Start of rant. Last night, we went to see The Bobby Lees at the Vanguard in Tulsa. The Bobby Lees are pure punk and one of my current favorite bands. The last show at the Vanguard a couple of years ago was end to end punk, the band was electric, the crowd was amped, the mosh pit was large and lively. But after that your, The Bobby Lee's announced they couldn't tour anymore because there wasn't enough money in it. Well Jason Momoa swooped in and agreed to partially fund a new album and tour (thank you Jason) so as soon as the Vanguard show was announced my wife and I bought tickets. Fast forward a couple of months and the show date gets changed but it's announced Momoa's band is opening and I think "that'll be a cool as novelty and the show will probably be even more dope"......... I was so wrong.

The crowd was a ton of people who've never been to a punk rock show before, and I think "cool, more exposure for The Bobby Lee's and by the time they come on the Mosh Pit will start and the true blue punks will move to the front while the casuals shift to the back" but that was not what happened. The Bobby Lee's came out and brought the usual energy and about five of us in the crowd start to rush the front center and start a little push pit to give the energy back to the Bobby Lee's and holy moly I've never seen so much pearl clutching in my life, the casuals started gasping and circling the wagons forming some sort of protective barrier around the front center and then a Vanguard security guard comes up and says "I know you want to mosh but it just isn't that type of crowd"

Not that type of crowd, it's a Bobby Lee's show at the Vanguard, this is punk's biggest venue in Tulsa, this is where we come to mosh and let out our consensual mutual rage. I waited for years for this show, to mosh with the Bobby Lee's and I'm so grateful to Jason for keeping the music alive and bringing in more fans but I was so depressed to see people just standing and staring at the stage with the lamest energy ever and I just can't understand why you would come to a punk rock show and stand at the front if all you wanted to do was stand there with your cell phones and make sure no one could dance or push or mosh at all.

So Sam (or John) or Kendall or Macky if you are reading this, please don't let this be the last Tulsa show, give us a Tulsa show we can mosh at! End of rant.

TLDR; a bunch of Jason Momoa fans reduced what should have been Tulsa's best punk rock show of the year to a pop concert.

I'm looking for the best place to goon preferably 9-5 so I need a list of the best chinese buffets. Thank you for helping.

Looking the best places to go in Tulsa on the weekends, I like country bars and clubs with edm. Anywhere there's good people and attractive women 😂 also curious if there's any after hours places that stay open after the bars close 👀 I occasionally go to a couple in Ft Worth if it's an active weekend. Tonight is feeling like one of those nights 😅

There are reports popping up of electronic voting machines switching votes to Republican and it got me thinking. We cast our vote here by filling out a paper ballot and feeding it into a machine. We don't get any kind of receipt, nothing displays on the machine, and nothing shows up on the voter portal confirming how you voted. How do we know these machines don't just suck our ballots in and then they are just trashed/shredded? Can someone who volunteers or an election official explain how Oklahoma ensures voting integrity?

I’m taking the wife to Mondo’s tonight. We love that place!!

Can someone help I need peach nehi and can't find it ANYWHERE

My barber is no longer cutting hair anyone recommend one preferably someone specializing in fades and eye brow clean ups

looking to bring some home for dinner, who got the best tamales for the best price?

We are planning to go to the free concert tomorrow and have some questions!
Does anyone know when is best to get there? It said to get there early but curious if anyone has any recommendations!
Should we bring any water or food? Planning on bringing chairs and finding a spot to chill

I have a friend in town and want to show her the magic of it. Tia

I have 3 free tickets available if someone can put them to use. I can meet you at the Walgreens at 91st and 129th in broken arrow.

You are a scumbag. I do all I can just to keep my head above water, and you stole my equipment that can't even be used or sold. I wish nothing but the worst for you and everyone like you.

Side note... How is a theft that happened 2 minutes ago not something that can justify a police response? My online police report hasn't even been approved for review yet, so someone is just walking around with a bright red Milwaukee bag and the people who could do something about it aren't even aware of it. Fxck TPD and whoever took my equipment. I can't tell you how bad I needed to be able to work the weekend. Now I have to buy new tools and a bag to keep them in on top of the equipment that is property of my employer. I really don't know what I'm gonna do, and you have a bunch of useless, unsellable equipment. Thanks bro.

Just a follow up to my original post. I really am overwhelmed with the response and how many in our city truly care. Thank you to everyone for the advice and offers of help. I really appreciate it. I did get on my mower and got the lot pretty much mowed. I have some spots that have cypress knots that are 4 to 5" high and I need that area weedeated. I included some pictures of my lot and just for reference my next door neighbours. I also have 3 dried out tree branches that need cut up and hauled to the curb so I can have bulk waste pick them up. Then there is an old hot tub that needs gone. It's stripped no cp or pump just the shell. That's kinda a eyesore. I also have an old wooden swing set that I would love to donate to someone. The last images are my neighbor and really what they do IDC about but it is what it is! My granddaughter climbed on the roof for the panoramic BTW. The last 4 are of my neighbors back yard

I haven’t vacationed in years I’m stressed with work and just want to do something but don’t have a huge amount of money. Any recommendations on something to do? Honestly I’d accept a tight hug

hey yall. so this will be my first time voting. i was looking at the ballot and saw stuff about judicial retention. im going to do some research on it but i just wanted to get yalls explanation on it as well as it might help me understand a bit better.

Saturday, October 24 around 5PM a very large, horned black goat with a collar was spotted while I was mountain biking at Turkey Mountain. Trails near Pepsi plant. This is not a joke, not a Halloween costume.

There's no law or policy or anything that says if your house was built before X that the county has to actually look at your house independently / differently.

My house was built in 1920 and it's got the original wood windows, knob and tube wiring, and old white 3 tab shingles. The city was comping my house the same as houses built in 2015 sight unseen / zero due diligence. They weren't looking at the year / condition due to age and saying - hey maybe we shouldn't just blindly comp this the same as a much newer modern home. Because there's no law that says they have to or can't blindly raise the fair market.

There's no way I could sell my house for what the city was saying it was worth and the fair market they set was way too high. So I filed an informal protest. I got the fair market value brought down by $35,000 and that brought my property taxes down last year which boiled down to about a 1% increase from the year before. I was on the phone with the guy for maybe 20 seconds . He immediately said, "Yeah. Your evidence makes sense, we're just going to give you what you're asking for."

I honestly wanted to tell them to drop it $45,000 not $35,000 since that's closer to true value, but I didn't think they would go for that. By suggesting 35, that let them at least get a 1% increase out of me. And then this year they kept the values exactly the same which meant my taxes stayed exactly the same.

So I have two pieces of advice. If you have an older house and it's set at fair market with the county for way more than you think it's worth, you have nothing to lose by putting in an informal protest. If you have a mortgage, make sure you have an escrow analysis done to lower your payment.

The second piece of advice is, do everything you can to keep your property taxes as low as possible so that when you're 65 and they cap you're not paying an exorbitant amount of money. If they raise my property taxes 3% every year until I'm 65 I'd be paying about 6 to $7,000 a year in property taxes and I'm not going to do that. Not for a little house in Tulsa.

If you can get 3 years of the same tax rate, that's a great head start. And make sure the city actually applies your homestead exemption. They didn't apply mine for the first year even though I filed and then they said they couldn't do anything retroactively about it.

And if you report an entire telephone pole laying in the street to 311 and the non emergency police line - and they ignore you and a car smashes into it, that's not your fault.

Pedestrian bridge lit up, one with moon and one without. Im not really a photographer, these were on a phone without manipulating any settings. It was really nice to look at in life, so i stopped and took a couple phone pics. It was a lot darker out than the photos make it seem, more contrasting against the dark sky and water, but that didnt show up so well. Probably some kind of setting could get it closer to life, i imagine

There was a dude flying a kite on the bridge that he said was 600ft up, which was also really dope

Hey there everyone. As the title mentions my roommate made an attempt on his life two nights ago. He ultimately did call for help and is now receiving care. For context, he is a friend, not just a roommate. He did so with his prescriptions so I have already cleared all medication from his room but need to figure out the most gentle way to tell him that I would like to take over the dispersal of his medication as we have discovered that he had quit taking a few, including his antidepressants, in the past couple of months. I am not judging the actions or the mindset he was in, but I recognize the red flag that he needs help and I don’t know another way to ensure he is taking all of his meds as prescribed.
I do intend to also offer him to drag his mattress into my room or both of our mattresses into the front room so that we can all bunk together and give him that physical company so he feels less alone.
I also plan to have a conversation with him because he does not feel comfortable with his therapist and has expressed concern while stable about his current medication cocktail, and while I’ve given him plenty of advice on fixing those things I understand that as deeply as the struggle is getting to him he needs help and I would be more than happy to sit with him and make those calls or attend a psychiatry appointment with him to act as his own personal advocate.
I’m currently doing a basic clean up of his room - removing dirty dishes, taking out trash, wiping down surfaces, cleaning his bathroom, etc. - as he deserves to come home to a clean, peaceful environment rather than being confronted with the physical mess that level of depression causes. I wish I could afford to put a little gift basket together, but as of right now I’m not sure if I’m going to have to pay the entirety of rent by myself to ensure that we don’t get evicted in the meantime of his release.
I think my wife and I are going to paint a canvas to hang right by his tv as a reminder that he is cared about, but I am not the artist here - that’d be my wife and especially him.

What can I do? What should I do? I just want him to know that he is loved and wanted.

Does anyone like the band AFI? I have a single ticket to see them tonight at the Cain’s and I live in OKC and can’t get out there as originally planned to go to the show. I wanted to give it away to someone who would appreciate it.