“Thousands were killed in Calcutta. Men, women, children, even suckling babies. They called it a riot. Those of us who’d been in the thick of things with these bloodthirsty little men knew it was more than that. Muslims butchering Hindus. Hindus butchering Muslims. And who knows whose side the Sikhs were on? Rumour said theContinue reading “RKS Literature: England Needed to Keep the Rioting Muslims and Hindus Under Control! (Andrea Levy)”
Author Archives: Robert K Stephen (CSW)
RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: Hernia Pay for View Event
Not to exaggerate but hernia surgery is big business so why not cash in! I am close to finalizing a pay for view event “Hernias the Agony and the Ecstasy” with Fightview International based in Pineville, North Carolina. There will be three event viewings. View one: “The Scourge of the Hernia Plague” View two: “HerniaContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: Hernia Pay for View Event”
RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: A Global Hernia Help Hotline?
Given that hernia surgery is one of the most “common surgeries” in the developed world and the citizens in the developed world have massive amounts of cash to squander on consumer goods why not create a global hotline assuaging and profiting from Hernia Fear? Where there is medical fear there is money to be madeContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: A Global Hernia Help Hotline?”
RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: A Surgical Resort?
Your admission into the Hernia Club (Inguinal Division) commences from the day you emerged from the shower and noticed a bulge just above the waist. Membership ends upon your death. There is no initiation fee, annual charge or minimum bar and restaurant tab required. No need to worry about global inclusion and diversity. The preponderanceContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: A Surgical Resort?”
RKS 2025 Wine: Mencía a Pinot Noir on Steroids?
One of my favourite descriptors of a grape is attributable to Matt Kramer of the Wine Spectator many years back when he stated the Mencía grape reminded him of Pinot Noir on steroids. Whether that descriptor is correct is less relevant than the descriptor itself! You will find Mencía in Northwestern Spain and in theContinue reading “RKS 2025 Wine: Mencía a Pinot Noir on Steroids?”
RKS Literature: Sex and a Gas Mask (Andrea Levy)
“All that lily-of-the-valley scent. Hours spent waving my hair and powdering my face to porcelain perfection. Silk stockings, red lips and hands as soft as lah-di-lah. And I was married to a man who wouldn’t have noticed if I’d come to bed in my gas mask. If I could have asked Aunt Dorothy, “Is thatContinue reading “RKS Literature: Sex and a Gas Mask (Andrea Levy)”
RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Surgery is the Easy Part: No Worries as We’ve Seen it All Before!
Newbies to the Hernia Club are frequently barking up the wrong tree once they decide it is time for surgery and keenly focus on the surgery itself to the exclusion of the healing process. I will not review differing surgical approaches here as they are amply discussed on the internet. It is perfectly natural toContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Surgery is the Easy Part: No Worries as We’ve Seen it All Before!”
RKS 2025 Canadian Film: “Do I Know You from Somewhere?” A Juxtaposition of Two Possible Realities
“Do I Know You from Somewhere” juggles two possible realities. It is what could have been where choice, fate and accident intersect and zig zag with the past, present and future. There is a healthy dose of ominous fantasy a la “Twilight Zone”. Olive (Caroline Bell) meets Benny (Ian Otis Goff) at a relative’s wedding.Continue reading “RKS 2025 Canadian Film: “Do I Know You from Somewhere?” A Juxtaposition of Two Possible Realities”
RKS Literature: Frightened to Get in the Family Way! (Andrea Levy)
“All those warnings of things that could leave me in the family way. I’d been scared simple from the time my breasts first poked up in my jumper. Kissing at the garden gate, canoodling at the pictures. If he stuck his tongue in your mouth that was definitely a baby. If he touched your breast,Continue reading “RKS Literature: Frightened to Get in the Family Way! (Andrea Levy)”
RKS Literature: Butcher’s Daughter Stuck on the Farm in Rural England
“I should have been going to dances, larking with men who had Clark Gable hair and whispered in my ear I was as pretty as an English rose. My legs should have been caressed in silk stockings, a pointed toe and a delicate heel on my shoe as I stepped from a car. I shouldContinue reading “RKS Literature: Butcher’s Daughter Stuck on the Farm in Rural England”
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