Dear Barb: Last night was Ex Lax night so today I stay fairly close to the hotel. They don’t serve many vegetables here. I have been eating too many starches. Although so tasty they are hard to refuse. The most incredible pastry. The boys would go wild. I have been to the symphony. The concertContinue reading “Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: 12February1971: Amsterdam, Holland: Hippies at Heineken”
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Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: ? February1971: Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Dear Barb: Just about ready to out to dinner with a couple I met. They are returning to New York tomorrow and they will mail this letter for me. My money came in today. I am staying here another week. I wish I could stay forever. There are only two flights a week to Amsterdam,Continue reading “Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: ? February1971: Palma de Mallorca, Spain”
Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog: The Final Cut: My Life in Egypt is Ending: Chapter One
After I was badly bitten by that big dog guarding the public market in Cairo I only remember running away in a panic and collapsing in pain and crying and then slipping into unconsciousness. I woke up in a strange place with odd smells and there are wires attached to my chest and funny beepingContinue reading “Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog: The Final Cut: My Life in Egypt is Ending: Chapter One”
RKS Health: Your Prostate: Elevated PSA Urologist Follow Up: Will They Afford You Any Dignity? Facing The Rectal Firing Squad!
Well fellows your PSA levels as indicated by your blood test are above the normal level and a follow up appointment has been booked with a urologist. What to expect? As you check in with reception at your urologist hopefully you can have a long hallway to pace up and down before you meet theContinue reading “RKS Health: Your Prostate: Elevated PSA Urologist Follow Up: Will They Afford You Any Dignity? Facing The Rectal Firing Squad!”
Dylan Stephen The Westie From The Land Beyond Unabashedly Wishes You a Merry Christmas
You may recall that I died on 13July2023 just shy of 15 years of age. I have accepted my death and I have many friends here in The Land Beyond. So many pets and humans. I am even friends with a cat named Snowball and so many dogs from my hood… Freddie, Oggie, Cody andContinue reading “Dylan Stephen The Westie From The Land Beyond Unabashedly Wishes You a Merry Christmas”
RKS 2023 Wine: Bachelder Wismer Foxcroft 2021 Gamay Noir: Ontario Gamay Noir Establishing Itself in Ontario
I encountered Thomas Bachelder last Sunday at Toronto Hot Docs Theatre for a showing of “Crush; Message in a Bottle” and we exchanged brief pleasantries. Bachelder, Kelly Mason, Shiraz Mottiar and Anne-Marie Saunders were expressing their views as to growing grapes and making wine in the Niagara region of Ontario. I expressed my agreement withContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: Bachelder Wismer Foxcroft 2021 Gamay Noir: Ontario Gamay Noir Establishing Itself in Ontario”
RKS 2023 Film: “Pay or Die”: You Will Understand Big Pharma Profiteering on Insulin in The United States: The Solution Seems Typically American
Those who suffer from Type 1 diabetes require multiple daily insulin injections failing which diabetic ketoacidosis sets in and death ensues. Quite simple isn’t it? A vial of insulin currently sells for $10 in Italy, $12 in Canada and $14 in Japan. In the United States when the film was produced $300. Three Pharma’s controlContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Pay or Die”: You Will Understand Big Pharma Profiteering on Insulin in The United States: The Solution Seems Typically American”
RKS Literature: England as a Hijacker and The United States as a Terrorist? (James Baldwin)
“Who, indeed, has hijacked more than England has, for example, or is more skilled in the uses of terror than my own unhappy country? Yes, I know: nevertheless children, what goes around comes around, what you send out comes back to you. A terrorist is called that only because he does not have the powerContinue reading “RKS Literature: England as a Hijacker and The United States as a Terrorist? (James Baldwin)”
RKS 2023 Film: “Iman”: Greek International Film Festival Tour of Canada (GIFFT): Deception and Loneliness Begets Explosive Conclusions
2023 will be the third year for GIFFT and it is packed with full length, short films and documentaries from Greece or films produced by Greeks outside of Greece. The Greek film industry has developed to a level of excellence over the last 10 years and here is a chance for Canadians to immerse themselvesContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Iman”: Greek International Film Festival Tour of Canada (GIFFT): Deception and Loneliness Begets Explosive Conclusions”
RKS 2023 Film: “A Song Film by Kishi Bashi”: ‘Omoiyari’: American “Concentration Camps” for Japanese Americans
Internationally acclaimed Japanese American composer and songwriter Karou Ishibashi with his stage name of Kishi Bashi takes us on a journey of history and self discovery and offers a glimpse of a less than logical and reasoned United States President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 to designate exclusionary zones where in Goebbelistic fashion anyone of JapaneseContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “A Song Film by Kishi Bashi”: ‘Omoiyari’: American “Concentration Camps” for Japanese Americans”
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