Say it ain't so

Freelance writer Nancy Rommelmann is shutting down "Leaving Los Angeles," the blog about her wilder years in L.A. and her final year before moving to Oregon with her new husband. She hasn't moved yet, but as she explains in the final post:

As I wrote in the first entry, I set out to write 17 years worth of stories about life in LA. I knew very little about blogdom at the time, and for anyone who knows similiarly little: it covers the whole world but sometimes seems the size of a sandbox. Everything that's written travels instantly, and stays forever, like the lipstick-stained cigarette butt the lead character in Joan Didion's "Play it As it Lays" finds on the beach and, though it's been there 20 years, knows immediately it's her mother's. I have been happy with a lot of the things I set down, and even more happy with the people I have met through this blog, David and Jackie and Matt and the Lukes, and all the people at Yamashiro. I would not have been there had they not known me first through what they read here.

About a month ago, I caught up with the present. In the instant-regurgitation that is the blog entry, I think I too easily mistook enthusiasm for erudition, and did not take into consideration that a lot of people are not all that keen to see our dinner party as my morning fodder; a friend of mine at dinner tonight even asked if I worried about libel. (!) I'd wager this sort of dust-up is some bloggers stock in trade, but it's not for me. Hearing that what I've written has hurt someone feels to me like having my arms sliced open...

So that's it. Thanks for reading...

Pointer in a comment down below from A Fly on the Wall. Rommelmann, who is headed to Paris this summer to do a piece for Vanity Fair, still has her professional website.