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189 million breaths you’ve taken …

May 31, 2013 by Hank Stuever Leave a Comment

The Police album Synchronicity is 30 years old on June 1. And so is everything else about the summer of 1983.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 1980s, Derba, Hank Stuever, Miss Gradenko is safe, OKC Zoo Amphitheater, Oklahoma City, Penn Square Mall, Sting, Synchronicity release June 1 1983, Synchronicity turns 30, The Police, The Police Synchronicity

I’m giving away THREE free copies of Lou Berney’s new book — these’ll go so fast you’ll get WHIPLASH!

July 10, 2012 by Hank Stuever 3 Comments

Hey. Five months since I blogged? Five?? Forgive me.

But I come bearing another TONSIL book giveaway as small penance — perfect summertime reading. It’s Lou Berney‘s new book, Whiplash River, the sequel to his very enjoyable Gutshot Straight. Already!

Lou is one of a kind: Born n’ raised in Oklahoma City, went to Bishop McGuinness High School, then got a journalism degree at Loyola in New Orleans, where he was editor of the Maroon — hey, wait, that’s MY life!

Well, Lou did it all first.

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He has a pulse (and a booty)

January 30, 2011 by Hank Stuever 3 Comments

Actual proof that I still exist: National Journal‘s Hotline came knocking the other day, with lighthearted questions for their Friday Feature Q&A. The what? The hunh? National Journal is a D.C. publication that is so essential to the Beltway power/media structure that it costs, like, hundreds (thousands?) of dollars to subscribe. Otherwise I would link you to the feature. But now that it’s been out a f ew days, I’m just going to “borrow” it, with a friendly shout-out to the writer, Amanda Munoz-Temple, who I guess bangs these things out every week! Enjoy…

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One-Man Book Club takes a moment to ponder the wondrous mediocrity of Belinda Carlisle

June 5, 2010 by Hank Stuever 2 Comments

What seemed like half the freshman class of Bishop McGuinness High School went to see the Go-Go’s on their Vacation tour at the Oklahoma City Myriad Center University of Oklahoma Lloyd Noble Center (speak, memory! Or speak, Derba! Or, you know who would really know — Andrea Martinez). Thanks to the interwebs, I can at least confirm that this happened on October 2, 1982. We had the beat.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 1980s, Beauty and the Beat, Belinda Carlisle, Bishop McGuinness, books, Derba, Go-Go's, Heaven is a Place on Earth, Jane Wiedlin, Lips Unsealed, Lloyd Noble, Mark Marron, McGuinness High School, Myriad, Oklahoma City, One-Man Book Club

Oh my garsh

May 18, 2010 by Hank Stuever 3 Comments

Big hailstorm Sunday back in the land of my birth. The wind comes right behind the plain … and fucks shit up. I feel bad for everyone’s car. I also feel bad for watching these over and over. I love the people and their acksints. Sounds like home; looks like it too. I can almost smell that wonderful ozoney storm smell.

Here’s a video somebody shot inside Penn Square Mall in Oklahoma City. Wait and see what happens around the 4:15 marker…

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‘Cause it’s the gift that’ll live and live …

December 2, 2009 by Hank Stuever 7 Comments

3318195566_4246c0e89eIs it a book tour or just a long nostalgia trip? And is it my own nostalgia, or some longer epic nostalgia trip that anticipates the demise of the printed word? Yikes! In any case, strap in…

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