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If you’ve been asking yourself, “Where’s the fall weaI hope you enjoyed this past weekend. Not only didcold front bring snow to Kansas and a little sleet to Nit also caused temperatures to drop to nearly 20 degaverage statewide. Instead of feeling like fall, it felt winter. Most of Oklahoma had its first freeze , but thlikely saw at least light frost if not heavy frost. In Notemperature officially dropped to 33°, so the first frecome. In case you’re curious, the average fir st freezis the first week of November.

No freeze, no big deal, right?! Well, to all the allergis a huge deal. The first good, hard freeze will drast

back on all the allergens in the air. The first good frekill off all of the bugs that splatter on our windshieldare headed up the turnpike. The first hard freeze witeeny-tiny gnats that dive-bomb our eyeballs while wtree stands. OK, maybe those last couple of things obut you get the message. The first freeze will solve mworld’s problems and will be arrive sooner rather thmeantime, keep the bug and nasal sprays handy antransitional season because winter is only 60-ish day

Oct. 25, 2013 • Issue 20 • Volume 2

CULINARY ADVENTURESIf you want a fast, easy anddelicious recipe for Halloween that

you can easily customize, then Kellihas just the recipe for you! MonsterBark!

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SPORTS TALK Chris discusses what’s been goingon with Norman High and NormanNorth football, and he also giveshis two cents on the Sooners’ lossagainst Texas at the 2013 Red Riverrivarly football game.

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THE ART OF MANLINESS“There’s nothing to fear but fearitself,” but as Richard Moormansays, fear also ruins a good time.See just how much fear played arole in the unfolding of an ep ic

Halloween prank!

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CRUISING MAINHeaters are running, slippers are coming out of the closet and you may or may not bebegging your cat or dog to sleep on your feet for once. It’s fall!

This issue we talk about some Norman favorites. Full Moon Sushi has a new bar and theyare excited to have you come and visit! Confections + Coffee has the perfect recipe forHalloween parties and it takes less than 10 minutes to make. Chris is talking all aboutsports and what the Red River Rivalry meant for OU. Richard confides in you about hisidea of fear in men with a s tory about a local Halloween prank that may have gone toofar.

xoxo,

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF • Kelli Smith

ART DIRECTOR Kelli Smith

COPY EDITOR

Ashley Roy

PHOTOGRAPHY Mark DoescherEmilye Lewin

CONTRIBUTORSChris JosephKelli Nicole

Lacey SwopeMel Guapo

Richard Moorman

ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Joe Wilhite

PUBLISHER Joe Wilhite

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MAIN ATTRACTIONFull Moon Sushi has been a favoriteon Main Street for quite some timenow, but now it offers a neat newaddition: a new bar! Mel Guapotries it out and learns what inspiredthis new feature with new drinks atthis hip sushi restaurant.

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I’m always looking for a new place to drink. Not because I’m alwayswearing out my welcome. That’s entirely unrelated. I’m always lookingfor a new place to drink because I like to see the world from everyconceivable angle. I like to know how the other half lives, and theother half, and the other half, etc. ad infinitum. (It takes a lot of halvesto make your pie whole.) You see, I maintain a firm belief that wherea man drinks affects his worldview, and like I said, I like to experiencethe world from all the possible angles.

This, perhaps, is my purpose in life – to encourage others to drink at theworld from every possible angle. I mean look at the world from everypossible angle. Maybe I do mean drink at the world. As everyoneknows, it’s important to keep yourself comfortable. What is equallyimportant but tragically less obvious in this day and age (and location)is that it’s just as important to keep yourself uncomfortable. That meanstrying new things.

I tried a new thing last week, and that new thing was the new bar atFull Moon Sushi on Main near the intersection at Porter. Full MoonSushi is not new by any stretch of the imagination. It has existed inits current location for more years than I know, but for the first time inthose many years, Full Moon Sushi will be offering a fully licensed liquor bar featuring signature Japanese-influenced cocktails,along with the sake and beer that have been on the menu since opening.

“Personality is how I would describe the place. It’s about the peoplehere. We serve a primarily regular clientele—people who like to orderrolls like the ‘Pablo Escolar,’ ‘Eel Communication,’ and ‘The Dude.’”

It was a Monday night, near their regular 10 PM closing time, whenI arrived on the scene at Full Moon Sushi. It was quiet, naturally, forclose to closing time on a Monday night. The lighting and blue wallsgave me an impression of walking into an aquarium. At any momentI expected a shy octopus or fish to poke its head out from behind abooth. I sidled up to the spacious bar, asked for a beer, and wasserved a tall Sapporo with a chilled mug.

“I’m here about the new bar,” I said. I was told that I was sitting at it.That wasn’t the kind of new bar that I expected, but I wa s living in themoment so I dug deeper. I was told that the bar—the physical placewhere I was sitting—had been constructed in three days by the ownerand staff themselves as a complement to the new liquor license, bothpart of an overall expansion to keep pace with Main Street’s ongoingdevelopment. I was speaking with one of the chefs, Jared Gomez.

“Main Street is coming alive and we want to become an increasinglylarger part of it. We want to be involved in pub crawls.” Gomezwent on to describe the signature drink menu they were developing,which would consist of five-to-ten clean, fresh-flavored cocktails tocompliment sushi, or simply for those with a lighter and more refinedpalate.

I couldn’t wait to try one.

Mel Guapo

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Kelli Nicole Confections + Coffee

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It’s that time of year where you eatmore candy in one day than youusually eat the other 364 days of the year! Yes! Halloween is upon us!

Whether you’re a parent getting readyfor a classroom party, a college student

throwing a spooky dinner and a movie,or a member of society that was invitedto a Halloween party, this treat is sureto please a crowd.

Monster Bark is a super simple andsuper sweet treat that you can makein less than 10 minutes! All you needis some white almond bark, pretzels,candy corn and a couple of yourfavorite Halloween-themed ingredients.Melt the bark on the stove top, crush upthe pretzels and lay them on a pan withthe candy, pour in on top, let it set and you’re good to go!

What’s great about Monster Bark is that you can make a large batch for lessthan $5, you can customize it to yourpersonal preferences and it’s probablythe quickest Halloween treat you canmake. It’s a win-win-win situation.

1 lb. (1 pkg) of white almond bark1½ C. candy corn & peanuts

1 C. broken pretzels ½ C. dark chocolate chips Halloween sprinkles

1. Line a large cookie sheet with wax paper. Pour 1 C. of the candy corn &

peanut mixture along with the broken pretzels and chocolate chips onto the waxpaper. Set aside.

2. In a saucepan, melt the almond bark on the stovetop on medium-low until fullymelted. Be sure to stir frequently so as not to scorch the bark.

3. Once the bark is fully melted, pour onto the cookie sheet and spread acrossall of your candy pieces. Scatter the remaining candy corn on top and decoratewith sprinkles. Let it set in the fridge for about 10 minutes or until firm. After it’s setbreak the bark into small chunks to serve.

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For the last three years, Sooner fans have been able to walk around the State Fair of Texaswith their chests out, proud of the team they cheered for because they had just beaten theirrival. This year, though, many Sooner fans left the fair with an upset stomach – and notbecause they had eaten too many fried foods washed down with a few too many beers.

The Sooners came into the Red River Rivalry 5-0 after going on the road and exactingrevenge on the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. A tough matchup against TCU was viewed asa trap game sandwiched in between the Texas game and the emotional high of the NotreDame win. The people around Norman were very confident in the Sooners’ chances to beatTexas this year. It looked like it would be the fourth year in a r ow of being able to walk

around the State Fair to snicker and outright laugh at the poor ‘horn fans in their burnt-orange apparel.

But, as we all know from past rivalry games, we might as well throw out the records anddisregard how the teams have played up to that point. Just look back to the 1989 game oreven the 1996, and you will know exactly what I am talking about.

Blake Bell has been the starting quarter back since the Tulsa game and had been very solidin his performance as the signal caller for the Sooners. We know he set a record in the Tulsa game but had struggled throwing the deepball. The deep ball was a pr oblem against TCU that showed its ugly face again against Texas.

The Sooners struggled to get anything going through the air against the Longhorns, and for some reason did not go to the ground gameagainst a team that had been gashed many times by teams using a rushing attack. BYU and Iowa State had quarterbacks that tore up theTexas defense, and for some reason that Saturday in the Cotton Bowl, Bell had zero rush attempts against the ‘horns.

The Sooner defense was also without two of its key players. Jordan Phillips missed his second game of the year, and it was the firstgame that senior linebacker Corey Nelson was absent. The lack of those two players were glaring in the game against the Longhorns.Dominique Alexander and Frank Shannon had career highs for tackles in the game; however, the Longhorns were able to just keeprunning the football to the tune of 59 rushes for 255 yards.

Case McCoy was able to find open re ceivers that day and made some great throws. McCoy did get smoked a few times by Eric Striker,but to his credit he kept getting back up.

This Sooner team was in control of their own destiny as far as winning the Big 12, but now they are going to need some help as Texas

and Baylor are the only undefeated teams in Big 12 play.

Chris Joseph

Red River Wake-Up Call

Sports Talk

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@chrisjoseph1400

And listen to his show 360 Sports onSports Talk 1400 from 5-7 P.M.

Monday through Friday.

Greg Nation and his Norman Tigers will never give up. Somepeople believe Norman will not make the playoffs this year afterdropping their first two games in district play. I say hold outbefore just dismissing the Tigers. Yes, there are some tough teamsleft on the schedule for the Tigers, but if there is a team that canaccomplish the feat of making the playoffs, it is the Tigers.

The last game the Tigers played against Choctaw saw Tigersrunning back Dupree Young rush for a care er high of 307 yardsand score six times, beating the Yellow Jackets 49-31, to claimtheir first victory in district 6A-4.

Young bounced back from a tough game against Edmond

Memorial, where he had many fumbles and was benched for thesecond half of the Tigers’ loss to the bulldogs 38-14.

The Tigers are tough and can grind the clock in any game. Thekey to Norman controlling a game is ball security, and that hasbeen a problem the last few games.

Still remaining on the Tigers’ schedule are tough opponents inEdmond Santa Fe, Lawton High and Southmoore. The odds areagainst the Tigers, but do not count Coach Nation and theseTigers out.

Much of this year for the Norman North football team was focusedon how senior quarterback David Cornwell would handle playingin class 6A. I think David answered all doubters with how he wasperforming – that is, prior to his knee injury before half time in theTimberwolves’ 45-42 victory over Yukon.

His replacement, John Kolar, a 6’4” athlete that has played widereceiver this year, was the heir apparent after Peyton Gavaras leftlast year. Stepping up on the road in a tied football game, Yukonscored twice and had a 14-point lead, making everything bleak forthe Timberwolves.

In his first possession, Kolar missed two passes and the Timberwolves

were forced to punt. After that, Kolar was dead on. Kolar finishedthe Yukon game 9-14. Let us remember the two misses on the firstdrive of his career in live action before he had two incompletionsthat were spikes to kill the ball. John also had the play of the gameagainst Yukon, picking up a fumble by Payton Prince and running tothe complete opposite side of the fie ld to pick up a crucial first down.

John Kolar has all the tools to be a GREAT quarterback for theTimberwolves, so let’s get behind him as the Timberwolves makeanother playoff run.

Tigers Still Fighting Timberwolves in Good Hands With Kolar

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Richard MoormanThe Art of Manliness

Fear and Loathing in Mustang, Oklahoma Johnnie Mullins gives the greatest gift of all to his community this holiday season.

Someone once said something to the effect of, “We have nothingto fear but fear itself.” Whoever it was that said that must havebeen some kind of a wuss, though, because if you ask me, realmen have nothing to fear, period. Especially fear itself. Because if you’re scared of fear, then you’re just giving in to fear, and that’s

a weakness, and the only thing to really be scared of is any kindof weakness whatsoever. I’m not scared of weaknesses, though,because I don’t have any. Even if I did, I wouldn’t be scared of itbecause I am a man and I’m not scared.

So if we really have nothing to fear, period - and we don’t, as Imade clear earlier - then why is everyone making a fuss aboutsomething that will almost certainly go down as one of the greatestHalloween pranks in Oklahoma history?

On October 9, Oklahoma’s own News Channel 9 reported this:

Johnnie Mullins decided to get “gruesome” this Halloween. Hisyard features gravesites and ghosts up in a tree, but the realshocker is the fake dead body in the driveway.

“Just trying to scare people, that’s what I like to do,” saysMullins.

The dead body is placed in such a way that it looks like thegarage door crushed its head.

A neighbor, Rebecca Fuentes, had this to say:

“My heart about came out of my chest. I thought ‘Oh my God’… If I think it’s real, just think of what a child would think?”

Apparently the prank was so convincing that someone called 911to report the body. The first responder on the scene had this tosay to the reporter:

First responder: “So those resources, that could be utilized for

other emergencies or other type calls, ar e actually being pulledoff the streets.”

I can see that the first responder has a point. And I can appreciateMs. Fuentes’ sentiments towards the young, and yet on the otherhand, come on: It’s a really good prank. Luckily for Mullins (andhumor), the city inspector found nothing about the display thatviolated the law.

Mullins: “The Mustang city inspector showed up and said therewas nothing … no law broke or anything like that, just … keepup the good work.”

So maybe for this Halloween season we should all relax a littlemore and remember that fear just gets in the way of a good time. Ithink the lesson to be learned here is that there is truly nothing to beafraid of, except perhaps letting fear ruin our good time. Maybebeing afraid is the only one thing in the end that we should beafraid of.

And now, your moment of Zen:

911 Operator: “Is he conscious?”

Caller: “I don’t know. I was just driving by. It looked like hishead was … closed into the garage door.”

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