Honestly tho, her swearing is pretty minimal. Her use of the words “buy this shit” is excessive. Bloggess is right she uses it way more and we use it so much she looks like a teacher..ok not exactly kindergarten….more like high school… We just write the way we talk and we have shit mouths in real life so there ya have it. I think it’s fine if thats how you are but if you toss it in willy nilly without purpose and its contrived and fake then like anything else its just stoopid. Thanks for a great post.

~Rm1

I am gonna go ahead and add you to my stalker list…ahhem…blog roll. OH! And MAW is the one that referred me! HI MAW!

By the way you are way funnier and I think your photography is much better than hers!

I think it was wrong of the dude to email you saying you were wrong if they were not willing to communicate with you over the previous stuff. That doesn’t sit well with me.

I think you are echoing what a lot of the blogosphere is saying, however it will probably be drowned out once again, now that her newest book has just been released, as in TODAY.

I am totally and completely blacklisted from her site. And you wanna know why?

Did I leave a nasty comment?

No!

Did I sent her hate mail?

No!

Have I ever dared to offer a dissenting opinion on any of her posts?

No!

I have been banned from commenting because I sent her and Jon the very same email I sent to over 400 bloggers when I started writing the piece “Mommyblogging – Exploitation or Art?” And I explained to her that I was pointing fingers at ANYONE, but that I just wanted to know if there was really ANYTHING to the allegations that we exploit our children and what exactly where the dangers from ‘net pervs.

She completely blacklisted me for that. I emailed her and Jon and never heard a thing. Not once. I sent another email. No reply.

Yet, when I send an email announcing the very first blog proposal (and I don’t care what Ree Drummond says, it was a first! Using someone else’s blog to do it doesn’t count, your blog proposalplan was unique…set up completely for the experience alone) He almost immediately sends me a reply pointing out that Heather proposed to him via the comments in a 2002 blog post of his.

WTF?

It’s not like I expected Heather or Jon for that matter, to reply to the initial email I sent out about the piece I’m working on, but I really didn’t expect to be so broadly lumped in with others who she feels she needs to ban from her comments. If she ever looked, she’d notice that the few times I have commented on her blog, they were usually witty anecdotes or just a nod of appreciation at something she’d written.

I don’t have an opinion of Dooce one way or another. I don’t know her. But I have to be honest…this experience, both with being banned from commenting on her site, and then the almost immediate reply to my email about ProposalPlan, that HELLO, this isn’t the first, the Queen of all Blogdom was the first…well, it’s really left a bad taste in my mouth.

Annie

Baaaaaaaa. Baaaaa. Yeah, I know — more farm references.

Baaaaaaa.

Love,

laurie

p.s. Hooray for you on the F-bomb! I mostly don’t care for it on blogs, either. Oh well.

However someone recently referred to my blog as being similar to hers. I didn’t realize who she was until I checked out her site. After looking through it, the only thing I can say is possibly they thought that because of what I talk about and how honest I am about everything. I’ve always been that way. I just don’t want to come across as a copy cat. Oh well, I have fun. Too bad she no longer seems to be.

xo~K

Shade and Sweetwater,
K

I honestly don’t think less of moms who actually put the kids first. No, really. And they can even wear Crocs to the store as far as I’m concerned.

This is where I’d put the f-word but I’m holding back, just for you, chica.

It’s hard though.