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His vision for a “funky community on the edge of downtown” includes oil paintings on the walls, cornbread mix near the couscous, and layers upon layers of blue paint.

When Scott Smith shows up to open the Blue Jackalope Groceries & Coffee in Tulsa — usually clad in some variant on a blue dress shirt with khaki shorts and brown boat shoes — he is acting on an idea that had been floating around his head for years.

Smith has developed his newly-opened community grocery store with the abandon of a man not encumbered by a knowledge of what is safe or practical.

This is my first Tulsa World project to publish. Check out the micro site the Web team built for it -

http://www.tulsaworld.com/webextra/content/2008/blue_jackalope/default.html