Chicken-Fried News

Do not, repeat, do not feed the prairie dogs.   The little dickens have long been a part of the landscape of Lawton’s Elmer Thomas Park near downtown, doing what prairie dogs do ” standing watch, scurrying around, eating handouts and making more prairie dogs. According to a recent Oklahoman article, the Lawton City Council […]

Oklahoma and the world of cartooning have lost a talented and witty colleague. The Tulsa World’s Doug Marlette, author of the comic strip “Kudzu” and a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist, died July 10 from an automobile crash in Mississippi. Marlette joined the Tulsa World last year and quickly enamored himself with the world of Oklahoma […]

The New York Daily News called it “a black eye.” The Los Angles Times proclaimed it “one of the most punishing losses.” And USA Today remarked it “added to Oklahoma’s pain.”   Those widely read publications were not talking about the Dust Bowl or even Oklahoma County Commissioner Brent Rinehart’s latest online photos. The subject […]

New York Times travel section contributor Matt Gross’ description of country café veggies (“iceberg salads with toupees of flavorless yellow cheese” ” oh, yum!) might be what the rest of the world considers typical Okie options of the vegetable variety, but Gross dug deeper: In his July 4 “Frugal Traveler” NYT column, he road tripped […]

Either the DirecTV call center in Tulsa needs better telephone lines, or the intensive customer service training at the center is getting too intense.   According to a story in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, a husband and wife in Savage, Minn., are suing after an incident last fall when having satellite television installed in their […]

At 106, Frank Buckles is the youngest of three known survivors left of the 4.7 million who enlisted in the Great War ” World War I ” to make the world “safe for democracy,” according to The Associated Press.   And he might not have made it in if it weren’t for a not-too-choosy recruiter […]

Scientists who discovered a primitive, shrew-like Mongolian mammal fossil from 65 million years ago say the animal’s emergence on the scene was not unlike that of another particular state of affairs ” this one, actually.   According to scientists writing in a recent edition of the journal Nature, the recognition of the mammal “Maelestes gobiensis,” […]

Here’s a nice little picker-upper for those who don’t think Oklahoma City gets enough good news: Our water tastes like nothing. No, no ” that’s good.   As reported by Reuters, “a neutral water that tastes of nothing won the ‘best of the best’ award” at a recent annual competition to find “North America’s finest […]

Oklahoma Cityans can “eat fresh” no more at the corner of N.W. 63rd Street and N. Western Avenue, as the Subway there has closed its doors. The franchisee of the sandwich shop watched as the Chesapeake Energy Corp. grew around him, but long had refused to give up his lease.   Eventually, money talks, and […]

Watch out for falling vows! Shoppers of the Wal-Mart Supercenter at 7800 Northwest Expressway might notice a little something unusual going on in the aisles on Saturday ” not to mention a little something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.   Oklahoma City couple Oliver Roper and Debra Russell are slated to say “I […]