"canGogh"

    "canGogh"  ~Here's something that's lost forever in the google+-sphere, a cool story I wrote about a New Orleans spray-paint artist who began on the sidewalks selling to tourists....  ~It begins: "Album - google+ Photo: New Orleans' "Can Gogh" ~art by Hugo Montero  Here's one...."  

      That's it, the other words and photos are lost to google+ eternity.  Thanks, good going; will you google code monkeys jump into my grave just as fast-as you deleted my original content? (which you once gladly fed into your crawler)....


And, folks, don't even think about clicking that Album - google+" link, it's a waste of your time anyway, goes to a dead link, to the google+ grave yard.  What insensitive blue meanies....

~thomas balzac
www.vieuxcarretimes.com

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