Celestial Vessels

            On Wednesday morning I memorized the fourth verse of “L'avant-guerre, c'est maintenant” (The Pre-War is Happening) by Serge Gainsbourg. There’s just one verse left to learn. 

            I weighed 85.1 kilos before breakfast. I had cinnamon toast and cereal for the first time in a month. 

            I worked on my essay for about half an hour but I felt sleepy early and took a siesta from noon to 13:30. 

            I weighed 85 kilos before lunch. I spread a mashed avocado on a slice of Bavarian sandwich bread and put a few kettle chips on top. 

            I took a bike ride to Yonge and Bloor on another warm spring day. There was a shirtless guy standing on Yonge Street wearing a utility belt with handcuffs and a billy club hanging off it. I can’t imagine him not getting in trouble if the cops see him with those things. I got stopped by the police once when I was walking with a hollow plastic toy baseball bat in the garbage because they thought it was a real bat. 

            I weighed 85.3 kilos at 16:10. 

            I got caught up on my journal at 17:30. 

            I worked on my essay for about two hours. I heated nine small dosa masala samosas in the oven and had them with a beer while watching an episode of Astro Boy. This story begins with a man named Moley Mole shouting by himself on the street about how he will soon rule the world with a rocket ship. But then he hears the voice of Corny J. Sneer telling him that he will conquer the world. Mole runs from Sneer’s gang and stops the car of Dr. Elefun. But Elefun is no match for an armed gang and so he can’t stop them from taking Mole away. 

            After they are gone Elefun sees written on his windshield “90396.39.” He and Astro Boy decipher it. “9039” is the address of a publisher of maps. Elefun has a collection of those maps in his library. He picks book number 6, page 3, and longitude 9. That indicates the Island of Mystery. Elefun asks Astro Boy to fly there and look around. Shortly after he arrives the receding tide reveals a hidden cave. Inside he finds a glowing rock which he plans to take back to Elefun. But Sneer’s gang turns out to be there and tries to stop him but they fail. Elefun places the rock on a piece of radioactivity-sensitive paper and a message appears in the language of the Boolaboo people who came to Earth from outer space 200,000 years ago but then disappeared. 

            It turns out that Icky Ichabod, an employee at the Institute is an expert on the Boolaboos. Icky reads the text and declares that it is the greatest discovery in history. It tells how the Boolaboos traveled 50 million light-years to Earth to escape the Escodians. The Boolaboos built great and super advanced cities on the islands but the Escodians found them and fired an electron bolt that destroyed them. The last Boolaboo buried their spaceship so no one would find it. The statues on the island are the key to finding the spaceship. The statues cry three times, roar seven times, and laugh nine times. 

            Elefun, Icky and Astro Boy take a plane to the islands but it turns out the entire crew are the members of Sneer’s gang. They take them to their headquarters on the Boolaboo Islands where they meet the leader that the Sneer Gang serves, Nick O’Tine. They try to escape but they are recaptured and taken on a submarine to the Isle of Mystery. Icky figures out that they must follow the faces of the statues to see if they are crying, roaring, or laughing. That leads them to the spaceship. Nick runs to enter the spaceship but Icky has a ray gun and stops him. It turns out he wants to rule the world too. Icky enters the ship but it is occupied by large lizards. Icky begins firing at them and ends up destroying the ship.