Comedy
Rod Lott
In Ruby Sparks, wunderkind author Calvin Weir-Fields (Paul Dano, There Will Be Blood) has a few problems — one being that he is dateless, another that his male dog pees like a girl. More pressing is that he lacks the inspiration to follow up the Great American Novel that landed the high-school dropout on The New York Times best-seller list when he was all of 19.

OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
Don’t you wish dreams could be recorded? Alexis Gideon arguably comes closest with his stop-motion animation video opera series, Video Musics III: Floating Oceans. The visionary artist will perform live music as his images unfold at 7 p.m. Thursday at Mainsite Contemporary Art, 122 E. Main in Norman. A reception and Q-and-A follow, so prepare to ask, “WTF?” Admission is $5. Call 360-1162 or visit mainsite-art.com.

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