If I recall Frank Zappa, was there one of his songs “Cruising for Burgers” on the “Burnt Weeny Sandwiches” Album? So we are cruising Spetses on a souped-up golf cart or should we call it a buggy? Perhaps I make the reference to Frank Zappa as on this buggy I feel like the damn touristContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 22September2026: Spetses: Cruising for Burgers on Spetses”
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RKS American Literature: Nineteen-Year-Old Low Class Polak Bruno Lefty Bicek Questioned for Murder by High Class Polak Captain Kozak (Nelson Algren)
He didn’t like this kid. This was a low-class Polak. He himself was a high-class Polak because his name was Adamovitch and not Adamowski. This sort of kid kept spoiling things for the high-class Polaks by always showing off instead of just being good citizens like the Irish. That was why the Irish ran CityContinue reading “RKS American Literature: Nineteen-Year-Old Low Class Polak Bruno Lefty Bicek Questioned for Murder by High Class Polak Captain Kozak (Nelson Algren)”
RKS POLISH Literature: Utterly Consumed by Illicit Love (Władysław Reymont)
She sat stiffly like the other women, looking at her prayer book, but she could not make out a single letter, not a page, nothing, for those sad eyes, sorrowful eyes, blazing flashing eyes, stood before her, shining like stars. They blotted out the entire world, so that she completely lost her head, was utterlyContinue reading “RKS POLISH Literature: Utterly Consumed by Illicit Love (Władysław Reymont)”
2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 21September2026: Poseidonion Grand Hotel in Spetses: A Classic Grand Hotel and the Jabbering Yankees
We arrived from Hydra to the nearby island of Spetses undergoing an island wide electrical blackout, so we required careful guidance from the ship to a waiting van to take us to the Poseidonion Grand Hotel. It was so dimly lit it would not have been difficult to take a few misguided steps and endContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 21September2026: Poseidonion Grand Hotel in Spetses: A Classic Grand Hotel and the Jabbering Yankees”
2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 21September2026: Hydra/Spetses: Trapped by a Rising Swell in a Seaside Restaurant: Sailing into a Blackout
As we exited the Museum of History and Archives of Hydra I spied some ominous black clouds and lightning bolts in the distance. I advised Dearest F, T and I, perhaps a bit more speed was warranted to return to the hotel. Not heeding my warnings in a timely fashion we managed to nip intoContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 21September2026: Hydra/Spetses: Trapped by a Rising Swell in a Seaside Restaurant: Sailing into a Blackout”
RKS American Literature: Convicted of Shoplifting (on a tipsy lark): Has Impulse Shattered This Man? (Conrad Aiken)
He sat down on the edge of his bed and thought of Chicago. He thought of his childhood there, the Lake Shore Drive, Winnetka, the trip to Niagara Falls with his mother. He could hear the Falls now; He remembered the Fourth of July on the boat; the crowded examination room at college; the timeContinue reading “RKS American Literature: Convicted of Shoplifting (on a tipsy lark): Has Impulse Shattered This Man? (Conrad Aiken)”
RKS POLISH Literature: But Why Not Marry a Fine Woman? (Władysław Reymont)
‘Not young for sure, but well enough, except that she were a little, bald, crooked and with gimlet eyes, but her face were smooth as a loaf nibbled by mice for a week or two, a fine woman, good. I got plenty of grub – eggs scrambled with sausage, vodka, lard, other tasty bites, andContinue reading “RKS POLISH Literature: But Why Not Marry a Fine Woman? (Władysław Reymont)”
2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 21September2026: Hydra: Missed My Breakfast: The Unexpected Gem of the Museum of History and Archives and a Stalking Experience
This “one at a time hotel room”, or rather our “Superior Room”, permits only one person to prepare for the day e.g. to shower and dress. Dearest F did so first leaving me to navigate the tiny space and get ready which I did. I looked for Dearest F, I and T in the breakfastContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 21September2026: Hydra: Missed My Breakfast: The Unexpected Gem of the Museum of History and Archives and a Stalking Experience”
RKS POLISH Literature: Winter Approaches the Village (Władysław Reymont)
Winter was approaching…… Still tussling with autumn, it rampaged, bellowing in the blue distances like a fierce and hungry beast, and who could say when it would trounce her and leap to savage up the world with its ice-cold fangs… Still fitful were the scatterings of pallid snow-autumn snow…. Bewildered days still came, blue sicklyContinue reading “RKS POLISH Literature: Winter Approaches the Village (Władysław Reymont)”
2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 20September2026: Hydra: Where Are the Donkeys? Squeezed in a One at a Time Hotel Room
After a two-hour journey from Piraeus, we dock at Hydra one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Aegean Sea. Hydra Port (Hydra as we will refer to it as) is the sole main town of this small island with a population a little over 2,000. Hydra consists of a crescent shaped harbour aroundContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 20September2026: Hydra: Where Are the Donkeys? Squeezed in a One at a Time Hotel Room”
