You are no doubt swept up in the jargon of the day which includes transparency and conflicts of interest. My colleague and friend, Robert K. Stephen, will be assisting me in the writing of this treatise. No. He is not a ghost writer but a coach and an experienced author of several literary masterpieces (hisContinue reading “The Penniless Pensioner Returns: Can He Save Canada: Chapter Two: Some Transparency”
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The Penniless Pensioner Returns! Can He Save Canada?
Chapter One: What to Do Next In the published recounting of my life described in “The Penniless Pensioner: Misunderstood, Maligned but Marvellous” we certainly had a ride bordering on the fantastic. We started with my childhood in Bombay with an introduction to my Welsh mother Juanita Wallenberg the almost massively famous blues singer and myContinue reading “The Penniless Pensioner Returns! Can He Save Canada?”
The Penniless Pensioner Says Good-Bye and Thank You
AFTERWORD The story you have read would not have been possible without the guiding hand of my colleague and advisor Robert K. Stephen. He was invaluable at editing, innovating and cajoling but at times I heard him moaning, “Not Again!” after editing each chapter some fifty times. He took great care to ensure the wordsContinue reading “The Penniless Pensioner Says Good-Bye and Thank You”
The Penniless Pensioner: Misaligned, Maligned but Marvellous (The Final Version):Chapter 51: Revolt at the Mugless Mental Hospital in Montreal
Squid whisked me away from Dorval International Airport in Montreal to downtown Montreal in his silver Studebaker. I took my usual suite at the Ritz-Carlton on Sherbrooke Street. After unpacking we went to Thursdays on Crescent Street for a quick Martini and then to an old favourite Greek restaurant of mine on Park Avenue calledContinue reading “The Penniless Pensioner: Misaligned, Maligned but Marvellous (The Final Version):Chapter 51: Revolt at the Mugless Mental Hospital in Montreal”
The Penniless Pensioner: Misaligned, Maligned but Marvellous (The Final Version):Chapter 54: Meeting with Bernie Maggot and Fleece-Em Investment Management Company
The Greyhound Montreal to New York midnight bus is always a bizarre experience. Invariably Mennonites or Amish are denied entry into the United States. Then that rest stop at Saratoga Springs in New York is like a trip back to a 1950’s diner and the apple pie is almost worth the trip! I arrived inContinue reading “The Penniless Pensioner: Misaligned, Maligned but Marvellous (The Final Version):Chapter 54: Meeting with Bernie Maggot and Fleece-Em Investment Management Company”
The Penniless Pensioner: Misaligned, Maligned but Marvellous (The Final Version): Chapter 53: Back to New York to Work with Bernie Maggot
These class actions arising from the “disturbances” at the Queen Fairy Hospital for Veterans and the Mugless Mental Hospital took two years to settle. The biggest victory was against the United States Government aka CIA for conducting covert LSD experimentation on certain Mugless patients. Could LSD be used to effectively interrogate “enemies of the state”.Continue reading “The Penniless Pensioner: Misaligned, Maligned but Marvellous (The Final Version): Chapter 53: Back to New York to Work with Bernie Maggot”
The Penniless Pensioner: Misaligned, Maligned but Marvellous (The Final Version): Chapter 52: Revolt at the Queen Fairy Hospital for Veterans in Montreal
Not far from the idyllic suburb of Hampstead in Montreal one can find the ageing Queen Fairy Hospital for Veterans. Those Quebec soldiers severely injured in conflicts where Canada was at war were “housed” in the Queen Fairy. Conditions were rather grim with lack of comprehensive physical and psychiatric care. For the past year patientsContinue reading “The Penniless Pensioner: Misaligned, Maligned but Marvellous (The Final Version): Chapter 52: Revolt at the Queen Fairy Hospital for Veterans in Montreal”
The Penniless Pensioner: Misaligned, Maligned but Marvellous (The Final Version): Chapter 50: Revolt of the Mutants in Montreal: Hijacked by the Sons of Westmount
During packing up in Naples to go to some undetermined destination I received a telephone call from Squid in Montreal. As you may recall Squid was the top man with the United Mutations and I had worked for the United Mutations in New York drafting the Charter of Mutant Rights. You may also further recallContinue reading “The Penniless Pensioner: Misaligned, Maligned but Marvellous (The Final Version): Chapter 50: Revolt of the Mutants in Montreal: Hijacked by the Sons of Westmount”
The Penniless Pensioner: Misaligned, Maligned but Marvellous (The Final Version): Chapter 49: Good-Bye Naples, Good-Bye Scampia and Good-Bye Don Lupara….for the time being
Seven hours after departing Bucharest I was at my seaside home on the Bay of Naples. Don Lupara called me inviting me to dinner at the “compound” the following day. Perhaps it was my imagination but the scent of Ginevra still lingered in the house that was to be the home of Ginevra and ourContinue reading “The Penniless Pensioner: Misaligned, Maligned but Marvellous (The Final Version): Chapter 49: Good-Bye Naples, Good-Bye Scampia and Good-Bye Don Lupara….for the time being”
The Penniless Pensioner: Misaligned, Maligned but Marvellous (The Final Version):Chapter 48: Rot in Hell Cyclops! May You Be with the Angels Ginevra
OK so I had our Bombay Blues Whisky travelling road show at the J.W. Marriot Bucharest Grand Hotel’s “Voice of America” grand suite. The Romanians tanked up on Bombay Blues Whisky. In fact, twenty bottles of it for 53 people. They scoffed down pounds of Bombay Fried Okra probably not noticing the inferior Albanian okraContinue reading “The Penniless Pensioner: Misaligned, Maligned but Marvellous (The Final Version):Chapter 48: Rot in Hell Cyclops! May You Be with the Angels Ginevra”
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