Stacy Horn

I should go to the ticker tape parade for the Yankees. I should also stay home and write. I can’t decide!!

I don’t follow sports really. I just like winning. And cute athletes. And parades. Especially ticker tape parades downtown, which of all the city has the most back-in-time feel which I love. What to do, what to do??

The last time I went to one of these things John Oliver from The Daily Show showed up a few feet away from me and taped a segment, which made it REALLY worthwhile. But I can’t count on that. Alas.

Oh and I tried taking this picture of the Empire State Building while standing across from Grace Church at 11th and Broadway. It didn’t come out well though. It was when it was supposed to be lit up in a tie-dyed fashion for the Grateful Dead? I still think that can’t be right. They’d honor the Grateful Dead? I think they are well worth honoring, but I’m still surprised.

That question has a double meaning, it turns out. I was asking because I just got back from running errands, and I was wondering what I was working on when I left.

Then I uploaded this picture and I don’t remember where I was when I took it. Somewhere on the east side on Manhattan in the 30’s I think. Pretty, no?

I wish I could curl up on the couch with the cats and read O Pioneers!, which I am really loving. But my money is going to run out soon and I must figure out something!! ACK.

Mary Horenkamp, an alto, designs all our programs and postcards, and I think this is my favorite one yet. The inner postcard is from 1906.

Our holiday concert is only a month away! A reminder: our prices have
gone up. If you buy tickets from me it’s now $20, and $25 at the door.
IMPORTANT: we are frequently sold out. It’s not only cost-effective to
buy tickets from me, it may be the only way you can get them.

Time and place:

Grace Church, Broadway & 10th.
Friday, December 4, 8pm, or …
Saturday, December 5, 3pm.

Our program: Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, with works by Stanford, Mendelssohn and others. I googled the Chichester Psalms and according to Wikipedia they are “noted among performers for their musical difficulty, with the opening section of the first movement often considered one of the hardest passages for choral tenors ever written …” It is a bit of a challenge, but also very exciting. And festive. The orchestration is really sparkling and alive and celebratory.

It was very empty at the polls. I bought myself a brownie afterwards.

The radio station called me a little after 6am, I thought they were calling at 7am. I was terrible. Overly-defensive, overly skeptical, when in fact I actually accept more about parapsychology than I think I presented. Christ. So now I am filled with self-loathing, YET AGAIN. I am tired of feeling like this. Like life isn’t hard enough, I have to hate myself for being human?? Enough already.

Ugh, ugh, ugh. What do I have pictures of to post … that might fit my mood. Nothing really. My pictures are all happy. Oh wait, here’s another dead person sign. These things are everywhere. Note to people who erect these signs: give us more to go on about the departed.