Kimberly Brooks

            On Wednesday morning I found a third set of chords for “Chasseur d'ivoire” (Ivory Hunter) by Serge Gainsbourg but either France Tabs, Google Chrome, or my computer were extremely glitchy and kept freezing temporarily. It took me more than half an hour to transcribe the chords and it took more than five minutes to get out of the site and another five minutes to shut down my computer so I could begin song practice. I got started playing so late that I shortened the songs for the first half. Later I looked for more chords for the Gainsbourg song but only the three sets had been posted. Tomorrow I'll start figuring them out. 

            I weighed 86.3 kilos before breakfast.    

            Around midday, I finished washing the utensils that hang from hooks along the wall under my kitchen shelves. The next thing I have to clean is my metal dish rack. I tend to give it a brush and a wipe every day but it nonetheless has been accumulating dirt for years. I have to go over each rod with steel wool. I started it today but it will probably take at least an hour to get it done. 

            I weighed 86.5 kilos before lunch. I had Breton crackers with five-year-old cheddar and a glass of raspberry lemonade. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride to Bloor and Shaw. It was very cloudy and as I traveled east it seemed dark and so I put on my flashers. But when I was down on Queen and heading west it seemed much brighter and I didn't feel like I needed them. I weighed 85.7 kilos when I got home. I think this is the first time I've ever lost weight in the wintertime. 

            I spent more than half an hour searching for videos that show stars going out in science fiction shows or movies but couldn't find any. I bookmarked a video of twinkling stars and I'm thinking maybe I can just use it in my video and have it fade to black to appear like the stars are going out. I'll download it tomorrow and try it out. 

            I went online to see if my US Lit mark has been posted. It still hasn't but the course I'm taking next week has its syllabus up. The short name for the course is Global Modernisms. The only novel we're taking that I've heard of is Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. 

            I went through about half of the fifth file folder of my writing. It's mostly stuff from the 90s. Man do I ever have a shitload of writing! I really need a secretary to digitize it all.

            I had a poached egg with toast and a hot Italian sausage. I ate dinner with a beer while watching the South Park Vaccination Special. 

            The most exclusive club in South Park is now Walgreens and people are lined up outside in hopes of getting their vaccinations. But only old people can get in and they come out acting extremely arrogant because they no longer have to wear masks or social distance. 

            Meanwhile the new substitute teacher, Mrs. Nelson is wearing a white dress and so Cartman pranks her by putting ketchup on her seat so that when she sits down and gets up again it looks to the kids like she is on her period. Mrs. Nelson quits and now there is a teacher shortage. Just then Mr. Garrison returns to South Park after his four years as president of the United States. Since all former presidents are protected by a Secret Service agent for the rest of their lives, Garrison has one too. His agent wears only a blue jockstrap from the waist down and Garrison calls him “Mr. Service.” Garrison goes to South Park Elementary to get his old job back. PC Principle doesn't want him but has no choice but to hire him because of the teacher shortage. 

           But almost everyone in South Park hates Garrison because of his term as president. The only people that don't hate him and rather worship him are the local members of Q-anon, the most prominent being the Whites. Mr. White approaches Garrison in the supermarket to tell him he's always supported him but Garrison tells him to blow shit out of his dick. White takes this as a coded message and presents it at the next Q-anon meeting. The first letters of the phrase are converted to Latin and are determined to mean, “Do what I do.” Since Garrison is a teacher they all decide to become private tutors for the children of South Park. Since the parents don't want their kids to be taught by Garrison, they all hire the private tutors, who begin to indoctrinate them in the Q-anon beliefs. 

            Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny are trying to get Mrs. Nelson to come back. She'll come back if she can get vaccinated so the kids hire an old lady and they escort her into Walgreens under the guise of being the Kommunity Kidz. But once inside the old lady tries to get more money from them and when they refuse she rats on them. They steal a tray of vaccines and run. Then the whole town starts trying to get a shot from them. The community auditions outside their window and getting their “shot” becomes a play on trying to get one's shot in the entertainment business. 

            Mr. Garrison is trying to find out why no kids are coming to his class. He confronts one of the tutors and just before Mr Service kills her she says the Whites are behind it. Garrison goes to see the Whites and then learns their belief that the Hollywood elites are controlling everything. Suddenly it becomes clear just how powerful the Hollywood elites are, as they show that they can alter reality and transport Garrison, Service, and White to an icy wilderness. Mr. Service is transformed into Garrison's old hand puppet Mr. Hat and Mr. White is changed into a big prick. Garrison tells the elites he'll do anything they want. 

            The boys try to deliver the vaccine to the school but they are confronted by the children who have been indoctrinated by Q-anon and now call themselves The Q-ties. The two gangs fight until Garrison arrives with a plane from Israel carrying vaccines for everybody. Everyone is vaccinated except for Mrs. Nelson who dies of covid just before getting her shot. In the end, everyone is partying to the tune of the 70s hit “Down By The Lazy River” by the Mormon group The Osmonds.

            Mrs Nelson was played by voice-over specialist Kimberly Brooks. She got her start on "Rugrats" and since then has done the voices of several popular animated characters and characters in games. She played Ashley Williams in “Mass Effect,” Stormy in “Winx Club,” Barbara Gordon in the “Batman: Arkham” video game, Shinobu Jacobs in “No More Heroes”, Princess Allura in “Voltron”, Mee Mee in “Dexter's Laboratory”, Jasper in “Steven Universe”, Luna in “Scooby Doo”, and Robin Ayou in “Subnautica.”