At least a few people have noticed my extended absence from this website. I know because I saw them on the street and they told me so. Perhaps you assumed that I had been forced to quit the weblogging game, or that I had met with an accident, and was dead or maimed. In truth, it was much worse: My computer was broken. I have spent almost two weeks checking my e-mail on a cell phone and haunting libraries (I recommend the one in East Liberty) to check out cute kittens catch-as-catch-can.

Probably you did not notice at all. Anyway, I am back in the world of the ether with a brand new slightly used PowerBook, and I have some garbage to say. I missed a lot: the ghost of our martyred hero-mayor won the mayoral election for his young successor two months before we even got a chance to cast votes. I don’t really have anything to say about that which has not already been said, but I got some other stuff. Watch here for the next couple of days.