Flutey Toots His Last?

Can it be?

Here I was preparing to post an optimistic and cheery post about the increasing influence of the blogosphere on public discourse (as recounted in today's Sydney Morning Herald, as well as the latest issue of The Walkley Magazine) when a reliable source up and informs me that the granddaddy of many an Aussie blog of the leftish persuasion, The Daily Flute, has popped its clogs.

Was there a heretofore unreported civil unrest in the Deep South following his blasphemous Delta Goodrem Easter cartoon? An ill-timed attempt to grab headlines dominated by the birth of the TomKitten (and, if rumours are to be believed ... put down dinner first ... the subsequent eating of the placenta by the Tom half of the equation ... )

Whatever the reason, I hope Flutey returns to the blogosphere, batteries recharged, guns-a-blazing. It can be rough to be a single-voice blogger (hence the growth of multiple voice blogs) but also very rewarding, both for writer and (I hope) reader.

Flutey, we salute you!