Author: Stacy Horn

It means, “Guard your soul well.” It’s from one of the Brahms pieces we’re doing.  I love these translations sometimes.  Anyway, it is my prayer for us tonight while we watch the debates.

Speaking of guard your soul well, it’s so sad about Lt. Michael W. Pigott’s suicide.  The order that he gave which caused Iman Morales’s death was tragic too, but that doesn’t mean one can’t feel for Pigott.  His suicide, an act of questionable judgement certainly, makes me wonder if he was suffering from something which affected his judgement that day.  Now both families are suffering a loss.  It’s awful.  Guard your soul well indeed.  It’s so fragile.

This picture is of Perry Street, to my west.  I live on the least pretty block of Perry Street.  I’m not complaining, just saying.  I have it very good.

My friend Cricket Coleman made this awesome logo for an Obama fundraiser which was held last night (I missed it, extreme laziness).

I’m even more freaked out about tonight’s debate than I was about the one between Obama and McCain.  For instance, I don’t really like ambush-style interviews, like Michael Moore, as entertaining as they can be, and that is how Palin is defending her inability to name a single Supreme Court decision besides Roe vs. Wade, or even one newspaper.  Katie Couric was springing a pop quiz on her in order to embarrass her.  Please.  

From her interview with conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt.

Hugh Hewitt: “Governor, your candidacy has ignited extreme hostility, even some hatred on the left and in some parts of the media. Are you surprised? And what do you attribute this reaction to?”

Sarah Palin: “Oh, I think they’re just not used to someone coming in from the outside saying you know what? It’s time that normal Joe six-pack American is finally represented in the position of vice presidency, and I think that that’s kind of taken some people off guard, and they’re out of sorts, and they’re ticked off about it … ” 

That’s not it, Ms. Palin.

I’ll never forget asking one of the detectives I got to know why he was voting for Bush. He said, “Because he’s a regular guy.  He’s just like me.”  And I immediately asked, “And do you think you should be running the country?”  The guy at least had the integrity to stop short, think for a second and say, “No.”

If Joe six-pack has the qualifications to run the country, then fine, but being a regular guy and drinking beer does not in itself qualify one to hold the most powerful position in the United States.  Should Joe six-pack also practice surgery?

So, I’m freaked out because some people will be happy with her performance tonight as long as she is charming, even if she never says a single thing of substance.

The lovely, lovely, complicated Brahms.  And look at this! I have company.

Look at that face.  It used to be I never could get pictures of Buddy, he’d be up the second I reached for the camera, but he’s totally used to it now.  He practically flirts with the camera.

I’ve posted before about the Ginkgo trees in my neighborhood that I love and that look like something out of Day of the Triffids.  I took a couple of shots coming home just now, from pizza pickup-age.

Pretty, and slightly haunting, no?

I read about Project Bueller on Gothamist yesterday. I’m going to be in the parade with my band, so God knows if I will be anywhere near this, but I hope so.

From their website: “On October 31st, we are recreating the parade scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off at the Village Halloween Parade. This will involve tens of thousands of people breaking out into the world’s largest Beatles sing-a-long. 

We want the streets to erupt in joy and for it to be one of the greatest experiences of everyone’s lives. 

We will need thousands of secret audience agents to get the ball rolling by imitating the extras in the scene and inspiring your neighbors in the audience to do the same. 

We believe first and foremost in the power of joy and hope to celebrate this principle with you everyday for the rest of our collective lives.

Email projectbueller@gmail.com if you’d like to join us.