If you felt, yesterday evening, a faint feeling of emptiness…a vague notion of despair…a more-pronounced-than-usual sense of ennui: it was probably because, for a sad span of nine hours last night, The Daily Dish…went dark.

Yes, we know. It was a difficult time for us all.

But! After the darkness: light! Our Dish deprivation has come to its conclusion. Sully Et Al are back.

So…with what update did the blog mark its triumphant return from “only the second time in its nearly ten-year history that the Dish has gone silent”?

Uh, this: