Hoopla returns, Dooce leaves

In that tangled Web

After a prolonged, unintentional hiatus, Leslie Harpold has returned to the land of Web publishing with a temporary site until her domain hoopla.com is returned to her.

Updated: One returns, and one leaves. Heather Hamilton, the self-proclaimed “whiny bitch”, has stopped updating dooce.com.

I’d love to be able to sit here and say that artistic expression and freedom are worth all the damage they have wreaked on the personal relationships I have with family, friends, neighbors and employers, but I cannot and will not. The people in my life just aren’t ready for it.

I believe that there are some things that are better left unsaid. Still, I admired her for letting it all hang out for all to see. Hope her absence isn’t for too long.

This here entry was posted April 22, 2002 05:16 PM

Comments

1 | Mike said on April 26, 2002 12:15 AM

I think most things are best left said.

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2 | B.Baltimore said on May 31, 2002 3:40 PM

Anyone have Heather's e-mail address? I've loved her site (particularly the photos) forever and want to let her know.

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3 | Igor said on June 10, 2002 8:07 AM

The world is not ready for Dooce. I love the color of her language, her wonderful candidness and her effortless charm. She must be frighteningly easy to love (ok, I'm a sap when it comes to charming women, so sue me).
I can very well imagine what she has had to go through, with her family chastising her for seeing through the Mormon morality, including the loss of her job, just for being real. To the absolute git who had to snitch about her to her superiors I send a warm and heartfelt "Fuck you very much ) and does the same things (with a nice, big inferiority complex because he/she/it is too chickenshit to accept his/her/its feelings).

There are not enough Heathers in the world, and where I live none at all of course. I should be so lucky.

Heather, I love you with all my heart ! You can crash out at my place anytime you're drunk and I'll even make sure there are pickles in the fridge.

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4 | Katherine said on June 20, 2002 8:10 PM

I couldn't agree more I had only recently come upon the witty, cutting, stunning and poignant dooce, and I was truly crestfallen when I logged onto dooce.com for my daily fix of her perspective of life and all things annoying, only to find that she had left us.

I would like to add my hope for the shortness of her absence.

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5 | Igor said on September 26, 2002 4:28 AM

Dooce be back
Dooce has returned to blogging in a very sober, very modest website where she shares the joys of her life again.
Oh yeah, she got married too.
All the good women : easy to find, impossible to get.

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