Jonathan Bolt

            On Wednesday morning I woke up at 5:05 having missed the 5:00 alarm. I shortened one of my yoga poses to get caught up.

            My right cheek was even more swollen. According to medical sites online though it’s normal and the swelling should peek today. 

            After yoga I gathered a few more images of Zizi Jeanmaire for my photo-video of “Les millionaires” by Serge Gainsbourg. I’m going to change the wording of the search to see if I can get some different pictures of her. 

            I weighed 88.45 kilos before breakfast, which is the lightest I’ve been in the morning since January 21. 

            During song practice I played my Martin acoustic for the second of four sessions. Only two or three times was it still in tune when I ended a song. 

            I finished touching up the area around the bathroom exhaust fan with the purplish paint that for some reason is called Pink Parade. On Friday I will probably start painting the bathroom shelves with Blue Bliss. 

            I weighed 89.95 kilos before lunch. I had a can of spicy tomato soup with garlic chicken broth, some melted five-year-old cheddar, and saltines. I recall Campbells tomato soup tasting better than it does now. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride and the Bloor bike lane was clear until Shaw and Bloor. At that point I turned around and went home. 

            When I got home I went back out to buy a six-pack of Creemore. 

            I weighed 89.9 kilos at 17:45. 

            I was caught up in my journal at 18:30. 

            I finally solved the problem of recording from cassette tape through audio interface to Audacity. A few days ago I was recording tape 2, side 1 of my third Slamnation poetry slam and in the middle I lost the waveform and most of the audio. I’ve been trying to correct the problem for two days and finally discovered that somehow the microphone volume had gotten turned down in my settings. So tonight I re-recorded that part. There is nothing on side 2 of the tape and so once again the finale was not recorded. 

            I created some more sub-folders in my SSD and deleted several images from my hard drive. 

            I sautéed the two packs of ground New Zealand grass-fed beef, added pho broth and cooked some Japanese noodles in the steamer while it was boiling. I had my soup with a glass of Creemore while watching season 1, episode 17 of Combat. 

            A new recruit for K Company is Mosely Lovelace from Georgia. Lovelace comes having been issued a pair of boots that make everyone jealous. Saunders offers him $60 for them, which would be over $1000 now. Lovelace says it’s bad enough that he had to join the Yankee army but his Civil War grandfather would climb out of his grave if he sold his boots to a Yankee. 

            Lovelace resents digging foxholes because he thinks brave solders should fight out in the open. They go out on patrol and Lovelace asks Saunders what patrols are like. Saunders says it’s like s turkey shoot except that we’re the turkeys. They are just there on recon to see how far back the Germans have pulled so they are not there to fight. When two German soldiers pass on motorcycles Lovelace shoots them. Lieutenant Hanley tells him if he fires his rifle one more time he’ll be shot. 

            Lovelace falls behind because he removes his boots to cross a stream. By the time he catches up he finds his company under machine gun fire. He ambushes a German soldier takes his machine gun and then takes out the other Germans including the one with the big machine gun. 

            They are moving out but Lovelace says he has to go back for his boots. A group of German soldiers laying mines has found his boots. Lovelace captures them all and brings them back to K Company although two of them die because of a mine on the way back. 

            Lovelace was played by Jonathan Bolt who made his stage debut as a scenic designer in 1956. He made his Broadway debut in Look Homeward Angel in 1958. He made his TV debut in The Verdict is Yours in 1960. He made his film debut in Captain Newman MD in 1963. His play Threads debuted in 1978 and was published in 1981. He directed the world premier of Arthur Miller’s Archbishop’s Ceiling in 1984. His other plays are Eye and the Hands of God, Teddy Roosevelt, First Lady, Plotline, and To Culebra. He became the director of The American Academy of Dramatic Art’s Third Year Company Program.