On Sunday morning I'd finished memorizing
two-thirds of "On n'est pas là pour se faire engueuler” (We Didn't Come
Here to be Shouted At) by Boris Vian. I also committed to memory the first two
verses and the bridge of “Eva” by Serge Gainsbourg. I made some changes to Eva
after realizing there were some internal rhymes that I hadn’t noticed before.
It’s actually a pretty interesting song, since it’s from the point of view of
Hitler about his bedroom problems with his girlfriend, Eva Braun.
I
had the rest of my whole grain crackers with three-year-old cheddar for lunch.
I
copied the text of the instructions for the Indigenous Studies media
presentation and reflection and it seems that one is just an oral version of
the other. That’s good because I didn’t fancy writing two papers. I plan on
looking at the difference between the elected chiefs and the hereditary chiefs
and comparing a Macleans Magazine article with one by APTN. They don’t actually
seem that different.
In
the afternoon I did my exercises while listening to Amos and Andy. In this
story Kingfish mistakenly gets sent a draft notice meant for another and much
younger George Stevens. Kingfish calls the draft board and tells them they made
a mistake but they insist they don’t make mistakes. Kingfish neglects to tell
them that he’s too old. He tries to get out of it by having an unlicensed
doctor write up an exaggerated report on his physical condition but he neglects
to inform the doctor that it’s for the draft board. The doctor thought it was
for insurance and so he wrote that Kingfish is in peak physical condition.
Kingfish tries to trick Andy into going in his place but that doesn’t work.
Finally Amos offers Kingfish a solution. Kingfish goes home to tell Sapphire
that he’s figured out how to avoid the draft but when he gets there Sapphire
tells him that the draft board called and admitted they’d made a mistake. This
is not good news for Kingfish because he had taken Amos’s advice and enlisted
in the army for four years.
I copied bits of information from
two MacLean’s articles and an APTN article on Wet’suwet’en. I was pleasantly
surprised that the APTN report seemed more balanced and showed both the side of
the hereditary chiefs and the elected chiefs. One chief that supports the
pipeline claimed that Native people on the streets of Vancouver are being
offered money to protest because most of the protestors on the ground are
white. APTN couldn’t find any evidence that his claim was true.
I had two smoked chicken wieners
between two halves of a piece of toast with cheese and a beer while watching
last week’s episode of Doctor Who.
Spoiler alert!
This story begins in a medieval
mental hospital in Syria where a patient named Tahira warns the staff that
monsters are coming that night. She is told there are no monsters but they do
come and kill everyone but her. Meanwhile the Doctor drops off her friends in
Sheffield where they reconnect with friends and family. She responds to the
signal from 14th Century Syria where she meets Tahira and encounters
one of the creatures. Meanwhile back in Sheffield Yasmin and Ryan are having
similar nightmares about a sinister looking old bald man. In Ryan’s dream the
end parts from knuckle to tip of the creepy man’s fingers detach and one of
them goes flying into his friend Tibo’s ear. The man and Tibo vanish. Graham
has visions of a trapped woman calling him for help. The Doctor’s companions
all call her. She takes Tahira with her and picks them up. She puts a
telepathic helmet on Graham so the Tardis can pick up the location of the woman
in distress from his vision. They arrive on a spaceship orbiting two planets en
route to collision. They are being held apart by a sphere in which is a prison
containing the woman in distress. The Doctor figures how to release the woman
but then the old man from the nightmares appears. He is an evil god named
Zellin who has tricked the Doctor into releasing his lover Rakaya. They feed on
the nightmares of humans. They imprison the Doctor and her friends and head for
Earth to feast on the fear of the population. The Doctor frees herself and her
companions. They confront the immortals on Earth. Tahira has learned to control
the monsters from her nightmares and they attack the evil gods. The Doctor puts
them both in the prison between planets with the monsters.
The Doctor says they are going to
see Frankenstein. I assume they are about to visit Mary Shelley, who already
knows the Doctor.
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