The summer slump in stats might be due to the academic component of readership. I'm averaging 70 hits a day for June, down from my normal 90-100 during the Academic Year. Attacks on Formalism can get me temporarily up to 80, if I can sucker someone into responding. Did you see that poem that Wilbur wrote for Hecht's 80th birthday on the Formalist website? It's embarrassing. But seriously, it's good that people have something better to do during the summer than sit at desk and read Bemsha Swing. I'm certainly not going to be spending my time in Spain next week reading people's blogs.