Raconteur Report

(Graph as found. Reality is quite a bit harsher. And Gen Z would
be far better off if they hadn't learned math from 60's hippies.
They're about to learn it from their dead grandparents from 1934.)

First, to piss off the haters: No, we are not dead. Second, neither is the blog. It's merely paused. Third, no, we're not back yet either.
Additionally, we've made a lot of progress on alternative arrangements. And some other fronts. Huzzah.
But in flicking by here and doing a quick peruse, the lowest numbers sit around 2K visits/day. The average is several times more than that, most days, equaling what Gulag reported when we were contributing 1-4 posts/day, for a decade-plus. The peak interest...

We've been far less concerned with the internetz the last couple of months, because we've been working on Castle Anthrax. IOW, our personal arrangements for when the threat of spicy times becomes an actuality, as well as being our retirement fortress...

1984 saw this cut from Julian Lennon's debut album reach #5 on the Billboard Hot 100, teasing hopes of a belated Beatles' reformation, with son Julian sitting in for his recently assassinated father John. But it was all tease, and nothing ever materialized...