\r\nSo, here\'s the deal with the pizza. It\'s good and I\'d definitely eat it again, but it\'s got a long way to go before it threatens the throne of my favorite pie in T-Town, which is available over at <a href=\"http://www.joemommas.com/\">Joe Momma\'s at 2nd and Elgin</a>. I loved the stromboli much, much more. That and the garlic knots are what I\'ll continue to recommend that everyone try - that is, at least, until I can swing by again to give the pizza another chance.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3678\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/hey-mambo-italiano-restaurant-review/dsc_1717i/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3678\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1717i.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne of the best parts about dining at Hey Mambo is getting to chat with the owner, Scott Moore. He\'s got big dreams, he loves Tulsa and somehow, even though he\'s a new restaurant owner, he\'s always in a bright, sunshiny mood.\r\n\r\nSleep deprivation affects different people in different ways, I guess.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3680\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/hey-mambo-italiano-restaurant-review/dsc_1722-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3680\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1722-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo learn more about how Hey Mambo got its start, about the plans for the future of the restaurant and more about what the place has to offer at dinnertime, check out <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/article.asp?aID=26210785.6352808.670852.5410992.1658681.702&amp;aID2=51595\">this article I wrote for Tulsa Business Journal a few weeks back</a>. If you do, you\'ll get to learn about Glacier Confection, too, which would be a great place to stop by between dinner at Hey Mambo and a show at Cain\'s or the Brady.\r\n\r\n<strong>Hey Mambo Italiano</strong>\r\nWhere: 114 N. Boston Ave.\r\nWhen: Monday-Thursday, 11am-2pm and 5-10pm; Friday, 11am-2pm and 5pm-2am; Saturday, 5pm-2am\r\nCall: (918) 508-7000\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.heymambo.com/\">heymambo.com</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/1549165/restaurant/Brady-Arts-District/Hey-Mambo-Tulsa\"><img alt=\"Hey Mambo on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/1549165/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" /></a>','Hey Mambo Italiano','When I fed a bite of my leftover stromboli from Hey Mambo to my husband, a look of sadness and longing came over his face. He was all, \"I want to go to there.\" ','publish','open','open','','hey-mambo-italiano-restaurant-review','','','2010-11-12 16:44:45','2010-11-12 21:44:45','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=3584',0,'post','',9),(3585,1,'2010-11-11 16:00:00','2010-11-11 22:00:00','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/mcnellies-pub-run-tulsa-kids/img_5190/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3638\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/IMG_5190-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"McNellies Pub Run\" title=\"McNellies Pub Run\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3638\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSometimes, after a week of juggling everything from my family\'s finances to what my son found in his lunch box on school days, all I want when the weekend arrives is a nice, cold beer.\r\n\r\nBut, here\'s the deal: I\'m not the type to hang around in bars. Don\'t get me wrong, a trip now and then to a bar can be fun, especially if there\'s gonna be some great live music or if I\'m meeting a group of friends I haven\'t seen in awhile thanks to my mommy duties.\r\n\r\nBut as a rule, and though I\'m a beer lover among beer lovers, perching on a bar stool isn\'t my idea of entertainment or relaxation. Plus, it\'s rarely a diversion worth searching for (and paying!) a babysitter on a Friday night.\r\n\r\nMy pick for this week\'s Babysitter Worthy event delivers the beer (read: the good) part of this equation. It also offers a way to get some exercise, to take a tour of Tulsa\'s now-bustling Blue Dome District and to contribute to a great cause at the same time.\r\n\r\nGet the scoop <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/?q=babysitter-worthy-mcnellies-pub-run\">on my blog at TulsaKids.com</a>.','Babysitter Worthy: McNellie\'s Pub Run','But as a rule, and though I\'m a beer lover among beer lovers, perching on a bar stool isn\'t my idea of entertainment or relaxation. Plus, it\'s rarely a diversion worth searching for (and paying!) a babysitter on a Friday night.','private','open','open','','mcnellies-pub-run-tulsa-kids','','','2011-07-10 11:47:35','2011-07-10 17:47:35','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=3585',0,'post','',0),(3586,1,'2010-11-12 16:00:00','2010-11-12 21:00:00','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3741\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/nelsons-ranch-house-tulsa-kids/dsc_1616-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3741\" title=\"Nelson\'s Ranch House\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1616-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Nelson\'s Ranch House\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOver the nearly five years that I\'ve been reviewing local restaurants, my approach to the whole thing has changed somewhat. There was a time when I could show up to a restaurant, order a smattering of items from a menu, sample each one while slyly taking notes and then make my exit, all very quickly and anonymously - at least, until my write-up went to print a week or so later.\r\n\r\nBut then I had a baby boy and quit my job as a full-time reporter and restaurant critic and started a blog. I thought blogging would be a fun diversion for me a few days each week during nap time and not much else - basically, something to keep my writing skills sharp and something to keep me busy that didn\'t involve folding burp rags or washing bottles.\r\n\r\nAnd now you see how sometimes my plans don\'t go quite according to, well, my plans.\r\n\r\nRead about what went horribly, terribly wrong at Nelson\'s that day <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/?q=confessions-work-home-mom-chewy-chunks-restaurant-review\">on my blog at TulsaKids.com</a>.','Confessions of a Work-at-Home Mom: The Chewy Chunks of the Restaurant Review (or, the time my son blew chunks all over Nelson\'s Ranch House)','When it comes to reviewing restaurants with a two-year-old in my lap, sometimes my plans don\'t go quite according to, well, my plans.','publish','open','open','','nelsons-ranch-house-tulsa-kids','','','2010-11-15 18:05:57','2010-11-15 23:05:57','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=3586',0,'post','',0),(3587,1,'2010-11-12 16:00:00','2010-11-12 21:00:00','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3721\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/soccer-mom-101-the-southie/dscn0274/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3721\" title=\"Southie Soccer by Kellyology\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSCN0274-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Southie Soccer by Kellyology\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLately I have been remiss in my job of presenting south Tulsa to the world for TashaDoesTulsa.com, and under threat of be dethroned as The Southie Queen (not that there could be any other, but still) I decided to tell you about what\'s been keeping me and lots of other south Tulsans busy lately.\r\n\r\nBut first, you need a little background on the standard south Tulsan.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->A large percentage of us have grade-school aged children.\r\n\r\nOK. Now that we\'ve had that lesson and you\'re all caught up, I can continue.\r\n\r\nWhen you have grade-school aged children, you spend a lot of your time trying to mold these children into great future citizens of this city. In order to do this you shelter them from Oklahoma\'s crazy weather, you feed them Bixby corn to make them strong, and you try to teach them how to be team players them by signing them up for soccer.\r\n\r\nYou see, for south Tulsans it\'s almost a right of passage to put your child on a soccer team. Some parents love it. Some hate it.\r\n\r\nSome parents end up wearing a shirt emblazoned with the title, coach.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3726\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/soccer-mom-101-the-southie/img_1293/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3726\" title=\"Southie Soccer by Kellyology\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/IMG_1293-500x576.jpg\" alt=\"Southie Soccer by Kellyology\" width=\"500\" height=\"576\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEither way I have yet to meet a south Tulsa parent who didn\'t put his/her kids in some sort of soccer program, even for only for one season.\r\n\r\nAnd if you put your kids in soccer, even if only for one season, there are a few important things you must remember.\r\n\r\n1. You will receive a list from your coach of items that your little soccer player must have to play soccer. There\'s a list for parents, too, even if they had to come up with it themselves. During soccer season I keep the items on that list in my car at all times. You never know when you will need them:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Warm blankets (preferably ones that have a plastic coating on one side to block the wind)</li>\r\n	<li>First aid kit with extra ice packs</li>\r\n	<li>Allergy medicine for both you and your child (I always get my soccer shot, a.k.a. an allergy shot, right before soccer season starts)</li>\r\n	<li>Kleenex</li>\r\n	<li>Snacks</li>\r\n	<li>A camera with a fully charged</li>\r\n	<li>Cash (just in case you forget about which game day is your day to bring snacks)</li>\r\n	<li>Activities to entertain the children not playing soccer.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nMost important to have on hand, though, is a good chair. Most soccer fields do not have comfortable seats.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3723\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/soccer-mom-101-the-southie/dscn3846/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3723\" title=\"Southie Soccer by Kellyology\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSCN3846-500x521.jpg\" alt=\"Southie Soccer by Kellyology\" width=\"500\" height=\"521\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOK, in Green Country, none do. So for the sake of your rear end, bring a good chair.\r\n\r\n2. You must get used to the fact that your entire life on the weekends will revolve around soccer, and at many of your other activities your kids will still be wearing their soccer uniforms. Like so:\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3725\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/soccer-mom-101-the-southie/dscn3874/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3725\" title=\"Southie Soccer by Kellyology\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSCN3874-500x530.jpg\" alt=\"Southie Soccer by Kellyology\" width=\"500\" height=\"530\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLet\'s just say that\'s not a Halloween costume.\r\n\r\n3. As a parent you do not get to pick what position your child plays, even when the position makes you sick to your stomach as you envision teeth getting knocked out by that overly aggressive player who continues to kick the ball once your child already has it in his or her goalie hands.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3728\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/soccer-mom-101-the-southie/soccer-collage/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3728\" title=\"Southie Soccer by Kellyology\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Soccer-collage-500x252.jpg\" alt=\"Southie Soccer by Kellyology\" width=\"500\" height=\"252\" /></a>\r\n\r\n4. Being an active soccer parent means that you must learn a few key phrases for the game:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\"Mark up!\"</li>\r\n	<li>\"Beautiful!</li>\r\n	<li>\"Good job, keeper!\"</li>\r\n	<li>\"Unlucky!\"</li>\r\n	<li>\"Turn and Look!\"</li>\r\n	<li>\"Quickly!\"</li>\r\n	<li>\"WOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!!!\"</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3724\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/soccer-mom-101-the-southie/dscn3848/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3724\" title=\"Southie Soccer by Kellyology\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSCN3848-500x367.jpg\" alt=\"Southie Soccer by Kellyology\" width=\"500\" height=\"367\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDon\'t worry about what any of these actually mean. It\'s unimportant.  What is important is to cheer for your kids.  What is also important, and you will learn this as your children get older and are embarrassed to know you when when the coach/referee tells you to pipe down, is to know the line not to cross when yelling on the sidelines at your child\'s soccer game.\r\n\r\nToo little and you become that parent who doesn\'t care.  To much and you\'re that parent who, well, probably cares a little too much.\r\n\r\n5.  Like many other volunteer jobs, coaching soccer can sometimes be trying.  Not only do you have to do the job of teaching and motivating your players in a positive way that promotes good sportsmanship, but you also have to deal with scheduling, parents, little girl drama, little boy drama, other coaches and the weather.\r\n\r\nOh, and let\'s not forget about that pesky wife or husband on the sidelines who really enjoys taking pictures of you at the games.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3722\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/soccer-mom-101-the-southie/dscn0276/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3722\" title=\"Southie Soccer by Kellyology\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSCN0276-500x631.jpg\" alt=\"Southie Soccer by Kellyology\" width=\"500\" height=\"631\" /></a>\r\n\r\n6. There is nothing cuter than watching the little ones bee hive around the soccer ball at their first game, nor anything better than when the bee hives disappear and before your eyes a real competitive soccer team first emerges.\r\n\r\nSo now that you know the ropes around the Southie soccer field, you\'re super-excited to get your child signed up, right? Well, you\'re in luck.  Sign-ups are happening now all over Green Country for spring season youth soccer.  Visit <a href=\"http://www.gcsoccer.com/index.htm\">the Green Country Soccer Association website</a> for information about fields, clubs, and opportunities for your little ones.\r\n\r\nAnd may the force be with you.\r\n\r\n<em><a href=\"http://www.kellyology.net/\">Kelly writes Kellyology.net</a>, a blog about life in Oklahoma, motherhood and the general stuff of life. She joins us here at TDT as The Southie, covering all the event news that\'s fit to blog from south of 71st Street.</em>','Soccer Mom (or Dad) 101: The Southie','When you have grade-school aged children, you spend a lot of your time trying to mold these children into great future citizens of this city. In order to do this you shelter them from Oklahoma\'s crazy weather, you feed them Bixby corn to make them strong, and you try to teach them how to be team players them by signing them up for soccer.','publish','open','open','','soccer-mom-101-the-southie','','','2010-11-15 10:32:02','2010-11-15 15:32:02','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=3587',0,'post','',27),(3594,1,'2010-11-10 10:14:19','2010-11-10 15:14:19','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Opera Underground by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4665817683/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4038/4665817683_f8345925b9.jpg\" alt=\"Opera Underground\" width=\"351\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nWhile I make it a habit to seek out our city’s arts activities, I sometimes find those you stumble upon are the best experiences.\r\n\r\n<a name=\"more\"></a>Hopefully that was the case for Coffee House on Cherry Street goers on a Saturday night earlier this year.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tulsaopera.com/\">Tulsa Opera</a> quietly launched a new program, Opera Underground, on Feb. 6 at Coffee House on Cherry Street (<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630338/restaurant/Cherry-Street/Coffee-House-on-Cherry-Street-Tulsa\">or, as we locals like to call it, CHOCS</a>). When I say “quietly,” I mean the company didn’t tell a lot of people about it. The event itself was anything but, with TO’s Studio Artists belting tunes from Rigoletto and Don Quichotte, as well as Broadway and cabaret fare.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Opera Underground by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4665818227/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4072/4665818227_4ea55a8b7a.jpg\" alt=\"Opera Underground\" width=\"331\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nThough I make it a point to regularly frequent CHOCS — not only does the place serve delectable Topeca coffee, but its sandwiches and pastries are to die for — this time, I was on a mission. I grabbed a large mocha and settled in close to where Brian Landry was performing one of opera’s most famous arias — “La donna e mobile,” from Rigoletto’s third act.\r\n\r\nI could have been listening to a recording, Landry’s voice was so clear and booming. And it’s likely many of the CHOCS patrons who stumbled in looking for nothing more than a dirty chai latte and some free wi-fi thought so, too. However, as the hour-long program continued, more people gathered, clearly enthralled by what they were seeing and hearing.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Opera Underground by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4665817009/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4016/4665817009_7d30676ace.jpg\" alt=\"Opera Underground\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\" /></a></div>\r\nLater, I spoke with Kostis Protopapas, TO’s artistic director and the inventor of this program, who pointed out that much of the classical repertoire was written for public performance, meaning it was meant to be heard in salons and homes, not just in grandiose theaters.\r\n\r\nThe idea behind Opera Underground is that it’s just that — underground. It’s meant to be stumbled upon, to catch people off guard and expose them to operatic music in a way they’ve never heard it before.\r\n\r\nIt’s also a wonderful opportunity to spend some up-close and personal time with the music. While I love to hear the opera in <a href=\"http://www.tulsapac.com/\">the Chapman Hall at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center</a>, in that setting, you don’t get the opportunity to nestle in close to it, to hear it ringing in your ears and feel it breathing next to you.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Opera Underground by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4666450160/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4003/4666450160_0a6c72baa9.jpg\" alt=\"Opera Underground\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\" /></a></div>\r\nHonestly, I think Opera Underground is one of the coolest events I’ve attended in a long time.\r\nIf you missed it, don’t be sad. Tulsa Opera will be at <a href=\"http://www.lxitulsa.com/\">LXi, at 61st and Yale in KingsPointe Shopping Center</a>, Saturday night at 6pm.\r\n\r\nThis weekend, patrons will be treated to a season preview by Light Opera Oklahoma, as well as a presentation of popular opera arias as introduced by Mark Armstrong, Tulsa Opera principal pianist and vocal coach. Look also for a giveaway that includes two orchestra-level tickets to <a href=\"http://tulsaopera.com/\">La Traviata, the 2010/2011 season opening production for Tulsa Opera</a>, and a $50 gift certificate to LXi.\r\n\r\nThe event is free, but the chow and drinks are on you. Hope to see you there.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;\"><em>This post is thanks to Holly Wall, senior editor at </em><a style=\"color: #78b749; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://www.tulsabusiness.com/\"><em>Tulsa Business Journal</em></a><em> and </em><a style=\"color: #999999; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://www.urbantulsa.com/\"><em>Urban Tulsa Weekly</em></a><em> arts writer. Her work also appears in </em><a style=\"color: #78b749; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://www.ovac-ok.org/ArtFocus/art_focus_current_issue.cfm\"><em>Art Focus Oklahoma</em></a><em>, </em><a style=\"color: #78b749; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://www.tulsapac.com/images/int150.pdf\"><em>Intermission</em></a><em> and </em><a style=\"color: #78b749; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://miamagazine.net/\"><em>Mia Magazine</em></a><em>.</em></span>','Opera Underground','While I make it a habit to seek out our city’s arts activities, I sometimes find those you stumble upon are the best experiences.','inherit','open','open','','636-autosave','','','2010-11-10 10:14:19','2010-11-10 15:14:19','',636,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/636-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(3595,1,'2010-11-10 12:30:38','2010-11-10 17:30:38','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3596\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/startup-weekend-tulsa-giveaway/swtulsa/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3596\" title=\"Startup Weekend Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/swtulsa-500x107.jpg\" alt=\"Startup Weekend Tulsa\" width=\"500\" height=\"107\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'m a blogger who rallies for the small fries. But, I like corporate America as much as the next guy. After all, thanks in large part to corporate America, we have access to a lot of cool stuff: Cars smart enough to tell us how to get to our destinations. Phones that put the World Wide Web into the palms of our hands. Computers that can do 100 times as much in a fraction of the space than they could just a few decades ago. CEOs who break black turtlenecks out of the closets of theatre majors and French people and place them squarely into the hands of, well, anyone who can buy them at J. Crew.\r\n\r\nIt\'s created another thing over the years, too: The 9-5 corporate lackey.\r\n\r\nThere\'s lots that\'s actually pretty awesome about being a 9-5 corporate lackey. For one, someone else is in charge of making sure the company gets up and running each day (or has the responsibility of keeping it running 24/7). For two, someone else is usually in charge of earning the money to pay the salaries of you and your co-workers. For three, it\'s pretty nice when someone else picks up part of your health insurance tab or drops a little somethin\'-somethin\' into your 401k every once in awhile.\r\n\r\nBut have you ever wondered what it\'d be like to be your own boss? Do you have an idea for a product or service that\'s been floating around in your head for years, and you\'re just sure it\'d be the next big thing if only you have the time and energy to put behind getting it started? Can you imagine how fast those hours between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. would fly if they were your hours and didn\'t belong to someone else?\r\n\r\nThen starting Friday night, a chair at Startup Weekend Tulsa is the place to plant your butt.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\nBut wait - WTF is Startup Weekend Tulsa? I asked the same thing when I first heard about it, so I\'ll tell you what was told to me: <strong>It\'s a 54-hour bootcamp for entrepreneurs where there\'s a little less conversation and a little more action.</strong>\r\n\r\nThe goal of the weekend is to kick start ideas and jump start companies, to go from an idea to launch. It\'s an event that compresses the work of planning and researching and getting a business rolling - a process that normally takes six-12 months in the real world, and that\'s if you\'re lucky - into just one weekend.\r\n\r\nIn other words, <strong>it\'s the ultimate entrepreneurial immersion experience</strong>. It\'s like going to France for a year to learn to speak French like the French, except with Startup Weekend you\'re traveling to Entrepreneur Land to learn how to be fluent in kicking ass in the business world.\r\n\r\nThe 2010 Startup Weekend Tulsa is our city\'s second event of its kind, and it\'s kicking off <a href=\"http://tulsagew.com/\">Tulsa\'s Global Entrepreneurship Week</a>, a celebration and recognition of the rich culture and community we have here in this town that supports dreamers, doers and fledgling business owners.\r\n\r\nWhat I love about Startup Weekend Tulsa is that it\'s not just another one of those dumb business seminars that\'s a total waste of your time and patience. No one is going to preach at you all weekend long or try to sell you silver bullets that they promise will make you a millionaire in a week. Instead, you\'re going to have the freedom to move and shake and put a real, live business together, free of the distractions of every day life, all with your own two hands.\r\n\r\nI\'d expect you to take my word for it only so far. That\'s why I should probably tell you that three founders from the five companies started at the 2009 Startup Weekend Tulsa are now full-time entrepreneurs. One of them is my very loud and very awesome friend <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org/2010/11/03/swtulsa-2009-success-story-matt-galloway/\">Matt Galloway, founder of the company Architactile</a>, which made it into some of the final rounds of this year\'s <a href=\"http://www.tulsaspiritaward.com/\">Tulsa Entrepreneurial Spirit Award</a>. Another is <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/\">my partner in taco eating contests</a>, <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org/2010/11/03/swtulsa-2009-success-story-geoffrey-simpson/\">Geoffrey Simpson</a>. Now he heads up Diner Connection, a company that saves restaurant goers from those evil light-up buzzer thingies and replaces them with sleeker, cooler text messages.\r\n\r\nSo, yeah. Startup Weekend is the real deal. In the past three years, 115 Startup Weekend events have been held around the globe. Nearly 600 startups have seen their launch, more than 5,000 entrepreneurs have been inspired, and some teams even started to generate revenue during the event. SW veterans will tell you that it\'s one of the hardest, most intense, most rewarding weekends of your life.\r\n\r\nHere\'s how the Tulsa version is gonna go down:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 6pm: Doors Open. Eat and drink some free stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 7pm: Startup Weekend Tulsa 2010 starts. Squee!</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 7:45pm: Elevator pitches begin. What, did you think you were going to get to sit around and fish for lint in your belly button for awhile? Heck, no! This is Startup Weekend Tulsa we\'re talking about here. Get the hell moving.</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 8pm: Teams form.</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 9pm: Closing time. In other words, you don\'t have to go home, but you can\'t stay here. Teams often head to a bar or coffee shop to do yet more work.</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, 9am: Mornin\', sunshine! Doors open. Eat some brekkie - it\'s the most important meal of the day, especially when you\'re plotting business world domination. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided.</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, all day: Work, network, plan, research and generally put the smack down on your business idea. And maybe sing to it a little. (Karaoke systems/microphones not provided. Sorry.)</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, 9pm: Doors close. Blow off some steam with some libations.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9am: Doors open.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9am: It\'s the last day of Startup Weekend, so if I were you I\'d work, network, plan, research and take care of business at the speed of light. Or, at least at the speed of sound. And I\'d probably also look into getting a different hair cut. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 7pm: Final team presentations are due! Nervous? Just picture everyone in the crowd naked and you\'ll do great.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9pm: That\'s all, folks. You now have the tools to exchange the 9-5 for the 9-9. As in, 9am-9am. But hey, at least they\'re your hours and not some dude\'s in the corner office, right?</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nYou guys are chomping at the bit to go to this thing now, right? Well, that\'s good. Because I have two Tulsa Startup Weekend registrations, each a $75 value, to give to two lucky TDT readers. All you have to do is answer this simple question:\r\n\r\n<strong>Where were you when you had the lightbulb moment - the instant in which your business idea was born?</strong>\r\n\r\nOr!\r\n\r\n<strong>If you don\'t have a business idea in mind but would like to attend Startup Weekend to learn how start-ups work, what would you want your business to ultimately accomplish?\r\n</strong>\r\nI\'ll let Random.org pick the winners tomorrow bright and early at 8am. I\'ll post the winners soon after, so be sure to check back here to see if you\'re one of the lucky guys/gals.\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s a pretty sweet consolation prize in case you don\'t win: You can register for your spot at Startup Weekend\r\nfor less. Use the code SWTasha at checkout and get $25, or more than 30 percent, off the price of your pass. Sweet, right? I know. You\'re welcome.\r\n\r\nGood luck, and remember to say you knew me when - back before you became a famous, bad-ass business owner.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa Startup Weekend</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, 7pm-Sunday, 9pm\r\nWhere: TCC Center for Creativity, 9th and Boston in downtown Tulsa\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org\">tulsa.startupweekend.org</a>\r\n\r\n<em>Tasha\'s note: This giveaway is sponsored by <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org/\">Startup Weekend Tulsa</a>.</em>','Startup Weekend Tulsa: Jump, Baby, Jump. (Plus, a giveaway)','But have you ever wondered what it\'d be like to be your own boss? Do you have an idea for a product or service that\'s been floating around in your head for years, and you\'re just sure it\'d be the next big thing if only you have the time and energy to put behind getting it started? Then a chair at Startup Weekend Tulsa is the place to plant your butt.','publish','open','open','','startup-weekend-tulsa-giveaway','','http://tulsa.startupweekend.org/2010/11/03/swtulsa-2009-success-story-matt-galloway/\nhttp://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/\nhttp://tulsa.startupweekend.org/2010/11/03/swtulsa-2009-success-story-geoffrey-simpson/','2010-11-10 12:34:02','2010-11-10 17:34:02','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=3595',0,'post','',3),(3596,1,'2010-11-10 12:23:23','2010-11-10 17:23:23','','Startup Weekend Tulsa','','inherit','open','open','','swtulsa','','','2010-11-10 12:23:23','2010-11-10 17:23:23','',3595,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/swtulsa.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3597,1,'2010-11-10 12:30:17','2010-11-10 17:30:17','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3596\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3596\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3596\" title=\"Startup Weekend Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/swtulsa-500x107.jpg\" alt=\"Startup Weekend Tulsa\" width=\"500\" height=\"107\" /></a>\n\nI\'m a blogger who rallies for the small fries, but I mean, I like corporate America as much as the next guy. After all, thanks in large part to corporate America, we have access to a lot of cool stuff: Cars smart enough to tell us how to get to our destinations. Phones that put the World Wide Web into the palms of our hands. Computers that can do 100 times as much in a fraction of the space than they could just a few decades ago. CEOs who break black turtlenecks out of the closets of theatre majors and French people and place them squarely into the hands of, well, anyone who can buy them at J. Crew.\n\nIt\'s created another thing over the years, too: The 9-5 corporate lackey.\n\nThere\'s lots that\'s actually pretty awesome about being a 9-5 corporate lackey. For one, someone else is in charge of making sure the company gets up and running each day (or has the responsibility of keeping it running 24/7). For two, someone else is usually in charge of earning the money to pay the salaries of you and your co-workers. For three, it\'s pretty nice when someone else picks up part of your health insurance tab or drops a little somethin\'-somethin\' into your 401k every once in awhile.\n\nBut have you ever wondered what it\'d be like to be your own boss? Do you have an idea for a product or service that\'s been floating around in your head for years, and you\'re just sure it\'d be the next big thing if only you have the time and energy to put behind getting it started? Can you imagine how fast those hours between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. would fly if they were your hours and didn\'t belong to someone else?\n\nThen starting Friday night, a chair at Startup Weekend Tulsa is the place to plant your butt.\n\n<!--more-->\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\n\nBut wait - WTF is Startup Weekend Tulsa? I asked the same thing when I first heard about it, so I\'ll tell you what was told to me: <strong>It\'s a 54-hour bootcamp for entrepreneurs where there\'s a little less conversation and a little more action.</strong>\n\nThe goal of the weekend is to kick start ideas and jump start companies, to go from an idea to launch. It\'s an event that compresses the work of planning and researching and getting a business rolling - a process that normally takes six-12 months in the real world, and that\'s if you\'re lucky - into just one weekend.\n\nIn other words, <strong>it\'s the ultimate entrepreneurial immersion experience</strong>. It\'s like going to France for a year to learn to speak French like the French, except with Startup Weekend you\'re traveling to Entrepreneur Land to learn how to be fluent in business world ass-kicking.\n\nThe 2010 Startup Weekend Tulsa is our city\'s second event of its kind, and it\'s kicking off <a href=\"http://tulsagew.com/\">Tulsa\'s Global Entrepreneurship Week</a>, a celebration and recognition of the rich culture and community we have here in this town that supports dreamers, doers and fledgling business owners.\n\nWhat I love about Startup Weekend Tulsa is that it\'s not just another one of those dumb business seminars that\'s a total waste of your time and patience. No one is going to preach at you all weekend long or try to sell you silver bullets that they promise will make you a millionaire in a week. Instead, you\'re going to have the freedom to move and shake and put a real, live business together, free of the distractions of every day life, all with your own two hands.\n\nI\'d expect you to take my word for it only so far. That\'s why I should probably tell you that three founders from the five companies started at the 2009 Startup Weekend Tulsa are now full-time entrepreneurs. One of them is my very loud and very awesome friend <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org/2010/11/03/swtulsa-2009-success-story-matt-galloway/\">Matt Galloway, founder of the company Architactile</a>, which made it into some of the final rounds of this year\'s <a href=\"http://www.tulsaspiritaward.com/\">Tulsa Entrepreneurial Spirit Award</a>. Another is <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/\">my partner in taco eating contests</a>, <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org/2010/11/03/swtulsa-2009-success-story-geoffrey-simpson/\">Geoffrey Simpson</a>. Now he heads up Diner Connection, a company that saves restaurant goers from those evil light-up buzzer thingies and replaces them with sleeker, cooler text messages.\n\nSo, yeah. Startup Weekend is the real deal. In the past three years, 115 Startup Weekend events have been held around the globe. Nearly 600 startups have seen their launch, more than 5,000 entrepreneurs have been inspired, and some teams even started to generate revenue during the event. SW veterans will tell you that it\'s one of the hardest, most intense, most rewarding weekends of your life.\n\nHere\'s how the Tulsa version is gonna go down:\n<ul>\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 6pm: Doors Open. Eat and drink some free stuff.</li>\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 7pm: Startup Weekend Tulsa 2010 starts. Squee!</li>\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 7:45pm: Elevator pitches begin. What, did you think you were going to get to sit around and fish for lint in your belly button for awhile? Heck, no! This is Startup Weekend Tulsa we\'re talking about here. Get the hell moving.</li>\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 8pm: Teams form.</li>\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 9pm: Closing time. In other words, you don\'t have to go home, but you can\'t stay here. Teams often head to a bar or coffee shop to do yet more work.</li>\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, 9am: Mornin\', sunshine! Doors open. Eat some brekkie - it\'s the most important meal of the day, especially when you\'re plotting business world domination. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided.</li>\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, all day: Work, network, plan, research and generally put the smack down on your business idea. And maybe sing to it a little. (Karaoke systems/microphones not provided. Sorry.)</li>\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, 9pm: Doors close. Blow off some steam with some libations.</li>\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9am: Doors open.</li>\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9am: It\'s the last day of Startup Weekend, so if I were you I\'d work, network, plan, research and take care of business at the speed of light. Or, at least at the speed of sound. And I\'d probably also look into getting a different hair cut. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided.</li>\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 7pm: Final team presentations are due! Nervous? Just picture everyone in the crowd naked and you\'ll do great.</li>\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9pm: That\'s all, folks. You now have the tools to exchange the 9-5 for the 9-9. As in, 9am-9am. But hey, at least they\'re your hours and not some dude\'s in the corner office, right?</li>\n</ul>\nYou guys are chomping at the bit to go to this thing now, right? Well, that\'s good. Because I have two Tulsa Startup Weekend registrations, each a $75 value, to give to two lucky TDT readers. All you have to do is answer this simple question:\n\n<strong>Where were you when you had the lightbulb moment - the instant in which your business idea was born?</strong>\n\nOr!\n\n<strong>If you don\'t have a business idea in mind but would like to attend Startup Weekend to learn how start-ups work, what would you want your business to ultimately accomplish?\n</strong>\nI\'ll let Random.org pick the winners tomorrow bright and early at 8am. I\'ll post the winners soon after, so be sure to check back here to see if you\'re one of the lucky guys/gals.\n\nAnd here\'s a pretty sweet consolation prize in case you don\'t win: You can register for your spot at Startup Weekend\nfor less. Use the code SWTasha at checkout and get $25, or more than 30 percent, off the price of your pass. Sweet, right? I know. You\'re welcome.\n\nGood luck, and remember to say you knew me when - back before you became a famous, bad-ass business owner.\n\n<strong>Tulsa Startup Weekend</strong>\nWhen: Friday, 7pm-Sunday, 9pm\nWhere: TCC Center for Creativity, 9th and Boston in downtown Tulsa\nWeb: <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org\">tulsa.startupweekend.org</a>','Startup Weekend Tulsa: Jump, Baby, Jump. (Plus, a giveaway)','But have you ever wondered what it\'d be like to be your own boss? Do you have an idea for a product or service that\'s been floating around in your head for years, and you\'re just sure it\'d be the next big thing if only you have the time and energy to put behind getting it started? Then  a chair at Startup Weekend Tulsa is the place to plant your butt.','inherit','open','open','','3595-revision','','','2010-11-10 12:30:17','2010-11-10 17:30:17','',3595,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3595-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(3598,1,'2010-11-10 12:30:38','2010-11-10 17:30:38','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3596\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3596\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3596\" title=\"Startup Weekend Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/swtulsa-500x107.jpg\" alt=\"Startup Weekend Tulsa\" width=\"500\" height=\"107\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'m a blogger who rallies for the small fries, but I mean, I like corporate America as much as the next guy. After all, thanks in large part to corporate America, we have access to a lot of cool stuff: Cars smart enough to tell us how to get to our destinations. Phones that put the World Wide Web into the palms of our hands. Computers that can do 100 times as much in a fraction of the space than they could just a few decades ago. CEOs who break black turtlenecks out of the closets of theatre majors and French people and place them squarely into the hands of, well, anyone who can buy them at J. Crew.\r\n\r\nIt\'s created another thing over the years, too: The 9-5 corporate lackey.\r\n\r\nThere\'s lots that\'s actually pretty awesome about being a 9-5 corporate lackey. For one, someone else is in charge of making sure the company gets up and running each day (or has the responsibility of keeping it running 24/7). For two, someone else is usually in charge of earning the money to pay the salaries of you and your co-workers. For three, it\'s pretty nice when someone else picks up part of your health insurance tab or drops a little somethin\'-somethin\' into your 401k every once in awhile.\r\n\r\nBut have you ever wondered what it\'d be like to be your own boss? Do you have an idea for a product or service that\'s been floating around in your head for years, and you\'re just sure it\'d be the next big thing if only you have the time and energy to put behind getting it started? Can you imagine how fast those hours between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. would fly if they were your hours and didn\'t belong to someone else?\r\n\r\nThen starting Friday night, a chair at Startup Weekend Tulsa is the place to plant your butt.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\nBut wait - WTF is Startup Weekend Tulsa? I asked the same thing when I first heard about it, so I\'ll tell you what was told to me: <strong>It\'s a 54-hour bootcamp for entrepreneurs where there\'s a little less conversation and a little more action.</strong>\r\n\r\nThe goal of the weekend is to kick start ideas and jump start companies, to go from an idea to launch. It\'s an event that compresses the work of planning and researching and getting a business rolling - a process that normally takes six-12 months in the real world, and that\'s if you\'re lucky - into just one weekend.\r\n\r\nIn other words, <strong>it\'s the ultimate entrepreneurial immersion experience</strong>. It\'s like going to France for a year to learn to speak French like the French, except with Startup Weekend you\'re traveling to Entrepreneur Land to learn how to be fluent in business world ass-kicking.\r\n\r\nThe 2010 Startup Weekend Tulsa is our city\'s second event of its kind, and it\'s kicking off <a href=\"http://tulsagew.com/\">Tulsa\'s Global Entrepreneurship Week</a>, a celebration and recognition of the rich culture and community we have here in this town that supports dreamers, doers and fledgling business owners.\r\n\r\nWhat I love about Startup Weekend Tulsa is that it\'s not just another one of those dumb business seminars that\'s a total waste of your time and patience. No one is going to preach at you all weekend long or try to sell you silver bullets that they promise will make you a millionaire in a week. Instead, you\'re going to have the freedom to move and shake and put a real, live business together, free of the distractions of every day life, all with your own two hands.\r\n\r\nI\'d expect you to take my word for it only so far. That\'s why I should probably tell you that three founders from the five companies started at the 2009 Startup Weekend Tulsa are now full-time entrepreneurs. One of them is my very loud and very awesome friend <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org/2010/11/03/swtulsa-2009-success-story-matt-galloway/\">Matt Galloway, founder of the company Architactile</a>, which made it into some of the final rounds of this year\'s <a href=\"http://www.tulsaspiritaward.com/\">Tulsa Entrepreneurial Spirit Award</a>. Another is <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/\">my partner in taco eating contests</a>, <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org/2010/11/03/swtulsa-2009-success-story-geoffrey-simpson/\">Geoffrey Simpson</a>. Now he heads up Diner Connection, a company that saves restaurant goers from those evil light-up buzzer thingies and replaces them with sleeker, cooler text messages.\r\n\r\nSo, yeah. Startup Weekend is the real deal. In the past three years, 115 Startup Weekend events have been held around the globe. Nearly 600 startups have seen their launch, more than 5,000 entrepreneurs have been inspired, and some teams even started to generate revenue during the event. SW veterans will tell you that it\'s one of the hardest, most intense, most rewarding weekends of your life.\r\n\r\nHere\'s how the Tulsa version is gonna go down:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 6pm: Doors Open. Eat and drink some free stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 7pm: Startup Weekend Tulsa 2010 starts. Squee!</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 7:45pm: Elevator pitches begin. What, did you think you were going to get to sit around and fish for lint in your belly button for awhile? Heck, no! This is Startup Weekend Tulsa we\'re talking about here. Get the hell moving.</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 8pm: Teams form.</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 9pm: Closing time. In other words, you don\'t have to go home, but you can\'t stay here. Teams often head to a bar or coffee shop to do yet more work.</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, 9am: Mornin\', sunshine! Doors open. Eat some brekkie - it\'s the most important meal of the day, especially when you\'re plotting business world domination. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided.</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, all day: Work, network, plan, research and generally put the smack down on your business idea. And maybe sing to it a little. (Karaoke systems/microphones not provided. Sorry.)</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, 9pm: Doors close. Blow off some steam with some libations.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9am: Doors open.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9am: It\'s the last day of Startup Weekend, so if I were you I\'d work, network, plan, research and take care of business at the speed of light. Or, at least at the speed of sound. And I\'d probably also look into getting a different hair cut. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 7pm: Final team presentations are due! Nervous? Just picture everyone in the crowd naked and you\'ll do great.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9pm: That\'s all, folks. You now have the tools to exchange the 9-5 for the 9-9. As in, 9am-9am. But hey, at least they\'re your hours and not some dude\'s in the corner office, right?</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nYou guys are chomping at the bit to go to this thing now, right? Well, that\'s good. Because I have two Tulsa Startup Weekend registrations, each a $75 value, to give to two lucky TDT readers. All you have to do is answer this simple question:\r\n\r\n<strong>Where were you when you had the lightbulb moment - the instant in which your business idea was born?</strong>\r\n\r\nOr!\r\n\r\n<strong>If you don\'t have a business idea in mind but would like to attend Startup Weekend to learn how start-ups work, what would you want your business to ultimately accomplish?\r\n</strong>\r\nI\'ll let Random.org pick the winners tomorrow bright and early at 8am. I\'ll post the winners soon after, so be sure to check back here to see if you\'re one of the lucky guys/gals.\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s a pretty sweet consolation prize in case you don\'t win: You can register for your spot at Startup Weekend\r\nfor less. Use the code SWTasha at checkout and get $25, or more than 30 percent, off the price of your pass. Sweet, right? I know. You\'re welcome.\r\n\r\nGood luck, and remember to say you knew me when - back before you became a famous, bad-ass business owner.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa Startup Weekend</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, 7pm-Sunday, 9pm\r\nWhere: TCC Center for Creativity, 9th and Boston in downtown Tulsa\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org\">tulsa.startupweekend.org</a>','Startup Weekend Tulsa: Jump, Baby, Jump. (Plus, a giveaway)','But have you ever wondered what it\'d be like to be your own boss? Do you have an idea for a product or service that\'s been floating around in your head for years, and you\'re just sure it\'d be the next big thing if only you have the time and energy to put behind getting it started? Then a chair at Startup Weekend Tulsa is the place to plant your butt.','inherit','open','open','','3595-revision-2','','','2010-11-10 12:30:38','2010-11-10 17:30:38','',3595,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3595-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(3599,1,'2010-11-10 12:30:38','2010-11-10 17:30:38','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3596\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/startup-weekend-tulsa-giveaway/swtulsa/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3596\" title=\"Startup Weekend Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/swtulsa-500x107.jpg\" alt=\"Startup Weekend Tulsa\" width=\"500\" height=\"107\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'m a blogger who rallies for the small fries, but I mean, I like corporate America as much as the next guy. After all, thanks in large part to corporate America, we have access to a lot of cool stuff: Cars smart enough to tell us how to get to our destinations. Phones that put the World Wide Web into the palms of our hands. Computers that can do 100 times as much in a fraction of the space than they could just a few decades ago. CEOs who break black turtlenecks out of the closets of theatre majors and French people and place them squarely into the hands of, well, anyone who can buy them at J. Crew.\r\n\r\nIt\'s created another thing over the years, too: The 9-5 corporate lackey.\r\n\r\nThere\'s lots that\'s actually pretty awesome about being a 9-5 corporate lackey. For one, someone else is in charge of making sure the company gets up and running each day (or has the responsibility of keeping it running 24/7). For two, someone else is usually in charge of earning the money to pay the salaries of you and your co-workers. For three, it\'s pretty nice when someone else picks up part of your health insurance tab or drops a little somethin\'-somethin\' into your 401k every once in awhile.\r\n\r\nBut have you ever wondered what it\'d be like to be your own boss? Do you have an idea for a product or service that\'s been floating around in your head for years, and you\'re just sure it\'d be the next big thing if only you have the time and energy to put behind getting it started? Can you imagine how fast those hours between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. would fly if they were your hours and didn\'t belong to someone else?\r\n\r\nThen starting Friday night, a chair at Startup Weekend Tulsa is the place to plant your butt.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\nBut wait - WTF is Startup Weekend Tulsa? I asked the same thing when I first heard about it, so I\'ll tell you what was told to me: <strong>It\'s a 54-hour bootcamp for entrepreneurs where there\'s a little less conversation and a little more action.</strong>\r\n\r\nThe goal of the weekend is to kick start ideas and jump start companies, to go from an idea to launch. It\'s an event that compresses the work of planning and researching and getting a business rolling - a process that normally takes six-12 months in the real world, and that\'s if you\'re lucky - into just one weekend.\r\n\r\nIn other words, <strong>it\'s the ultimate entrepreneurial immersion experience</strong>. It\'s like going to France for a year to learn to speak French like the French, except with Startup Weekend you\'re traveling to Entrepreneur Land to learn how to be fluent in business world ass-kicking.\r\n\r\nThe 2010 Startup Weekend Tulsa is our city\'s second event of its kind, and it\'s kicking off <a href=\"http://tulsagew.com/\">Tulsa\'s Global Entrepreneurship Week</a>, a celebration and recognition of the rich culture and community we have here in this town that supports dreamers, doers and fledgling business owners.\r\n\r\nWhat I love about Startup Weekend Tulsa is that it\'s not just another one of those dumb business seminars that\'s a total waste of your time and patience. No one is going to preach at you all weekend long or try to sell you silver bullets that they promise will make you a millionaire in a week. Instead, you\'re going to have the freedom to move and shake and put a real, live business together, free of the distractions of every day life, all with your own two hands.\r\n\r\nI\'d expect you to take my word for it only so far. That\'s why I should probably tell you that three founders from the five companies started at the 2009 Startup Weekend Tulsa are now full-time entrepreneurs. One of them is my very loud and very awesome friend <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org/2010/11/03/swtulsa-2009-success-story-matt-galloway/\">Matt Galloway, founder of the company Architactile</a>, which made it into some of the final rounds of this year\'s <a href=\"http://www.tulsaspiritaward.com/\">Tulsa Entrepreneurial Spirit Award</a>. Another is <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/\">my partner in taco eating contests</a>, <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org/2010/11/03/swtulsa-2009-success-story-geoffrey-simpson/\">Geoffrey Simpson</a>. Now he heads up Diner Connection, a company that saves restaurant goers from those evil light-up buzzer thingies and replaces them with sleeker, cooler text messages.\r\n\r\nSo, yeah. Startup Weekend is the real deal. In the past three years, 115 Startup Weekend events have been held around the globe. Nearly 600 startups have seen their launch, more than 5,000 entrepreneurs have been inspired, and some teams even started to generate revenue during the event. SW veterans will tell you that it\'s one of the hardest, most intense, most rewarding weekends of your life.\r\n\r\nHere\'s how the Tulsa version is gonna go down:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 6pm: Doors Open. Eat and drink some free stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 7pm: Startup Weekend Tulsa 2010 starts. Squee!</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 7:45pm: Elevator pitches begin. What, did you think you were going to get to sit around and fish for lint in your belly button for awhile? Heck, no! This is Startup Weekend Tulsa we\'re talking about here. Get the hell moving.</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 8pm: Teams form.</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 9pm: Closing time. In other words, you don\'t have to go home, but you can\'t stay here. Teams often head to a bar or coffee shop to do yet more work.</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, 9am: Mornin\', sunshine! Doors open. Eat some brekkie - it\'s the most important meal of the day, especially when you\'re plotting business world domination. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided.</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, all day: Work, network, plan, research and generally put the smack down on your business idea. And maybe sing to it a little. (Karaoke systems/microphones not provided. Sorry.)</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, 9pm: Doors close. Blow off some steam with some libations.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9am: Doors open.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9am: It\'s the last day of Startup Weekend, so if I were you I\'d work, network, plan, research and take care of business at the speed of light. Or, at least at the speed of sound. And I\'d probably also look into getting a different hair cut. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 7pm: Final team presentations are due! Nervous? Just picture everyone in the crowd naked and you\'ll do great.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9pm: That\'s all, folks. You now have the tools to exchange the 9-5 for the 9-9. As in, 9am-9am. But hey, at least they\'re your hours and not some dude\'s in the corner office, right?</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nYou guys are chomping at the bit to go to this thing now, right? Well, that\'s good. Because I have two Tulsa Startup Weekend registrations, each a $75 value, to give to two lucky TDT readers. All you have to do is answer this simple question:\r\n\r\n<strong>Where were you when you had the lightbulb moment - the instant in which your business idea was born?</strong>\r\n\r\nOr!\r\n\r\n<strong>If you don\'t have a business idea in mind but would like to attend Startup Weekend to learn how start-ups work, what would you want your business to ultimately accomplish?\r\n</strong>\r\nI\'ll let Random.org pick the winners tomorrow bright and early at 8am. I\'ll post the winners soon after, so be sure to check back here to see if you\'re one of the lucky guys/gals.\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s a pretty sweet consolation prize in case you don\'t win: You can register for your spot at Startup Weekend\r\nfor less. Use the code SWTasha at checkout and get $25, or more than 30 percent, off the price of your pass. Sweet, right? I know. You\'re welcome.\r\n\r\nGood luck, and remember to say you knew me when - back before you became a famous, bad-ass business owner.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa Startup Weekend</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, 7pm-Sunday, 9pm\r\nWhere: TCC Center for Creativity, 9th and Boston in downtown Tulsa\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org\">tulsa.startupweekend.org</a>','Startup Weekend Tulsa: Jump, Baby, Jump. (Plus, a giveaway)','But have you ever wondered what it\'d be like to be your own boss? Do you have an idea for a product or service that\'s been floating around in your head for years, and you\'re just sure it\'d be the next big thing if only you have the time and energy to put behind getting it started? Then a chair at Startup Weekend Tulsa is the place to plant your butt.','inherit','open','open','','3595-revision-3','','','2010-11-10 12:30:38','2010-11-10 17:30:38','',3595,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3595-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(3600,1,'2010-11-10 12:31:28','2010-11-10 17:31:28','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3596\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/startup-weekend-tulsa-giveaway/swtulsa/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3596\" title=\"Startup Weekend Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/swtulsa-500x107.jpg\" alt=\"Startup Weekend Tulsa\" width=\"500\" height=\"107\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'m a blogger who rallies for the small fries. But, I like corporate America as much as the next guy. After all, thanks in large part to corporate America, we have access to a lot of cool stuff: Cars smart enough to tell us how to get to our destinations. Phones that put the World Wide Web into the palms of our hands. Computers that can do 100 times as much in a fraction of the space than they could just a few decades ago. CEOs who break black turtlenecks out of the closets of theatre majors and French people and place them squarely into the hands of, well, anyone who can buy them at J. Crew.\r\n\r\nIt\'s created another thing over the years, too: The 9-5 corporate lackey.\r\n\r\nThere\'s lots that\'s actually pretty awesome about being a 9-5 corporate lackey. For one, someone else is in charge of making sure the company gets up and running each day (or has the responsibility of keeping it running 24/7). For two, someone else is usually in charge of earning the money to pay the salaries of you and your co-workers. For three, it\'s pretty nice when someone else picks up part of your health insurance tab or drops a little somethin\'-somethin\' into your 401k every once in awhile.\r\n\r\nBut have you ever wondered what it\'d be like to be your own boss? Do you have an idea for a product or service that\'s been floating around in your head for years, and you\'re just sure it\'d be the next big thing if only you have the time and energy to put behind getting it started? Can you imagine how fast those hours between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. would fly if they were your hours and didn\'t belong to someone else?\r\n\r\nThen starting Friday night, a chair at Startup Weekend Tulsa is the place to plant your butt.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\nBut wait - WTF is Startup Weekend Tulsa? I asked the same thing when I first heard about it, so I\'ll tell you what was told to me: <strong>It\'s a 54-hour bootcamp for entrepreneurs where there\'s a little less conversation and a little more action.</strong>\r\n\r\nThe goal of the weekend is to kick start ideas and jump start companies, to go from an idea to launch. It\'s an event that compresses the work of planning and researching and getting a business rolling - a process that normally takes six-12 months in the real world, and that\'s if you\'re lucky - into just one weekend.\r\n\r\nIn other words, <strong>it\'s the ultimate entrepreneurial immersion experience</strong>. It\'s like going to France for a year to learn to speak French like the French, except with Startup Weekend you\'re traveling to Entrepreneur Land to learn how to be fluent in business world ass-kicking.\r\n\r\nThe 2010 Startup Weekend Tulsa is our city\'s second event of its kind, and it\'s kicking off <a href=\"http://tulsagew.com/\">Tulsa\'s Global Entrepreneurship Week</a>, a celebration and recognition of the rich culture and community we have here in this town that supports dreamers, doers and fledgling business owners.\r\n\r\nWhat I love about Startup Weekend Tulsa is that it\'s not just another one of those dumb business seminars that\'s a total waste of your time and patience. No one is going to preach at you all weekend long or try to sell you silver bullets that they promise will make you a millionaire in a week. Instead, you\'re going to have the freedom to move and shake and put a real, live business together, free of the distractions of every day life, all with your own two hands.\r\n\r\nI\'d expect you to take my word for it only so far. That\'s why I should probably tell you that three founders from the five companies started at the 2009 Startup Weekend Tulsa are now full-time entrepreneurs. One of them is my very loud and very awesome friend <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org/2010/11/03/swtulsa-2009-success-story-matt-galloway/\">Matt Galloway, founder of the company Architactile</a>, which made it into some of the final rounds of this year\'s <a href=\"http://www.tulsaspiritaward.com/\">Tulsa Entrepreneurial Spirit Award</a>. Another is <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/\">my partner in taco eating contests</a>, <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org/2010/11/03/swtulsa-2009-success-story-geoffrey-simpson/\">Geoffrey Simpson</a>. Now he heads up Diner Connection, a company that saves restaurant goers from those evil light-up buzzer thingies and replaces them with sleeker, cooler text messages.\r\n\r\nSo, yeah. Startup Weekend is the real deal. In the past three years, 115 Startup Weekend events have been held around the globe. Nearly 600 startups have seen their launch, more than 5,000 entrepreneurs have been inspired, and some teams even started to generate revenue during the event. SW veterans will tell you that it\'s one of the hardest, most intense, most rewarding weekends of your life.\r\n\r\nHere\'s how the Tulsa version is gonna go down:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 6pm: Doors Open. Eat and drink some free stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 7pm: Startup Weekend Tulsa 2010 starts. Squee!</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 7:45pm: Elevator pitches begin. What, did you think you were going to get to sit around and fish for lint in your belly button for awhile? Heck, no! This is Startup Weekend Tulsa we\'re talking about here. Get the hell moving.</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 8pm: Teams form.</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 9pm: Closing time. In other words, you don\'t have to go home, but you can\'t stay here. Teams often head to a bar or coffee shop to do yet more work.</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, 9am: Mornin\', sunshine! Doors open. Eat some brekkie - it\'s the most important meal of the day, especially when you\'re plotting business world domination. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided.</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, all day: Work, network, plan, research and generally put the smack down on your business idea. And maybe sing to it a little. (Karaoke systems/microphones not provided. Sorry.)</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, 9pm: Doors close. Blow off some steam with some libations.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9am: Doors open.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9am: It\'s the last day of Startup Weekend, so if I were you I\'d work, network, plan, research and take care of business at the speed of light. Or, at least at the speed of sound. And I\'d probably also look into getting a different hair cut. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 7pm: Final team presentations are due! Nervous? Just picture everyone in the crowd naked and you\'ll do great.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9pm: That\'s all, folks. You now have the tools to exchange the 9-5 for the 9-9. As in, 9am-9am. But hey, at least they\'re your hours and not some dude\'s in the corner office, right?</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nYou guys are chomping at the bit to go to this thing now, right? Well, that\'s good. Because I have two Tulsa Startup Weekend registrations, each a $75 value, to give to two lucky TDT readers. All you have to do is answer this simple question:\r\n\r\n<strong>Where were you when you had the lightbulb moment - the instant in which your business idea was born?</strong>\r\n\r\nOr!\r\n\r\n<strong>If you don\'t have a business idea in mind but would like to attend Startup Weekend to learn how start-ups work, what would you want your business to ultimately accomplish?\r\n</strong>\r\nI\'ll let Random.org pick the winners tomorrow bright and early at 8am. I\'ll post the winners soon after, so be sure to check back here to see if you\'re one of the lucky guys/gals.\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s a pretty sweet consolation prize in case you don\'t win: You can register for your spot at Startup Weekend\r\nfor less. Use the code SWTasha at checkout and get $25, or more than 30 percent, off the price of your pass. Sweet, right? I know. You\'re welcome.\r\n\r\nGood luck, and remember to say you knew me when - back before you became a famous, bad-ass business owner.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa Startup Weekend</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, 7pm-Sunday, 9pm\r\nWhere: TCC Center for Creativity, 9th and Boston in downtown Tulsa\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org\">tulsa.startupweekend.org</a>','Startup Weekend Tulsa: Jump, Baby, Jump. (Plus, a giveaway)','But have you ever wondered what it\'d be like to be your own boss? Do you have an idea for a product or service that\'s been floating around in your head for years, and you\'re just sure it\'d be the next big thing if only you have the time and energy to put behind getting it started? Then a chair at Startup Weekend Tulsa is the place to plant your butt.','inherit','open','open','','3595-revision-4','','','2010-11-10 12:31:28','2010-11-10 17:31:28','',3595,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3595-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(3601,1,'2010-11-10 12:31:28','2010-11-10 17:31:28','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3596\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/startup-weekend-tulsa-giveaway/swtulsa/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3596\" title=\"Startup Weekend Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/swtulsa-500x107.jpg\" alt=\"Startup Weekend Tulsa\" width=\"500\" height=\"107\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'m a blogger who rallies for the small fries. But, I like corporate America as much as the next guy. After all, thanks in large part to corporate America, we have access to a lot of cool stuff: Cars smart enough to tell us how to get to our destinations. Phones that put the World Wide Web into the palms of our hands. Computers that can do 100 times as much in a fraction of the space than they could just a few decades ago. CEOs who break black turtlenecks out of the closets of theatre majors and French people and place them squarely into the hands of, well, anyone who can buy them at J. Crew.\r\n\r\nIt\'s created another thing over the years, too: The 9-5 corporate lackey.\r\n\r\nThere\'s lots that\'s actually pretty awesome about being a 9-5 corporate lackey. For one, someone else is in charge of making sure the company gets up and running each day (or has the responsibility of keeping it running 24/7). For two, someone else is usually in charge of earning the money to pay the salaries of you and your co-workers. For three, it\'s pretty nice when someone else picks up part of your health insurance tab or drops a little somethin\'-somethin\' into your 401k every once in awhile.\r\n\r\nBut have you ever wondered what it\'d be like to be your own boss? Do you have an idea for a product or service that\'s been floating around in your head for years, and you\'re just sure it\'d be the next big thing if only you have the time and energy to put behind getting it started? Can you imagine how fast those hours between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. would fly if they were your hours and didn\'t belong to someone else?\r\n\r\nThen starting Friday night, a chair at Startup Weekend Tulsa is the place to plant your butt.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\nBut wait - WTF is Startup Weekend Tulsa? I asked the same thing when I first heard about it, so I\'ll tell you what was told to me: <strong>It\'s a 54-hour bootcamp for entrepreneurs where there\'s a little less conversation and a little more action.</strong>\r\n\r\nThe goal of the weekend is to kick start ideas and jump start companies, to go from an idea to launch. It\'s an event that compresses the work of planning and researching and getting a business rolling - a process that normally takes six-12 months in the real world, and that\'s if you\'re lucky - into just one weekend.\r\n\r\nIn other words, <strong>it\'s the ultimate entrepreneurial immersion experience</strong>. It\'s like going to France for a year to learn to speak French like the French, except with Startup Weekend you\'re traveling to Entrepreneur Land to learn how to be fluent in business world ass-kicking.\r\n\r\nThe 2010 Startup Weekend Tulsa is our city\'s second event of its kind, and it\'s kicking off <a href=\"http://tulsagew.com/\">Tulsa\'s Global Entrepreneurship Week</a>, a celebration and recognition of the rich culture and community we have here in this town that supports dreamers, doers and fledgling business owners.\r\n\r\nWhat I love about Startup Weekend Tulsa is that it\'s not just another one of those dumb business seminars that\'s a total waste of your time and patience. No one is going to preach at you all weekend long or try to sell you silver bullets that they promise will make you a millionaire in a week. Instead, you\'re going to have the freedom to move and shake and put a real, live business together, free of the distractions of every day life, all with your own two hands.\r\n\r\nI\'d expect you to take my word for it only so far. That\'s why I should probably tell you that three founders from the five companies started at the 2009 Startup Weekend Tulsa are now full-time entrepreneurs. One of them is my very loud and very awesome friend <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org/2010/11/03/swtulsa-2009-success-story-matt-galloway/\">Matt Galloway, founder of the company Architactile</a>, which made it into some of the final rounds of this year\'s <a href=\"http://www.tulsaspiritaward.com/\">Tulsa Entrepreneurial Spirit Award</a>. Another is <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/\">my partner in taco eating contests</a>, <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org/2010/11/03/swtulsa-2009-success-story-geoffrey-simpson/\">Geoffrey Simpson</a>. Now he heads up Diner Connection, a company that saves restaurant goers from those evil light-up buzzer thingies and replaces them with sleeker, cooler text messages.\r\n\r\nSo, yeah. Startup Weekend is the real deal. In the past three years, 115 Startup Weekend events have been held around the globe. Nearly 600 startups have seen their launch, more than 5,000 entrepreneurs have been inspired, and some teams even started to generate revenue during the event. SW veterans will tell you that it\'s one of the hardest, most intense, most rewarding weekends of your life.\r\n\r\nHere\'s how the Tulsa version is gonna go down:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 6pm: Doors Open. Eat and drink some free stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 7pm: Startup Weekend Tulsa 2010 starts. Squee!</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 7:45pm: Elevator pitches begin. What, did you think you were going to get to sit around and fish for lint in your belly button for awhile? Heck, no! This is Startup Weekend Tulsa we\'re talking about here. Get the hell moving.</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 8pm: Teams form.</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 9pm: Closing time. In other words, you don\'t have to go home, but you can\'t stay here. Teams often head to a bar or coffee shop to do yet more work.</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, 9am: Mornin\', sunshine! Doors open. Eat some brekkie - it\'s the most important meal of the day, especially when you\'re plotting business world domination. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided.</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, all day: Work, network, plan, research and generally put the smack down on your business idea. And maybe sing to it a little. (Karaoke systems/microphones not provided. Sorry.)</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, 9pm: Doors close. Blow off some steam with some libations.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9am: Doors open.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9am: It\'s the last day of Startup Weekend, so if I were you I\'d work, network, plan, research and take care of business at the speed of light. Or, at least at the speed of sound. And I\'d probably also look into getting a different hair cut. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 7pm: Final team presentations are due! Nervous? Just picture everyone in the crowd naked and you\'ll do great.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9pm: That\'s all, folks. You now have the tools to exchange the 9-5 for the 9-9. As in, 9am-9am. But hey, at least they\'re your hours and not some dude\'s in the corner office, right?</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nYou guys are chomping at the bit to go to this thing now, right? Well, that\'s good. Because I have two Tulsa Startup Weekend registrations, each a $75 value, to give to two lucky TDT readers. All you have to do is answer this simple question:\r\n\r\n<strong>Where were you when you had the lightbulb moment - the instant in which your business idea was born?</strong>\r\n\r\nOr!\r\n\r\n<strong>If you don\'t have a business idea in mind but would like to attend Startup Weekend to learn how start-ups work, what would you want your business to ultimately accomplish?\r\n</strong>\r\nI\'ll let Random.org pick the winners tomorrow bright and early at 8am. I\'ll post the winners soon after, so be sure to check back here to see if you\'re one of the lucky guys/gals.\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s a pretty sweet consolation prize in case you don\'t win: You can register for your spot at Startup Weekend\r\nfor less. Use the code SWTasha at checkout and get $25, or more than 30 percent, off the price of your pass. Sweet, right? I know. You\'re welcome.\r\n\r\nGood luck, and remember to say you knew me when - back before you became a famous, bad-ass business owner.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa Startup Weekend</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, 7pm-Sunday, 9pm\r\nWhere: TCC Center for Creativity, 9th and Boston in downtown Tulsa\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org\">tulsa.startupweekend.org</a>','Startup Weekend Tulsa: Jump, Baby, Jump. (Plus, a giveaway)','But have you ever wondered what it\'d be like to be your own boss? Do you have an idea for a product or service that\'s been floating around in your head for years, and you\'re just sure it\'d be the next big thing if only you have the time and energy to put behind getting it started? Then a chair at Startup Weekend Tulsa is the place to plant your butt.','inherit','open','open','','3595-revision-5','','','2010-11-10 12:31:28','2010-11-10 17:31:28','',3595,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3595-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(3602,1,'2010-11-10 12:33:10','2010-11-10 17:33:10','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3596\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/startup-weekend-tulsa-giveaway/swtulsa/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3596\" title=\"Startup Weekend Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/swtulsa-500x107.jpg\" alt=\"Startup Weekend Tulsa\" width=\"500\" height=\"107\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'m a blogger who rallies for the small fries. But, I like corporate America as much as the next guy. After all, thanks in large part to corporate America, we have access to a lot of cool stuff: Cars smart enough to tell us how to get to our destinations. Phones that put the World Wide Web into the palms of our hands. Computers that can do 100 times as much in a fraction of the space than they could just a few decades ago. CEOs who break black turtlenecks out of the closets of theatre majors and French people and place them squarely into the hands of, well, anyone who can buy them at J. Crew.\r\n\r\nIt\'s created another thing over the years, too: The 9-5 corporate lackey.\r\n\r\nThere\'s lots that\'s actually pretty awesome about being a 9-5 corporate lackey. For one, someone else is in charge of making sure the company gets up and running each day (or has the responsibility of keeping it running 24/7). For two, someone else is usually in charge of earning the money to pay the salaries of you and your co-workers. For three, it\'s pretty nice when someone else picks up part of your health insurance tab or drops a little somethin\'-somethin\' into your 401k every once in awhile.\r\n\r\nBut have you ever wondered what it\'d be like to be your own boss? Do you have an idea for a product or service that\'s been floating around in your head for years, and you\'re just sure it\'d be the next big thing if only you have the time and energy to put behind getting it started? Can you imagine how fast those hours between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. would fly if they were your hours and didn\'t belong to someone else?\r\n\r\nThen starting Friday night, a chair at Startup Weekend Tulsa is the place to plant your butt.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\nBut wait - WTF is Startup Weekend Tulsa? I asked the same thing when I first heard about it, so I\'ll tell you what was told to me: <strong>It\'s a 54-hour bootcamp for entrepreneurs where there\'s a little less conversation and a little more action.</strong>\r\n\r\nThe goal of the weekend is to kick start ideas and jump start companies, to go from an idea to launch. It\'s an event that compresses the work of planning and researching and getting a business rolling - a process that normally takes six-12 months in the real world, and that\'s if you\'re lucky - into just one weekend.\r\n\r\nIn other words, <strong>it\'s the ultimate entrepreneurial immersion experience</strong>. It\'s like going to France for a year to learn to speak French like the French, except with Startup Weekend you\'re traveling to Entrepreneur Land to learn how to be fluent in kicking ass in the business world.\r\n\r\nThe 2010 Startup Weekend Tulsa is our city\'s second event of its kind, and it\'s kicking off <a href=\"http://tulsagew.com/\">Tulsa\'s Global Entrepreneurship Week</a>, a celebration and recognition of the rich culture and community we have here in this town that supports dreamers, doers and fledgling business owners.\r\n\r\nWhat I love about Startup Weekend Tulsa is that it\'s not just another one of those dumb business seminars that\'s a total waste of your time and patience. No one is going to preach at you all weekend long or try to sell you silver bullets that they promise will make you a millionaire in a week. Instead, you\'re going to have the freedom to move and shake and put a real, live business together, free of the distractions of every day life, all with your own two hands.\r\n\r\nI\'d expect you to take my word for it only so far. That\'s why I should probably tell you that three founders from the five companies started at the 2009 Startup Weekend Tulsa are now full-time entrepreneurs. One of them is my very loud and very awesome friend <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org/2010/11/03/swtulsa-2009-success-story-matt-galloway/\">Matt Galloway, founder of the company Architactile</a>, which made it into some of the final rounds of this year\'s <a href=\"http://www.tulsaspiritaward.com/\">Tulsa Entrepreneurial Spirit Award</a>. Another is <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/\">my partner in taco eating contests</a>, <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org/2010/11/03/swtulsa-2009-success-story-geoffrey-simpson/\">Geoffrey Simpson</a>. Now he heads up Diner Connection, a company that saves restaurant goers from those evil light-up buzzer thingies and replaces them with sleeker, cooler text messages.\r\n\r\nSo, yeah. Startup Weekend is the real deal. In the past three years, 115 Startup Weekend events have been held around the globe. Nearly 600 startups have seen their launch, more than 5,000 entrepreneurs have been inspired, and some teams even started to generate revenue during the event. SW veterans will tell you that it\'s one of the hardest, most intense, most rewarding weekends of your life.\r\n\r\nHere\'s how the Tulsa version is gonna go down:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 6pm: Doors Open. Eat and drink some free stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 7pm: Startup Weekend Tulsa 2010 starts. Squee!</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 7:45pm: Elevator pitches begin. What, did you think you were going to get to sit around and fish for lint in your belly button for awhile? Heck, no! This is Startup Weekend Tulsa we\'re talking about here. Get the hell moving.</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 8pm: Teams form.</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 9pm: Closing time. In other words, you don\'t have to go home, but you can\'t stay here. Teams often head to a bar or coffee shop to do yet more work.</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, 9am: Mornin\', sunshine! Doors open. Eat some brekkie - it\'s the most important meal of the day, especially when you\'re plotting business world domination. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided.</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, all day: Work, network, plan, research and generally put the smack down on your business idea. And maybe sing to it a little. (Karaoke systems/microphones not provided. Sorry.)</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, 9pm: Doors close. Blow off some steam with some libations.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9am: Doors open.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9am: It\'s the last day of Startup Weekend, so if I were you I\'d work, network, plan, research and take care of business at the speed of light. Or, at least at the speed of sound. And I\'d probably also look into getting a different hair cut. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 7pm: Final team presentations are due! Nervous? Just picture everyone in the crowd naked and you\'ll do great.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9pm: That\'s all, folks. You now have the tools to exchange the 9-5 for the 9-9. As in, 9am-9am. But hey, at least they\'re your hours and not some dude\'s in the corner office, right?</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nYou guys are chomping at the bit to go to this thing now, right? Well, that\'s good. Because I have two Tulsa Startup Weekend registrations, each a $75 value, to give to two lucky TDT readers. All you have to do is answer this simple question:\r\n\r\n<strong>Where were you when you had the lightbulb moment - the instant in which your business idea was born?</strong>\r\n\r\nOr!\r\n\r\n<strong>If you don\'t have a business idea in mind but would like to attend Startup Weekend to learn how start-ups work, what would you want your business to ultimately accomplish?\r\n</strong>\r\nI\'ll let Random.org pick the winners tomorrow bright and early at 8am. I\'ll post the winners soon after, so be sure to check back here to see if you\'re one of the lucky guys/gals.\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s a pretty sweet consolation prize in case you don\'t win: You can register for your spot at Startup Weekend\r\nfor less. Use the code SWTasha at checkout and get $25, or more than 30 percent, off the price of your pass. Sweet, right? I know. You\'re welcome.\r\n\r\nGood luck, and remember to say you knew me when - back before you became a famous, bad-ass business owner.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa Startup Weekend</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, 7pm-Sunday, 9pm\r\nWhere: TCC Center for Creativity, 9th and Boston in downtown Tulsa\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org\">tulsa.startupweekend.org</a>','Startup Weekend Tulsa: Jump, Baby, Jump. (Plus, a giveaway)','But have you ever wondered what it\'d be like to be your own boss? Do you have an idea for a product or service that\'s been floating around in your head for years, and you\'re just sure it\'d be the next big thing if only you have the time and energy to put behind getting it started? Then a chair at Startup Weekend Tulsa is the place to plant your butt.','inherit','open','open','','3595-revision-6','','','2010-11-10 12:33:10','2010-11-10 17:33:10','',3595,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3595-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(3603,1,'2010-11-10 12:33:10','2010-11-10 17:33:10','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3596\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/startup-weekend-tulsa-giveaway/swtulsa/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3596\" title=\"Startup Weekend Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/swtulsa-500x107.jpg\" alt=\"Startup Weekend Tulsa\" width=\"500\" height=\"107\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'m a blogger who rallies for the small fries. But, I like corporate America as much as the next guy. After all, thanks in large part to corporate America, we have access to a lot of cool stuff: Cars smart enough to tell us how to get to our destinations. Phones that put the World Wide Web into the palms of our hands. Computers that can do 100 times as much in a fraction of the space than they could just a few decades ago. CEOs who break black turtlenecks out of the closets of theatre majors and French people and place them squarely into the hands of, well, anyone who can buy them at J. Crew.\r\n\r\nIt\'s created another thing over the years, too: The 9-5 corporate lackey.\r\n\r\nThere\'s lots that\'s actually pretty awesome about being a 9-5 corporate lackey. For one, someone else is in charge of making sure the company gets up and running each day (or has the responsibility of keeping it running 24/7). For two, someone else is usually in charge of earning the money to pay the salaries of you and your co-workers. For three, it\'s pretty nice when someone else picks up part of your health insurance tab or drops a little somethin\'-somethin\' into your 401k every once in awhile.\r\n\r\nBut have you ever wondered what it\'d be like to be your own boss? Do you have an idea for a product or service that\'s been floating around in your head for years, and you\'re just sure it\'d be the next big thing if only you have the time and energy to put behind getting it started? Can you imagine how fast those hours between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. would fly if they were your hours and didn\'t belong to someone else?\r\n\r\nThen starting Friday night, a chair at Startup Weekend Tulsa is the place to plant your butt.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\nBut wait - WTF is Startup Weekend Tulsa? I asked the same thing when I first heard about it, so I\'ll tell you what was told to me: <strong>It\'s a 54-hour bootcamp for entrepreneurs where there\'s a little less conversation and a little more action.</strong>\r\n\r\nThe goal of the weekend is to kick start ideas and jump start companies, to go from an idea to launch. It\'s an event that compresses the work of planning and researching and getting a business rolling - a process that normally takes six-12 months in the real world, and that\'s if you\'re lucky - into just one weekend.\r\n\r\nIn other words, <strong>it\'s the ultimate entrepreneurial immersion experience</strong>. It\'s like going to France for a year to learn to speak French like the French, except with Startup Weekend you\'re traveling to Entrepreneur Land to learn how to be fluent in kicking ass in the business world.\r\n\r\nThe 2010 Startup Weekend Tulsa is our city\'s second event of its kind, and it\'s kicking off <a href=\"http://tulsagew.com/\">Tulsa\'s Global Entrepreneurship Week</a>, a celebration and recognition of the rich culture and community we have here in this town that supports dreamers, doers and fledgling business owners.\r\n\r\nWhat I love about Startup Weekend Tulsa is that it\'s not just another one of those dumb business seminars that\'s a total waste of your time and patience. No one is going to preach at you all weekend long or try to sell you silver bullets that they promise will make you a millionaire in a week. Instead, you\'re going to have the freedom to move and shake and put a real, live business together, free of the distractions of every day life, all with your own two hands.\r\n\r\nI\'d expect you to take my word for it only so far. That\'s why I should probably tell you that three founders from the five companies started at the 2009 Startup Weekend Tulsa are now full-time entrepreneurs. One of them is my very loud and very awesome friend <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org/2010/11/03/swtulsa-2009-success-story-matt-galloway/\">Matt Galloway, founder of the company Architactile</a>, which made it into some of the final rounds of this year\'s <a href=\"http://www.tulsaspiritaward.com/\">Tulsa Entrepreneurial Spirit Award</a>. Another is <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/\">my partner in taco eating contests</a>, <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org/2010/11/03/swtulsa-2009-success-story-geoffrey-simpson/\">Geoffrey Simpson</a>. Now he heads up Diner Connection, a company that saves restaurant goers from those evil light-up buzzer thingies and replaces them with sleeker, cooler text messages.\r\n\r\nSo, yeah. Startup Weekend is the real deal. In the past three years, 115 Startup Weekend events have been held around the globe. Nearly 600 startups have seen their launch, more than 5,000 entrepreneurs have been inspired, and some teams even started to generate revenue during the event. SW veterans will tell you that it\'s one of the hardest, most intense, most rewarding weekends of your life.\r\n\r\nHere\'s how the Tulsa version is gonna go down:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 6pm: Doors Open. Eat and drink some free stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 7pm: Startup Weekend Tulsa 2010 starts. Squee!</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 7:45pm: Elevator pitches begin. What, did you think you were going to get to sit around and fish for lint in your belly button for awhile? Heck, no! This is Startup Weekend Tulsa we\'re talking about here. Get the hell moving.</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 8pm: Teams form.</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 9pm: Closing time. In other words, you don\'t have to go home, but you can\'t stay here. Teams often head to a bar or coffee shop to do yet more work.</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, 9am: Mornin\', sunshine! Doors open. Eat some brekkie - it\'s the most important meal of the day, especially when you\'re plotting business world domination. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided.</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, all day: Work, network, plan, research and generally put the smack down on your business idea. And maybe sing to it a little. (Karaoke systems/microphones not provided. Sorry.)</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, 9pm: Doors close. Blow off some steam with some libations.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9am: Doors open.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9am: It\'s the last day of Startup Weekend, so if I were you I\'d work, network, plan, research and take care of business at the speed of light. Or, at least at the speed of sound. And I\'d probably also look into getting a different hair cut. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 7pm: Final team presentations are due! Nervous? Just picture everyone in the crowd naked and you\'ll do great.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9pm: That\'s all, folks. You now have the tools to exchange the 9-5 for the 9-9. As in, 9am-9am. But hey, at least they\'re your hours and not some dude\'s in the corner office, right?</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nYou guys are chomping at the bit to go to this thing now, right? Well, that\'s good. Because I have two Tulsa Startup Weekend registrations, each a $75 value, to give to two lucky TDT readers. All you have to do is answer this simple question:\r\n\r\n<strong>Where were you when you had the lightbulb moment - the instant in which your business idea was born?</strong>\r\n\r\nOr!\r\n\r\n<strong>If you don\'t have a business idea in mind but would like to attend Startup Weekend to learn how start-ups work, what would you want your business to ultimately accomplish?\r\n</strong>\r\nI\'ll let Random.org pick the winners tomorrow bright and early at 8am. I\'ll post the winners soon after, so be sure to check back here to see if you\'re one of the lucky guys/gals.\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s a pretty sweet consolation prize in case you don\'t win: You can register for your spot at Startup Weekend\r\nfor less. Use the code SWTasha at checkout and get $25, or more than 30 percent, off the price of your pass. Sweet, right? I know. You\'re welcome.\r\n\r\nGood luck, and remember to say you knew me when - back before you became a famous, bad-ass business owner.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa Startup Weekend</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, 7pm-Sunday, 9pm\r\nWhere: TCC Center for Creativity, 9th and Boston in downtown Tulsa\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org\">tulsa.startupweekend.org</a>','Startup Weekend Tulsa: Jump, Baby, Jump. (Plus, a giveaway)','But have you ever wondered what it\'d be like to be your own boss? Do you have an idea for a product or service that\'s been floating around in your head for years, and you\'re just sure it\'d be the next big thing if only you have the time and energy to put behind getting it started? Then a chair at Startup Weekend Tulsa is the place to plant your butt.','inherit','open','open','','3595-revision-7','','','2010-11-10 12:33:10','2010-11-10 17:33:10','',3595,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3595-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(3604,1,'2010-11-10 12:33:46','2010-11-10 17:33:46','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3596\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/startup-weekend-tulsa-giveaway/swtulsa/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3596\" title=\"Startup Weekend Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/swtulsa-500x107.jpg\" alt=\"Startup Weekend Tulsa\" width=\"500\" height=\"107\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'m a blogger who rallies for the small fries. But, I like corporate America as much as the next guy. After all, thanks in large part to corporate America, we have access to a lot of cool stuff: Cars smart enough to tell us how to get to our destinations. Phones that put the World Wide Web into the palms of our hands. Computers that can do 100 times as much in a fraction of the space than they could just a few decades ago. CEOs who break black turtlenecks out of the closets of theatre majors and French people and place them squarely into the hands of, well, anyone who can buy them at J. Crew.\r\n\r\nIt\'s created another thing over the years, too: The 9-5 corporate lackey.\r\n\r\nThere\'s lots that\'s actually pretty awesome about being a 9-5 corporate lackey. For one, someone else is in charge of making sure the company gets up and running each day (or has the responsibility of keeping it running 24/7). For two, someone else is usually in charge of earning the money to pay the salaries of you and your co-workers. For three, it\'s pretty nice when someone else picks up part of your health insurance tab or drops a little somethin\'-somethin\' into your 401k every once in awhile.\r\n\r\nBut have you ever wondered what it\'d be like to be your own boss? Do you have an idea for a product or service that\'s been floating around in your head for years, and you\'re just sure it\'d be the next big thing if only you have the time and energy to put behind getting it started? Can you imagine how fast those hours between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. would fly if they were your hours and didn\'t belong to someone else?\r\n\r\nThen starting Friday night, a chair at Startup Weekend Tulsa is the place to plant your butt.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\nBut wait - WTF is Startup Weekend Tulsa? I asked the same thing when I first heard about it, so I\'ll tell you what was told to me: <strong>It\'s a 54-hour bootcamp for entrepreneurs where there\'s a little less conversation and a little more action.</strong>\r\n\r\nThe goal of the weekend is to kick start ideas and jump start companies, to go from an idea to launch. It\'s an event that compresses the work of planning and researching and getting a business rolling - a process that normally takes six-12 months in the real world, and that\'s if you\'re lucky - into just one weekend.\r\n\r\nIn other words, <strong>it\'s the ultimate entrepreneurial immersion experience</strong>. It\'s like going to France for a year to learn to speak French like the French, except with Startup Weekend you\'re traveling to Entrepreneur Land to learn how to be fluent in kicking ass in the business world.\r\n\r\nThe 2010 Startup Weekend Tulsa is our city\'s second event of its kind, and it\'s kicking off <a href=\"http://tulsagew.com/\">Tulsa\'s Global Entrepreneurship Week</a>, a celebration and recognition of the rich culture and community we have here in this town that supports dreamers, doers and fledgling business owners.\r\n\r\nWhat I love about Startup Weekend Tulsa is that it\'s not just another one of those dumb business seminars that\'s a total waste of your time and patience. No one is going to preach at you all weekend long or try to sell you silver bullets that they promise will make you a millionaire in a week. Instead, you\'re going to have the freedom to move and shake and put a real, live business together, free of the distractions of every day life, all with your own two hands.\r\n\r\nI\'d expect you to take my word for it only so far. That\'s why I should probably tell you that three founders from the five companies started at the 2009 Startup Weekend Tulsa are now full-time entrepreneurs. One of them is my very loud and very awesome friend <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org/2010/11/03/swtulsa-2009-success-story-matt-galloway/\">Matt Galloway, founder of the company Architactile</a>, which made it into some of the final rounds of this year\'s <a href=\"http://www.tulsaspiritaward.com/\">Tulsa Entrepreneurial Spirit Award</a>. Another is <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/\">my partner in taco eating contests</a>, <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org/2010/11/03/swtulsa-2009-success-story-geoffrey-simpson/\">Geoffrey Simpson</a>. Now he heads up Diner Connection, a company that saves restaurant goers from those evil light-up buzzer thingies and replaces them with sleeker, cooler text messages.\r\n\r\nSo, yeah. Startup Weekend is the real deal. In the past three years, 115 Startup Weekend events have been held around the globe. Nearly 600 startups have seen their launch, more than 5,000 entrepreneurs have been inspired, and some teams even started to generate revenue during the event. SW veterans will tell you that it\'s one of the hardest, most intense, most rewarding weekends of your life.\r\n\r\nHere\'s how the Tulsa version is gonna go down:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 6pm: Doors Open. Eat and drink some free stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 7pm: Startup Weekend Tulsa 2010 starts. Squee!</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 7:45pm: Elevator pitches begin. What, did you think you were going to get to sit around and fish for lint in your belly button for awhile? Heck, no! This is Startup Weekend Tulsa we\'re talking about here. Get the hell moving.</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 8pm: Teams form.</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 9pm: Closing time. In other words, you don\'t have to go home, but you can\'t stay here. Teams often head to a bar or coffee shop to do yet more work.</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, 9am: Mornin\', sunshine! Doors open. Eat some brekkie - it\'s the most important meal of the day, especially when you\'re plotting business world domination. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided.</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, all day: Work, network, plan, research and generally put the smack down on your business idea. And maybe sing to it a little. (Karaoke systems/microphones not provided. Sorry.)</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, 9pm: Doors close. Blow off some steam with some libations.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9am: Doors open.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9am: It\'s the last day of Startup Weekend, so if I were you I\'d work, network, plan, research and take care of business at the speed of light. Or, at least at the speed of sound. And I\'d probably also look into getting a different hair cut. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 7pm: Final team presentations are due! Nervous? Just picture everyone in the crowd naked and you\'ll do great.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9pm: That\'s all, folks. You now have the tools to exchange the 9-5 for the 9-9. As in, 9am-9am. But hey, at least they\'re your hours and not some dude\'s in the corner office, right?</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nYou guys are chomping at the bit to go to this thing now, right? Well, that\'s good. Because I have two Tulsa Startup Weekend registrations, each a $75 value, to give to two lucky TDT readers. All you have to do is answer this simple question:\r\n\r\n<strong>Where were you when you had the lightbulb moment - the instant in which your business idea was born?</strong>\r\n\r\nOr!\r\n\r\n<strong>If you don\'t have a business idea in mind but would like to attend Startup Weekend to learn how start-ups work, what would you want your business to ultimately accomplish?\r\n</strong>\r\nI\'ll let Random.org pick the winners tomorrow bright and early at 8am. I\'ll post the winners soon after, so be sure to check back here to see if you\'re one of the lucky guys/gals.\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s a pretty sweet consolation prize in case you don\'t win: You can register for your spot at Startup Weekend\r\nfor less. Use the code SWTasha at checkout and get $25, or more than 30 percent, off the price of your pass. Sweet, right? I know. You\'re welcome.\r\n\r\nGood luck, and remember to say you knew me when - back before you became a famous, bad-ass business owner.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa Startup Weekend</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, 7pm-Sunday, 9pm\r\nWhere: TCC Center for Creativity, 9th and Boston in downtown Tulsa\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org\">tulsa.startupweekend.org</a>\r\n\r\n<em>Tasha\'s note: This giveaway is sponsored by <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org/\">Startup Weekend Tulsa</a>.</em>','Startup Weekend Tulsa: Jump, Baby, Jump. (Plus, a giveaway)','But have you ever wondered what it\'d be like to be your own boss? Do you have an idea for a product or service that\'s been floating around in your head for years, and you\'re just sure it\'d be the next big thing if only you have the time and energy to put behind getting it started? Then a chair at Startup Weekend Tulsa is the place to plant your butt.','inherit','open','open','','3595-revision-8','','','2010-11-10 12:33:46','2010-11-10 17:33:46','',3595,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3595-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(3605,1,'2010-11-10 12:33:46','2010-11-10 17:33:46','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3596\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/startup-weekend-tulsa-giveaway/swtulsa/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3596\" title=\"Startup Weekend Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/swtulsa-500x107.jpg\" alt=\"Startup Weekend Tulsa\" width=\"500\" height=\"107\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'m a blogger who rallies for the small fries. But, I like corporate America as much as the next guy. After all, thanks in large part to corporate America, we have access to a lot of cool stuff: Cars smart enough to tell us how to get to our destinations. Phones that put the World Wide Web into the palms of our hands. Computers that can do 100 times as much in a fraction of the space than they could just a few decades ago. CEOs who break black turtlenecks out of the closets of theatre majors and French people and place them squarely into the hands of, well, anyone who can buy them at J. Crew.\r\n\r\nIt\'s created another thing over the years, too: The 9-5 corporate lackey.\r\n\r\nThere\'s lots that\'s actually pretty awesome about being a 9-5 corporate lackey. For one, someone else is in charge of making sure the company gets up and running each day (or has the responsibility of keeping it running 24/7). For two, someone else is usually in charge of earning the money to pay the salaries of you and your co-workers. For three, it\'s pretty nice when someone else picks up part of your health insurance tab or drops a little somethin\'-somethin\' into your 401k every once in awhile.\r\n\r\nBut have you ever wondered what it\'d be like to be your own boss? Do you have an idea for a product or service that\'s been floating around in your head for years, and you\'re just sure it\'d be the next big thing if only you have the time and energy to put behind getting it started? Can you imagine how fast those hours between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. would fly if they were your hours and didn\'t belong to someone else?\r\n\r\nThen starting Friday night, a chair at Startup Weekend Tulsa is the place to plant your butt.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\nBut wait - WTF is Startup Weekend Tulsa? I asked the same thing when I first heard about it, so I\'ll tell you what was told to me: <strong>It\'s a 54-hour bootcamp for entrepreneurs where there\'s a little less conversation and a little more action.</strong>\r\n\r\nThe goal of the weekend is to kick start ideas and jump start companies, to go from an idea to launch. It\'s an event that compresses the work of planning and researching and getting a business rolling - a process that normally takes six-12 months in the real world, and that\'s if you\'re lucky - into just one weekend.\r\n\r\nIn other words, <strong>it\'s the ultimate entrepreneurial immersion experience</strong>. It\'s like going to France for a year to learn to speak French like the French, except with Startup Weekend you\'re traveling to Entrepreneur Land to learn how to be fluent in kicking ass in the business world.\r\n\r\nThe 2010 Startup Weekend Tulsa is our city\'s second event of its kind, and it\'s kicking off <a href=\"http://tulsagew.com/\">Tulsa\'s Global Entrepreneurship Week</a>, a celebration and recognition of the rich culture and community we have here in this town that supports dreamers, doers and fledgling business owners.\r\n\r\nWhat I love about Startup Weekend Tulsa is that it\'s not just another one of those dumb business seminars that\'s a total waste of your time and patience. No one is going to preach at you all weekend long or try to sell you silver bullets that they promise will make you a millionaire in a week. Instead, you\'re going to have the freedom to move and shake and put a real, live business together, free of the distractions of every day life, all with your own two hands.\r\n\r\nI\'d expect you to take my word for it only so far. That\'s why I should probably tell you that three founders from the five companies started at the 2009 Startup Weekend Tulsa are now full-time entrepreneurs. One of them is my very loud and very awesome friend <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org/2010/11/03/swtulsa-2009-success-story-matt-galloway/\">Matt Galloway, founder of the company Architactile</a>, which made it into some of the final rounds of this year\'s <a href=\"http://www.tulsaspiritaward.com/\">Tulsa Entrepreneurial Spirit Award</a>. Another is <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/\">my partner in taco eating contests</a>, <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org/2010/11/03/swtulsa-2009-success-story-geoffrey-simpson/\">Geoffrey Simpson</a>. Now he heads up Diner Connection, a company that saves restaurant goers from those evil light-up buzzer thingies and replaces them with sleeker, cooler text messages.\r\n\r\nSo, yeah. Startup Weekend is the real deal. In the past three years, 115 Startup Weekend events have been held around the globe. Nearly 600 startups have seen their launch, more than 5,000 entrepreneurs have been inspired, and some teams even started to generate revenue during the event. SW veterans will tell you that it\'s one of the hardest, most intense, most rewarding weekends of your life.\r\n\r\nHere\'s how the Tulsa version is gonna go down:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 6pm: Doors Open. Eat and drink some free stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 7pm: Startup Weekend Tulsa 2010 starts. Squee!</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 7:45pm: Elevator pitches begin. What, did you think you were going to get to sit around and fish for lint in your belly button for awhile? Heck, no! This is Startup Weekend Tulsa we\'re talking about here. Get the hell moving.</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 8pm: Teams form.</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 9pm: Closing time. In other words, you don\'t have to go home, but you can\'t stay here. Teams often head to a bar or coffee shop to do yet more work.</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, 9am: Mornin\', sunshine! Doors open. Eat some brekkie - it\'s the most important meal of the day, especially when you\'re plotting business world domination. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided.</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, all day: Work, network, plan, research and generally put the smack down on your business idea. And maybe sing to it a little. (Karaoke systems/microphones not provided. Sorry.)</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, 9pm: Doors close. Blow off some steam with some libations.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9am: Doors open.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9am: It\'s the last day of Startup Weekend, so if I were you I\'d work, network, plan, research and take care of business at the speed of light. Or, at least at the speed of sound. And I\'d probably also look into getting a different hair cut. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 7pm: Final team presentations are due! Nervous? Just picture everyone in the crowd naked and you\'ll do great.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9pm: That\'s all, folks. You now have the tools to exchange the 9-5 for the 9-9. As in, 9am-9am. But hey, at least they\'re your hours and not some dude\'s in the corner office, right?</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nYou guys are chomping at the bit to go to this thing now, right? Well, that\'s good. Because I have two Tulsa Startup Weekend registrations, each a $75 value, to give to two lucky TDT readers. All you have to do is answer this simple question:\r\n\r\n<strong>Where were you when you had the lightbulb moment - the instant in which your business idea was born?</strong>\r\n\r\nOr!\r\n\r\n<strong>If you don\'t have a business idea in mind but would like to attend Startup Weekend to learn how start-ups work, what would you want your business to ultimately accomplish?\r\n</strong>\r\nI\'ll let Random.org pick the winners tomorrow bright and early at 8am. I\'ll post the winners soon after, so be sure to check back here to see if you\'re one of the lucky guys/gals.\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s a pretty sweet consolation prize in case you don\'t win: You can register for your spot at Startup Weekend\r\nfor less. Use the code SWTasha at checkout and get $25, or more than 30 percent, off the price of your pass. Sweet, right? I know. You\'re welcome.\r\n\r\nGood luck, and remember to say you knew me when - back before you became a famous, bad-ass business owner.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa Startup Weekend</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, 7pm-Sunday, 9pm\r\nWhere: TCC Center for Creativity, 9th and Boston in downtown Tulsa\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org\">tulsa.startupweekend.org</a>\r\n\r\n<em>Tasha\'s note: This giveaway is sponsored by <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org/\">Startup Weekend Tulsa</a>.</em>','Startup Weekend Tulsa: Jump, Baby, Jump. (Plus, a giveaway)','But have you ever wondered what it\'d be like to be your own boss? Do you have an idea for a product or service that\'s been floating around in your head for years, and you\'re just sure it\'d be the next big thing if only you have the time and energy to put behind getting it started? Then a chair at Startup Weekend Tulsa is the place to plant your butt.','inherit','open','open','','3595-revision-9','','','2010-11-10 12:33:46','2010-11-10 17:33:46','',3595,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3595-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(3606,1,'2010-11-10 12:34:01','2010-11-10 17:34:01','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3596\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/startup-weekend-tulsa-giveaway/swtulsa/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3596\" title=\"Startup Weekend Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/swtulsa-500x107.jpg\" alt=\"Startup Weekend Tulsa\" width=\"500\" height=\"107\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'m a blogger who rallies for the small fries. But, I like corporate America as much as the next guy. After all, thanks in large part to corporate America, we have access to a lot of cool stuff: Cars smart enough to tell us how to get to our destinations. Phones that put the World Wide Web into the palms of our hands. Computers that can do 100 times as much in a fraction of the space than they could just a few decades ago. CEOs who break black turtlenecks out of the closets of theatre majors and French people and place them squarely into the hands of, well, anyone who can buy them at J. Crew.\r\n\r\nIt\'s created another thing over the years, too: The 9-5 corporate lackey.\r\n\r\nThere\'s lots that\'s actually pretty awesome about being a 9-5 corporate lackey. For one, someone else is in charge of making sure the company gets up and running each day (or has the responsibility of keeping it running 24/7). For two, someone else is usually in charge of earning the money to pay the salaries of you and your co-workers. For three, it\'s pretty nice when someone else picks up part of your health insurance tab or drops a little somethin\'-somethin\' into your 401k every once in awhile.\r\n\r\nBut have you ever wondered what it\'d be like to be your own boss? Do you have an idea for a product or service that\'s been floating around in your head for years, and you\'re just sure it\'d be the next big thing if only you have the time and energy to put behind getting it started? Can you imagine how fast those hours between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. would fly if they were your hours and didn\'t belong to someone else?\r\n\r\nThen starting Friday night, a chair at Startup Weekend Tulsa is the place to plant your butt.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\nBut wait - WTF is Startup Weekend Tulsa? I asked the same thing when I first heard about it, so I\'ll tell you what was told to me: <strong>It\'s a 54-hour bootcamp for entrepreneurs where there\'s a little less conversation and a little more action.</strong>\r\n\r\nThe goal of the weekend is to kick start ideas and jump start companies, to go from an idea to launch. It\'s an event that compresses the work of planning and researching and getting a business rolling - a process that normally takes six-12 months in the real world, and that\'s if you\'re lucky - into just one weekend.\r\n\r\nIn other words, <strong>it\'s the ultimate entrepreneurial immersion experience</strong>. It\'s like going to France for a year to learn to speak French like the French, except with Startup Weekend you\'re traveling to Entrepreneur Land to learn how to be fluent in kicking ass in the business world.\r\n\r\nThe 2010 Startup Weekend Tulsa is our city\'s second event of its kind, and it\'s kicking off <a href=\"http://tulsagew.com/\">Tulsa\'s Global Entrepreneurship Week</a>, a celebration and recognition of the rich culture and community we have here in this town that supports dreamers, doers and fledgling business owners.\r\n\r\nWhat I love about Startup Weekend Tulsa is that it\'s not just another one of those dumb business seminars that\'s a total waste of your time and patience. No one is going to preach at you all weekend long or try to sell you silver bullets that they promise will make you a millionaire in a week. Instead, you\'re going to have the freedom to move and shake and put a real, live business together, free of the distractions of every day life, all with your own two hands.\r\n\r\nI\'d expect you to take my word for it only so far. That\'s why I should probably tell you that three founders from the five companies started at the 2009 Startup Weekend Tulsa are now full-time entrepreneurs. One of them is my very loud and very awesome friend <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org/2010/11/03/swtulsa-2009-success-story-matt-galloway/\">Matt Galloway, founder of the company Architactile</a>, which made it into some of the final rounds of this year\'s <a href=\"http://www.tulsaspiritaward.com/\">Tulsa Entrepreneurial Spirit Award</a>. Another is <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/09/compadres-taco-eating-contest/\">my partner in taco eating contests</a>, <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org/2010/11/03/swtulsa-2009-success-story-geoffrey-simpson/\">Geoffrey Simpson</a>. Now he heads up Diner Connection, a company that saves restaurant goers from those evil light-up buzzer thingies and replaces them with sleeker, cooler text messages.\r\n\r\nSo, yeah. Startup Weekend is the real deal. In the past three years, 115 Startup Weekend events have been held around the globe. Nearly 600 startups have seen their launch, more than 5,000 entrepreneurs have been inspired, and some teams even started to generate revenue during the event. SW veterans will tell you that it\'s one of the hardest, most intense, most rewarding weekends of your life.\r\n\r\nHere\'s how the Tulsa version is gonna go down:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 6pm: Doors Open. Eat and drink some free stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 7pm: Startup Weekend Tulsa 2010 starts. Squee!</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 7:45pm: Elevator pitches begin. What, did you think you were going to get to sit around and fish for lint in your belly button for awhile? Heck, no! This is Startup Weekend Tulsa we\'re talking about here. Get the hell moving.</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 8pm: Teams form.</li>\r\n	<li>Friday, Nov. 12th, 9pm: Closing time. In other words, you don\'t have to go home, but you can\'t stay here. Teams often head to a bar or coffee shop to do yet more work.</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, 9am: Mornin\', sunshine! Doors open. Eat some brekkie - it\'s the most important meal of the day, especially when you\'re plotting business world domination. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided.</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, all day: Work, network, plan, research and generally put the smack down on your business idea. And maybe sing to it a little. (Karaoke systems/microphones not provided. Sorry.)</li>\r\n	<li>Saturday, Nov. 13th, 9pm: Doors close. Blow off some steam with some libations.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9am: Doors open.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9am: It\'s the last day of Startup Weekend, so if I were you I\'d work, network, plan, research and take care of business at the speed of light. Or, at least at the speed of sound. And I\'d probably also look into getting a different hair cut. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 7pm: Final team presentations are due! Nervous? Just picture everyone in the crowd naked and you\'ll do great.</li>\r\n	<li>Sunday, Nov. 14th, 9pm: That\'s all, folks. You now have the tools to exchange the 9-5 for the 9-9. As in, 9am-9am. But hey, at least they\'re your hours and not some dude\'s in the corner office, right?</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nYou guys are chomping at the bit to go to this thing now, right? Well, that\'s good. Because I have two Tulsa Startup Weekend registrations, each a $75 value, to give to two lucky TDT readers. All you have to do is answer this simple question:\r\n\r\n<strong>Where were you when you had the lightbulb moment - the instant in which your business idea was born?</strong>\r\n\r\nOr!\r\n\r\n<strong>If you don\'t have a business idea in mind but would like to attend Startup Weekend to learn how start-ups work, what would you want your business to ultimately accomplish?\r\n</strong>\r\nI\'ll let Random.org pick the winners tomorrow bright and early at 8am. I\'ll post the winners soon after, so be sure to check back here to see if you\'re one of the lucky guys/gals.\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s a pretty sweet consolation prize in case you don\'t win: You can register for your spot at Startup Weekend\r\nfor less. Use the code SWTasha at checkout and get $25, or more than 30 percent, off the price of your pass. Sweet, right? I know. You\'re welcome.\r\n\r\nGood luck, and remember to say you knew me when - back before you became a famous, bad-ass business owner.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa Startup Weekend</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, 7pm-Sunday, 9pm\r\nWhere: TCC Center for Creativity, 9th and Boston in downtown Tulsa\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org\">tulsa.startupweekend.org</a>\r\n\r\n<em>Tasha\'s note: This giveaway is sponsored by <a href=\"http://tulsa.startupweekend.org/\">Startup Weekend Tulsa</a>.</em>','Startup Weekend Tulsa: Jump, Baby, Jump. (Plus, a giveaway)','But have you ever wondered what it\'d be like to be your own boss? Do you have an idea for a product or service that\'s been floating around in your head for years, and you\'re just sure it\'d be the next big thing if only you have the time and energy to put behind getting it started? Then a chair at Startup Weekend Tulsa is the place to plant your butt.','inherit','open','open','','3595-revision-10','','','2010-11-10 12:34:01','2010-11-10 17:34:01','',3595,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3595-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(3696,1,'2010-11-12 16:32:13','2010-11-12 21:32:13','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3678\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3678\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1717i.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3678\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa\'s Brady District is abuzz with things to come right now. It\'s already home to several business owners who are passionate about downtown Tulsa, as well as historic attractions like Cain\'s Ballroom and Brady Theater. Soon the area will be home a new art museum, more loft-style housing and a hotel in the spirit of the Marriott that went into the Atlas Life Building on Boston. \r\n\r\nAnd I haven\'t even mentioned the new restaurants. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3679\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3679\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1709.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3679\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/HeyMamboItaliano\">Hey Mambo Italiano</a>, at 114 N. Boston, was among the first of some of the new eat spots planned for the area when it opened earlier this fall.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3680\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3680\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1722-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3680\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'ve dined there twice so far, both times for lunch. My first time in I ordered the stromboli (stuffed with pomodoro sauce, ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese and salami, $7) and laughed out loud when it came to the table. What they put on their menu as a lunch item could have easily fed four people. \r\n\r\nWhich, basically, made it perfect for someone like me. I ate half and took the other half home. When I fed it to my husband, a look of sadness and longing came over his face. He was all, \"I want to go to there.\" \r\n\r\nBut when I returned to Hey Mambo for a second taste, I took this guy instead. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3681\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3681\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1705.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3681\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHis manners are horrible, but he doesn\'t eat as much off my plate as the other guy. \r\n\r\nAnd I got to sit at a table with these ladies. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3682\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3682\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1704-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3682\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThey\'re some of the women of the media world here in Tulsa, and eating lots of food together is something we do pretty often. In fact, we\'ve started calling ourselves the Lunch Bunch. Which is pretty cute and kitschy considering we\'re all evil conspirators hell-bent on filling the world with our lies. \r\n\r\nJust kidding about some of that. But I\'m not going to tell you which parts.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3683\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3683\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1708.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3683\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhen I dine in the company of ladies I always order a salad to start. It just seems...properer. \r\n\r\nBut last time I ordered the garlic knots, and ever since I\'ve been wrestling with whether they\'re better at Hey Mambo or at <a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631484/restaurant/Expo-Square/Umbertos-Pizza-Tulsa\">Umberto\'s</a>, this uh-<em>mazing</em> pizza place here in Tulsa on 21st Street. It all made my brain smoke a little. It gets pretty hot in there sometimes, especially when there are thoughts happening. \r\n\r\nAnyway. That salad is the Insalata Mista, which is a wedge salad doused with a house-made giardino dressing, soffritto and, deliciously, bacon. If you order it on its own at lunch, it\'s $4. But if you order it with a slice of pizza like I did on my second trip to Hey Mambo, it\'s $7. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3684\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3684\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_17091.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3684\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMy fellow native westsider of the group ordered this, which is listed on the lunch menu as the Personal Baked Ziti. \r\n\r\nHa! Again with this \"personal\" business. I ask you, does that look like a personal-sized serving? \r\n\r\nDon\'t get me wrong - no one\'s complaining, at least not in this crowd. An $8 lunch that\'s big enough for leftovers has never been something to complain about in my world. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3687\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3687\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_17132.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3687\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTa-da! Here\'s the pizza that came with my salad, which I pretended to share with my son but really only gave him a few bites because we were dining with ladies and I didn\'t want it to seem like I ever ate an entire slice of pizza by myself or anything like that. \r\n\r\nSo, here\'s the deal with the pizza. It\'s good and I\'d definitely eat it again, but it\'s got a long way to go before it threatens the throne of my favorite pie in T-Town, which is available over at Joe Momma\'s at 2nd and Elgin. I loved the stromboli much, much more. That and the garlic knots are what I\'ll continue to recommend that everyone try - that is, at least, until I can swing by again to give the pizza another chance. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3678\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3678\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1717i.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3678\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne of the best parts about dining at Hey Mambo is getting chat with the owner, Scott Moore. He\'s got big dreams, he loves Tulsa and somehow, though he\'s a new restaurant owner, he\'s always in a bright, sunshiny mood. \r\n\r\nSleep deprivation affects different people in different ways, I guess. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3680\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3680\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1722-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3680\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo learn more about how Hey Mambo got its start, about the plans for the future of the restaurant and more about what the place has to offer at dinnertime, check out <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/article.asp?aID=26210785.6352808.670852.5410992.1658681.702&aID2=51595\">this article I wrote for Tulsa Business Journal a few weeks back</a>. If you do, you\'ll get to learn about Glacier Confection, which would be a great place to stop by between dinner at Hey Mambo and a show at Cain\'s or the Brady. \r\n\r\n<strong>Hey Mambo Italiano</strong>\r\nWhere: 114 N. Boston Ave. \r\nWhen: \r\nCall: \r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.heymambo.com/\">heymambo.com</a>','Hey Mambo Italiano','When I fed a bite of my leftover stromboli from Hey Mambo to my husband, a look of sadness and longing came over his face. He was all, \"I want to go to there.\" ','inherit','open','open','','3584-revision-9','','','2010-11-12 16:32:13','2010-11-12 21:32:13','',3584,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3584-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(3697,1,'2010-11-12 16:32:56','2010-11-12 21:32:56','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3678\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3678\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1717i.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3678\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa\'s Brady District is abuzz with things to come right now. It\'s already home to several business owners who are passionate about downtown Tulsa, as well as historic attractions like Cain\'s Ballroom and Brady Theater. Soon the area will be home a new art museum, more loft-style housing and a hotel in the spirit of the Marriott that went into the Atlas Life Building on Boston. \r\n\r\nAnd I haven\'t even mentioned the new restaurants. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3679\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3679\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1709.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3679\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/HeyMamboItaliano\">Hey Mambo Italiano</a>, at 114 N. Boston, was among the first of some of the new eat spots planned for the area when it opened earlier this fall.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3680\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3680\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1722-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3680\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'ve dined there twice so far, both times for lunch. My first time in I ordered the stromboli (stuffed with pomodoro sauce, ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese and salami, $7) and laughed out loud when it came to the table. What they put on their menu as a lunch item could have easily fed four people. \r\n\r\nWhich, basically, made it perfect for someone like me. I ate half and took the other half home. When I fed it to my husband, a look of sadness and longing came over his face. He was all, \"I want to go to there.\" \r\n\r\nBut when I returned to Hey Mambo for a second taste, I took this guy instead. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3681\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3681\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1705.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3681\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHis manners are horrible, but he doesn\'t eat as much off my plate as the other guy does. \r\n\r\nAnd I got to sit at a table with these ladies. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3682\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3682\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1704-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3682\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThey\'re some of the women of the media world here in Tulsa, and eating lots of food together is something we do pretty often. In fact, we\'ve started calling ourselves the Lunch Bunch. Which is pretty cute and kitschy considering we\'re all evil conspirators hell-bent on filling the world with our lies. \r\n\r\nJust kidding about some of that. But I\'m not going to tell you which parts.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3683\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3683\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1708.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3683\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhen I dine in the company of ladies I always order a salad to start. It just seems...properer. \r\n\r\nBut last time I ordered the garlic knots, and ever since I\'ve been wrestling with whether they\'re better at Hey Mambo or at <a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631484/restaurant/Expo-Square/Umbertos-Pizza-Tulsa\">Umberto\'s</a>, this uh-<em>mazing</em> pizza place here in Tulsa on 21st Street. It all made my brain smoke a little. It gets pretty hot in there sometimes, especially when there are thoughts happening. \r\n\r\nAnyway. That salad is the Insalata Mista, which is a wedge salad doused with a house-made giardino dressing, soffritto and, deliciously, bacon. If you order it on its own at lunch, it\'s $4. But if you order it with a slice of pizza like I did on my second trip to Hey Mambo, it\'s $7. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3684\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3684\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_17091.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3684\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMy fellow native westsider of the group ordered this, which is listed on the lunch menu as the Personal Baked Ziti. \r\n\r\nHa! Again with this \"personal\" business. I ask you, does that look like a personal-sized serving? \r\n\r\nDon\'t get me wrong - no one\'s complaining, at least not in this crowd. An $8 lunch that\'s big enough for leftovers has never been something to complain about in my world. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3687\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3687\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_17132.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3687\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTa-da! Here\'s the pizza that came with my salad, which I pretended to share with my son but really only gave him a few bites because we were dining with ladies and I didn\'t want it to seem like I ever ate an entire slice of pizza by myself or anything like that. \r\n\r\nSo, here\'s the deal with the pizza. It\'s good and I\'d definitely eat it again, but it\'s got a long way to go before it threatens the throne of my favorite pie in T-Town, which is available over at Joe Momma\'s at 2nd and Elgin. I loved the stromboli much, much more. That and the garlic knots are what I\'ll continue to recommend that everyone try - that is, at least, until I can swing by again to give the pizza another chance. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3678\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3678\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1717i.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3678\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne of the best parts about dining at Hey Mambo is getting chat with the owner, Scott Moore. He\'s got big dreams, he loves Tulsa and somehow, though he\'s a new restaurant owner, he\'s always in a bright, sunshiny mood. \r\n\r\nSleep deprivation affects different people in different ways, I guess. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3680\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3680\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1722-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3680\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo learn more about how Hey Mambo got its start, about the plans for the future of the restaurant and more about what the place has to offer at dinnertime, check out <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/article.asp?aID=26210785.6352808.670852.5410992.1658681.702&aID2=51595\">this article I wrote for Tulsa Business Journal a few weeks back</a>. If you do, you\'ll get to learn about Glacier Confection, which would be a great place to stop by between dinner at Hey Mambo and a show at Cain\'s or the Brady. \r\n\r\n<strong>Hey Mambo Italiano</strong>\r\nWhere: 114 N. Boston Ave. \r\nWhen: \r\nCall: \r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.heymambo.com/\">heymambo.com</a>','Hey Mambo Italiano','When I fed a bite of my leftover stromboli from Hey Mambo to my husband, a look of sadness and longing came over his face. He was all, \"I want to go to there.\" ','inherit','open','open','','3584-revision-10','','','2010-11-12 16:32:56','2010-11-12 21:32:56','',3584,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3584-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(3698,1,'2010-11-12 16:32:56','2010-11-12 21:32:56','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3678\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3678\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1717i.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3678\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa\'s Brady District is abuzz with things to come right now. It\'s already home to several business owners who are passionate about downtown Tulsa, as well as historic attractions like Cain\'s Ballroom and Brady Theater. Soon the area will be home a new art museum, more loft-style housing and a hotel in the spirit of the Marriott that went into the Atlas Life Building on Boston. \r\n\r\nAnd I haven\'t even mentioned the new restaurants. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3679\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3679\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1709.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3679\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/HeyMamboItaliano\">Hey Mambo Italiano</a>, at 114 N. Boston, was among the first of some of the new eat spots planned for the area when it opened earlier this fall.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3680\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3680\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1722-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3680\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'ve dined there twice so far, both times for lunch. My first time in I ordered the stromboli (stuffed with pomodoro sauce, ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese and salami, $7) and laughed out loud when it came to the table. What they put on their menu as a lunch item could have easily fed four people. \r\n\r\nWhich, basically, made it perfect for someone like me. I ate half and took the other half home. When I fed it to my husband, a look of sadness and longing came over his face. He was all, \"I want to go to there.\" \r\n\r\nBut when I returned to Hey Mambo for a second taste, I took this guy instead. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3681\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3681\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1705.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3681\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHis manners are horrible, but he doesn\'t eat as much off my plate as the other guy does. \r\n\r\nAnd I got to sit at a table with these ladies. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3682\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3682\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1704-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3682\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThey\'re some of the women of the media world here in Tulsa, and eating lots of food together is something we do pretty often. In fact, we\'ve started calling ourselves the Lunch Bunch. Which is pretty cute and kitschy considering we\'re all evil conspirators hell-bent on filling the world with our lies. \r\n\r\nJust kidding about some of that. But I\'m not going to tell you which parts.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3683\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3683\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1708.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3683\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhen I dine in the company of ladies I always order a salad to start. It just seems...properer. \r\n\r\nBut last time I ordered the garlic knots, and ever since I\'ve been wrestling with whether they\'re better at Hey Mambo or at <a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631484/restaurant/Expo-Square/Umbertos-Pizza-Tulsa\">Umberto\'s</a>, this uh-<em>mazing</em> pizza place here in Tulsa on 21st Street. It all made my brain smoke a little. It gets pretty hot in there sometimes, especially when there are thoughts happening. \r\n\r\nAnyway. That salad is the Insalata Mista, which is a wedge salad doused with a house-made giardino dressing, soffritto and, deliciously, bacon. If you order it on its own at lunch, it\'s $4. But if you order it with a slice of pizza like I did on my second trip to Hey Mambo, it\'s $7. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3684\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3684\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_17091.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3684\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMy fellow native westsider of the group ordered this, which is listed on the lunch menu as the Personal Baked Ziti. \r\n\r\nHa! Again with this \"personal\" business. I ask you, does that look like a personal-sized serving? \r\n\r\nDon\'t get me wrong - no one\'s complaining, at least not in this crowd. An $8 lunch that\'s big enough for leftovers has never been something to complain about in my world. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3687\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3687\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_17132.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3687\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTa-da! Here\'s the pizza that came with my salad, which I pretended to share with my son but really only gave him a few bites because we were dining with ladies and I didn\'t want it to seem like I ever ate an entire slice of pizza by myself or anything like that. \r\n\r\nSo, here\'s the deal with the pizza. It\'s good and I\'d definitely eat it again, but it\'s got a long way to go before it threatens the throne of my favorite pie in T-Town, which is available over at Joe Momma\'s at 2nd and Elgin. I loved the stromboli much, much more. That and the garlic knots are what I\'ll continue to recommend that everyone try - that is, at least, until I can swing by again to give the pizza another chance. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3678\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3678\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1717i.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3678\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne of the best parts about dining at Hey Mambo is getting chat with the owner, Scott Moore. He\'s got big dreams, he loves Tulsa and somehow, though he\'s a new restaurant owner, he\'s always in a bright, sunshiny mood. \r\n\r\nSleep deprivation affects different people in different ways, I guess. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3680\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3680\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1722-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3680\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo learn more about how Hey Mambo got its start, about the plans for the future of the restaurant and more about what the place has to offer at dinnertime, check out <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/article.asp?aID=26210785.6352808.670852.5410992.1658681.702&aID2=51595\">this article I wrote for Tulsa Business Journal a few weeks back</a>. If you do, you\'ll get to learn about Glacier Confection, which would be a great place to stop by between dinner at Hey Mambo and a show at Cain\'s or the Brady. \r\n\r\n<strong>Hey Mambo Italiano</strong>\r\nWhere: 114 N. Boston Ave. \r\nWhen: \r\nCall: \r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.heymambo.com/\">heymambo.com</a>','Hey Mambo Italiano','When I fed a bite of my leftover stromboli from Hey Mambo to my husband, a look of sadness and longing came over his face. He was all, \"I want to go to there.\" ','inherit','open','open','','3584-revision-11','','','2010-11-12 16:32:56','2010-11-12 21:32:56','',3584,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3584-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(3700,1,'2010-11-12 16:36:39','2010-11-12 21:36:39','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3678\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3678\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1717i.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3678\" /></a>\n\nTulsa\'s Brady District is abuzz with things to come right now. It\'s already home to several business owners who are passionate about downtown Tulsa, as well as historic attractions like Cain\'s Ballroom and Brady Theater. Soon the area will be home a new art museum, more loft-style housing and a hotel in the spirit of the Marriott that went into the Atlas Life Building on Boston. \n\nAnd I haven\'t even mentioned the new restaurants. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3679\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3679\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1709.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3679\" /></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/HeyMamboItaliano\">Hey Mambo Italiano</a>, at 114 N. Boston, was among the first of some of the new eat spots planned for the area when it opened earlier this fall.  \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3680\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3680\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1722-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3680\" /></a>\n\nI\'ve dined there twice so far, both times for lunch. My first time in I ordered the stromboli (stuffed with pomodoro sauce, ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese and salami, $7) and laughed out loud when it came to the table. What they put on their menu as a lunch item could have easily fed four people. \n\nWhich, basically, made it perfect for someone like me. I ate half and took the other half home. When I fed it to my husband, a look of sadness and longing came over his face. He was all, \"I want to go to there.\" \n\nBut when I returned to Hey Mambo for a second taste, I took this guy instead. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3681\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3681\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1705.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3681\" /></a>\n\nHis manners are horrible, but he doesn\'t eat as much off my plate as the other guy does. \n\nAnd I got to sit at a table with these ladies. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3682\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3682\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1704-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3682\" /></a>\n\nThey\'re some of the women of the media world here in Tulsa, and eating lots of food together is something we do pretty often. In fact, we\'ve started calling ourselves the Lunch Bunch. Which is pretty cute and kitschy considering we\'re all evil conspirators hell-bent on filling the world with our lies. \n\nJust kidding about some of that. But I\'m not going to tell you which parts.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3683\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3683\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1708.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3683\" /></a>\n\nWhen I dine in the company of ladies I always order a salad to start. It just seems...properer. \n\nBut last time I ordered the garlic knots, and ever since I\'ve been wrestling with whether they\'re better at Hey Mambo or at <a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631484/restaurant/Expo-Square/Umbertos-Pizza-Tulsa\">Umberto\'s</a>, this uh-<em>mazing</em> pizza place here in Tulsa on 21st Street. It all made my brain smoke a little. It gets pretty hot in there sometimes, especially when there are thoughts happening. \n\nAnyway. That salad is the Insalata Mista, which is a wedge salad doused with a house-made giardino dressing, soffritto and, deliciously, bacon. If you order it on its own at lunch, it\'s $4. But if you order it with a slice of pizza like I did on my second trip to Hey Mambo, it\'s $7. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3684\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3684\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_17091.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3684\" /></a>\n\nMy fellow native westsider of the group ordered this, which is listed on the lunch menu as the Personal Baked Ziti. \n\nHa! Again with this \"personal\" business. I ask you, does that look like a personal-sized serving? \n\nDon\'t get me wrong - no one\'s complaining about food overload, at least not in this crowd. An $8 lunch that\'s big enough for leftovers is never something to get snooty about. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3687\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3687\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_17132.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3687\" /></a>\n\nTa-da! Here\'s the pizza that came with my salad, which I pretended to share with my son but really only gave him a few bites because we were dining with ladies and I didn\'t want it to seem like I ever ate an entire slice of pizza by myself or anything like that. \n\nSo, here\'s the deal with the pizza. It\'s good and I\'d definitely eat it again, but it\'s got a long way to go before it threatens the throne of my favorite pie in T-Town, which is available over at Joe Momma\'s at 2nd and Elgin. I loved the stromboli much, much more. That and the garlic knots are what I\'ll continue to recommend that everyone try - that is, at least, until I can swing by again to give the pizza another chance. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3678\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3678\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1717i.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3678\" /></a>\n\nOne of the best parts about dining at Hey Mambo is getting chat with the owner, Scott Moore. He\'s got big dreams, he loves Tulsa and somehow, though he\'s a new restaurant owner, he\'s always in a bright, sunshiny mood. \n\nSleep deprivation affects different people in different ways, I guess. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3680\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3680\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1722-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3680\" /></a>\n\nTo learn more about how Hey Mambo got its start, about the plans for the future of the restaurant and more about what the place has to offer at dinnertime, check out <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/article.asp?aID=26210785.6352808.670852.5410992.1658681.702&aID2=51595\">this article I wrote for Tulsa Business Journal a few weeks back</a>. If you do, you\'ll get to learn about Glacier Confection, which would be a great place to stop by between dinner at Hey Mambo and a show at Cain\'s or the Brady. \n\n<strong>Hey Mambo Italiano</strong>\nWhere: 114 N. Boston Ave. \nWhen: \nCall: \nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.heymambo.com/\">heymambo.com</a>','Hey Mambo Italiano','When I fed a bite of my leftover stromboli from Hey Mambo to my husband, a look of sadness and longing came over his face. He was all, \"I want to go to there.\" ','inherit','open','open','','3584-revision-13','','','2010-11-12 16:36:39','2010-11-12 21:36:39','',3584,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3584-revision-13/',0,'revision','',0),(3699,1,'2010-11-12 16:35:35','2010-11-12 21:35:35','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3678\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3678\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1717i.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3678\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa\'s Brady District is abuzz with things to come right now. It\'s already home to several business owners who are passionate about downtown Tulsa, as well as historic attractions like Cain\'s Ballroom and Brady Theater. Soon the area will be home a new art museum, more loft-style housing and a hotel in the spirit of the Marriott that went into the Atlas Life Building on Boston. \r\n\r\nAnd I haven\'t even mentioned the new restaurants. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3679\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3679\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1709.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3679\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/HeyMamboItaliano\">Hey Mambo Italiano</a>, at 114 N. Boston, was among the first of some of the new eat spots planned for the area when it opened earlier this fall.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3680\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3680\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1722-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3680\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'ve dined there twice so far, both times for lunch. My first time in I ordered the stromboli (stuffed with pomodoro sauce, ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese and salami, $7) and laughed out loud when it came to the table. What they put on their menu as a lunch item could have easily fed four people. \r\n\r\nWhich, basically, made it perfect for someone like me. I ate half and took the other half home. When I fed it to my husband, a look of sadness and longing came over his face. He was all, \"I want to go to there.\" \r\n\r\nBut when I returned to Hey Mambo for a second taste, I took this guy instead. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3681\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3681\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1705.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3681\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHis manners are horrible, but he doesn\'t eat as much off my plate as the other guy does. \r\n\r\nAnd I got to sit at a table with these ladies. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3682\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3682\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1704-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3682\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThey\'re some of the women of the media world here in Tulsa, and eating lots of food together is something we do pretty often. In fact, we\'ve started calling ourselves the Lunch Bunch. Which is pretty cute and kitschy considering we\'re all evil conspirators hell-bent on filling the world with our lies. \r\n\r\nJust kidding about some of that. But I\'m not going to tell you which parts.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3683\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3683\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1708.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3683\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhen I dine in the company of ladies I always order a salad to start. It just seems...properer. \r\n\r\nBut last time I ordered the garlic knots, and ever since I\'ve been wrestling with whether they\'re better at Hey Mambo or at <a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631484/restaurant/Expo-Square/Umbertos-Pizza-Tulsa\">Umberto\'s</a>, this uh-<em>mazing</em> pizza place here in Tulsa on 21st Street. It all made my brain smoke a little. It gets pretty hot in there sometimes, especially when there are thoughts happening. \r\n\r\nAnyway. That salad is the Insalata Mista, which is a wedge salad doused with a house-made giardino dressing, soffritto and, deliciously, bacon. If you order it on its own at lunch, it\'s $4. But if you order it with a slice of pizza like I did on my second trip to Hey Mambo, it\'s $7. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3684\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3684\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_17091.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3684\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMy fellow native westsider of the group ordered this, which is listed on the lunch menu as the Personal Baked Ziti. \r\n\r\nHa! Again with this \"personal\" business. I ask you, does that look like a personal-sized serving? \r\n\r\nDon\'t get me wrong - no one\'s complaining about food overload, at least not in this crowd. An $8 lunch that\'s big enough for leftovers has never been something to get snooty about in my world. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3687\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3687\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_17132.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3687\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTa-da! Here\'s the pizza that came with my salad, which I pretended to share with my son but really only gave him a few bites because we were dining with ladies and I didn\'t want it to seem like I ever ate an entire slice of pizza by myself or anything like that. \r\n\r\nSo, here\'s the deal with the pizza. It\'s good and I\'d definitely eat it again, but it\'s got a long way to go before it threatens the throne of my favorite pie in T-Town, which is available over at Joe Momma\'s at 2nd and Elgin. I loved the stromboli much, much more. That and the garlic knots are what I\'ll continue to recommend that everyone try - that is, at least, until I can swing by again to give the pizza another chance. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3678\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3678\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1717i.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3678\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne of the best parts about dining at Hey Mambo is getting chat with the owner, Scott Moore. He\'s got big dreams, he loves Tulsa and somehow, though he\'s a new restaurant owner, he\'s always in a bright, sunshiny mood. \r\n\r\nSleep deprivation affects different people in different ways, I guess. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3680\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3680\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1722-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3680\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo learn more about how Hey Mambo got its start, about the plans for the future of the restaurant and more about what the place has to offer at dinnertime, check out <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/article.asp?aID=26210785.6352808.670852.5410992.1658681.702&aID2=51595\">this article I wrote for Tulsa Business Journal a few weeks back</a>. If you do, you\'ll get to learn about Glacier Confection, which would be a great place to stop by between dinner at Hey Mambo and a show at Cain\'s or the Brady. \r\n\r\n<strong>Hey Mambo Italiano</strong>\r\nWhere: 114 N. Boston Ave. \r\nWhen: \r\nCall: \r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.heymambo.com/\">heymambo.com</a>','Hey Mambo Italiano','When I fed a bite of my leftover stromboli from Hey Mambo to my husband, a look of sadness and longing came over his face. He was all, \"I want to go to there.\" ','inherit','open','open','','3584-revision-12','','','2010-11-12 16:35:35','2010-11-12 21:35:35','',3584,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3584-revision-12/',0,'revision','',0),(3701,1,'2010-11-12 16:36:43','2010-11-12 21:36:43','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3678\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3678\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1717i.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3678\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa\'s Brady District is abuzz with things to come right now. It\'s already home to several business owners who are passionate about downtown Tulsa, as well as historic attractions like Cain\'s Ballroom and Brady Theater. Soon the area will be home a new art museum, more loft-style housing and a hotel in the spirit of the Marriott that went into the Atlas Life Building on Boston. \r\n\r\nAnd I haven\'t even mentioned the new restaurants. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3679\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3679\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1709.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3679\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/HeyMamboItaliano\">Hey Mambo Italiano</a>, at 114 N. Boston, was among the first of some of the new eat spots planned for the area when it opened earlier this fall.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3680\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3680\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1722-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3680\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'ve dined there twice so far, both times for lunch. My first time in I ordered the stromboli (stuffed with pomodoro sauce, ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese and salami, $7) and laughed out loud when it came to the table. What they put on their menu as a lunch item could have easily fed four people. \r\n\r\nWhich, basically, made it perfect for someone like me. I ate half and took the other half home. When I fed it to my husband, a look of sadness and longing came over his face. He was all, \"I want to go to there.\" \r\n\r\nBut when I returned to Hey Mambo for a second taste, I took this guy instead. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3681\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3681\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1705.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3681\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHis manners are horrible, but he doesn\'t eat as much off my plate as the other guy does. \r\n\r\nAnd I got to sit at a table with these ladies. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3682\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3682\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1704-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3682\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThey\'re some of the women of the media world here in Tulsa, and eating lots of food together is something we do pretty often. In fact, we\'ve started calling ourselves the Lunch Bunch. Which is pretty cute and kitschy considering we\'re all evil conspirators hell-bent on filling the world with our lies. \r\n\r\nJust kidding about some of that. But I\'m not going to tell you which parts.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3683\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3683\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1708.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3683\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhen I dine in the company of ladies I always order a salad to start. It just seems...properer. \r\n\r\nBut last time I ordered the garlic knots, and ever since I\'ve been wrestling with whether they\'re better at Hey Mambo or at <a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631484/restaurant/Expo-Square/Umbertos-Pizza-Tulsa\">Umberto\'s</a>, this uh-<em>mazing</em> pizza place here in Tulsa on 21st Street. It all made my brain smoke a little. It gets pretty hot in there sometimes, especially when there are thoughts happening. \r\n\r\nAnyway. That salad is the Insalata Mista, which is a wedge salad doused with a house-made giardino dressing, soffritto and, deliciously, bacon. If you order it on its own at lunch, it\'s $4. But if you order it with a slice of pizza like I did on my second trip to Hey Mambo, it\'s $7. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3684\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3684\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_17091.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3684\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMy fellow native westsider of the group ordered this, which is listed on the lunch menu as the Personal Baked Ziti. \r\n\r\nHa! Again with this \"personal\" business. I ask you, does that look like a personal-sized serving? \r\n\r\nDon\'t get me wrong - no one\'s complaining about food overload, at least not in this crowd. An $8 lunch that\'s big enough for leftovers is never something to get snooty about. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3687\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3687\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_17132.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3687\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTa-da! Here\'s the pizza that came with my salad, which I pretended to share with my son but really only gave him a few bites because we were dining with ladies and I didn\'t want it to seem like I ever eat an entire slice of pizza by myself or anything like that. \r\n\r\nSo, here\'s the deal with the pizza. It\'s good and I\'d definitely eat it again, but it\'s got a long way to go before it threatens the throne of my favorite pie in T-Town, which is available over at Joe Momma\'s at 2nd and Elgin. I loved the stromboli much, much more. That and the garlic knots are what I\'ll continue to recommend that everyone try - that is, at least, until I can swing by again to give the pizza another chance. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3678\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3678\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1717i.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3678\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne of the best parts about dining at Hey Mambo is getting chat with the owner, Scott Moore. He\'s got big dreams, he loves Tulsa and somehow, though he\'s a new restaurant owner, he\'s always in a bright, sunshiny mood. \r\n\r\nSleep deprivation affects different people in different ways, I guess. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3680\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3680\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1722-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3680\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo learn more about how Hey Mambo got its start, about the plans for the future of the restaurant and more about what the place has to offer at dinnertime, check out <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/article.asp?aID=26210785.6352808.670852.5410992.1658681.702&aID2=51595\">this article I wrote for Tulsa Business Journal a few weeks back</a>. If you do, you\'ll get to learn about Glacier Confection, which would be a great place to stop by between dinner at Hey Mambo and a show at Cain\'s or the Brady. \r\n\r\n<strong>Hey Mambo Italiano</strong>\r\nWhere: 114 N. Boston Ave. \r\nWhen: \r\nCall: \r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.heymambo.com/\">heymambo.com</a>','Hey Mambo Italiano','When I fed a bite of my leftover stromboli from Hey Mambo to my husband, a look of sadness and longing came over his face. He was all, \"I want to go to there.\" ','inherit','open','open','','3584-revision-14','','','2010-11-12 16:36:43','2010-11-12 21:36:43','',3584,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3584-revision-14/',0,'revision','',0),(3702,1,'2010-11-12 16:36:44','2010-11-12 21:36:44','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3678\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3678\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1717i.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3678\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa\'s Brady District is abuzz with things to come right now. It\'s already home to several business owners who are passionate about downtown Tulsa, as well as historic attractions like Cain\'s Ballroom and Brady Theater. Soon the area will be home a new art museum, more loft-style housing and a hotel in the spirit of the Marriott that went into the Atlas Life Building on Boston. \r\n\r\nAnd I haven\'t even mentioned the new restaurants. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3679\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3679\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1709.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3679\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/HeyMamboItaliano\">Hey Mambo Italiano</a>, at 114 N. Boston, was among the first of some of the new eat spots planned for the area when it opened earlier this fall.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3680\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3680\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1722-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3680\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'ve dined there twice so far, both times for lunch. My first time in I ordered the stromboli (stuffed with pomodoro sauce, ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese and salami, $7) and laughed out loud when it came to the table. What they put on their menu as a lunch item could have easily fed four people. \r\n\r\nWhich, basically, made it perfect for someone like me. I ate half and took the other half home. When I fed it to my husband, a look of sadness and longing came over his face. He was all, \"I want to go to there.\" \r\n\r\nBut when I returned to Hey Mambo for a second taste, I took this guy instead. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3681\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3681\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1705.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3681\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHis manners are horrible, but he doesn\'t eat as much off my plate as the other guy does. \r\n\r\nAnd I got to sit at a table with these ladies. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3682\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3682\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1704-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3682\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThey\'re some of the women of the media world here in Tulsa, and eating lots of food together is something we do pretty often. In fact, we\'ve started calling ourselves the Lunch Bunch. Which is pretty cute and kitschy considering we\'re all evil conspirators hell-bent on filling the world with our lies. \r\n\r\nJust kidding about some of that. But I\'m not going to tell you which parts.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3683\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3683\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1708.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3683\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhen I dine in the company of ladies I always order a salad to start. It just seems...properer. \r\n\r\nBut last time I ordered the garlic knots, and ever since I\'ve been wrestling with whether they\'re better at Hey Mambo or at <a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631484/restaurant/Expo-Square/Umbertos-Pizza-Tulsa\">Umberto\'s</a>, this uh-<em>mazing</em> pizza place here in Tulsa on 21st Street. It all made my brain smoke a little. It gets pretty hot in there sometimes, especially when there are thoughts happening. \r\n\r\nAnyway. That salad is the Insalata Mista, which is a wedge salad doused with a house-made giardino dressing, soffritto and, deliciously, bacon. If you order it on its own at lunch, it\'s $4. But if you order it with a slice of pizza like I did on my second trip to Hey Mambo, it\'s $7. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3684\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3684\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_17091.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3684\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMy fellow native westsider of the group ordered this, which is listed on the lunch menu as the Personal Baked Ziti. \r\n\r\nHa! Again with this \"personal\" business. I ask you, does that look like a personal-sized serving? \r\n\r\nDon\'t get me wrong - no one\'s complaining about food overload, at least not in this crowd. An $8 lunch that\'s big enough for leftovers is never something to get snooty about. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3687\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3687\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_17132.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3687\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTa-da! Here\'s the pizza that came with my salad, which I pretended to share with my son but really only gave him a few bites because we were dining with ladies and I didn\'t want it to seem like I ever eat an entire slice of pizza by myself or anything like that. \r\n\r\nSo, here\'s the deal with the pizza. It\'s good and I\'d definitely eat it again, but it\'s got a long way to go before it threatens the throne of my favorite pie in T-Town, which is available over at Joe Momma\'s at 2nd and Elgin. I loved the stromboli much, much more. That and the garlic knots are what I\'ll continue to recommend that everyone try - that is, at least, until I can swing by again to give the pizza another chance. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3678\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3678\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1717i.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3678\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne of the best parts about dining at Hey Mambo is getting chat with the owner, Scott Moore. He\'s got big dreams, he loves Tulsa and somehow, though he\'s a new restaurant owner, he\'s always in a bright, sunshiny mood. \r\n\r\nSleep deprivation affects different people in different ways, I guess. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3680\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3680\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1722-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3680\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo learn more about how Hey Mambo got its start, about the plans for the future of the restaurant and more about what the place has to offer at dinnertime, check out <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/article.asp?aID=26210785.6352808.670852.5410992.1658681.702&aID2=51595\">this article I wrote for Tulsa Business Journal a few weeks back</a>. If you do, you\'ll get to learn about Glacier Confection, which would be a great place to stop by between dinner at Hey Mambo and a show at Cain\'s or the Brady. \r\n\r\n<strong>Hey Mambo Italiano</strong>\r\nWhere: 114 N. Boston Ave. \r\nWhen: \r\nCall: \r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.heymambo.com/\">heymambo.com</a>','Hey Mambo Italiano','When I fed a bite of my leftover stromboli from Hey Mambo to my husband, a look of sadness and longing came over his face. He was all, \"I want to go to there.\" ','inherit','open','open','','3584-revision-15','','','2010-11-12 16:36:44','2010-11-12 21:36:44','',3584,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3584-revision-15/',0,'revision','',0),(3703,1,'2010-11-12 16:38:29','2010-11-12 21:38:29','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3678\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3678\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1717i.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3678\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa\'s Brady District is abuzz with things to come right now. It\'s already home to several business owners who are passionate about downtown Tulsa, as well as historic attractions like Cain\'s Ballroom and Brady Theater. Soon the area will be home a new art museum, more loft-style housing and a hotel in the spirit of the Marriott that went into the Atlas Life Building on Boston. \r\n\r\nAnd I haven\'t even mentioned the new restaurants. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3679\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3679\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1709.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3679\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/HeyMamboItaliano\">Hey Mambo Italiano</a>, at 114 N. Boston, was among the first of some of the new eat spots planned for the area when it opened earlier this fall.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3680\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3680\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1722-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3680\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'ve dined there twice so far, both times for lunch. My first time in I ordered the stromboli (stuffed with pomodoro sauce, ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese and salami, $7) and laughed out loud when it came to the table. What they put on their menu as a lunch item could have easily fed four people. \r\n\r\nWhich, basically, made it perfect for someone like me. I ate half and took the other half home. When I fed it to my husband, a look of sadness and longing came over his face. He was all, \"I want to go to there.\" \r\n\r\nBut when I returned to Hey Mambo for a second taste, I took this guy instead. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3681\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3681\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1705.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3681\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHis manners are horrible, but he doesn\'t eat as much off my plate as the other guy does. \r\n\r\nAnd I got to sit at a table with these ladies. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3682\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3682\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1704-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3682\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThey\'re some of the women of the media world here in Tulsa, and eating lots of food together is something we do pretty often. In fact, we\'ve started calling ourselves the Lunch Bunch. Which is pretty cute and kitschy considering we\'re all evil conspirators hell-bent on filling the world with our lies. \r\n\r\nJust kidding about some of that. But I\'m not going to tell you which parts.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3683\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3683\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1708.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3683\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhen I dine in the company of ladies I always order a salad to start. It just seems...properer. \r\n\r\nBut last time I ordered the garlic knots, and ever since I\'ve been wrestling with whether they\'re better at Hey Mambo or at <a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631484/restaurant/Expo-Square/Umbertos-Pizza-Tulsa\">Umberto\'s</a>, this uh-<em>mazing</em> pizza place here in Tulsa on 21st Street. It all made my brain smoke a little. It gets pretty hot in there sometimes, especially when there are thoughts happening. \r\n\r\nAnyway. That salad is the Insalata Mista, which is a wedge salad doused with a house-made giardino dressing, soffritto and, deliciously, bacon. If you order it on its own at lunch, it\'s $4. But if you order it with a slice of pizza like I did on my second trip to Hey Mambo, it\'s $7. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3684\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3684\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_17091.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3684\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMy fellow native westsider of the group ordered this, which is listed on the lunch menu as the Personal Baked Ziti. \r\n\r\nHa! Again with this \"personal\" business. I ask you, does that look like a personal-sized serving? \r\n\r\nDon\'t get me wrong - no one\'s complaining about food overload, at least not in this crowd. An $8 lunch that\'s big enough for leftovers is never something to get snooty about. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3687\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3687\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_17132.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3687\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTa-da! Here\'s the pizza that came with my salad, which I pretended to share with my son but really only gave him a few bites because we were dining with ladies and I didn\'t want it to seem like I ever eat an entire slice of pizza by myself or anything like that. \r\n\r\nSo, here\'s the deal with the pizza. It\'s good and I\'d definitely eat it again, but it\'s got a long way to go before it threatens the throne of my favorite pie in T-Town, which is available over at <a href=\"http://www.joemommas.com/\">Joe Momma\'s at 2nd and Elgin</a>. I loved the stromboli much, much more. That and the garlic knots are what I\'ll continue to recommend that everyone try - that is, at least, until I can swing by again to give the pizza another chance. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3678\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3678\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1717i.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3678\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne of the best parts about dining at Hey Mambo is getting to chat with the owner, Scott Moore. He\'s got big dreams, he loves Tulsa and somehow, even though he\'s a new restaurant owner, he\'s always in a bright, sunshiny mood. \r\n\r\nSleep deprivation affects different people in different ways, I guess. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3680\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3680\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1722-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3680\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo learn more about how Hey Mambo got its start, about the plans for the future of the restaurant and more about what the place has to offer at dinnertime, check out <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/article.asp?aID=26210785.6352808.670852.5410992.1658681.702&aID2=51595\">this article I wrote for Tulsa Business Journal a few weeks back</a>. If you do, you\'ll get to learn about Glacier Confection, which would be a great place to stop by between dinner at Hey Mambo and a show at Cain\'s or the Brady. \r\n\r\n<strong>Hey Mambo Italiano</strong>\r\nWhere: 114 N. Boston Ave. \r\nWhen: \r\nCall: \r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.heymambo.com/\">heymambo.com</a>','Hey Mambo Italiano','When I fed a bite of my leftover stromboli from Hey Mambo to my husband, a look of sadness and longing came over his face. He was all, \"I want to go to there.\" ','inherit','open','open','','3584-revision-16','','','2010-11-12 16:38:29','2010-11-12 21:38:29','',3584,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3584-revision-16/',0,'revision','',0),(3704,1,'2010-11-12 16:38:30','2010-11-12 21:38:30','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3678\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3678\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1717i.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3678\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa\'s Brady District is abuzz with things to come right now. It\'s already home to several business owners who are passionate about downtown Tulsa, as well as historic attractions like Cain\'s Ballroom and Brady Theater. Soon the area will be home a new art museum, more loft-style housing and a hotel in the spirit of the Marriott that went into the Atlas Life Building on Boston. \r\n\r\nAnd I haven\'t even mentioned the new restaurants. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3679\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3679\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1709.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3679\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/HeyMamboItaliano\">Hey Mambo Italiano</a>, at 114 N. Boston, was among the first of some of the new eat spots planned for the area when it opened earlier this fall.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3680\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3680\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1722-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3680\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'ve dined there twice so far, both times for lunch. My first time in I ordered the stromboli (stuffed with pomodoro sauce, ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese and salami, $7) and laughed out loud when it came to the table. What they put on their menu as a lunch item could have easily fed four people. \r\n\r\nWhich, basically, made it perfect for someone like me. I ate half and took the other half home. When I fed it to my husband, a look of sadness and longing came over his face. He was all, \"I want to go to there.\" \r\n\r\nBut when I returned to Hey Mambo for a second taste, I took this guy instead. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3681\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3681\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1705.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3681\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHis manners are horrible, but he doesn\'t eat as much off my plate as the other guy does. \r\n\r\nAnd I got to sit at a table with these ladies. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3682\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3682\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1704-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3682\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThey\'re some of the women of the media world here in Tulsa, and eating lots of food together is something we do pretty often. In fact, we\'ve started calling ourselves the Lunch Bunch. Which is pretty cute and kitschy considering we\'re all evil conspirators hell-bent on filling the world with our lies. \r\n\r\nJust kidding about some of that. But I\'m not going to tell you which parts.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3683\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3683\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1708.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3683\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhen I dine in the company of ladies I always order a salad to start. It just seems...properer. \r\n\r\nBut last time I ordered the garlic knots, and ever since I\'ve been wrestling with whether they\'re better at Hey Mambo or at <a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631484/restaurant/Expo-Square/Umbertos-Pizza-Tulsa\">Umberto\'s</a>, this uh-<em>mazing</em> pizza place here in Tulsa on 21st Street. It all made my brain smoke a little. It gets pretty hot in there sometimes, especially when there are thoughts happening. \r\n\r\nAnyway. That salad is the Insalata Mista, which is a wedge salad doused with a house-made giardino dressing, soffritto and, deliciously, bacon. If you order it on its own at lunch, it\'s $4. But if you order it with a slice of pizza like I did on my second trip to Hey Mambo, it\'s $7. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3684\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3684\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_17091.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3684\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMy fellow native westsider of the group ordered this, which is listed on the lunch menu as the Personal Baked Ziti. \r\n\r\nHa! Again with this \"personal\" business. I ask you, does that look like a personal-sized serving? \r\n\r\nDon\'t get me wrong - no one\'s complaining about food overload, at least not in this crowd. An $8 lunch that\'s big enough for leftovers is never something to get snooty about. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3687\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3687\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_17132.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3687\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTa-da! Here\'s the pizza that came with my salad, which I pretended to share with my son but really only gave him a few bites because we were dining with ladies and I didn\'t want it to seem like I ever eat an entire slice of pizza by myself or anything like that. \r\n\r\nSo, here\'s the deal with the pizza. It\'s good and I\'d definitely eat it again, but it\'s got a long way to go before it threatens the throne of my favorite pie in T-Town, which is available over at <a href=\"http://www.joemommas.com/\">Joe Momma\'s at 2nd and Elgin</a>. I loved the stromboli much, much more. That and the garlic knots are what I\'ll continue to recommend that everyone try - that is, at least, until I can swing by again to give the pizza another chance. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3678\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3678\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1717i.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3678\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne of the best parts about dining at Hey Mambo is getting to chat with the owner, Scott Moore. He\'s got big dreams, he loves Tulsa and somehow, even though he\'s a new restaurant owner, he\'s always in a bright, sunshiny mood. \r\n\r\nSleep deprivation affects different people in different ways, I guess. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3680\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3680\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1722-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3680\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo learn more about how Hey Mambo got its start, about the plans for the future of the restaurant and more about what the place has to offer at dinnertime, check out <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/article.asp?aID=26210785.6352808.670852.5410992.1658681.702&aID2=51595\">this article I wrote for Tulsa Business Journal a few weeks back</a>. If you do, you\'ll get to learn about Glacier Confection, which would be a great place to stop by between dinner at Hey Mambo and a show at Cain\'s or the Brady. \r\n\r\n<strong>Hey Mambo Italiano</strong>\r\nWhere: 114 N. Boston Ave. \r\nWhen: \r\nCall: \r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.heymambo.com/\">heymambo.com</a>','Hey Mambo Italiano','When I fed a bite of my leftover stromboli from Hey Mambo to my husband, a look of sadness and longing came over his face. He was all, \"I want to go to there.\" ','inherit','open','open','','3584-revision-17','','','2010-11-12 16:38:30','2010-11-12 21:38:30','',3584,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3584-revision-17/',0,'revision','',0),(3705,1,'2010-11-12 16:39:27','2010-11-12 21:39:27','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3678\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3678\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3678\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1717i.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTulsa\'s Brady District is abuzz with things to come right now. It\'s already home to several business owners who are passionate about downtown Tulsa, as well as historic attractions like Cain\'s Ballroom and Brady Theater. Soon the area will be home a new art museum, more loft-style housing and a hotel in the spirit of the Marriott that went into the Atlas Life Building on Boston.\r\n\r\nAnd I haven\'t even mentioned the new restaurants.\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3679\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3679\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3679\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1709.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/HeyMamboItaliano\">Hey Mambo Italiano</a>, at 114 N. Boston, was among the first of some of the new eat spots planned for the area when it opened earlier this fall.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3680\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3680\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3680\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1722-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'ve dined there twice so far, both times for lunch. My first time in I ordered the stromboli (stuffed with pomodoro sauce, ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese and salami, $7) and laughed out loud when it came to the table. What they put on their menu as a lunch item could have easily fed four people.\r\n\r\nWhich, basically, made it perfect for someone like me. I ate half and took the other half home. When I fed it to my husband, a look of sadness and longing came over his face. He was all, \"I want to go to there.\"\r\n\r\nBut when I returned to Hey Mambo for a second taste, I took this guy instead.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3681\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3681\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3681\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1705.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHis manners are horrible, but he doesn\'t eat as much off my plate as the other guy does.\r\n\r\nAnd I got to sit at a table with these ladies.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3682\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3682\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3682\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1704-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThey\'re some of the women of the media world here in Tulsa, and eating lots of food together is something we do pretty often. In fact, we\'ve started calling ourselves the Lunch Bunch. Which is pretty cute and kitschy considering we\'re all evil conspirators hell-bent on filling the world with our lies.\r\n\r\nJust kidding about some of that. But I\'m not going to tell you which parts.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3683\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3683\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3683\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1708.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhen I dine in the company of ladies I always order a salad to start. It just seems...properer.\r\n\r\nBut last time I ordered the garlic knots, and ever since I\'ve been wrestling with whether they\'re better at Hey Mambo or at <a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631484/restaurant/Expo-Square/Umbertos-Pizza-Tulsa\">Umberto\'s</a>, this uh-<em>mazing</em> pizza place here in Tulsa on 21st Street. It all made my brain smoke a little. It gets pretty hot in there sometimes, especially when there are thoughts happening.\r\n\r\nAnyway. That salad is the Insalata Mista, which is a wedge salad doused with a house-made giardino dressing, soffritto and, deliciously, bacon. If you order it on its own at lunch, it\'s $4. But if you order it with a slice of pizza like I did on my second trip to Hey Mambo, it\'s $7.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3684\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3684\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3684\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_17091.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMy fellow native westsider of the group ordered this, which is listed on the lunch menu as the Personal Baked Ziti.\r\n\r\nHa! Again with this \"personal\" business. I ask you, does that look like a personal-sized serving?\r\n\r\nDon\'t get me wrong - no one\'s complaining about food overload, at least not in this crowd. An $8 lunch that\'s big enough for leftovers is never something to get snooty about.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3687\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3687\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3687\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_17132.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTa-da! Here\'s the pizza that came with my salad, which I pretended to share with my son but really only gave him a few bites because we were dining with ladies and I didn\'t want it to seem like I ever eat an entire slice of pizza by myself or anything like that.\r\n\r\nSo, here\'s the deal with the pizza. It\'s good and I\'d definitely eat it again, but it\'s got a long way to go before it threatens the throne of my favorite pie in T-Town, which is available over at <a href=\"http://www.joemommas.com/\">Joe Momma\'s at 2nd and Elgin</a>. I loved the stromboli much, much more. That and the garlic knots are what I\'ll continue to recommend that everyone try - that is, at least, until I can swing by again to give the pizza another chance.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3678\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3678\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3678\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1717i.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne of the best parts about dining at Hey Mambo is getting to chat with the owner, Scott Moore. He\'s got big dreams, he loves Tulsa and somehow, even though he\'s a new restaurant owner, he\'s always in a bright, sunshiny mood.\r\n\r\nSleep deprivation affects different people in different ways, I guess.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3680\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=3680\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3680\" title=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1722-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Mambo Italiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo learn more about how Hey Mambo got its start, about the plans for the future of the restaurant and more about what the place has to offer at dinnertime, check out <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/article.asp?aID=26210785.6352808.670852.5410992.1658681.702&amp;aID2=51595\">this article I wrote for Tulsa Business Journal a few weeks back</a>. If you do, you\'ll get to learn about Glacier Confection, which would be a great place to stop by between dinner at Hey Mambo and a show at Cain\'s or the Brady.\r\n\r\n<strong>Hey Mambo Italiano</strong>\r\nWhere: 114 N. Boston Ave.\r\nWhen:\r\nCall:\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.heymambo.com/\">heymambo.com</a>','Hey Mambo Italiano','When I fed a bite of my leftover stromboli from Hey Mambo to my husband, a look of sadness and longing came over his face. He was all, \"I want to go to there.\" ','inherit','open','open','','3584-revision-18','','','2010-11-12 16:39:27','2010-11-12 21:39:27','',3584,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/11/3584-revision-18/',0,'revision','',0),