Shaun Majumder

            On Sunday morning I downloaded a YouTube file of “Au revoir mon enfance” (Goodbye My Childhood) by Boris Vian. Then I uploaded it to Sonix to get a transcript, which I copied and pasted into my Boris Vian document. I listened to the song a couple of times while arranging the lyrics in their proper verse form. Tomorrow I’ll start memorizing it. 

            I finished collecting images for a photo montage video of “Flashback” by Serge Gainsbourg. I imported the video to Movie Maker and created a “Flashback” project. I imported the first nine images and I’ll do the rest on Monday. 

            I weighed 88 kilos before breakfast. 

            Around midday I applied a bit more primer to the inside of the bathroom door. Then I applied an entire coat to what used to be the exit door and frame of what is now my bedroom. There’s still quite a bit of primer left and so on Tuesday I’ll probably use it on the baseboards. I need to use up the primer because be the time I’m ready to prime the kitchen, the contents of this can would be all dried up. 

            I weighed 88.2 kilos before lunch. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back. 

            I weighed 87.4 kilos at 18:00. 

            I was caught up in my journal at 19:23. 

            I reviewed the next cassette tape to digitize. This one was a Christian and the Lions concert but I’m not sure where. It might have been Elvis Monday at the Elmo Cambo. We had a really good drummer although I don’t know who it was. I’m thinking it would have been either Jim Bravo or Jeremy Finkelstein. But I think we only worked with Jeremy in a rehearsal studio and not in concert. But it’s amazing what a difference a good drummer makes. We all sounded good because of it. The tape couldn’t have held the full concert because I would have introduced the band at some point. I digitized it and while it was recording there was also some Indian music that I couldn’t hear while reviewing the tape before. 

            I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with marinara sauce, tomato pesto, a cubed slice of ham, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a Creemore while watching season 3, episode 7 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. 

            Pilot Erica Ortegas’ brother Beto is on the Enterprise making a documentary film. For this episode we are viewing the story often as it is presented in his movie. In his narration he questions whether there is much difference between the Federation and an empire or between the members of the federation and colonists. The planet Kasar has attacked sister planet Lutani VII. Starfleet is helping the Lutani who have had 9 million casualties compared to 100 thousand of the Kasari. The Enterprise will be helping transport a Jakaru, which is a kind of gigantic space manta ray with the power to destroy starships. Jakaru means “Starlight”. Enterprise is about to try snagging the Jakaru with a tractor beam when the creature is fired upon by a Lutani ship. The Jakaru destroys it with a surge of radiation. Spock feels a psychic connection with the creature at that moment. The Enterprise recovers one survivor from the Lutani vessel and beams her to sick bay. Just before she dies she says using the Jakaru is a terrible mistake. The Lutani plan to use the Jakaru against the Kasari. The Jakaru has broken free and so the Enterprise follows. The Lutani were using a neural dampener that served as a shock collar for the creature so they could control it. Uhura thinks they should have tried to communicate with it. Spock decides to try to mind meld with the creature but needs to get close and so he and Uhura approach it in a shuttle craft. While Spock is connected they are approached by a Lutani warship. The commander Dr. Trunn Voor thinks Starfleet has betrayed the Lutani and is taking the Jakaru for itself. It powers weapons but then the creature shoots radiation at it and the shuttle is caught in between. Spock is overwhelmed and suffers a mental shock. The Lutani tried to manipulate the Jakaru’s brain chemistry to make it violent. Uhura wants to try to communicate with the Jakaru herself because Spock is too sensitive. She connects and learns that the creature wants to die. She will follow the Enterprise to the Lutani star. Voor threatens Pike but Pike says they are going to honour the Jakaru’s wishes. The Jakaru commits suicide by flying into the system’s star. 

            I was surprised that Voor was played by Shaun Majumder who I remember from This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Shaun was raised in Burlington, Newfoundland. He acted in his first play in Grade 8. He became a standup comedian and his first television gigs were as a host for the YTV game show CLIPS, and then he played Ed Brainbin on Brainwash. He was the host of 26 episodes of the radio show The Debaters. His film debut was in Reluctant Angel in 1998. He spent 17 seasons with This Hour Has 22 Minutes (for which he won a Gemini). He hosted Just For Laughs 15 times. He played Kumar’s brother in Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle. One of his most used characters is the nervous reporter Raj Binder. He co-starred in the short-lived sitcom Unhitched and in the police drama Detroit 1-8-7. I uploaded to YouTube my Batgirl 25 video, edited from season 3, episode 25 of Batman, featuring only the scenes with Batgirl, but it was blocked. The last few episodes weren’t blocked. There is only one more video in the series, and hopefully that will be allowed.