Rex Everhart

            On Tuesday morning I translated the eighth verse of “Ballade de la chnoufe” (Ballad of the Snuff) by Boris Vian. 

            I memorized the fourth verse of “Tout l’monde est musician” (Everyone’s a Musician) by Serge Gainsbourg. There is only one more verse to nail down so I’ll probably have it done on Wednesday. 

            I weighed 88.35 kilos before breakfast, which is the lightest I’ve been in the morning since November 22. 

            I played my Kramer electric for the last of four sessions and it only had to be tuned once.

            Around midday I cleaned my bathroom and swept all my floors. I might have time to mop tomorrow before company arrives. 

            I weighed 88.45 kilos before lunch. November 20 was the last time I was that kind to the scale in the early afternoon. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and stopped at Freshco on the way back. I got two packs of raspberries and five bags of green grapes which I price matched with the slightly cheaper Walmart price of $8.75 a kilo. 

            I weighed 88.4 kilos at 18:50. November 14 was the last evening I was that light but that was heavy for that time. 

            Suddenly my text turned red and underlined. I had to go to Review and undo Track Changes. 

            I was caught up in my journal at 19:45. 

            I reviewed a cassette recording of some of my takes of “Instructions for Electroshock Therapy” at Mike’s place with Mike on drums. These were more polished and developed takes than another cassette that I digitized. 

            In my “2024-09-23 Song Practice” Movie Maker project I deleted all the songs that lead up to “Laisses-en un peu pour les autres” but not the song’s final take. 

            I had two small potatoes with gravy and a chicken leg while watching season 1, episode 18 of Car 54 Where Are You? 

            Deputy Chief Inspector Corrigan is riding through sector 3 of the 53rd Precinct and is astounded to count 107 violations, including live chickens in cages on the sidewalk. He’s even more surprised to learn that there is an actual police radio car patrolling that sector. He goes to Captain Block and demands that summonses be issued for those infractions. When Toody and Muldoon return from their shift Block refuses to let them punch out and sends them back out to write tickets. Their first stop is Callucci’s fruit and vegetable store and Muldoon goes in to write them a summons. But then Mrs. Callucci tells Muldoon that because his mother has a cold she went over this afternoon and cleaned her house, then she made some Irish stew with marinara sauce for Muldoon’s supper and left it on the stove for him. He can’t bring himself to give them a ticket now. Toody goes into Harry’s Men’s Shop because Harry is advertizing with a loud speaker. Harry tells Toody that he got his wife Lucille a coat she wanted at cost and she called him up crying with gratitude. Toody can’t bring himself to write Harry a ticket either. Meanwhile Corrigan has launched a full investigation into Toody and Muldoon and his researcher has uncovered that although sector 3 stands out for minor infractions it has been the most crime free neighbourhood in New York during the nine years that Toody and Muldoon have been patrolling it. Even the notorious cop fighter Crusack has stopped beating up police officers since car 54 has been on duty. Meanwhile Toody and Muldoon return to Captain Block with no summonses and so he demotes them to walking a beat on the midnight shift on the waterfront. Corrigan goes in plain clothes to sector 3 where he learns that most of the children under nine years of age in that neighbourhood were born in car 54. Many of them have been named Gunther and Francis and even some of the girls were named Gunther. Katz tells him the last time he was held up was just after Muldoon and Toody took over. While the man was pointing a gun at him Katz thought about how much time it would take away from all the nice things Muldoon and Toody do for this neighbourhood if he had them investigate the robbery, so he just hit the robber over the head with a salami instead. He says the other merchants did similar things and so now the neighbourhood is crime free. Corrigan pretends to be a reporter and goes to interview Crusack. He says he likes nothing better than to punch a cop but how can you beat up the guys who delivered your own child in their squad car? How can he pick a fight with officers who drive his mother home from church? Then he starts crying and declares that he’s a failure as a cop fighter. Toody and Muldoon are brought back to sector 3. 

            Crusack was played by Rex Everhart, who earned a degree in Theatre from the Pasadena Playhouse and a Masters degree at New York University. He acted with the Yale Repertory Theatre and for seven seasons with the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut. He made his Broadway debut in No Time for Sergeants in 1955. He played Benjamin Franklin in the Broadway musical 1776. He was nominated for a Tony for his performance in the Broadway musical Working.