Just to reassure you devoted followers of my blog (I know you exist out there...somewhere), I'd like to come out and say that no, it is not dead. It's just, um...well, I don't know for sure what it is, other than it's just not dead.

Yeah.

If you follow South American football, then you probably also follow the continent's premier club competition, the Copa Libertadores. And if you follow me (wha?), you probably know that I support Boca Juniors, whose run in the 2009 Copa ended last night with a 1-0 loss to Defensor Sporting of Uruguay.

It had to come, plain and simple. Boca have rarely played like the team of old for quite some time now. The last-gasp championship in December, along with the emergence with some new talents...

Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3...What? You've stumbled in here? How? Or, perhaps more appropriately, why?

If your consciousness absolutely must intrude on mine, then I suppose an introduction to my lai--er, blog, is in order. Hi, I'm Xeneize and I'm from the USA. I love the sport us Yanks traditionally reject (football), and I'm an avid sci-fi fan.

This is my first ever blog, and while I'm still to fully grasp the features contained in this area, from here on out it's where...