tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12250110.post456643594585836509..comments2023-10-25T06:49:06.288-06:00Comments on Yet Another Small Town Moment: ...Sergeant Pepper taught his band to playOKDadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12670312099690140483noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12250110.post-59020176300012110662008-04-21T11:17:00.000-06:002008-04-21T11:17:00.000-06:00One word...sprawl.One word...sprawl.OKDadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12670312099690140483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12250110.post-64288082961670357592008-04-20T09:22:00.000-06:002008-04-20T09:22:00.000-06:00i hope that you all pick up a regional sound . . ....i hope that you all pick up a regional sound . . . the loss of our regional differences in speech, dress, food and the like is one of the great tragedies of the homogenization of our society. wal-mart, MTV, cable news, mcdonald's etc etc etc etc ad nauseum: the worst part of all of that is that we're becoming the same and one town looks-sounds like another from coast to coast.BigAssBellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00196713522104157126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12250110.post-80330452604471022982008-04-02T11:21:00.000-06:002008-04-02T11:21:00.000-06:00"Wistful" about our town growth?Good word. Pensiv..."Wistful" about our town growth?<BR/><BR/>Good word. Pensive, melancholy -- all pretty much sums it up. <BR/><BR/>Our older, smaller Walmart was more than tolerable, as was having to drive 40-minutes for a Happy Meal.<BR/><BR/>If I were to run for office in my small town, my platform would be "status quo works for me."<BR/><BR/>As far as the girls getting their Okie p-funk speak on, I'm doing my best to keep their dialects as generically broadcasty as possible, but when I find myself kickin' into local-yokal at times (it's so easy), the pressure lifts and we all explode into a rousing round of "Surrey with the fringe on top."OKDadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12670312099690140483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12250110.post-43332626049269262012008-04-02T10:50:00.000-06:002008-04-02T10:50:00.000-06:00I'm happy to have been here, reading your funny an...I'm happy to have been here, reading your funny and occasionally touching musings for much of the past three years.<BR/><BR/>BTW, you sound a bit wistful about all the new stuff coming to town. Or are you simply observing?<BR/><BR/>And are your girls acquiring Okie accents?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12250110.post-13415312018045536842008-04-02T09:48:00.000-06:002008-04-02T09:48:00.000-06:00Congrats on sticking with both the blogging and th...Congrats on sticking with both the blogging and the small town.<BR/><BR/>Re: "Of course, Walmart has always got it's freak on." Oh, heck yeah!Kirstenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14866412610499944622noreply@blogger.com