Author: Stacy Horn

I watched a documentary about Henry Darger, an artist I’ve posted about before, and I learned in Wikipedia that an online game called SissyFight, that was developed by the staff at Word, was still going until 2009! I didn’t know! (The person who ran Word is a friend.) All the players are girls and Darger was one of their influences.

I also watched a documentary about all the tornados last month and then wake up to the news about Joplin. Jesus Christ.

Union Square on Saturday.

For the record, there was some action at the library too yesterday. Someone got married! Dance pictures below.

There were lots and lots of belly dancers, and all sorts of traditional dances from around the world, which was great, but there was almost NO hip hop, my favorite. Did all the hip hop dancers boycott the event or something? Does anyone know?

There was a decent amount of ballet, I got a real “Fame” like shot, but I like this one because it has the Broadway sign in it.

Wait, what the hell? Yes, there was even a pole dancer. A truck with a pole and this girl went by.

Here I’m just showing off that I caught the girl mid-air. These people weren’t even dancers, they were cheer leaders. Although that’s in the dance category these days, isn’t it?

Like these girls, one of the few groups doing any hip hop moves. I have a ton more pictures, but these are probably enough. So! Anyone got a post-rapture hang over?

8:36AM. This thing is already a bust! I’m terrible in geography, but isn’t it already past 6pm in Australia, New Zealand and China (and lots of other places if only I could pick them out on a map)?

<—This is Buddy sweetly trying to assure the faithful that God still loves them even though he didn’t take them and murder the rest of us.

10:37AM. I have just been reminded that today is the Dance Parade.  I think I will go watch that instead of going to the library.

6:06PM. Still here!!  I went to the Dance Parade AND the library. Two libraries, actually, but I didn’t make it to the second in time, it was closed.

I have 16,000 pictures of people dancing. I’m going to try to narrow it down to three.

How is everyone?  Anyone … disappear?

7:29PM. Still going through dance pictures.

I suppose now is not the time to tell you about the apocalyptic dreams I had before I’d heard that today was the day? I had the same dream twice. I was standing in my window, looking downtown, watching each building explode one after another, like a wave, heading toward me. It was awful, no where to run. In the last few seconds I had I wondered what could have caused it. The terrorists couldn’t have wired every single building to go like that, it was like each explosion ignited the building next to it. All moving inexorably and too-fast-to-run in my direction. Pretty spectacular. And horrible.

I thought I might live blog my day, except I don’t have anything interesting planned, maybe go to the library, research some coal miners, that’s pretty much it for today. Except for me, that is a good day. I love doing sh*t like that. I’ll see how it goes.

The last supper. Okay, technically, the second to last supper since this is all supposed to happen at 6pm and they get a meal at 4:30. Eat up!

My friend Jonathan Hayes has a new book out called A Hard Death. Jonathan is a senior medical examiner at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, and you can read more about him here. Fascinating guy, really. A guy whose life is basically a thriller writes thrillers.

About A Hard Death from Jonathan’s website:

Jenner, the brilliant forensic pathologist hero of Precious Blood, has survived the horrific final denouement of the Inquisitor serial killings, but not the political fall-out. His medical license suspended, Jenner finds himself banished from New York to Douglas County in coastal Florida, and settles in to work as a Medical Examiner in the balmy seaside resort of Port Fontaine.

But nothing in Douglas is as it seems. First, Jenner’s former mentor is found savagely murdered, then an anonymous call in the middle of the night leads Jenner to a nightmarish discovery in the Everglades. He finds traces of a shadowy criminal conspiracy, and soon learns that he can trust no one.With his life on the line, Jenner refuses to walk away and let his friend’s murder go unpunished. The result is an explosive, edge-of-the-seat thriller in the tradition of Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs.

Publisher’s Weekly says his main character “emerges as a sufficiently flawed yet empathetic hero.”