Stacy Horn

Remember how I was asking why isn’t there a show about people like me? Here’s one in development that kind of is. Kinda. The main character is one generation older, though. I read this on TV Tattle:

HBO close to ordering “Viagra Diaries” with Goldie Hawn
The project from “Beverly Hills 90210″/”Sex and the City” creator Darren Star is expected to shoot in New York City. Hawn will star as a 65-year-old woman who struggles to be single when her husband leaves her.

It’s enough of an age difference though, to make it a different show. If you think it’s not, think about the difference between a show about people in their 20’s and one about people in their 30’s. Certain differences shrink as we get older, it’s true, but 65 is just not the same as 55, although you have to be these ages to see them. 65 is still interesting though, and I’m fast on my way there anyway, so I am very very very excited about this show. HIRE ME, DARREN STAR.

I took this home walking home from the Loser’s Lounge last night. (A truly great one, by the way. Go tonight if you’re in NYC.)

Among the many errands I have to run today, is heading over to the Strand to pick up a copy of Gareth Malone’s book Music for the People. Does everyone know who this guy is? He’s a choir conductor and the star of the BBC show The Choir. If you haven’t seen it, you must to give it a try. You’ll be sobbing by the end of every season. He always takes the least likely groups of people and turns them into choirs, it’s incredibly moving. I’m trying to get an interview with him and that’s actually what I want to focus on, his ability to get people who think they can’t sing to sing.

This season he’s working with military wives, and he even got composer Paul Mealor (who did the astounding Ubi Caritas for Kate and William’s wedding that floored us) to write the music for one of the pieces they sing.

A deli in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I particularly like the hand-painted “New York Deli” part of the sign.

I’ve watched the Christmas episode of Warehouse 13 two times now, and I’m sure I’ll watch it a few more times before the season is out. Please tell me you’re all watching this show now. It’s the only other show I can think of like Bones where I love every single character.

God I’m so tired at the moment. I’ve been buried in my book, furiously editing, and I’m going to continue working on it day and night for the next couple of weeks, desperately trying to whip it into final ready-to-be-sent-back-to-my-editor shape. There’s a remote possibility it could come out in the fall, 2012. In reality, the possibility is very very very remote—the longest of long shots. More likely it will come out the following spring. But I have to give it a try!

Meanwhile, I’ve been lusting for winter boots. Not these boots, I don’t want knee-highs, but these would be perfect if they came up mid-calf. And cost $10.

While waiting for the Lincoln Center branch of the library to open, after walking by the Metropolitan Opera, and the New York City Ballet, I took refuge in the lobby of Avery Fisher Hall. It was a little disheartening to see sign after sign for one performance after another I can’t go to! I should explore the cheap seats more thoroughly. $65 was the least expensive ballet ticket, $30 for the opera. I’ll bet there are better deals to be had.

I took a picture of the sign for the annual Messiah Sing. It’s a monster, thousands go and sing. (Also expensive.)

And by me I mean middle-aged, single, pathetic, but not completely unendearable (I just made up that word) and funny (what?). Finding a man would only be a minor side-plot, a running joke, like the conveyor belt of secretaries on Murphy Brown. I don’t mean that as a anti-man thing, but that’s what it’s like, going both ways. I think it’s a combination of we’re all the left-overs and we just don’t have the energy for dating we once had. If the sitcom were being made today I’d make finding a job the major focus. That could provide plenty of laugh-until-you-cry material.

A giant bulb decoration. It’s terrifying, right? Try batting that around, cats.