COSTCOLYPSE NOW! Surreal moment 8February2026 08:23 Saturday morning Where are those Super Bowl drums? Flats will not suffice Minus 23 Fifty-six people in line waiting for the doors to open and bask in some warmth Attacking the aisles as if on a Bell-UH-1 attack! If Lieutenant Colonel “Bill” Kilgore were by my side he wouldContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology: COSTCOLYPSE NOW!”
Author Archives: Robert K Stephen (CSW)
RKS Literature: How to Use Your Enemies: Choose Your Friends (Baltasar Graciáno)
Choose Your Friends ….they should become so after being examined by discretion, tested by fortune and certified not simply by your will but your understanding. Although the most important thing in life, it’s usually the one over which least care is taken: some are forced upon us, most are the result of pure chance.Continue reading “RKS Literature: How to Use Your Enemies: Choose Your Friends (Baltasar Graciáno)”
RKS Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):18October2025: Bangkok: Beware of a Killer Salad!
18October2025: Bangkok: Beware of a Killer Salad! Last night in Bangkok prior to flying off to Cambodia. We were to meet three other couples for a shuttle across the river to eat at a Thai-Italian fusion restaurant called Mazzaro. D and his wife arrived at our meeting point at the Peninsula Bangkok pier all flusteredContinue reading “RKS Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):18October2025: Bangkok: Beware of a Killer Salad!”
RKS Literature: How to Use Your Enemies: Know How to Deflect Trouble to Someone Else (Baltasar Graciáno)
Know How to Deflect Trouble to Someone Else Having a shield against ill will is a great trick of rulers. To have someone else who can be criticized for mistakes and chastised by gossipmongers is a sign of superior skill, not lack of competence as malice thinks. Have a fall guy, therefore, someone who, atContinue reading “RKS Literature: How to Use Your Enemies: Know How to Deflect Trouble to Someone Else (Baltasar Graciáno)”
RKS Poetry Anthology: Did Someone Allegedly and Regrettably Get Horny With Stormy?
Did Someone Allegedly and Regrettably Get Horny With Stormy? Someone I once knew well said all men think with their dick What a sexist prick! Like Adam and Eve private parts must be covered up Or best said “settled” to supress the muck Politicians must be careful with the dalliances they pick As getting hornyContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology: Did Someone Allegedly and Regrettably Get Horny With Stormy?”
RKS Literature: How to Use Your Enemies: Don’t Expose Your Sore Finger (Baltasar Graciáno)
Don’t Expose Your Sore Finger ….or everything will knock against it. Don’t complain about your sore points, for malice always attacks where our weaknesses hurt the most. Getting annoyed will only serve to spur on someone else’s enjoyment. The ill intentioned are always searching for a pretext to get your back up. Their dart likeContinue reading “RKS Literature: How to Use Your Enemies: Don’t Expose Your Sore Finger (Baltasar Graciáno)”
RKS 2026 British Columbia Wine: Another Tempranillo Requiring Your Attention
Tempranillo and Canada are obviously bad bedfellows? You are mistaken. An increasing amount is being found in bottles of red wine from the Canadian province of British Columbia. Three cheers for that! The Trumpster has referred to Canada as the land of the igloo people. Well for “Eskimos” Trump may have read in his geographyContinue reading “RKS 2026 British Columbia Wine: Another Tempranillo Requiring Your Attention”
RKS Literature: How to Use Your Enemies: Live According to the Common Practice (Baltasar Gracián)
Live According to the Common Practice You shouldn’t reason and debate in an old-fashioned way and your taste should be up-to-the-minute. Telling the truth and keeping your word are unknown today and seem like things from the past. Good men, although always loved, seem relics of better times, and so even if there happen toContinue reading “RKS Literature: How to Use Your Enemies: Live According to the Common Practice (Baltasar Gracián)”
Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version): Disapproval of the Body Pierced and Scantily Attired
18October2025: Bangkok: Hooky Given the day’s afternoon activity consisted of yet another cruise and meal along the Chao Phraya River and commenced with a 08:00 departure one might say a long breakfast with other tour hooky people and two pots of jasmine tea overlooking the river was preferable. What a breakfast…as usual with papaya, mango,Continue reading “Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version): Disapproval of the Body Pierced and Scantily Attired”
RKS Literature: How to Use Your Enemies: Get Used to the Bad Temperaments of Those You Deal With (Baltasar Gracián)
Get Used to the Bad Temperaments of Those You Deal With ..like getting used to ugly faces. This is advisable in situations of dependency. There are horrible people you can neither live with nor live without. It’s a necessary skill, therefore to get used to them, as to ugliness, so you’re not surprised each timeContinue reading “RKS Literature: How to Use Your Enemies: Get Used to the Bad Temperaments of Those You Deal With (Baltasar Gracián)”
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