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RKS 2024 Wine: The Cheapest Quality Bubby in Town?

Most likely a toss up between Prosecco and Cava. We try a Cornaro Prosecco DOC Treviso. Prosecco is more often platinum in colour as this Prosecco is. Aroma: Lime, lemon and marzipan. Palate:  A cleansing wave of acidity. Almond, peach, banana split and sweet white grapefruit. Personality: Although I am simply the best on aContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: The Cheapest Quality Bubby in Town?”

RKS 2024 Film: Toronto’s Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival: “Dalton’s Dream”

Jamaican Dalton Harris wins the 2018 X Factor UK “talent contest”. He had been preparing for an X Factor UK appearance for seven years winning several Jamaican talent contests including “Rising Star”. Now translate the X Factor UK win into stardom, fortune and fame! Pictures circulate showing Dalton hugging a man and sitting on theContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: Toronto’s Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival: “Dalton’s Dream””

RKS 2024 Wine: Encruzado to the Rescue?

So many Portuguese white wines have a functional element of suitability with food and their thinness and acidity making many of them a superb match with seafood a commodity which Portuguese menus are rarely lacking. Rabigato, Viosinho and Arinto do not exactly make stellar sipping wines. I had the privilege of visiting the Dâo wineContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Encruzado to the Rescue?”

RKS 2024 Film: HOTDOCS 2024: “Silent Trees”: A Minefield to Somewhat Normalcy

Sixteen-year-old Runa fled ISIS controlled Kurdistan with her parents and four younger brothers. Trapped in a forest between Belarus and Poland her mother is felled by hypothermia and later dies in a Polish hospital. The family had spent 18 days in a frozen forest attempting to enter Poland. The Polish government had previously retaliated againstContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: HOTDOCS 2024: “Silent Trees”: A Minefield to Somewhat Normalcy”

RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS: “Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story”

Jackie Shane (born Jack Shane) was born in Nashville in 1940 abandoned by his 16-year-old unmarried mother being brought up by relatives. By eight years of age he was singing in a church choir adding to his musical background of spiritual music played often by his grandmother. Shane purchased some drums to start his musicalContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS: “Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story””

“Travels to a Different Time” : 25July2005: Lagos, Portugal: BBQ Chicken and Saturday Night at the Bullfights

By God, another buffet breakfast. Yes they are excellent but when will they ever end? Almost as if there is too much choice with foods we simply do not have in Canada. The cheeses and the eggs are unbelievably good. The watermelon was particularly sweet this morning. There was a Brit dad with his youngContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” : 25July2005: Lagos, Portugal: BBQ Chicken and Saturday Night at the Bullfights”

“Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog”: The Final Cut: Off to Hollywood for the Academy Awards! Stopping off to See President Biden First! Joe Grateful We Avenged His Trumpian Nickname of “Sleepy Joe”: New Chain “Noodles for Peace” to launch in North Korea: Chapter Seventy Two (72)

Nicole Kidman Productions Ltd. has sent a corporate jet to take Bob, Fay, Dylan the Westie, Mr. Gordon Lightfoot with our friend Bosco and Martin Malivoire to Los Angeles but our friend President Biden has asked us to stop at Dulles International in Washington to take a quick tour to the White House and toContinue reading ““Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog”: The Final Cut: Off to Hollywood for the Academy Awards! Stopping off to See President Biden First! Joe Grateful We Avenged His Trumpian Nickname of “Sleepy Joe”: New Chain “Noodles for Peace” to launch in North Korea: Chapter Seventy Two (72)”

RKS 2024 Film: “Our Grandmother-The Inlet”

This Canadian short falls into the “angry Indigenous genre” of documentaries. The treatment of Canadian Indigenous nations justifies the anger which is so intense in this short documentary with the distressed Kayah George, a young Indigenous woman that wants to burn “this fucking city down”. Could that be Vancouver? George, often with skateboard in hand,Continue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Our Grandmother-The Inlet””

RKS 2024 Film: “Les Histoires D’Amour de Liv S.” (The Love Stories of Liv S.)

Thirty-eight-year-old Liv Sándor meets the love of her life swimming in the lake. He looks like Bob Dylan. He talks like Rimbaud and he listens to me. The next scene has her storming out of her house a year later saying to her swimming sweetie that she is leaving and never returning. After storming outContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Les Histoires D’Amour de Liv S.” (The Love Stories of Liv S.)”

“Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog”: The Final Cut: Bloodbath on the Beaches of Darwin! Fatalities, Missing Limbs and Trauma: Chapter Sixty Six (66)

The Ratpack have braved dangers of all sorts but frankly we are terrified of Salties as Winston in “1984” was terrified of bright lights. In fact we are scared shitless. Fast, unpredictable and jaws that can gobble up and swallow a dog whole. Sunday is the crew’s day of rest. We usually hang around theContinue reading ““Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog”: The Final Cut: Bloodbath on the Beaches of Darwin! Fatalities, Missing Limbs and Trauma: Chapter Sixty Six (66)”