After weeks of inactivity -- during which time rumors of lawsuits and sales of the Web site sprung up -- it appears that 305 Gossip blog The Dirt is back. It also appears the latter rumors were true -- the word "SOLD" appears on The Dirt's new, fashionably black but unfortunately barren, landscape.

I await future blog entries that will offer all the details of what celebrities are in town, what publicists are fleeing the police, who's got a coke problem, who's got fun-filled coke parties, and on and on and on ....

Returning soon to an Internet near you

That "sold" thing doesn't bode well, though. The writing was bad enough the first time around. If it's been sold to some faceless PR firm with its hack publicists, Christ, that thing'll be unreadable.