I continued trying to memorize the final monologue in Zizi Jeanmaire’s performance of “Les millionaires” by Serge Gainsbourg. I might have it done in a couple of days.
I weighed 89.05 kilos before breakfast.
I played my Gibson Les Paul Studio during song practice and it went out of tune on almost every song. I think it’s because the action is too low.
Around midday I applied Proofide to the top and underside of my Brooks leather seat on my Surly bike. After a few hours I buffed the top. I might have time to do the Brooks seat on my Raleigh on Sunday.
I weighed 89.85 kilos before lunch, which is the most I’ve weighed in the early afternoon since January 12.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride but while going up Brock Avenue my tire slipped slightly on a manhole cover and so I decided not to go all the way up to Bloor. I turned right on College, went south on Gladstone and stopped at Freshco. I bought seven bags of red grapes, two packs of blackberries, a pack of raspberries, some bananas, a pack of chicken legs, a sirloin tip roast, a box of spoon sized shredded wheat, and two packs of Full City Dark coffee. I did a price match on the grapes at $4.37 a kilo but the cashier only let me do the match for four bags. She’s nice but she’s a bit of a stickler and so next time I have price matches I’ll avoid her.
I weighed 89.35 kilos at 18:05.
I was caught up in my journal at 19:12.
I recorded from cassette tape to audio interface to Audacity and then copied to my hard drive side one of the finale of my 20,000 Poets Under the League slam hosted by Sahara Spracklin.
I edited my Photos folder, deleting several images and putting others into sub-folders.
I had a potato with gravy and a slice of roast pork with peach chutney while watching season 2, episode 27 of Car 54 Where Are You?
Lucille is turning 40 and feeling old and so Toody wants to get her a present that makes her feel special. The next day he sees Sgt. McBride kissing a beautiful blonde and is surprised because he’s married. Then he finds out that the beautiful blonde is actually Mrs. McBride in a wig and decides that he wants to buy Lucille a wig for her birthday.
He goes to Miss Allison’s wig shop but can’t decide whether to get Lucille a blonde or a brunette wig. She offers to send them both to his house so he can decide overnight and then bring them back tomorrow. That night he has Muldoon model the wigs for him while wearing Lucille’s earrings, necklace and robe. Meanwhile Sylvia Schnauser drags Leo over to Toody’s place because she promised Lucille she’d look in on him while Lucille is visiting her sister for one night (It’s odd that she’d ask her to do that for an overnight trip when she already knows Muldoon will be staying with him). Sylvia opens the door without knocking and when she sees Muldoon from the back in the blonde wig she thinks that Toody is with another woman.
Toody decides on the blonde wig but Miss Allison tells him she needs to know Lucille’s head size. He asks her if she can think of how he can measure Lucille’s head without her knowing and she agrees to meet him later in a restaurant to tell him what she comes up with. Meanwhile Sylvia arranges to meet Lucille in the same restaurant to break it to her that Toody is having an affair. Lucille thinks it’s funny and explains that Francis Muldoon was with Toody and he probably brought a friend over. Lucille goes to call Toody to let him know she’s back and then Sylvia sees a beautiful blonde come in and sit down with Toody at a nearby booth behind a barrier so she can hear but not see them. The woman tells Toody to wait until Lucille is asleep and then wrap this scarf tightly around her. Of course Toody knows she means Lucille’s head but Sylvia concludes it’s a plot to kill Lucille. Toody and Miss Allison leave, then Lucille comes back and Sylvia tells her but of course she doesn’t believe her.
But that night Lucille wakes up to see Toody leaning over her with the scarf in both his hands and she screams and faints. Toody measures her head then calls Miss Allison who agrees to open the store to fit the wig. Meanwhile Lucille comes to and calls Sylvia to tell her she was right. Sylvia forces Leo out of bed and they rush over. Sylvia walks in to see Toody standing with a wig box and thinks Lucille’s head is inside then faints. Then Lucille sees him and faints as well but when she regains consciousness he gives her the wig and says happy birthday. She smiles and that’s the end.
Miss Allison was played by Sandu Scott, who before she entered show business was a champion backstroke swimmer. She won the Miss New York beauty pageant in 1951 but lost her title when it was discovered she hadn’t lived in New York City long enough to qualify. She studied acting with Lee Strasberg but was more of a lounge singer and an impressionist. Her band Sandu Scott and the Scotties released two singles: “Hopscotch” and “Bridle Path”. They performed on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1948. In 1955 she was booked to sing at some Montreal nightclubs owned by Solly Silver who she married in 1956. She lived in Montreal and commuted to New York. In 1959 she hosted the variety show Anything Goes for ABC in New York. She split from Solly around 1960 when he was getting trouble with the Montreal Mafia. She continued to perform in Montreal and was a very popular feature at clubs like the Queen Elizabeth Hotel. On December 20, 1964 she was backed by The Thunderbolts on the Ed Sullivan Show. Lee Greenwood, Felix Caveliere, and Dino Danelli were members of the band. The last two would later form The Rascals. In 1965 she married Marco von Nesselhauf. They settled in Puerto Rico to raise horses.
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