John Dunn

            On Tuesday morning I finished working out the chords for "J'en ai autant pour toi" (I Feel the Same About You) by Serge Gainsbourg and ran through the song in French and English. Tomorrow I'll upload it to Christian's Translations. 

            I weighed 86.4 kilos before breakfast. That's the heaviest I've been in the morning this August.

            Around midday, I finished cleaning the wall above my southern kitchen window and the top of the cornice. Brown was still coming off the cornice when I was done washing it, but I think that was the old varnish. 

            I weighed 85.7 kilos before lunch. 

            I took a siesta and really didn't want to get up, but I did anyway. 

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

            I weighed 85.1 kilos at 17:10. 

            I was caught up on my journal at 18:10. 

            I reviewed four more videos of me playing my song "Sixteen Tons of Dogma." On July 2 I fumbled one chord; July 3 was pretty good but I might have hit some wrong chords on the epilogue; on July 4 I hit a couple of chords wrong near the end; on July 5 I got the last two verses mixed up again and stumbled in my playing when I realized it. 

            In the Movie Maker project for my song "Instructions for Electroshock Therapy" I cut the 22-minute video that I'd shot on Friday of me lip-synching "No" down to two minutes. 

            I continued to look through the folders of my writing for parts of the Gumby Bible and the poems that I wrote using them as prompts. 

            I had a potato with gravy, two chicken wings, and one chicken spine while watching three Bugs Bunny cartoons from 1961 and one from 1962. 

            In the first story, Wile E Coyote is Bugs Bunny's new neighbour and he calls Bugs to ask to borrow a cup of carrots. But when Bugs brings them, he is grabbed and tied up. He's fully cocooned in rope, but he can still hop. Wile E is looking at his wine collection to decide what goes best with rabbit stew, when Bugs hops on a floorboard that causes one of the bottles to pop its cork in Wile E's eye. He hops again and Wile E ducks, but the cork bounces off several items to eventually flick a switch that lowers Wile E's murphy bed on his head. Bugs hops away to escape. Wile E next uses a vacuum cleaner over Bugs's hole to suck him up and then he takes the full bag back to his cave. But inside the bag are several lit dynamite sticks in the shape of a rabbit. Wile E shoots a cannon down Bugs's hole but Bugs diverts it with a complex system of pipes so that it winds up back in Wile E's cave and then rolls out again to hit him in the head. Wile E pours quick drying cement down Bugs's hole and then walks away but slams into a concrete column that rises out of Bugs's other hole. Wile E assembles a 10-billion-volt electromagnet. Then he drops an iron carrot down Bugs's hole. Bugs pretends to eat it and then Wile E switches the magnet on. It draws the carrot, but also Bugs's mailbox, everything metal in his den, then everything metal from the town nearby, vehicles, buses, then things from beyond the desert such as an ocean liner, a plane, the Eiffel Tower, satellites, and rockets from outer space, leading to a tremendous explosion. 

            The second story is set during Medieval times. England is invaded by one Viking named Sam the Terrible and everyone runs for the castle. Bugs Bunny decides to do something about it. As Sam is banging on the door, Bugs approaches him and tells him he has a nice Halloween costume. But he says his sword is too sharp for a child and so takes it and bangs the end on the stone floor to bend and dull it, so he won't hurt himself. Then he tells Sam that he's out too late and he'd better go home, or his mother will worry. He pats Sam on the behind and sends him away. Sam somehow acquires an elephant to try to break down the door, but the elephant rams into a painting of a door on the wall. Sam gets the elephant to shoot large boulders at the castle. But Bugs drops pepper on the elephant and causes it to sneeze and shoot a boulder at Sam. Bugs lowers the drawbridge and Sam charges for it on his elephant. But halfway across they fall through a weak part of the bridge. Sam tries to get into the castle's back entrance on the water. The elephant is on its back with its head underwater and its trunk above so it can breathe. But as they pass a rock, Bugs puts a cork in the elephant's trunk, causing it to head back to shore. Sam chases the elephant away and decides to invade the castle on his own. Sam piles a large amount of dynamite in front of the castle door and lights it all, but then Bugs raises the drawbridge so Sam can't get away from the explosion. It does however open the door and Sam charges in, but he encounters the elephant, who tells him he's on the good guys' side now. The elephant chases Sam to his boat and he paddles away. Bugs gives the elephant peanuts. 

            The third story is another one that results from Bugs getting lost on vacation. He and Daffy Duck, on their way to Palm Springs, have wound up in the Himalayas. Daffy gets back in the tunnel to return the way they came but he runs up against an abominable snowman. The snowman thinks Daffy is a bunny rabbit and says he is going to name him George and keep him as a pet. Daffy informs him he is not a rabbit but that he knows where he can find one. The snowman grabs Bugs but he escapes and brings Daffy back to him and tells him that Daffy is a rabbit. Daffy tries to reason with the Snowman and asks him what he thinks the distinguishing characteristics of a rabbit are. The Snowman says, "long ears". Bugs has just tied his ears down around his neck and put two fingers up behind Daffy's head, so the Snowman grabs Daffy again. Bugs starts tunneling away. The Snowman realizes that bunny rabbits don't have feathers and chases after Bugs. Next, we see the heavily sweating Abominable Snowman in Palm Springs sitting on a patio and telling a tourist how he never caught up with the bunny rabbit. The tourist is Bugs Bunny in disguise. Bugs sees someone tunneling their way and he holds a hat with rabbit ears over the hole that Bugs came from and Daffy pops his head up into the hat. The Snowman grabs Daffy but then we see nothing but a pool of water in the chair where the snowman had been sitting. Bugs says, "Whaddaya know, he really was a snowman!" 

            In the fourth story the Tasmanian Devil is being shipped in a crate to a zoo when the crane drops it, and the Devil is loose. The first thing it does is sink the ship it came on then it scares a shark out of the water. Then it smells food and arrives where Bugs Bunny is cooking in a cauldron over an open fire. Bugs is reading a recipe that says, "Add three carrots ..." Then the Devil says, "... and one rabbit" then he picks up Bugs, puts him in the pot, and closes the lid. Then the devil hears singing from inside the pot. He lifts the lid and Bugs is wearing a beard made of suds. He says, "Close the door sonny, it's a might drafty in here!" Then he lifts it again and Bugs is in drag taking a bath and slapping the Devil's face for being a cad. The Devil jumps in the pot and hears someone say, "You're drowning me!" He submerges to see, but Bugs has been throwing his voice. He's outside the pot and he now closes and rivets the lid shut. He shoots it out to see with a cannon. Bugs is roasting carrots on a spit when the Devil grabs him and puts him over the fire. Bugs tells him to turn him faster but when he does, suddenly the crank is the crank of a truck and Bugs drives away. Then the Devil grabs Bugs by the ears and begins to make a sandwich out of him. Bugs tells him he should be eating moose instead because moose is the natural food of Tasmanian Devils. The Devil wants to know how to catch one and so he lets Bugs free so he'll show him. Bugs takes him to a railroad tunnel and tells him it's a moose cave. He tells him to go in and club it and of course he gets run over by a train. Bugs tells him he was facing the wrong way, so he turns and gets run over again. When the Devil angrily confronts Bugs again, Bugs pretends it's a shishkebob emporium and he seats him at a table. The shishkebob is three lit dynamite sticks on a skewer. When the Devil comes back, Bugs traps him in a cage, and he is taken to the zoo. When Bugs comes to serve him lunch the Devil puts out a sign that reads "Don't feed the animals." 

            This last story was written by Scottish animator and writer, John Dunn. He started out at Disney, where the first story he worked on, "Man In Space" was nominated for an Oscar. In 1960 he moved to Warner Brothers where he worked on "The Pied Piper of Guadalupe, which was also nominated for an Academy Award. In 1963 he joined Depatie-Freling where he crafted the Pink Panther story The Pink Phink, which did win an Oscar. 

            I searched for bedbugs and for the second night in a row and I didn't find any. 

            I was extremely tired at midnight and wasn't able to finish my journal entry before bed.