Sabrina Scharf

            On Tuesday morning I continued gathering images for my photo-video of “Les millionaires” by Serge Gainsbourg. I have 166 so far. 

            I weighed 90.25 kilos before breakfast. 

            I played my Martin acoustic during song practice for the first of two sessions and it was out of tune on every song for the first three quarters of the session. During the last five songs it stayed in tune.

            I made a few more sub-folders for photos in my SSD and deleted several more images from my hard drive. 

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

            I weighed 90.4 kilos at 18:30. 

            I was caught up in my journal at 19:16. 

            I recorded from cassette tape through audio interface to Audacity and then extracted to my hard drive side one of a rehearsal of my songs “Spool of the Moon” and “Snow on a Poppy” with Steve Lowe trying to learn the songs on guitar. Neither song ever became part of the Christian and the Lions repertoire. 

            I deleted a few photos from my hard drive. 

            I steamed the rest of my broccoli and had it in a salad with two vine ripened tomatoes, two avocadoes, a scallion, and lime-miso dressing. I ate while watching episode 4 of Captain Nice. 

            At the dedication of a bridge from Big Town to Trash Island we learn that it is being named after Mayor Finney. Maybe Donald Trump got his ideas of naming landmarks after himself from this show.

            Finney has the oldest person in town dedicate the bridge by breaking a bottle of champagne against it. The impact causes large pieces of the bridge to begin falling apart. 

            Carter Nash is there and quickly finds a secluded place to change into Captain Nice. He saves people from a falling girder.

            Later Carter analyzes the bridge cement and finds that it’s 30% oatmeal. He interrupts Finney’s flirtations with his secretary Miss Schneider to tell him about the faulty construction material. 

            The mayor confronts Porter and Spencer the bridge builders about their shoddy material. They first try to bribe him but when that doesn’t work they pull a gun and hold him hostage until he signs the million dollar cheque. 

            Finney’s absence is barely noticed and Miss Schneider has almost forgotten him. Carter’s mother wants him to turn to Captain Nice and then fly around looking for her brother the mayor but he doesn’t want to fly when he has a cold. She tells him to wear his winter costume and two pairs of socks but he says he has to leave. Carter leaves behind something he earlier told Sergeant Candy Cane was “turpin hydro phosphor chlorate” but it’s probably Turpin-hydrate (a kind of cough medicine that used to be popular). His mother thinks he left behind his super power serum and she drinks it in order to fly to find her brother. She jumps out the window and crashes. 

            Carter and Candy in civilian clothes go to see Porter and Spencer under the pretense of having them build an apartment building for them. But they recognize Candy as a cop and pull a gun. They capture Candy but Carter runs outside and hides in a garbage bin where he transforms into Captain Nice. Spencer attacks him with a forklift but Nice bends the forks. Spencer and Porter try to escape into their own building but when they slam the door the building collapses. Nice says they’ll be sentenced to several years in prison but the prison won’t hold them for more than a few days because they built it.

             Miss Schneider was played by Sabrina Scharf, who when she was 15 eloped with her algebra teacher but the marriage was annulled after 3 years. She travelled to New York where in a Greenwich Village diner she met an off-Broadway theatre troupe that offered her a job as an assistant and let her sleep in the theatre. After working as a Playboy Bunny for a while in a New York club she went out to California. She got hired as a contract player by Columbia and her TV debut was on an episode of Gidget in 1965. Her film debut was in Dead Heat on a Merry Go Round in 1966. She co-starred in Hells Angels On Wheels. She appeared in the film Easy Rider and guest starred as Miramanee, Kirk’s love interest in the Star Trek episode The Paradise Syndrome. In 1972 she ran for the California state senate and only lost by 700 votes. She became an attorney and practiced real estate law.