Alex is flying back to Toronto from Lisbon today. Breakfast is so “dignified” here. Low voices, Formal settings and service. Might I say “stuffy”? A tremendous buffet breakfast. Years ago while travelling in a just opening up Greece I was starving most of the day particularly with such meagre breakfasts. This breakfast would have beenContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” :17July2005 Estoril, Portugal: Visit to Cascais and Sintra”
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RKS Literature: The American Bohemian in Paris (James Baldwin)
“They are charmed by the reflection that Paris is more than a thousand years old, but it escapes them that the Parisian has been in the making just about that long, and does not, therefore, become Parisian by a Parisian address. This little band of bohemians, as grimly single-minded as any evangelical sect, illustrate, byContinue reading “RKS Literature: The American Bohemian in Paris (James Baldwin)”
RKS Literature: The Splendid Parisian Air (James Baldwin)
“…it is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent, or even hostile to the French. And this is made possible by the one person in Paris whom the legend seems least not to affect, who is not living it all, that is, the Parisian himself. Him with his impenetrable politesse, andContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Splendid Parisian Air (James Baldwin)”
RKS 2024 Film: “Les Histoires D’Amour de Liv S.” (The Love Stories of Liv S.)
Thirty-eight-year-old Liv Sándor meets the love of her life swimming in the lake. He looks like Bob Dylan. He talks like Rimbaud and he listens to me. The next scene has her storming out of her house a year later saying to her swimming sweetie that she is leaving and never returning. After storming outContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Les Histoires D’Amour de Liv S.” (The Love Stories of Liv S.)”
“Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog”: The Final Cut: Will Nicole Kidman Cancel Production of “A Dog Saved My Life”?: Chapter Sixty Seven (67)
Nicole set a breakfast meeting for the entire crew and cast of “A Dog Saved My Life”. We are in a state of shock and disbelief. This is no movie. This is life. After breakfast Nicole asks for quiet announcing she will be cancelling filming. She will pay all of us as if the projectContinue reading ““Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog”: The Final Cut: Will Nicole Kidman Cancel Production of “A Dog Saved My Life”?: Chapter Sixty Seven (67)”
RKS 2024 Film: “Piss on Patriarchy”: Ladies, Welcome to the Esteemed Category of Mass Killer: Equality Richard Speck?
Gender Equity in Media Society presents their 19th annual international film festival, GEMFest in Vancouver in person 5-9March2024 and virtually 12-16March2024 with 14 Canadian films. The festival, now in its 19th year, continues to provide a platform for challenging gender imbalance and the lack of equity and diversity in the screen-based media industry. In aContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Piss on Patriarchy”: Ladies, Welcome to the Esteemed Category of Mass Killer: Equality Richard Speck?”
RKS Literature: Negroes and Politicians (James Baldwin)
“It is considered a rather cheerful axiom that all Americans distrust politicians. (No one takes the further and less cheerful step of just what effect this mutual contempt has on either side of the public or the politicians who have, indeed, very little to do with each other.) Of all Americans Negroes distrust politicians most,Continue reading “RKS Literature: Negroes and Politicians (James Baldwin)”
RKS Literature: A Furious and Bewildered Rage in America (James Baldwin)
“I am not one of the people who believe that oppression imbues a people with wisdom or insight or sweet charity: though the survival of the Negro in this country would simply not have been possible if this bitterness had been all that he felt. In America life seems to move faster than anywhere elseContinue reading “RKS Literature: A Furious and Bewildered Rage in America (James Baldwin)”
RKS Literature: The Negro and the Jew in The United States (James Baldwin)
“It seems unlikely within this complicated structure any real and systematic cooperation can be achieved between Negroes and Jews. (This in terms of the over-all social problem and is not meant to imply that individual friendships are impossible or that they are valueless when they occur) The structure of the American commonwealth has trapped bothContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Negro and the Jew in The United States (James Baldwin)”
RKS 2024 Wine: Frogpond Croaker of an Ontario Gamay! Colonoscopy Memories
Generally speaking, organic wines are cleaner tasting than non-organic. How many dead wines do we encounter? Probably too many. Spray and spray and eventually kill the soil. God help you if you have any vegetation growing between rows of vines. Why would you want to have sheep munching on the growth between the vines? ForgetContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Frogpond Croaker of an Ontario Gamay! Colonoscopy Memories”
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