Jennifer Howell

            On Friday morning I started trying to figure out the first monologue in Zizi Jeanmaire’s performance of “Les millionaires” by Serge Gainsbourg. She and most French people speak French a lot faster than the Quebecois. I got the first line to make sense although it may not be textually accurate. I understand that she is playing the role of a sex worker and is looking for a well monied customer so she is about to check out a nearby kiosk. 

            I weighed 89.5 kilos before breakfast, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the morning since September 15, 2024. 

            I played my Kramer electric during song practice for the third of four sessions and it stayed in tune until I sat at the computer to play the last two songs. There seems to be a different atmosphere at that side of the room and perhaps that elevation. 

            Around midday I touched up the walls where they meet the tops of the upper shelves. There’s still more to do where the walls meet the undersides of the upper shelves, the top of the lower shelf, and its underside. I might have time for that on Wednesday or next Friday. 

            I weighed 89.45 kilos before lunch. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and stopped at Freshco on the way back. I bought two bags of red grapes, a pack of raspberries, some bananas, two packs of Full City Dark coffee, a jar of marinara sauce, two-in-one conditioner, a pack of Sponge Towels, and a pack of toilet paper. 

            I weighed 89.3 kilos at 19:00. 

            I was caught up in my journal at 20:00. 

            I finished reviewing the cassette recording of part two of my first 20,000 Poets Under the League poetry slam. Then I digitized it. I’m hoping my Sony tape player will be fixed soon so I can try to make better digitizations of all the cassettes. 

            I roasted a sirloin tip and had a slice with a potato and gravy while watching season 28, episode 3 of South Park. 

            Butters is mad at Red for having manipulated him and gotten him to spend a lot of money on a rare Labubu for her. He has AI create a video of Santa Clause pissing in her face. Red decides to get her revenge during the assemble. PC Principal tries to show a video to shove patriotism down their throats but Red hijacks it and shows instead a video of Butters having sex with the Japanese cartoon character Totoro. 

            Mrs. Cartman reports to the police that her son has been kidnapped by the government. But then the cops hear that Butters has been molested by Totoro and leave to investigate. The police think that all of the AI generated videos are real. The chief interviews Butters and asks him how long he’s known Totoro. The next video is Kenny being raped by Popeye but they don’t show a visual. 

            At the White House, Trump has learned that Vice President J.D. Vance has been plotting to kill the fetus he has fathered with Satan. Since Vance knows Trump also wants it killed he tells him about Peter Thiel who is an expert. 

            The Totoro animators from Studio Ghibli arrive and they are angry with Butters. The chief has them arrested. 

            Mrs. Cartman starts receiving video greeting cards from Cartman in Washington reassuring her that everything is fine but they are also AI generated by Peter Thiel who is still holding Cartman captive in a motel in South Park. 

            Then Red makes a very racist AI video of Droopy Dog shitting in Kyle’s mouth and saying, “You like that hot shit in your Jew mouth?” 

            Then Trump and Vance make love in a very explicit scene while “I Wanna Know What Love Is” by Foreigner is playing. 

            The police finally trace the IP address of the Cartman videos, rescue Cartman and arrest Thiel. Cartman is pissed off that his mother thought the videos were real. They had him eating Cheezie Poofs, which he hasn’t done in a long time. He also hasn’t said, “Respect my authoritah” in a long time either. The cops find on Thiel’s laptop the video of Trump and Vance making love. The people at Fox news report about it and every reporter is sad. But Trump calls them up and tells them it was all AI generated and they are deeply relieved that Trump wasn’t cheating on Satan. Trump has a harder time convincing Satan that it wasn’t real but eventually does so. Then Trump goes and has sex with Vance again. 

            The voice of Red’s friend Bebe Stevens is done by Canadian actor Jennifer Howell, who has also been South Park’s supervising producer. From 2005 to 2008 she was the executive president of Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s production company Important Films. She is now the senior vice president of 20th Century Fox television’s animation department.