Category Archives: literature

RORY DYLAN STEPHEN’S BEYOND PUPPYDOM:WHY AM I FEELING THIS WAY?

WHY AM I FEELING THIS WAY? I am back in Toronto with Bob and Fay. Raffles, my Singaporean Westie friend is with me on a permanent basis and I have been showing him around the neighbourhood. He is, or at least was, a working dog at the Raffles Singapore Hotel acting as a greeter andContinue reading “RORY DYLAN STEPHEN’S BEYOND PUPPYDOM:WHY AM I FEELING THIS WAY?”

RKS FILM: “10 Kilos”: Kinda Seen This Story Before

I couldn’t stop my brain cross referencing “10 Kilos” with “Midnight Express” but I will refrain from a comparative review other than remarking if you are in the poor narcotic inflicted gringo imprisoned in a Third World Prison type of mood you will not be disappointed. “10 Kilos” is the “true” story of Sharon YitzhakyContinue reading “RKS FILM: “10 Kilos”: Kinda Seen This Story Before”

BEYOND PUPPYDOM: INCIDENTS, ACCIDENTS, EXPLORATIONS AND MAYHEM: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN TELLS IT LIKE IT IS: INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION Let’s round off my period of puppydom at approximately twelve months. When I commenced with “Lost in Puppydom” it was all cute, cuddly and good clean if not puerile fun. Running around smelling and sniffing. Whimpering with curiosity. Being the cutest dog on the planet. Pooping and peeing here and there without a careContinue reading “BEYOND PUPPYDOM: INCIDENTS, ACCIDENTS, EXPLORATIONS AND MAYHEM: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN TELLS IT LIKE IT IS: INTRODUCTION”

RKS Literature: Washing of Brains by the World’s Head Laundry (Salman Rushdie)

Most of you won’t do it. The world’s head laundry is pretty good at washing brains. Don’t jump off that cliff don’t walk through that door don’t step into that waterfall don’t take that chance don’t step across that line don’t ruffle my sensibilities. I’m warning you now don’t make me mad you’re doing itContinue reading “RKS Literature: Washing of Brains by the World’s Head Laundry (Salman Rushdie)”

RKS Literature: India Only Discovers Sex in the Mid Twentieth Century! (Salman Rushdie)

And this in the far off 1950’s! In “underdeveloped” India, where boy-girl relations were so strictly controlled! True, true: but permit me to say “underdeveloped nation” or not, one of our prime cultural artifacts was a highly developed apparatus of hypocritical disapproval, not only of any incipient change in social mores, but also of ourContinue reading “RKS Literature: India Only Discovers Sex in the Mid Twentieth Century! (Salman Rushdie)”

RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Letter from Birmingham Jail (Martin Luther King Jr.)

My friends I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure. Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but as ReinholdContinue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Letter from Birmingham Jail (Martin Luther King Jr.)”

RKS Literature: Celebrating Non-Belongers (Salman Rushdie)

But the truth leaks out in our dreams; alone in our beds (because we are all alone at night, even if we do not sleep by ourselves), we soar, we fly, we flee. And in the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the non-believers, the different ones,Continue reading “RKS Literature: Celebrating Non-Belongers (Salman Rushdie)”

RKS Literature: Lurid Story Telling at a Party of Indian Intellectuals (Salman Rushdie)

 Clusters of intellectuals had formed around certain beautiful women – the starlet Pia Aziz, the artist Aurora Zogoiby – while most of the other women were sitting at the feet of a boozy but celebrated Muslim writer of low-life stories which was shocking them by providing, in the most exquisite and ornate Urdu Sir DariusContinue reading “RKS Literature: Lurid Story Telling at a Party of Indian Intellectuals (Salman Rushdie)”

RKS Literature: Emerging Rock n Roll in India as a Decadent Virus (Salman Rushdie)

He began to hold music responsible for the world’s ills and would even argue in his cups, that its practitioners should be wiped out, eradicated, like a disease. Music was a virus, an infection, and music lovers were comparable to those globe-trotting sexual immoralists whose nameless activities had resulted in the global spread of syphilis.Continue reading “RKS Literature: Emerging Rock n Roll in India as a Decadent Virus (Salman Rushdie)”

RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Hymie’s Bull (Ralph Ellison)

Bulls are pretty bad people to meet if you’re a bum. They have head-whipping down to a science and they’re always ready to go into action. They know all the places to hit a bone to turn it into jelly, and they seem to feel just the place to kick you to make your backboneContinue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Hymie’s Bull (Ralph Ellison)”