I weighed 88.95 kilos before breakfast, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the morning since last Monday though not quite as much.
I played my Gibson Les Paul Studio during song practice and it stayed in tune about half the time.
Around midday I went over to Made You Look with a piece of the big amethyst rock that I broke apart a few years ago. I wanted to see if they could polish it before I send it to my daughter for her birthday. The gemmologist wasn’t there so I left the amethyst for them to look at when they return. They got back to me later by email to tell me that it’s already the colour it grew as and so polishing wouldn’t enhance that. They cleaned it free of charge and I’ll pick it up tomorrow. That store is enormous now. I went in there more than twenty years ago with my daughter because she’d gotten the ring from a Lord of the Rings board game stuck on her finger and they were able to cut the ring off. Back then there was a counter about five meters from the door and the area leading to it was the whole store. Now the store stretches back to the end of the building with more than one room.
I weighed 89.95 kilos before lunch. May 3 was the last early afternoon when I pushed the scale that far.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride and stopped at Long and McQuade to buy a stereo splitter so I can record in stereo with my audio interface. I’ve been only getting the left channel.
I stopped at Freshco to look for grapes but they were all too soft so I just went home.
I weighed 89.95 kilos at 18:05. Not quite as much as the evening of May 3.
I was caught up in my journal at 19:30.
I tried recording with the new stereo breakout in my audio interface but I still only got the left channel. I didn’t have a lot of time to try to find a solution.
My upstairs neighbour David called to ask if I’d help him do the census online. It wasn’t that difficult. I’m almost exactly ten years older than David.
I had a potato with gravy and my last piece of pork tenderloin while watching season 6, episode 8 of The Carol Burnett Show.
In the first skit Carol does a parody of the comic strip character Mary Worth. Mary Worthless helps people in trouble whether they like it or not. A couple played by Harvey and Vicki have been ecstatically happy for five years with not a single argument until Mary comes to serve as their maid for a dinner with his boss as guest. Vicki has already set the table but Mary says she’ll, “Clear these dirty dishes”. She sees they’ve made martinis and refers to Harvey’s “drinking problem”. Mary says Harvey thinks Vicki is too stupid to cope with it. She also says he’s cheating on her and their marriage doesn’t have a chance. This set Vicki off to be suspicious of her husband. Then Mary implies it’s Vicki who’s cheating. The couple begins to argue for the first time. Harvey thinks Vicki is having an affair with his boss who she’s never met. When his boss arrives he punches him. Then Harvey kills himself by jumping out the window.
Peggy Lee sings the 1970 composition “A Song for You” by Leon Russell.
Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara do one of their comedy routines. Jerry tells the audience that although Anne comes across on stage as loud and overbearing, at home she’s a normal housewife who cooks and cleans. Anne says that’s a lie and that she hates cooking and cleaning. As President Richard Nixon had recently visited China, Stiller and Meara do a skit as if they are Mr. and Mrs. Chou en Lai discussing the visit after the Nixons leave. They stole towels and ashtrays from the hotel and left graffiti on the great wall. Mrs. Lai at first thought that Barbara Walters was Mrs. Nixon because they all look alike.
Carol and Peggy sing a song about how women like to gossip. “Girl Talk” by Neal Hefty and Bobby Troup was written for the 1965 film Harlow.
In "As the Stomach Turns", the circus is in town and Marian is visiting the owner, her old friend Madame Tanbark the bearded lady (played by Anne Meara). She says someone is trying to sabotage the circus. She says the frog legged woman committed suicide by covering herself in garlic sauce and walking into a French restaurant. Marian asks if it was Pierre’s last Thursday and Tanbark says yes. By the expression on Marian’s face we know that she ate the frog legged woman. She says she didn’t recognize her under all that parsley. Hugo the strongman comes and Marian gives him a body search in case he’s a saboteur. Vicki plays Harry Harriet the half man-half woman. It’s an abusive relationship. Harvey plays Gregory the lion tamer who has lost his nerve. Marian reminds him that lion taming is in his blood as his father was the greatest of all time. She asks how he lost his nerve. He says it happened when he opened up the lion’s mouth and his father was inside.
They try to demonstrate the difference between men and women by showing their reactions to being in the exact same kind of car accident. The men get into a fight but each woman says that it was her fault. They leave the wreckage where it is and go for lunch together.
Carol and Harvey play a wealthy couple of high breeding who are preparing for the wedding of their son. Their guest list has only Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, and the Onassis family. But then they meet their future daughter in law’s parents (played by Stiller and Meara) and see to their horror that they are working class. Anne wants her martini to be three parts gin and three parts Kool Aid. Then the young couple arrive to announce to both sets of parents’ horror that they want to have their wedding on the street in Greenwich Village. The wedding begins with a song and dance of the song “The Rhythm of Life” from the 1966 musical Sweet Charity. Peggy Lee, clad all in red plays a hippy high priestess as she officiates over the wedding.
Peggy Lee sang before she could talk. She was raised by an abusive stepmother and wrote about the experience in her song “One Beating a Day”. She sang it during her Broadway debut in the 1983 musical Peg. In her teens she started singing on the radio. She developed her sultry purr in 1940 while singing in nightclubs. Rather than trying sing above the noise she sang softly below it and was able to get through. She became the singer for Benny Goodman’s big band. In 1942 she had her first top ten hit with “Somebody Else is Taking My Place”. She and Goodman had a hit with “Why Don’t You Do Right?” She had a hit in 1947 with “Golden Earrings”. She co-wrote “Manana” in 1948 and it was a #1 hit. In her solo career she had even bigger hits with “Fever” (she added lyrics to the song that are now standard but never copyrighted them), “Big Spender” and “Is That All There is?” (for which she won a Grammy in 1969). She co-starred in The Jazz Singer (1952), She was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in Pete Kelly’s Blues in 1955. She wrote the lyrics for “Johnny Guitar” in 1954. She wrote songs for the 1955 animated film Lady and the Tramp, for which she also voiced four characters. Her 1989 album Peggy Sings the Blues was nominated for a Grammy. She co-wrote more than 270 songs. Duke Ellington called her “The Queen”. The drink the Margarita was created in her honour. She was the inspiration for the Muppet Miss Piggy.
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