Sentenced to the Electric Couch

            On Tuesday morning I memorized the second verse of “La poupée qui fait pipi" (The Poppet that makes Peepee) by Serge Gainsbourg.

            I worked some more transcribing my Indigenous Studies lecture notes.

            I needed milk so I rode down to No Frills where I got a bag of three bags. I also got an almost empty bag of black grapes.

            When I was unlocking my building door the bent over woman that's often panhandling in the area approached me. I apologized and told her I couldn’t help her. She asked me to confirm that it was Tuesday December 3. I notice that she has a beard now. Later I heard her shouting while begging that she was going to kill herself, but she says that fairly often.

            I had oven fries for lunch.

            In the afternoon I did my exercises while listening to Amos and Andy. In this story Sapphire insists that Kingfish takes her on a vacation. The last trip they took was their honeymoon to Niagara Falls where Kingfish got her a job as a chambermaid. Kingfish sells his car to Andy so he can afford to take his wife on a holiday. But then Sapphire tells him that a friend of hers is lending them her cabin in Canada and so all they have to do is drive up there. So now he needs to get Andy to drive them to Canada and goes to see his lawyer Laguardia to find an angle on how to do that. While there he finds out that his lawyer was recently visiting a client at Sing Sing. Kingfish asks if the electric chair is busy these days. Laguardia says they’ve had to put in an electric couch. The advice is to tell Andy's girlfriend that Andy is dying so she'll let him go to Canada and so he tells her that Andy has hereditary hydrophobia. In the end the trip is cancelled because Sapphire’s friend’s daughter has a boyfriend with hereditary hydrophobia and he's going to stay at the cabin to be cured.

            I grilled chicken drumsticks and had two for dinner with a potato and gravy while watching Zorro.

            In this story the two men that were caught stealing the gunpowder are in a cell. The magistrate is worried that they will talk and so he orders Figueroa, one of the corrupt soldiers to let them escape. However, just as they are climbing the wall to get out, Sgt Garcia is climbing the wall to get in. He captures them. But later they die of poisoning in their cell. Meanwhile the commandant, Captain Toledano is examining the eagle feathers found on the two men, and like Zorro he is figuring out that they are coded messages. The Magistrate wants to figure out how to get rid of the captain. Zorro sneaks into Toledano’s quarters and binds and gags him so he can tell him about the Brotherhood of the Eagle Feather. There is a knock on the door and when Zorro hears it’s Figueroa he lets him in. Figueroa has wine for the captain but Zorro pokes him with his sword and tells him to drink it. Figueroa refuses and breaks the glass. Just then the other soldiers arrive and Zorro escapes. Figueroa also gets away and when Garcia unties Toledano he tells him to forget about Zorro and go after Figueroa. Figueroa tries to ride away but Zorro captures him out in the desert.  The magistrate organizes a meeting of dons, including Don Alejandro, who is Zorro’s father. In it he tries to claim that Toledano is the leader of the organization that is trying to take over Los Angeles. Just then Zorro arrives with Figueroa, who exposes the magistrate. The magistrate shoots Figueroa. There is a sword fight between Don Alejandro and the magistrate while Toledaro and Zorro take on several of the magistrate’s men. The fake blind beggar tries to stab Don Alejandro in the back but they rotate suddenly while fighting and the magistrate is killed. Toledano’s sword breaks but Zorro tosses him his sword. At the end when all the bad guys are dead Zorro asks for his sword back. Toledano hesitates but smiles and returns it.