Monday – February 27, 2012
I have to admit that I fell down the rabbit hole once again and got involved in reading (not commenting because whoa, those people are smart) about Dooce’s tragic life. I wish you people (trigger word! makes me an asshole!) would let me know when she loses her shit because hello, I am out of the loop! I’m busy reading about how Taylor Armstrong is a lying whore and using the suicide of her husband to make money and y’all are in the know about trainwreck blogs. Not fair, fuckers. Her particular brand of asshole mental illness lashed out and made itself known (again) way back on February 20 and NOBODY TOLD ME. Best you believe I was on that shit as soon as I found out and the rest is entitled, “Why Nance Did Not Do a Damn Thing Over The Weekend” brought to you by Dooce & Assoc. Being a nebshit (aka: nosy person) you know I was all up in those comments (and searching other sites) trying to find out new dirt (hell, old dirt too – I still haven’t figured out why she does not appear friendly with some of her former pals – Suburban Bliss, Finslippy, Fussy, etc.). I’m not going to sit here and explain it (no time!), but there is a part of me that is mortified that this is all playing out online in front of an audience. But I am fascinated. appalled. elated. I know. It’s shameful. I am ashamed.
The truth is I am also spinning out of control with delight (it’s fascinating to me because it’s supposedly real life). But the other part of my brain is just screaming for her to TAKE THE FINANCIAL HIT, TURN THE INTERNET OFF and SPARE THOSE CHILDREN, ASSHOLE.
I know there are a lot of you out there that like her. I know that a lot of you follow her life and have since she first got fired for blogging (dooced). I have done the same thing. Maybe it’s because I’ve been doing this online thing longer than her (hello, 1998 bitches), but I keep following even when I find her life completely uninteresting. Don’t get me wrong, I am all for her making money off of her site. You go, girl. But for me, I can’t understand why anybody who lives in a McMansion and considers themselves to be a fashionable human being would even think to include Ikea in their room design. Just no. Ikea is fabulous and wonderful. If you have an apartment. And yes, I’m well aware that I have an Ikea chair in my living room. I cringe every single time I look at it because it truly does not fit. But damn, it’s so comfortable. And also, I do not live in a McMansion. If I lived in a house like hers, that Ikea chair would be tossed quicker than you can say, “I wonder who will have to pay alimony?”
I’m outta here.
PS: New entry up over at Dinosaurs Can’t Eat Pizza. Get off your lazy ass, go read it, and comment. I’m starting to think of you as my ungrateful family. I bust my ass all day cooking a hot meal and…nothing. Humph. Ungrateful fuckers.
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Don’t feel bad, Nance — you think YOU’re out of the loop! I don’t even know who Taylor Armstrong is. I know who Heather Armstrong is, thanks to you and Plain Jane, but I don’t read her blog unless you guys make a remark about it, and even then I don’t always.
Taylor Armstrong is an alleged grifter Beverly Hills Housewife (The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills/Bravo Television Show) whose husband committed suicide.
Dooce is/was/I’m not sure now a popular blogger. I’m fascinated with her blogging career/life because I was around back in the day before she got huge – I used to be in it because I thought she was a helluva writer – and now I watch because I’m curious to see the evolution of blogging when money gets involved and content becomes corporate.
Tee hee… How I so wanted to share with SOMEONE this blog I found last night but didn’t want to come off as a bitch. BUT YOU ASKED FOR IT!
I laughed SO hard… Also the blog itself is a hoot if Pioneer Woman is not your thing…
http://www.pienearwoman.com/2011/11/dooce-gets-ignored-in-the-airport-bathroom/
Original story….. http://dooce.com/2011/11/07/doesnt-even-touch-how-awful-rest-my-body-feels
I read that Dooce one a while back and thought it was funny (although I have to admit that I cringe at the ones regarding Pioneer Woman just because of the sex parts – regardless of what I think of her, she is still a mom of four kids – mock other things -have at it, but leave that part out of the sake of the kids, man! Did you ever read the writer’s entry for her visit to The Lodge? The political questions made me wonder what was going on and now that there is a book tour with a “special presentation” — it really makes me wonder if she’s going to be doing something political on this book tour and that is just too freaking wild if I am right. That still will NOT make me go to see her in Pittsburgh, though. No thanks. I’m good.
Will have to check it out.. Didn’t really do much looking around the site except for the post where she floods the kitchen. Author then posts a direct link to the story on PW and I had a great laugh when I understood the way ‘Pie Near’ writes is VERY dead on PW.
Nance, I was reading all this last week and so wanted to get your take on it. I would have sent you a message, but I couldn’t find an email on your site.
I cannot figure out how/where to put my email where the spambots won’t find it. I’m going to work on it today because there has got to be a way.
“TAKE THE FINANCIAL HIT, TURN THE INTERNET OFF and SPARE THOSE CHILDREN, ASSHOLE.”
Yeah or do what Dooce did, saying FUCK YOU to her readers and then suck up with a “I am supporting LIVES here PEOPLE! Please, oh please do not leave me!” post.
And then advertise your latest book written about letters to her daughter. Yeah, Leta, the one that said a year or so back that she did not want to be on the blog.
Great post.
She’s a master manipulator, that one. But I have to admit that I admire the tenacity and how she uses her words to get what she wants – she goes off the rails, is rude to a shit-ton of people and still has followers that suck the hell up to her like she is a God. Okay, I don’t think she’s a master manipulator. Maybe she’s just a manipulator and her community is too stupid to see right thru it.
Someone on Getoffmyinternets.net posted a link to this woman that has an interesting take on divorce and includes Dooce. Obviously, she’s got a pair to do that. Either she truly believes in what she wrote and is willing to face the wrath or she’s a digging for hits. I just think it’s interesting: http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2012/02/28/divorce-is-immature-and-selfish-dont-do-it/#more-9301
Wow. Great article… Hope she is not slaughtered by the Dooce.
I don’t think she’s even a blip on the Dooce’s radar. I love reading people who have different opinions and that one was definitely different!