I weighed 88.45 kilos before breakfast.
I played my Kramer electric during song practice for the last of two sessions and it stayed in tune the whole time.
I deleted several photos from my hard drive.
I weighed 89.15 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and stopped to pee at the McDonald’s at Yonge and College. On the way home I stopped at Freshco where all the grapes were too soft. I bought a pack of figs, several avocadoes, and a jug of orange juice.
I weighed 88.8 kilos at 18:45.
I was caught up in my journal at 19:36.
I tried to record from cassette tape to Audacity and had problems again. Over the last few weeks I’ve made many successful recordings but lately it’s become glitchy. I couldn’t get a waveform at all this time even after restarting several times. Finally after clicking that the recording device is Audacity I got a waveform. There’s a Leonard Cohen clip at the beginning of the tape but weirdly there was no wave form for it and the waveform only showed with the beginning of the recording of my band. It begins with a Christian and the Lions concert performance of “Megaphor” and then there is a rehearsal of “Me and Gravity” and “Instructions for Electroshock Therapy” with Steve Lowe on guitar and Arjan on bass. I recorded through audio interface to Audacity as usual and then exported it to my hard drive but it sounded distorted. I tried exporting it in MP3 format but that sounded worse. I’ll try again tomorrow. Maybe the fact that it didn’t show a waveform for the Leonard Cohen clip should have warned me there was a problem.
I ate some grapes while watching episode 11 of Captain Nice.
Chief Segal is in charge of guarding the city payroll with the help of Sergeant Candy Cane and several other police officers. The armoured car arrives and suddenly it is ambushed. There is a firefight between the crooks and the police. Candy Cane is never shown with a gun. She is given the task of writing down the events as they unfold.
Carter Nash is just on his way home when he hears the shots and runs to change into Captain Nice.
The police are forced to take cover and one of the gangsters drives the armoured car away. Seconds later an identical armoured car containing counterfeit money is driven up to replace it. When the shooting stops the cops emerge from cover as Captain Nice arrives on the scene. Segal claims they fought the robbers off and the payroll is safe. Candy reports that 97 rounds of ammunition were fired with no hits. The chief admits that he shuts his eyes when he shoots.
The next day Carter is given $5 by Mayor Finney for lab supplies. But he smells the bill and detects that one of the chemicals is wrong. He tells Arthur the new sketch artist that he’s going to run some tests on it. But it turns out that Arthur is part of the counterfeiting and payroll robbing gang. He runs to their hideout to warn them about Carter, but Gordon the boss says there isn’t going to be a test because there isn’t going to be a Carter. They go to Carter’s house and force their way in. Gordon tells Carter he wants the $5 but Carter says it’s in the safe at the lab. He tells Anthony to accompany Carter to the lab and warns Carter that everyone will be shot if he isn’t back in an hour.
When Carter gets there he realizes that he can’t open the safe until 8:00 because it has a time lock. He says he can jar the lock with some nitro. Anthony accidentally knocks the nitro off the safe and the explosion knocks them both out.
With only seconds left before Gordon shoots them, Carter’s mother Esther and Candy break free and start using martial arts on the gang. They are doing fine until Gordon regains his gun and stops them.
Carter regains consciousness first and takes his super power serum. Within seconds Captain Nice is at the Nash house but Gordon is pointing his gun at Esther and Candy and warns him to leave. Suddenly his gun is shot out of his hand by Mr. Nash, who apparently picked up a gun from one of the fallen gangsters. We have never seen his face as it’s always behind a newspaper and he shot the gun through the paper. For some reason he wasn’t tied up like Esther and Candy.
A week later the chief has a foolproof plan to protect the payroll from thieves. He puts all his cops in the back of the armoured car. Robbers ambush the guards, padlock the back door of the armoured car and drive away with it. There is no money in the back and all they got away with is a $20,000 armoured car and the entire Big Town police force.
Gordon was played by Sheldon Allman, who was born in Chicago but moved to Canada as a baby. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force during WWII and was wounded. He was convalescing in a British hospital and playing piano and singing original songs when he was heard by Ted Thorpe who was putting together a show for army bases in England. Sheldon with the Maple Leaf Show began singing with the Royal National Guard. After the war he played nightclubs in Canada until he moved back to the states in 1949 to attend the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music. While studying he wrote songs, played clubs, produced TV shows, and worked as a DJ. He was the singing voice for Mister Ed and the writer of the Mister Ed songs “Pretty Little Filly with the Pony Tail” and “The Empty Feedbag Blues”. He wrote “A Quiet Kind of Love”, Christmas in the Air”, “Patapan”, and the theme songs for “George of the Jungle”, “Super Chicken”, and “Tom Slick”. He co-wrote the screenplay for Monster Mash. His song “Crawl Out Through the Fallout” appears in the game Fallout 4 and in the TV adaptation of Fallout. He co-wrote the musicals I’m Sorry, the Bridge is Out, You’ll Have to Spend the Night (on which the movie Monster Mash is based) and Frankenstein Unbound. His film debut was in Inside the Mafia in 1959.
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