[Tango-L] The Disappearance of Tangobliss.com

[m i l e s]

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.