MATTERS ARE NOT WHAT THEY APPEAR TO BE: OUR SECURITY TEAM AND BOB’S GLOCK Bob is fond of saying we inhabit a “modest cottage” on a quiet street in Toronto’s Bridlepath area. Bob and Fay purchased the late musician Gordon Lightfoot’s home and gently renovated it a few years ago. That musician Drake is ourContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: MATTERS ARE NOT WHAT THEY APPEAR TO BE: OUR SECURITY TEAM AND BOB’S GLOCK”
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RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)
GROUP TOUR PERSONALITIES: THE WINDBAG The windbag never stops talking. To fellow travellers. To the tour guide and director. To anyone fortunate to have been born with ears. Then those long-complicated questions with a microphone in hand on the tour bus. Digging into the minutiae and the weeds with questions of importance only to theContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)”
RKS LITERATURE: Frankenstein Verging on a Mental Breakdown (Mary Shelley)
“The leaves that year had withered before my work drew near to a close, and now every day showed me more plainly how well I had succeeded. But my enthusiasm was checked by my anxiety, and I appeared rather like one doomed by slavery to toil in the mines, or any other unwholesome trade thanContinue reading “RKS LITERATURE: Frankenstein Verging on a Mental Breakdown (Mary Shelley)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: BRAVE NEW WORLD
BRAVE NEW WORLD As a FOB, as all puppies are, life graduates in excitement day after day assuming you have caring and attentive masters. Arriving at Bob and Fay’s house was an eyeopener after being born in a kennel. The backyard was a new world of sights and smells. Chasing squirrels is a thrill. RunningContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: BRAVE NEW WORLD”
RKS Literature: What Drives Frankenstein to Create His Monster? (Mary Shelley)
“No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards like a hurricane in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me in ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creatorContinue reading “RKS Literature: What Drives Frankenstein to Create His Monster? (Mary Shelley)”
RKS Literature: The Miserable Details of Commerce (Mary Shelley)
“The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavored to persuade his father to permit him to accompany me and to become my fellow student but in vain. His father was a narrow-minded trader and saw idleness and ruin in the aspirations and ambition in hisContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Miserable Details of Commerce (Mary Shelley)”
Canada, Denmark, Greenland, Columbia and Taiwan to Form Coalition of the Threatened
Spoof News Services: Grimsby, Ontario: 5January2026: Reliable sources amply reimbursed by Spoof News Services have learnt of a secret meeting between officials from Canada, Denmark, Greenland, Columbia and Taiwan at the exclusive Lux Resort in the High Mountains of Grimsby, Ontario. Sources stated the meeting was to discuss the formation of a Coalition of theContinue reading “Canada, Denmark, Greenland, Columbia and Taiwan to Form Coalition of the Threatened”
RKS 2025 Wine: The Best Wines of 2025
94 Colchester Estate Winery Grand CREW Cabernet Sauvignon (Canada) 94 Stag’s Hollow 2022 Renaissance Merlot Okanagan Valley (Canada) 94 Hester Creek 2022 Old Vine Cabernet Franc (Canada) 94 Schild Estate Angus Brae Vineyard 2020 Shiraz (Australia) 94 Big Head Red #11 (Canada) 94 El Enemigo 2021 Single Vineyard Bonarda (Argentina) 94 Chateau Ste Michelle IndianContinue reading “RKS 2025 Wine: The Best Wines of 2025”
RKS Film: Best Films of 2025
96 Athens Midnight Radio (Greece) 95 Headcase (short) (Canada) 95 Self Driver (Canada) 95 Stelios (Greece) 94 Hole (short) (Korea) 93 Vermiglio (Italy) 93 Loren & Rose (United States) 93 Morningside (Canada) 93 Cloud (Japan) 93 Sweet Angel Baby (Canada) 92 Saigon Kiss (Vietnam) 92 Moon’s Wife (Canada) 92 Our Monsters (Canada) 92 Ya DangContinue reading “RKS Film: Best Films of 2025”
RKS Film: Best Documentaries of 2025
96 Death Plan for a Man and a Dog (Greece) 95 Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat (Belgium/Netherlands) 95 Mediha (USA) 94 Divia (Ukraine) 93 Ghosts of the Sea (Canada) 92 A Fly on the Wall (India) 92 Queer Acts of Love and Resistance (Canada) 92 Unwelcomed (Chile)
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