Stacy Horn

I was cleaning up Echo’s web server and I found some old photographs my friend Kevin had taken at the party for my book, Waiting For My Cats to Die. Instead of the regular cocktail party I made it a benefit for City Critters, the cat rescue organization where I got Finney and Buddy.

I hired the Loser’s Lounge to perform, and among the singers were two of my favorites: Ellen Foley and …

… my friend Lianne Smith! Good times!!

Except that was 2001 which very soon went to hell in a handbasket in the biggest way possible, all year long. My mom died a month later, then Beamers died a couple of months after that (Beamers was the cat of my dreams), and then 9/11. So fuck you 2001! Except for this night. This was fun.

Every time I write a new book I start a blog. I can’t maintain all these blogs anymore, plus a couple of websites, and then there’s the new book about singing coming up. I don’t want to start yet another blog.

Here’s what I’m thinking of doing.

Currently my main web page, www.stacyhorn.com, takes you to a web page with links to pretty much everything I do. I’m thinking of doing away with that page and having www.stacyhorn.com take you here instead, to the blog I update every day.

– I’ll change the look of this a little bit, but not much. I will spruce it up a little but overall I like a clean, spare design. I think I’ll take out Satan’s Fur Puppets in the banner and put my name, and maybe add my face with the cats. Or maybe I’ll do a new banner altogether.

– I’ll replace the bio here with the one that’s on the web page.

– I’ll add links here to my other blogs which I only update sporadically. I’d like to get rid of them altogether, but people still access all the information on The Restless Sleep blog for instance and there’s a lot of useful important information there. It helps people solve murders (hopefully) so it would be wrong to take it down.

What do you think? Any other suggestions to do to this blog if i’m going to make it my main page?

(The picture is of someone taking a class at the trapeze school on the West Side Highway.)

I feel for him having to walk around in this get-up, although it’s for a good cause.

From the website explaining what he’s doing: “The Bag Monster® is a costume worn by your volunteer to visually show the impact single-use plastic bags have on our environment. These flighty bags end up in trees, along roadsides and washed up on sea shores. Each costume is decked out with 500 plastic bags, the average amount an American uses in one year.”

When I walked by he was filling the parking meter. I feel guilty because I always take bags at the supermarket — I use them to dispose of kitty litter. I don’t know what else to use.

I’m on hold with Unemployment. Ugh. Ugh to the infinity power. Okay, it was a few minutes wait, not too bad. I have to re-file October 4th. I never should have filed now in the first place. Why didn’t they tell me that at the time?? They’re not allowed, was the answer.

Actually, I get that. They’re not allowed to tell people not to bother, because what if you get someone who is … not good at their job?

Tomorrow is the last day of my staycation. I didn’t really pull it off. Maybe on two days I did. The day I went to the met, and yesterday when I read all day long mostly. Today I’m going to the dentist. What was I thinking??? Except, I do love that feel of taking care of things that need to be attended to, like teeth cleaning.

No, I’m an idiot.

A doorman in front of the Trump building on 5th Avenue. Cute kid. I wonder if he really wants to be an actor.

The other day when I went to the Met I forced myself to meander, looking at things I don’t normally look at. It was fantastic, although I did have a moment where I wished I was rich so I could own things like the objects I was looking at in the various decorative arts sections.

But this was one of the usual things I look at. This is a reliquary and it’s said to contain … Mary Magdalen’s tooth. I think it was Mary Magdalen.

Now I’m worried I’m remembering wrong.