Rumors of the reason behind my "demise" have been greatly exaggerated.

Sorry to lapse into silence again, but this time, I have reasons unrelated to untimely deaths:

• I'm revising two dissertation chapters for publication/future job talks, as I'm hitting the market hard at the MLA this year. 
• I'm still working on Seeing Rhetoric, but as the material I'm currently working on consists of revisions of the lesson plans I've already posted, I'm bereft of new material to post.  As soon as I'm finished revising and back into the production of new material, I'll be posting it.
• Like everyone with a doctorate in English, I believe I have a novel in me, and the only time I can indulge in that fancy is during the summer.

Those are the only three reasons posting has slowed to a crawl here and elsewhere, and anyone who says otherwise is engaging in what Twain once called "wrong and damnable conjecture."  

Comments

[Adam Roberts]

I assumed you'd been arrested in the phone-hacking scandal.

[SEK]

I watch Spooks and am confused by the swapping of SIM cards, so unless the police are investigating the literal knives-hacking of phones, you can be assured that I'm not involved. (Though, pun-ironically, my phone's recently been nicked, which is like being knifed, only spelled differently.)

[John Emerson]

Yay novel!

[Malaclypse]

While I completely understand why you don't want to admit camping in line for eight days to get tickets to see The Undefeated, admitting you have a problem is the first step on the road to recovery.