Why aren’t there any decent ice cream trucks in Arizona? Trucks that look like this:

As opposed to the ramshackle old cargo vans plastered with stickers that travel down our streets, hawking a wide assortment of Mexican candy (possibly containing lead) in addition to the traditional sherbert cartoon character heads with gumball eyes.

And why do they all play a tinny version of the “Popeye” theme song?

As this post proves, the rumors of my demise were patently false. There were a variety of reasons behind my blog neglect, which included:

• An incident (unrelated to this blog) which made me question the wisdom of making personal information readily available on the internets,
• Pregnancy and the resulting confinement to my bed/couch, which limited my blogging inspiration to such scintillating topics as “Why hasn’t someone at All My Children told Jacob Young that his hair looks wretched?”,
• The arrival of Baby Brady and the discovery that followed: One-handed typing while holding an infant? It’s quite difficult.