Where am I?

In the Village.

What do you want?

Information...about Tulsa TV/radio/pop culture of the past.

Whose side are you on?

That would be telling...

Who are you?

The new Number Two...

(ahem) Actually, my name is Mike Ransom. I started this web site just for fun in late 1998 and continue to maintain it and add new features with a lot of help from my friends, the readers.

I am a Tulsa native. I attended both McKinley and Mitchell elementary schools, Lewis and Clark junior high, and East Central high school. I have a B.S. in math (2nd major: psychology) from the University of Oklahoma in Norman, and a certificate in computer programming from Tulsa Junior College (now Tulsa Community College).

I lived in Lille, France for three months in 1993, on loan from American Airlines to SNCF (the French national railroad). I have travelled to London, Paris, Luxembourg, Germany, Rome, Hong Kong, Beijing, Tokyo, Hawaii, and many spots in the Caribbean.

My hobbies and interests, dormant and active, include astronomy, home theatre, running, straight-ahead jazz, skin and scuba diving, movies, trivia, photography, guitar playing, puzzles, quantum reality, beer making, and reading.

I am exactly two meters tall.

Some favorite authors: Pauline Kael, Alfred Bester, Robert Heinlein, Stanislaw Lem, Henry Miller, Ian Fleming, Robert B. Parker, Joseph Wambaugh, James Clavell, Ken Follett.

Favorites listed at Amazon.com: TV shows TV/movie books Music Movies, including:

"The Awful Truth" (1937) in which Cary Grant and Irene Dunne endorse Tulsa and OKC, respectively, if not respectfully.

Some personal experiences: dove 800' deep just off Grand Cayman in a 3-person submersible (the same one in which James Cameron researched "The Abyss"), spent a week at Esalen-Big Sur, witnessed the space shuttle Discovery blast off with the Hubble telescope in 1990, rode upfront with the engineer on one of France's TGVs (200 mph trains), made a couple of parachute jumps in 1978, and in 2002, got married!

A bit more autobio on the Pop Bottles page.

11/28/2007: The webmaster reunited with the submarine in which he dove to 800' in 1990 off Grand Cayman Island.

Where is Channel One?

Here is Channel Six. There is Channel Two. (For Zeb, Eight's The Place.)

I have cable...I'm a free man!

(Mocking laughter)

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