I weighed 85.2 kilos before breakfast.
I cleaned the window screen that fits on the outside of the sliding windows of the right-hand side of my kitchen window set. I cleaned two more of the sliding windows and so now there is only one left to wash. But now I can close all the windows if I need to. Last night was a little chilly with the window open.
I weighed 86 kilos before lunch. I had Breton crackers with five-year-old cheddar and a glass of limeade.
I headed out for a bike ride in the afternoon but on Maple Grove someone had thrown out a nice looking colander. I grabbed it and took it home and then headed back out. I only lost six minutes. Around the corner on Brock Avenue, I found a stainless-steel pasta server, so I put it in my backpack and continued on.
On Yonge Street just south of College there was a protest march of between fifty and a hundred vegans against animal cruelty. Someone had a sign that read, "Eggs and Dairy Are A Feminist Issue". They had a drummer and a person with a megaphone leading the chant, "Animals are here with us, not for us!" But First Nations and the Inuit all have philosophies that understand that animals are here with us and yet still are tuned enough to the cycle of life to realize that killing animals and harmony with them are not mutually exclusive.
On Queen Street, a little girl was looking at her shadow and said, "I'm taller than I am!"
I weighed 85.2 kilos at 17:05.
I was caught up on my journal at 18:11.
I reviewed four more videos of me playing "A Ham and a Fiddle". June 22 was one of the days when there was crackling in the audio, and so I thought that even if this was good I wouldn't be able to use it. But it was a pretty good performance with good light and so I checked the audio file again for that day and it sounds like the crackling was only at the beginning during the first few songs. I can't hear it on this song; June 24 was pretty good but my eyes looked baggy; June 26 was quite good, spirited, and friendly, but a loud truck or bus was passing at the end. It's possible that I could remove that sound in Audacity though; June 28 was good but the final chord sounded like it was out of tune.
I downloaded the two Oral Roberts videos that I bookmarked yesterday which show him putting his hands on people's heads and shaking them. I converted them both to AVI and then I imported them into Movie Maker. I put them on the same timeline and rendered them both as one movie. I imported that movie into the Movie Maker project for my song "Instructions for Electroshock Therapy". I copied it to the end of the timeline and started cutting out everything but the laying on of hands segments. I'll work on that some more tomorrow.
I chronologized some more hard copies of transcriptions of the Gumby Bible.
I made pizza on a slice of Bavarian sandwich bread and had it with a beer while watching The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special from 1980 and the first half of the Looney Bugs Bunny Movie from 1981. Both of these stories use small bits of new animation to thread together old cartoons into a story.
The Mystery Special begins as a parody of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, with a cartoon silhouette in profile that looks a lot like Alfred Hitchcock but turns out to be Porky Pig.
The story opens with a bank robbery by a tall, dark, and masked stranger. On the case is federal agent Elmer Fudd. He gets a report that the Tall Dark Stranger is about to leave the City Bank and so he heads for that location. But the stranger has already left and when he pulls up he sees Bugs Bunny, who has just taken a carrot from his safety deposit box. Elmer thinks that Bugs Bunny is the Stranger and arrests him. Bugs is placed in prison and we see parts of the story in which he outwits Yosemite Sam who is serving as a prison guard.
After Sam releases Bugs because he is driving him insane, we see Bugs in the desert where he's set up an underground home. Meanwhile Wile E Coyote hears the radio report of Bugs's escape and learns that he is wanted eaten or alive. Then we see one of the old segments in which Wile E tries to catch Bugs Bunny.
Then Bugs boards a train on which is also Tweety Bird and Silvester, but also Agent Fudd and the real Tall Dark Stranger. Tweety and Silvester are in the storage car in side-by-side cages. Silvester tries to grab Tweety but is whacked by the porter, who hangs Tweety's cage from a ceiling hook. Silvester climbs up on some suitcases to grab Tweety but Tweety pulls on the emergency cord and causes the train to slam on its brakes, which sends Silvester flying into the coal furnace of the engine. Silvester grabs Tweety but hears the porter coming and so he stuffs the bird into a mail bag and hooks it on the mail catcher bag crane that the train is passing. He waits until the porter passes and then quickly runs to the caboose to retrieve the bag before the train passes it. He reaches into the bag but inside, instead of Tweety is a large and vicious bulldog. The dog pursues him on top of the train and as the train is turning a corner, Silvester waits for the dog with a club and jumps out only to get hit by the top of the entrance to a tunnel and knocked off the train. Meanwhile, Agent Fudd approaches Bugs to place him under arrest but Bugs gives him a kiss and then jumps out the window.
At the next station, Silvester meets the train disguised as Granny and asks for Tweety, so the porter hands the cage over. Agent Fudd sees that Tweety is missing and says, "The Tall Dark Stranger" has struck again. The newspaper says Tweety is a $million bird. Silvester is running with Tweety in his grip when reporters start taking pictures because they think he has rescued the bird. At a public event where Silvester is being honoured, he is asked to kiss Tweety for the cameras, but he can't help but try to swallow the bird. He is forced to cough him up.
Meanwhile Bugs is at the airport and wanders onto a plane. This is the story of when Yosemite Sam had just robbed the bank, but in the special, Sam has been hired by Agent Fudd. Sam forces Bugs to fly the plane and then jumps out with a parachute and the loot. Agent Fudd is flying with a propellor backpack and he takes the money then tells Sam he's fired. Bugs jumps out of the plane at Mount Foghorn National Monument, a parody of Mount Rushmore to fit the parody of North By Northwest that unfolds as the flying Agent Fudd pursues the running Bugs Bunny, who falls and hangs from the giant sculpture of Foghorn Leghorn. A rope is thrown and Bugs is pulled up by the Tall Dark Stranger, who reveals himself to be Porky Pig on stilts. He explains that he had to move the story along somehow.
The Looney Bugs Bunny Movie begins with the Academy Award winning short, Knighty Knight Bugs, which is set at the time of King Arthur.
Bugs Bunny then introduces the movie by talking about how the comedy that cartoons use began with slapstick in silent films. But then cartoons took over and as Charlie Chaplin once said, "How can we compete? These guys don't even have to stop to take a breath!" We see the story of Yosemite Sam's encounter with Bugs Bunny when Sam tries to swindle a rich old lady. But it ends with Sam having a safe dropped on him, causing him to die and go to hell. This segment combines the previous story of Sam going to Hades with new footage. The Devil has a slightly different voice and somewhat different lines. The Devil says he'll send Sam back if he brings someone to replace him. Sam goes to ancient Rome as he did before as a captain of the guards for Nero. When Sam jumps from a cliff to avoid lions, he lands back in hell and asks for another chance. The Devil sends Sam to Arabia where he tries to storm a fortress where Bugs Bunny is holed up but Sam winds up getting blown up and returns to hell. The Devil sends him next to the wild west where he tries to rob a train but Bugs Bunny saves it and Sam goes over an unfinished bridge to land back in hell. This time Sam decides to stay in Hell.
Bugs Bunny narrates an introduction to ACT 2 with live action segments from gangster movies. Then we see the story of Bugs Bunny as Federal Agent Elegant Mess, who goes after Rocky and his gang. He arrests them but in this story, Rocky's lawyer gets him off. Rocky and Mugsy rob a jewelry store.
Then we see a story of Porky Pig as a farmer who has discovered that one of his birds has laid a 24-carrot golden egg. But it's a mystery who laid it. We hear the goose say it was him and that he's not telling because he knows what happened to the goose in the fairy tale. The goose tells Porky that Daffy Duck did it. Daffy becomes famous. Rocky and his gang force Porky to sell Daffy to Rocky. Rocky tries to force Daffy to lay another egg and gives him five minutes. When Rocky shoots the feathers off the top of Daffy's head he miraculously lays a 24-karat egg. Daffy tries to leave but Rocky points at several egg crates and tells Daffy to fill them up. Bugs Bunny and the feds bust in just after Daffy is in stress after he has laid several more golden eggs. Bugs asks Daffy if he needs anything. Daffy says a proctologist. Rocky's lawyer gets him off again and that's halfway through the movie.
The Devil was voiced by Frank Nelson, who started working in radio in his teens. He moved to Hollywood where he starred in several local dramatic radio series. His first nationally broadcast work was in the sitcom "Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel" starring Groucho and Chico Marx. He became a regular on the Jack Benny Program in the 1930s where he would often play a department store floor walker or some kind of store clerk. He reprised the role on Benny's television show. He became famous for his long-drawn-out catchphrase, "Eeeeeyeeessss?" which has been much imitated long after Nelson's death, notably by Jon Stewart on the Daily Show.
I did a search for bedbugs and found none.
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