The Big Red at Big Head Wines, about 15 minutes from St Davids, Ontario (on 823 Line 6 Road) in the Niagara-on-the-Lake region was sold out of Big Red # 7 when I last visited the winery in November 2022 but they had a half bottle left and poured a glass for me. It leftContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: The Man with the Big Head Releases Big Head Red # 8”
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RKS 2023 Wine: Tiring of Argentinian Malbec Yet?
How long has Argentinian Malbec been a darling of the wine drinking masses? When you have a good thing going well then keep it going! But on occasion when there is “too much of a good thing” selling so well there is overproduction and cutting corners sacrificing quality for profit. Pinot Grigio, Chianti, Lambrusco andContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: Tiring of Argentinian Malbec Yet?”
RKS 2023 Film: “Once Upon a Time in Uganda”: Hollywood, Bollywood and Now Wakaliwood!
A documentary about an African country that very well may put a smile on your face instead of a sigh. The last documentary I watched on Uganda, “Theatre of Violence” was about a civil war and child soldiers. Not exactly cheerful. “Once Upon a Time in Uganda” follows the struggle of Ugandan director Issac NabwanaContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Once Upon a Time in Uganda”: Hollywood, Bollywood and Now Wakaliwood!”
RKS Literature: Snubbed by the Parisian Aristocracy (Balzac)
“It was one thing to be despised by the country families of Angoulême, quite another by the aristocracy of Paris; by going out of their way on insult Lucien, the booby-squires had admitted his importance and treated him as a man: but for Mme d’Espard he simply did not exist. This was not a sentence,Continue reading “RKS Literature: Snubbed by the Parisian Aristocracy (Balzac)”
RKS Poetry: “We the Nothing”
We The Nothing We the nothing make our febrile donations to the noble causesnot receiving any notable media recognition pauses Our dollars and euros fall into the bottomless charitable pitbut those charitable foundations governed by the “foundation board of directors” kneel in front of the capitalist big buck…Branson…Musk…crypto kings..entertainment idols (not fleeced by their accountants)ForContinue reading “RKS Poetry: “We the Nothing””
RKS 2023 Wine: My 25 Cent Spanish Cava Memory?
I recall being in Torremolinos, Spain in 1972 and Spanish Cava at the Supermercado was 25 cents a bottle. I was too young to consume alcohol then but for some reason I remember the price perhaps I was travelling my late mother and we had rented a fully equipped apartment for a couple of weeksContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: My 25 Cent Spanish Cava Memory?”
RKS Literature: The Warm Glow of Paris (Balzac)
“I will pick you up in my carriage, and we shall soon be in Paris. There, my dear, is the only life for superior people. We are only at ease among our peers; in any other society one suffers. Besides, Paris is the intellectual capital of the world, the stage of your success: cover quicklyContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Warm Glow of Paris (Balzac)”
RKS Literature: The Peculiarities of Society (Balzac)
“Among the peculiarities of society, have you not noted the capriciousness of its judgements and the inconsistency of its demands? There are people to whom everything is permitted. They can be guilty of the most outrageous things, and nothing they do is wrong; people hasten to find excuses for their conduct. But there are othersContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Peculiarities of Society (Balzac)”
RKS Literature: Poets and the Mocking Laughter of Hell (Balzac)
“If poetry is to be spoken aloud in such a way as to be understood, absolute concentration is necessary. There must be complete sympathy between the reader and the audience, in the absence of which no electrical communication of emotion can take place. If this sympathetic atmosphere is lacking, the poet finds himself in theContinue reading “RKS Literature: Poets and the Mocking Laughter of Hell (Balzac)”
RKS 2023 Film: “King of Killers”: Daddy is a Killer!
Marcus Garan (Alain Moussi) from Chicago is a former hitman for The Company that kills domestically and internationally “bad guys”. A hitman with morals? Garan has a wife and his darling little daughter Kimberly. Unfortunately his wife is set up to be killed in the “crossfire” at a messy hit Garan has accepted as anContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “King of Killers”: Daddy is a Killer!”
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