Hi, In case you folks were wondering, or being thankful depending on your point of view...
Yes Tangobliss.com has shut down. It was time. It was only meant to be up a short time to begin with. It has served its purpose. I never intended it to be a reporting tool on the state of the tango community at large. Nor did I intend to become the tango reporter. Nor did I want the positive or negative notoriety that it has afforded me. My singular goal in having TangoBliss.com up was to get what was in my head, out of my head, so that I could focus on my study of the dance. That was it, that was all. Anything else that happened was an unintentional byproduct. And there were a LOT of unintentional byproducts. Like you won't believe.... The power of my blog was staggering to say the least. I had no idea what I had in my hands at all until about 6 months into it when I was getting a daily readership of 1500 UNIQUE visitors a day, and when that number jumped to 6000 a day by the time I stopped daily postings 2 months ago, and then far exceeded that afterwards...well perhaps staggering isn't the right word. No matter, I really had nothing of importance to say to anyone at all. Nothing. My views, my words, were for me and me alone. If anyone found any meaning in all of my seemingly arrogant self indulgence then I'm flattered but really there are far more qualified people to talk about the state of tango than I. I am nothing and my words and views even less. Suffice it said, that TangoBliss served its purpose. I have other things I need to do, such as: Learning to be a better lead. Learning to be a much better follower. Social dancing a lot more. Talking a lot less. This next year will do just that and more. Its time to be quiet. And its time tangobliss went away. And it has. The reviews of every milonga, gone. The reviews of every festival, gone. The experience of a beginner that became a barely passable intermediate, all gone. I erased it all. The only thing that remains are the videos of those experiences that are up on youtube.com. I will add to them a bit now and again with festivals and experiences that I haven't shared. But there will be no more personal videos from me and no more showing anyone anything about my progress or talking about it anymore. Its time to be quiet. Thank you all for visiting and reading. Sincerely, Miles. _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
