Signing out, not signing off

That’s it folks. I’m hanging it up. Tuning out, shutting down, ending it. My tenure at the helm of the Bloated Belly, that is.

2008 was pretty damn sporadic for posts, no? I kept trying to get it going again, but, alas, I got a little busy. And kept getting busy. So, I thought about pulling the plug and sending all the wisdom of the Belly into the vapors of cyberspace, because, well, I just don’t have the gas in the tank to keep up with it and all the rest of the stuff—good stuff—that’s fallen in my lap.

But then this fella said, “Hey, don’t pull the plug. I’ll see what I can do with it.”

I said, OK. While I’ve written stories about food and restaurants for cash, this fella is a bonafide, full-time food and restaurant guy. His name is Mike Mitchelson. He’s the editor of a business-to-business rag called Foodservice News that goes to restaurant folks, chefs and the like.

Then I said to him, “Well, Harold and I and the gang have said some, uh, things about restaurants that ain’t too flattering. That gonna cramp your day job?”

Mike pondered that, then had an idea. High-falutin’ as it sounded, there was a ring of truth about it. Blogs are a dialogue, he said. You posted, you got comments, it wouldn’t be fair “in the spirit of things” to zap it. Yeah, he'd had a few beers. But still.

What I did was plop all posts from all categories into a “The Belly, 2005-2008” category. Everything in there is still alive and well, but attributed to me, Harold, Madame Broccoli, Jack Venus, Dr. Love, and whoever else might have contributed thoughts during that time.

So, that’s it. But Mr. Mitchelson has offered me “Editor At Large” status, and to contribute whenever I wish. I just might take him up on it.

But until then, thanks for tuning in (and keep tuning in!), and making the Bloated Belly something worth saving.

xoxo,

Lewis

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