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When I first began my stint as a grad student at the University of Oklahoma, the mighty Sooners went undefeated in football, went to the Orange Bowl and brought home their seventh national championship a few months later. This month I get my degree from OU. Shortly thereafter the football team — which whooped Colorado…

That’s right. Another post immediately after the car rant. I started to make this one yesterday and pulled back. I hate to make it. I hate to risk looking unprofessional myself. And I hate to publicly condemn somebody I think is basically a nice person but who I believe to be totally incompetent. But dammit, other…

Good God. Yesterday I took the Kia to the mechanic I’ve taken the Ford van to the last few times. Explained what was going on and what the manual said the problem was. They don’t work on catalytic converters, he said. He suggested a place that does, one that would check it for free. So…

I hate cars. The only thing I hate worse than cars is having more than one car. In the past two months we’ve spend almost $1,000 on a new water pump, then four new tires for my wife’s van. This morning my hail damaged, bird-shit-covered little Kia starting lurching and chugging on the way to…

If you’ve read any of the columns in my archives, you know that I’m mostly a pretty conservative kinda guy. You also know that I work as public relations director at a liberal arts university, and most people know universities tend to be more on the left of things political. My boss is an openly…

Whew. Just turned in my last story for this deadline at OKC Business. It was a monster piece, the longest I’ve written for them. I really enjoy being able to do some real journalism, but the time involved really sucks up my fiction writing time. But, hey, the paper pays and so far I haven’t…

i need to become a werewolf ive longed to become one for years, i need to know. if you can help me email me at {email address not revealed} I get messages like this from time to time. I don’t know what to think of them. Do people really believe in werewolves? Do they really think I’m…

I’ve made my decision between LiveJournal and Blogger. I’m going to go with LiveJournal. I’ll have to pay a little to get all the features that were available with Blogger’s free account, but I think the friends feature of LiveJournal is worth it. I’ve also found that I can transfer all my previous Blogger journal entries…

I’m a member of the Horror Writers Association. I don’t get much out of my membership, particularly since I pretty much quit going to the message board. Why? Because of the elitist attitude of many members. No. Scratch that. Of a few members with big egos and a need to dump on people. The HWA…

I can’t decide. LiveJournal or Blogger. I’ve been using Blogger, but like some of the LiveJournal features better. For now, I’m doing both, but don’t have LiveJournal linked on my Web site. Here’s what I posted on my Blogger today. If you have any thoughts on which is better, I’d love to hear them. If…