On Sunday morning I finished memorizing “Ex-Fan des Sixties” by Serge Gainsbourg and found one set of chords for it online. I’ll look for more on Monday.
In the late morning I cleaned the panel of my stove, the top of the back and inside where the fuse is. I wanted to wash the inside of the range clock to get rid of the ten year old cockroach corpses that are visible but I couldn't figure out how to get the glass off. Once again there was no hot water at that time, although it was quite hot earlier. I had to boil a kettle and a pot of water in order to have something hot to wash with. Next I want to clean all the elements on the inside and under the rims.
I had a toasted Montreal bagel with cream cheese for lunch.
In the afternoon it was too wet outside to take a bike ride so I did my hip exercises while listening to the Goon Show.
This started off being about the history of communications. “But after time, the post became universal, and deliveries were made to the most outlandish spots. Such a place was the lonely Isle of Lurgi, where only one family lived. To reach their house, the postman had to row three miles across the straits of Lurgi, and proceed on mule-back up the rugged mountain side, and finally tramp for eight miles across the plateau, until: Knock knock. Door opens. “Mrs Jones?” “Yes?” “Nothing for you today!” Max Geldray and his Orchestra plays “Buckets and Spades.”
Greenslade: “The Goons have said for some time that these programmes lack colour and…” Ray Ellington, the only black person in the cast shouts, “Yeah!" Parliament is about to begin. Gladstone asks: “Now, are we all here? Conservatives?” “Yes.” “Socialists?” “Aha.” “Where’s the Liberal Party?" “He’ll be back in a minute!” “The position is serious: Australia is being overrun with rabbits. Every year the rabbits increase by millions.” "Well they’ve only got themselves to blame!” SECOMBE: It’s an envelope and there’s a message in-side. BLOODNOK: A message in-side? SECOMBE: Yes, sir. BLOODNOK: Curse it and I don’t speak a word of Sides." The Ray Ellington Quartet plays "Kiss Me Again" and "S'Wonderful."
CRUN: I’ve brought a list of the stores we shall need. Two thousand pairs of purple creosote bathroom socks with reinforced concrete knees and secret sliding panels. One octogenarian fruit dancer; twelve trained Moldavian nut lions. One slightly soiled film test of Raymond Nevaro. One life-size statue of Jane Russell made of jelly, inscribed, "It must be jelly 'cause Jane don’t shake like that". “Look at those nasty cracks on the wall. Who wrote those nasty cracks on the wall?!" "I did, sir.” "Well rub them off at once!”
I separated the video of my performance of “Vilaines filles, mauvais garcons” from the recording of my July 4 song practice. There was a hiss on the mic audio and so I just used the audio from the camera, rendered the movie and uploaded it to YouTube.
I did some work adding colour to part of one of my black and white photos of skateboarders from the 80s.
I heated one of the burgers I grilled yesterday and had it on my last Montreal bagel topped by barbecue sauce, mustard, relish and salsa. I had my burger with a beer while watching Star Trek Discovery.
Spoiler Alert!
Hugh examines Philipa while she tells him all the ways she would like to torture and kill him. Her brain functions are deteriorating and she has another episode during the scan. Meanwhile Book receives a distress signal from his brother on his home planet of Quajon. He’s not really his brother but they were once that close. The message is that Osyraa of the Emerald Chain is on her way there. Book was enslaved on an Emerald Chain scrap planet a few episodes ago.
Michael convinces the admiral to let Discovery go to Quajon, but only as an observer. Michael and Book beam down. Quajon is a natural planet of forests, oceans and farms but its crops are being destroyed by flying sea creatures that have moved inland. Books brother Kahim has been doing business with Osyraa, which has caused a division between the brothers. Osyraa’s ship arrives in orbit and she demands that Saru hand over the Andorian named Ryn. She says that Ryn signed a contract to be an indentured slave. Saru refuses. Osyraa appears by hologram to Kahim and tells him to give her Book so she can use him to get Ryn, but he refuses her for the first time. Osyraa opens fire on Quajon. Ryn says he knows her ships weaknesses but Discovery can’t directly engage without starting a war. Tilly suggests that a Starfleet pilot might go rogue and commandeer a non-federation ship, although she will of course be severely disciplined for it later. So Keila takes Ryn with her on Book’s ship to attack Osyraa. After a while she tells the ships computer to giver her full manual control. Following Ryn’s instructions as to where to fire she takes out Osyraa’s weapons systems, forcing her top withdraw, but only after warning Saru that the Federation has just made an enemy.
Also Adira corrects Stamets about her pronouns and tells him that it’s not “she” but rather “they”. She also tells him that he’s the first one she’s ever told. It seems odd that a thousand years in the future that would seem like such an awkward moment like it is now. But really wouldn’t all Trill hosts consider themselves non-binary? She also tells him that Gray has stopped talking to her.
They have also found the source of The Burn and have detected a signal coming from that point. Analyzing the signal they pick up that it is music and not just any music but the same melody that Gray played on the cello. Isolating certain frequencies it is revealed as a Federation distress signal. Maybe Gray is actually alive and sending the signal across the galaxy.
Ryn tells Tilly that Osyraa is running out of Dilithium and she wants him because he’s the only one that knows it.
Osyraa is played by Janet Kidder, who is Canadian and the niece of Margot Kidder of Lois Lane fame. Janet and Margot appeared in an episode of the TV series La Femme Nikita in which they played Nikita’s mother at different ages. There is a family resemblance so I see how they could have pulled it off.
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