Robert K Stephen (CSW)

RKS 2024 FILM: HOT DOCS 2024:“My Sextortion Diary” (Todo Lo Cubre la Sol): A Currency of Threats and Humiliation

Patricia Franquesa, a Spanish filmmaker, meets her ex-boyfriend at a restaurant in Madrid for lunch. Her laptop is stolen by two men as is visible on security camera footage. She reports the matter to the Madrid police. Two months later a hacker informs her three “compromising pictures” on her laptop will be distributed to allContinue reading “RKS 2024 FILM: HOT DOCS 2024:“My Sextortion Diary” (Todo Lo Cubre la Sol): A Currency of Threats and Humiliation”

RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS: “Back to Riaño” (Vuelta a Riaño): Spanish Destruction and Relocation all for Nothing

“Back to Riaño”, a film by Miriam Martin, is one of the four films showing in the Hot Docs Made in Spain Shorts Programme screening on 3May2024. It is a case study in government waste and arrogant stupidity. The locality of Riaño had nine 14th century villages destroyed in order to construct a dam thatContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS: “Back to Riaño” (Vuelta a Riaño): Spanish Destruction and Relocation all for Nothing”

RKS 2024 Wine: Morgon: Classy Name: Good Beaujolais?

I have always thought Morgon was a classy name. When I was a wee tadpole in Montreal there once was a classy department store called Morgon’s. Morgon’s stores were eventually purchased by the Hudson’s Bay. Enough reminiscing. We try a Domaine Laurent Gauthier Morgon. Aroma: Cheerful and light black cherry. That’s all folks and itContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Morgon: Classy Name: Good Beaujolais?”

RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “Aqueronte”: A Mystical Voyage of Light, Sound and Images for Your Imagination

“Aqueronte”, a film by Manuel Muñoz Rivas, is one of the four films showing in the Hot Docs Made in Spain Shorts Programme screening on 3May2024. Despite the fact it is not a documentary short it is a short of a mystical voyage of light, sound and images your mind can journey on with. AContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “Aqueronte”: A Mystical Voyage of Light, Sound and Images for Your Imagination”

RKS 2024 Wine: McManis 2022 Petite Sirah: Berlin Wall of Blackberry: Bland? Predictable? Reliable? Uninspiring? Consumer Friendly? Cali Conundrum

It is not common to encounter a Petite Sirah as a single varietal wine. It produces tannic wines with a savoury and almost meaty character and dense blackberry fruit making it a useful blender but if the tannins are carefully managed it can make an age worthy and supple wine on its lonesome. Aroma: WowContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: McManis 2022 Petite Sirah: Berlin Wall of Blackberry: Bland? Predictable? Reliable? Uninspiring? Consumer Friendly? Cali Conundrum”

RKS Literature: Chez Robert Declines after Ketchup Riot (William S. Burroughs)

“Imperceptibly the quality of the food declines until he is serving literal garbage, the clients being intimidated by the reputation of Chez Robert to protest. SAMPLE MENU The Clear Camel Piss Soup with boiled Earth Worms The Filet of Sun-Ripened Sting Ray basted with Eau de Cologne and garnished with Nettles The After-Birth SuprêmeContinue reading “RKS Literature: Chez Robert Declines after Ketchup Riot (William S. Burroughs)”

RKS Literature: Ketchup on Haute Cuisine Causes a Riot! (William S. Burroughs)

“(Alternative: A.J. whips out a bottle of ketchup and douses the haute cuisine.) Thirty gourmets stop chewing at once. You could have heard a soufflé drop. As for Robert, he lets out a bellow of rage like a wounded elephant, runs to the kitchen and arms himself with a meat cleaver….The sommelier snarls hideously, hisContinue reading “RKS Literature: Ketchup on Haute Cuisine Causes a Riot! (William S. Burroughs)”

RKS Literature: Americans Dying of Shame (William S. Burroughs)

“A.J.’s cover story? An international playboy and harmless practical joker. It was A.J. who put the piranha fish in Lady Sutton Smith’s swimming pool and dosed the punch with a mixture of yagé, hashish and yohimbine during a Fourth of July reception at the U.S. Embassy, precipitating an orgy. Ten prominent citizens-American, of course-subsequently diedContinue reading “RKS Literature: Americans Dying of Shame (William S. Burroughs)”

RKS 2024 Wine: A Montepulciano Lost in Letters and Numbers at a Bunga Bunga Party Frequented by Punters

Although Montepulciano is almost always an easy drinking wine in this case it is lost, or perhaps I am, in too many letters and numbers. The wine was bottled by ICQRF/4495/IT on behalf of TG SRL 72015. If we dig further are there Cayman and Bulgarian offshore accounts involved further complicating the matter. Wanna betContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: A Montepulciano Lost in Letters and Numbers at a Bunga Bunga Party Frequented by Punters”

RKS 2024 Film: “Queendom”: Tough Going for Performance Artist in Nouveau Tsarist Russia

Gennadiy, known in costume as Jenna, is a performance artist in Russia who managed to escape to France obtaining asylum there fortunate enough not to have “fallen out of a window”, gunned down or to have consumed that FSB special plutonium tea. You see Jenna is a queer that loves to parade about the streetsContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Queendom”: Tough Going for Performance Artist in Nouveau Tsarist Russia”