Hank Garrett

            On Saturday morning I uploaded “Au revoir mon enfance” (Goodbye My Childhood) by Boris Vian to my Christian’s Translations blog and started preparing it for publication. 

            I continued to collect images for a photo video of the song “Le rent' dedans” (The Pick-Up) by Serge Gainsbourg to upload to YouTube. I now have 28 and might need another 20. 

            I weighed 87.85 kilos before breakfast, which is the lightest I’ve been in the morning since last Saturday. 

            I played my old Epi acoustic during song practice for the second of four sessions and it stayed in tune most of the time. 

            Around midday I rode down to No Frills where the grapes were all too soft so I got two bags of oranges instead. I also bought a pack of raspberries, some bananas, a pack of five-year-old cheddar, a Black Forest ham, a pack of two T-bone steaks, olive oil, a jug of iced tea, a jug of orange juice, two small containers of 4% skyr, and a bag of Miss Vickie’s chips. 

            I weighed 88.65 kilos at 14:00. I had saltines with peanut butter, five-year-old cheddar and a glass of iced tea. 

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

            I weighed 88.85 kilos at 18:00. 

            I was caught up in my journal at 19:01. 

            I finished reviewing the cassette tape of the Christian and the Lions performance at Fat Albert’s. It turns out to not be a feature but rather several open stage performances recorded on the same tape. I think it has the only recording of my song “Spool of the Moon”. There’s also two songs by Tom Smarda. I digitized the cassette twice to make sure there’s no skipping. I’ll check it tomorrow. 

            I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with marinara sauce, tomato pesto, a chopped slice of ham, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a glass of Creemore while watching season 1, episode 8 of Car 54 Where Are You?. 

            Toody’s wife Lucille is always trying to play matchmaker for Muldoon with one of her girlfriends. She runs into her old school friend Bonita Kalsheim who she is surprised is single since she was the most popular girl in school. Bonita says she was ruined by Raymond Navarro after seeing him in a movie and then no man was good enough. Now however she is desperate and she will take any man as long as he doesn’t look like Raymond Navarro. Muldoon comes over for dinner and Bonnie is there. She cooked the meal and shows off every talent she has. After that Bonnie stalks Muldoon. She even speeds in her convertible so he’ll pull her over. She joins a police charity of which Muldoon is the chair and he resigns. After three weeks of being everywhere Muldoon goes Bonnie finally tells Lucille she’s ready to give up. But Lucille tells her not to and understands the psychology. Muldoon comes over for Lucille’s birthday and Bonnie is not there so suddenly he misses her. He tries to call but there is no answer. He goes to her place with flowers and hears a party going on. She takes the flowers and closes the door on him. Inside she is alone talking loudly as if to other guys. Finally when Muldoon is at the breaking point Lucille tells Bonnie to jerk the hook and snag him. They go out on a date to a little restaurant where there is a man staring at her. He finally approaches and accuses her of thinking she is too good for everybody but declares she’s nothing. Muldoon stands and grabs him and calls him a lout. Suddenly Bonnie gets up to leave and tells Muldoon she never wants to see him again because what he just did was exactly what Raymond Navarro did in a movie once. She leaves and Muldoon has a drink with the other guy who tells him he was going to marry Bonnie but she rejected him one day when he was paddling a canoe in Central Park because he was paddling exactly the way Raymond Navarro did in North to Alaska. They each toast each other as Raymond. 

            Ed Nicholson, one of Toody and Muldoon’s fellow officers was played by Hank Garrett, who as a child carried a gun until at the age of 12 Sammy Davis Jr. set him straight by giving him a job as his roadie. He worked as a professional wrestler, bodyguard, and competitive bodybuilder. From 1957 to 1966 he wrestled as The Minnesota Farm Boy. He was often shown on Car 54 Where Are You? admiring his own muscles in the mirror. He won the New York Film Critics award for his role in Three Days of the Condor.