Comments on: Searching for something.

By: Mindy

Mindy — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:19:14 +0000

I found Nancy one day after reading her column and wondering if she’d written anything else. The website was so refreshing because it was like finding her pouring a glass of wine after a long day at work and saying what she couldn’t include in the column. There was a counter back then. I remember taking a number around 18,000 (“We are happy to serve you 18,000″ it said) and feeling horribly cheated that I’d missed so many posts. Then the Bob Greene rant happened and I’ve been periodically asking for a Greatest Hits file here ever since.

By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:38:51 +0000

I’m another fan who goes back to the Bob Greene scandal. I never liked him (I remember fondly the Chicago Reader column along the lines of “we read Bob Greene so you don’t have to”) and was happy to wallow in the mud of the scandal a while. Once here I was hooked, like all of us, by the writing.

It reminds me how many of my favorite blogs are written by professional journalists. Zorn, Ebert, Sullivan, Nall. A single story or topic can draw me in, but it’s the writing that keeps me faithful.

By: SimplerDave

SimplerDave — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:33:59 +0000

And another vote to the ‘found Nancy through Lance Mannion; found Lance through James Wolcott’ crowd — found Mr Wolcott through a film blog called Mystery Man On Film ( http://mysterymanonfilm.blogspot.com/ ) sometime in the early-mid 00s. Ah, the interweb…

By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one)

Jeff (the mild-mannered one) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:49:05 +0000

I found the date of Greene’s exfoliation as 2002, and it seemed like i’d been reading here for at least six months before that, so it must have been late 2001 or Jan. 2002.

By: nancy

nancy — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:50:22 +0000

January 14, 2001. Might have been the 17th, but I’m pretty sure it was the 14th. It was my New Year’s resolution: “Try something new,” probably. And may I just say, as I prepare today’s entry, that reading all these comments has been wonderful? You folks really are the best.

By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one)

Jeff (the mild-mannered one) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:47:14 +0000

So, chief, when did this blog/running column/website go up? I really can’t recall for sure, but i started thinking last night i remembered reading your stuff online pre-1999, but i’m not certain.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:34:22 +0000

Found Nancy when we first strayed to Fort Wayne in 1986 and read the N-S. Not sure at all when we first learned of her blog, perhaps it was via the newspaper or, and I dread saying it, the hated mediawatch, doesn’t deserve capitalization.

Ah, Spook Beckman, I remember being about four years old and a flashy red convertible driving down Main Street, near James Road, between Whitehall and Bexley. My mother said, “Why, that’s Spook Beckman”. Would have been about 1954, at that time, he also had a TV show on channel 6.

By: alex

alex — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:22:55 +0000

I found out about NN.C through NN when I contacted her about a hard copy column she wrote about a comical collision of cultures that were never otherwise supposed to meet. She heard about it from one of the parties, an Amish family. I had heard it from the other, the black drag queen who showed up at the Amish family’s doorstep in a torn dress and one high-heeled shoe in desperate need of first aid and a ride back to town.

By: crazycatlady

crazycatlady — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:13:56 +0000

I found Nancy’s blog when my husband Beb wouldn’t shut up about her. She said this, she said that, blah, blah ‚blah! Nancy, Nancy, NANCY! So I had to read it and I’m hooked. At least he shuts up now…

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:59:43 +0000

Dexter, I so agree. When the Chargers got rid of Drew, I was actually happy for him. It’s wild how some people who call themselves General Managers don’t really seem to be good judges of talent.