Farewell, My Concubines

I was e-mailing with some of my many, many adoring fans earlier this week when I let slip that I was abruptly retiring from my lucrative career as a high-profile Philadelphia Eagles blogger at IgglesBlog. Oops! As you might expect, this revelation was met with a somewhat predictable mix of shock, horror and disappointment: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO," they said. "How can you walk away from IgglesBlog? After everything you've accomplished there? To have amassed so much, and then to just leave it all behind, just like that? Are you okay? Are you sure you're not sick? Have you recently changed medications?"  Fear not, I told them, I'm okay. Sure, I'm drinking a bit more, but I don't really think that counts as changing my medication, what with all the other medications I'm on.  But don't you worry your sweet little heads, I assured them, it'll be okay. You'll somehow soldier on without IgglesBlog.   "But no! What will we do without ...