Jet lag and stress is never an ideal combination. After 4 hours of sleep at the Lost Luggage Hotel in Glyfada up at 4 a.m. hungry as a lion. Read a bit and watched a couple of hours of Greek music videos until the restaurant opened at 06:30 where there were many lost luggage victimsContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” : 25July2000: Samos, Greece; Finally Destination Reached! Good-Bye to Lost Luggage Hotel”
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RKS Wine: L’Ardoise Bachelder 2020 Niagara Chardonnay
Thomas Bachelder is the winemaker behind the Clos Jordanne label. But he also has his own endeavours including Niagara. He has a golden reputation for his Chardonnays. So lets try his Ardoise Chardonnay from Beamsville, Ontario which was made from grapes grown throughout the Niagara Peninsula. Most likely aged in neutral French oak barrels asContinue reading “RKS Wine: L’Ardoise Bachelder 2020 Niagara Chardonnay”
“Travels to a Different Time” : 24July2000: Toronto, London and Athens: Welcome to Olympic Airline’s Lost Luggage Motel! Captain Little Bird Flying Big Plane
Up up and away on an ageing Air Canada 747. Rather cheap French wine to start and the usual Air Canada shenanigans with chicken or pasta but we are out of the chicken. Cannelloni was undercooked pig slop. Nodded off and up at 4 a.m. to daylight. Breakfast, if you can call it that, wasContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” : 24July2000: Toronto, London and Athens: Welcome to Olympic Airline’s Lost Luggage Motel! Captain Little Bird Flying Big Plane”
The Montreal International Documentary Festival unveils an electrifying visual identity for its 25th edition
Montreal, July 13, 2022– The Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) is pleased to unveil the visual identity of its 25th edition, which will take place from November 17 to 27. To mark the RIDM’s 25th anniversary, Juliette Moal has dreamed up a visual signature that taps into our collective nostalgia for the 1990s. That decade saw the launch of the Montreal InternationalContinue reading “The Montreal International Documentary Festival unveils an electrifying visual identity for its 25th edition”
Virus # 26 Director’s Cut : Chapter 5 “Born in Pig Shit: Welcome to COVID-19 Plus”
COVID-19 Plus appeared in 2025. It was thought to have originated near a pork processing plant in the state of Virginia so it can be honestly said to be an American virus. It was not in the slaughterhouse that it was born but rather in a pork feces holding tank adjacent to a huge porkContinue reading “Virus # 26 Director’s Cut : Chapter 5 “Born in Pig Shit: Welcome to COVID-19 Plus””
RKS Film: “Anonymous Club”: Rockumentary with Heart
The rockumentary “Anonymous Club” examines the off- and on-stage personality of Australian rocker Courtney Barnett. Barnett is far from self assured and confident but that doubt propels her creativity to new heights and different directions. Unlike many rockers she is not stuck to the groove which quite frankly gets boring. She recorded many of herContinue reading “RKS Film: “Anonymous Club”: Rockumentary with Heart”
RKS Passage of the Day: “Nine Perfect Strangers”: The Discarded Wife
“It happens. It happens a lot. It’s essential the discarded wife remain dignified. She must not wail and weep, except in the shower when the kids are in pre-school and she’s alone in the suburbs with all the other weeping, wailing wives. The discarded wife must not be bitchy or unkind about the new improvedContinue reading “RKS Passage of the Day: “Nine Perfect Strangers”: The Discarded Wife”
“Travels to a Different Time ” : 23July2000: Good Old Air Canada: Off to Athens
Boarded an Air Canada flight to London at Toronto’s Pearson Airport to make a connecting flight to Athens. As a flight to Rio was boarding at the same time as my flight to Athens a big commotion and two huge streams of passengers were all mixed. There were also a large group of children withContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time ” : 23July2000: Good Old Air Canada: Off to Athens”
“Travels to a Different Time: 19March2000: New York City: Screwed Over by the Bank, Mozart and Patsy’s
Continental breakfast of bagels, crumpets, juice and tasteless New York City coffee. The ATM machine advised me I had no funds available to make a cash withdrawal. I had to phone my bank in Toronto and find out what was going on. In error they had cleared a postdated cheque Two hours later I finallyContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time: 19March2000: New York City: Screwed Over by the Bank, Mozart and Patsy’s”
RKS Quote of the Day: “Nine Perfect Strangers”
“That particular group of solidly married friends was meant to envy her, or they’d pretend to envy her anyway, for all those years, but it seemed that being childless and single in your thirties was very different from being childless and single in your fifties. No longer glamorous. Now kind of tragic.” Liane Moriarty “Continue reading “RKS Quote of the Day: “Nine Perfect Strangers””
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