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“Travels to a Different Time” : 11March2002: Cancun, Mexico: The Hefty Juice and Omelette Lady

Delicious breakfast at buffet restaurant. There is a juice lady and an omelette lady. The juice lady makes custom smoothies with your choice of bananas, papaya, mango and various melons. The omelette lady makes custom omelettes and you put on your plate the ingredients you want and voila she prepares the omelette. Tasty Mexican eggsContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” : 11March2002: Cancun, Mexico: The Hefty Juice and Omelette Lady”

“Travels to a Different Time” : 10March2002: Cancun, México: Mexican Shakedown

Off from Toronto to Cancun on an Air Transat L-10-11 a rather aged plane at least 20 years old. But steady as she goes the flight was smooth. Why can’t you get a cold beer on a Canadian airline? Food was fit for a dog. I think it might have been Rotini in a vegetarianContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” : 10March2002: Cancun, México: Mexican Shakedown”

RKS Literature: Mikhail Sholokhov “Virgin Soil Upturned”

“Yes, you are right there. Wait a little then, don’t join yet. Well fight relentlessly against all shortcomings in the collective farm; all the collars will be fitted to the right horses. But if you see your old bullocks in your sleep, then you can’t be in the Party. You must come into the PartyContinue reading “RKS Literature: Mikhail Sholokhov “Virgin Soil Upturned””

RKS Literature: Mikhail Sholokhov “Virgin Soil Upturned”

“……I’d pass a decree forbidding youngsters to get married. What sort of revolutionaries will they make if they get used to hanging on women’s’ skirts?  A women is to us what honey is to a greedy fly. We get stuck at once. I’ve seen it in my own case, and I know only too well.Continue reading “RKS Literature: Mikhail Sholokhov “Virgin Soil Upturned””

“Virus # 26 Director’s Cut: Chapter 17 “Lessons Learnt from COVIDs: Governments with No Money Left”

Wealthy capitalist countries handed out money like candy canes to both individuals and businesses. Various augmentations to unemployment insurance, wage subsidies and low interest loans to businesses just to name a few. The money was so easy millions preferred staying at home collecting it instead of working! Just ask the late Tsar Alexander of RussiaContinue reading ““Virus # 26 Director’s Cut: Chapter 17 “Lessons Learnt from COVIDs: Governments with No Money Left””

“Travels to a Different Time” : 15March2001: New York City: The Wonders of Central Park

For the trip to Toronto Pearson Airport paid a bit extra for limo service. I have had bad luck with airport taxis. On my last trip to Boston when returning home from Toronto Pearson Airport I had an airport taxi that stalled at each stop. And before that a driver that took me towards HamiltonContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” : 15March2001: New York City: The Wonders of Central Park”

RKS Literature: On the Verge of Death

“Watching Sophie with her breath misting the inside of the translucent green breathing mask. There was a terrible acceleration. The idea that Sophie could die had always been there, ever since the first diagnosis, and yet it had seemed like a bad place on the map, an Ivory Coast, somewhere not urgently frightening because fearContinue reading “RKS Literature: On the Verge of Death“

“Virus # 26 Director’s Cut: Chapter 16 “Lessons Learnt from the COVIDs; Fuck the Vulnerable Movement”

Initially COVID-19 witnessed a polite population where the only sacrifice was finding toilet paper, surgical masks, hand sanitizer, yeast and bottled water then hiding out at home. Hospital beds just managed to cope with the seriously ill. Now the seriously ill and the fatalities were highly skewed towards the elderly in scandalously filthy and incompetentlyContinue reading ““Virus # 26 Director’s Cut: Chapter 16 “Lessons Learnt from the COVIDs; Fuck the Vulnerable Movement””

“Travels to a Different Time” : 13August2000: Good-Bye Greece

Woke up to a beautiful sunrise and a mediocre breakfast at a faded beauty of a hotel. The Greek yogurt with Greek honey is always a treat. The dining room is huge and the obnoxious bright fluorescent lights make you feel like an inmate at a penitentiary. A view of the fountain but is sadlyContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” : 13August2000: Good-Bye Greece”

“Travels to A Different Time” : 12August2000: Epidavros, Greece: Off to The Sunken City and Staying at a Grand Hotel In Athens on the Decline!

Off in a boat with a local met at a restaurant to see the sunken city. Atlantis? Just out of the port into another bay with ancient ruins on the hills. It was thought there was a town there in antiquity but an earthquake or volcano destroyed it and it slid into the sea. IndeedContinue reading ““Travels to A Different Time” : 12August2000: Epidavros, Greece: Off to The Sunken City and Staying at a Grand Hotel In Athens on the Decline!”