Roasted Pigeon Droppings
Time declared they were great
Forbes acclaimed them a delight
Rolling Stone stated they were outta sight
Playboy advised them as an aphrodisiac at night
CNN advertisements promised a special 10% off deal
Good Housekeeping gave them an approval seal
National Geographic showed bare breasted natives scraping them off rocks
Clearasil used them in its cream for zits
Personally, I believe they taste like
The shits
Robert K. Stephen
LOSING MY MANHOOD: SOMETHING IS UP
I am getting more attention than usual and I query why?
Extra treats and cuddles.
Hearing lots of “Poor Rory”.
My food bowl disappearing at 20:00 with a comment “they say” no food after that time. Why?
As a West Highland Terrier I sense something is up. What is it?
“The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all the feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his “natural superiors” and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous cash payment. It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal wealth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single unconscionable freedom- Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions. It has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “The Communist Manifesto”, 1848.
The Chinese film “Blades of the Guardians” directed by Yuen Woo-Ping leaves no doubt there should be no disparaging of Chinese film. True, it is yet another martial art centric film, but can there be one more spectacular?
Majestic cinematography, enthralling costuming, creative sets, momentous and artistic martial arts choreography and a Gobi Desert location all combine to create an epic Chinese cinematographic masterpiece.
Martial arts to the extreme. Levitating bodies and stunning acrobatics. Hard core martial arts aficionados have just found their Cinema Paradiso! Newbies to martial arts films may find the scenes impossible to believe due to the special effects and implausibility of one against 500 victorious but isn’t that part of the fantasy of martial arts films?
The plot is intricate enough to pique the interest of viewers with sharp minds and eyes for detail to process the extensive parade of characters. Some viewers may be overwhelmed by this so my advice may be to focus on good guys and bad guys and enjoy the action.
The Sui Dynasty is in decline with the desert clans fighting amongst themselves for control of their territory. The leader of the Flower rebellion Zhishilang represents a challenge to the Sui Dynasty and becomes the most wanted man of the dynasty with a huge bounty placed on his head.
Dao Ma (Jing Wu) a bounty hunter and former imperial guard participates in the slaying of corrupt desert war lord Chang (Jet Li) and has a bounty, the second largest in China, placed on his head by Chang’s clan due to Dao Ma’s slaying of Chang. Dao Ma’s benefactor Lao Mo (Tony Ka Fai Leung) convinces Dao Ma for the good of China (and the liquidation of all his debts) to transport Zhishilang to safety and hence the epic journey commences.
Dao Ma is pursued by dynasty forces, bounty hunters and clans seeking desert prominence. Meeting foes and enemies and friends some of which are in fact enemies present martial arts display scenes never seen before on the screen.
Be prepared for political treachery and intrigue, astounding martial arts and battle scenes, colourful characters, chopped off body parts, pools of blood, romance, fair damsels, handsome dudes, armies of extras in Ben Huresque proportions and a new quasi-Darth Vader bad guy.
Of course, the good guys win but at a terrible cost but what are hundreds of victims in a martial arts film?
You can watch the trailer here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJjGHK0qL88
Released in the People’s Republic of China and North America 17February2026.
RKS 2026 International Film Rating 86/100.
LOSING MY MANHOOD: WHAT IS THIS ABOUT?
West Highland Terriers have a tremendous hearing ability and there is some weird talk going on here at home and on my walks which by the way I LOVE! Puppy fighting is the best!
I think they are saying soon I will be losing my manhood. What could that mean for a six-month-old puppy? I am a dog and not a man.
Some crude person, identity protected, said they would be “cutting off my balls”. I don’t have any balls to cut off but I love to chase them.
I hear the word “neutered”. I am not new so how can this word apply to me?
Puppydom is full of riddles!
All in a day’s work
The surly
Vodka vapoured foreman
In a flaming pink neon shirt
Confidently clacking dentures
And Mr. Milo racks up a total of 7 unfiltered Player’s
Smoked hidden and in silent terror in the WC
Thank God for the small breaks in life!
Robert K. Stephen
All in a day’s work
The surly
Vodka vapoured foreman
In a flaming pink neon shirt
Confidently clacking dentures
And Mr. Milo racks up a total of 7 unfiltered Player’s
Smoked hidden and in silent terror in the WC
Thank God for the small breaks in life!
Robert K. Stephen
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
Freeman and slave, patrician and plebian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in he common ruin of the contending classes.”
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “The Communist Manifesto”, 1848.
“Someone ought to stand with a hammer at the door of every happy contented man, continually banging on it to remind him that there are unhappy people around and that however happy he may be at the time, sooner or later life will show him its claws and disaster will overtake him in the form of illness, poverty, bereavement and there will be no one to hear or see him . But there isn’t anyone holding a hammer, so our happy man goes his own sweet way and is only ruffled by life’s trivial cares as an aspen is ruffled by the breeze. All’s well as far as he’s concerned.”
Anton Chekov, “Gooseberries”, 1898.
The Unwitting Hitler within parents
Two sisters some decades ago
Mother and father purchase a gleaming red tricycle
For the other
The victim, the sister of the other, despite salty semi-professional whining, receives nothing
As the government of favours places its tenders
Contracting within the grey matter commandant to supervise the laying
Of the barbed wire
And land mines
Against Viennese schooled underground fighters
Who tack exit lights in the surrounding woods
One a week for thirty minutes
Robert K. Stephen
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