Stacy Horn

A letter to editor of a Detroit newspaper written by a Canadian, and this doesn’t touch on all the areas which are important to me, like Obama’s support for science, and the Affordable Care Act (Canadians already have affordable care, so it makes sense that it wouldn’t be highlighted in this letter) but still:

Many of us Canadians are confused by the U.S. midterm elections. Consider, right now in America, corporate profits are at record highs, the country’s adding 200,000 jobs per month, unemployment is below 6%, U.S. gross national product growth is the best of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. The dollar is at its strongest levels in years, the stock market is near record highs, gasoline prices are falling, there’s no inflation, interest rates are the lowest in 30 years, U.S. oil imports are declining, U.S. oil production is rapidly increasing, the deficit is rapidly declining, and the wealthy are still making astonishing amounts of money.

America is leading the world once again and respected internationally — in sharp contrast to the Bush years. Obama brought soldiers home from Iraq and killed Osama bin Laden.

So, Americans vote for the party that got you into the mess that Obama just dug you out of? This defies reason.

When you are done with Obama, could you send him our way?

What he said. This is another shot from the film shoot the other day for the new tv show Public Morals. I liked all the various shades of blue.

They’ve been in my neighborhood a few times, which is fun. It’s a new tv show about an NYPD squad from 1967. Here are some of the actors from the shoot.

That is the director (actor Ed Burns) in the beret. I wish I had gotten a better shot of the actress on the left. Loved her hair and outfit. A short movie follows below.

You know who I haven’t photographed in a while? Dog walkers. What is better than a dog walker, from the dog’s point of view? A dog walker with treats. That is why all these dogs are at attention. Could these dogs be cuter? (Hint: no.)

This may seem like a morbid way to begin this post, but I will always remember what Stephen Policoff wrote when our mutual friend, Aly Sujo, died. It was the most moving of all that I’d read about Aly and I was grateful for his words. He captured Aly so perfectly, and the pain of losing him. Policoff is a writer, and is the Master Teacher of Writing in Global Liberal Studies at NYU, so it wasn’t a surprise of course, but still.

From his email: “Come Away is a companion piece to my first novel, Beautiful Somewhere Else, and like that novel is a dark domestic comedy laced with a mild buzz of the supernatural.” Sounds perfect for me! Policoff’s first novel, Beautiful Somewhere Else, won the James Jones 1st Novel Prize.

If you live in New York he’ll be at The Golden Notebook, in Woodstock NY, today at 4:40.  On Monday November 17th, he’ll be at First Bite, at Contrada on E. 4th Street at 7:00 PM. I’ll probably go to his reading on November 20 at the NYU Bookstore on Broadway (6-7:30).

My idea of a great afternoon, spending it going through old records. Yesterday I spent a wonderful few hours at the archives of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. Thank you Wayne Kempton! The archives are HUGE and meticulously stored and maintained, and when one thing I needed wasn’t there, Wayne emailed me later with it.

I don’t want to say what I was looking for because hopefully I’ll have a happy announcement to make soon-ish. I’ll get to spend tons of time here and at the Municipal Archives and the New York Public Library and many other archives. Places of enchantment for me, basically.