First Ringer... You Are On Notice
Lord how I miss the always insightful blog "The First Ring," run by the still occasionally posting First Ringer (his posting turf is TvM now, though posting far less often... it should already be in your bookmarks unless you're not cool). Why do I miss it most?
Oh I could say I missed the deep insight and original analysis that always characterized the blog. I could say that, because it's true, but I'd only be telling a partial truth.
What I really miss is the steady stream of obscure puns that comprised many of First Ringer's post titles. Just browsing the last several posts before he shut down the blog I see gems like: "Going, Goering, Gone", "Dubai DuSell", "Good Night and Mixed Luck", "Fission Trip", and "The Dowd-ing Street Memo." God, I miss those. They really stood out amidst the average political blog post titles, comprised of lots of capital letters, excited punctuation, and talking point bullets (no offense to Brodkorb... You keep doing your thing, man!).
Anyway, perhaps I now have my bloggy methadone to cure my First Ringer habit. As today Mitch offered up this beauty of a post title / obscure pun...
Watching The Defectives
God, that's beautiful. Can I possibly have found a new First Ring for my blog title-pun fix? Or is Mitch just suckering me in so he can throw yet another "It was twenty years ago today" post my way? Stay tuned!
Oh I could say I missed the deep insight and original analysis that always characterized the blog. I could say that, because it's true, but I'd only be telling a partial truth.
What I really miss is the steady stream of obscure puns that comprised many of First Ringer's post titles. Just browsing the last several posts before he shut down the blog I see gems like: "Going, Goering, Gone", "Dubai DuSell", "Good Night and Mixed Luck", "Fission Trip", and "The Dowd-ing Street Memo." God, I miss those. They really stood out amidst the average political blog post titles, comprised of lots of capital letters, excited punctuation, and talking point bullets (no offense to Brodkorb... You keep doing your thing, man!).
Anyway, perhaps I now have my bloggy methadone to cure my First Ringer habit. As today Mitch offered up this beauty of a post title / obscure pun...
Watching The Defectives
God, that's beautiful. Can I possibly have found a new First Ring for my blog title-pun fix? Or is Mitch just suckering me in so he can throw yet another "It was twenty years ago today" post my way? Stay tuned!
Posted by Doug Williams on
Friday August 22, 2008 at 1:11am
But I'll drop "It was twenty years ago today..." when someone buys a controlling interest in the blog, or on September 28, 2025, whichever comes first.