One day I chanced to look upwards.  I noticed the Liberty Bell in our living-room ceiling. Below is a close-up.  It's about as big as y...

Sometimes you see interesting shapes in semisolid foods.  Could be a pool of oil in your peanut butter.  Or the monolith from 2001: A Space ...

Some of the folks working on the 2016-2022 CBS show Bull had a sense of humor. What kind of Magic Seat Belt will go UNDER your trenchcoat t...

With apologies to Ruby & The Dramatics' 1963 classic song, "Our Day Will Come." I like to vary the lunch I take to work.  ...

You know, you get used to seeing typos. Some are funnier than others. Some are merely inept, like the dozen or so weekly seen on the newsc...

WELCOME TO APRIL FOOLISHNESS 2023! Some of you may know that I work for the Great State of Oklahoma.  They're still working on wrapping ...

One of the things I did with my handy-dandy cassette-corder was hold the mic up to the TV and record whole programs. I’ve lost t...

As you should know, Mister Mystery ran for Tulsa's mayoral post. Now, heretofore never revealed, is the campaign song which I wrote for...

... At least, I came across this set of contact strips somewhere. So much for Bette Davis lookalikes! See you Monday with a musical composit...

This is from the December 14, 1997 Tulsa World . I ain't sayin' nothing about the appreciative look Our Hero is giving to the pretty...

"The zany unpredictability of Sartain at his best." That's what we all wanted, right kids? This is from the August 29, 1972 T...

I sure hope Mr Sartain doesn't resent the fact, but he'll ALWAYS be Mazeppa to us. Of course, he's also the Big Bopper, and Oli...

The hoity-toity types might have turned up their surgically-snipped noses at Mazeppa ... but we never did, right? I said, RIGHT? This is fr...

It's hard to remember that we spent two decades with only our memories and Mazeppa scrapbooks to jog our fanatacism. Then came this cos...

And welcome to the last-ever MARCH MAZEPPA MADNESS! As you will read in this article from the April 28, 2001 Tulsa World , Gailard Sartain i...

As the sun sets slowly in the West, shuttering this year's installment of MY SIXITES VALENTINE, we revisit the concept of furry critters...

The film Bye Bye Birdie wasn't released until a month or two after Valentine's, 1963. So these telephone-oriented Valentines weren...

These Valentinary documents from 1962 in no way constitute an other-than-platonic friendship. The McCoys lived up the hill.  Jennifer was in...