On Monday I spent most of the day writing.
In
the late afternoon I took a bike ride. As I rode up Brock there were a lot of
cop cars with sirens flashing and the fact that they were turning east on
different streets suggested that they were trying to surround somebody. On
Croatia, just south of Bloor there was a muscular man wearing a white tank
shirt, on his knees with his hands cuffed behind him. He was calling out in a
loud, clear voice, “Guys! Guys! Please! I am not resisting arrest! My name is
…” I think he said it was Brian something. “Call my mother …” He gave her name and
number and the last name was “Sousa” which would indicate that the guy was of
Portuguese descent. “I should not be arrested!” At first I thought he was
talking to the cops but I think he was very sensibly calling out to any
witnesses to make his situation clear and in the hopes that someone would call
his mother.
There
were a many more cyclists out on Victoria Day than there were the day before
and a lot of people were just walking on Bloor Street, despite the fact that
only restaurants and bars were open but no stores for shopping.
I
rode to Bexhill Avenue and Dawes Road. On the way back I stopped at the
friendly Starbucks to pee. There were two sets of cops in there buying fancy
drinks.
I
had expected a bike ride on Victoria Day to be quiet, but traffic-wise it was
actually quite a loud and hectic day. There were also a shitload of motorcycles
roaring around either individually or in packs and I wondered if there was some
special biker event going on in the city that day, but I couldn’t find anything
listed online. Maybe Victoria Day weekend is a traditional time for people to
start riding their motorcycles again.
That
night I watched the 7th and 8th episodes of The Many
Loves of Dobie Gillis.
At
the beginning of the 7th episode Maynard showed up. Dobie asked how
he could be there since he was supposed to be in the army. “They called it a
hardship discharge.” “Whose hardship?” “The army’s.”
Dobie
is in love with a new girl named Pearl Arnold. Maynard is knocked over by her
in the park and then when he looks up at her, in a breach of character, his
heart his heart is knocked over and he falls in love with Pearl too. He tells
Dobie he’s in love but doesn’t know what to do. Not realizing that Pearl is the
object of Maynard’s affections he offers to help him win her. After finding out
Maynard is in love with his girl, Dobie remembers his promise and decides to do
the noble thing and break up with Pearl for Maynard. But Pearl sees what Dobie
is doing and likes him all the more for it. Dobie starts trying to convince
Pearl what a great guy Maynard is while Maynard argues how much better Dobie
is. Pearl gets up to dance with someone else, explaining, “You fellas don’t
need me! You’ve got each other!”
The
very pretty actor that played Pearl was Diane Jergens, who’s been married to
singer songwriter Randy Sparks since 1962. She retired from acting at the time
of her wedding. Sparks founded The New Christie Minstrels and wrote both
“Today” and “Green Green”.
The
8th episode was about Dobie and Maynard stealing a goat that was the
mascot for a rival high school football team that always beats Dobie’s school,
Central High. The idea was that the goat was good luck. The goatnapping was a
success and all the girls were impressed with Dobie’s ingenuity, but the day of
the game the other team was so mad that they beat Central even worse than
before. All the girls were suddenly mad at Dobie.
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