“The miniaturization of human beings in China had progressed so far at that point, that their ambassador was only 60 centimeters tall. His farewell was polite and friendly. He said his country was severing relations simply because there was nothing going on in the United States which was of any interest to the Chinese atContinue reading “RKS Literature: Diplomatic Relations with the United States and China (Kurt Vonnegut)”
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The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Kristos the Last Child”
In 1971 I spent 4 months in the Greek islands and then in 1972 another month. I managed to witness Greece as most will never see it. We took a fishing boat to an island I forget the name of, as there was no ferry service. We stopped for the fisherman to haul in hisContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Kristos the Last Child””
RKS Literature: Careful with Birthday Party Drinking (Kurt Vonnegut)
I must be very careful with my drinking at my birthday party, if I drank too much, I might spill the beans to everybody: That life awaits after death is infinitely more tiresome than this one.” Kurt Vonnegut, “Slapstick”, 1976.
RKS 2024 Wine: A Sicilian Grillo-Chardonnay
Think Grillo then think Sicilian power. With Sicilian Chardonnays cool climate Chardonnays are left behind. It is a 50/50 blend. Aroma: Concentrated notes of pear, apple, mango, pineapple, peaches, quince, honey and a slight briny note. Palate: Full bodied medium dry wine with a long finish. Slight floral tinge with heavier notes of pear, applesauce,Continue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: A Sicilian Grillo-Chardonnay”
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Rest”: Charlie is the Demon More Than the Rum!
In ‘Rest”, a short, Iris has a court appearance for a DUI charge and having alcohol on one’s breath or looking raunchy could have disastrous effects. And she simply can’t get right a few lines she will say before the judge that she hasn’t had a drink in three months. She fumbles with the lineContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Rest”: Charlie is the Demon More Than the Rum!”
RKS Literature: Being Helpless and Vile Children Benefits the Staff at the Mansion
“They could be heroically Christian in their own eyes only if Eliza and I remained helpless and vile. If we became openly wise and self reliant, they would become our drab and inferior assistants. If we became capable of going out in the world, they might lose their apartments, their colour televisions, their illusions ofContinue reading “RKS Literature: Being Helpless and Vile Children Benefits the Staff at the Mansion”
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Ex-files, Pals and Pocket Dials”
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada) runs in 11 Canadian cities 1-31October2024 both in theatre and online. There are two possible reactions you might have when watching “Ex-files, Pals and Pocket Dials”. It is so wrapped up with Gen Y dating protocol and vocabulary it may quickly lose non-Gen Y viewers. OnContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Ex-files, Pals and Pocket Dials””
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Gastarbeiter: Sidero-Chalvia”: Will the Estranged Bird Fly Home?
Antonis (Alexandros Nikolaidis) works as a Gastarbeiter (guest worker) at a metalwerks in the German industrial Ruhr area. The short begins in a bar in 1974 where Antonis is drinking with colleague Rainer (Moritz Zeiske) as the television news addresses the fall of the Greek military dictatorship. Antonis was jailed and beaten in Thessaloniki forContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Gastarbeiter: Sidero-Chalvia”: Will the Estranged Bird Fly Home?”
RKS Literature: A Girl of 19 vs. a Woman of 29 (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
“Whereas a girl of nineteen draws her confidence from a surfeit of attention, a woman of twenty-nine is nourished on subtler stuff. Desirous, she chooses her apéritifs wisely, or, content, she enjoys the caviar of potential power. Happily, she does not seem, in either case, to anticipate the subsequent years when her insight will oftenContinue reading “RKS Literature: A Girl of 19 vs. a Woman of 29 (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Journey into Cyprus: East to West”
“Journey into Cyprus: East to West” is a documentary about a 15-day cross Cyprus hike by Yalcin Adal, a Turkish Cypriot, and Stavros Tszortis, a Greek Cypriot both currently living in Melbourne, Australia. As a result of a 1974 invasion of Cyprus by Turkey, possibly a result of Greek political maneuvering and a failed assassinationContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Journey into Cyprus: East to West””
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