On Tuesday night, I was driving to Bricktown for our podcast interview with Juice when I noticed something that I've literally never seen before during the holiday season – BancFirst Tower, now the second-largest building in downtown OKC, didn't have that huge, signature multi-story cross glowing from its windows.
For example, this is what Downtown OKC normally looks like during the holiday season:
This is what it looks like now:
That sucks! Reminding people which religion reigns supreme has been an Oklahoma City tradition since before I was born! Did BancFirst Tower have an awakening, and finally realize that all religions and gods were created out of thin air by primitive, superstitious humans that were high on mushrooms and looking for an explanation to their existence, or is it simply dealing with some seasonal depression and not putting up lights this year?
Fortunately, downtown OKC gumshoe Steve Lackmeyer is on the case. He provided this report to The Oklahoman: