"For the best illustration of what kind of community this stay-at-home mom built around herself, both in L.A. and across the globe, just click this link. The people you'll find there, like her friends, didn't necessarily agree with her politics, don't necessarily appreciate her Silver Lake milieu, and probably thought she went too far when criticizing people (Cathy had an enormous talent for tiptoeing up to the line of polite-society mores, then vaulting across it with a cackle). But they enjoyed her careful and funny prose, straight-talking pluck, and the way she comported herself under the most trying circumstances."

See the L.A. Times obituary and Luke Ford's first reaction.

Kate describes her very well on Fishbowl L.A.: "She was kind and cranky, silly and profound."

and e-mails:

"And also in keeping with the Seipp spirit, Cathy's Technorati ranking is #2. Ray and I think that a true memorial to her love of and distain for pop culture would be to make her # 1.

If Cathy's #2, the terrorists win.".

More later... All I can say for now is that Cathy is incredible. She may be dead, since that's the word we use, and free from her physical burden, but I don't feel that she's gone. We're still in touch and she'll manifest herself, you can count on that! As her friend Sandra said so well about Cathy's friends, after telling wonderful, comforting things to Maia the other night: "Our relationship with Cathy will go on all our lives."