Author Archives: Robert K Stephen (CSW)

RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “The Bearded Girl”

What a fantasy film! Could it ascend to the heights of Cinderella, Pinocchio or “Nightmare Alley”? Eighty-eight generations of a family have produced a bearded girl. Commences as light peach fuzz and by maturity is wild mountain man thickness. Creates audience attraction in a carnival sideshow particularly when the bearded girl is s sword swallower.Continue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “The Bearded Girl””

RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: 2021 Nomad Fumé Blanc From Niagara, Ontario

Aroma: Lemon, lime, guava, peach, pineapple and mango. Wow this has lots going on! Palate: Despite all the fruitish bouquet activity there is a certain austerity on the palate and despite 12 months ageing in oak it has a clean stainless-steel backbone, or least that is the way it presents itself. Try and try youContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: 2021 Nomad Fumé Blanc From Niagara, Ontario”

RKS 2025 Film: “Cloud”: Up in the Sky or Down Far Below?

Ryosuke Yoshii (Masaki Suda) is an internet reseller of whatever he can bargain cheaply for and hopefully resell at retail or wholesale at an enormous profit. Good freedom of enterprise all legitimate unless the merchandise is counterfeit. Operate in the cloud as Yoshii does under a pseudonym Ratel then the transactions are all anonymous andContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Cloud”: Up in the Sky or Down Far Below?”

RKS Literature: Marooned in Love (James Baldwin)

“Barbara and I were marooned, alone with our love, and we were discovering that love was not enough-alone we were doomed. We only had each other, and this fact menaced our relation to each other. We had no relief, we had no one to talk to-far behind us were the days when we had playedContinue reading “RKS Literature: Marooned in Love (James Baldwin)”

RKS 2025 Canadian Wine: A County Pinot Noir From The Grange of Prince Edward County in Ontario

The winery website describes its Farmer Series Pinot Noir “as a robust terroir driven County Pinot” aged 10 months in French oak. Aroma: Black cherry, raspberry held together in a light smoky frame. Palate: Too smooth to be considered robust! Definitely tannins but not lending to a robust categorization and that’s fine by me. SomewhatContinue reading “RKS 2025 Canadian Wine: A County Pinot Noir From The Grange of Prince Edward County in Ontario”

RKS 2025 Canadian Film: “Foreigner”: Polite Racism or Ignorance?

One associates racism with malevolent intent. The Canadian film “Foreigner” acknowledges malevolent racism also suggesting racism can possibly be “polite”, based more in ignorance than malevolence. Yasamin (Rose Deghan) is a newly arrived Iranian teenager to British Columbia living with her widower father (Ashkan Nejati) and her grandmother Zoreh (Maryam Sadeghi). There are hints Yasamin’sContinue reading “RKS 2025 Canadian Film: “Foreigner”: Polite Racism or Ignorance?”

Melania Trump Deported to El Salvador

Spoof News Services: 15July2025: Redneck, Florida Spoof News Services reporters on the ground in Redneck, Florida have reported Melania Trump has been deported to El Salvador this afternoon. She was abducted by MICE Agents in a shopping mall in South Beach, Miami attending an opening of a discount designer mall by the dog of KimmyContinue reading “Melania Trump Deported to El Salvador”

RKS Literature: American Media’s Obsession with the Cult of Personality

“You are literally, then, one amongst countless millions. You are news. Whatever you do is news. But it does not take long to realize, at least assuming that one wishes to live, that to be news is really to be nothing; that the attention paid to one’s vicissitudes is merely the most cunning way yetContinue reading “RKS Literature: American Media’s Obsession with the Cult of Personality”

RKS Literature: Avoiding an Incitement for a Racist Riot (James Baldwin)

“But, by the time one has become an incitement, not very much is left in one’s power. It is not a matter merely of walking straight, eyes straight ahead. No, one’s eyes must be everywhere at once-without seeming to be, without seeming to move; one must be ready for the rock, the fist, the suddenContinue reading “RKS Literature: Avoiding an Incitement for a Racist Riot (James Baldwin)”