I continued memorizing the second five lines of the first monologue in Zizi Jeanmaire’s performance of “Les millionaires” by Serge Gainsbourg.
I weighed 88 kilos before breakfast, which is the lightest I’ve been in the morning since December 24.
I played my Martin acoustic during song practice for the third of four sessions and it went out of tune a few times.
Around midday I picked up a prescription at Vina and then rode to No Frills where I bought three bags of green grapes, three bags of cherries, two packs of raspberries, some bananas, a bag of potatoes, a boneless pork loin roast, mouthwash, three bags of skim milk, saltines, pickling vinegar, a jug of iced tea, a container of skyr, and a bag of Miss Vickie’s chips.
I weighed 88.7 kilos at 14:40. I had Sky Flakes with peanut butter, five-year-old cheddar, and a glass of iced tea.
I weighed 89 kilos at 17:20.
I was caught up in my journal at 18:28.
I finally found the right line-out plugs in the back of my stereo amp and was able to record from a cassette to Audacity through my audio interface. It was distorted at first because the gain was too high but I think it’s okay now and tomorrow I’ll try to start digitizing a complete cassette.
I reviewed the videos of my song practice performances of “Le moribond” and “When They Put Me in that Hole” from September 19, 2024 to September 30, 2024. From September 19 to 24, and on September 29 the camera battery charge ran out before either of these songs. On September 25 and 27 the camera battery charge ran out during “Le moribond”. On September 26 and 28 I played “When They Put Me in that Hole” on my Martin Road Series. On September 26
the take at 9:15 in part B was okay and on September 28 the take at 57:30 was not bad. On September 30 I played it on my Gibson Les Paul Studio and the take at 18:00 in part B didn’t sound bad.
I made pizza on my last naan with marinara sauce, tomato pesto, pepperoni, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a Creemore while watching season 2, episode 15 of Car 54 Where Are You?
The 53rd Precinct’s Brotherhood Club is having its annual Mardis gras and the men have selected Muldoon to be king because Captain Block’s wife wants Muldoon to ask her niece Betty Lou to be his queen. But Muldoon is too shy to ask her because he doesn’t think he is attractive.
His colleagues decide they need to boost his confidence. Schnauser says Officer Darleen Duffy (aka “the blonde bombshell”) owes him a favour because he saved her life once. He gets her to temporarily transfer to the 53rd so she can pretend to throw herself at Muldoon. She seems disturbingly disgusted by the whole thing after she walks away but it helps Muldoon think he’s not so ugly after all.
Then a photographer comes and tells Muldoon he’s been selected by the commissioner for the police recruiting poster. After the picture is taken Muldoon walks away feeling a lot more confident. The photographer is also insulting behind Muldoon’s back.
Schnauser and McBride find Muldoon shaving and pretend to argue over whether or not Muldoon looks like David Niven then Schnauser agrees he does. Muldoon decides to grow a moustache and it pushes his self assurance over the top.
Later Muldoon tells his mother he’s not taking her to the Mardis gras as his queen after all. She doesn’t mind as long as he’s with a nice girl. She tells him he was a beautiful baby and that he was named after Francis X. Bushman, the silent film star.
Muldoon talks on the phone to the neighbour’s daughter Rhoda Duggan who normally finds Muldoon boring but now he’s so confident she finds him exciting, thinks he sounds good looking, and agrees to go on a date with him. At the Candlelight Lounge Rhoda is captivated by him but then he sees a woman making eyes at him from the bar and he goes over to flirt with her until he notices another woman on his other side who is also putty in his hands. Then the lounge violinist falls for him and they drive to lovers lane together where he steals another woman from a man in the next convertible.
Muldoon arrives at work the next day and there is a constant flow of women on the phone calling for Muldoon. Betty Lou is there but Muldoon finds her too plain for him even though she thinks he’s the most fascinating man she’s ever met. So building his confidence enough to get him to ask Betty Lou to be his queen has made him too confident to want to. Now even Darleen Duffy wants to be with Muldoon.
McBride comments that they’ve created a Frankenstein, which is quite prophetic considering that he’ll eventually be Herman Munster.
The guys now feel they have to take Muldoon’s confidence away again so they remind him of his horse face, that Darleen was faking fascination and that the photographer didn’t even have film in his camera. Within minutes Muldoon is back to his shy self. He tries to connect with all the girls that had just been all over him but now they won’t give him the time of day. Even Betty Lou is not interested. He has to take his mother to the Mardis gras. It’s kind of a sad ending.
Betty Lou was played by Katherine Helmond in her TV debut. She became a TV star in the 1970s but this was her only TV performance in the 60s. She appeared in school plays and while in high school got a job at a local theatre building sets, raising and lowering curtains, sewing costumes, and cleaning up. She made her stage debut in As You Like It. She worked in New York theatres in the 50s and 60s. Her film debut was in Believe in Me in 1971. She was nominated for a Tony for The Great God Brown in 1973. She co-starred in Lady in White, Time Bandits, Brazil, and Overboard. She starred in the sitcom Soap for which she was nominated for four Emmys. She co-starred in Who’s the Boss? (of which she directed some episodes). She directed four episodes of Benson. She appeared in 11 episodes of Coach and 14 episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond. Her partner David Christian was 19 and she was 33. They were together 7 years before they married and their partnership lasted 57 years until she died.
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