In February, after one of Cathy's radiology treatments, she insisted on inviting me to a Chinese restaurant on Beverly. At dessert time, I urged her to crack open her fortune cookie and read the message: "Many will seek your company as your popularity peaks next month." "Right", she said, rolling her eyes, "at my funerals!" And she plunged back into some "booooooring" urgent Blue Cross paperwork, as the check was taking too long to come. I just had to take a pic of that fortune and check to see if the popularity part (I thought: some kind of internet linky-love fest) would get verified.

It did in a way: "Cathy Seipp" is the most popular search on Technorati. Well..."of course!" Speak of a peak! And as unbelievable as it may seem, Cathy's funeral is happening: tomorrow Friday: 10 a.m. at Mt. Sinai Hollywood Hills, 5950 Forest Lawn Drive, Los Angeles. People ask: can we come? Of course! She'd love it. Instead of flowers, Cathy Seipp had requested that people make donations to the Humane Society, or the Lung Cancer Alliance.

+ National Review Cathy Seipp Symposium with friends Mickey Kaus and Andrew Breitbart and Eugene Volokh.

and friend David Rensin, speaking for me, yet much better:

"We certainly didn’t agree politically, and I think that was true of many in her circle -- a testament to her inclusivity. I'd tease her now and then by (honestly) telling her when I loved a recent piece or post she’d written – even though she was, of course, completely wrong. (Smiley face here.)"
+ Christian @ Cinerati: "I have recently been imagining meeting Cathy after I pass this mortal coil. In my imagination, I find her sitting next a warm fire talking with C.S. Lewis and comparing notes with my mom. He was one of her favorite writers and, not surprisingly, he wrote a book about loss and grief."

+ Rob Long: Our girl, Cathy