Living on Tulsa King Time

The glory of the New Yorker fish out of water tale

Last year I got really into the HBO show Chillin' Island. I wrote about it as part of what I saw as a group of shows that I dubbed “Meditative TV,” but there was another reason I loved the exploits of Dap, Despot, and Lakutis going to some seemingly random location and inviting a rapper to do something like ride a four-wheeler in the mud or hang out in …