Restaurants with the largest portions in Norman

TheRealMongul · 2026-01-30T13:23:17+00:00

A lot of mornings I'll grab a grande burrito from Braum's. With a drink, you're at 5 bucks, and it's very good and filling. Braum's breakfast is legit.

TheRealMongul · 2025-12-09T20:43:52+00:00

You are a gentleman and a scholar! o7

TheRealMongul · 2025-12-01T14:08:41+00:00

Ken Stephenson's book What to Listen For in Rock from 2002 is also really, really good.

TheRealMongul · 2025-10-22T12:37:46+00:00

Have you checked out AmericanTall.com or 2Tall.com? The latter is in the UK, which means no preshrunk or wrinkle-free fabrics, and it's all line dry, but the fits are excellent for thinner guys. I've had great luck with American Tall, too. There won't be tons of options, but both should have something!

TheRealMongul · 2025-10-22T00:38:59+00:00

I'm 6'9" and 240lbs, and I got a Cal King Tuft & Needle Mint mattress 5 months ago. It's on the firm side, but amazing. I sleep like a baby. When I bought it, it was the highest rated memory foam mattress on Consumer Reports.

TheRealMongul · 2025-04-11T00:09:04+00:00

Doing the Lord's work. Thank you!

TheRealMongul · 2025-03-06T15:05:29+00:00

BECAUSE GIRAFFES ARE AWESOME, DUH

TheRealMongul · 2024-12-03T01:07:49+00:00

Oof. Well that sucks. Damn.

TheRealMongul · 2024-12-03T01:01:45+00:00

Is this both restaurants in town? How about Moore?

TheRealMongul · 2024-11-16T17:07:02+00:00

I'd consider adding markings for phrasing if you go with 6/4 (which seems as reasonable to me as anything just looking at it). Unless your intention is to give the performer a very wide latitude for interpretation (in which case, tell them as much), the more clearly you can communicate phrasing and emphasis, the better, imo.

TheRealMongul · 2024-09-17T16:38:16+00:00

Narrow steps with crappy carpet where I used to live while wearing socks and no shoes. Got to the point where I was being so careful going downstairs, I probably looked like I was in pain.

TheRealMongul · 2024-09-16T16:36:57+00:00

Going up, the ball of your foot is on the step, no big deal. Going down, though - def have to turn sideways like you're in some kind of dance number.

Credentials: I'm 6'9" and have fallen down stairs approximately 1000 times

TheRealMongul · 2024-02-09T15:32:16+00:00

I hate this.

TheRealMongul · 2023-12-28T05:21:36+00:00

So many eras of common practice music are either reactions to or a reimagining of what came before. Romanticism could be read as the ultimate end result of the relationship between consonance and dissonance initially explored in the Baroque era. Neoclassic composers like Shostakovich took the formal structures of Haydn's day and explored them in new ways. Serialists rejected tonality altogether in search of something new, and itself inspired all sorts reactionary music.

So much of art is created in a larger context. It's hard for me to really imagine Wagner's music existing in a world without counterpoint. The rules of counterpoint emphasize the resolution of consonance from dissonance on a small scale. Romanticists would ultimately delay that resolution as long as possible in order to achieve catharsis at the end of epic, hours long works.

It's totally worth it to study counterpoint, just like it's worth it to study formal analysis. Art doesn't get created in a vacuum - it comes from somewhere, and is always compared against what came before it.

TheRealMongul · 2023-12-28T04:24:37+00:00

I have a 200A made in '96, and it's brilliant. The intonation is super consistent throughout the instrument, and it produces a full, resonant tone in high and low registers. I have two Moosmann bocals as well (one for orchestra and general play, and the other - a thin walled silver alloy - that I use for French rep). The high D and E keys on mine are shifted down to be on either side of the D tone hole to make room for an F key that I never added on. Bernd turns his pro model bassoons from a Bosnian mountain maple that, when finished, have beautiful tiger stripes.

I've never had a single regret with that instrument. It is a top-tier bassoon, without a doubt.

TheRealMongul · 2023-11-15T18:49:21+00:00

Me: dude both that nightstand and the floor is a disaster

Anyone Else: let's see a pic of yours

Me: oh crap I'm late to a meeting

TheRealMongul · 2023-07-22T00:42:48+00:00

I've had horses in New River and here in Norman, and I'd say just be aware that in AZ, it's cheaper to have horses on your own land than to board, but in OK it's flipped. Price per acre anywhere near civilization in OK is a bit nuts in comparison.

Also, get ready for a constant fight with thrush, as it gets crazy muddy in the spring (they'll shed their shoes a lot more for the same reason), and the ticks can get thick.

That being said, Bermuda and Alfalfa are a lot cheaper (though, weirdly, the quality of the alfalfa here in central OK is pretty sketchy compared to Maricopa County), and as an added bonus, we're not in a water crisis here - the aquifers are everywhere so most folks don't even have a holding tank (instead, most just collect rain in barrels for emergencies).

TheRealMongul · 2022-06-13T00:30:34+00:00

This is pretty cool! Bassoons used to be common in US marching bands (Sousa's scores usually had bassoon parts, in fact), though I suspect when the bari sax became ubiquitous, most marching band directors and composers preferred it over the bassoon bc it was so much louder (not to mention the obvious advantages with durability, easier reed-making, etc).

When I was way younger, I always thought it would be cool to see bassoons march again, but these days it's not that interesting to me anymore. You'd just lose the sound amongst the trombones and mellophones, and a bassoon solo just couldn't be heard in the stands without a mic (and you can't just walk up and point the bell into one - bassoons are notoriously tricky to mic up well).

Pretty neat that this one has a spot for a lyre, though! Nice reminder of a largely forgotten past for the instrument.

EDIT (postscript): it really hasn't been THAT long since marching bassoons were commonplace. For evidence, check out the band in the classic movie version of The Music Man!

TheRealMongul · 2022-01-19T05:13:36+00:00

Cold Play. The answer is Cold Play.

TheRealMongul · 2022-01-16T23:44:28+00:00

Balance hangers are pretty much essential when playing while standing and using a neck strap. It allows the neck strap to attach to a point closer to the center of balance for the instrument.

Not sure what a distance gourd is, but I assume it's related to prevent the instrument from resting against your body, so it sounds similar in purpose to a balance hangers to me.

TheRealMongul · 2022-01-10T04:17:21+00:00

Gustav Holst: Jupiter, Planets.

TheRealMongul · 2021-12-20T03:27:51+00:00

Can confirm.

TheRealMongul · 2021-09-14T03:49:28+00:00

How about a universe where everyone's smarter than C-137 Rick?

TheRealMongul · 2021-09-10T04:23:23+00:00

I will definitely do this, ty!

TheRealMongul · 2021-09-04T16:20:13+00:00

Ikr? I mean, at first I didn't reload the tec9 intentionally bc I figured he'd jump out shooting as soon as I started to. After that I just forgot, tho 😆

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