Let's introduce ourselves!

[SXSW]

Since the member profiles are pretty vague I thought it would be good for us to know more about each other.

My real name is Brent.  SXSW means South by Southwest, which I believe defines Tulsa and Oklahoma for that matter.

I live in Norman.  I'm an architecture major and a Beta at the University of Oklahoma.  

I am from Tulsa and graduated from Holland Hall.  I love Tulsa and try to make it back home whenever I can.

My hobbies are drawing, OU football/basketball, urban photography (I'll have to post some of my pics), partying, watching (and making) movies, golf, and storm chasing (It's fun!).

Well now you know a little more about me, post some info. about yourselves...

[tommyhazams]

Thanks for your information.....

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Tommy Bahama Home

[RecycleMichael]

My real name is Michael. I work for a company that promotes recycling.

I am from here. I graduated from Tulsa Will Rogers High School.

My hobbies include...I got nothing.

I am good at using remote controls with televisions, can write insults in haiku, and enjoy biscuits and gravy.

[TURobY]

My name is Robert Young. I grew up in East Tulsa, moved to TU campus for college, Westport for grad school, and finally back to Renaissance neighborhood (south and west of TU campus).

I'm a software developer. In my free time I enjoy participating in theatre/film and electronic music producing/DJ-ing.

[FOTD]

Beelzebub here. Grew up in heaven but was demoted to hell upon opening a snack in 1970 and getting dosed.

Are you experienced? FOTD is.....

[kylieosu]

*waves hello* My name is Kylie. I grew up in a small town west of OKC. I moved to Stillwater to attend OSU from 2001-2006, and then moved here to Tulsa after graduating. I love Tulsa and have met some really amazing people in the 3+ years I've been here. I work in marketing for a large corporation here in town. I've lived in the Cherry Street area and now downtown, and plan on staying in those areas as long as I'm a Tulsa resident. My hobbies include attending lots of concerts, reading, traveling, and watching bad reality shows.

[TheArtist]

  My name is William, I am an artist.  I am a 4th generation Tulsan and sometimes wonder if half the people who live here are either related or know my family somehow lol. Tulsa can be a small town  .  My mother was a teacher/geology professor and taught at several of the schools around town, including where I graduated, Owasso. She also worked for several years at Citgo as a Micropaleontologist. Father was a pipe fitter, probably helped build half the schools and hospitals around town, (for Morrow Plumbing, the Morrows are related on my moms side and I am named after my great grandfather William Morrow,  "Morrow Road in Sand Springs",,, just one example of the "related" things).  As many of you know my grandmother on my moms side was the model for the Goddess Of Oil, http://goddessofoil.com/ which I am now hoping to get built in conjunction with the Art-Deco Museum I am wanting to get started in Tulsa. Would spend summers and other times of the year with my other grandmother out in Turley on the farm, feeding and tending the cows and helping with the gardens and such.  Ok, enough about my roots lol. Suffice it to say they are deep and broad here and include politicians and businessmen/women both big and small. One reason why I have to behave myself,,,, somewhat  . Can't sneeze in this town without someone finding out and telling on me lol.

After graduating High School in Owasso, moved to Eureka Springs Arkansas. Felt trapped there in dead end jobs and so joined the Army to get out. Was stationed at Fort Drum NY, 10th Sig. Mountain Div as a "Multichannel Communications Systems Operator", egads lol. Basically set up and ran a relay system/field van for encrypted communications. Started college at a division of Syracuse University there in upstate NY while in the army. After the Army, moved back to Tulsa and worked at UPS as a supervisor and at the same time continued my college with help from the GI Bill. Started at TCC and kept going until I had taken so many classes they told me there wasn't much left there I could take and that I needed to move on to a real college lol. Just couldn't decide what I wanted to do. Went for a while to NSU in Tahlequah, studying psychology and anthropology. Also studied for a time at then "UCAT" downtown, History major. Also studied for a while to be a teacher with Langston. Then through various twists of fate ended up being an artist. Go figure lol.    

Hobbies and interests.... Love rocks, fossils, and geology,(fell into a volcano, fell into the Grand Canyon while trying to feed Cheese-its to some cute little chipmunks,,, but thats another story) basically anything science and history related. Also a bit of a sci-fi nerd  .  Love to travel, have been all over the US from Canada to Mexico, also been to Europe a few times, London, Paris,,, and definitely want to go back. One of my favorite trips was to Egypt and Cairo. Absolutely incredible. Have started dabbling in photography as another hobby. Also love playing sand Volley Ball, rollerblading, and want to start bike riding.

Currently work as an artist, and am a trouble maker with TN. Most recently have taken on the project of getting an Art-Deco Museum going in Tulsa, so will be working on that for quite a while. Some of my work can be seen here...  http://www.williamtheartist.com/ and have started adding some newer things here...  http://www.flickr.com/photos/tulsaartist/



 

[sgrizzle]

Hello, My name is Scott Grizzle and I'm a postoholic.

I'm a native Tulsan (but born in OKC, Shh..) and grew up in East Tulsa amongst people who could care less about anything in Tulsa past the mailbox. My father worked for various tech companies in Tulsa that no longer exist and probably set a record for most layed off due to constant mergers and reorgs. He even got laid off 4 times by the same company.

I worked for 6+ years with flowers (but I'm not a florist) while going to school. I went to TCC+OSU where I majored in Aerospace Engineering, Elementary Education, and MIS and ended up with degrees in things I didn't major in. I've worked downtown for 11 years for the same company although luckily my pay has improved (started at $10/hr). When not reading this forum, the rest of my time on the internet is reading tech, gadget, aerospace, movie, tv, lifehacking and science news and am probably the biggest geek you will ever know. I used fidomail and midi's before we had email and mp3's. I was one of the people Metallica infamously kicked off Napster and still unhappy about it.

I first got involved in city issues by finding this forum and helping found the short-lived group "Tulsa Area Preservation Society" aka "SaveTulsa.org" which organized protests and petitions against the Tulsa World when they decided to tear down the Skelly and Froug's buildings. The group faded shortly after the buildings did but I continued to stay here and eventually joined TulsaNow officially and am now the President. I also serve as the Technology Committee Chair for Mayfest, Advisory Board for Land Legacy (where I am working to redevelop and green the East Village) and Elder in my church. I currently have 2 cars, 2 kids, a wife (mrsgrizzle on here) and a mortgage in what is considered the most "evil" area of Tulsa. I hope to move downtown once suitable and affordable accommodations are available.

[Steve]

My name is Steve.

Retired former accountant/financial analyst for local Tulsa banks and oil company.  Currently "retired" but that status may have to change soon.  Great time to be looking for a job, huh?

1975 graduate of Tulsa Nathan Hale High School; Tulsa resident since Nov. 1957.
B.S.B.A (finance) and M.B.A degrees from the University of Tulsa.
22+ year resident of Tulsa's Lortondale neighborhood, the cool mid-century modern place to live.  I don't want to live anywhere else.  I am an active board member and co-manager of our neighborhood pool, a purely volunteer job that is a lot more work than one may think.

My big hobby is the Hammond tonewheel organ/Leslie speaker.  Have 2 of each vintage examples in my home and love to maintain and play them.  They certainly don't build 'em like that anymore.

Been a TulsaNow poster since late 2004, but mostly browse here more than post these days.   

[Hometown]

Hello, My name is Ron.  But my oldest Tulsa and Dallas friends know me as Ronnie.  Tulsa is my hometown.  I was born at Hillcrest.

My paternal grandparents lived on Charles Page Blvd.  My material grandmother lived near T.U.  My mother was secretary to the president of a Standard Oil subsidiary then headquartered in Tulsa.  My father was the owner of Tulsa Business College and Tulsa's Patricia Stevens Modeling School.

I started at Hale but then went on to Churchill Academy in Dallas.  Hale kicked me out because I wouldn't cut my hair.  Later I attended TCC and OU and then I graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute with a BFA in painting.

My high school gang was a collection of musicians and hippies and we called ourselves "the Circle" based on rituals contained in Robert Heinlein's novel "Stranger in a Strange Land."  Later, in 1973 I was a founding member of Tulsa Gay Alliance.

I started out in the art world and worked as a gallery director in Dallas and New York and as an art critic/art editor at the Star-Telegram in Fort Worth.  I've also published art criticism in Artweek and Artspace.

In 1984 I started working for attorneys at a very large Park Avenue law firm.  I've continued the legal work in New York and Oakland and San Francisco and to this day where I am a Legal Assistant at an important Tulsa law firm.

I have been in four marriage-like relationships.  Number four was a keeper.  I have been with my current partner for twenty-one years.

We have two darling Persian cats.  A red and a tabby.  And we have two Black Moor goldfish named Nemo and Okie Girl.

My partner and I own a crusty old Mayo-designed home at the top of Reservoir Hill.  I remember my mother driving us through Reservoir Hill when we were kids and I remember seeing my home.  I honestly don't know if I could stand Tulsa if we lived anywhere else.  Reservoir Hill is a wonderful, artsy neighborhood full of tolerant (mostly Democrat) mavericks.

I am a life-long Democrat and I'm proud of being a Tulsa-Liberal.  We are a hardy bunch.  I watched a lot of OETA when I was growing up – still do.

Our move to Tulsa was supposed to be about quality of life but I have still to find out what it means for me to be happy at this stage of life.  One of the things about being in my 50s is that I feel equally connected to all of the chapters in my life.  I am all of the things I've done and I reserve the right to do whatever I believe brings me closer to self-actualization.

Before all is said and done I may revert to calling myself Ronnie.

[FOTD]

You'll always be Homey to us demons!

[Cherish]

 My name is William, I am an artist.  I am a 4th generation Tulsan and sometimes wonder if half the people who live here are either related or know my family somehow lol. Tulsa can be a small town  .  My mother was a teacher/geology professor and taught at several of the schools around town, including where I graduated, Owasso. She also worked for several years at Citgo as a Micropaleontologist. Father was a pipe fitter, probably helped build half the schools and hospitals around town, (for Morrow Plumbing, the Morrows are related on my moms side and I am named after my great grandfather William Morrow,  "Morrow Road in Sand Springs",,, just one example of the "related" things).  As many of you know my grandmother on my moms side was the model for the Goddess Of Oil, http://goddessofoil.com/ which I am now hoping to get built in conjunction with the Art-Deco Museum I am wanting to get started in Tulsa. Would spend summers and other times of the year with my other grandmother out in Turley on the farm, feeding and tending the cows and helping with the gardens and such.  Ok, enough about my roots lol. Suffice it to say they are deep and broad here and include politicians and businessmen/women both big and small. One reason why I have to behave myself,,,, somewhat  . Can't sneeze in this town without someone finding out and telling on me lol.

 

That Goddess of Oil statue is really nice.  That's cool to have that in your heritage.

[guido911]

I am from Tulsa and graduated from Holland Hall.

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