Guess who (or what) is back...!

Many cups of tea have been savored between this and the last entry of this blog. Cynics have even started wondering whether this blog has flat-lined. People who used to swear by the quality of content provided on this site, now have only vague and misty memories about it. There was a time when... well, you get the idea. Simply put, it has been quite sometime since there has been an entry on this blog. Mea culpa!
So without further doo-doo here is the straight version of this week's (month's?) puzzle.
Does that make the Cryptic version, which is coming up soon, gay? Something to think about, no?