Common Sense

I waited much too long to try and salvage some of my writing from Google cache. Thanks to someone for reminding me to try and do this so that I at least have clippings and it’s not like Cinema Toast never existed.

That’s probably the worst thing about this whole experience. Just the fact that, instead of talking to me, they took down the blog and deleted everything, not just the post they found offensive. In this day in age, a blog post is as important to a writer as a physical clipping with a byline if and when that writer decides to move on. If some other publication liked my writing or I found a place that was a better fit for my movie blog reviews and news, they were going to leave me high and dry with nothing, not one of the 86 posts that I wrote for free for them, to use to show that I can write for a real news outlet’s Web site.

That hurts.

I salvaged what I could with what links I could, but obviously the art is all gone and most of my comments are gone as well. I was rushing tonight so I just copied and pasted whatever I could into the text field here. If any of Cinema Toast’s regular readers happened to use Bloglines and and has the full cache of all my archives, I’d appreciate it if you could help me put together a complete archive that I might upload and keep. I’d like to be able use whatever hyperlinks I’ve already used instead of trying to figure out where I went before.