Art Davis

            I went to bed a little before 1:00 and woke up to pee at 4:22. When I went back to bed I couldn't sleep and so I just lay there uncomfortably until the alarm rang at 5:00. 

            I worked out the chords to most of "J'en ai autant pour toi" (I Feel the Same About You) by Serge Gainsbourg. All that's left is the instrumental and that's half done as well. 

            I weighed 86.2 kilos before breakfast. That's the heaviest I've been in the morning in August of this year. 

            Around midday, I washed the wall above the southern kitchen window and the top of the cornice. It was so extremely dirty I probably could have planted a garden up there. I blackened two buckets of water and wound up getting the wall a bit dirty again. I should be able to finish that job tomorrow. 

            I weighed 86.3 kilos before lunch. Again, the heaviest at that time this August. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back. 

            I weighed 85.4 kilos at 17:00. The heaviest at that hour in twelve days. 

            I was caught up on my journal at 17:45. 

            I reviewed three more videos of me playing my song "Sixteen Tons of Dogma". On June 28 I fumbled the epilogue; on June 29 the take at 16:15 was one of the best but I was late hitting the D sharp chord when I sang "church"; on July 1 the final take was going really well until I mixed up the last two verses and paused. 

            I edited some more of the video that I shot on Friday of me saying "No". I've only gone through about half of it. 

            I continued to work on dating my transcriptions of the Gumby Bible that have poems written on the other side. That way I know when the poems were written. 

            I had a potato with gravy and a chicken breast while watching four Bugs Bunny cartoons from 1960. 

            The first story is set in the 19th Century and Bugs Bunny is a sergeant in the US cavalry. His commanding officer orders him to hold down the fort while his men go on a special mission. But after they ride out, the fort is attacked by Renegade Sam and his band of renegade Indigenous warriors. They exchange fire and it seems Bugs is a crack shot because every time he shoots, he takes out a warrior. Bugs sneaks up on one of the warriors and replaces the arrow he is reaching for with a lit stick of dynamite. Sam captures Bugs and tries to shoot him, but his pistol doesn't work. Bugs tries it and shoots Sam in the face. Bugs returns to the fort. Sam gets a big warrior named Geronimo to use a big log as a battering ram, but Sam is between the battering ram and the gate and gets flattened. Sam gets Geronimo to shoot him at the fort like an arrow, but Bugs trips a spring that sends a board up for him to ram into. Sam borrows a chief's gun to fire at the fort but every time he fires, Bugs hits the chief with a slingshot and the chief thinks it's Sam's bullet and punches him. Sam is playing a drum and the warriors are dancing when Sam notices Bugs sneaking around and calls for the warriors to attack him. Bugs runs but then the cavalry returns. The cavalry and the warriors charge one another, and Sam is caught in the middle. In his flattened form he comes to Bugs and says, "I hate you!" The Sam's flattened horse tells Sam, "I hate you!" Bugs says, "I love everybody!" The above story is rarely seen because of negative references to First Nations people. 

            In the second story, Yosemite Sam is an alien spaceman in a flying saucer. It lands in the city dump where he has detected an Earth creature, which happens to be Bugs Bunny. Sam commands one of his robots to capture him. But as the robot is approaching Bugs's hole, Bugs emerges to take out the garbage. The robot hides among the garbage cans, but Bugs opens the robot's top to put the trash inside. Sam sends in his three-robot demolition squad. Each of the robots is carrying a large bomb with a lit fuse. They drop them down Bugs's hole and roll away, but Bugs drops a powerful magnet down his hole and the robots are pulled back and down the hole to be caught in the explosion. Sam gets inside of his indestructible tank and heads for Bugs's hole, but Bugs drives a large vehicle with a robot arm that unscrews the lid of Sam's tank to drop a stick of dynamite inside and screw the lid back on. Sam unscrews the lid and tosses the explosive back out. But one robot arm picks the dynamite back up while another robot arm unscrews the lid again, drops the dynamite back in, and then rivets it shut. Before Sam can undo all the rivets the dynamite explodes. Bugs escapes on a rail pump cart, but Sam follows in the saucer. He hovers above and then lowers himself down on a ladder but slams into the wall outside a tunnel. Then Sam uses a jetpack to catch up with Bugs. Bugs uses his ears for propellers and flies away to his hole. Sam arrives and shouts down the hole while behind him from a tree, Bugs replaces Sam's jetpack with a lit stick of dynamite. Sam sends his robot ferret down Bugs's hole. Bugs builds a robot rabbit to deal with the robot ferret. The ferret says, "Come with me or I'll blast you." The robot rabbit says I'll come with you if you don't push this button. The ferret pushes the button, and a punching mechanism shoots out, wrecking the ferret. Sam aims a giant ray gun at Bugs's hole. Bugs sends a mechanical rabbit with a bomb inside to surrender. It doesn't explode until Sam gets back to his home planet. Bugs listens to it explode on the radio and then wonders if Amos and Andy is on. 

            In the third story, Bugs Bunny is a Hollywood star and is being interviewed in his home by Cedric R Burrows on his show People to People. It's a parody of Edward R Murrow's show "Person to Person." During the interview, Daffy Duck shows up and tries to hog the camera. Bugs kicks Daffy out and Burrows asks Bugs how he manages to escape Elmer Fudd. Bugs tells him that Elmer Fudd is the dumbest hunter he's ever encountered. Elmer just happens to be watching and it makes him so angry that he grabs his gun and heads over to Bugs's place. Bugs steps away from the interview to deal with Elmer, who gives him until the count of five to apologize. At five, Bugs sticks his carrot in the gun barrel and the gun backfires in Elmer's face. When Bugs returns, he sees Daffy hamming for the camera. Then behind Bugs, Elmer points his gun. Bugs tells Daffy to come over to the door for a close-up. He eagerly does so and gets shot in the face. Then Daffy says anyone can be a rabbit and puts on a bunny suit. Then Elmer thinks Daffy is Bugs and begins chasing and shooting at him. Then Elmer goes after Bugs again and he is led out to do the often-repeated hollow log spun out over a cliff gag. Bugs returns to the broadcast and Daffy is trying to be entertaining. Bugs tells Burrows the only way to get rid of Daffy is to put him on. Bugs reminds Daffy that he's performing for forty million people and he faints. 

            The above story was animated by Arthur Davis, who is said to have been the first in-betweener in animation. He was behind the bouncing ball in the Fleischer "follow the bouncing ball" cartoons of the 1920s. In the late 1920s he joined Charles Mintz studios and helped create Toby the Pup and Scrappy. He joined Warner Brothers and when Bob Clampett left, Davis finished his, "Goofy Gophers" and "Bacall to Arms." 

            In the fourth story Bugs encounters Wile E Coyote again. Wile E sets up a picnic on a blanket outside Bugs's hole. Bugs comes out to join him when Wile E captures Bugs in the blanket. He is putting the bundle into a cauldron but hears cries of pain. But then we see the cries are from nearby and that Bugs is not in the sack. Then Bugs pretends Wile E is his father. Wile E charges Bugs, but Bugs ducks and Wile E winds up in the pot. Bugs says his father is stewed again. Next Wile E is lying on a rock and strategizing out loud. Bugs lies down nearby and responds to the tentative plans. He tells Wile E one plan is too complicated, and another uses too much detail. Then when Wile E suggests purring dynamite in carrots, Bugs shouts, "That'd hurt!" Wile E comes after Bugs with a gun but Bugs keeps turning the barrel around and Wile E shoots himself. Bugs goes down his hole and Wile E drops a hand grenade. Bugs throws it back up. They go back and forth like this until Bugs comes out and scares Wile E to jump in the air and then fall in the hole when the grenade explodes. Wile E comes out and says he's now a vegetarian. 

            I searched for bedbugs and found none.