On Saturday morning I memorized the first verse of “Sacha Distel and Jean-Pierre Cassel’s Dance”, a TV skit written for them by Serge Gainsbourg to perform together on a television show in 1963. Distel was a singer and Cassel was a dancer and so the skit involves each trying to teach the other their particular skill. Each verse is divided by Distel scat singing. It will probably take a few days for me to get it all nailed down in my head.
I weighed 85.7 kilos before breakfast, which is the lightest I’ve been in the morning since last Saturday.
Around midday I went down to No Frills where I bought five bags of green grapes, two packs of raspberries, they had whole chickens on sale but they looked old so I didn’t get one, Sensodyne toothpaste, low sugar iced tea, a jug of orange juice, and a bag of Miss Vickie’s applewood smoked chips. Hanan the cashier asked if I was going to do a price match on the chips. I wasn’t aware that anyone had a cheaper price. She said it was cheaper at Freshco and offered to do the price match for me. I was pretty sure that the sale on grapes at Freshco was only for red grapes but she said it was for both and so I didn’t argue. Later I checked and saw I was right but it was nice of her to give me a deal.
I locked my bike in front of my building next to another bike while I hauled the groceries upstairs in my trailer. When I went back for my bike, the other bike was gone and mine was leaning lopsided away from the post. Later when I was going to hang it up I saw my front wheel was loose. I took it over to Metro Cycle and the guy showed me that the lever had been pulled to remove my front wheel. I guess either the other guy’s bike had gotten caught on it and pulled it loose or someone had actually tried to take off the wheel.
I weighed 85.9 kilos before lunch. That’s the least I’ve tipped the scales in the early afternoon since February 9.
I took a siesta at 15:30 and didn’t wake up until 17:30.
I weighed 86.35 kilos at 17:50. I weighed the same in the evening on February 12.
I was caught up on my journal at 19:00.
I watched another half hour of The Blackboard Jungle and I think I can harvest some clips from it to fit into the video for the studio recording of my song “Seven Shades of Blues”. But maybe only for the lines, “Mom and dad want baby’s freedom, the child wants mom and dad’s”.
I reviewed the song practice videos of my acoustic performances of “Sixteen Tons of Dogma” on September 27 and 28. On September 27 the take at 36:00 was okay but the guitar was out of tune at the end. On September 28 the take at 25:00 was not bad.
I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with marinara sauce, parmesan, a sliced potato, and the last of my five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching season 3, episode 23 of Batman.
King Tut is a locked-in patient at the Mount Ararat Psychiatric Hospital. We find him in a session with his psychiatrist and telling him about his childhood when he finds the doctor has fallen asleep. Tut lifts his key and escapes. Later Tut has already formed a gang and they are robbing the Rosetta Stone Company of only $47,000, even though there is more. Tut says there is no need to be a pig about it. Batman is notified and later we see him and Robin in Commissioner Gordon’s office, with Barbara Gordon there as well. Batman laments that Tut didn’t have a little more time to be rehabilitated. Barbara says, “As John Greenleaf Whittier said, ‘For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been”’”. Robin says it’s from Maud Muller, stanza 53. Batman leaves to interview Rosetta. Gordon says he wants to move to the suburbs but doesn’t have time to look for a place. Barbara says she’ll do some looking for him. Meanwhile Tut has his hideout at his girlfriend Florence of Arabia’s belly dancing studio. Tut tells his gang he wants to acquire Nilanium, which is the hardest metal in the world (although it doesn’t exist in our world). The only modern place it exists is under Wayne Manor. He plans on using the $47,000 he stole to buy a plot of land directly adjacent to Wayne Manor. He will tunnel down and sideways under Wayne Manor to mine the Nilanium and use it to build indestructible machines and buildings. He goes to the unscrupulous real estate broker Manny the Mesopotamian who happens to have the listing on that very property. Meanwhile Batman figures that Tut plans to buy something that costs exactly $47,000. He asks the Bat Computer and the answer is the property that Tut mentioned, which Bruce Wayne is selling. But since Wayne is selling it for $48,000, Batman thinks the computer needs oiling (I should try oiling my computer to see if it runs more smoothly). At the same time Barbara has gone to ask Manny about any properties he might have for sale and learns about the plot that Tut is buying. As she is leaving, Tut and his entourage are arriving and Barbara eavesdrops on their transaction as Tut pays $47,000 for the property next to Wayne Manor. Barbara as Batgirl calls Bruce Wayne to inform him of the purchase. The Bat computer surprises Batman with the information that Wayne manor is sitting on a priceless reserve of Nilanium. It also tells him that Tut’s tunnel is heading straight for the Batcave. He has to stop Tut before the tunnel is complete and so he calls Gordon’s office to tell Batgirl to meet him at the mine entrance. Batman says there are too many people near the secret Batmobile entrance and so he and Robin need to run the mile in three minutes. Robin comments that would be a world record but Batman says breaking world records is part of crime fighting. Tut learns that the tunnel is up against a hard barrier behind which is a cave. Tut is about to head down to blast through when he is confronted by Batman and Robin, and seconds later Batgirl, who Tut calls the “Dynamic Duenna”. A duenna is a governess or chaperone. Tut and his gang escape into the tunnel and climb into a mine cart which rolls down to the bottom of the shaft. Batman tells Batgirl to wait at the entrance as he and Robin pursue Tut, their reason being they don’t want her to learn their secret. The mine cart crashes through the wall and Tut finds himself in the Batcave, realizing that Batman and Robin must be Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson. Tut discovered Batman’s secret in a previous story but must have switched back to the personality of Professor William Omaha McElroy, which would have made him forget everything that Tut had learned. Batman and Robin confront Tut and a big fight takes place in the Batcave as Batman participates in destroying his own equipment. After his gang starts getting the worst of it, Tut heads up the tunnel. Batman produces a can of Batnesia to erase Tut’s gang’s memories, including that of Florence. It sounds fucked up and unethical to chemically erase people’s memories. They chase Tut to the mine entrance where Batgirl waits with Gordon and O’Hara. Tut is about to blab Batman’s secret when there is a partial cave-in and Tut is hit over the head, returning to the consciousness of Professor McElroy and forgetting anything Tut might have learned. Batman says Tut caused the cave-in by raising his voice three decibels above high C. There’s no such thing since decibels measure volume and C is a pitch. Later a flying saucer is sighted over Gotham. Inside are Joker and his gang.
Florence was played by Victoria Vetri who was credited as Angela Doria. She started acting and modeling in her teens. Her film debut was in The Pigeon That Took Rome and her TV debut was on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, both in 1962. She was Playboy’s Miss September, 1967 and then the Playmate of the Year 1968 (The title came with the gift of a pink AMC Javelin that she called “Angela”). She appears in Rosemary’s Baby when Mia Farrow’s character asks if she is Victoria Vetri and she says she is Teri Gionoffrio, while she is credited as Angela Dorio. She was friends with Sharon Tate and had been invited to her house the night she was murdered but was not feeling well so she didn’t go. She starred in When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth. In 1980 she was attacked during a home invasion and suffered a broken nose and broken ribs. In September 2011 she was sentenced to nine years in prison for shooting her husband in the back for cheating on her. She was released on parole in April 2018 at the age of 73.
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