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Again, welcome to OlberBlogging: Keeping tabs on Keith.

Whether you are an ERT regular, Countdown viewer, Keith Olbermann fan, sports fanatic or news junkie, we love that you found us. 

In case you intend to be a future contributor, a frequent commenter, or just a lurker, we want to explain a few guidelines we plan for this blog:

 

1.) No Countdown recaps

A summary of each hour-long Countdown newscast five days a week — plus “The Big Show” onFootball Night in America and Keith’s numerous TV appearances and occasional cooking demonstrations — becomes a daunting and exhausting task. Since this web host often attends evening classes and other times drifts in and out of consciousness while watching Countdown on her very comfy couch, I cannot guarantee coherent rundowns on a timely basis.

Instead, OlberBlogging will present notable highlights about each Countdown telecast including the Keithiest moments plus KO news and other happenings — and let our loyal, literary commenters attend to the rest.  OlberBlogging will be akin to a literary jazz gig with KO as the main riff while we improvise spontaneous, and spunky repartee based on the political-social-cultural chords of Countdown. Or at least, that’s the plan!

 

2.) Only good karma

Several Keith Olbermann fan (and antagonist) blogs clog cyberspace. Celebrity attracts a variety of folks with their own agendas. 

Here’s ours: 

First, we don’t consider OlberBlogging a “fan” blog, per se. In other words, we know life outside of KO, don’t look like Leona Helmsley, and never spend all day in our muumuus (well, maybe part of the day in pajamas) in fandom chat rooms exchanging X-rated fantasies of our idol (rather, we chat about ties). 

Second, we want OlberBlogging to be the place where not only KO devotees but KO, KT, family, friends and coworkers feel comfortable visiting. Thus, all comments on OlberBlogging will be moderated (except for former ERT friends, if I can figure out that works). Open discussion, criticism, disagreements, controversies or negative comments will be allowed, and we will never edit comments (we abide by the First Amendment, after all) but we reserve the right to delete any comment we deem inappropriate (cyberspace still remains an autocracy).

Third, as a woman married to a man nearly 20 years her senior, I’ll quash all invectives concerning KO’s private life.

 

3.) No ties?

One of the most popular segment of the ERT blog was the daily picture of the tie KO wore on that night’s Countdown. Initially, we decided to nix tie pics on OlberBlogging because we believe ties serve no functional purpose as a male fashion accessory and find open shirt collars definitely more stimulating.

However, we recently read about a woman who blogs exclusively and quite extensively about the ties NBC News anchor Brian Williams wears for each broadcast. Since the blogosphere seems preoccupied with ties, we may reconsider this issue in the future.

Actually, we find KO’s diverse optical attire much more fascinating. Also, Rachel Maddow’s preference for on-air contacts but off-screen spectacles perplexes us.

OlberBlogging readers feel free to review KO’s fashion statements. Like those silver and the tweed jackets. Love the jeans. Lose the awful brown and green suits. Please!

 

4.) Your blog

OlberBlogging cannot be successful (nor survive) without you. If you enjoy KO musings and want to continue our community chats, your participation is vital. We welcome ERT regulars to become official contributors.

For those new to our community, please click on the blog entries to post your public comments, thoughts, KO news or links. We always encourage feedback, so please use the blog’s “contact us” form to email us privately about your ideas, criticisms, concerns, whatever. We read each one and will reply. Well, if you’re nice!

 

5.) Patience, please!

We tweak a little bit here, purge a lot there. We only will post links to videos at first, until OlberBlogging attracts enough readers to justify investing (i.e. donating) the cost of a space upgrade to embed videos directly into the blog.

Be kind if in the haste to post, punctilious syntax, grammar, punctuation and spelling sneak past.

“We’re all here day to day” as KO opined during the ESPN “Big Show” (also known as SportsCenter). Please be patient with us as we attempt to get the hang of this. We constantly evolve, even if we’re not so intelligently designed.