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By David Bauder
Associated Press
Published on Sunday, Nov 30, 2008
Each night after watching Brian Williams deliver the NBC Nightly News, an English teacher in Ohio is moved to go to her computer and write — about what Williams wore around his neck.
The Brian Williams Tie Report Archive (http://brianwilliamstiereport
''People must think, 'This poor woman must be one of those stalker freaks,' but it can't be any further from the truth,'' said author Nance Donnelly, who will say only that she lives in Northeast Ohio.
She's always found ties slightly ridiculous. Donnelly used to notice former Cleveland Cavaliers coach Mike Fratello's neckwear, but after he left, she transferred her attention to the usually impeccable Williams.
The report has a sense of history, from Williams' ''Mango Madness Episode'' in summer 2007 to the memorable week she caught him wearing the same tie twice in four days.
She liked Williams' purple tie of Nov. 17, saying it was ''almost a whispery confection of a cravat . . . a tie which looks like sugared violets adorning the tops of fancy cupcakes served to Ladies Who Lunch or the tiered cake of a Southern bride whose wedding breakfast is held at a gracious hotel.''
Three ties she despises are in the ''Axis of Evil.'' A pedestrian tie is ''TWSNLBRAINDTM,'' or Tie Which Shall No Longer Be Reviewed And Is Now Dead To Me.
Donnelly is still recovering from Nov. 14: ''Those Crayola blue stripes that seemed to run and blur at the right edge of this unholy cravat gave the whole broadcast a weird, Dali-esque vibe, and I kept watching and waiting for the rest of his tie to start melting and running off his shirt and onto the news desk into a puddle of purple and blue.''
Silly? Of course. That's what makes it fun. She's also showing her students that if you want to be a writer, write every day.
Williams knows the site.
As a former Catholic high school student, ties are second nature. Ask most days what he's wearing, and he'd have to look down to check. He buys most of his ties, and his wife buys some.
''I'm flattered that nice people — viewers of ours — would find anything about me interesting enough to write about at great length and with great passion,'' he said.
Each night after watching Brian Williams deliver the NBC Nightly News, an English teacher in Ohio is moved to go to her computer and write — about what Williams wore around his neck.
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