I ran through singing and playing “Give My Tree a Shake”, my translation of “Le rent' dedans” by Serge Gainsbourg. I started collecting images for a photo video of the song to upload to YouTube, but I only have one so far.
I weighed 89.15 kilos before breakfast.
During song practice I played my old Epi acoustic for the first time since Alex Wood refurbished it. It stayed in tune pretty well most of the time but I played it more softly because it’s a louder guitar. I’ll play it again tomorrow.
I mailed a letter to my upstairs neighbour Jacob:
November 16, 2025
Dear Jacob,
On November 12 at around 11:30 you banged on my door and began shouting that I was “singing about rape and being a paedophile”. I have no idea what song you imagine is about those things. I have written hundreds of songs and can think of multiple interpretations for each of them but never in my life have I ever seen any of them as being about rape or paedophilia. The fact that you zeroed in on such an interpretation says more about you than it does about me. In your own mind you have the right to fantasize any reality you please but you do not have the right to shout in the hallway of our building the false accusation that I have an association with paedophilia. Our third floor neighbour David in unit 7 heard you and that means that every tenant on the second floor probably heard you as well. You should be aware just how damaging and hurtful such a public accusation can be, especially for someone like myself who has raised a child in this very building.
In order to avoid the expense and embarrassment of trying to prove the impossible in court, you need to apologize to me. You also need to address the other five tenants in our building to inform them that you did not actually hear me “singing about rape and being a paedophile” but that you merely interpreted some lyrics that I sang as having that meaning. Additionally you must follow up your email complaint about me to the landlord with a similar clarification.
Sincerely,
Christian Christian
I worked on my Monsters Movie Maker project, edited from the documentary It Came from Hollywood.
I weighed 89.9 kilos before lunch.
In the after noon I took a bike ride downtown and on the way back stopped at Freshco to buy grapes. I got seven bags of red grapes and price matched them to the Food Basics price of $3.28 a kilo. I also bought some honey.
I weighed 89.3 kilos at 18:25.
I was caught up in my journal at 19:05.
I finished listening to the cassette of my rehearsal with Brian Haddon. I digitized the cassette but it only copied the other side which had the recording of the older Christian and the Lions rehearsal with Steve, Tom, Arjan and Jim Bravo. So I fast forwarded the tape and flipped it then digitized the other side.
I compared the videos of my acoustic song practice performances of “Laisses-en un peu pour les autres” on September 3, 2024 and September 9. September 9 is a better video and I played the song better in that session. I compared September 11 to September 9 and they are close but I think September 9 has a better video. I compared September 15 to September 9 and September 9 still stands as the better video. I compared September 21 to September 9 and September 9 looks better. I compared September 25 to September 9 and I still find September 9 looks the best. I compared September 27 to September 9 and September 9 is still ahead. There’s only one more to compare.
I made a new batch of gravy with roast chicken drippings and had some with two small potatoes and a chicken leg while watching season 1, episode 3 of Car 54 Where Are You?
Back Door Bennie has just gotten out of prison after 20 years and he comes to the station to see Toody. The officers all think he might be there for revenge but when Toody arrives he and Bennie erase. Toody promised Bennie twenty years ago that when he got out he could stay with him. He takes him home and at first Lucille says no but then her heart goes out to Bennie when she looks at his sad puppy dog face. They try to make him feel at home but he is so used to Sing Sing that his face twitches when confronted by normalcy. They make the Toody home as much like a prison as possible and for his first dinner in freedom they invite several friends and have the supper to be served like in prison. They make his bedroom as much like a cell as possible. The next day they help him get a job for a piano company picking up the payroll from the bank. Everyone is worried Bennie will be too tempted and so the entire precinct follows his route to and from the bank by car, motorcycle, horse, and helicopter. After three weeks they try to get Bennie to do something alone like go out for pizza and a movie. Hours later they get word that Bennie was arrested but it was only because Bennie lied hat he was part of a clothing stealing gang. Bennie misses prison because his garden is there, plus the weekly bridge game and the baseball match. They say he has to commit a crime and they won’t let him but he shows he’s already stolen the chief’s watch.
Toody was played by Joe E. Ross, who dropped out of high school to become a singing waiter in a speakeasy. The gangsters who ran the place put him on stage to tell rude jokes. He emceed and did blue comedy in burlesque clubs. His first uncredited film debut was in Sound of Fury in 1950. He made his TV debut in The Colgate Comedy Hour. He formed a comedy team with Dave Starr. They made their film debut in Teaserama starring Betty Page and Vicki Lynn in 1955. He co-starred in Hear Me Good, Maracaibo, and Judy’s Little No No. He co-starred on The Phil Silvers Show after being discovered by Silvers. His catchphrase of “ooh ooh” developed from a pause he used to help him remember his lines. He played Gronk in the sitcom It’s About Time. He formed a comedy team with Steve Rossi that only lasted a few months but they did appear on Ed Sullivan. He recorded an album called Love Songs from a Cop. He couldn’t remember if he was married 8 or 11 times.
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