Welcome to Finslippy. I'm Mrs. Brady.

Of course I'm all for being mentioned in the (vaguely damning) New York Times article, but um, Mr. Hochman? It's BRADLEY.

It could have been worse. I could have been Alison Brady.

Okay, carry on.

Comments

[The Zero Boss]

Make sure to go around for the next two weeks saying "Marcia Marcia MARcia!"

Or, um, you know, not.

[Mir]

LOL! I saw that! Sokay, Alice, we still love you... whoever you are. ;)

[Jenny]

That's so BAD. But also, kind of funny.

[LOD]

I guess "Scott" must really be Sam the Butcher.

[Jenny]

Congratulations... Sort of.

[wix]

yeah...that article was quite derogatory.

[debl]

I was all almost understanding how they could have gotten wrong by just forgetting to fact-check the spelling of your name, but then my sister said you conducted the interview via email, and your email address HAS YOUR LAST NAME IN IT. Now I will never trust the Times to get anything right again.

That article totally forgot to mention why parenting blogs are so popular: by and large, they're FUNNY.

[H.E.R.]

That's awful! Man, some line of fact-checking defense THEY have. I'm pretty disappointed by the lack of analysis or new info, but, hey, now you'll get lots of new traffic!

[alice]

Well, the interview was over the phone, but yeah, he did email me a bunch of times. By the way, several other names were misspelled. So now I don't feel as special. Sob.

[elswhere]

I was all happy about my favorite bloggers getting quoted, but the quote from the Blessings of a Skinned Knee woman really bugged me. Blogging as a manifestation of over-attentive parenting? Oh, please. When I'm on the Internet, my kid could skin her both knees *and* her elbows and I'd be like, "Okay, sweetie. I'll be right there. I just have to write this one comment..."

[christy kilgore-hadley]

Yeah - the article was sort of holier than thou wasn't it? I mean, you really are damned if you do and damned if you don't anymore with parenting. If you're laid back, you're neglectful and if you pay attention you're overbearing. And apparently blogging about your life (if it happens to include kids) is overbearing? I don't get it. Can't it just be a good outlet for creative people who like to write meeting up with other like-minded people who enjoy their work? Noooooo .... it can't be that!

[Lisa]

When he called you Alice Brady- all I could think of was the Brady Bunch- and you were the maid.
As I said on Melissa's- I think you all write because you are good writers, and blogging is a way to give your words an audience. You writing on the subject of your children is natural, they are the focus of your life right now. Bill Cosby, Erma Bombeck, Rosanne Barr have all used their family life as a subject of their creative work. This is not some new phenomenon. I read you and others because I enjoy your insight and humor, regardless of the subject matter.

[Lisa]

When he called you Alice Brady- all I could think of was the Brady Bunch- and you were the maid.
As I said on Melissa's- I think you all write because you are good writers, and blogging is a way to give your words an audience. You writing on the subject of your children is natural, they are the focus of your life right now. Bill Cosby, Erma Bombeck, Rosanne Barr have all used their family life as a subject of their creative work. This is not some new phenomenon. I read you and others because I enjoy your insight and humor, regardless of the subject matter.

[Suzyn]

The Times's lifestyle pieces are starting to sound like a parody of themselves--they always include introductory anecdote, brief descriptions of 'characters' involved, quotes from psychologists/authors about topic and/or 'characters' and, finally, sweeping generalizations to make it all pat. In this case, they forgot to include readers' thoughts--or, most likely, they still don't quite understand the idea of blogging as an interactive medium, since newspapers, especially the Times, are anything but.

[Very Mom]

Suzyn, I could not have expressed it better.

[Sarcastic Journalist]

I was like "who the hell is Mrs. Brady?" And then I thought of the brady bunch and the mom's hair and then I was like...WTF...where am I? who are these people that i normally see on my computer and why are they on a newspaper?

And then I cried.

[Sarcastic Journalist]

PS, and could they make me feel any more horrible about writing a book and having a mommy blog? Because I think the times wants me to slit my wrists.

PPS I love Finslippy!

[Jenn]

Actually, he broke open the story of the decade. Alice Bradley is in fact Alice BRADY former maid to the Brady Bunch who secretly married Mike Brady in a private bigamist ceremony in Vegas. She, Carol and Mike have all been living in secret bliss until Mr. Hochman had to go and blow the lid off of the entire story! Damn the luck. ;-)

Alice, you are and have been one of my favorite bloggers since Melissa first introduced your blog to me. You crack me up and I love hearing your stories...whoever the hell you are.

[cagey]

The Times forgot two of the quinessential mothers "who writes about her children" - Erma Bombeck and the much lesser-known (but even funnier) Teresa Bloomingdale. Can you imagine the Blogs they would have had? Sigh.

Also, I should note that I had no clue of the category "mommy blog" until all this BoB stuff came about. Previously, I thought I was enjoying blogs by excellent writers who among other things, were mothers. Silly me. So much for not labeling people in this day and age.

Sincerely,
Non-Mommy Blogger Who Still Enjoys Those Big, Bad Mommy Blogs.

[Georgia]

I was wondering why that sounded so familiar. Alice Brady, hmm, Alice Brady... I think I know her. Kind of an older gal, yeah.

I thought the piece was OK, but the writer did kind of gyp us on the goodness of the finslippy.

[Mindy]

Yes, I was just telling SJ that I had this many kids just to have more to blog about. And overattentive parenting? I once told my two year old that she may NOT climb on the roof. I wasn't at my computer, though, because if I were, she'd be up there till and I'd never have seen her again. Because all those sattlelite image websites that show houses so youo can stalk your friends? Are all several years out of date. I'd never have spotted her skeleton.

Hey you don't mind if I make this into a post, do you? Because I'm not through, and blogging is all about me and pfffft who's going to notice ME in YOUR comments??

[Joolie]

That's pretty bad. There was a big ol' usage error in that article too. ("But the question is, at who's expense?")

Well, maybe it's petty to nitpick. I mean, it's (its?) only supposed to be the paper of record for the entire country, right?

[Gary M.]

In my opinion, what he was writing was JUST his opinion, and not news, NOT facts.
The point that he missed is that there are some really good writers out there. It doesn't matter if they are self absorbed, narcissistic, or even boorish, if they write well, they are worth reading. His article, with all of its mistakes, was, in my opinion, not worth reading.

[V.]

Yeah, boy, that was just painfully pat. I got the distinct impression that the author came up with all of his conclusions before he did any of the interviews.

[Cat]

There's nothing like being part of a story to make you realize how the press gets so much wrong. I was once interviewed by the Times and they totally made up quotes about the DUMBEST stuff. It made me realize that if they could get something that small and simple wrong, imagine what's going on with the big stories.

[Mrs. Kennedy]

I think V. is right, Hochman's editor decided that moms blog to relieve their bitterness and rage and instructed him to dig until he got quotes from us that would support his whaddaya call it -- slant. Hence I blog because I am resentful! Of . . . things!

[G. mcFuzz]

Man, what a misogynist. If men were writing these blogs, they'd be patting each other on the back. What assholes. Never mention how funny and human you guys are. Now I'm pissed, dammit.

[melissaS]

Also we're obsessive about our 2 year old's sexuality.

Wow, I really am self absorbed. I can't even leave my whining on my website...I bring it to the Brady's.

[Harold Davis]

Hi Alice:

I got the name right: www.braintique.com/research/mt-archives/000042.shtml.

Here are some pix of my kids: www.bearhome.com/kids/

Great blog, keep it up!

Best wishes,

Harold

[shan]

read the article, was interested after reading dooce.com this morning. Anyway, you are all fabulous, regardless of what blogless reporter says!

[mel]

Wow, I realized something today after reading that article - idiots even exist at the NY times! :)

[mamma meg]

After reading the Times article, I checked out Finslippy just because I live down the street in Cobble Hill and I wanted to see what another mom was saying in the neighborhood. I laughed so hard about the Morrissey song that I almost forgot I have been locked up in this ice castle I call my apartment with a 7 week old, eating oatmeal and other bland foods while I function as a human milk truck. Ditto on the Rufus comments (I have it on now), but now I have to go because the bouncy seat that has allowed me to even consider writing this has lost it's luster for my daughter.

[Sarah]

i spent more time than i care to acknowledge reading the blogs mentioned by the times' piece -- and i'm not an ee cummings wannabe; it takes at least one hand to operate a breast pump. i can't decide if i should feel guilty at the pleasure i took in all this. afterall, daycare is ahuge expense! but i keep wondering. why all the fuss? most of the bloggers ARE good writers. but a little thin-skinned. come on, are we all too narciscistiic to recognize narcicism when it stares us in the face?

[alice]

You know, the term narcissism is being tossed all around, and no one seems to have any idea what it means. And I'm not pointing a finger at you, Sarah, but geez, someone get out a dictionary and have some clue as to what they're talking about before they open their mouths (or start typing)...

[Liz]

It could have been worse. It could have been Alexander Brady. I keep getting Mr. attached to my name. Because, gender-wise, Liz is so confusing.

[bro]

Remember, Al Sharpton once referred to me in a televised debate as James Brady. Something about that damn "l" that goes right over people's heads...

[bro]

Remember, Al Sharpton once referred to me in a televised debate as James Brady. Something about that damn "l" that goes right over people's heads...

[Ms. Brady]

There is SOMETHING about those two names...Brady vs Bradley. I am a BRADY and I have spent my entire life correcting the mulitude of people who insist on saying Bradley....Receptionists, teachers, telemarketers you name it, it always comes out Bradley! Then again after I correct them, there is always the question of whether or not I have a sister named Marcia....the grass is never greener.....

[Sarah]

indeed, a dictionary helps. my spelling was off.

[Anne-Whitney]

Demand a correction by the NYTimes, dammit!

[Em]

Do you know where the kids are, Alice? Marsha just got hit in the face with the basketball.

Anyway, we all think your excellent, no matter what they SAY your name is!

[DM]

Alice,

I've been reading you for awhile, I also read Mimi Smartypants and Dooce. Jennifer Weiner is one of my favorite authors (after Nora Roberts and Mil Millington).

I don't have kids and I don't want them. But I know funny when I read it. I think you are all great authors. I have come across a ton of blogs that I am not interested in, either so-called "mommy" blogs or not, and I've found it's not whether or not you have kids that makes the difference, it's how you write. Keep up the great work.

As to whether blogging is narcissist (ha, I spelled it right without a dictionary! I'm so proud of myself), I guess that means I must be, as well. Although I have not recently starved to death, staring at my reflection in a pool of water while a nymph tries to get my attention, so maybe not.

[kat]

the brady bunch! :)

[cherylc]

Well, Merriam Webster Online says narcissism is a love or sexual desire for oneself. In a more modern psychological sense, I *think* it means a self-adsorption that is intense enough that it impairs a person's ability to understand other people's feelings and to empathize.

I thought that article was depressingly misogynist.

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Do you know where the kids are, Alice? Marsha just got hit in the face with the basketball.

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