In Brownsville, A Second Punch Floors Townfolk As Another Blog Checks Out...

"And whosoever was not found written in the 
book of life was cast into the lake of fire." 
- Revelation 20:15

By RON MEXICO
Staff Writer

BROWNSVILLE, Texas - And then there was one. The fast-moving, mysterious Kill-All-Blogs virus moving across this falling town's geography yesterday claimed its second victim - ElRrunRrun.com. No one is talking. Fear spreads by the minute, fear that it won't be long before the town's last daily supplier of meaningless noise - BrownsvilleVoice.com - finds itself on the chopping block.

ElRrunRrun, owner of the worst name in Blogging, left without a published whimper. Its operator, Juan Montoya, said nil, leaving, like the Colts did that cold day in Baltimore a few years back, in the dead of night. Visitors to the site this Ayem were given the Ol' Adios. So long, and thanks for all the tacos. Who's next, seemed to be the one question swimming across town. "Why are we being treated like Vietnamese?" asked a woman walking the downtown sidewalks this morning. "I'm 62, but I'm into blogging. I read El Rocinante for ten years, and now it's gone. ElRrunRun, too. Que demonios vamos a hacer?"

Fans of both sites have been shuffling to Blogs in Harlingen and McAllen, but their contributions have been roundly rejected as being too pedestrian.

"We require a certain intelligence and these people simply do not have it," said Patrick Alcatraz, editor of this Blog. "We have said that to them, but they don't get it. Perhaps that's why Blogs go to die in Brownsville, 'cause they know the audience they'll serve is a collection of bone-dead, cemetery-walkers. Que lastima, absolutely."

ElRrunRrun's rrun lasted a few months. Critics said it took the "neighborhood" approach to news, that it was too-Brown to ever be an effective website, that it forever pushed the Hispanic bent on everything. Still, there are those loyalists who say both ElRrunRun and ElRocinante.com, which vanished earlier this week, are merely taking a break, that all it takes is one internet prompt to get them back in the game.

"Ees way out of character for dees guys to go out dees way," said a reporter for the local daily who requested anonymity...

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[EDITOR'S NOTE:...ElRrunRrun is back. Word is operator Juan Montoya shut the site down overnight in a show of solidarity with ElRocinante editor Jerry McHale. He's apparently had a change of heart...]