I weighed 88.85 kilos before breakfast.
I called Forest Hill Health Centre and made an appointment for May 19 with Dr. Shechtman for my annual physical.
I played my Martin acoustic during song practice for the last of four sessions and it went out of tune during ever song.
I skipped my normal activities to sweep the floors because my landlord was coming over to take pictures of my place. He and the landlady came just after I was finished. I told them to make it quick but Raja said it would take two hours. They were talking in their native language, which wouldn’t normally bother me but I knew they were plotting against me. In my bedroom they were pointing at my upper storage shelf across the room from the bed and the only word I understood was “bedbugs”. Meaning they think that the bedbugs I complain about are living in that storage area, which is not how bedbugs operate. They are intent on blaming me for the bedbugs despite the fact that the last time pest control was here two years ago the bedbug nests were found in the units of the tenants who never complained about them and none were found in my place. I was worried they were going ask me to move my furniture, because I would have refused, but they were done in fifteen minutes. They again accused me of causing the flood in the yet to open new Popeyes restaurant downstairs. I again asserted that most of the leakages that have occurred were caused by their faulty plumbing to which Raja called me the biggest liar in the building. They say they are taking me to court so if I get the eviction notice I’ll be contacting Parkdale Legal soon.
I weighed 89.85 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown but on the way back near York and Richmond I got a flat tire. I searched with my phone for nearby bike shops and discovered there’s Repair and Run at around Peter and Queen. I walked there and Jason the manager got his mechanic working on it right away. He was a lot slower at it than the guys at Metro Cycles and it took about half an hour. Most of the business they do seems to be electric scooters and it looks like they rent or sell second hand ones. Jason discouraged one guy from buying one in particular because the battery alone was almost $500. I think Jason is more of an old fashioned bike person. We discussed Raleighs and disk brakes. He thinks Gordon at Metro is wrong when he says it’s natural for disk brakes to squeak. For the new tube and the labour I paid $48.58.
I got home a little after 18:30.
I weighed 89.25 kilos at 18:55.
I was behind in my journal and wasn’t caught up at suppertime.
I roasted two pork tenderloins and had half of one with a small potato and gravy while watching season 5, episode 8 of The Carol Burnett Show.
During the audience warmup a 16 year old asks, “They say actors are never appreciated. Were you popular as a child?” Carol is impressed with the kid and asks if he’s interested in an older woman. She says she had mostly girlfriends in school. She was very athletic and could outrun any boy up until Grade 9.
Harvey Korman’s nephew asks how long it took her to get where she is. She says she became interested in show business when she was 19.
In the Carol and Sis sketch Chrissie’s boyfriend Stanley is coming by. Roger comes home early to meet him but got into fight with another younger driver on the way. Roger leaves the room and Stanley arrives, telling Carol about this obnoxious older driver he got into a fight with on the way there. Carol works on keeping Roger from seeing Stanley and Chrissie keeps moving Stanley into different rooms to avoid Roger. But they finally see each other and it turns out that neither of them is the one the other encountered. Carol tells Roger she was trying to protect him. He says, “You really think a little guy like Stanley could beat me up?” Stanley says, “If I’d hit you you’d still be laying there”. It escalates until Stanley grabs Roger’s sore nose and he collapses in pain. Chrissie gets Stanley out of there.
The dancers are dressed in imitation of a Romani stereotype but the men’s costumes are gold lamé and the women’s are white chiffon with glitter. While they dance, Cass Elliot sings “The Look of Love” by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
Carol and Harvey’s characters the snooty theatrical couple of Funt and Mundane are doing teleplay but the sound effects man, played by Lyle is drunk and out to get them. He uses all the wrong sound effects with perfect timing though. When Carol blows her nose it sound like an old car horn. When Harvey pours a glass of wine it sounds like pebbles being poured into a bucket. The telephone ringing sounds like a fart. When Harvey sits down there’s the sound of ripping fabric. Finally they charge the sound booth and attack Lyle.
Bernadette Peters sings the 1966 song “Cherish” by Terry Kirkman of The Association and then the 1924 song “It Had to be You” by Isham Jones and Gus Kahn.
In As the Stomach Turns Marian’s high school friend Suzi Shrimpton, who left Canoga Falls to become a high fashion model returns after ten years. She is now no longer the skinny model that Marian knew. She is played by Cass Elliot and every move she makes is a fashion pose. She says she’s tired of exercising and starving herself. She is dreaming of her childhood sweetheart who just happens to ring the doorbell. It’s the avant garde filmmaker Randy Wahoo (a loose parody of Andy Warhol) played by Harvey. He comes in holding a camera in one hand and shooting his other hand. He’s been filming his hand for 86 hours. When he sees Suzie he falls in love with the back of her right shoulder and says he’s going to star it in his next picture. he asks her to marry him and she says yes. The next guest, played by Bernadette is Sister Ruby the tap dancing nun. The announcer asks about Marian’s daughter’s job at the topless drive-in. Is she a good waitress or just putting up a front?
While the dancers dynamically decorate the scene, Carol, Cass and Bernadette sing an extremely up-tempo version of “You’ve Got a Friend” by Carol King. I was obsessed with James Taylor’s version of that song when I was fifteen. I used to lie in bed with my transistor searching for the song and as soon as it was over I’d find another station that was playing it. They throw in a little bit of “Monday Monday” by John Phillips of Cass’s old group The Mamas and Papas.
The main makeup artist for the Carol Burnett Show was Al Schultz, who was a star football player in college but a knee injury ended that path of his life. he moved to Hollywood and worked as a grip and camera dolly operator until he found his calling in makeup in the mid 60s. He worked for Hollywood Squares, Laugh-In, The Merv Griffin Show, and The Dean Martin Show. In 1972 he was promoted to head of CBS Make-up West Coast. He was married to Vicki Lawrence for 50 years until he died.
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