Stacy Horn

Don’t you love studies that report on the shockingly obvious? “It has been determined that lots of people like ice cream.” A new study found that cats attach to people, especially women, and not just for food. No offense scientists, but you have to be freaking kidding me. Actually, I should read the study, maybe there’s more that’s new in there.

I’m looking at my little manipulators right now. Dudes, I’m very stressed out. Do that “curl up/purring so that I continue feeding you” thing please.

When this whole thing started I thought he might be punking us or something. But I caught a few minutes of his Today Show appearance and now I think mental illness is the best possible spin. I mean, it isn’t possible for him to have said anything more in order to come across as the world’s biggest douchebag. “You can’t process me with a normal brain,” etc. I also agree with the article in the Times, which made the point that he has been off the charts for a long time, assaulting women with alarming regularity, but he insults Chuck Lorre once and that’s what gets them to halt production?

Update: Someone on Echo said he’s probably bipolar. I’m sure this must have been suggested before because as soon as he said it I thought, of course.

I had a great great great day at the library. Sometimes I spend the entire day there and come up with nothing, but yesterday I came back with a stack of useful stuff THIS high (I’m holding my hand up a few inches above the desk).

Walking home from the library, before I turn the corner to my block.

I fell asleep pretty early on during the Oscars. James Franco really didn’t want to be there, did he? I liked the Times description, they said it was like pairing James Dean with Debbie Reynolds. Anne Hathaway was charming though.

So I read this piece in the Times the other day, Free Trove of Music Scores on Web Hits Sensitive Copyright Note, and it kinda makes music publishers look like the bad guys.

But I’d just been reading about when the publisher Novello start publishing small, affordable editions of choral classics. They made a fortune (I think) and they made tons of people very happy. They were heroes. From a 1894 letter to the editor:

“Looking back … over the half-century, and remembering … the costliness of good music … it is delightful to call to mind the great work which Messrs. Novello’s house has accomplished in placing the noblest monuments of the great masters in the hands of all orders and degrees of men. To them we owe the greatly enhanced enjoyment of an oratorio which springs from the possession of a portable copy which can be carried easily in the hand and used during the performance. I well remember the publication of the first octavo edition of “The Messiah” … which were eagerly looked for by the subscribers. The same original copy still stands on my music shelves …”

Finney helping me with A Sea Symphony. “No, it’s this note.”

Finney’s all, “Don’t take my picture,” but sorry little dude. Picture taken and more to come.

I had a few things I needed to do, but now I am officially off.  I’m going to read some magazines, get caught up on my tv-backlog, and then I will return here to live blog the Oscars.

It’s gorgeous out so I’m a little insane, but there it is. This is how I want to spend my day.

Okay, on to People and More.

7:03: Buddy, who is wearing gray tonight, looks like he’s about to attack Finney, who is, as usual, in black. Guys! Guys! Who are you wearing? Okay, they’re snubbing me. Guys! Hrmph. Think they’re better than people.

7:08: So far pretty ho-hum. I don’t know a lot of people’s names, alas. Liked the lilac gown on the Black Swan address. Mila Kunis! Love Scarlett Johansson’s dress, but I don’t like her, ever since she made some really catty remarks about over-weight women. Sharon Stone, except for having on too much eye liner looks better than she has in a long time.

7:16: This is pretty dull. Maybe Sharon Stone will say something crazy.

7:25: Celine Dion is an alien. Maybe she will eat Ryan Seacrest.

7:31: Adam Shankman!! Maybe he will dance! Dance Adam! ADAM. Damnit. I love you anyway.

7:58: I love the color, the neckline, the beading on Natalie Portman’s dress!

8:01: I just switched to ABC and discovered that I’ve missed watching Tim Gunn. I am beside myself with grief and regret, and why oh why didn’t I know he was going to be on?? TIM!! Oh wait, there’s a clock that tells me there’s a half an hour left until the show start. I get a half an hour of TIM. Okay. I’m calm now.

8:15: On Echo we’re critiquing people’s teeth instead of their outfits. Natalie Portman did not do well, surprisingly.

8:42 LOVING Anne Hathaway.

I’m going to live blog my day. My day when I do NOTHING. So yes, I am going to blog about nothing. Cats. Celebrity outfits. Okay, I lied, I plan to do one useful thing, I’m going to write a new post for my blog for my book Unbelievable. But then, I will immediately commence with the slothing. And Oscars!!

Looking uptown at Hudson and Bank Street, I think.