I'm back...
Thanks to everyone who emailed to ask where I have been. I'm still in crunch but much less intensely than on past projects, and our beloved troll is at least temporarily offline. I'm turning comments back on, though I am still disappointed that so much interesting conversation had to be done privately for so long. Comment away.
Grammarians will undoubtedly email about the three-dot ellipsis above. An interesting man made a good point, and I believe I was wrong.