Lloyd Haynes

            On Friday morning I finished working out the chords for the third verse of “Le temps passe” (Time Goes By) by Boris Vian. I started on the first line of the last verse and so far the chords are not a repeat of the second verse as I thought they would be. 

            I worked out the chords for the intro and all but the last line of the first verse of “Tandem” by Serge Gainsbourg. 

            I played my Kramer electric guitar during song practice. 

            I weighed 85.8 kilos before breakfast. 

            Around midday I mopped my floors. Now I’m freed up to start polyfilling the bathroom ceiling and walls but I have to buy the stuff first. I think I won’t have time to do that until Tuesday. 

            I weighed 86.25 kilos before lunch. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and stopped at Mountain Equipment to look for a balaclava to replace the one I lost yesterday. They had a few but they all had logos on them. Why would I want to ride my bike with someone’s tattoo on my face? 

            I weighed 85.7 kilos at 18:35. 

            I was caught up in my journal at 19:57. 

            I finished skimming through the Woodstock documentary. The only clip I can use for my project shows a girl near the end with a rainbow umbrella. Next I’ll look at a documentary on Haight Ashbury.

            I had a potato with gravy and my last rib steak while watching season 2, episode 54 of Batman.

            This story follows the cliffhanger at the end of the previous chapter. King Tut has placed Batman in a sarcophagus and submerged it in a pool. Assuming Batman is dead, Tut returns to his throne room with his entourage and the captive Robin. Meanwhile Afred is dusting the Batcave when he receives a signal in morse code and decodes it. Tut still can’t convince Lisa Carson (who he thinks is the reincarnation of Cleopatra) to marry him. He calls for Robin to be taken to the Royal Oil Boiling room to be boiled in oil where Tut insists that some real boiling royal boiling oil to boil the Boy Wonder in royally be prepared. Meanwhile Alfred is watching and listening through the skylight. He goes to the pool where Batman is submerged and pulls a switch to raise the sarcophagus out. Batman is unconscious but alive. He survived without air for over an hour by putting himself in a trance similar to the Indian fakirs and was able to slow his heart and respiratory systems. On the way to the boiling room Lisa finally says she will do anything if Tut will call her father and begins to pretend to flirt. Tut calls Mr. Carson and calls him dad. He says Lisa will remain safe for the sum of $8,300,487.12. Carson says his company sponsors the daily Jolly Jackson Phone Jockey radio show. When he has the money he’ll call in and say “The sleet in Crete is never very neat” as a signal. Then Carson calls Commissioner Gordon. Meanwhile Batman is concocting a formula that will turn oil into foam rubber. Gordon calls Batman and tells him he’s worried about his only child, his daughter Barbara. This is the first mention of her in the series as previously Gordon had said he was a grandfather. There is no real reason for him to mention her other than to prepare the audience for her first appearance as Batgirl at the beginning of the third season. Gordon says she’s away at college and will be graduating soon. Given how Professor McElroy was transformed into King Tut, Gordon just wants to be assured that Barbara is safe at college. Batman doesn’t think he needs to worry. Also Gordon tells Batman about the ransom money and the connection through the Jolly Jackson Open Mouth Show. Batman calls Jolly, who tells him he’s the 8th Batman who’s called today. To get him to prove he’s Batman, Jolly asks him a brainy question: “Who said biography should be written by an acute enemy?” Batman answers Arthur James Balfour and he was quoted in the London Observer in 1927. Jolly lets Batman speak on the air. The message is for King Tut only and so he asks everyone else to shut off their radios for 30 seconds. Tut calls Jolly and says to tell Batman to bring the money to the Royal Oil Boiling Room in the abandoned Boiler Works in the old Boylston section of Gotham. He adds, “You can also tell him to…” Batman pulls the earphones out and exclaims, “Oh! Such language!” When Batman tells Alfred that Robin’s being held at the Old Boiler Works he exclaims, “Holy steam valve!” Batman picks up the ransom money from Lisa’s father. At the Oil Boiling Room Robin and Lisa are tied back to back against a pole. Tut’s moll Neila is jealous of Tut’s obsession with Lisa and wants her out of the way and so she unties her and Robin so they will escape. But Tut sees them trying to sneak away and has them and Neila seized. Now Tut says that after Robin is fricasseed then Neila and Lisa will also be thrown into the boiling oil. Tut says, “I can’t stand violence, but I like torture”. Tut’s chancellor and jester lift Robin and prepare to toss him in the oil as Tut begins to count down from 10. At zero Batman crashes through the wall on his Bat Cycle, then tosses a tablet into the oil just as Robin is thrown. He lands on foam rubber. The final fight begins and Tut gets knocked unconscious. When Batman and Robin are triumphant, Professor McElroy wakes and realizes he became King Tut again. Batman frees Lisa and Neila. Neila worries what’s going to happen to her but Robin tells her everything is going to be alright. Later Bruce escorts Lisa home from their date. She invites him in for milk and cookies. He says, “I’m afraid it’s rather late” then looks at his watch and sees that at 22:30 it’s even later than he thought. he shakes her hand but she asks him for a kiss. He gives in and after the kiss she tells him she baked the cookies herself. He looks at the fourth wall and says, “Man cannot live by crimefighting alone” then goes inside. 

            Tut’s chancellor was played by Lloyd Haynes, who studied acting at the Film Industries Workshop and Actors West in LA. His TV debut was in The FBI. He played Communications Officer Alden in the second Star Trek pilot “Where No Man Has Gone Before” but was replaced in the role by Nichelle Nichols as Uhura when the pilot was picked up. He played schoolteacher Pete Dixon on all 113 episodes of the sitcom Room 222. His film debut was in Madigan. He co-starred in Assault on the Wayne. He co-starred with Muhammed Ali in The Greatest. He was a light airplane pilot and developed a program to train minorities in aviation.