EXCLUSIVE: OCN has left the building!
As most of you probably know this blog was set up as a spur of the moment type thing due to ICN shutting down. Well, Spud’s back and I’m exhausted! I don’t watch a whole lot of news anymore and have really lost interest for now. It feels great to be free!
Thanks Terrance, the site was very handy having part of my RSS feeds!
Enjoy your rest.
Comment by Mike Beckham — June 19, 2008 @ 7:43 am
Terrance,
I am sorry to see you go. I actually visited here more than I do ICN 2.0
Thanks for providing us a place to go while Spud was gone.
Comment by jerziegrl — June 19, 2008 @ 8:30 am
Thanks for the great blog.
Hopefully everyone visits ICN 2.0 more. It seems that no one comments enough. Also, I wish people from ICN would comment on TVN about the ratings, just for old time’s sake. It seems that since ICN 1.0 was ended, J$ really took off. He gets tons of comments.
Thanks for the memories.
And hey, people, you can visit my blog, The American Truth Machine.
Comment by cornycob — June 19, 2008 @ 9:22 am
Sorry to see you go Terrance. I have enjoyed your blog but understand it must take lots of your time. There’s a life out there, go for it. Do your bliss.
Comment by Judy Stage — June 19, 2008 @ 10:13 am
Terance,
Thanks for helping us through a rough spot.
I am grateful for all that you did to help us stay in touch.
All the best to you.
I think the reason people don’t comment as much anymore is because poisonous people don’t understand the rules governing “comments” sections. They attack you instead of just stating their point.
Johnny Dollar has the best rules. Ask him to get the up again. Lucianne.com has great governing rules, also.
Comment by Cella — June 19, 2008 @ 10:16 am
Aw BOOOOOOO… BOOO on you Terance!
Your blog had DIFFERENT stuff… I thought when ICN came back you guys would just mirror each other… but you found unique pieces! BOOO.
You should ask Spud to let you help out with ICN 2.0. Perhaps you can submit articles and stuff too… kind of a merger… get some good synergy going. Ugh… I think I’m channeling Dilbert.
Anyway… much luck, and thanks for the blog… for what it’s worth, you did a bang-up job.
Comment by ImNotBlue — June 19, 2008 @ 11:44 am
Loved the blog, read it daily and in the end i think it became better than the new ICN.
Comment by Craig Gordon — June 19, 2008 @ 12:19 pm
Terance, thank you so much for stepping up when we had no place to go.
So we wil go back to Spud ( insidecablenews.wordpress.com ), PLUS, johnnydollar’s site ( http://homepage.mac.com/mkoldys/blog/jdp.html ), which has really taken off in the past few months.
Hope to see EVERYONE at one or both of these places!
Comment by Missy — June 19, 2008 @ 1:55 pm
I will miss this place. Good luck Terrance.
Comment by Shaun — June 19, 2008 @ 2:20 pm
I think we all appreciate your efforts to keep ‘the family’ together until ‘father’(Spud, that is) returned from his extended trip to the drugstore. Appreciate the work involved with keeping up a site.
Comment by laural — June 19, 2008 @ 8:24 pm
Thanks for setting up this site T. You worked just as hard as Spud to put out a quality product everyday. It was nice to see some of the “regulars” from ICN on here a lot too. Good luck in all future endeavors.
Go Cubs!
Comment by Aaron — June 20, 2008 @ 1:09 am
You did a great job Terrance and filled a huge void. Thanks a bunch and good luck!
Comment by bigred — June 21, 2008 @ 5:33 pm
Thanks for stepping in and giving us all a place to come when spud shut down .I’ll miss the place and I also visited this place more than ICN2.0. Much easier on the eyes:-). Have fun in your leisure time Terrance and thanks again for providing us this terrific site!
Comment by myview — June 22, 2008 @ 9:21 am
Terance: Ditto to what everybody said and hope to again regularly argue with you on ICN!
Ira
Comment by ttc — June 23, 2008 @ 8:56 am
Hi Terance,
This is a great site. Somehow, I just learned about it….nice job! I wish I would have visited sooner. Good luck and Take Care!
Comment by objective analyst — June 24, 2008 @ 9:22 pm
http://dgcombover101.blogspot
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Dear David Gergen: Lose the Lid, You Will Look Better
From a former combover man to a current combover man: Anonymous but with a good heart and the best of intentions, sir!
Dear David Gergen,
SEE COMBOVER IN ACTION HERE:
http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=32z6Cw21OAk
Your recent TV appearances on CNN with Larry King and Anderson Cooper have moved me to write to you on a personal matter that has been troubling me about you for sometime.
I too had the misfortune to lose my hair, as is the way with so many men of a certain age. I too chose to artfully comb what remained in an attempt to conceal the fact. There were certain angles from which you could view me (usually if you were sitting and I wasn’t) where you genuinely couldn’t tell that I had lost my hair - or at least, at my most delusional, I could persuade myself thus.
However, the combover years were not happy ones. Sport in particular gave rise to much awkwardness, as it gave my opponents plenty of ammunition with which to unsettle me. I often rose majestically into the air to head a football, and then faced the anxiety of starting the Bobby Charlton rearrangements even before my feet had hit the ground. [Bobby Charlton was one of the stars of England’s 1966 World Cup-winning soccer team, who lost his hair at a young age and resorted to ever-more-elaborate combover arrangements in a ludicrously vain effort to conceal the fact; readers might wish to substitute, say, Rudy Giuliani.]
A gust of wind was also incredibly unwelcome, unmasking me as it did in front of total strangers.
My anguish was put to an end one afternoon, when a colleague at work put his pencil down and said: “I simply cannot sit here a minute longer with your hair looking like that.”
He took me by the hand and sat me down in a barber’s shop with the simple but life-transforming instruction to the man in charge - “Take it off.”
It was interesting that, phoney as the combover had been, and as much I knew in my heart that it fooled no one, it still took my colleague to force the issue. This took place a dozen years ago, and I have often reflected how deeply I am indebted to my now former colleague; how he released me from such tension and awkwardness.
Mr. Gergen, I would like to perform the same role for you. I simply cannot scream “Take it off!” at the CNN TV screen anymore. Believe me, it is a liberating and life-affirming experience. Unafraid of being unmasked, you will have an immediate spring in your step, a key stress release for any TV talking head or PR guru.
You are going to need a steady nerve and clear thoughts in the difficult days ahead, and I would never be so arrogant as to suggest which PR courses you might steer for the US presidential candidates. But on this issue I do feel qualified to weigh in.
Take my PR advice. Get rid of the lid, and you will be far better placed to talk your way elegantly through the next Larry King show — and be viewed in a much better light by TV viewers across your great country and around the world.
I write this letter with the best of intentions and a warm heart. I hope you are not offended.
— Yours,
Anonymous For Now
Comment by Ellen Joness — July 11, 2008 @ 7:14 am