I memorized the third verse “La main du masseur” (The Hand of the Masseur) by Serge Gainsbourg and worked on revising my translation.
I played my Martin acoustic guitar during song practice for the second of two sessions and it actually stayed in tune for two songs in a row, but was out of tune most of the time. Tomorrow I’ll begin a two session stretch of playing my electric guitars and they will probably be in tune.
I weighed 86.55 kilos before breakfast, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the morning since January 9.
Around midday I was preparing to take my bike trailer to No Frills. I always bring my bike down to the street first because I can’t carry the bike and the trailer together downstairs. The bike post in front of my building was buried in a snowbank and so I had to walk it over to O’Hara and then a few meters north to the bike post there. Then I brought my trailer down. This was the first time I’d hitched the trailer to the new bike and the seat post is thicker, so I had to adjust the hitch with the screw further out. Crossing King Street to the supermarket I had to drag the trailer over a snowbank. Inside, all the grapes were too soft so I didn’t get any. I bought a pack of raspberries, bananas, two packs of five-year-old Canadian cheddar, a strawberry-rhubarb pie, a loaf of cinnamon-raisin bread, a bag of frozen french fries, mouthwash, olive oil margarine, three bags of milk, iced tea, orange juice, two containers of skyr, a bag of Miss Vickie’s regular chips and another of the apple smoked barbecue. All the skim milk and the 1% were dated best before next week. The only kind I could find with a March date was 2%.
I weighed 86.65 kilos at 14:50. I had saltines with five-year-old cheddar and a glass of low sugar iced tea.
I took a siesta at 15:30 and got up at 17:00. It was too late for a bike ride but I wouldn’t have taken one anyway because the roads are still too treacherous.
I weighed 86.85 kilos at 17:15. That’s the most it’s been in the evening since January 13.
I was caught up on my journal at 18:45.
I imported the Rainbow Family Gathering documentary into Movie Maker and deleted everything but the part with the rainbow umbrella. I published that by itself and then imported it back in. I inserted it into timeline of my Seven Shades of Blues project. I’ll edit it further later. I downloaded the Woodstock documentary and that took half an hour. Tomorrow I’ll convert it to WMV and that will probably take another half an hour.
I reviewed the song practice video of my electric performance of “Sixteen Tons of Dogma” from September 2. After 35 minutes of retakes I started the take at 41:30 and when I fumbled I was tired of doing retakes so I just finished the song.
I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with Bolognese sauce, oven fries, parmesan and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching season 3, episode 2 of Batman.
This story begins with the Riddler in a little used gymnasium called Little Used Gymnasium. He wants a boxer named Kid Gulliver to throw the biggest fight of his career but he refuses. Riddler asks him, “What do many boats, shovels, laundries, whistles and hot showers have in common?” The answer is steam and it is in the steam room where Gulliver is locked. Riddler plans to get rid of every top prizefighter in town and then control all the prizefighting everywhere. He asks, “When is the top of a mountain like a savings account?” The answer is when it piques one’s interest. That night Bruce, Dick and Alfred are watching the fight and when Kid Gulliver goes down in the third Bruce smells something fishy. Meanwhile at the boxing arena box office Riddler switches on a strange electric box and asks, “When does a painter use a trigger instead of a brush?” The answer is when he’s a stickup artist. He leaves the box there and makes off with the night’s take, leaving the cashier in some sort of trance. Barbara Gordon comes to her window to buy two tickets and finds her screaming about the box. We see the show intro with the cartoons of Batman and Robin but now Batgirl has been added, once swinging across the screen on a Batrope and later driving across the screen on her Batgirl Cycle. Barbara changes to Batgirl, confiscates the box and takes it to Commissioner Gordon’s office where she, Batman and Robin analyze it. But inside the box are only metal filings and a note: “Who rules the ring? No prince, king or raja. Look for a clue on the walls of Khafajah”. Batman says Khafajah was a famous temple in Mesopotamia. Gordon says his daughter studied the history of southwestern Asia in college and he could call her for help. Suddenly they all notice that Batgirl has disappeared. Batman says that it’s one of Batgirl’s talents and he’s impressed. Speaking of vanishing they get word that Kid Gulliver has disappeared. Meanwhile Kid Gulliver is in Riddler’s hideout smiling because he’s been doped with Riddle juice. Riddler asks his men, “If we had our choice of laps to sit on which would we choose?” The answer is Kid Gulliver’s lapse of memory. The Riddler’s moll this time happens to be a TV journalist named Betsy Boldface and she reads him her latest newsbreak: “Mushy Nebuchadnezzar, unchallenged champion of southwestern Asia’s boxing world has arrived in Gotham to challenge all comers”. She says Mushy is going to appear on her midnight sports telecast. Meanwhile Batman and Robin climb Barbara’s apartment building and knock on her balcony door. She says there are scrolls from Mesopotamia that indicate boxing existed there long before its official origins in Greece and Rome. That’s true. Gordon arrives to announce Kid Gulliver has been found but remembers nothing. Batman and Robin leave and Gordon switches on the TV to watch Betsy Boldface. She’s interviewing Mushy who is clearly really the Riddler. Batman and Robin go to the box office of Gotham Square Garden where they find Chief O’Hara wandering in a trance. Suddenly Riddler appears and asks, “What have the following in common: hemming, basting, purling and tacking?” Then he vanishes. Batman says Riddler’s list all relates to needlework. Meanwhile Barbara knows by his chin that Mushy is not from southwest Asia so she decides to investigate. She changes to Batgirl and heads out on her Batgirl Cycle. She arrives at Riddler’s hideout after following Betsy and tells him she knows he is Mushy. Riddler asks, “What’s most alluring when it’s lowest or highest, when it’s in the air or in a hole, when it’s served you yet you can’t touch it?” The answer is an enchanting ace. Into the room walks the beautiful Joan Collins in a short and tight silver lamé dress. Riddler tells his men to put earmuffs on and then asks Siren to sing. Siren is surprised that her entrancing voice has no effect on Batgirl or on Betsy and so it turns out her power is only over men. She would have to have only just acquired this power for her not to have known. If she’d had it all her life she would have known years ago. This is actually the first super power that any character has displayed on the Batman TV series. Before this there were a lot of implausible effects from machinery but no one has shown a power on their own. Batgirl is immediately captured by Riddler’s henchmen before she can even kick anybody. Next Riddler has Siren use her power on the three top prizefighters in the country and now they will obey any order. They are taken to the steam room from which it is discovered that Batgirl has escaped through a vent. Riddler asks, “What’s looser than a thread, a fish, and flying ribbons?” The answer he says is a woman’s tongue. He says he has to coax batman into the ring with Mushy. The next morning the flustered Gordon calls Barbara to visit him for moral support. He reads her the Riddler’s most recent riddles: “What do bells, curtains, twins and hair have in common?”. She says bells ring, curtains have rings, twins are ringers and hair sometimes comes in ringlets. He reads her another: “Any aggressor should beware his successor”. She says it’s obviously meant to rhyme with Nebuchadnezzar. Batman arrives to learn from this that Mushy is challenging him to a boxing match. Then Riddler calls Batman and asks, “What are the chilliest twelve inches in the world?” The answer is two cold feet. Then, “What suit of cards lays eggs?” The answer is chicken hearts. Riddler tells Batman this call is being broadcast by radio throughout Gotham and so the whole city is hearing him being called a coward. Batman is angry and says he can’t abide being called a coward so he accepts the challenge and will fight Mushy that night at Gotham Square Garden. That night Alfred comes in disguise as Batman’s trainer, Gus. Harriet Cooper comes to watch because she loves a fight. Batman is not surprised that his opponent is really the Riddler who is much shorter than Batman. Riddler asks, “What eats crow, calls uncle and tosses sponges?” The answer is a loser. One light punch and the Riddler is almost ready to collapse. His men remind him to spritz Batman with the metal filings in his gloves. Riddler fakes right and hits left and metal filings fall in Batman’s boots. Under the ring is a giant magnet controlled by Betsy and so Batman can’t move his feet and is being pummeled by the Riddler. Barbara is in the audience with her father and she excuses herself. She goes into the ladies lounge and emerges as Batgirl. She goes to the basement and uses her Batrope to wreck the magnet’s supports. When he sees Batman’s feet freed he escapes with his men. Batman and Robin go after them and find Batgirl already there. The final fight takes place around a lot of gym equipment. Alfred also participates.
Later Siren, now called Lorelei Circe comes to see Gordon. She sings and puts him in a trance. That’s the cliffhanger.
Betsy was played by Peggy Ann Garner, whose mother had her modeling and acting in summer stock when she was 5. She took her to Hollywood the next year. Her film debut was in Little Miss Thorough bred. At 13 she co-starred in A Tree Grow in Brooklyn. She starred in Junior Miss. She lost the Juvenile Oscar that she won in 1946. Her TV debut was in the 1949 Ford Theatre presentation of Little Women. She starred in the short lived sitcom Two Girls Named Smith. At 20 she moved from Hollywood to the theatrical world of New York. She studied at the Actors Studio and in 1956 won the Harvard Hast Pudding Award for woman of the year. She became a real estate broker in the 60s.
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