Black Friday

[shakatany]

I had a lovely Thanksgiving with friends. On the way home at around 10 pm, I passed a Best Buy and there were people camped out on the street - some even had tents! I hope the bargains were worth the effort and I also hope no one was killed like the poor worker at a Wal-Mart store out on Long Island. There were other cases of violence involving Black Friday shopping - the economy is making us do crazy things (not that we don't do them at other times too).

Of course I doubt the economy had much to do with all the violence in Mumbai. My heart goes out to the dead and those who mourn them, the wounded and the hostages. What a Thanksgiving *sigh*

I spent much of yesterday going over my BtVS links and finding over a dozen dead ones. I was able to find a few alternative links for some favorite fics and actually used The Wayback Machine to find and saved "Scabs" by Tubby K, a very funny short piece and "The House of the Rising Sun" by Michelle, a prelude to what might have been a great Spander story had she continued with it. Some of the dead links were to BtVS sites established when BtVS was first aired and I worry that so many of the early fics are now lost to fandom. I know there are a few I still remember that I read once and could never find again. I love the internet but it can be very aggravating too.

ETA: my friend Susie found that tubbyk is on LJ and so is Scabs *does happy dance*

Comments

[stretfordditto.livejournal.com]

I was really shocked about the poor man and peeps at Walmart! Glad you had a good Thanksgiving. :) Re the fics, this is why we always printed off...fics can disappear without trace. :(

[shakatany.livejournal.com]

What happened at Wal-Mart was pure insanity which is why I'm glad I'm not that desperate.

Well at the moment I can't print stuff out but I save what looks "endangered" among my faves in my g-mail account.

Shakatany

PS love that icon