Nowadays England is ersatz America, America’s delayed echo, America driving on the left. Sure, Jesse Garon Parker was white American trash who wanted to sing like a black boy, but the Beatles, for goodness sake, the Beatles are white English trash trying to sing like American girls. Crystals Ronettes Shirelles Chantels Chiffons Vandellas Marvelettes, whyContinue reading “RKS Literature: England an Ersatz America (Salman Rushdie)”
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RKS Literature: England an Ersatz America (Salman Rushdie)
Nowadays England is ersatz America, America’s delayed echo, America driving on the left. Sure, Jesse Garon Parker was white American trash who wanted to sing like a black boy, but the Beatles, for goodness sake, the Beatles are white English trash trying to sing like American girls. Crystals Ronettes Shirelles Chantels Chiffons Vandellas Marvelettes, whyContinue reading “RKS Literature: England an Ersatz America (Salman Rushdie)”
RKS Literature: 1965 Air India Flight from Bombay to London: Like the Mayflower (Salman Rushdie)
Welcome aboard the Mayflower, he greets them, seizing their hands as they pass by his seat, the terrified uncomprehending peasants from remote inland villages on their way to desert kingdoms, the perspiration sprinkled young executives in cheap suits, the frowning chaperones of a veiled young bride fainting in a pink gharana with too much goldContinue reading “RKS Literature: 1965 Air India Flight from Bombay to London: Like the Mayflower (Salman Rushdie)”
BEYOND PUPPYDOM: INCIDENTS, ACCIDENTS, EXPLORATIONS AND MAYHEM: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN TELLS IT LIKE IT IS: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN AIRLIFTED TO SWITZERLAND FOR MEDICAL CARE
RORY DYLAN STEPHEN AIRLIFTED TO SWITZERLAND FOR MEDICAL CARE Bob, Fay and Raffles were very concerned with my uncharacteristic behaviour. Not eating well, apathetic and reluctant to go out on my usual multitude of walks. It was the crying in my sleep and refusal to chase tennis balls that sounded the alarm bells. Bob isContinue reading “BEYOND PUPPYDOM: INCIDENTS, ACCIDENTS, EXPLORATIONS AND MAYHEM: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN TELLS IT LIKE IT IS: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN AIRLIFTED TO SWITZERLAND FOR MEDICAL CARE”
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.)”
