Perhaps I need more than just the categories of living blogs and dead blogs. (As perhaps I should give Alex del Castillo's memorial link a special star; his was my very first blogroll link, so I'll always remember him fondly, whatever he's up to now.) There are those blogs that got born and remained among the living, there are blogs where posting is regular for a time but which are then are put into stasis for relatively long periods, only to wander out of the morgue unexpectedly. Zombie blogs, maybe. (Like you, Gage.) Then there are jokers like Goldstein who periodically update their "under construction" pages and then no doubt giggle satanically about the bozos who keep hopefully checking back. Somebody ought to sue the bastard. Finally, perhaps as a subcategory of the Zombie we have the Schrödinger's Cat blog - blogger simultaneously blogging and not blogging; can't describe the status of the blog 'til you click on your bookmark. (I sometimes thought that of Diane E., por ejemplo.)
I've occassionally toyed with the idea of a completely perverse blog roll, consisting entirely of bloggers I consider to be ultramaroons, half-wits, over-rated hacks or mentally ill. (Not necessarily exclusive categories.) Wouldn't that be fun? An annual blogosphere-wide perverse blogroll day? What's that you say, you with my blog on your roll? It's already being done?...