Author: Stacy Horn

But, I can’t afford a new camera. My old Canon Powershot S410 has now gone completely insane on me. From time to time it was doing this thing where everything looked like an oil painting that melted. Now it’s stuck on that. I looked up the cameras my favorite photographers use, and the least expensive one (Nikon D40) is still in the $600 range. I can get a new Powershot for around $150, which is probably what it would cost me to fix it, but that’s annoying. It’s like spending $150 for nothing, for what I already have. Infuriating.

This is the last picture my old camera took. I took it walking down the Hudson with my neighbors Beth and Malik. This path has been closed for a while for renovations. This shot doesn’t capture how nice it looks. They’ve landscaped it nicely, flowers all over, and terraces every once in a while with chairs under trees and shade, more than what is shown here. When I have a camera again, maybe I’ll take shots of what it looks like from here to Battery Park.

I’ve been busy doing the final edits of my book. Oh, and my friend Jackie designed a blog for my new book, AND is helping me migrate this and my other blog to new and better blog software.

Here’s the blog for Unbelievable. It’s not done yet, but it’s enough done that you’ll get the idea.

My friend Chris sent me this picture of an eaglet, and maybe it’s because I have paranormal on the brain, but I just thought it has this lovely, spooky, kinda unreal feel to it. Doesn’t it look like an eaglet in another world almost?

I saw another disappointing summer movie: The Mummy. I think I will be disappointed by The X Files movie next.

The best lift I’ve ever seen on the show was Joshua’s last night, when Katee did that I-don’t-know-what-to-call-it and Joshua seemed to catch her mid-leap and froze her in that mid-leap-looking position — my God it took my breath away!

Other thoughts:

No way do I think the partnering was random. Everyone was partnered up with exactly who I think the judges wanted to see together. Exactly.

I do not think Twitch did a good job with the mambo. He didn’t pull off the mambo the way Joshua pulled off the samba earlier in the season and the paso doble last night. And look how great Mark was with the waltz. The judges were much too kind to Twitch — I can’t believe the pass Mary gave him on the mambo. And they didn’t praise Mark enough.

I think Chelsie and Twitch should be the ones going home, except I don’t know if they will. Twitch is very popular. And Mark’s solo was kinda dumb. I’m not sure who is the more popular of the two women, Chelsie or Courtney. It was insane how Chelsie kept up with Twitch in that hip hop, but I still think Courtney can do more than Chelsie, overall.

I want Joshua and Katee as the final two, and Katee to win. Here is the samba that they did. I probably already posted this, but I continue to watch it again and again.

[The video I linked to has been removed.]

I loved how Melinda asked, “How long was it before the cats started batting the tiny dinosaurs and naked babies under the furniture?” Pretty much the second I put them down. To get the picture from yesterday’s post took constant picking up and putting Finney back on the floor. He cries when I won’t let him destroy stuff. So cute. “Who’s a little destructor? You are!” Here I’m saying, “Finn! Here! Good stuff to knock over here!”

Nicole suggested putting Godzilla in the window to face the burglars, so I did! Then I added some tiny dinosaurs to help him. And then I added a bunch of tiny naked babies as a second line of defense, in case Godzilla and the dinosaurs fails. Yeah. Tiny babies. That’ll scare ’em. HEY! My Godzilla doesn’t have as impressive pointy things on his back as the one in the previous post! Or bulging biceps. I’ve got the wimp Godzilla.