Okie Bloggin'

A quick look-see at some of my favorite Oklahoma bloggers ...

Dustbury.com has this addendum on Michael Moore and his more good-humored years.

"In his younger days, he seemed quite a bit less doctrinaire about things. I remember his television series TV Nation, which had an interest in snark at least as high as my own, and which featured briefly something called the CEO Corporate Challenge, in which the chairmen would be pulled out of the boardroom long enough to demonstrate some actual familiarity with the products vended by the firms they ran. One of the CEOs targeted was Ford boss Alexander Trotman: Moore met him in Dearborn and challenged him to change the oil in a Ford truck. Trotman, to Moore's surprise, was a pretty fair shadetree mechanic, and finished up the task in less time than your local Spee-D-Loob; Moore, to his credit, left the segment in ..."

And kudos to Charles for his gentle reminder of what anti-blog venom is still being spewed by the increasingly anachronistic mainstream news media.

Lip Schtick's Lil Red has a must-read trip down memory lane for any citizens, real or imaginary, of Oklahoma City. She spins off from the Red Dirt Blog's recent call for Oklahomans near and far to weigh in with their pics for Okie kitsch. You can always count on Lil Red for sensitivity, hence, we get her remembrances of Norman, Oklahoma's Medieval Fair: "Lord, what a bunch of freaks. But if dressing like Azrael Abyss and being led around by a dog leash while you crawl on all fours is your thing, then who am I to judge?"

Speaking of our favorite center-right conservative (whom we sense is getting just a smidgen more liberal as the months tick by), the Red Dirt Blog is back and operational and waxing on his new Senseo coffee maker. That's right; even diehard Red Staters can be a little metrosexual.

Oklarama, that irrepressible booster of this land of sweet-smellin' wavin' wheat, muses on a topic near and dear to this movie fanatic's heart: Where are the indie filmmakers of our state?: "[New Zealand film] Whale Rider is a world-class movie, and we can make one too. If we need more ammunition, all we need to do is think of Afghanistan. They have a totally devastated country and yet were able to make the acclaimed film Osama. It's time Oklahomans thought of themselves as actors on the world stage. Literally."

Okiedoke starts a catalogue of Okie hate (as he succinctly points out, "We certainly don't want this wit to go to waste"). Still, who knew there was so much out anti-Okie venom out there? It's not like we have dumbasses for ambassadors to the world or anything ...

Dubya's listless reaction to the cataclysmic tsunamis and earthquake is on the mind of Existential Ramble. "There is a moral imperative to assist," writes LiteraryTech. "We would expect it of our wealthy neighbors, and they should expect it of us. Finally, an observation for those interested in a theocracy: if we are interested in a Bible-based government, I believe the Bible would argue for a 10% tithe to others; not 0.14%."

The Blue Dot Blog is back in the saddleblog with her account of what happens to naughty boys during Christmastime. As she explains in verse worthy of Seuss himself, the kids' gifts will end up on eBay.

The Left End of the Dial, good old-school leftist that he is, pleads his case for why the next chair of the Democratic National Committee must not be a Republican by any other name. "It's simple: know your core values, be able to articulate those values, use those values for framing policy," he writes. "The policies will flow coherently from those values - the frames will make those policies understandable to your audience."

This Is Class Warfare gives us his take on Rummy Claus spreading Yuletide cheer throughout the Middle East.

The Token Liberal is one of those damned ex-Oklahomans, but he'll always be a Sooner to us. And thankfully, he finally got off his Lone Star butt and started blogging again.

And as always, Oklahoma Wine News gives you the latest information on Okie vino.