Nazi Morrissey

            On Wednesday I finished the first draft of my Bed Bug Diary, telling the story of the 676 days of my bed bug infestation from August 30 2014 to December 19 2015.

            I sent in my income report to Ontario Works. I hadn’t actually worked but I had just under seven dollars of vacation pay income from OCADU. Now I can go on vacation!

            I took a siesta and when I woke up at 16:00 I heard splashing cars. It had rained while I was sleeping and so I decided not to take a bike ride.

I weighed 90.9 kilos when I got up.

So it looks like Morrissey has gone far right. I've posted a photo of him wearing a swastika, but to be fair it's been photoshopped. He's too much in denial to wear a swastika. I've never really followed his music because it sounds like a rock version of Anglican Church music with its droning non-melodies, and of his lyrics they never seemed particularly innovative. But I see he’s been saying racist things for decades, such as when he referred to the Chinese as a sub-species. And now he’s joined the For Britain Movement. I know he’s hard-core into animal rights and isn’t it interesting that Hitler was too? Someone online tried to explain to me that For Britain is not a far right party because they support the rights of ex-Muslims and protect them from death threats. I’m pretty sure that Muslims receive more death threats than ex-Muslims. But when asked about the Nazi comparisons Morrissey shows himself to be a history starved moron and declares that the Nazis were left wing. So why did Nazis come to the “unite the right” rally in Charlottesville? The Nazis called themselves a "socialist" party for propaganda reasons because socialism was extremely popular when they formed. There were no Marxist policies in their platform. This is the end of Morrissey’s career.

I looked at the last of the videos I shot of my song practices in 2017. Only “Les feuilles mortes” came out okay on August 5. Next I’ll look at the titles that I marked “okay” more than once and decide which was the best.

I got a call from my pharmacy that my prescription was ready and so I rode over there to get it.

I did some translations of a section of the screenplay for Les Enfants du Paradis and the story Les Ramparts du Sud.

I had an egg with a piece of toast and a beer for dinner and watched two episodes of Sea Hunt.

In the first story a rich and arrogant young man named Conway hires Mike to teach him and his wife Gloria to skin-dive so he can get good enough to hunt and kill a shark. Mike doesn’t approve of hunting for sport but Conway is offering $5000 which Mike wants to give to the scientist he is helping to turn sea plants into food. They go to the small town of Puerto Blanco in South America. Mike has a struggle teaching Conway how to dive because he always wants to do things his way. When they finally begin to hunt, Gloria is handling the camera but on the surface a local doctor shows up next to their boat desperate to ask Conway if he can borrow his plane to take a patient to the nearest hospital, which is 500 km away. The doctor drops his anchor, not realizing there are people diving below and the anchor strikes Gloria on the head. They get her to town and the doctor says she’ll be fine but chastises Mike for letting her dive in her condition. It turns out she is pregnant. Conway, who went to architecture school but never did anything with it, tells the doctor he is going to design and build a hospital in Puerto Blanco.

Conway was played by Larry Hagman, who later became famous as the co-star of I Dream of Jeannie.

The second story had the most interesting scenario of any Sea Hunt episode so far. Mike is helping a Dr. Carpenter study whales when they see three men in a dinghy further out than people would normally be in such a small boat. Later they see the boat is empty and then two divers get back in and drive away. Mike dives to look for the third man and discovers an underwater station containing a missing underwater missile scientist named Dr. Dekker. The men that took him down left with his tank so he would be trapped there as he waits for a seaplane to arrive with more divers to take him away. Mike goes back to arrange for Carpenter to pull Dekker to the boat with a rope when he gets the signal. Mike does not have an extra tank and so when he dives back to the holding cell he gives Dekker his tank. Mike then replaces Dekker in the cell. Dekker is pulled to the boat and they head to contact the coast guard. Mike is almost out of air when the two enemy divers arrive with a tank for him. On the way up they do not expect an experienced diver to turn the tables on them. He removes one divers air hose, forcing him to surface. The other diver chases him with a spear gun but Mike tricks him. He hides behind a rock, releases some bubbles and then shuts off his air as he sneaks away. The diver chases the bubbles allowing Mike to get behind him. They fight and Mike forces him to the surface just as the coast guard arrive.