“Parasisi” is a quiet yet threatening documentary. Take the opening minutes in a tender moment with a father and child bathing at dusk in the river then a scene with some roughnecks unloading battered steel barrels from a truck onto the riverside. What is in the barrels certainly can’t be beneficial for the river. ThreateningContinue reading “Toronto Hot Docs Festival: “Parasisi”: Wayana People Plagued by Intruders”
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RKS CANADIAN Documentary: “Hearse Chasing”: Seeing the Damage the Bottle Has Done
Watching the home video clips of Cassidy Waring and her younger brother Cooper in their childhood home in 1990’s Calgary there is a happy family flow which rapidly deteriorated into misery after Cassidy’s parents joined a dart club and quickly fell victim to the bottle. The misery extended beyond Cassidy and Cooper to neighbours andContinue reading “RKS CANADIAN Documentary: “Hearse Chasing”: Seeing the Damage the Bottle Has Done”
RKS CANADIAN Film: “Mould”: Brittle Mental Health
Stevie (Stephanie Petallano) is a twenty something waking up to a surprise believing her hands are moulded clay. At her workplace her clay hands transform into porcelain and the rest of her face into clay save for her eyes. Her mind deceives her as she is the sole witness to this horrific and imaginary transformation.Continue reading “RKS CANADIAN Film: “Mould”: Brittle Mental Health”
RKS CANADIAN Film: “The Thing Inside Her”: Who to Believe? Where is the Real Horror”
Harriet (Jacki Gunn) visits Doctor October (Jennifer Koenig) to have her IUD removed. In response to Dr. October’s questions Harriet explains she is experiencing nausea, insomnia, anxiety, low libido, depression and at times thoughts of suicide. Perhaps it is all just attributable to hormonal changes? Her boyfriend Matt (Matthew Graham) in slug like fashion eatsContinue reading “RKS CANADIAN Film: “The Thing Inside Her”: Who to Believe? Where is the Real Horror””
RKS Literature: The Evil Side of Sake (Yoshida Kenkō)
“I cannot understand why people will seize any occasion to immediately bring out the sake, delighting in forcing someone else to drink. The other will frown and grimace in painful protest, attempt to throw it away when no one’s looking or do his best to escape, but this man will seize him, pin him downContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Evil Side of Sake (Yoshida Kenkō)”
Lost in Puppydom Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN AND TIGER WOODS PICKED UP ON DUI CHARGE!
RORY DYLAN STEPHEN AND TIGER WOODS PICKED UP ON DUI CHARGE! Much to my humiliation I was picked up today after a DUI! You may have heard the great golfer Tiger Woods was also recently picked up on a DUI. I have watched this event unfold over the past day or two. Bloated and puffyContinue reading “Lost in Puppydom Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN AND TIGER WOODS PICKED UP ON DUI CHARGE!”
RKS Literature: The Temporary Joy of a Successful Operation (Yury Felsen)
“I was recuperating after a successful operation. The joy, such that convalescents experience was long gone and had given way to neurotic boredom of interminable waiting. Those who are often ill know this impatient reckoning of days and hours, the alarm if the time of discharge is again discharged, the irritability brought on by theContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Temporary Joy of a Successful Operation (Yury Felsen)”
RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “The Untouchables” (COVID MEMORIES)
The Untouchables (COVID MEMORIES) Politico and medicos message is trust none All seen a potential disease carrying scum All untouchables Ground zeros of infection Police powers imparting lessons and obedience Like dogs on a leash Results of a bungled vaccination policy Canadian provinces blame it on the feds Everyone the enemy Imprison for “safety” atContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “The Untouchables” (COVID MEMORIES)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: LOST MY MANHOOD: SO GLAD TO BE AT HOME!
LOST MY MANHOOD: SO GLAD TO BE AT HOME! Bob was up at 06:00 which is unusual. I ordinarily tell him, in my way, up and at em because it is time to perform my ablutions. Even stranger he had a bowl with a spoon coated in peanut butter ready for me to lick cleanContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: LOST MY MANHOOD: SO GLAD TO BE AT HOME!”
RKS 2025 Short Film: “The Hemingway”: Elbows Up
Canada currently faces threats of economic decimation and political annexation by you know who. Canadians have adopted a fightback phrase “Elbows Up” a metaphorical reference to hockey players aggressively using their elbows to defend and possibly strike back at aggressors. Patrick Sean O’Brien is saddled with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) where the muscles atrophy inContinue reading “RKS 2025 Short Film: “The Hemingway”: Elbows Up”
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