My college years were like most peoples’ in many ways.   I entered brief, intense friendships which now have cooled; I skipped ...

            As a prized state employee, I have travelled through many offices.   I rejoice in the personal touches which show evidence of...

            You can’t have a real celebration without having some skin in the game, they say.   In my case, it’s not skin, but blood . . ...

Another side of the great G. Ailard S. Artain is exposed in the above Tulsa World article from November 5, 1972. The owl in t...

This article is from the October 10, 1992 Tulsa World . I must say that I am a shameless possessor of all four volumes.  But them no...

The latest appearance of the dread Markzeppa happened last year, at SoonerCon 27. Who can say which has faded more -- the costume-wearer...

When I bought the first of the Lost Tapes of Mazeppa on VHS in 1994, they also included this boffo, socko catalog. You ...

In 1970, Halloween providentially fell on Saturday.  That made marketing meat for Channel 6 in Tulsa.  Instead of beginning "wheneve...

Even though there wasn't really anyplace in Bartlesville to use it, I of course made sure to get an Uncola Underground Card, as endorsed...

            Back in Ye Olden Days before VCRs, I was one of zillions of youngsters who did the next best thing to videorecording.   We he...

From the December 14, 1997 Tulsa World : No, in no way does Sartain look like a leering dirty old man in the photo.  Uh-uh, nope.  Wh...

And so it was. in my fourteenth year, I prevailed upon Seamstress Supreme Mary Lou to create a Mazeppa outfit. She took a sheet and dyed...

At least, that's what he was sometimes called on the Uncanny Film Festival. And when Mazeppa released a record , one of the places ...

Sometime in the year 1970 ... You could save a buck on what was already a $125 value!  These inserts were stuck into the cardboard six-...

Anybody who's anybody that grew up in the mid-1970s with access to Tulsa TV stations knows who Mazeppa Pompazoidi is! If you don't...