Virginia de Luce (aka Virginia Wilson)

            On Monday morning I finished editing “Au revoir mon enfance” (Goodbye My Childhood) by Boris Vian in my Christian’s Translations blog. All that’s left before publication is to post a YouTube audio or video of the song. 

            I found the final image for my photo video of the song “Le rent' dedans” (The Pick-Up) by Serge Gainsbourg to upload to YouTube. I created a Movie Maker project for the song and imported all the images. I loaded them all in sequence into the video timeline and made some adjustments in the length of time some of the images appear during the song. I finished it and tomorrow I’ll publish it, then upload it to YouTube. 

            I weighed 89.14 kilos before breakfast, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the morning since last Monday. 

            I played my old Epi acoustic for the last of four sessions and it hardly went out of tune at all. I finished my “Monsters” Movie Maker project and published it. It’s not something I plan to upload to YouTube but it’s got clips I might use down the road. 

            I weighed 89.3 kilos at 18:15. That’s the same as last Monday evening. 

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

            I was behind on my journal because of dozing off at the computer last night and got caught up at 19:43. 

            I reviewed a cassette tape of my early recordings of “Instructions for Electroshock Therapy” at Mike’s place with Mike on drums. I have some similar recordings on CD but I’m not sure if they are the same. 

            I edited a bit of my 2024-09-09 Song Practice Movie Maker project. 

            I sliced a hunk of peameal bacon and grilled the slices. I had one with a potato and gravy while watching season 1, episode 10 of Car 54 Where Are You? 

            Toody and Lucille have been living in the same rent control five room apartment for 15 years and pay $45 a month. But the landlord never fixes anything. The electronics only work if you hit the wall. The gas stove explodes when it’s lit and the heating is also faulty. Usually Lucille deals with the landlord but this time Toody confronts him. When he refuses to fix anything Toody gives him 30 days notice, thinking Corfu would beg them not to leave but he is overjoyed and says he’s been waiting to hear that for 15 years. Toody thinks that he can easily find a new place but doesn’t realize that rents have gone up in fifteen years. A place the size of their old apartment would cost $350 a month and one room would cost $110. Meanwhile Corfu has already found a family that wants to move in. Then a criminal named Cooper who is well known by both Toody and Muldoon is being charged. Toody and Muldoon have to go over to Cooper’s apartment with the detectives to check for stolen goods. Cooper has a nice place that’s rent controlled and he only pays $55. Toody offers to sublet Cooper’s place if he’s sentenced to 3 to 5 years. His only alibi for the night of the crime is that he was with a blonde in New Jersey but she hasn’t turned up. The trial is on moving day. Toody is waiting with the movers for a word from Muldoon who is at the court. He calls to tell him it looks bad for Cooper and so Toody tells the movers they can start loading the van and the other movers can start moving the new tenants in. But then it is learned that the judge was the commander of Cooper’s platoon in the war and now Cooper can do no wrong in the judge’s eyes. Muldoon calls Toody and he says for the movers to move his stuff back in and the new tenants stuff goes back out. But then Cooper is on the witness stand and he says something bad about the judge’s home state of New Jersey and so things go bad for him again and Toody starts moving out. This goes back and forth a few times until Cooper is finally found guilty. Toody and Lucille move in and love the new place but Toody feels guilty. That night when the lights are out and Toody and Lucille are in bed, someone unlocks the door and it’s the blonde. She says she’s Cooper’s wife. She left him for a while but they met up again in New Jersey and decided to get back together. Now Cooper has his alibi and they can get him off, so Toody calls the DA. Meanwhile the new family is finding out what a death trap their new apartment is and want to move out. They say only nincompoops would live there and so Corfu gets Toody and Lucille to move back in. 

            Mrs. Cooper was played by Virginia Wilson, who often went by Virginia de Luce. She was a dancer and singer who appeared in the Broadway show New Faces of 1954 and the film version. She played Florence Coogle in the Broadway play Who Was That Lady I Saw You With? In 1997 she was found dead in a chair and it was determined she’d died several months before that.