Author: Stacy Horn

I’m posting this since I saw that a number of people were looking for information about Aly on the web.  If you were a friend of Aly’s, there is going to be a memorial on October 26th.

On Google today:  “In honor of our 10th birthday, we’ve brought back our oldest available index. Take a look back at Google in January 2001.” [They have since taken that index down.]

Someone on Echo googled Sarah Palin and Barack Obama and reported back her results.  I had to see for myself.

“Your search – “sarah palin” – did not match any documents.”

“Results 1 – 10 of about 768 for barack obama.”  Pages and pages and pages about all his activities, including his efforts to improve life in various communities in Chicago, work Palin belittled, while she was busy doing … what was she doing in 2001 and before??

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to explain to friends, “I have a cat on me,” and therefore cannot get up to answer the phone, or grab a book to read them something, etc.

Recently I pulled out the heating pad and now it’s Finney’s new favorite sleeping spot.  It’s not on and warm or anything, he just loves to sleep on it and I don’t have the heart to put it away.

He also loves the keyboard of my older laptop.  It must be warmer or something. I’m worried he will snap off a key, but once again, I don’t have the heart to close it up once he’s settled himself there.  I mean, look at him.  I’m giving you two shots just so you appreciate the full impossibility of cat movage.

Grown men and women are defenseless against the sleeping cat.

Like I have it hard (I don’t).  But I haven’t felt well the past week, although today I started to feel better so I went to the gym after meeting a detective friend for breakfast.  Our place is decorated for Halloween, Ukrainian food joint style.  It says “Trick or Borscht” if you’re having trouble reading it.  Of course I thought, “This is one of the places we used to go for food after hearing music at CBGB’s.”  Which led to remembering that The Leisure Unit’s (Aly’s band) used to play there.  But there was another place we went to just as much, another Ukrainian food place, which has been closed for many years now.  I can’t remember the name.  What was the name??  It was only a few blocks away.  (This is Veselka.)  Oh God.  And so it begins.

UPDATE:  Melinda just saved me from going out of my mind.  It was the Kiev.  Thank you, Melinda.

I’m freaked out because I found out yesterday that one of my oldest friends had a heart attack and died over the weekend.  It’s breaking my heart to type that.  There’s so much I want to say, and at the same time I don’t feel like saying any of it.  Here is Aly in the early 80’s, when we were all young and just starting out in life and I was sure he’d be a rock star.  He should have been.  But you know life.