Nazi Drag Queens

            On Friday morning I worked out the chords for the first verse and the chorus of “Nazi Rock" by Serge Gainsbourg. I guess the reason he is parodying Nazis by dressing them up in drag in this song is because the Nazis shut down the drag bars in Paris when they occupied France.

            I read some more of the executive report on the class action suit against Indigenous day schools.

            I tidied up in the kitchen and in the bedroom I cleaned a chessboard that’s on the upper shelf. I don’t know why since no one will see it, but it bugged me when I saw how dirty it was.

            I had a can of chickpeas with flax seed oil and garlic for lunch.

            In the afternoon I did my exercises while listening to Amos and Andy. This was the US Thanksgiving episode for the fall of 1949. The story begins a year before that when Kingfish had been having dinner at the home of Sapphire’s mother and he invited the 22 people there to his house for Thanksgiving the following year. When Sapphire reminds Kingfish of his promise he tries to get out of it because he has no money but Sapphire insists that he find a way to get a turkey and everything else they need to provide a dinner for her family. Later while walking with Andy they see a package fall from a Thomson Market truck. Inside they find a golden brown, apparently already cooked turkey. Kingfish asks Andy to keep it in his fridge because the electricity has been cut off in his home. Meanwhile Kingfish is plagued by his conscience that he should return the bird to Thomson’s Market. Kingfish resists his conscience but finally decides that maybe he could pay the market for the turkey. He invites Andy for Thanksgiving dinner and says he will only charge him $15. Andy says he’s broke and so Kingfish tells him to forget about dinner and just deliver the turkey to him via the back door on Thanksgiving Day. When Andy arrives he informs Kingfish that the turkey that fell of the truck was really just a plastic model that Thomson Market had planned to display in their window.

            There’s Lifebuoy Soap commercial at the end of every Amos and Andy episode. They famously used the expression “B.O!” accompanied by the sound of a foghorn. The announcer says scientists have found thirteen locations of BO on the body but the locations are not named.

            I finished reading the pdf of the executive report on the class action suit against Indian Day Schools. There’s a lot of useful historical information I’ve copied down. I downloaded volume one of the class action document and skimmed through almost half of it. It seems that volume two has most of the same information but in more detail.

            I marinated three small boneless pork chops in the orange chipotle sauce that I got from the food bank. I baked them in the sauce in the oven for an hour and had one of them for dinner with a potato and some gravy while watching Zorro.

            In this story there is a drought going on in Southern California. A poor orchard farmer named Miguel Roverto steals water for his trees from wealthy rancher Don Hilario. Before Miguel can get away Hilario’s two ranch hands catch up with him and dump the water. Hilario normally lets farmers use his water but because of the drought he has been forced to save his herd of cattle by selling half of them for half of their value. Hilario and his men later shoot at Miguel when they see him with a wagon full of barrels on the King’s Highway. The barrels turn out to be empty. Later Miguel’s home is burned down. Miguel tells Hilario that if he’d had one barrel of water he could have put out the fire. He also tells him that he hopes someday he sees his place burn without having the power to stop it. That night Hilario’s place does burn and Hilario is found dead with Miguel’s musket nearby. Miguel is arrested but escapes. Zorro catches up with him and he explains that Hilario’s cowhands had taken his musket from him that day on the King’s Highway. Zorro realizes that it was the cowhands that killed Hilario. Zorro and Miguel go to confront them but Zorro gets there first, catching them about to get away with Hilario’s money. The two men aim to kill Zorro and win the reward. They disarm him in the stable and he escapes in the loft. They are closing in on him when Miguel intervenes with a pistol. Together they defeat the cowboys and suddenly it begins to rain.

            Miguel was played by Robert Vaughn, who later of course became the star of “The Man From U.N.C.L.E”.