I worked out the chords to the scat bridge between the first and second verses of “Sacha Distel et Jean-Pierre Cassel’s Song and Dance” by Serge Gainsbourg.
I weighed 86.85 kilos before breakfast.
I was still behind on my journal and so I worked on getting caught up but was still behind at lunchtime.
I weighed 87.5 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I was going to take my new bike to Metro Cycle to try out a Brooks leather saddle but first I thought I’d pump up my tires. The new bike’s tire tubes have a different kind of nozzle and I didn’t know how to fit my pump over it. Finally I took it to Metro to ask Gordon. He said it should work with my pump and I went home to try again. Finally I brought the bike and the pump downstairs. They were very busy at Metro but eventually Gordon showed me that I have to unscrew the nozzles a bit first.
Gordon put the Brooks leather saddle on my bike and adjusted the height until I felt comfortable. I took a test drive to Ossington and Bloor and it was a lot more comfortable than the ass chewer that came with the Surly. The characteristic of a Brooks saddle is that it adjusts itself to the rider’s derriere over time and becomes more and more comfortable over years of riding. I decided to buy it and also got a can of Brooks Proofide leather dressing. The total was $285 but I only had $270 in cash. Gordon said that was fine. It came with a fruity looking red, white and blue tassel that’s supposed to hang from the back of the seat. I asked Gordon to take it off.
I weighed 86.9 kilos at 18:50.
For supper I had guacamole with plantain chips and tea while watching the first two episodes of the Saturday morning cartoon series The Adventures of Batman. The animation and stories are pretty infantile compared to the Batman animated films and the later darker themed Batman animated series. They’re more on the level with the Aquaman cartoons.
In the first story, a pole vaulter’s pole suddenly turns to an umbrella at a crucial moment in the competition; a golfer’s club does the same, and so does a baseball bat. Batman and Robin collect the items and find they were all made by the Emperor Sporting Goods Company. Emperor is a type of Penguin. Penguin and his men prepare a trap for Batman and Robin at the factory. Batman thinks the Penguin is after a diamond studded athlete’s belt that will go to the all round winning athlete. They go to the factory to stop Penguin. The usual fight takes place but it’s not very dynamic. Penguin tries to get away but is stopped with a baterang and a net. He is arrested but in Commissioner Gordon’s office Batman learns that the diamond belt has only just been stolen, leaving Penguin off the hook. Penguin is going to sue Batman and Robin. Then the Joker posts a message for Batman in the newspaper that reads, “Have you heard it’s raining cats and dogs?” It’s the old joke about stepping in a poodle. Batman says poodles are performing dogs and he associates this with the performing comedian Barry Beagle who has a Peruvian pearl collection. Batman and Robin visit Joker’s hideout and fall down a trap door. They are attacked by Joker’s jesters but make short work of them. They arrest Joker but at police headquarters learn the Peruvian pearls have only just been stolen, so Joker is released. Batman is still sure the Joker and Penguin are behind these crimes. He thinks the two crooks are switching styles so that each one is committing the other’s crime. Meanwhile Joker and Penguin are exchanging the items they stole. Batman plants a TV news report that the diamonds in the championship belt are fake. The villains view the report and this sets them arguing because Penguin thinks Joker ripped him off. The two crooks fight but the Penguin wins with poison gas. Batman and Robin start to take Joker to the hospital, but an ambulance happens to be nearby and so Batman hands the Joker over to the EMTs. Batman and Robin go to arrest Penguin but he electrocutes them with a shelf of pool cues that suddenly point at them like guns. They come to consciousness chained to a batting cage with penguin machines that continuously throw baseballs at them. They are provided with bats but if they miss a single ball there will be an explosion leading to their deaths. Batman and Robin aim their hits directly at the throwing machines and destroy them. Batman hears from the Joker that the ambulance drivers were his men. Batman and Robin find and capture him. Joker and Penguin are punished with being placed in the same cell.
In the second story Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson are driving when they are roadblocked and two thugs attempt to rob them. But the Penguin jumps down from a tree and thrashes the crooks with his umbrella. Batman and Robin learn that Penguin has foiled three crimes this week. The truth is that the criminals that Penguin is nabbing really work for him. They are jailbreak experts and he’s putting them behind bars as part of a plan to spring Gotham’s greatest felons so they can work for Penguin. Batman feeds the data into the Bat Computer and finds the commonality behind all of Penguin’s crime fighting conquests. Then a jailbreak occurs at Gotham penitentiary but Batman and Robin arrive before the cons can get far. Batman lets one of them get away but plants a transmitter on him so he will lead them to the Penguin’s mountain hideout. Penguin discovers the transmitter and evacuates his nest. Batman lowers himself into the nest but is trapped by the solid steel strands of Penguin’s nest that are closing in. Batman radios Robin to hover the jet so the afterburners blast the strands and melt them. Penguin and his men try to get away in his flying upside down umbrella. But Batman’s jet flies above and he hooks the handle with a baterang and a steel cable Bat Rope, capturing Penguin and his gang.
Robin in this series as well as on the Super Friends cartoon series was voiced by Casey Kasem, who I remember from my teens as the DJ who hosted American Top 40, a show he hosted for more than 30 years. His catchphrase was “Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars”. Before working as a DJ and announcer he was a voice actor for The Lone Ranger. In 1964 Dick Clark hired him to be the co-host of a teen music show called Shebang. He co-starred in the biker film The Glory Stompers. he co-starred in The Incredible Two Headed Transplant. On TV he was also the voice of the beatnik Shaggy in the Scooby Doo cartoons, a character who seemed to be based on Maynard G. Krebs from the Many Loves of Dobie Gillis TV series. He was the voice of Alexander Cabot III on Josie and the Pussycats. He hosted the TV version of America’s Top 40 from 1980 to 1992. He voiced Cliffjumper in the Transformers animated series and the movie. In the early 50s he was an army DJ during the Korean Police Action. He founded the American Video Awards in 1983 and hosted it until it ended in 1987. He was of Palestinian and Lebanese descent. He was an advocate of Palestinian Independence and conflict resolution sessions between US Arabs and Jews.
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