On Saturday Nancy brought our daughter to my place so she could spend the weekend with me.
Monday, 27 July 2026
Sunday, 26 July 2026
Steve Martin
I converted my audio for “Shylock” by Serge Gainsbourg to AVI and imported it to Movie Maker where I just cut it down to the words “vieux brigand” or whatever is being said. I uploaded it to several transcription sites but they all wanted money. I downloaded Whisprflow but it turned out not to do French for some stupid reason. I found a site that did it for free but it was way off. Finally I just decided that what Petula Clark is singing must be “vieux brigaut” which means “old pirate”. So I’ll go with that.
I weighed 89.75 kilos before breakfast.
I played my Martin during song practice for the last of four sessions.
My stereo was dropping a channel again sometimes but only when the Input knob was switched to CD. The CD plugs in the back of my stereo are what I use to connect the audio from my computer. I decided to try to plug the jacks into Phono and I got both channels but it was distorted so I switched back to CD. Suddenly I had two channels and it didn’t drop out so I must have just had the jacks not fully fitted into the plugs.
I cleaned the glass of my future bathroom mirror and secured it back in the frame with the metal wedges I’d removed last week. While struggling with that I smudged the glass again so I’ll clean it again on Sunday and hopefully finally mount it in the bathroom.
I weighed 91.25 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and on the way the way up Brock Avenue I found a two-volume set of a hard cover French-English dictionary called Harrap’s, so I took them. Apparently it’s a well respected dictionary that focuses more on historical context than my Collins-Robert dictionary, which is what I like. It’s the 1972 edition and in excellent condition.
On the way back I stopped at Freshco where I bought five bags of red grapes, a pack of Mexican raspberries, some bananas, a loaf of Rudolph’s sandwich bread, a pack of Canadian ground beef, honey, a pack of Full City Dark coffee, a jar of salsa, and some petroleum jelly.
I weighed 90.8 kilos at 18:45.
I had a container of honey that still had some in the bottom but not enough to pour. I usually add milk to it and shake it then use the last of it on my cereal. I was about to do that and then put it in the fridge overnight but noticed there were some ants crawling on the inside of the cap and a lot of dead ants in the honey at the bottom, so I threw it out.
I worked on getting caught up in my journal but was still behind at suppertime.
I had a potato with gravy and two chicken drumsticks while watching season 11, episode 21 of The Carol Burnett Show.
In the As The Stomach Turns sketch, Marian (played by Carol) is necking with the chief of police to thank him for his search for her missing daughter. Later the doorbell rings and it’s Donna Davenport (played by Betty White) Canoga Falls leading interior decorator whose work is known in every bedroom in town. She says “The secret to an exciting bed lies in the sheets!” She tells Marian that she heard about her missing daughter and rushed over to tell her that now is the perfect time to turn her room into an upstairs den. Donna asks if she likes what she did to her bedroom and Marian says putting in a tollgate was the perfect choice. She asks if her round bed is good to sleep on but Marian says she wouldn’t know. The doorbell rings and it’s lineman from the county Richard Dryface (a parody of Richard Dreyfuss played by Steve Martin) who comes in looking extremely agitated. He informs Marian that her daughter was abducted by aliens and taken aboard a spacecraft from another world. Marian says angrily, “I told her never to accept rides from strangers!” He wants to show her the shape he saw in a vision of the place where the aliens will land. He goes out to her garden and breaks her window then throws several plants inside onto her table. He goes to her kitchen and brings a big container of mashed potatoes, which he empties with the plants onto the table. He puts eggs on top of the mashed potatoes for landing lights. He smashes the eggs with a tennis racket and then dumps a bag of flour on top of that. He asks if she has a spare cat. She slaps his face and he says, “Well excuuuse me!” He covers everything with a table cloth and puts a pillow on top then declares, “That’s the shape!”. Marian says it looks like her new bed upstairs. Then the house shakes and lights flash. Marian’s daughter (played by Vicki) descends the stairs with a baby and says they’ve brought her back. She says the baby is named Otmore Om Junior. He has antennae and his father’s eye. The alien (played by Tim) descends the stairs. He is silver with a very large head and long fingers. Richard tries to communicate with sign language. The alien pokes him in the eyes with two fingers. He then does a few other hand moves out of Three Stooges type sketches that result in Richard getting hit a lot. The alien wants someone to go with him and they all argue over who gets to go.
Steve Martin does a stand-up routine. He says in order to be a success in television you have to appeal to everyone. But he says there’s one group he hasn’t been appealing to and that’s dogs. A lot of dogs watch TV and he’s worked up a comedy act for dogs. He says he tried his act on some neighbourhood dogs and they were on the floor. “So if you have a dog call them over and let them sit in front of the TV screen because I think you’re gonna see them crack up for the first time. I’ll wait for just a second while you call your dog over.” He has four dogs sitting in front of him for his performance. After two bad jokes two of the dogs walk off stage. The dogs start being affectionate with him and each other. He asks one dog what time he has to be home and then says, “Maybe he can’t tell me because I have his watch!” He plays a tune on the dog whistle that only they can hear. The two dogs wrestle with each other and knock Steve down.
Tim plays an elderly man named Mr. Purdy who is wheeled by a nurse to sit alone on a park bench. Carol plays a nearly toothless old lady who sits beside him to feed the pigeons. She tells Purdy to pretend he doesn’t notice her. She says, “We’re bustin out of here tonight. Are you with us?” He calls for his nurse but Carol tells him to keep it down if he doesn’t want the screw in the tower to hear them. “We ain’t got much time out here in the yard”. She tells him to put his newspaper down between them and she slips something inside. It’s a spoon she says she made out of a knife. She says hello to the warden although there is nobody there. She tells Purdy the warden wants to know what he has in the newspaper. She says he just has his watch and so Tim takes off his watch and she shows it to the invisible warden. She says the warden says he’s not supposed to have a watch and so she’s supposed to keep it for him. She puts something else in his paper and this time it’s a bar of soap she says she made out of a gun. She says the warden’s come back and wants to know what he has in the paper. She tells him it’s his ring, so Tim puts his ring in. She says the warden says he can’t have a ring, so she’s gonna hold onto it. She tells the warden he also has his wallet in the paper. Purdy says he’s not going to go for it this time. He calls for a policeman but after relating everything that just happened, the cop takes Purdy away.
Next is a Family sketch that begins with Eunice’s sister Ellen (played by Betty) in her home, all dressed up and preparing for a party. The doorbell rings and it’s Eunice and Mama. Mama says, “Happy anniversary!” and Ellen invites them in but only pretending to be glad to see them. Eunice tells Mama that evidently there’s a party that they weren’t invited to so maybe they should just creep back to their humble part of town. Ellen says they can have a brief visit before her guests arrive. Mama gives Ellen a present and Eunice says it’s from both of them. Ellen opens it and it’s some cheap cologne they got at a two-for one sale. Ellen takes a sniff saying it’s wonderful but barely hides her disgust. Mama says it’s just a remembrance of her anniversary and she’s just pleased one of her daughters could keep a marriage together. Mama wants to see her two granddaughters and Ellen says they’re upstairs doing their homework. She asks her not to stay too long because they have a lot of work to do. Mama asks Ellen if she’s afraid she’s gonna kidnap them and sell them to the circus. When Eunice and Ellen are alone Eunice argues that Ellen’s daughters lives would be enriched if they spent more time with their grandmother. Ellen says, “Then you’re very lucky Eunice that your little boys have her right in the same house.” Eunice says, “Well I don’t wanna be selfish about it. It might be nice if we shared Mama for a while. You live in this big house while I live in a little cracker box on the wrong side of the tracks, as you once described it. As you know, Ed left me and I am trying to rebuild my own life and that old lady is driving me right up the wall and I think it’s only fair that you take her for a while.” Carol tries to ad lib a bit about the differences between her and Mama and gets confused, which makes Betty smile. Ellen says, “Well like you said, she is fun!” “Give me a breather. Just take her off my hands for a little bit!” Ellen says her husband breaks out in hives at the mention of Mama. “Do you remember how she behaved at our wedding? Asking Bruce’s mother how much she weighed!” “It is not fair! You have got to take her!” “I’d sooner take gas!” “If you don’t take her off my hands I’m gonna put her out on the streets!” “I have suffered enough on that account!” “She has always hated me and loved you the best!” Mama is no listening from the stairs as Ellen says, “If your were dumb enough to let that dragon move in with you, you can stew in your own juice…” Then they notice Mama, who says to Eunice, “I never expected any more from you, but you Ellen, I have given up my entire life for you!” “Oh set it to music Mama! You never gave up anything for anybody in your entire life! Thank the lord I left when I did or I would have turned out like Eunice!” Ellen’s guests arrive and she rushes Mama and Eunice out. Mama tells her, “You were a cold, ungrateful little snip the day you were born and you still are!” Eunice says, “You and that mealy faced priss Bruce you married, you deserve each other!” Mama tells Eunice, “You quit pickin on your sister!” and they leave.
They do a parody of Beach Blanket Bingo with Carol as Nanette Vermicelli, Steve as Frankie Travelon. Vicki in a blonde wig with pigtails is singing and twisting to the theme song on the beach with the dancers. Frankie says he broke up with Diane and he tells them about it by singing “Teenage Madonna” through the microphone he carries in his back pocket. Surfs up and Nanette doesn’t want to let Frankie surf alone in his hour of despair. Vicki warns her that nice guys never marry the girls they surf with. Nanette surfs beside Frankie and he invites her to step onto his board. Then she sings “Surfer Baby” (which sounds similar to “Surfer Girl” by The Beach Boys). Frankie pulls out his microphone to sing the second verse. He tries to kiss her and she slaps his face so they both fall off the board but Nanette saves him and they are both dry when they make it to the beach. Then the leather clad bikers arrive led by Betty as Angel and Tim as Von Schlepper. Schlepper tells the surfers to get off the beach and Frankie stands up to him for a while then backs down. Angel says she likes her men weak. He says he likes his women strong and greasy and they kiss. Schlepper challenges Frankie in a race to Dead Man’s Cove. Frankie is on his surfboard while Schlepper is surfing while standing on his motorbike. Carol, Vicki, and Angel cheer them on with a song. The race is a tie and now nobody hates each other. Frankie asks Nanette to marry him and asks Schlepper, “Do you think we outta get married?” Schlepper says he already promised Angel. Everybody sings, “Surfin Everyday” to the tune of “Surfin USA” by The Beach Boys which is to the tune of “Sweet Little Sixteen” by Chuck Berry.
At the age of 15 Steve Martin got a job at The Magic Shop at Disney’s Fantasyland where he learned magic tricks, juggling, rope tricks, and how to make balloon animals. He started playing banjo at 17. He was a cheerleader in high school where he developed his King Tut dance. At Santa Ana College he studied Drama and English Poetry. He joined a comedy troupe at Knott’s Berry Farm. He studied theatre at UCLA. He toured the college circuit with Martin Mull in The Steve Martin Mull Show. He started writing for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour for which he won an Emmy Award and did his first TV performance on the same show, after which he was depressed for a week. He wrote for 20 episodes of The Glen Campbel Goodtime Hour, 37 episodes of The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, He first appeared on the Tonight Show in 1972 and returned several times each year to do standup. He guest hosted Saturday Night Live in 1976 and another 14 times over the years, plus 12 additional appearances in skits. His first comedy album, the Grammy winning “Let’s Get Small” went platinum in 1977. His “Wild and Crazy Guy” album went gold and also won a Grammy. His Comedy Is Not Pretty album went gold. His first starring film role was in The Absent Minded Waiter in 1977 (which he wrote and which was nominated for a short film Oscar). He co-wrote and starred in The Jerk in 1979. He starred in Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, The Man With Two Brains, All of Me, Pennies from Heaven, Three Amigos (which he co-wrote), Roxanne, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Parenthood, My Blue Heaven, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, L.A. Story (which he wrote), Father of the Bride, Father of the Bride 2, Leap of Faith, A Simple Twist of Fate, The Spanish Prisoner, Housesitter, The Out of Towners, Mixed Nuts, Grand Canyon, Bowfinger (which he wrote), Bringing Down the House, Cheaper by the Dozen, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, Shopgirl (which he wrote), The Pink Panther (which he co-wrote), The Pink Panther 2 (which he co-wrote), Love the Coopers, Sgt Bilko, He co-starred in Little Shop of Horrors, The Big Year, Home, Loonie Tunes Back in Action, Prince of Egypt, baby Mama, It’s Complicated, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, He co-created and stars in Only Murders in the Building on TV. He co-wrote the movie Traitor, He wrote the memoirs Born Standing Up, Number One is Walking, . He wrote the novels An Object of Beauty, The Pleasure of My Company, . He wrote Cruel Shoes. Pure Drivel, He co-wrote the musical Bright Star (which won a Grammy for Best Musical Theatre Album). He recorded the album Love Has Come for You with Edie Brickel and it one a Best Roots Grammy. He wrote the plays Meteor Shower, Picasso at the Lapin Agile. He won a Grammy for his music album The Crow in 2009. He co-won a Grammy for Best Country Instrumental performance on “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” with Earl Scruggs and Friends. He hosted the Academy Awards three times. His biggest comedic influence is Monty Python’s Flying Circus. He is a member of Mensa. He became a father for the first time at the age of 67.
July 26, 1996: Brian and I made enough busking to buy lunch and beer
Brian Haddon and I busked on Bloor Street and made enough to buy lunch and a pitcher of beer. Later he performed with me on the Spit Fridays open stage in the back room of the Cameron.
Saturday, 25 July 2026
Edward Everett Horton
I organized the text of “Shylock” by Serge Gainsbourg and separated the two voices. I started trying to memorize the song but there’s a problem with some of the text. In the ElevenLabs transcription of the song it says Petula Clark is singing “Shylock vieux brigand” (Shylock old brigand) but she’s saying something that sounds like “brigou” so it rhymes with “sous”. There’s no in use word like “brigou” in French. I think I’m going to separate the audio and try to search the word individually so the transcription isn’t influenced by the context.
I weighed 89.65 kilos before breakfast.
I played my Martin for the third of four sessions and it went out of tune all the time.
I worked on getting caught up in my journal.
I weighed 91.6 kilos before lunch.
I took a siesta at the usual time but slept almost an hour longer. By the time I’d brushed my teeth it was too late to take a bike ride so I just worked on getting caught up in my journal.
I weighed 91.05 kilos at 17:20.
I had a potato with gravy and two chicken drumsticks while watching season 11, episode 15 of The Carol Burnett Show.
Dick Van Dyke is no longer a cast member. It seems episode 11 was his last show. Apparently it was mutually agreed that he didn’t fit within the style of sketch comedy the writers created and that Harvey Korman had excelled at.
During the audience warmup someone from New York asks Carol who she wants to win the Superbowl (which was Dallas versus Denver that year). She says The Lakers (a basketball team).
A guy asks Carol if she needs a lawyer and hands her his card. His name was “Field”.
A woman says she came from Rhode Island and it’s her birthday. Carol says it’s her husband Joe Hamilton’s birthday too (This aired on January 8 but it must have been taped on January 6 because that’s his birthday). She wants to give Carol and Tim a kiss so Carol says for her to come up. Carol calls for Tim but he doesn’t come out. The woman kisses Carol on the cheek and Carol tells her to go look for Tim back stage and so she does.
Apparently it was raining in LA and Carol says she loves it. She says a day without rain is like a day without sunshine and she can’t believe she said that.
In the first sketch, Carol is in bed with Tim. She is made to look very plain and he has a very dense expression. Carol sings the 1977 song “You Can’t Turn Me Off In the Middle of Turning Me On”. When she begins the chorus he starts to slowly and clumsily remove his overalls. His clothes keep getting tangled and he can’t get the bottoms of his coveralls past his feet. They get caught on a bedpost and he falls off the bed hanging by his feet. He tries to climb back up and winds up pulling her and the mattress down on the floor on top of him which I guess is where she wants to be as she howls in ecstasy.
Next is a Mama’s Family sketch and the first one that I’ve seen from this final season. Since Harvey Korman is no longer on the show, his character of Eunice’s husband Ed Higgins was written off in the 11th season premier as having walked out on and divorced Eunice.
In this Family story Eunice’s famous brother Philip (played by Roddy McDowell) is visiting and staying with Eunice. A reporter calls who wants to interview Philip, and Eunice tries to tell him that she’s also a writer and wants to inform him about her poetry. Once he learns that today Philip is getting an honorary degree and tomorrow he’s having lunch with the mayor, the reporter hangs up. Mama asks what makes her think a reporter would be interested in the silly poems she wrote in high school. Eunice argues that she got B pluses on all of her poems in high school and reporters are always interested in the families of celebrities. She says you can’t pick up an article about Warren Beatty without reading them mentioning his sister Shirley Maclaine. Mama asks if she’s comparing herself to Shirley Maclaine. Eunice admits that Shirley had a few more breaks than she did. Philip comes downstairs wearing a sports jacket over a turtleneck. Mama thinks he should wear a tie but he says it’s not formal. Mama asks what he’s doing for a living these days. He says he’s writing a screenplay based on his last book and he’s planning a book on the political situation in… but Mama has already lost interest. She asks if he’s won any more prizes. He says just the Nobel Prize and the Pulitzer for his book on India. Mama warns him he can’t coast on those forever. He tries to explain that he’s not but she’s already lost interest again. Eunice gives Philip his phone messages and he thanks her. She says it was fun taking them because it make her feel like a secretary. He says, “You’d make a very good one”. “You really mean that?” “Mean what?” “Wouldn’t it be fun having your sister as a secretary?” “But you don’t type.” “We’d just send it out!” “I’ve already got a secretary and she’s been with me for many years.” Now Eunice is angry. Mama comes downstairs angry about not being able to do a thing about her hair. Philip argues that it looks great but Mama says, “Instead of dropping out of thin air once every five years to humour me about my hair you’d think you’d look in the mirror and think about getting a decent haircut yerself!” Mama asks Philip to tell the mayor that she’s sick and tired of all the stray dogs going through the garbage in the neighbourhood. Eunice says Philip probably doesn’t want them to come to see him get his degree since he’s ashamed of his family. He says he doesn’t know how she can think that but she says if he wasn’t ashamed he’d say “Why not?” when his sister offered to be his secretary. Mama asks why she’s pestering Philip about her little pipe dreams. Eunice says that all of her dreams have been pipe dreams to her. But when Philip said he wanted to be a painter Mama got him a paint kit and when he said he wanted to be a writer she got him a typewriter. “But when I said I wanted to be a ballerina I just got a horse laugh from you!” Philip says he thinks it would be better if he stayed at a hotel but Mama responds, “Thank you very much! After I spent three whole days scrubbing this place from top ta bottom for your visit!” They are about to leave when Mama hands Philip a shirt and tie to slip on in the car. Philip tries to protest but Mama shouts, “Do I have to get back talk every time I open my mouth? Don’t I get enough of it from your sister?” Mama storms out and Eunice says to Philip, “I can’t understand why you don’t come and visit us more often.”
There is a sepia tone silent movie (but with sound effects) of a world championship pool match between Tim Conway and Ken Berry. Ken gets chalk from the tip of his cue stick on Tim’s jacket. Tim deliberately puts a lit cigar in Ken’s pocket. Ken pushes the pool table and Tim through a wall and wins.
Carol plays a lady who is breaking up with Roddy. He accepts it but as she turns to look at him before exiting he tells her to stop because he wants to remember her just like that. She moves slightly towards him but he says he wants her in that exact pose and asks her to back up a bit. She gets the right position but he says to tilt her head back more. She does that but the expression is wrong. It should be more pained. She tries and it’s better but he says the spontaneity is gone. She keeps trying but he gets increasingly more frustrated and then angry with her. She finally tells him to sit on it and leaves.
Carol says that during the Depression movie audiences consoled themselves by watching beautiful people in romantic comedies dancing with barely a care in the world. They do a tribute to Fred Astair and Ginger Rogers with a parody of Top Hat.
It takes place in Venice in 1935. Vicki and Roddy play Hortence and Horace Travers, a married couple similar to that played by Helen Broderick and Edward Everett Horton (Roddy does quite an excellent impersonation of Horton). They have come to Venice and invited his nephew and her niece to stay with them so as to make a match. Tim plays the hotel clerk who mistakenly gives Vicki’s niece and Roddy’s nephew the same room. Carol (as Dale Montclair) and Ken (as Jerry Travers) arrive at the same time and bump into each other. He says he’s glad and she thinks he’s fresh. When he asks for his key and she overhears that he’s Mr. Travers, she assumes that he is her aunt’s husband and is offended that he would be flirting with her. Horace sings about how romantic Venice is while Hortence sings about how much it stinks. A gondolier rows by as he sings “Puttin on the Ritz” in mock Italian. Meanwhile Jerry and Dale are in the same room without knowing the other is there. He puts on a neck brace, an arm sling, and a plaster leg cast and then does a song and tap dance about his feelings for Dale. She’s in her underwear when they discover each other. She admits she’s in love with him even though he’s rotten. She yells for him to leave and so he does, then she sings a song about being in the rain on a sunny day. When Jerry meets his uncle in the dining room, Dale approaches and sees him and he still flirts with her in front of her aunt. Hortence just says everybody’s a little seedy during the depression. She encourages them to dance and they do to a parody of Irving Berlin’s “Cheek to Cheek”. Then Dale sees Hortence kissing Horace and learns that he is her husband. Dale is happy and everybody dances.
Edward Everett Horton majored in German at Oberlin College but was expelled for throwing a dummy off a building and making people think he’d jumped. He was attending Columbia when he discovered acting and left his college life behind. He made his theatrical debut in 1906. He co-managed and acted at the Majestic Theatre in LA in the 1920s. He made his film debut in 1922 in a starring role in the silent movie Too Much Business. He starred in The Ladder Jinx, A Front Page Story, Ruggles of Red Gap, To the Ladies, Beggar on Horseback, The Business of Love, The Nutcracker, Poker Faces, The Whole Town’s Talking, Taxi Taxi, Ask Dad, The Hottentot, The Sap, The Aviator, Take to the Heir, Wide Open, Once a Gentleman, Lonely Wives, The Way to Love, The Poor Rich, Uncertain Lady, $10 Raise, The Private Secretary, His Night Out, Your Uncle Dudley, Her Master’s Voice, Nobody’s Fool, The Man in the Mirror, Oh Doctor, Wild Money, Steppin in Society, He developed a characteristic comic double take for which he was well known. He made his sound debut in 1929. He had his own radio show in the 1930s. From 1945 to 1947 he hosted the Kraft Music Hall radio program. He made his TV debut on The Ford Theatre Hour in 1949. He co-starred in Try and Get It, Marry Me, The Terror, Sonny Boy, Holiday, Six Cylinder Love, The Age for Love, But the Flesh is Weak, The Front Page, Alice in Wonderland, The Gay Divorcee, Top Hat, Lost Horizon, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Roar of the Dragon, Soldiers of the King, A Bedtime Story, It’s a Boy, Easy to Love, Sing and Like It, Ladies Should Listen, Biography of a Bachelor Girl, The Singing Kid, Let’s Make a Million, The King and the Chorus Girl, Shall We Dance, Danger Love at Work, Angel, The Great Garrick, Paris Honeymoon, That’s Right You’re Wrong, You’re the One, Sunny, Bachelor Daddy, Weekend for Three, The Body Disappears, Her Primitive Man, Summer Storm, San Diego I Love You, Brazil, The Town Went Wild, Cinderella Jones, Faithful in my Fashion, Earl Carroll Sketchbook, The Ghost Goes Wild, Down to Earth, Her Husband’s Affairs, 2000 Years Later, He was the narrator for Fractured Fairy Tales on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. He played Roaring Chicken on the sitcom F Troop. He played Chief Screaming Chicken on an episode of Batman.
July 25, 1996: Brian and I rehearsed "Portrait of My Quicksilver Headdress"
On Thursday Brian Haddon and I rehearsed for my feature at the Art Bar reading series in three weeks. We were working out a performance of my long musical poem “Portrait of My Quicksilver Headdress”.
Friday, 24 July 2026
July 24, 1996: Brian and I busked on Bloor
Thirty years ago today
On Wednesday Brian Haddon and I busked on Bloor and had lunch and beer together.
Later I performed on the Art Bar reading series open stage.
Thursday, 23 July 2026
Riki Lindhome
On Wednesday morning I finished revising my translation of “La complainte de Bonnot” by Boris Vian. Tomorrow I’ll run through singing and playing it, then upload it to my Christian’s Translations blog to prepare it for publishing.
I organized about half the text of “Shylock” by Serge Gainsbourg and separated the two voices. On Thursday I should have that finished and I’ll start memorizing the song.
I played my Martin during song practice for the second of two sessions and it went out of tune all the time as usual. I shortened a lot of the songs so I could finish in time to brush my teeth and leave at noon for my first appointment with my new periodontist Dr. Lambert.
I got there at 12:45 and didn’t even have time to open my book before Serena the assistant called me. When I first started getting treated at the U of T School of Dentistry, Dr. Xia has been in charge of my case, but he graduated. It felt weird to be suddenly assigned a new periodontist and to fortify my confidence, Serena told me that the University of Toronto has the best school of periodontics in Canada. They only pick three students a year out of hundreds of dentistry graduates for the periodontistry program. I met Dr. Lambert and he has an accent that doesn’t fit with the hard “T” that people use when they pronounce his last name. I asked him about it and he says he’s from Quebec. So I said his name must be pronounced as “Lambare” and he confirmed that’s correct. He just lets people use the hard pronunciation to make things easier. He says I can call him Martin.
Martin said that my bone graft healed exceptionally well and suggested that it helped that I didn’t wear my denture. He said we’ll be starting the process of me getting my implant in September. He took a full set of 3-D images of my teeth and gums and will use them to make a surgical implant stent that will be put in my mouth before surgery. I had to pay $190 for the stent. They don’t have a date yet for when I’ll be coming in for surgery but it will be in September sometime.
I stopped at Freshco on my way home to buy toilet paper and Sponge Towels.
I weighed 90.6 kilos at 15:10, which is the lightest I’ve been in the early afternoon since last Wednesday. I had peanut butter and five-year-old cheddar on saltines with a glass of lemonade.
I weighed 90.5 kilos at 17:50.
I was still a day behind on my journal and worked on getting caught up but I was still behind at suppertime.
I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with rosée tomato sauce, tomato pesto, wedge oven fries, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a glass of Creemore lager while watching Wednesday season 1, episode 7 on Discord with my daughter Astrid.
The story begins with the funeral of the mayor of Jericho who was killed at the end of the last episode. Wednesday is scanning the crowd because she’s sure the killer is there. She sees a dark figure leave and she chases him into the woods. When the enemy turns and Wednesday readies her umbrella to do battle he voices how proud he is of his favourite protegee and we see it’s her Uncle Fester. This is the first time we’ve seen Wednesday smile. She takes Fester to Eugene’s bee house and has to stop him from eating the bees. fester has a reunion with Thing who is mad at Fester over him running out on Thing during a heist. Wednesday catches Fester up on the mystery and shows him one of Xavier’s drawing of the monster. Fester says the monster is a Hyde as in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He tells Wednesday that there is a secret diary of a man named Faulkner in a secret place in the Nightshade Club’s meeting place in the basement of Nevermore. They go there and Thing cracks the safe to get the diary. The diary explains that Hydes are artists by nature born of mutation. Their monster sides are mostly dormant but can be triggered by trauma, chemistry, or hypnosis. That means the Hyde always has a master. She is still convinced that Xavier is the monster. While spying on him she sees that he is having secret meetings with the psychiatrist Dr. Kimbott. Wednesday returns to her room to find it’s been ransacked, the diary stolen and Thing has been pinned to the wall with a knife. . Fester uses his electrical powers to try ti defibrillate Thing but after several tries he gives up and says he’s gone. Wednesday won’t accept it and says to do it again. Finally Thing comes to life and Wednesday swears to make the attacker pay. She confronts Kimbott with the accusation that she is the Hyde’s manipulator. Kimbott thinks that Wednesday is losing her mind and recommends that she be sent to a psychiatric hospital. Wednesday says if she was she’d be running the place in a week. Wednesday leaves Kimbott, who hears a strange sound in another room. She opens it and is attacked by the monster. She later dies in the hospital. Wednesday learns that Principal Weems has known about the Hyde all along but has not notified the authorities to protect Nevermore. Wednesday goes to see Tyler and kisses him. The kiss triggers a vision that shows her that Tyler is the monster. I saw that coming.
Fester is played by Fred Armison. he’s okay but he’s no Jackie Coogan.
Dr. Kimbott was played by Fred Armison’s wife Riki Lindhome, whose first break came when Tim Robbins cast her in his play Embedded at The Public Theatre in New York City. She made her film debut in Back Seat Detour. She made her TV debut in the sitcom Titus. Then Clint Eastwood cast her in Million Dollar Baby, which was her feature film debut. She wrote, directed and co-starred in Life is Short in 2006. She is the front half of the comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates with Kate Micucchi. They had their own sitcom for a season and were nominated for an Emmy for their TV special. They appeared in The Big Bang Theory and wrote a song for the episode. She co-created and co-starred in the sitcom Another Period. She co-starred in Duncanville, Hell Baby, The Wolf of Snow Hollow, My Best Friend’s Girl, The Last House on the Left, King Tweety, Nerdland, Queens of the Dead, She played Fozzie Bear’s human girlfriend on The Muppets. She was the voice of Poison Ivy and The Wicked Witch of the West in The Lego Batman Movie. She stars in a one woman musical called Dead Inside. She starred in the short film Imaginary Larry.
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