Stacy Horn

I fell asleep but miraculously woke up a couple of minutes before Curiosity landed on Mars. I got to watch all the Nasa people watching so tensely and then springing up like Olympians who had just won a gold medal, while breaking a world record at the same time. Except it was a room full of people all winning gold medals and breaking world records at once, it was a joy to watch. Yay Nasa!! I hope we learn a lot.

As any pet owner knows, as long as they’re still eating all is not lost. Buddy’s diarrhea has returned so I’ve been tinkering with his meds and worrying, worrying, worrying. I do that a lot, write words three times for emphasis. I should probably stop that. Anyway, Buddy seems okay otherwise, and he’s eating, so I should probably stop worrying too.

I forgot to mention, don’t miss the landing of Nasa’s Curiosity Mars Rover, which is going to be streaming live here, although it will probably be on tv all over the place too. The last I read they’re expecting it to land around 1:30 a.m. est.

Okay, back to goof-off-age. You know, I hate when the cats look up suddenly like this. I’m always sure it’s going to either be a tarantula or one of those flying waterbug/cockroach things,

Wisconsin. And Sikhs, of all people. I don’t know a lot about them but a year or two ago something inspired me to read about them. I just remember a lot of peace and love, and like Catholics, a strong focus on service. Oh wow, reading the Wikipedia entry now. “Protecting the religious and political rights of all people and preventing discrimination is an integral part of the Sikh faith.” Yeah, I can see why someone would want to shoot them.

Can we talk about a little gun control, now??

I’ve been goofing off. That’s the Bachelor Pad below. I was watching that earlier. Currently, I’m going back and forth between Dr. Who and Close Encounters of the Third Kind and later it will be Olympics, Olympics, Olympics. That is my Sunday. Because I worked really hard yesterday.

Here’s an amazing dance routine that came at the end of a Bunheads episode. I’ve watched it over and over. Watch it. Isn’t it mesmerizing? Between this and So You Think You Can Dance and some great dancing on Glee (and other shows) I got the idea: we need a 24/7 dance channel.

Everyone and all groups could participate—ballet companies, dance companies, hip hop dancers, all street dancers, ballroom, high school groups, children. There could be contests, and the dance equivalent of open mike night: Open Dance Night. I’m sure there are tons of archival footage of dance over the years (and since we’ve had cameras to film dancers). So we could have a Dance History show. And a famous movie dance routines show, and a tv dance routines over the years show. Oh, and tv dance classes! Seriously, I’m sure I could come up with an idea for show a minute. It could be great!!

I’ve been meaning to post this link. AMC was at war with … some cable provider, I forget who, and so they let some zombies loose in New York City and filmed it. Very funny. The make up and zombie-attitude is so good I would have screamed.

There’s been way too many lost pets posters lately. Dogs, cats, and even one for a bird (I have to imagine that would be the hardest one to find and get back).

The show ended eight years ago and they still crowd Perry Street every day, taking pictures of Carrie’s apartment. Oh wow, check out red shirt guy’s hair.

Is anyone watching Newsroom? In the first episode, the main character reacts to a bunch of people saying America is the greatest country on earth. He says:

“We’re seventh in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, third in median household income, number four in labor force, and number four in exports.”

I was wondering which to address first and it’s almost impossible to decide. You need to be literate to improve in math and science, which would lift the last three, but more than anything else, you need to be alive to do any of those things.