I finished editing “Dessous mon pull” by Serge Gainsbourg and my translation “Underneath My Blouse” in my Christian’s Translations blog and posted it on Facebook. I started translating “Chaussures noires et pompes funèbres” (Black Shoes and Funeral Parlours) by Gainsbourg. It’s not the song of the same name that he wrote for Zizi Jeanmaire to sing, which I can’t find, but rather some notes towards a planned film project that was never realized.
I weighed 89 kilos before breakfast.
I played my Martin acoustic during song practice for the first of two sessions and it went out of tune during all but one song.
Around midday I cleaned the blue paint from two more bathroom wall tiles where it had overlapped when I painted the trim above them a few weeks ago. The main cleanup of splattered paint will be done later but right now I’m just cleaning the northeast corner before mounting the wire rack there after painting it blue. I still have to clean two or three tiles on the northern side of that corner before I paint the rack.
I weighed 90.3 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back.
I weighed 89.75 kilos at 17:55.
I was caught up in my journal at 18:46.
I recorded from cassette tape through audio interface to Audacity and then extracted to my hard drive side one of a Christian and the Lions concert at Lee’s Palace on October 6, 1995. Tom Smarda played Stratocaster, Steve Lowe played acoustic guitar, Arjan played bass, and Barzin Hosseini played drums. We started with Instructions for Electroshock Therapy but I think Steve refused to play on it. We all did “Megaphor”, “Calendar Girl”, “Me and Gravity”, “Tropic of Ulcer”, and “The Next State of Grace”. This was the first tape in a while that digitized cleanly with a line-in and with no distortion. Tomorrow I’ll record side 2.
I deleted 35 images from my hard drive.
I had a potato with gravy and my last piece of pork tenderloin while watching season 4, episode 21 of The Carol Burnett Show.
During the audience warmup someone says they want to kiss the beautiful Carol Burnett. The cameraman shouts, “She’s not here!” She lets the guy come up and kiss her. I doubt if that would be allowed these days.
A woman asks what kind of soap do they use to clean the floor. Carol says that’s a little personal.
Totie Fields comes out and a guy from her old neighbourhood asks when she’s coming back. She says she hasn’t been there in 20 years and asks him to turn off her gas.
A guy from Winnipeg tells Totie that Winnipeggers appreciate her visits and he introduces his wife who’s a great grandmother.
The first skit features the Old Folks starring Harvey and Carol as Burt and Mollie. Mollie has a cold and has asked the handsome Dr. Winslow to drop by, which makes Burt jealous. Winslow gives her some penicillin pills. She stands and pretends to faint so she can fall against him. He carries her to the bedroom.
Ken Berry does a song and dance starting with “Racing with the Clock” by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross from The Pajama Game in 1954. The scene is an army barracks and he’s a sergeant coaxing the men to get ready for inspection. The dancing is all done in tap. The captain leaves and women come out of the lockers to dance with the men. The captain comes back and tears off Ken’s stripes, then walks off with the women. But another woman appears in Ken’s locker and he goes inside.
There is a parody of the Dinah Shore Show with Carol doing a pretty good impersonation of Dinah. Vickie plays her first guest who is attractive but dumb. She’s done love scenes with Hollywood’s most attractive men but she’s looking forward to her first movie. Totie plays a guest who wrote a book called How To Be A Desirable Woman. She demonstrates and several men carry her off.
In the Carol and Sis sketch a college buddy of Roger’s has just gone through a painful breakup and is easily triggered to start crying. Barry tells Carol it was nice of them to have him over and asks if they had other plans. She says they were supposed to have dinner with their neighbours but they broke the engagement. Hearing “broke the engagement” makes Barry start weeping again. They have drinks and Barry compliments Carol on the glasses and asks where she bought them. She says they were a wedding present and he bursts into tears again.
Carol reads some exaggerations about her that fifth graders wrote for an English class assignment.
Carol sings “Make a Rainbow” by Portia Nelson.
In the soap opera As the Stomach Turns, Marian and Estelle are having coffee. Estelle is crying and tells Marian she’s a werewolf. She breaks into stores, homes, and restaurants and eats all the food. Marian’s daughter comes by with another baby. She’s been accepted into one of the First Nations and they named her Running Dear. Marian says, “Next time run a little faster dear”. Marian puts the baby into the umbrella case as usual. Rabbi Feldman comes by after his golf game followed by his golf partner Father Galuchi.
The final song and dance is to “Put On Your Sunday Clothes” by Jerry Herman from the 1964 musical Hello Dolly.
Totie Fields started singing in Boston clubs while still in high school. She spent several years as a successful nightclub performer before Ed Sullivan booked her for his show. She returned many times and made multiple appearances on the Mike Douglas Show, Merv Griffin, and Johnny Carson. She was a panelist many times on Hollywood Squares. She wrote a humorous diet book called I Think I’ll Start Monday. She developed a blood clot at the age of 49 and her leg was amputated. This was followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy. She died of a heart attack while recovering.
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