“One of the most basic Black survival skills is the ability to change, to metabolize experience, good or ill, into something that is useful, lasting, effective. Four hundred years of survival as an endangered species has taught most of us that if we intend to live, we had better become fast learners. Malcom knew this.Continue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: BLACK Survival Skills (Audre Lorde)”
Author Archives: Robert K Stephen (CSW)
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: MURDER ON THE EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS?: THE INVESTIGATION BEGINS
The Singapore Times Exclusive: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: MURDER ON THE EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS?: THE INVESTIGATION BEGINS We arrived back in Singapore Woodlands Train Station. All train staff and passengers were prohibited from leaving the Eastern & Oriental Express until all were questioned by a joint team of investigators from Malaysia andContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: MURDER ON THE EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS?: THE INVESTIGATION BEGINS”
RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Do You Cast the Right or Wrong Person for a Movie Role? (Andy Warhol)
“If I ever have to cast an acting role, I want the wrong person for the part. I can never visualize the right person in a part. The right person for the part would be too much. Besides, no person is ever completely right for any part, because a part is a role is neverContinue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Do You Cast the Right or Wrong Person for a Movie Role? (Andy Warhol)”
RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: How to Make America More Beautiful (Andy Warhol)
“The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald’s. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald’s. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald’s. America is really The Beautiful. But it would be more beautiful if everybody had enough money to live.” Andy Warhol, “Fame”, 1975.
RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Talkers vs. Beauties (Andy Warhol)
“I don’t really care that much about ‘Beauties’. What I really like are ‘Talkers’. To me, good talkers are beautiful because good talk is what I love. The word itself shows why I like Talkers better than Beauties, why I tape more than I film. It’s not ‘talkies’. Talkers are doing something. Beauties are beingContinue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Talkers vs. Beauties (Andy Warhol)”
RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Committing Faux Pas When Talking to People in Love (Andy Warhol)
“It’s very easy to make faux pas when you’re talking to a person who’s in love, because they’re more sensitive about everything. I remember once I was at a dinner party and I was talking to a couple who looked so happy together and I said, “You are the happiest looking couple I’ve ever seen.’Continue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Committing Faux Pas When Talking to People in Love (Andy Warhol)”
RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Fantasies Giving Rise to Problems (Andy Warhol)
“People’s fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn’t have fantasies you wouldn’t have problems because you’d just take whatever was there. But then you wouldn’t have romance, because romance is finding your fantasy in people who don’t have it. A friend of mine always says, ‘Women love me for the man I’m not.”Continue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Fantasies Giving Rise to Problems (Andy Warhol)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: MURDER ON THE EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS?
The Singapore Times Exclusive: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: MURDER ON THE EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS? It was our last night aboard the Eastern & Oriental Express with a gala black-tie dinner planned but given the Malay Tiger battle and the PTSD of Sir Reginald Nicomshire after the tiger attack no one was inContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: MURDER ON THE EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS?”
RKS British Literature: A Not so Glamourous Parisian Pension (George Orwell)
“How Elizabeth loathed that pension! The patronne was an old black-clad sneak who spent her life in tiptoeing up and down the stairs in hopes of catching boarders washing stockings in their hand basins. The boarders, sharp-tongued bilious widows pursued the only man in the establishment, a mild, bald creature who worked at La Samartine,Continue reading “RKS British Literature: A Not so Glamourous Parisian Pension (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: “Beastly” and “Lovely” Learnt at Expensive English Boarding-School (George Orwell)
“Elizabeth was sent for two terms to a very expensive boarding-school. Oh, the joy, the joy, the unforgettable joy of those two terms. Four of the girls at school were ‘the Honourable’; nearly all of them had ponies of their own, on which they were allowed to go riding on Saturday afternoons. There is aContinue reading “RKS British Literature: “Beastly” and “Lovely” Learnt at Expensive English Boarding-School (George Orwell)”
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