Just a few short days ago, the lord of the fish hailed the addition of a new female blogger to Fishbowl DC named Aoife McCarthy, a former National Journal staffer. We tried to e-mail her soon after the announcement to send a hearty congrats, but all of our glee bounced back:

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

aoife@mediabistro.com

Technical details of permanent failure:
PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 9): 550 unknown user

Now we see that her bio has been removed from the Fishbowl “About Us” page. There’s no “us” if Aoife’s been fired, quit, or her employer wouldn’t let her blog, now is there? But those are just three possibilities. We think he ate her.