Danni Sue Nolan

            On Tuesday morning my left arm was just as sore as the day before but I could stretch the bike inner tube further upward. 

            I memorized the third verse of “L'araignée du soir” (The Spider of Night) by Boris Vian. There are two verses left. 

            I memorized the sixth verse of “Une Fille à la mer” (A Girl Out to Sea) by Serge Gainsbourg and translated it. There are two verses remaining. 

            I played my Martin acoustic during song practice for the last of two sessions and it stayed in tune the whole time. Tomorrow I’ll begin a two session stretch of playing my electrics. 

            I weighed 87.1 kilos before breakfast. 

            Around midday I brought the stepladder in and finished applying the second coat of primer to the ceiling and the upper walls. What’s left for the second coat I can reach from a chair and from the floor but I don’t think I’ll be able to get it all with what’s left in the can. Tomorrow I’ll finish up what I have and then I’ll have to get another can at the hardware store. I’m definitely going to need a third coat for the ceiling and walls but I don’t want to apply a fourth, even if still looks patchy. I think the brackets of the shelves will need at least four. 

            I weighed 86.45 kilos before lunch. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride but it started raining on my way up Brock. They were big, cold drops and I was getting wet and so I turned around at Dundas and went home, even though I knew it was going to stop. But it was the kind of sky you can’t trust and so it could have started up again when I was all the way downtown. Fuck that sky.

            I weighed 86.15 kilos at 17:15. 

            I was caught up in my journal at 18:30. 

            In the Movie Maker project to create a video for the studio recording of my song “Paranoiac Utopia” I continued to edit the video I shot on Friday. I finished the first run-through of editing and then started going through it again. I’ve knocked 23 minutes off of it and so now there are 40 minutes left. I don’t need any more than four minutes and probably only about two. 

            I made some screenshots of my “Élisa” video and then uploaded it to YouTube. 

            I started a “2024-09-06 Song Practice” Movie Maker project and almost had the audio synchronized with the video when it was time for supper. 

            I had a potato with gravy and three pork ribs while watching The Brady Bunch. 

            Peter is in Driscoll’s toy store when he sees a little girl climbing up a big wall shelf and notices it is coming loose from the wall. He grabs her and carries her out of the way before the shelf falls on top of her. The girl’s mother Mrs. Spencer is extremely grateful and Driscoll reports Peter’s heroism to the press. A reporter and a photographer come to the Bradys’ door and he gets his picture on the front page. At first his siblings are proud of him but it starts to go to his head and he begins bragging about it and retelling the story incessantly. Mrs. Spencer tells Peter he can have everything he wants from the toy store and he picks out several items. When they are delivered his parents tell him it’s too much and that he has to send most of it back. He tells Bobby he has to take out the garbage because heroes don’t have to. Then the paper names Peter the Outstanding Citizen of the month and awards him a plaque, plus $50. He uses the money to throw a party and invites his family and all of his friends. But none of his friends show up and his siblings don’t want to be there. It starts to sink in that he’s been getting carried away. He’s sulking in his room when Carol calls him down to show his siblings are all there for his party, plus Mrs. Spencer and her daughter. 

            Mrs. Spencer was played by Danni Sue Nolan, who made her film debut in Bandit King of Texas in 1949. She appeared in the Three Stooges film Gents in a Jam. She played the Daily Planet’s receptionist on The Adventures of Superman. She co-starred in Smoky Canyon, Flame of Youth, and Prisoners in Petticoats. She was married to producer William Asher for ten years (He later married Elizabeth Montgomery and then went on to produce Bewitched with her as the star).