I memorized the chorus of “À poil ou à plumes” (Naked or in Feathers) by Serge Gainsbourg. There are four verses left to nail down.
I weighed 87.25 kilos before breakfast, which is the lightest I’ve been in the morning since last Saturday.
Around midday I rode to No Frills where I bought three bags of grapes, a pack of raspberries, bananas, a small tomato, two packs of five-year-old cheddar, a boneless New Zealand rib steak, some freezer bags, a jug of iced tea, a jug of orange juice, two containers of plain skyr, one container of berry skyr, and a bag of Miss Vickie’s chips. I did a price match on the grapes at $4.39 a kilo.
I weighed 88.3 kilos at 14:23. I had saltines with tomato slices, five-year-old cheddar and black olive paste with a glass of iced tea.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back. It’s much more pleasant riding on Richmond on a Saturday without all the frantic traffic of rush hour cyclists jostling for position in the bike lane.
I weighed 88.55 kilos at 18:30.
I was caught up in my journal at 19:24.
I reviewed the cassette of the recording of the Christian and the Lions concert we did at Lee’s Palace on October 6, 1995. Barzin was our drummer and he used the kit that belonged to Brainbox. I started digitizing it but I had a hard time getting the tape converting machine to start recording as it kept turning itself off.
In my “2024-10-8 Song Practice” Movie Maker project I eliminated another audio take of “I Love You. Neither Do I" before supper. I don’t know if the next take is the final one but I’ll find out tomorrow.
I made pizza on a slice of Bavarian sandwich bread with marinara sauce, tomato pesto, some of the sliced potatoes, chopped ham, and cheese from the herbed scallop potato casserole I made on Thanksgiving, plus five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching episode 3 of Cain’s Hundred.
Edward Hoagley is a big time bootlegger and has been in business since prohibition. He owns several legitimate businesses that support the illegal one, such getting sugar from his candy factory; yeast from his bakeries; land for his stills from his real estate companies; transportation for his alcohol from his trucking companies; and the installation of the needed equipment by his construction companies. He’s a lone businessman with support from the syndicate. They don’t like that he’s not more imbedded with them but he’s too good at what he does. One of his employees gets a broken back from a fall and is promised insurance but they cause him damage by moving him out onto the highway where he is told to say he was hit by a car. Nicholas Cain is a former friend and lawyer of Hoagley but Hoagley is now part of Cain’s vendetta against the mob for killing his fiancé although he had nothing to do with it. Cain learns about the man with the broken back and that he’s an employee of one of Hoagley’s candy factories. The doctors say he’s lying about the car accident. Knowing that Cain is on his case Hoagley wants to shut down the business but the syndicate won’t allow it. A truck full of cans of 190 proof alcohol overturns and is abandoned. Cain investigates and determines the delivery point must be nearby. Cain finds a likely place and pretends he’s out of gas. While the watchman is getting him some, Cain ducks inside to see that it's Hoagley’s biggest booze factory. Hoagley happens to be there and sees him. He orders the stills shut down for now. Hoagley’s plant manager is his syndicate connection and he calls in an assassin named Charlie Chin just in case they need him. Cain runs into former governor Stapleton at his hotel and meets his 35 years younger wife Jenny who turns out to be an old girlfriend of Cain’s. Jenny reveals she brought the governor there so Cain could see him. She says the governor is Hoagley’s friend and so is she and she wanted Cain to see what happened to Hoagley’s friends. One of Hoagley’s henchmen is waiting outside Cain’s hotel room and escorts him to see Hoagley at a restaurant where he is the only customer. Hoagley offers Cain all the incriminating information he needs and he’ll put it in a safety deposit box to open at the appropriate time, but he doesn’t know when that time is yet. Cain is not interested. He accuses him of buying the governor but Hoagley says he likes that old man. Hoagley says he needs time so he can get something he’s always wanted. Hoagley goes to see the Stapletons in the big house he paid for and plays backgammon with the governor. Later Hoagley orders the stills back to work and says falsely that he’s made a deal with Cain. Hoagley goes to the governor and tells him he’s taking him to the Caribbean with him where they’ll be free of the syndicate. Jenny tells Cain and is surprised to hear he made no deal with Hoagley. Cain and the feds raid Hoagley’s main still. This is very much like a modern day untouchables with Cain playing the role of Eliot Ness. But it’s very unrealistic to have someone who has had a long career as a lawyer suddenly becoming a two fisted crime fighter and leading FBI raids. Hoagley lies to the syndicate that he paid Cain $185,000 and that Cain double crossed him. Jenny calls Cain and he goes to the house where Hoagley is getting ready to leave with the governor. She wants Cain to stop them but I don’t see why. Hoagley tells Cain he’s got everything he wanted but Cain says he still needs to bring him in. That doesn’t make sense either. What’s the point of putting the old man in prison when he’s given up his crimes? Chin the executioner arrives. Cain had thought he was gunning for Hoagley but he’s after him. His gun is pointed at Cain and Jenny as Hoagley and the governor walk away. Cain fights with Chin and his gun goes off, shooting through the window to hit and kill Hoagley. But before he dies he gives the $185,000 to the governor.
Nicholas Cain is played by Peter Mark Richman in a reprisal of playing the same character in the films The Murder Men and The Crimebusters. He graduated from college as a qualified pharmacist. He worked for a while in that field but his first love was theatre and he’d already made his stage debut. He studied under Lee Strasberg. His film debut was in Friendly Persuasion in 1956. He co-starred in Jason Takes Manhattan. He was the voice of The Phantom in the animated series Defenders of the Earth. He played Ralph Offenhouse in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Neutral Zone". He co-starred in Longstreet. He played C.C. Capwell on Santa Barbara. He played Chrissy’s father the Reverend Snow on Three’s Company. He was also a successful figurative expressionist painter.
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