Rather strange that on my first media trip to Porto in 2014 to sample Ports throughout the Douro region on the bus for the first of five intense days of sampling my seatmate, a French advertising executive, said to me, “Port is an affordable luxury”. It is a statement that has stuck me as toContinue reading “RKS PORTHEAD ALERT: CROFT 2012 Quinta da Roeda Vintage Port”
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RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “If at First You Don’t Succeed Try Again?”
If at First You Don’t Succeed Try Again? The Supreme leader and most of his clan met a violent demise But the regime remains even nastier shouldered by nepo baby who lives witnessing yet another sunrise Didn’t someone promise to perpetually escape the Middle East quagmire Well that election promise certainly encountered a flat tireContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “If at First You Don’t Succeed Try Again?””
RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds):”Galen Weston Jr. Did You Forget About Kraft Dinner?”
Galen Weston Jr. Did You Forget About Kraft Dinner? What family wealth estimated at 9 billion With all this inflation heartfelt thanks for your “concern” freezing prices on Loblaws house brands showing concern for Canadian’s COVID induced ill financial health But please at Loblaws and your subsidiary Shoppers Drug Mart $2.99 for a box ofContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds):”Galen Weston Jr. Did You Forget About Kraft Dinner?””
RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds)”The Social Relevance and Contribution to Society by the Kardashian Clan”
The Social Relevance and Contribution to Society by the Kardashian Clan 0 Robert K. Stephen
RKS Literature: The Gigolo at the Cattle Fair (Françoise Sagan)
“She suddenly remembered that hectic party and the first glimpse she had of Nicholas, looking miserable because old Mme Essini was talking to him t very close quarters and giggling girlishly. Nicolas was pressed up against the bar, with no hope of escape. The scene had amused her at first, then she had looked atContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Gigolo at the Cattle Fair (Françoise Sagan)”
RKS Literature: Self Esteem of the Gigolo (Françoise Sagan)
“Not that she respected him more than the others: she kept him completely, dressed him, gave him expensive presents which he didn’t throw back in her face. He never went in for those stupid, boorish ploys the others indulged in, those sulky moods when they wanted something or felt they were the injured party inContinue reading “RKS Literature: Self Esteem of the Gigolo (Françoise Sagan)”
RKS Literature: Indifference to Reality as One Principal Characteristic of Nationalist Thought (George Orwell)
“Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage-torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians-which does not change its moral character when it is committed byContinue reading “RKS Literature: Indifference to Reality as One Principal Characteristic of Nationalist Thought (George Orwell)”
RKS Literature: Obsession as One Principal Characteristic of Nationalist Thought (George Orwell)
“As nearly as possible, no nationalist ever thinks, talks, or writes about anything except the superiority of his own power unit. It is difficult if not impossible for any nationalist to conceal his allegiance. The smallest slur upon his own unit, or any implied praise of a rival organization, fills him with uneasiness which heContinue reading “RKS Literature: Obsession as One Principal Characteristic of Nationalist Thought (George Orwell)”
RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Somewhere in the Amazonian Basin”
Somewhere in the Amazonian Basin Nine-hundred-dollar shoes Certainly not from factory 961in the PRC Adorn the religious spreader Words as thick as peanut butter Sticky Difficult for the anyone to digest Bring God to the dispossessed Amazonian indigenous in some squalid drug and crime ridden town The great resurrection of Elmer Gantry Gathering souls inContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Somewhere in the Amazonian Basin””
RKS Literature: The Distinction Between Nationalism and Patriotism (George Orwell)
“By “patriotism” I mean a devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best place in the world but has no wish to force upon other people. Patriotism by its very nature is defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable fromContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Distinction Between Nationalism and Patriotism (George Orwell)”
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