What Happened To Comments?

What happened is that I decided--months ago--to finally shut this blog down. The comments were what I enjoyed about it--the rest is just blowing off steam. So I just kinda stopped reading them. This was made easier by the fact that Blogger stopped sending proper notice that comments had been posted. But as crazy as Our Current Situation is, I just kept posting screeds. So now it's the worst of both worlds: my screeds, no comments. Of course I've chased off most long-time readers by now anyway. But that's probably better for everyone concerned, when you think about it...
   Anyway. That's the story.