RKS Japanese Literature: The Lack of Beauty of Western Food (Natsume Sōseki)

“Not a single Western food has a color that could be called beautiful-the only exception I can think of are salad and radishes. I’m in no position to speak of its nutritional vale, but to the artist’s eye it is a thoroughly uncivilized cuisine. On the other hand, artistically speaking, everything on a Japanese menu,Continue reading “RKS Japanese Literature: The Lack of Beauty of Western Food (Natsume Sōseki)”

RKS Japanese Literature: Eyes Blinded by Worldly Passions and the Artist (Natsume Sōseki)

“I suppose you could say that the artist is one that lives in a three-cornered world, in which the corner the average person would call “common sense” has been sheared off from the ordinary four squared world that the normal inhabit. For this reason, be it in nature or human affairs, the artist will seeContinue reading “RKS Japanese Literature: Eyes Blinded by Worldly Passions and the Artist (Natsume Sōseki)”

RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds)THE BIG B

THE BIG B Your sons and daughters attend the best schools While we carry the tools and you try to categorize us as uncouth fools cocaine at the big frat party where anyone over 50 considered farty drive the big cars travel to countries afar their brown Adriatic touched faces gleam but for us WinnipegContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds)THE BIG B”

RKS WINES OF ARGENTINA: Kaiken Ultra 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon

Kaiken can be trusted to deliver good Malbecs but can the same be said for its Cabernet Sauvignons? The only way to so determine is to open a bottle of Kaiken Ultra 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon from Mendoza. Grapes grown at 1,050 metres. 45% of the wine in French oak barrels (1/3 each in new/second/third use)Continue reading “RKS WINES OF ARGENTINA: Kaiken Ultra 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon”

RKS Japanese Literature: The Journey and its Poetic Component (Natsume Sōseki)

“While we are on our journey, shod in our straw sandals as of yore, we may do nothing but grumble about its hardships from dawn to dusk, but when we come to tell the tale to others, we will never make a murmur of such complaints. No, we will speak smugly of its fascinations andContinue reading “RKS Japanese Literature: The Journey and its Poetic Component (Natsume Sōseki)”

“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom” : THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS HERE WE COME!

The Singapore Times Exclusive: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS HERE WE COME! Bobby Jr. was entrusted by his mother Madame Fong with the task of finalizing arrangements for a Fong charter of the Eastern & Oriental Express (E&OE) train for a journey through Malaysia. This is luxury train travel BobbyContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom” : THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS HERE WE COME!”

RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds):”FRUSTRATED YOUNG EXECUTIVES”

FRUSTRATED YOUNG EXECUTIVES Group at the bar Hoping for that big break Lying at the bottom of an empty glass Castrated ambitions Thwarted Recalled in fantasized dialogue Of lust frenzied materialism Only to be lost in Yet another glass

“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: AM I LOSING MY PUPPYHOOD?

The Singapore Times Exclusive: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: AM I LOSING MY PUPPYHOOD? If you have been following my story from its inception I was deep into puppyhood. Peeing and pooping wherever I felt like it. Teething on everything. Not obeying commands. Puppyfighting. Nonstop playing. Gamboling around the backyard. Eating puppy kibble. ThenContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: AM I LOSING MY PUPPYHOOD?”

RKS Russian Literature: A Dreadful Absence of Both Good and Evil (Nikolay Gogol)

“No one had seen him, even once, being any different from what he always was, whether on the street or at home. Had he but once showed any concern for anything, had he got roaring drink and burst out laughing in his drunken state, had he even abandoned himself to wild grotesque revelry of theContinue reading “RKS Russian Literature: A Dreadful Absence of Both Good and Evil (Nikolay Gogol)”

RKS Russian Literature: A Russian Philanthropic Swindle (Nikolay Gogol)

“For instance, having set up some philanthropic society for the poor and having contributed considerable sums to it, we lose no time in commemorating such a praiseworthy event by throwing a dinner for all the leading dignitaries of the town, thereby expending, of course, half the sums that have been contributed. With what remains, aContinue reading “RKS Russian Literature: A Russian Philanthropic Swindle (Nikolay Gogol)”