On Saturday morning I worked out the chords for the sixth and seventh verses of “Au revoir mon enfance” (Goodbye My Childhood) by Boris Vian. There are only two verses left and so I might have the song finished tomorrow.
I finished memorizing “Le rent' dedans” (The Pick-Up) by Serge Gainsbourg. I searched for the chords but of course no one has posted them. On Sunday I’ll begin working them out.
I weighed 88.05 kilos before breakfast.
I played my Martin during song practice for the last of four sessions. Tomorrow I’ll begin a two session stretch of playing my electric guitars.
Around midday I went down to No Frills where I bought five bags of green grapes, two packs of raspberries, some organic bananas, a pack of five-year-old cheddar, two packs of New Zealand grass fed ground beef, a pack of peameal bacon, two boxes of spoon sized shredded wheat, a jar of tomato pesto, a jug of iced tea, a jug of orange juice, two containers of skyr, two bags of Miss Vickie’s chips, and a large reusable shopping bag.
I ran into my next building neighbour Taro who does food deliveries for Uber. He told me he was just delivering a Wendy’s order when it was canceled. He said when that happens he still gets paid, plus he gets to keep the food, which in this case was two meals. I asked if that happens often and he said a week or so ago he was delivering a Hero Burgers order when the customer said he didn’t order it, so he got to keep it again. He told me that in condos there is a food delivery area where couriers just leave the orders. But customers seem to forget about them because they just pile up. Having been raised on a farm where the nearest restaurant was kilometers away and there was no such thing as delivery of cooked food, it’s hard for me to relate to the culture of meal delivery ordering. I think I’ve had pizza delivered less than five times in my life.
I weighed 89.15 kilos at 14:30. I had saltines with peanut butter and five year old cheddar with a glass of iced tea.
I took a siesta at 15:00 and woke up at 16:47. By the time I was ready it was too late to take a bike ride downtown and so I just rode to Ossington and Bloor. On the way back my front flasher died. When I got home I connected it with a charger but no indicator light came on. I gave it some time but still nothing happened. Finally I found another charger that turned out to be the right one and the light came on.
I weighed 89.5 kilos at 17:55, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the evening since October 27.
I was caught up in my journal at 20:00.
I listened to another two or three songs from Operation Ivy’s album Hectic.
I made four burgers from the ground beef I bought today and grilled them all. I had one on a slice of Bavarian sandwich bread with ketchup, Dijon, horseradish and a gherkin pickle. I had it with a beer while watching episode 24 of Cain’s Hundred.
Marty Emson is a former boxer who now has a successful produce business. He made some mistakes along the way, the biggest being that he abandoned his wife and his daughter Terri. Another mistake was punching his boxing manager Harry Remick, damaging his optic nerve until now he is nearly blind. Remick went on to join the Organization and now he is a big man. Remick owns a bar that is managed by Julius Lenke. The bar employs bar girls and one of the recent employees is Marty’s daughter Terry. Marty learns of this and tries to get her out but she’s not interested. The bartender drugs Marty’s drink and he is knocked out. He wakes up in Remick’s home. Remick wants to use Marty’s produce trucks to transport drugs from Mexico but Marty refuses and leaves. Lenke tells Remick he already has a man inside Marty’s company. But that man turns out to be Pete Garcia who is an undercover cop. Garcia is supposed to be taking a load of tomatoes north but he tries to convince Marty to let him bring the shipment of melons up from Mexico. Marty says the schedules are already set but Garcia says Lenke said it was okay. Marty punches Garcia hard in the stomach and says to give that to Lenke. Suddenly Garcia realizes Marty is not involved with the Organization. Dropping the fake Mexican accent he reveals that he’s a cop and in order to nail Remick and Lenke he needs to make that run. Marty says he can do it. But later Garcia’s body is found under his truck on the highway. Cain goes to Lenke’s office and punches him in the face. Remick shuts down all his smuggling operations. Marty goes to Remick and says he can use his trucks if he lets Terry go. Remick says he doesn’t need his trucks anymore. Cain goes to see Marty for the first time and finds out that Lenke brought Terry there. Then he goes to Terry but she gets him thrown out of the bar. Lenke decides she’s dangerous and plans to send her somewhere she doesn’t want to go although it is not specified. Maybe a bordello if Remick has those as well. But as soon as she is taken out of the bar Cain is there to take her with him. Later Lenke is arrested and taken to the station where Terry confirms that he brought her there (meaning across state lines). Lenke argues she wanted to come with him to see her father but Cain says it’s even against the law with consent. She said she’s 19 earlier and it was also stated earlier that she’d been working for Lenke and Remick for over a year so that means she was 18. If she was considered a minor at 18 then transporting her across state lines with her consent is still considered to be statutory rape. Cain reminds Lenke that he’s a naturalized citizen and offers to deport him if he testifies against Remick. He refuses but Cain thinks he’ll change his mind because now Remick will hear about the offer. Meanwhile Cain lets Lenke go. Police chief Trask, who has been working with Cain on this operation goes to see Remick because it turns out he works for him. He warns him that Lenke might squeal and then after Remick leaves the police arrive to arrest Trask. Lenke tries to contact Remick but Remick says he’s sending some men for him. Lenke knows what that means and he’s frightened. Cain gets there before they do and gives Lenke a choice to go with him or them. Lenke gives in. Marty goes to Remick. Remick pulls a gun but can only fire at Marty’s voice and keeps missing. Marty attacks him. They struggle and Marty starts to strangle Remick but Cain arrives to stop him. He takes him to see his daughter.
Remick was played by Telly Savalas, who studied psychology at Columbia University, earned the Bachelor’s degree then worked on his Masters. He hosted the radio show Telly’s Coffeehouse in 1950. He became executive director of news special events at ABC. He became executive producer of Gilette Cavalcade of Sports and gave Howard Cosell his first job. He took his actor friend to the set of the Armstrong Circle Theatre TV series to help him audition, but ended up being cast. He did his first film at the age of 37 in Mad Dog Coll. After shaving his head to play Pontius Pilate in The Greatest Story Ever Told he decided to make it his permanent look. He was the first US actor to play a Bond villain (Blofeld) in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. His first regular TV gig was on Acapulco. He first appeared as Kojak in the made for TV movie The Marcus-Nelson Murders and that led to the Kojak TV series of which he directed five episodes. He won two Golden Globes and one Emmy for Kojak. He starred in Crooks and Coronets, Sophie’s Place, Land Raiders, Pancho Villa, Redneck, Killer Force, Lisa and the Devil, Border Cop, and Mind Twister. He co-starred in The Birdman of Alcatraz (for which he was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe), Genghis Khan, Battle of the Bulge, Crime Boss, The Killer is On the Phone, Inside Out, Fake-Out, Kelly’s Heroes, Horror Express, Escape to Athena, The Scalphunters, Buona Sera Mrs. Campbell, The Assassination Bureau, Mackenna’s Gold, Clay Pigeon, Violent City, A Town Called Bastard, A Reason to Live a Reason to Die, Pretty Maids All in a Row, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, and Faceless. He wrote, directed and starred in Beyond Reason in 1977 but it went straight to home video. He had hits with a spoken word version of “If” by David Gates and a sung version of “Some Broken Hearts Never Mend”. He, Bob Hope and Linda Evans introduced Diet Coke to the world in a TV commercial. He helped to bring electricity to his ancestral home of Yeraka, Greece. From 1973 until he died in 1994 he lived at the Sheraton Hotel in Universal City although he also had a ranch house in California, a four bedroom apartment in London, and The Bridge House in Dorset. The hotel bar was later named Telly’s. He paid for his mother’s suite above his own. He was Jennifer Aniston’s godfather. He was afraid of flying and travelled by boat if he had to go to or from Europe. Nicolette Sheridan considered Savalas to be her father. He was a Freemason. His mother was Miss Greece in the 1930s.
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