Originally, one could use an email/username from a company other than google to sign into a blogspot/google account.
I know- hard to believe but true.
Google, like any and all emerging entities trying for monopoly status has made it so that if that email account isn't gmail - u can just forget about ever getting into that blogspot (non-8ly-googler)...ever...again.
So that's all she wrote on beholdtherelish.blogspot.com- and me still with a typo or two to be crossed out.
Recent read(s/ings):
Head Cases by Micheal Paul Mason
Fierce Radiance and City of Light by Lauren Belfer
...and far too many books on epilepsy