Back by Popular Demand

The blog has been on hiatus. I wish I could say because the blogger had been soaking up sun in some part of the South Pacific out of range of the internet. Does such a spot exist? But no, the blogger has simply been his usual slothful self, more interested in avoiding any semblance of effort ("work"), and has been "taking it easy." However, as Conan Doyle discovered when he tried to kill off Holmes, you can't keep a good blog down. The clamors for the return of the blog have been simply, in a word, overwhelming. The blogger has received requests for its return from as far away as England! Yes, England, where the literati have access to Shakespeare, Milton, Donne, Chaucer, Marx, yes, and his mercantile companion, Spenser. Therefore, this blogger is truly "humbled," as celebrities with bloated egos always say at the Oscars and Baftas etc., and can do more than obey the wishes of an insistent public. So, the blog is dead, the blog is dead.... long live the blog!