“But, by the time one has become an incitement, not very much is left in one’s power. It is not a matter merely of walking straight, eyes straight ahead. No, one’s eyes must be everywhere at once-without seeming to be, without seeming to move; one must be ready for the rock, the fist, the suddenContinue reading “RKS Literature: Avoiding an Incitement for a Racist Riot (James Baldwin)”
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RKS Literature: The Happy and Prancing Negroes! (James Baldwin)
“I saw with a particular shock, the root of the despicable and tenacious American folklore concerning the happy, prancing niggers. Some of the people were moving, indeed, and the jukebox was loud; their movements followed the music which their movements had produced; but prancing scarcely described the use of their vigor. Only someone who noContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Happy and Prancing Negroes! (James Baldwin)”
RKS Literature: Not Realizing I Was Colored (James Baldwin)
“They disliked Jerry because he was Italian, they disliked Barbara because she was not, and therefore, had no excuse, and they disliked me because I did not appear to realize both Barbara and Jerry were white. I did not, in fact, appear to know that I was colored and this filled them with such balefulContinue reading “RKS Literature: Not Realizing I Was Colored (James Baldwin)”
RKS 2025 Canadian Film: “LUCID”: Of Magic Mushrooms, Murder, Monsters and Mayhem
Mia Sunshine Jones is a struggling arts programme student unable to complete a project telling the world who she really is. Her professor and fellow students are far from impressed with her efforts and Mia is given a one-week deadline by her professor to produce a passable artwork. It isn’t too long before the viewerContinue reading “RKS 2025 Canadian Film: “LUCID”: Of Magic Mushrooms, Murder, Monsters and Mayhem”
RKS 2025 Canadian Wine: Closson Chase 2021 Vineyard Chardonnay
In Ontario, Canada it is Niagara that garners most of the attention of its liquor monopoly the Liquor Control Board of Ontario in chatter and on its retail shelves. But head east of Toronto about the same distance Niagara is west of Toronto and you arrive at yet another wine district Prince Edward County orContinue reading “RKS 2025 Canadian Wine: Closson Chase 2021 Vineyard Chardonnay”
RKS 2025 Canadian Short Film: “Le Tour de Canada”: All You Need to Know About Canada versus Quebec in Six Minutes
Floating on top of this pond of a Canadian animated short film is an amusing Canadian cross country cycling race starting in St. John’s, Newfoundland and ending in Vancouver, British Columbia. Redolent with Canadian history and symbolism through beer, hockey, fish, Export A cigarettes, Canadian Pacific ships, TTC Red Rockets and even former Canadian PrimeContinue reading “RKS 2025 Canadian Short Film: “Le Tour de Canada”: All You Need to Know About Canada versus Quebec in Six Minutes”
RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Kindness, Compassion and Gratitude
If mindfulness encourages self compassion, it also is partial to you expressing compassion and kindness to all those suffering with hernias and who will undergo or recently have had completed some form of hernia surgery. Mindfulness would have you meditate transmitting positive and encouraging thoughts to these fellow human beings they experience as little anxiety,Continue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Kindness, Compassion and Gratitude”
RKS 2025 Canadian Short Film: “Sorry for Your Cost”: Death is More Than Dying
Ren (Adeline Lo) is an aspiring teenage actor with a dream of attending the Studio Northwest acting programme and saved cash to accompany it. Ren’s mother (Olivia Cheng) reads the acceptance letter from Studio Northwest and the family is ecstatic. Life throws a wrench as Ren’s mother suddenly dies. The family lives in decibel wiseContinue reading “RKS 2025 Canadian Short Film: “Sorry for Your Cost”: Death is More Than Dying”
RKS Literature: Searching for the Daylight in Harlem (James Baldwin)
“We were cold and frightened, and we were hungry, but, except for our father, we were not in despair. Our mother was holding on-grim silent and watchful, but not cheerless; she was determined to bring us to the daylight. But she had a lot to watch, a lot to carry. She was watching our father,Continue reading “RKS Literature: Searching for the Daylight in Harlem (James Baldwin)”
RKS 2025 Documentary Film: “2000 Meters to Andriivka”: The Hamburger Hill Reality Show Continues in Ukraine
Moving along from the Russian documentary “Russia at War”, “2000 Meters to Andriivka” presents a “reality show” featuring a battle in the Ukrainian Russian war. And we are serious about a “reality show” here as the viewer is presented with a gritty and horrific slice of raw reality where reality is the name of theContinue reading “RKS 2025 Documentary Film: “2000 Meters to Andriivka”: The Hamburger Hill Reality Show Continues in Ukraine”
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