KATHY, YOUR THING IS GONE

Sunday night. 10:52pm. Snoozing in the recliner, wishing there was a new episode of HBO's True Blood .

Cell phone clatters in the hall. I assume it's Katee. I take my time to fetch it. It screams again. I panic. When I was growing up no phone calls were allowed after 10pm and family of origin stuff dies slowly...um...never. So calls after 10 mean someone has died. I see it's my mom and really panic and answer. "Kathy, your thing is gone. On the computer."

"What?"

"John and I have been taking turns voting and when I clicked that thing again yours disappeared." I think she thinks she may have voted one too many times and broken the Internet. I tell her I'll click around and call her back. I check. It's gone. I'm stunned. Stunned. The other 14 videos are there but True Blood and Voo Doo! done been hoo dooed off the site.