Once again, thank you to everyone who continues to support our work here at Hullabaloo. I am immensely grateful to all of you. It means the world, really.
A lot of people have advised me over the years to either do this sort of thing several times a year as PBS does or turn the blog into a Substack and charge everyone to subscribe. There are good reasons to do that but it just doesn’t feel quite right to me. I will admit that I find this whole “ask” thing difficult. I’m a private person and doing this sort of writing isn’t really my jam. So doing it several times a year seems very daunting.
As for the Substack, well — I like this sort of writing. I do long form stuff here frequently and for Salon three times a week. But I also enjoy doing the short observations, humor, and featuring lots of great stuff I find online and commenting on it. That’s blogging. I’ve been doing it for 20 years and I still think it has value. So while I enjoy a lot of Substacks, and share some of what I can with readers, I haven’t really wanted to make that change. You guys still keep coming here to read my stuff so that’s all that matters.
I made the decision to not run ads anymore because I just wanted the place to be a respite from the online noise where people could just scroll down the page, no distractions, check out my twitter feed if they want, in and out. I know that has good and bad points and I’ve given some serious thought to reformatting the blog to be a bit more modern. But I’m an old-fashioned gal and that kind of change is never easy for me.
Anyway, I hope this whole thing isn’t too intrusive. It’s a necessity to keep this creaky old thing running but I try not to belabor it too much. After this drive, Hullabaloo will enter into its 21st year (!) and we’ll do more of what we have been doing, thrilled that you still find it valuable enough to stop by from time to time.
In the meantime, thanks again for everything. If you’d like to support the continuation of this little project, you can do so right here.
And Happy Hollandaise, everyone!