Sade

            On Friday morning my back was a bit sore during yoga. I think it was mostly indirectly related to my getting doored on Wednesday night, since that caused me to have to spend seven hours working on my velo at Bike Pirates the next day, missing lunch and not having an early afternoon siesta. Standing up all day Thursday didn't help my back either.
            I’ve been watching a couple of Sade concert films. I prefer the one from ten years into her career when the performances are more natural and less slick. In the one from 1994 she is in her bare feet and half the musicians have dreadlocks.

            In the 2011 concert her moves are very stylized and choreographed.

            I spent most of the day trying to update my journal but ended up only getting Thursday’s entry done.

            That night I watched an episode of Peter Gunn.

            This story begins with a well-dressed middle-aged woman pulling up in front of Mother’s in a convertible. She staggers to the door and knocks. The band is playing inside but they are closed. She keeps knocking and Mother opens the door. She staggers in and asks for Peter Gunn, then she clutches her stomach, collapses and dies. Gunn finds out from her purse that her name is Mrs. Lederer. In her car is a hat from the North River Yacht Club. He goes there and finds out that Mrs. Lederer lived there on her yacht, The Destiny, with her captain, a butler and a maid. Her husband went overboard and drowned a while before and it was ruled an accident. He goes to the boat and while snooping, Captain Hugo confronts him with a gun. A couple of toughs named Dutch and Blackie that seem to work for the captain try block Gunn's way back to the dock and punish him for snooping. Gunn makes short work of them and they both end up in the water. Gunn hears that the coroner says that Mrs. Lederer was killed with a rat poison called Rat Ruff. Gunn goes back to the boat and sneaks past Blackie and Dutch. Gunn sneaks down into the galley and eavesdrops on a conversation between Hugo, the maid, Rose and the butler, Max. It turns out that they are Hugo’s children, even though Rose at one point kisses Max affectionately but not passionately on the mouth. Maybe it’s a European type of affection between siblings. They had been holding Mrs. Lederer on the boat and they do not know that she’s dead. In the galley Gunn finds a container of Rat Ruff. Gunn calls Jacobi from the boat and tells him that he thinks Hugo and his kids were blackmailing Mrs. Lederer because she killed her husband. Gunn goes back below and holds Max and Rose at gunpoint but Hugo comes up behind and takes his gun. He leads him upstairs where he tells Dutch and Blackie to get rid of him. Gunn starts fighting with them and Jacoby arrives to shoot Hugo’s hand just as he’s about to fire at Gunn.

            Rose was played by Roxane Brooks, who replaced Mary Tyler Moore on Richard Diamond, Private Detective.

            Mrs. Lederer was played by Margaret Muse