DRY SPELL: Yes, I am stuck in the middle of a particularly nasty dry spell. These things happen every so often to every wordslinger, of course, but I wonder why they keep happening to me. After a while, it does make you feel more than a little bit like Wile E. Coyote, and why doesn’t he just skip the Roadrunner altogether, cancel his Acme catalog, and just go to McDonald’s for a Big Mac, a large order of fries, and a large frosty vanilla shake?