I played my Martin acoustic guitar for the second of four sessions.
I weighed 85.8 kilos before breakfast, which is the lightest I’ve been in the morning in 46 days.
I worked on my Critical Summary of “Mysticism and Materiality: Pearl and the Theology of Metaphor” by Kerilyn Harkaway-Krieger. The only thing I wrote down is “a pearl as a metaphor for something immaterial and of great value is ironically dependant on the degree to which the reader values the physical objects known as pearls”.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown. On the way back I got caught in a downpour just west of Bathurst and got very wet but not soaked through. I stopped at Freshco where I bought two bags of green grapes, some bananas, some vine tomatoes, an English cucumber, and a bunch of scallions.
I weighed 86.2 kilos at 18:00.
I was caught up on my journal at 19:00.
I worked some more on my Critical Summary, mostly going through the essay and the poem’s translation.
I had a tomato, cucumber, scallion, and avocado salad with lemon juice and a glass of Garden Cocktail while watching season 2, episode 17 of Burke’s Law.
A children’s writer named Penelope Hubbard alias Mother Goose is murdered by strangulation with her own typewriter ribbon. Her secretary Peggy Frost finds the body while escorting orphans for a visit. She says every parent in the world had a motive to kill her because her books were horrible. There are no suspects until a precocious child with a crush on Burke comes forward. When she tells him her name is Lolita he says “Naturally” and she’s confused by his response but it’s obviously a reference to the Vladimir Nabokov novel of the same name. She lives next door and she has been watching through her window. When Burke asks what she saw she says the least he can do is buy a lady a drink so they go to the malt shop for a butter crackle milkshake. Between the time that Peggy left for the orphanage and returned, Lolita saw four people came to the victim’s house. She says she can draw them from memory. After she does so Peggy can place a name to each face. They are Valerie of the Magic Piano children’s show, Dr. Abernathy the psychiatrist, Mr. Perkins her publisher, and Little John Lester the last of the troubadours. Tim says John is performing at a certain folk club as they speak and so they go there. John is singing a bluesy rendition of the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme. He’s surprised when he learns that Mother Goose is dead but when Burke asks why he went to see her he sucker punches Tim in the gut and runs. He hijacks Burke’s Rolls and forces Henry to drive away. Burke later finds his car in the country by helicopter. Henry is in the trunk reading “Mary Mary Quite Contrary” by flashlight. He’s disappointed that he doesn’t get to see how it ends. Burke goes to the TV studio where Valerie is doing her show. She says she’s glad the witch is dead. She went to see her because another network had asked her to star in a kids’ show opposite hers. It would have knocked Valerie off the air so she begged her to turn it down. Later at the station Lolita comes to see Burke and tells him that she just saw the bearded man at Hubbard’s house. Burke finds John going through Mother Goose’s desk. They fight until Burke ends it with a karate chop to the neck. He’s arrested then questioned at the station. Burke asks for a confession. John says, “Man, you’re so far out I can’t get you on radar!” He admits he’s guilty of car theft but not murder. He reveals that Penelope Hubbard was his mother. She invited him over and told him to shave or be cut out of her will but he refused. Burke finds her will and John is the sole beneficiary. Burke goes to see Dr. Abernathy. The doctor doesn’t know why he’s there and asks Burke to lie down on the couch. He asks Burke his problem and he says he goes around suspecting people. Abernathy says he went to see Hubbard to get her to stop putting traumatic symbolism in her books because it was doing harm to children’s minds. Burke learns that John got a visit from Peggy in jail. Burke has dinner with Peggy and she admits she used to date John. Burke suggests she might be interested in John’s inheritance. She says Perkins her publisher threatened Hubbard. Tim and Les go to see him. Les suggests he knocked Hubbard off to stop her from moving to another publisher. He says he talked her into turning the offer down. Mr. Jennings, one of Perkins’s top advisors comes in. He’s a little boy in a suit and Perkins says he has a bigger office than he does. When Hubbard died she left her book open to page 88. Now Burke knows what it means. He gets the lab to splice an audiotape and then arranges a meeting at the TV station. He sets up speakers and a video and turns off the lights. When Valerie arrives he has the video of Mother Goose play as she asks, “Why did you kill me?” Valerie pulls a gun and shoots the video. After she empties her gun Burke arrests her. Burke had gotten an actor to imitate Hubbard’s voice. The page number 88 signaled the slang term for a piano.
George Hamilton put in a good performance as the Beatnik troubadour Little John Lester. His first screen appearances were on TV series. In his first film role he starred in Crime and Punishment USA, for which he won the Most Promising Newcomer Golden Globe. He starred in Angel Baby, Act One, You’re Cheatin Heart, That Man George, Jack of Diamonds, Evel Knievel, The Power, Love at First Bite (which he also produced), Zorro the Gay Blade, He co-starred in Light in the Piazza, Where the Boys Are, A Thunder of Drums, Two Weeks in Another Town, Viva Maria, Doctor You’ve Got to Be Kidding, The Godfather III, Poker Alice, A Time For Killing, and Off Key. On TV he co-starred in sixteen episodes of Dynasty and in the mini series Monte Carlo. He produced the movie One and Only which was based on his relationship with his mother. He was the host of the reality show The Family. He dated many famous women including the US president’s daughter Lynda Bird Johnson. Around this time he was drafted but got off because he was the sole means of support for his mother. Many have speculated that his relationship with the president’s daughter had something to do with it. He’s never turned down an autograph or selfie request.
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