Stacy Horn

I have to run down to the Municipal Archives so this post is going to be brief. Saturday night I saw Robert Wilson’s new opera about the artist Clementine Hunter. (There’s a New York Time’s interview with Wilson here.)

First, thank you Barbara Sacharow. She invited me and gave me the ticket!. Second, I loved it. Probably the best thing I can say to demonstrate how much I loved it is that I went home and spent hours researching Clementine Hunter, Melrose Plantation (the place where she painted) and all the people in her life. Then I came up with a plan to go to Louisiana to start exploring people’s attics and basements in order to find her paintings (haven’t come up with a plan yet for how I’m going to get into people’s attics and basements exactly). Apparently there are at least 4,000 of her paintings out there, though.

This character spent most of the opera either sitting in a rocking chair or walking, but looking like she was slowly gliding around the stage, like the way ghosts move in movies made in the 1950’s. I guessed that she was supposed to represent an older Clementine Hunter but according to the Wilson interview I guessed wrong.

Below is the most recent book they recommended to me (it’s a book I wrote). Thanks, Amazon!

I’ve got Puppy Bowl IX on. I want a hedgehog. Except I won’t get a hedgehog, because I know Bleeck would most certainly … have fun with it. But come on. Hedgehogs, cutest spikey creature in the world. You know, we could finally beat out the Japanese in the Appreciating the Cute category and open a hedgehog cafe, the way they have cat cafes, and people could come in for a cup of coffee and a hedgehog on the side.

Oh wait. My book is a “bargain” book. Doesn’t that mean, ‘no one is buying it so we’re going to try basically giving it away’?

As I was leaving the Municipal Archives the other day they were setting up for a retirement party for a judge. I don’t really get retirement parties, except, I guess if you enjoy your co-workers, any excuse for a party makes sense. Or, if you hated your job.

But if you enjoyed your work, or even if you have had enough, its a weird thing to celebrate. To me a retirement party means: I’m too old to work and I’m going to be dead soon. I guess a better way to look at it is: I’m old so I’m quitting while I’m still ahead in order to have a great time and some adventures before I die.

I’ve always loved the show Supernatural, but at a certain point it lost its sense of humor and its heart. I kept watching because it was good enough and as I’ve said many times before, I have a hard time letting go of tv characters I’ve become attached to.

This season though, there were things I liked. Then all of a sudden in the last two episodes, boom! It completely recovered its sense of humor with the episode, LARP and the Real Girl, and its heart with As Time Goes By. Like that, the show was great again. (To be fair, there was a lot of heart in the Dean/Benny storyline.) I looked around for an explanation, but I couldn’t find out enough about what is going behind the scenes to account for it.

The most recent episode also created a storyline that interests me, this previously unknown group called the men of letters. I love the possibilities there. I’m tired of tension and conflict between the brothers, and I love mysteries that involve uncovering knowledge. Lighten up Castiel now and again and we will totally be in business.

In other news, I was very sorry to wake up to learn that former Mayor Ed Koch died. I didn’t love everything about him, but still. Also, I planned to try to interview him about something and now that will never happen, damnit. (Must make list of everyone over 60 you plan to interview and arrange interviews right away. Not that I think 60 is old. Just being on the safe side.)

Walking to and from the Municipal Archives yesterday, I passed by some of the shoots I saw signs for the day before. Inside this trailer perhaps, are the stars of Person of Interest …

And this is a shoot for the movie Motel. I asked who was in it and I was told “Bobby De Niro.”

Whenever there’s a movie shoot you’ll see signs like the ones below posted up and down the street. They list the production company and usually what is being shot, and they tell drivers they can’t park on this street on a specific day and time. Yesterday, on the way to the Municipal Archives I passed by so many signs for movie and tv shoots I stopped counting. The ones pictured below were for Law and Order SVU and a movie called Motel.

The show Person of Interest was supposed to be shooting last night, just blocks from where I live. Because I’m a big fan I went out to watch but no one was there. Damn you Person of Interest! Just kidding, I’m sure the shoot was cancelled due to the weather.