On Wednesday morning I almost finished memorizing “Tata Teutonne” (Tata Teutonic) by Serge Gainsbourg but there are so many “tata”s, “teton”s, “teté”s, etc. that it’s hard to tell between them sometimes.
I cleaned one of the upper shelves in the overhead storage area in the bedroom.
I had Breton crackers with cheese for lunch and a sliver of strawberry-rhubarb pie with vanilla yogourt.
In the afternoon I did my exercises while listening to Amos and Andy. This was the Easter 1950 episode and the story begins with Sapphire complaining to Kingfish that she needs an outfit for the Easter parade. They fight over it and Sapphire says she once knew the sweetest man and his name was Slim. She wishes she were married to him. Kingfish talks to Andy and asks him if he was always a bad person. There’s a flashback to when they were eight years old in Georgia and Kingfish was a new kid in town. He meets Andy on the street and asks him if he’s got any marbles. Andy says he has fourteen. Kingfish convinces him that he could get marblephobia from marbles and he should hand them over to him. Andy asks why Kingfish wouldn’t get marblephobia too but Kingfish says that his father inoculated him with a piece of marble cake. Then Kingfish meets little Sapphire and when he finds out her father owns a candy store he thinks she’s the prettiest girl he’s ever seen. He takes all her gumdrops. Back in the present Kingfish decides that he wants Sapphire to be happy and so he’s going to leave her so she can find happiness with Slim. But for one last time he buys her a dress for Easter, flowers and perfume and takes her out on Easter Sunday. It’s the happiest day she’s had in a long time and when Kingfish tells her he’s going to step aside so she can be with Slim she reminds him that Slim used to be her nickname for him and that Slim is back in town.
I saw that coming very early in the story.
I did some reading and made some notes from about fifty pages of the fifth volume of the day schools class action suit documents.
I had a fried egg with a loaf of heated naan and a beer for dinner while watching Zorro.
This story featured the first non-Spanish or Indigenous character in the series. A tough, vulgar but charming and kind mountain man named Joe Crane comes with his mule out of the mountains that divide the United States from Spanish California. On his way to Los Angeles he quickly fixes the wheel of Bernardo’s wagon while lifting it with one hand and then continues on. In Los Angeles he immediately goes to the inn where he orders food and “beaver blood” from the pretty waitress Carlotta. When Sgt Garcia tries to tell Joe that foreigners are not allowed in Los Angeles, Joe makes friends with Garcia by calling him “general" and offering him wine. He talks with Garcia about kissing Carlotta but Garcia advises against it because she is Spanish. Joe argues that women are the same everywhere and says that if a woman kisses a man willingly people will think she’s a hussy but if she is tricked into it then she won’t be blamed. In order to prove it Joe walks up to Carlotta and tells her there is something in his eye. She looks and sees nothing. He tells her to look closer and then kisses her on the cheek. A Spanish gentleman named Don Carlos declares that Joe has insulted a Spanish woman and challenges him to a duel. Joe knocks Carlos across the room. Garcia is forced to arrest Joe but Diego hears Carlos say he plans to kill Joe in his cell. That evening Carlotta brings Joe food and invites him to have dinner with her and her father when he’s released. That night Zorro comes to rescue Joe. He duels with Garcia and cuts his suspenders so he has to stop duelling to hold up his pants. Zorro tells Joe to head back to the mountains but somehow I don’t think that happened, since Carlos and his men were planning on catching up to Joe at the time the episode ended.
Carlos was played by Jonathon Harris who played the nasty Dr Smith on Lost in Space.
Joe Crane was played by Jess York, who starred in the first film version of L’il Abner.
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