Some Thanks

To my amazing team of underbloggers: Patrick, Chris and Zoe and their underbloggers, Zack and Maisie. To be perfectly frank, the Dish would not exist without them. I would have been carted off on a stretcher by now. The last year – of transition to the Beast, while I grappled with intense health and immigration stress – was one in which they insisted on the importance of Dishness and interpreted and played with it on a daily basis. That the changes and shifts may seem seamless to many readers is a testament to how talented and dedicated and sometimes inspired the Dish team is.

Thanks too to the Beast, and their total support of our endeavor, their video team, their homepage team and the great fun of working with and for Barry Diller and Tina Brown and Stephen Colvin. It's been much more of a blast than I expected.

I'd also like to thank you for hanging in. Not every transition from one site to another goes as smoothly as ours did, and it's because you followed us. Indeed we saw our readership grow another steady 20 percent this year over last. But as you know, you do much more than add numbers to the traffic data. Your contributions, emails, corrections, testimonies, arguments, photographs, questions – all contributed anonymously and freely to the general world of ideas – are what makes this site unique. They bring it to life.

So thank you. On my first Thanksgiving as a permanent resident of the United States, thank you.