On
Friday morning I worked out the chords for the first verse and the chorus of
“Nazi Rock" by Serge Gainsbourg. I guess the reason he is parodying Nazis
by dressing them up in drag in this song is because the Nazis shut down the
drag bars in Paris when they occupied France.
I read some more of the executive
report on the class action suit against Indigenous day schools.
I tidied up in the kitchen and in
the bedroom I cleaned a chessboard that’s on the upper shelf. I don’t know why
since no one will see it, but it bugged me when I saw how dirty it was.
I had a can of chickpeas with flax
seed oil and garlic for lunch.
In the afternoon I did my exercises
while listening to Amos and Andy. This was the US Thanksgiving episode for the
fall of 1949. The story begins a year before that when Kingfish had been having
dinner at the home of Sapphire’s mother and he invited the 22 people there to
his house for Thanksgiving the following year. When Sapphire reminds Kingfish
of his promise he tries to get out of it because he has no money but Sapphire insists
that he find a way to get a turkey and everything else they need to provide a
dinner for her family. Later while walking with Andy they see a package fall
from a Thomson Market truck. Inside they find a golden brown, apparently
already cooked turkey. Kingfish asks Andy to keep it in his fridge because the
electricity has been cut off in his home. Meanwhile Kingfish is plagued by his
conscience that he should return the bird to Thomson’s Market. Kingfish resists
his conscience but finally decides that maybe he could pay the market for the
turkey. He invites Andy for Thanksgiving dinner and says he will only charge
him $15. Andy says he’s broke and so Kingfish tells him to forget about dinner
and just deliver the turkey to him via the back door on Thanksgiving Day. When
Andy arrives he informs Kingfish that the turkey that fell of the truck was
really just a plastic model that Thomson Market had planned to display in their
window.
There’s Lifebuoy Soap commercial at
the end of every Amos and Andy episode. They famously used the expression
“B.O!” accompanied by the sound of a foghorn. The announcer says scientists
have found thirteen locations of BO on the body but the locations are not
named.
I finished reading the pdf of the
executive report on the class action suit against Indian Day Schools. There’s a
lot of useful historical information I’ve copied down. I downloaded volume one
of the class action document and skimmed through almost half of it. It seems
that volume two has most of the same information but in more detail.
I marinated three small boneless
pork chops in the orange chipotle sauce that I got from the food bank. I baked
them in the sauce in the oven for an hour and had one of them for dinner with a
potato and some gravy while watching Zorro.
In this story there is a drought
going on in Southern California. A poor orchard farmer named Miguel Roverto
steals water for his trees from wealthy rancher Don Hilario. Before Miguel can
get away Hilario’s two ranch hands catch up with him and dump the water.
Hilario normally lets farmers use his water but because of the drought he has
been forced to save his herd of cattle by selling half of them for half of
their value. Hilario and his men later shoot at Miguel when they see him with a
wagon full of barrels on the King’s Highway. The barrels turn out to be empty.
Later Miguel’s home is burned down. Miguel tells Hilario that if he’d had one
barrel of water he could have put out the fire. He also tells him that he hopes
someday he sees his place burn without having the power to stop it. That night
Hilario’s place does burn and Hilario is found dead with Miguel’s musket
nearby. Miguel is arrested but escapes. Zorro catches up with him and he
explains that Hilario’s cowhands had taken his musket from him that day on the
King’s Highway. Zorro realizes that it was the cowhands that killed Hilario.
Zorro and Miguel go to confront them but Zorro gets there first, catching them
about to get away with Hilario’s money. The two men aim to kill Zorro and win
the reward. They disarm him in the stable and he escapes in the loft. They are
closing in on him when Miguel intervenes with a pistol. Together they defeat
the cowboys and suddenly it begins to rain.
Miguel was played by Robert Vaughn,
who later of course became the star of “The Man From U.N.C.L.E”.
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