Ask the Operator: Whycome Your Blog Sucks Lately?

**from time to time, we here at the offices of THE OPERATOR receive some letters asking us our advice. Always one to lend a helping hand, THE OPERATOR will answer these questions in an effort to make the world a better place.**

Dear The Operator:

Hi. Longtime reader, first time caller. So, I love The Operator, but all pleasantries aside, what gives lately? You barely post anything new, and when you do, it's just crap you regurgitated from some other site. And don't even get me started on all the YouTube clips. I feel like I went to bed with my wife, and when I woke up she was still there, but it wasn't really my wife--it was a pod person. Ya know what I'm saying? I'm just reaching out cause I miss the old Operator. Don't let your readers down.

Signed,

Tuff Luv.


Well, TL, thanks for your letter and your astute observations. Rest assured, we're not pod people. Not yet, anyway. Yes, it's true that we've been lax in putting up new content (though we did reach our 1,000th post). I guess now's as good a time as any to break it to you, Tuff Luv, and to all our readers: The Operator is going a a semipermanent hiatus. We're not going to delete any of the past entries, but this will probably be the last new one you'll read for awhile. In fact, we're shuttering the east coast branch of The Operator's, uh, operation. Fear not, you can always read Culturebot, where OperatorNYC occasionally contributes content. He may even infrequently dip back into the Operator pool if there's something germane to this blog's mission.

As for OperatorLA, due to a perfect storm of pills, booze and boys, he's been lost in a bloggy Bermuda Triangle of late. Fear not, phoenix-like he will rise to resuscitate this blog and take it to new heights, but we can't give you a time frame as to when that'll happen.

So, thanks for reading, commenting, or otherwise completely ignoring us. It's been a long almost-year since we opened the office of The Operator, and we need a break. If we were more eloquent, we'd sum this whole thing up with a passage so stirring, so poignant, so gut-wrenchingly visceral it would blow your mind. In lieu of that, we've posted a Boyz II Men video. It says everything we'd try to, but with better harmonies. (Sorry Tuff Luv, it's a YouTube clip.)