Dear Boys: Don’t throw envelopes out as I want to save the stamps. I am sitting in the sun and is 85 degrees. I wish I brought some lighter clothes. I have had such a nice time-today I visited the castle bult in 1300. I walked to it and it was a long one. IContinue reading “Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: 4February1971: Palma de Mallorca, Spain: A $1 Lunch of Steak, Mushrooms, Spinach, Half a Bottle of Wine and Coffee”
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RKS 2024 Film: “The Settlers”: Chile’s Submission For Best International Feature Film in the Upcoming Academy Awards
“The Settlers” is Chile’s submission for best International Feature Film in the upcoming 96th Academy Awards. Given the slew of mostly documentaries chronicling the decimation of indigenous populations the colonization playbook is becoming well worn. Colonize and destroy indigenous populations through violence, both cultural and physical then legitimization through treaties between the colonizers and theContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “The Settlers”: Chile’s Submission For Best International Feature Film in the Upcoming Academy Awards”
Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: ? February1971: Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Dear Boys: Just having a rest before going down to dinner. Tired from all the walking I am doing. I went to the other side of the island with a couple my age. They are from New Jersey. We shared the expenses. Honestly, I have never seen such a beautiful country. The lemon trees areContinue reading “Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: ? February1971: Palma de Mallorca, Spain”
RKS 2024 Film: “Beehive”: An Alien Invasion is All the Buzz with Stinging Analogies to COVID
Comets are seeing whizzing by in the night sky in a rural British Columbia area. Speculation in the media is that this may be an alien invasion. A crock of crap? Rosy (Meadow Kingfisher) an energetic aspiring filmmaker at age 10ish lives with her father Frank (Stephen J.F. Walker) and her somewhat surly older teenContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Beehive”: An Alien Invasion is All the Buzz with Stinging Analogies to COVID”
RKS 2024 Film: “Adult Adoption”: Lost in a Barbie Land of Not Belonging
Poor 25-year-old Rosy (Ellie Moon) is floundering in a pink obsessed Barbie Land. She is the perfect nine-year-old girl in her dress style, choice of music and her general level of maturity. Just look at her room! Even her sleeping pills are pink. Rosy was in foster care at age 6 as her mother diedContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Adult Adoption”: Lost in a Barbie Land of Not Belonging”
RKS 2024 Wine: Chilean Wines a Flash in the Pan? Nationalism Losing to The Wallet?
In terms of price and quality here in Canada Chilean red wines rule the roost. I await export statistics as to both volume and monetary value for 2023. In the Liquor Control Board of Ontario’s Vintages 6January2024 release there are 5 Chilean reds and they are all under $20. There are a paltry 3 CanadianContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Chilean Wines a Flash in the Pan? Nationalism Losing to The Wallet?”
RKS Literature: Cocktails and a Life of Nothingness of the Idle Rich
“Back in his apartment the grayness returned. His cocktails had died, making him sleepy, somewhat befogged and inclined to be surly. Lord Verulam-he? The very thought was bitter. Anthony Patch with no record of achievement, without courage, without strength to be satisfied with truth when it was given to him. Oh, he was a pretentiousContinue reading “RKS Literature: Cocktails and a Life of Nothingness of the Idle Rich”
Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: ? February1971: Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Dear Barb: I went to the bank at 9:30 this morning to get my money situation fixed up and then I went to the market and bought 4 oranges huge and delicious for four cents. I ate some Mallorcian dish at a stand with a little beer for 39 cents. You should see this marketContinue reading “Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: ? February1971: Palma de Mallorca, Spain”
Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog: The Final Cut :Rescue Dog Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Chapter Four
So here I am in Canada with my foster parents Anthony and Susan. Gradually I am starting to feel good about myself. I am gaining confidence. I am saddled with countless bad dreams about my treatment on the streets of Cairo, master Anwar’s state abduction and execution for simply being critical of the Egyptian government.Continue reading “Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog: The Final Cut :Rescue Dog Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Chapter Four”
RKS Literature: United States Congress as a Pigsty
“On this minor his dream faded-work to do: he tried to imagine himself in Congress rooting around that litter of that incredible pigsty with narrow and porcine brows he saw pictured sometimes in the rotogravure sections of the Sunday newspapers, those glorified proletarians babbling to the nation the ideas of high school seniors! Little menContinue reading “RKS Literature: United States Congress as a Pigsty”
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