Eddie Dean

            On Wednesday morning I worked out the chords for the sixth verse of "Sans blague" (No Joke) by Boris Vian. 

            I memorized the eighth verse of "Trompe d’érection" (Missed Erection) by Serge Gainsbourg. 

            I weighed 84.8 kilos before breakfast, which I had time to eat before leaving for class. 

            When I got to the Earth Sciences building there was an exodus of students. Perhaps they'd all just written their midterm tests and finished early. I checked and saw that my classroom was empty of the usual previous class. 

            In English in the World class, we looked at the Toronto-located science fiction story "A Habit of Waste". 

            For why Cynthia says of her parents, "I wished they would drop their banana boat accents" I offered the explanation that accents become stronger when people are emotional. Maybe she meant, "I wished they would calm down." 

            Style shifting. Food words. 

            The author Nalo Hopkinson teaches creative writing in California. 

            Slang and profanity. 

            Different kinds of words are used to describe her current white body and her old black body. I say she feels distanced from her new white body and describes it as she would that of a stranger. But she speaks about her old black body in a familiar manner like one would do to a sister. Her father also refers to her previous "ass". 

            Dysphemism is the opposite of euphemism. 

            I say "Vid queen" is probably a term from that invented future. 

            Describing Spam as "canned horse's cock" sounds to me like a Caribbeanism. It reminds me of the pigostyle of a turkey being called "the Pope's nose" by the Irish. 

            I say if you almost died maybe you would want to go see your mom and dad and return to your childhood too. 

            Most slang has to do with judging. Shocking mysterious. 

            I stopped at Freshco on the way home where I bought three bags of grapes, a pack of strawberries, three bags of milk, a jug of orange juice, and a jug of lemonade. 

            I had saltines with five-year-old cheddar for lunch and a glass of lemonade. 

            I weighed 84.7 kilos just before 16:00. 

            I finished editing last night's and today's lecture notes and was caught up on my journal at 18:40.

            I retook the dictionary quiz several times and was able to change my score from .89 to 1.03 out of 1.05. I can't figure out which of the word origin processes I misnamed. I seem to have gotten one wrong but I get the same score each time I redo it. My score is now 98%, which is an A+ anyway. It seems ridiculous to just redo it over and over until I get 100%. 

            I did the Exit Slip survey for today's class. 

            I made pizza on a slice of Bavarian sandwich bread with Basilica sauce and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching episode 19 of The Beverly Hillbillies. 

            Pearl has decided to go into business as a music teacher, charging 20 cents for yodeling lessons. Because of Pearl's yodeling, the family bloodhound Duke has run away from home. Duke ran to the Drysdale residence next door and so Mrs. Drysdale calls the dog catcher to have him taken away, and she also calls the police to stop Pearl from disturbing the peace with her yodeling. 

            Two cops pull up in a squad car and the sergeant goes in but he comes out a little bit tipsy, talking in a southern US accent and yodeling. But unlike Pearl's obviously dubbed yodeling, he really is singing. 

            Elly May follows the dog catcher and beats up everyone at the dog pound. Jane Hathaway finds her locked in a cage with Duke. Jane lets her out but Elly refuses to leave unless the other animals are released. Jane says that someone needs to pay to take them home and so next we see Jane and Elly in a car full of several dogs and one cat. Elly names them all and teaches the cat to swim. The police are called again and this time the sergeant's partner is escorted by Jed to the pool to talk about the animals. But as soon as he sees Elly he is overcome by her beauty and forgets about the dogs. 

            The yodeling cop was played by Eddie Dean, who was the brother of country music, TV, and sausage star, Jimmie Dean. Eddie made his name as a radio singer in the 1930s and then went to Hollywood to act as a singing cowboy. He became a star in the 1940s but his movies were notoriously poorly produced. Both Gene Autrey and Roy Rogers agreed that he was the best cowboy singer of all time. He was also a songwriter and his most famous song was "I Dreamed of a Hillbilly Heaven."

            For the fifth night in a row I found no bedbugs.