Zorro

            On Wednesday morning I finally finished memorizing "Par hazard et pas rasé" (By Hazard and Unrazored) by Serge Gainsbourg and looked for the chords. I don’t think this was a hit and so I was right not to expect to be able to find them. Chords for almost any song that’s ever been recorded can usually be found on sites like Chordify but their chords are found by software that picks up every note played by every instrument in a recording and so it’s way too complicated. If I can’t find chords posted by a human being I don’t bother with them. I worked out the first three chords, which are just E, A and E.

            I washed another section of my kitchen floor about a third of the way across the front of the mantle. I didn’t take any pictures of my progress this time because it was cloudy outside. I’ll gradually clean a path along the west side of the room and down the hall to the entrance. I'll have to clean the big mirror, the mantle and the shelf by the door at some points as I progress.

            I spent two hours reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. I had one short chapter left once the time was up.

I did some exercises and tried to watch the rest of the Naked City episode called “Beyond Truth that hadn’t downloaded the sound. It froze a little after half way and so I don’t know what it was about.

I listened to half of another Naked City episode called The Rebirth that hadn’t downloaded the video. The audio was choppy too but what I could make out was that an elderly woman had held up a bank by pretending she was holding nitro-glycerine. It sounded like she had won for a better life for her and her cat.

I felt grimy so I took a shower without shaving first. I keep forgetting to buy shaving gel.

I think I’ve done enough and maybe too much research for my five page Indigenous Studies “Finding Place” essay. I want to finish all my reading for the Aesthetic and Decadent Movements course and start both essays at the same time.

I made French fries, put salsa and melted cheddar cheese on top and had them with a beer while watching the first episode of the Zorro TV show from 1957. This was a Disney production and I hated it from the start. Disney just has a way of turning everything into sugarcoated shit.

In the first story Don Diego returns to California from studying in Spain after receiving a letter from his father telling him that the tyrannical Captain Monastario has taken over military command of Los Angeles. He decides before arriving that he would endanger his father if he were to oppose Monastario outright and so he plots to pretend to be a pacifist scholar and to fight the tyrant in a secret identity. Diego’s mute servant Bernardo will also pretend to be deaf so as to spy for Diego. Upon arriving he sees a local landowner named Torres imprisoned for speaking out against oppression. Later Diego renews his acquaintance with his horse Toronado that was a colt when he left for Spain but somehow recognizes him and remembers all his training. That night Diego becomes Zorro for the first time and comes to rescue Torres. He beats Monastario in the first of their sword fights and escapes over the wall.

It turns out that the pulp novel character of Zorro turned one hundred years old in September 2019.

I finished reading The Picture of Dorian Gray. It’s really the best novel I’ve read in a long time. I think it’s a masterpiece. It’s a tragedy in the classical sense in that someone elevated to a high status has a downfall and in the end turns himself around to make up for what he has done wrong even though it’s too late.

I read two poems by Oscar Wilde and some by W.B. Yeats and I just have a couple more poems to read before completing all my reading for the Aesthetic and Decadent Movements course.

Home is Where the Hearth is

            On Tuesday I almost memorized "Par hazard et pas rasé" (By Hazard and Unrazored) by Serge Gainsbourg. But when I had the second part memorized I forgot some of the first. Then when I had the first down again I’d forgotten some of the second.

            I washed a section of the kitchen floor on the left side of the mantle. I’ve been alternating cleaning the kitchen and the bedroom but I think I’ll work on the kitchen a little more. The kitchen floor has less paint splatters and so it’s less time consuming.

            I spent more than an hour doing research on the indigenous history of southern Ontario.

            I had chips and salsa for lunch.

            I watched half of the Naked City episode “Beyond Truth” but couldn’t make much sense of it since there’s no audio.

            I did some exercises and got caught up on my journal.

            I spent more time on Indigenous Studies research.

            I grilled a pack of chicken drumsticks and had two for dinner with a potato and gravy while watching the Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse.

            This story begins in the psychiatrist’s office of Dr. Arnold Gillespie. His new patient is Peter Jenson and he is telling the doctor about an identically recurring dream that he’s been having every night for the last week.

In the dream he wakes up with a wicked hangover in a strange hotel. He looks at the calendar and it says December 6 but the last month he is aware of is October. He calls up the desk and finds out that he’s in the Imperial Hawaiian Hotel while his last conscious moment was in New York City. He goes down to the bar where sailors are dancing with women. He asks one newlywed sailor who is there with his wife what ship he is on and he tells him he’s an ensign on The Arizona. Peter accuses him of kidding, since the Arizona sank at Pearl Harbour. Sailors stop dancing and look at him. Suddenly Peter sees a newspaper with the date December 6, 1941. It’s the day before the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbour. Peter fell asleep in 1958. He is a bookie for a living and so he goes back to his room and begins making bets by telephone on fights and baseball games based on his knowledge of the future. The ensign comes to see if he’s okay because his wife is worried about him. They invite him for a drink that night. While in the bar, charmed by the young couple, he tries to warn them of the danger. Finally the sailor punches him and the bartender knocks him out. He wakes up in his hotel room as the Japanese planes begin to fly low over Honolulu.

He tells the doctor that this is the point where he always wakes up. The doctor tries to convince him that it’s only a dream but Peter tells him that he tracked down the mother of Ensign Janoski and found that both he and his wife were killed at Pearl Harbour. Peter goes to sleep on the doctor’s couch and begins to have the dream again but this time the bullets from a Japanese plane kill him. Suddenly the doctor is alone in his office looking at an empty couch. His ashtray is empty. His appointment book shows that he has no appointments for that day. He goes to a bar and sees a picture of a familiar man behind the bar. He asks the bartender who it is. He is told that it’s Peter Janson, who used to tend bar there before he died at Pearl Harbour.

This was written by Rod Serling and it was just before The Twilight Zone started.

The host of the show is Desi Arnaz. He introduced it and then at the end he is about to tell viewers about next week’s Lucy and Desi special when there is a commotion behind a screen and he ends up in a Westinghouse fridge commercial. Then he is about to tell us about next week’s show again when Lucy walks on and tells us that it’s called, “The Ricardos Make Room for Danny” and the guest stars are Danny Thomas and his TV family.

Ensign Janoski’s wife was played by Carolyn Kearney who starred in “The Thing That Couldn’t Die”. She was addicted to xanax for two and a half years and helped found a twelve-step program for benzodiazepine addicts.

             Peter was played by William Bendix.

            

Half Sleep on the Half Light

            On Monday morning I wasn’t as dizzy as the day before and only really felt it during the first few head rolls while doing yoga.

I started memorizing "Par hazard et pas rasé" (By Hazard and Unrazored) by Serge Gainsbourg. Despite having translated it I haven’t quite figured out what it’s about. He’s playing with words a lot more so than aiming at meaning but there’s a lot of stuff about tombs, graveyards and dancing with death.

I found the article about the Ojibwa winning the war against the Iroquois. I keep forgetting that as a U of T student I have free access to JSTOR.

I washed the middle section of my bedroom floor. Now more than half my bed is in the clean area. I’ll probably be done with the bedroom before Christmas.

I did more than two hours of research on the history of the Mississauga before and after their war with the Iroquois.

I had a drumstick and some yogourt for lunch.

I started charging my phone and I boiled a potato before leaving for work. I turned the stove off and headed out. When I got to OCADU I realized I’d forgotten my phone while it was charging. If you overcharge your smart phone it becomes too smart and begins to plot against you.

I looked for room 412 all over the fourth floor of the main building until I realized it must be across the street. The actual room number is 1412, even though it's on the fourth floor and so I don't know why they don't just list that number when I’m booked.

I worked for Echo Railton. She told me her students would just be drawing my head and so I wouldn't have to take my clothes off, "Unless you want to".  I told hr that I’d forgotten my timer and so she was kind enough to let me use her phone, which has a better timer than mine. I just did one pose for the night but they did two drawings with my head lit for one from below and for the other from above. Echo is a kind person with a very sweet face.

I got home at exactly 22:00. I heated my potato, two drumsticks and some gravy and had a late dinner while watching The Schlitz Playhouse of Stars from the 1950s, which finally completed downloading a week ago after six months. At first I tried to watch a Naked City episode called “Beyond Truth” that was at 70.8% after a year but the audio must have been with the other 29.2%. The same thing happened with two other Naked City episodes that I tried and they were both silent.

The Schlitz Playhouse story was about a sideshow barker named Joe Martin who runs a funhouse along with his wife Peg who takes the tickets at the door. A man named Louis Barrett comes up and offers Joe $50 to let him go into the funhouse and leave by the back door because someone is on his tail. Joe takes the money. Shortly after that a plain-clothes detective named Lieutenant Kovacs asks about the man. Joe says he hasn’t seen him. Kovacs says he hasn’t even described him yet. Kovacs says he’ll be back. Joe goes in the back and finds Barrett dead. He is worried because four years ago he spent three years in prison for a crime he had no part in. He gives his brother in law Charlie the night off and for the rest of the night he makes Barrett’s body part of the show as a victim of the wax murderer. After closing time he takes the body to a remote point and dumps it. When he returns he realizes he’s lost his initialled watch. He gets a call from someone saying he has the watch and they need to talk. Kovacs picks up Joe for questioning. He is there for several hours before Joe tells Kovacs the whole story. Kovacs tells him what he knows. Peg’s brother Charlie owed Barrett $400 and he’s the one that killed him. Worried about Peg they both head back to the midway. Charlie runs into the funhouse with a gun. An unlikely part is when Kovacs lets an unarmed Joe go in after Charlie ahead of him, let alone with him. They both draw Charlie’s fire until Kovacs sneaks up and knocks him out.

Peg was played by Canadian actor Dorothy Patrick from St Boniface, Manitoba. She was also a model and dancer and became known as the Chesterfield Girl. She mostly starred in B movies.

Dizzy

            On Sunday morning the alarm rang at 4:00 and I realized that we'd moved out of Daylight Savings Time. I got an extra hour of sleep.

            I was still dizzy when I got up and it was worse during some of my yoga exercises in which I turned my head from side to side or tilted it back.

I posted "Panpan culcul” (A Good Spanking" by Serge Gainsbourg on my Christian's Translations blog.

I flushed out my ears in hopes that it would quell some of the dizziness. It might have worked, since the dizziness subsided shortly afterward.

I washed another section of my bedroom floor near the west wall where my bed sits. This part wasn't so bad for plaster splatters and paint but the rest of the way leading to the northwest corner is going to be tough.

I worked on research about the Carrying Place Trail on the Humber River for my Indigenous Studies essay, which is due in two weeks.

I did my exercises in the afternoon while listening to Amos and Andy. In this 1947 story the Kingfish and Sapphire are looking for a smaller and more affordable place to live but that’s almost impossible due to the housing shortage. Kingfish plans to find a way to get Andy to move out of his room so they can move in. He convinces him to buy a trailer but it’s so small that the stove is under the mattress. He tells Andy he can use the springs for a grill to cook burgers. Andy likes the idea of the free life on the road except that he doesn’t own a car. Around this point the Delta Rhythm Boys sing “Get Your Kicks on Route 66”. 

Kingfish arranges for someone with a car to share the trailer with him but the person is a lawyer named LaGuardia who is almost blind and so Andy refuses. Finally he goes in partnership with Lightning and they hit the road but they can’t find a place to sleep. Meanwhile Kingfish and Sapphire move out of their apartment but just before going to rent Andy’s old place they find he’s moved back in. They are forced to live in the trailer.

I read a few chapters of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and have a little over a hundred pages left.

I continued my research into the history of Teiaiagon village. It changed hands from the Iroquois to the Mississauga around 1700. Some would say the French chased the Iroquois back to New York but I found a book that argues that the Ojibwa won the war against the Iroquois. I only found a sample of it though and so I’ll have to look for a complete copy.

I had the other burger that I’d made on Saturday with French fries and a beer while watching an episode of The Naked City that has been in my downloads for a year. It was only at 62.6% and so it had freezes that left the story choppy. It begins with a blind man standing at a traffic light and a cop stops to walk him across. He says he’s looking for an address and the cop helps him find it but it’s a warehouse. The blind man asks if they can go inside and talk to a caretaker but once they are inside and the cop’s back is turned we see the man is only pretending to be blind as he stabs the cop in the back and kills him. After the murder the blind man kneels and kisses the cop’s hand. Investigators say the killer understood anatomy in order to know where to stab from behind. Later another cop survives an attack by a man pretending to have a diabetic seizure. Then we meet the killer, who looks something like Anthony Perkins. His name is Erwin Lovegod and he works in a hospital. He lives with his aunt. One detective named Adam is studying psychotic behaviour from his girlfriend Libby’s library as the other cops follow leads. Irwin collects toy soldiers. All of the police have been told to be suspicious of people asking for help. Next Irwin lures a cop into a building by pretending that his wife has just gone into labour. He kills the cop but a tenant sees him and he runs. A broken toy soldier is found nearby and the detective finds that it is a collector’s item that is only sold at one store. The proprietor happens to know the name of the buyer. They talk to his aunt and the detective finds him hiding in the hospital. He thinks the detective is his father. He throws chemicals in the detective’s face and partially blinds him. He pursues Irwin to the roof and Irwin is about to kill him when the detective tells him he’s blind. Still thinking it’s his father he says, “You never asked me for help before” and he gives up.

Libby was played by Nancy Malone who was the first female vice president at 20^th Century Fox. She won an Emmy as a producer and was nominated for two directorial Emmys. She was also an equestrian, a painter, a poet, a football and a baseball player.

Mantle's Curve

            On Saturday morning I had a hard time finding the cold water with the floppy handle of my tap. Later I had just as much trouble locating the hot water because all I could get was cold. Sometimes when I found the right temperature I would try to carefully lift the lever to turn it off so it would still be the same temperature when I pushed it back down but it was often the opposite temperature in the same position.

I finished working out the chords for “Panpan Culcul” (A Good Spanking) by Serge Gainsbourg.

I washed a small section of my kitchen floor to the area just at the front left-hand corner of my mantle.

I tried to pay my rent online but I couldn’t access my account because the site wouldn’t recognize my bankcard number. The problem couldn't be the fact that I have a new bank card since I've had it more than two months and gone on line several times since then. I couldn’t call the bank to ask what was wrong because I hadn’t paid for my November plan yet. I had to go to the supermarket so the plan was to pay for the phone service on the way there. As I was getting ready I heard my landlord taking care of the garbage. He ever comes on garbage day and doesn’t seem to want to hire a superintendent to do the job. He puts the garbage in his van and takes it to the dump on his way back to Burlington. I told him about my faulty faucet and he came to look at it. To my disappointment he said it could be fixed and he said he’d bring someone in either Sunday morning or next weekend. Since it started to malfunction shortly after being installed I don't think fixing it is going to make it work for very long.

I paid the $28.25 for my phone plan on my way to No Frills. At the supermarket I bought five bags if grapes, three chicken legs, mouth wash, scotch bonnet sauce, salsa, coffee and an expensive container of all Canadian honey. It’s funny how it costs less for things that are shipped in from thousands of kilometres away.

I called the Bank of Montreal and found that since I changed my bankcard two months ago I haven’t been registered with online banking. That didn’t make any sense since I’ve done online banking several times since then. The phone teller told me that the system had just automatically remembered my old card number when I’d accessed my account before. I complained that they should have registered me with online banking the day I got my new card and not waited until I was shut out. She said she didn’t know why they didn’t register me. I had to pick a new password to replace the one I’d had for years because they have new requirements. There must be at last eight characters, including one upper case letter, one lower case letter and one symbol like a question mark or dollar sign. Finally I was able to register and pay my rent.

I had cheese on toast for lunch and a piece of strawberry rhubarb pie with yogourt.

In the afternoon I did my exercises while listening to Amos and Andy. In this story Kingfish tries to borrow from his insurance policies again but he is told that he’s borrowed so much already that when he dies his wife will have to pay the insurance company. He decides to sell hospitalization insurance himself by forming his own company. He tricks Andy into thinking he’s sick by pretending to take his x-ray. What he shows him is his own x-ray, which shows his belt buckle with his initials on it for “George Stevens" but tells Andy that the “GS” means he has gallstones. Andy buys the insurance for $10 but then Kingfish finds out he could go to jail for selling insurance without a license. He convinces Andy that he is the one that’s in trouble because Kingfish will plead ignorance and so Andy can’t because there is only one ignorant party allowed for every policy. Andy is now worried about his health and goes to a doctor. The doctor tells him that he’s healthy but that the person whose x-ray he showed him needs a gall stone operation.

I continued my research on the Woodstock First Nation and finally found out how they moved from Meductic. It’s a pretty interesting history with a lot of rough patches on the way but they seem to have a few successful businesses now. They have a casino, a truck stop, two gas stations and three fishing boats working at a profit. I'm also getting closer to formulating a thesis for my essay. The idea is that people or communities are places more so than actual land. People that live in relation to an ecosystem like a river are naturally in motion.

I grilled two burgers and had one on a toasted English muffin with a beer while watching the final episode of the first season of Wanted Dead or Alive starring Steve McQueen.

This story begins after Josh finds a wounded dog on the road. He brings it into town to be treated. Amos Carter, the dog’s caregiver arrives just after the dog dies.  He then leaves saying he is going to kill Chester Blake. Josh learns from the townspeople in the saloon that there has been an ongoing feud between the Carters and the Blakes for longer than anyone can remember. Josh says that if he lived in the town he’d try to put a stop to it. The men call his bluff and put up $200 to pay him if he can stop the feud. Josh goes to talk to Chester and his son Seth. Chester’s disgruntled wife Minnie Lee brings out a jug of moonshine and they begin to drink, as Josh is about to try to talk about the feud. Suddenly the jug is shattered by a bullet. There is an exchange of fire and then Josh compels them to form a truce long enough to talk. Minnie Lee brings out another jug and then sits watching and rocking from the porch. Seth confesses that he accidentally shot Amos’s dog when he heard something in the bushes while hunting rabbits. Chester says he’d never kill a dog. Minnie Lee says that her and Amos’s wife have made up their minds to stop doing chores unless they stop feuding. The feud is over but the townspeople say that the dead Carters and Blakes won’t be happy about the feud being over. Suddenly we hear the loud sound of thunder.

Minnie Lee was played by Peggy Webber, who started performing at the age of two during intermissions in silent film theatres. She was eleven when she started working in radio and by the time she was eighteen she was writing, producing and directing early television shows. She crated a drama anthology series called Treasures of Literature, which won the award that would later be known as the Emmy. She played Ma Friday on over a hundred radio episodes of Dragnet. She created a sitcom called "Oh Miss Tubbs" which was not produced but many of her ideas and characters were stolen and used for the hit show “Our Miss Brooks”. She wrote and directed some 250 stage plays, radio and television shows.

I like Steve McQueen but this series really didn’t stand apart from most of the other westerns on TV in that era. Bonanza was probably the best.

            Just before bed I felt extremely dizzy. I was worried that when I closed my eyes the room would spin but I was able to sleep. 

Faulty Faucet

            The wind was still blowing strong when I got up on Friday but one benefit of it was that with my living room windows open the cool air combined with the heat from my radiators to even out the temperature.

            My kitchen faucet has been malfunctioning for a long time as it's not fixed where it should be and I have to twist the handle around to find the temperature of water I’m looking for. It was even worse this morning as it flopped around like a noodle until I finally got it into a position that gave me cold water to drink.

            I finished memorizing “Panpan Culcul” (A Good Spanking) by Serge Gainsbourg and looked for the chords but found none so I started working them out. It's in C.

            I used a screwdriver underneath the sink to secure my faucet a little more but it's still loose. I definitely need another one but this is the second on of the same type that my landlord bought and the other one went wrong in exactly the same way. I assume there are better quality sink fixtures out there. I didn’t want a double sink in the first place but since Raja installed one I think either a flexible faucet or two faucets would be better. 

            I worked a little more on my Meductic village research for Indigenous Studies.

            I did my laundry and while it was in the wash I rode down to Freshco. They only had green grapes, so I didn’t get any. I bought strawberries, raspberries, a loaf of Bavarian sandwich bread, a pack of chicken drumsticks, a pack of lean ground beef, two containers of Greek yogourt, a pack of old cheddar and a box of spoon size shredded wheat. I remembered to buy Earl Grey tea but I forgot to buy honey.

            Without taking my groceries home I rode straight back to the Laundromat to put my stuff in the dryer. The attendant had a long red club with a ball on the end and was practicing his golf swing in the parking lot.

            I did the dishes.

            I finished listening to the Yes-Jon Anderson discography. It’s interesting to compare his solo career with Yes. Musically the work was so much better in the band. Lyrically it all sounds pretentiously New Agey like he’s just come back from a retreat at Findhorn. I would say their best work was with both Steve Howe and Jon Anderson in the band. It occurred to me that Jon Anderson and Grace Slick have similar voices, although Anderson has more range. Yes actually came to sound a bit like Starship for a while and like a lot of other bands in the 80s when they stopped experimenting.

            I had a cold drumstick for lunch and some yogourt.

            I did my exercises in the afternoon while listening to Amos and Andy. In this episode Kingfish’s uncle leaves him $2000 on the condition that he has a son to pass on the family name. He decides to adopt Andy and there doesn’t seem to be a law against it. After he finds out he’ll be getting the money he tells Andy to get out but the lawyer arrives and says the will states that the money goes to the son.

I started trying to edit the video I’d shot of the windy street the night before but Windows Movie Maker wouldn’t recognize the MOV file from my camera. I tried to convert it in Cloud Convert but after several minutes it said the file was too big. I tried video editor but that didn’t change the format. Finally, somehow I changed it to MP4 but I don’t know how. Movie Maker accepted that. The audio of the traffic from the video was too harsh and so I turned that down and added Juliette Greco singing Les Feuilles Mortes and had it fade out so it didn’t seem so abrupt at the end.

I had a potato, two drumsticks and gravy for dinner while watching Wanted Dead or Alive starring Steve McQueen.

In this story Josh has been hired a father to get his son Arnold away from the influence of a renegade military leader. Mandeville has formed a militia to invade Mexican California under the pretence of librating it but he really wants to steal gold and silver. Josh enters their camp before thy ride out and tries to take Arnold away but he is knocked out. When he recovers he goes after them. After crossing the border he is captured by Mexicans that think Josh is with Mandeville. He escapes, goes into Mandeville’s camp where he is captured again. Arnold has realized by this time that Mandeville is a murderer after he has slaughtered women and children. They are both forced to ride with the militia into Mexico but when the troop is ambushed in a pass they escape and Josh takes Arnold home.

            

Half Note

            On Thursday morning I worked on memorizing “Pan Pan Cul Cul” (A Good Spanking) by Serge Gainsbourg but Shouty McWheelchair was particularly angry under my window that morning and I found it very hard to concentrate. I managed to memorize all but the final verse.

            I washed another section of my bedroom floor almost in the middle. I’ve passed the splintered part of the floor and only had to scrape up a few paint splatters this time.

            I wanted to go to Freshco because on Thursdays they start the new deals for the week but it rained all day, so I didn't go out.

            In the afternoon I did my exercises while listening to Amos and Andy. This episode had very bad sound quality. In the story it's Sapphire's birthday and she complains that all she has is junk jewellery. Kingfish takes what he thinks are fake pearls from her jewellery box so he can sell them and buy Sapphire a present. He sells them To Andy for $10 but it turns out that they are the only real jewellery she owns. He has to get them back from Andy. Andy wonders why pearls are so "respensive". Kingfish explains that there is only one pearl expert in the world and he has to eat a lot of oysters to find pearls but he hates oysters. It turns out that Andy has already given his girlfriend the pearls and so Kingfish poses as an appraiser. He brings a junk diamond broach from Sapphire’s box and tells hr the pearls are worthless. Andy gives her the fake diamond but when Kingfish gets home and gives her back the pearls she says that when she saw them missing she was so upset that her mother donated her real diamond broach but now that’s missing.

I worked on doing research into the Wǝlǝstǝk village of Meductic and found a very good book on the topic.

I had a potato, two drumsticks and gravy while watching Wanted Dead or Alive starring Steve McQueen.

In this story a ten-year-old girl named Dolly in an orphanage run by nuns writes to Josh for help. She wants him to find her parents. The mother superior tells Josh that Dolly’s parents are dead if they don’t come for her. But Josh finds out that her father, Matt Cleary is a drunk living with a bigger drunk named Virgil on the edge of town. Matt had been driving his wagon drunk ten years ago and there had been an accident in which his wife had died. He decided to give baby Dolly to the convent. Josh goes to see Matt and tells him Dolly wants to se him. Virgil is a giant of a man who threatens Josh not to come there again. But that night in the local bar Matt comes and says he wants to be with Dolly. Josh says he’ll have to quit drinking and so over the next several weeks he oversees Matt’s transformation. He gets him cleaned up, gets him clothes and gets him a job. But the night before he is supposed to finally meet Dolly, Virgil gets him drunk. Josh goes to see Virgil to try to tell him to back off but Virgil says Matt is the only friend he’s ever had. They fight and Josh almost loses. It takes the help of some furniture to give Josh the upper hand. A month later Josh escorts a sober Matt to pick up Dolly. Driving the wagon is a sober Virgil. Having known plenty of alcoholics the chances of both men realistically breaking the habit so easily are worse than getting struck twice by lightning.

Dolly was played by Ahna Capri, who came to the United States as a child from Hungary and began acting at the age of eleven. She grew up to be a blonde bombshell and her most famous role was as the femme fatale in Enter the Dragon.

Late that night the wind was howling like a witch out on Queen Street. A strong wind on garbage night is not a good combination for the neighbourhood. The wind was knocking garbage bins out onto the street and knocking them into one another. I could hear them sliding and rolling down the street and trash was being set free only to become prisoners of little whirlwinds that were spinning in the middle of the intersection. I grabbed my camera and shot a little video.