Consider this a sneak preview for my Internet friends: TTAC Homecoming welcomes its most distinguished alumnus back on Thursday morning.
Our site’s august founder, Robert Farago, will return to TTAC with a review of the Ray Donovan Special, also known as the 2013 Mercedes CLS550. It will be his first post on the site since he was treacherously deposed by Ed Niedermeyer on November 17, 2009. In January of this year, Bertel Schmitt re-ran an article of Robert’s without his permission, probably to try to get a bit of that old Farago magic back. It was sorely needed: under Schmitt’s reign of blunder, Mr. Farago’s new site, The Truth About Guns, caught up to and passed TTAC in most impartial rankings.
There are few stories of failure as abject as that one: somebody hands you a hot website and then you run it into the ground while said guy starts a brand-new one and blows by you on the way up. With any luck, Managing Editor Derek Kreindler and I will at least keep pace with RF’s new digs in the future.
I’m grateful to Robert for many things. He gave me an important hand up in the business. He freed me from the 800-word limit at TTAC and he allowed me to self-publish on the site. Now he’s contributed this outstanding piece to us and I can’t wait to publish it. I’ll respond with an article for TTAG next week. Unless I can come up with a better idea, it’s likely to be a nostalgia piece on the “Bren Ten” semi-automatic pistol and its portrayal in popular media, and I’ll link to it here when it goes up. And while I’d like to tell you that RF will be a regular contributor to TTAC in the future, let’s be honest with ourselves — he has far too many irons in the fire for that to happen. The best revenge, they say, is living well.
New to TTAC, I will be looking forward to Farago’s article.
Thanks for the back history and heads up, Jack.
Will also check out ‘The Truth About Guns’.
RF’s piece should be a good read and looking forward to your TTAG piece. Even though I don’t own one, firearm history fascinates me and the Bren Ten is quite the historical oddity. After finding one in my grandmothers basement, I’ve also been interested in the designed-in-prison M1 Carbine and it’s comparison against the German STG44.
The STG44 doesn’t really compare to the M1 Carbine. Very different weapons. The M1 Carbine was an attempt at a personal defense weapon while the STG44 was basically the first assault rifle.
Hey.
Is TTAC still running? I do not see any entries past October 1, and I am suffering withdrawl ……
You’re not the only one with this “October 1st” issue… I’m trying to get that fixed. If you clear the cache in your browser it might help but apparently it’s a downstream issue.
As you know, I am over here with Justin Crenshaw, and he has told me of the “old days” at TTAC when RF was running the show (and the 800 word limit). I was overjoyed to see his name on a review.
If I may over-redneck the situation, but I am sure you know about the story behind Schwarzenegger appearing in “The Rundown” as a nod to Dwayne Johnson and a passing of the torch.
If I may be so bold, I took the review as a nod to the current crew at the helm of his creation as a definite stamp of approval you are doing at least something right.
Our Supreme Leader Farago’s review of the Gallardo was how I accidentally stumbled upon TTAC back in 2006..