Jay Adler

            On Sunday morning I finished posting the lyrics to “Slavic Soul”, my translation of “L'âme slave” by Boris Vian. I listened once to his song “L'amour en cage” (Love in a Cage) and tomorrow I’ll start memorizing it. 

            I transcribed from the screenshot I took of the Vizard transcription the lyrics it detected from “Rêves et caravelles” (Dreams and Caravels) by Serge Gainsbourg. I finished memorizing the song and searched for the chords. No one has posted them of course and so I worked out the first three chords of the first line. 

            I played my Martin acoustic guitar during song practice for the last of four sessions. It went out of tune two or three times in 90 minutes but sounded great. Tomorrow I’ll begin a two session stretch of playing my electric guitars. 

            I weighed 86.7 kilos before breakfast. 

            Around midday I finished editing and published my Batgirl 12 video, made of clips from season 3, episode 12 of Batman. 

            I weighed 87.5 kilos before lunch, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the early afternoon since last Sunday. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown. The Pride parade was going down Yonge and so I went down Bay until I saw the parade was on Dundas and so I took Edward to University, rode south to Queen, and then west to home. 

            I weighed 86.5 kilos at 17:45. 

            I was caught up on my journal at 18:50. 

            I created a Movie Maker project for my September 5. 2024 song practice. The audio was behind the video and it took over half an hour to synchronize them. Tomorrow I’ll delete all the songs before “Laisse tomber les filles”. 

            In the Movie Maker project to create a video for the Christian and the Lions studio recording of Brian Haddon’s “The Ballad of My Chest Cavity” I had the concert video and the studio audio synchronized up to “When just one whiff of that glorious air”. After that the video is slightly ahead and so I need a small clip to push it back. I started looking for a video clip of an oxygen atom but so far there’s nothing. 

            I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with Marinara sauce. basil pesto, some chopped up back bacon, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching season 2, episode 14 of The Bill Cosby Show. 

            Chet has been nominated for teacher of the year. At first he thinks he doesn’t care but then he starts campaigning and wins. One of the teachers who is Chet’s friend tells someone he didn’t vote for him because he was teacher of the year last year and wouldn’t wish that position on anyone. The election is followed by a banquet that is sponsored by the PTA to raise money for things the school needs like motion picture equipment. The tickets are $8 each, which would be about $66 today and besides the ten tickets that Chet buys for friends and family, only six more have been sold as the day of the event approaches. Chet finds himself campaigning again to sell tickets just so he won’t be embarrassed by the turn-out. His tailor Mr. Abrams hears that he’s been elected teacher of the year and overdresses him in a tuxedo. The night of the banquet a crowd turns up after all because there is a raffle for a colour TV and another for a trip to Hawaii. 

            Mr. Abrams was played by Jay Adler, who was a small part supporting actor and a member of an acting family. His parents were well known Yiddish actors and several of his siblings were also Hollywood actors. His sister Stella became a renowned acting teacher. He co-founded the Theatre Mart Group. His film debut was in No Time to Marry in 1938.