Comments on: Praising the Competition

By: slackmeyer

slackmeyer — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:19:53 +0000

Thanks Plainsman. I really appreciate your comments, and it gives me hope that maybe I’m on the right track.

By: ThePlainsman

ThePlainsman — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:56:30 +0000

Man, Steve, you are the best! Really. You are the reason I starting paying for the paper again. This article is a great example of your integrity and recognition of something great even if it means “praising the competition”. Went to the Ghouls Gone Wild thing for the first time last Saturday and have to agree. This is big time! Such a cool and fun parade. A complete winner.

By: Brent

Brent — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:09:20 +0000

Hmm, I’m not sure what conservatism has to do with it, but I love that this has been successful too. I’m about as conservative politically as they come, but I love the fact that OKC can have such a wide variety of events and experiences for everyone. I can go to an art-type movie in the afternoon at the art museum and catch a Thunder game in the evening (by the way, Go Thunder!!!…hopefully the Kings are the first victim tonight in our surprising breakout season, just get rid of that horrible “Thunder UP” chant and ad campaign, blech). I love Ballet OKC’s earlier promotion this week and all the interesting people I can meet down in the Paseo, but I can also appreciate all the churches in our city. Maybe I am an odd person (my wife would wholeheartedly say yes), but I never have thought that the art scene crowd and the fact OKC may be politically conservative, that there needs to be any animosity between the two. I love that we are becoming a “Renaissance City” and I can find more and more things to show visitors and brag about for our city. It is an exciting time to be from OKC. Very cool.

By: james evans

james evans — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:47:11 +0000

It is really amazing that this parade has done so well in such a conservative city. Every year I attend I am suprised by how many freaks live in OKC. It’s great. Wayne Coyne and the Lips deserve most of the credit for the parade’s success. Wayne’s participation (and the prospect of 1,000 flaming skeletons) is what got me to this event the first year, and it is what brings me back every year.

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:01:05 +0000

Do other cities do this? I’ve just never heard of city Halloween parades before, at least on this scale. I think its just brilliant, lots of fun, and a coup of an event for downtown OKC. Whats also fun is driving around downtown at about 11:00 p.m. after the parade and just observe what random costumes come walking by going back to their cars, etc.