Stacy Horn

– Travis’s choreography for the opening number seemed to favor the men. I barely noticed the women. (But I love all things Travis still.)

– Kayla’s solo was inventive. Quirky and interesting.

– That cha cha was AWFUL. The judges are insane. Worst thing in recent memory. And I love Ade. But I thought he was wooden and Melissa looked too white girl/ballerina.

– Brandon was the star of their routine. He really really out-danced Jeanine, and she is great, but he was dancing so stupendously. Oh I’m talking about the Battlefield one, not the waltz, which was not good.

– Jeanine’s solo was also great in an inventive, quirky way.

– Okay, the breast cancer dance was lovely, but man I thought all the judges WAY over-rated it. If they hadn’t said it was about breast cancer and put a scarf on Melissa’s head they could have been dancing about anything. But all the crying, please. Plus it made it really awkward when they cut to Kayla and Jason who had started mugging for their next routine coming up.

– Brandon’s solo was AMAZING. He’s a favorite now. (But my absolute favorites remain Kayla and Ada. And Janette.)

– Ellen Degeneres was a terrible terrible judge, and I love her. But a terrible judge. She didn’t add anything. She did not communicate her passion about dance, and just did her schtick. The one thing I did like about her was when she gave Evan some full on, unequivocal love, which he has not gotten at all this season, and she kinda shamed the other judges into giving him some appreciation.

But that said, I think Evan should be the guy going home. And no girls should go home.

I took that picture … somewhere. On the lower east side. I think. Oh wait no, it was somewhere in the financial district.

I was walking around the very lower east side, looking for an old tenement for the book proposal I’m working on but the building is gone, alas.

This is a picture of the Manhattan bridge. I was trying to figure out what people would have seen out their windows in 1892, but it wouldn’t have been this bridge. But they may have been able to see the Brooklyn Bridge in the distance.

And it shut down this movie shoot on Perry Street. I guess I didn’t really need to post three photographs of it, but I liked the Perry Street in the rain look.

I forget why I climbed up on my kitchen counter, but I liked how my apartment looked from up there. Except there are two areas of clutter that are bugging me. The coffee table, and the wires under my desk.

I have tried repeatedly but I have never been able to make those wires look neat. It drives me nuts. The coffee table I can do something about.

I quit. Yes, never mind the HUGE container of sunflower seeds hanging behind you. The one that has been there for the taking for the past two months.

That’s right little guy. Almost there.

Oh thank God. Finally. I have managed to feed a bird.