Jeanette Nolan

            On Tuesday around midday I finished washing and scrubbing the section of my kitchen floor between the table and the filing cabinet. Next I will probably throw out the stacked dryer that’s above the cabinet but first I’ll plug it in to see if it’s still making the horrible banging noise when the barrel is spinning. I haven’t used it for ten years because of that. If it’s still noisy I’ll put it outside on Thursday and there will suddenly be a lot more room in my place.

            I had a can of tuna and some yogourt for lunch.

            In the afternoon I did my exercises while listening to Amos and Andy. This show was similar to a previous episode. Kingfish, Sapphire and her mother inherit $500 and the women agree to let Kingfish invest it in a business with Andy. They decide on a coat check concession in the Silver Slipper night club. One night while Andy is taking a supper break Kingfish is approached by an attractive woman who wants her full length mink coat but has lost her ticket. Kingfish tells her she can’t get the coat without a ticket but she flirts it out of him. Of course it’s not her coat and so he and Andy are in trouble when the husband of the coat owner comes to get it. Kingfish assures him they will have the coat back by the next day. They can’t tell the police that they gave the coat away and so they pretend that the woman knocked Andy out with a blackjack and took the coat. The cops find the coat in a pawn shop but now Sapphire and her mother don’t trust Kingfish and Andy to run the concession and so they take over. One night a man comes and asks for a coat but does not have the ticket and so Ramona knocks him out with a lead pipe. It turns out that he is the owner of the club.

            I took a bike ride. Just past Spadina on Bloor I passed a big guy with sweat pants hanging down and showing the top three centimetres of his hairy butt crack. I rode to Yonge and south to Queen. There was a guy who seemed drunk riding his bike erratically and calling out to people as he rode along. He told a guy that he looked gorgeous today and a woman that her tattoos were beautiful art. I passed him several times but he went through red lights with very little caution and kept getting ahead.

            I posted some photos of my daughter Astrid from the summer of 1993 on Facebook but just made the album for Friends only because she’s only wearing a diaper.

            I started listening to the song “Personne” and my translation “Person” from my song practice videos to see which are the best versions. I covered the first five days.

            I felt it was too hot to use the stove too much but I did put the last piece of chicken in the oven for a while because it had been undercooked. I had it with chips and salsa while watching the first episode of The Rebel. It was only partially downloaded and so I found a full version on YouTube.

            In this story Johnny Yuma returns to his home town of Mason City, Texas a year after the end of the Civil War. He finds that his town and the local mining industry has been taken over by a crime boss named Del Pierce and his men. He goes to the sheriff's office to find the deputy, his cousin Jess drunk and to learn that his father the sheriff was killed by these criminals. Johnny is recognizable as a former Confederate soldier because he still wears the cap from his uniform. Pierce’s man Bart immediately tries to bully the former rebel and winds up dunked in a horse trough. After this he holds a grudge against Johnny and means to kill him. Pierce however says he can only kill Johnny when he says so but meanwhile he is welcome to taunt him as much as he wants, and he does. The local newspaperman Elmer Dodson had been an inspiration to Johnny and made him want to be a writer. But Pierce has smashed his printing press and he has lost hope. Johnny’s Aunt Emmy challenges Johnny's feelings about his father and points out all of the times he ran away, including when he joined the war. As the whole town is afraid to face Pierce and his men, Johnny goes to a storage room and walks out with a piece of dynamite with the fuse already lit. He walks calmly across the street as the fuse burns down and when it is almost done he tosses it into the saloon where Pierce and his men have their headquarters. The men come out firing and Johnny takes them out with the help of Jess and his father's sawed off shotgun. Johnny is now going to travel and write about his experiences. He will send what he writes to Elmer, who will print the accounts in his newspaper.

            Johnny was played by Nick Adams who was a nominated for an Oscar for his role in "The Charge is Murder". He was also a good friend of James Dean and when he died he began behaving erratically, getting arrested for speeding nine times. He became good friends with Elvis Presley starting from when he worked with him on the film, "Love Me Tender". He died of a drug overdose.

            Emmy was played by Jeanette Nolan who started in radio in 1932 and continued acting for the next sixty six years. Her first film was as Lady Mac Beth in the Orson Wells movie of 1948. Her last film was The Horse Whisperer. She appeared in over three hundred TV shows.