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For anyone looking for a variety of interesting online reading, Tulsa's blogosphere provides.

At last count, Tulsa was home to more than 100 blogs, and those are just the ones to which I've been alerted and subscribe. Needless to say, then, in the pages of Tulsa blogs, there's something for everyone.

Here's what's been going on in our local blogs lately.<!--more-->

<strong>Double DOH!</strong>

As you may have heard, <a href="http://www.doubleshotcoffee.com/">Brian Franklin of Doubleshot Coffee Company, based here in Tulsa at 18th and Boston</a>, made the news last night and <a href="http://consumerist.com/2010/08/coffee-shop-owner-uses-twitter-to-bans-breastfeeding-in-his-store-seems-surprised-by-reaction.html">The Consumerist today</a> using nothing but his thumbs.

And by that I mean, his brain was obviously in no way involved.

Mandy Vavrinak has coverage on Franklin's Twitter faux pas involving his new - scratch that - retracted policy that disallowed breastfeeding in his shop (posted on the first day of Worldwide Breastfeeding Week, no less) on <a href="http://journalrecord.com/2010/08/03/coffee-breasts-tacos-and-oklahoma-one-day-in-pr/">her public relations and social media blog over at The Journal Record</a>.

My favorite tweet on the issue? "But I thought men LIKED staring at women's breasts."

<strong>FreeTulsa! in Pictures</strong>

Colleen over at Independent Cause has a pictorial wrap-up of Free Tulsa, a two-day music festival that took place in downtown Tulsa last weekend. <a href="http://music.tulsaproject.com/2010/08/free-tulsa-in-photos/">Check it out</a>.

<strong>Doing Fine in the 539</strong>

This week brings a little something called a "Permissive Calling Period" to Tulsa, during which we're slightly sorta kinda encouraged to start getting used to dialing local lines using ten numbers. In the spring of next year, all new lines, unless 918 is specifically requested, will be designated with a 539 area code. <a href="http://www.roemermanonrecord.com/2010/08/918-area-code-change-starting-this-week.html">Thanks goes to Steven at Roemerman on Record for the heads up</a>.

<strong>Trog Whores</strong>

<a href="http://www.thelostogle.com/2010/08/03/petsmart/">Irritated Tulsan has a post over at The Lost Ogle</a> about people who leave their pets in their cars on days like today, when the forecasted temperature reaches into the low 100s - a fact about which the photo above is intended to taunt you.
<blockquote>Maybe I’m being overly sensitive.  Maybe I came off like a prick when I walked up to you and said, “by the way, your dog’s dying.”  It could be my fault.  If I was more considerate, I would’ve offered to sit in your car and fan Fido.  Is it me?

No, it’s not me.  You’re an uncaring self-centered trog whore.

If police don’t start flogging these people who leave their dogs in cars on summer days … I will.</blockquote>
When the heat is this extreme, folks, it might be best to leave the pooch at home.

IT has a "report" at his own site this week on <a href="http://irritatedtulsan.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/statement/">the crossfire going on at City Hall</a>. The sad part is, it all sounds just about right.

<strong>Another Way to Beat the Heat</strong>

Mowing in Tulsa, Oklahoma, during August is like descending into the seventh circle of hell. The solution? Simple: <a href="http://crustygasguy.blogspot.com/2010/07/mowing-by-moonlight.html">Mow by moonlight</a>. Thanks for the permission, Yogi. I admit, the idea has crossed my mind. It all sounds so cool and romantic and...grassy.

<strong>A Mexican Bakery How-To</strong>

Though I could have minored in Spanish in college, I've always been a little nervous to pop in to one of the Mexican bakeries on the east side of town, the ones about which I'm oh-so-curious. To make things worse, I have a totally crappy reason for why: I don't want to trouble anyone with my crap-ified Spanish-like speaking/comprehension abilities.

But now, thanks to <a href="http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/mexican-food/tres-leches-cake-pancho-anaya">a Mexican bakery how-to posted over at Tulsa Food Blog by Jeff, along with a review of the tres leches cake at Pancho Anaya</a>, I am so there.

<strong>File Under: How Did I Not Know This Place Existed?</strong>

Sometimes I get foolish and start to think that I know pretty darn near close to everything there is to do in this town. That's precisely when the universe reprimands me for my pride and ignorance. <a href="http://hollyrocksjewelry.blogspot.com/2010/07/persimmon-hollow.html">Thanks for the heads up on Persimmon Hollow, Holly of Hollyrocks</a>. I'm gonna visit just as soon as my outdoor thermometer stops begging to be let in so it can hang out above the air conditioning vent.

<a href="http://hollyrocksjewelry.blogspot.com/2010/07/clouds-and-caterpillars.html">Holly also has some freaky Oklahoma cloud photos and a couple of pissed off, stinky caterpillars to show you</a>. And Lord knows we're all curious as we can be about freaky Oklahoma cloud photos and pissed off, stinky caterpillars.

<strong>Dottie</strong>

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That's really the only thing you can name <a href="http://thehaywire.typepad.com/hot-off-the-haywire/2010/08/meet-dottie.html">a pig of this size and that can push out a litter of 15 piglets in the midst of this Oklahoma heat</a>. It all happened at the farm where the Cherry Street Farmers Market favorite Pork &amp; Greens grows their veggies and raises their herd.

And I'm gonna go ahead and follow that pastoral scene up with <a href="http://thehaywire.typepad.com/hot-off-the-haywire/2010/07/muffaletta-mi-piace.html">a Muffaletta recipe made with both the salami and the shaved deli ham available from Pork &amp; Greens</a>. Because we were all thinking about it anyway, right?

Right?

<strong>Tombstone</strong>

<a href="http://www.napkindad.com/2010/08/death-and-office.html">I loved this recent post on NapkinDad.com</a>:

<img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YqQZMGzS8No/TFbjMmzZCBI/AAAAAAAABB8/AiAc4-PEZoE/s400/death1_sm.jpg" alt="" />

I think I love it because this is sort of my own yardstick for keeping life in balance. As in, if I'm doing something that's starting to wear on me, I ask myself, is this something that's really going to matter when I'm on my deathbed? If not, I quit. Because life, people, is too short for BS.

If you're new to Napkin Dad, <a href="http://www.napkindad.com/p/beginnings.html">check out his story</a>. Because you know you want to know more about someone who got famous on napkin art.

<strong>Where in the World is Burkina Faso</strong>

If you don't know, <a href="http://globaltableadventure.com/2010/08/03/travel-tuesday-burkina-faso/">the Tulsans at Global Table tell you in this post</a>. Before that, <a href="http://globaltableadventure.com/2010/08/02/monday-meal-review-bulgaria/">they take you on a tour in Bulgaria that starts with a cold cucumber soup</a> (which would be perfect in all of this hellish Oklahoma weather, by the way) and ends with a video of a beautiful baby girl, U.S.-born, trying Bulgarian food.

In two words? Hilarity ensues. While I like that video, I particularly love the one in which she tries food from Bhutan:

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If you love food, if you love to travel or if you're the experimental type, Global Table, a project by Tulsans Keith and Sasha that takes on 195 countries, one meal at a time, <a href="http://globaltableadventure.com/">needs to be in your reader</a>.

<strong>Calling All Electrolytes</strong>

Because there's nothing like 100-degree weather to make a person want to run her ass off. But, if you're training for the caboodle of races coming up this fall, you don't really have much of a choice. <a href="http://fransfindings.blogspot.com/2010/07/training-zzzzzz.html">Fran from Fran's Findings tips us off to a free training program right here in Tulsa, complete with nutritional information and a customized training schedule</a>.

This training does not, unfortunately, come with a free <a href="http://www.camelbak.com/">CamelBak</a>.

Fran follows this post on training with <a href="http://fransfindings.blogspot.com/2010/07/cake.html">one featuring an amazing recipe for Italian Cream Cake</a>.

And all I can say is: Dammit, Fran.

<strong>Look at Those Low Rates</strong>

Rest assured that the following commercial has nothing to do with blogging or Tulsa. It's just, I am so floored by its awfulness that I couldn't help but repost it here. Thanks for the diversion, <a href="http://daveshort.tumblr.com/post/733081935/worst-commercial-ever">Dave at Accidentally Albino</a>.

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Do you have a favorite Tulsa blog? Leave a link to it in the comments.