Stacy Horn

I looked through some gates and saw this little guy sitting on someone’s air conditioner. Notice how he’s facing in.  If they open the blinds he’ll be staring in.  Kinda sad.  “Let me in! Let me in!” His tiny voice cried.  But no one heard him through the window over the air conditioner. The little man was forced to stay outside and watch, while the people inside laughed over dinner, unaware of their little friend, outside, all alone.  Ha.

That reminds me, I saw the sweetest postcard on PostSecret yesterday.  It went:

The night of September 16, 1981: Sugar Ray Leonard defeated Thomas Hearns as I lost my virginity.  To this day my wife is the only woman I’ve been with.  When our love-making is particularly nice, I quietly raise her arm above our heads and declare her:  “The Champion!” … and the crowd roars its imaginary approval.

So sweet, right??  It made me jealous.  (Except I don’t like the term “love-making.”  Just say sex.)  I haven’t been posting because I’m so so stressed out.  Like if I don’t spend every waking moment working my book will sink like a stone and I’ll never get to write another, and the world will end.

Okay.  I’m ready.  I’m going to start working on the hardest music in the world.  Wish me luck. I’m going in there.

Except I’ve been working since the moment I got up.  Must.  Stop.  Now.  No, really.  STOP.  I’ve got a backlog of tv to watch and this week’s People Magazine.  Important stuff!

Oh and Valentine’s Day.  Yeah, yeah, yeah.  You love me Buddy, don’t you?  (Buddy is the cat on my lap at the moment.  I will query Finney later.)

This is some bench I passed a week or so ago and thought was pretty, the way the red was coming through the flaking paint.

I saw this tribute in a window on my way home yesterday. They’ve kept this in their window for six years.  I’m not criticizing.  I know how strong your love for your pets can be. RIP, Pokey.

I was on my way home from finding “dress sneakers.” I’m limited by what I can wear on my feet, and usually go for attractive sneakers.  As soon as I get something I ordered in the mail I’m going to post a picture of the clothes I bought for my book appearances next month.  I was extremely limited budget-wise and I think I did really well with almost nothing!

But I made a video for my book.  I’ll pretty much do everything to sell this book.  You work for years on something and then you’ve only got a few weeks to get it to catch fire and sell.  If that doesn’t happen bookstores take it off the shelves and return it to the publisher and move on to the next batch of new books.  It’s the hard cruel facts of book-writing life.

I had fun making it, I just wish I knew more.  And I had such problems with the sound.  It was so troublesome I kept bad takes in because if I did another take for one section it would sound very different than the next section and … this is boring, isn’t it.  I’ll stop.  Anyway, my book should hit the shelves sometime next month.

(I’m also posting this to the blog I set up for Unbelievable, so forgive me people who will be seeing this twice.)