I weighed 89 kilos before breakfast.
I played my Kramer electric during song practice for the first of two sessions but had to cut it short at 10:45 to get ready for my dentist’s appointment. It’s only two blocks away and so I arrived with four minutes to spare. Dr. Singh touched up some fillings and I have another checkup in six months. It’s nice to have dental care now. If we’d had it twenty years ago my teeth wouldn’t be so ugly now and I’d have more of them. I asked about bridgework but he said it wouldn’t work for my teeth. My only options are implants or dentures. I’m getting an implant this year but unless I strike it rich I can’t see myself affording any more.
I weighed 89.2 kilos before lunch.
I got a call from AMI electronics that my Sony tape player is fixed.
In the afternoon it was raining too hard for a bike ride downtown but I needed to get some cash to pay for my Gibson repairs tomorrow and I needed grapes and orange juice so I rode to Freshco. The grapes were too soft but I got the orange juice. I got the cash then walked to Metro where I bought five bags of green grapes.
I weighed 88.95 kilos at 17:40.
I talked on the phone to David about our neighbour Jacob. He says the guy is mentally ill. He dances in the middle of the street and let his dog shit in the doorway without cleaning it up. He seems to have a drinking problem too. Other people have had problems with him but he complains about me and the landlord threatens to evict me because of his complaints when he’s a lot noisier than I am.
I was in touch with Alex Wood and I misunderstood his unavailability tomorrow as availability so I won’t be picking up my guitar until Friday. Tomorrow I’ll go pick up my tape player.
I was caught up in my journal at 19:03.
I started reviewing the final cassette from the recording of my 20,000 Poets Under the League slam that was hosted by Sahara Spracklin.
I finished editing my “Please Don’t Quit Me Now (electric)” Movie Maker project and published it.
I reviewed the videos of my song practice performances of “Le moribond” and “When They Put Me in that Hole” from September 1 to 6, 2024. I played “Le moribond” on my Gibson Les Paul Studio on September 1 but the camera battery charge ran out before this song was finished. I played it on my Martin Road Series on September 3 and 5 but on both days the camera battery charge ran out before I could finish. I played “When They Put Me in that Hole” on September 2, 4, and 6. On September 2 I played it on my Gibson but the camera battery charge ran out before this song. On September 4 and 6 the final takes weren’t bad but I may have hit some wrong chords.
I had a potato with gravy and the last of my roast beef while watching season 2, episode 11 of Car 54 Where Are You?
Muldoon has written a play and Toody, Lucille, Schnauser and Sylvia are acting in the amateur production. Both women think they are the leading lady but Muldoon tells Sylvia he’s looking for someone thinner. This compels Sylvia to launch yet another diet. But the next day at the grocer’s the woman ahead of her is eating an éclair and when she holds it between bites Sylvia is tempted to bite it out of her hand. At a table the Dixie Dimple cookie company is offering free samples and once Sylvia tries one she doesn’t stop. She eats all of the cookies on the plates and then gathers the crumbs. When she finds out there was a secret camera filming her she faints. Babcock the vice president of the agency leaves right away because it looks like another Dixie Dimple food poisoning case.
When Colonel Culpepper the Dixie Dimple owner sees Sylvia eating his cookies on film he declares that he’s been waiting 40 years to find her and she’s his Dixie Dimple gal. Now Babcock has to track Sylvia down but finds her through Sam’s Market.
Meanwhile Sylvia is still determined to be the star of Muldoon’s play. She tells Schnauser about having been the star of a school production when she got the mumps and Ginger Rogers took over the part. Babcock arrives to offer Sylvia a TV contract and she faints again. He tells Schnauser they’ll pay Sylvia $90 every time she eats a cookie in television. Sylvia thinks it’s a trick and won’t settle for $90 after waiting all this time for stardom. She doesn’t believe Babcock is really in advertizing but really represents a Hollywood studio. She says she’ll only sign for $1000 a week, her own dressing room, her choice of leading man, and transportation for her personal hairdresser. Babcock is getting nowhere so he says he’ll come back tomorrow.
Schnauser calls Muldoon, Toody, and Lucille to talk sense into Sylvia. Sylvia has changed her name to Simone Lamont and greets them like she’s already a star. Lucille is insulted when Sylvia says she can be her maid and her name will be Babette. Babcock arrives with his boss President Dutton who surprises everyone but Sylvia by offering her a contract for $1000 a week plus anything else she wants. Suddenly Lucille is willing to be Sylvia’s maid and Muldoon starts acting like a big shot director. But when Culpepper sees the film of the now over the top Sylvia he hates it and cancels the contract.
The woman with the éclair was played by Lu Leonard, who was on stage with her vaudevillian parents from infancy. As a teenager she had hundreds of small roles in Republic and Monogram movies. She made her Broadway debut in The Three Penny Opera and toured with several other musical shows. She started appearing on television in the 1950s, debuting in My Little Margie in 1954. She played larry’s wife in the Three Stooges short Husbands Beware. She appeared in 10 episodes of Jake and the Fatman as William Conrad’s secretary. She co-starred in Circuitry Man, She co-founded the LA acting school The Faculty.
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