As for Xanga and its momentary demise, although many of you might disagree, I know that It missed us more than we needed it.  That's right.  Xanga is more than a blog, it is a veritable Beast.  And it has an insatiable hunger for human energy in the form of our attention.  

Although you probably felt somewhat put out by its inaccessibility, the Beast itself was actually beginning to starve without us and in danger of a mortal unraveling.  But now that we are back, it is beginning to gnaw upon our individual cloaks of light-blessed world awareness once again, our energy being its food source.  And it will continue to gnaw and feast until our blinding energetic incandescences fade once more to the wee levels of illumination characteristic of a single ankle-high nightlight along an endless pitchblack corridor.  If you need a more mundane analogy, think of bloggers as a wild field filled with sprouting blades of grass (each of us a single blade) that The Blog turns into pasture by releasing a starving herd of cows that proceed to eat the whole pasture to the root.

Hurry, if you have something worthy to say, get it out fast.  If what you say is worthy enough, it will be as unpalatable as a cocklebur to the Beast and the Beast will have to spit you out.  Then and only then, will you be free of Beast-mind, beyond blog-time, and returned to the Golden Eternity from which you came.

Hurry! *gnaw* *gulp* *eek*