You may recall my initial infatuation with Minah my little hummingbird and tabbouleh slinging sweetheart in Montreal. I had been accepted to McGill University in Montreal with a full Claire and Warren Quimby Scholarship for Third World Disadvantaged Urchins. I didn’t need the tuition money but seeing the bastards the First World can produce, particularlyContinue reading “The Penniless Pensioner: Misaligned, Maligned but Marvellous (The Final Version):Chapter 8: Minah My 140 Kilo Sweetheart”
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The Penniless Pensioner: Misaligned, Maligned but Marvellous (The Final Version):Chapter 5: Bye Bye Juanita and My Iraqi Sweetheart
Juanita Wallabong’s tour was wrapping up in North America with a final performance in Montreal at the Montreal Forum. We were enjoying a few glorious days off as this trip was about my education not simply music. I fell in love with Montreal as it was in North America but so un-American! I discovered FairmontContinue reading “The Penniless Pensioner: Misaligned, Maligned but Marvellous (The Final Version):Chapter 5: Bye Bye Juanita and My Iraqi Sweetheart”
RKS 2024 Travel: Canada Day Cake Parade at Niagara-on-the-Lake
On 1July2024 I had the surreal pleasure of marching in the annual Niagara-on-the-Lake Cake Parade. It has been a Canada Day fixture for some two decades now. Queen Street is cordoned off and several thousand line it. Yes the drums of the 41st Fife and Drum Corps Regiment can be heard way down Queen StreetContinue reading “RKS 2024 Travel: Canada Day Cake Parade at Niagara-on-the-Lake”
RKS 2024 Television: AMI’s “Postcards From…”: Season Five Episode 3: Dawson City, Yukon
In the third episode of season 5 of “Postcards From…” showing on the Accessible Media Incorporated television network and streaming service host Christa Couture takes us to Dawson City, Yukon a remote Northern town of some 1600 inhabitants. It is quaint and relaxing and the drone photography and commentary of Couture makes it a temptingContinue reading “RKS 2024 Television: AMI’s “Postcards From…”: Season Five Episode 3: Dawson City, Yukon”
RKS 2024 Wine: A Ritzy Montreal Pinot Noir from Westmount from the Tête Carrée!
We try a Westmount Willamette Valley Pinot Noir from Oregon. Westmount is a ritzy suburb of Montreal perched along Mont Royal. The home of the wealthy English sometimes referred to as Tête Carrée by the plebeians down below. So seeing a Pinot Noir from Westmount Vineyard and having travelled through Westmount countless times when livingContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: A Ritzy Montreal Pinot Noir from Westmount from the Tête Carrée!”
RKS 2024 Film: “Sweetland”: Time to Recognize a New Canadian Film Classic: The Sea Giveth the Governments Taketh
“Sweetland” is based on Michael Crummey’s novel of the same name. The Fisheries Household Resettlement Programme administered by the Canadian federal government and Newfoundland provincial government offered somewhat meagre payments for inhabitants of remote outports to relocate to “economic centres of development”. Did economic theory destroy and mutilate the fabric of historic Newfoundland? To receiveContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Sweetland”: Time to Recognize a New Canadian Film Classic: The Sea Giveth the Governments Taketh”
RKS 2024 Film: “Wild Goat Surf”: Joanna Andrade Dreams but Down and Out in Penticton
Rell “Goat” Anderson (Shaylea Martin) is a thirteen-year-old surfer chick obsessed with becoming a great surfer although her summer of 2003 trailer park life in Penticton, British Columbia’s beautiful Okanagan is not progressing well for her. Goat has the look, the garb and attitude of a skateboarder a la Avril Lavigne’s “Skater Boy”. One problemContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Wild Goat Surf”: Joanna Andrade Dreams but Down and Out in Penticton”
The Great Toronto Tim Hortons Near Riot!
On 26March2024 I received an e-mail from “Your Friends at Yorkdale VW” showing how much they appreciated me being part of the VW family. Golly as Sally Field once said at the Oscars, “You really love me!” So nice to be loved by a large German corporation! I was so loved an offer was madeContinue reading “The Great Toronto Tim Hortons Near Riot!”
RKS 2024 Film: “The Burning Season”: Raging Hormones, Various Intoxications of the Flesh and Deception from Z to A: The Canadian Film Fest
I have viewed some fine films showing at The Canadian Film Fest. There are so many film festivals in the world it is impossible to keep track of them all and I stumbled into this one by chance. It is certainly not a major festival but based on the festival films I watched great careContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “The Burning Season”: Raging Hormones, Various Intoxications of the Flesh and Deception from Z to A: The Canadian Film Fest”
“Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog” : The Final Cut: Reggie Has Tea with Gordon Lightfoot and a Surprise for Bosco: Chapter Thirty Eight (38)
Bob, Fay, Dillie, Bosco and I were invited to tea at Mr. Gordon Lightfoot’s home. Mr. Gordon Lightfoot is a neighbour to Drake, Bob and Fay. Bob had purchased some Greek pastries at Serrano Bakery on Pape Avenue in Toronto to bring over to Mr. Gordon Lightfoot’s. Bob had also downloaded some of his musicContinue reading ““Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog” : The Final Cut: Reggie Has Tea with Gordon Lightfoot and a Surprise for Bosco: Chapter Thirty Eight (38)”
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