“So it was no one’s surprise that gossip about the Ryders followed close behind: in shops, under the shade of trees, on street corners, at the food tables, the busybodies discussed when they saw Mr Ryder where Mr Ryder should not have been. When a pretty woman produced a fair skin baby with a completelyContinue reading “RKS Literature: The American Evangelist Mr. Ryder Spreads More Than Just the Good Word in Jamaica”
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RKS Literature: The Twitching and Frothing Evangelists (Andrea Levy)
“The Ryders were evangelists and Mr Phillip had no time for evangelists. He did not like the way that people moved by the spirit of the Lord threw themselves to the ground shaking and frothing at the mouth like beasts. He could not understand that, as the service came to a close, those same peopleContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Twitching and Frothing Evangelists (Andrea Levy)”
RKS Literature: “Little Miss High-class from Jamaica Arrives in 1948 London” (Andrea Levy)
“Man, this woman is a barb under my skin-she irritate me so I lose my temper. I tell her. “Yes, and you know what else, little Miss Stick-up-your-nose-air, you will have to wash your plate, your vegetable and your backside in that basin too. This room is where you will sleep, eat, cook, dress andContinue reading “RKS Literature: “Little Miss High-class from Jamaica Arrives in 1948 London” (Andrea Levy)”
RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: A Victim of Sexism and The Squat They Never Taught You in Gym Class
Off to Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, specifically to the Family Practice Clinic which I have been a patient of for a decade or so. It is part of the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine and its physicians are instructors at that Faculty of Medicine. Sunnybrook is a teaching hospital for residents wishing to practiceContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: A Victim of Sexism and The Squat They Never Taught You in Gym Class”
RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure
THE JOURNEY BEGINS The Great Hernia Adventure begins prior to your realization of it a common feature of maladies, afflictions and plagues. You only know when you are stricken. Out of the shower in May 2023. Towelling off. You don’t always look “down there” but even when you do are you are paying any degreeContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure”
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Documentary: “The Salmon’s Call”
Joy Haskell’s feature documentary “The Salmon’s Call” might well have been titled “Last Call for Pacific Salmon” due to the decline of wild Pacific salmon in the riverways of the Canadian province of British Columbia. Haskell’s closing words of the documentary are, “Salmon don’t have a voice. We are their voice.” Indigenous people of BritishContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Documentary: “The Salmon’s Call””
RKS 2025 Canadian Wine: A Red Assemblage from Ferox Estate Winery in Niagara, Ontario
A blend of Zweigelt (53%), Merlot (18%), Syrah (15%), Malbec (8%) and Cabernet Franc (6%) from 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. Each component was aged in neutral French oak barriques (225L) for a minimum of 2 years before élevage, assemblage, filtration and bottling. Aroma: Black cherry, blackberry, blueberry and cassis all rather dense and heady.Continue reading “RKS 2025 Canadian Wine: A Red Assemblage from Ferox Estate Winery in Niagara, Ontario”
RKS 2025 Canadian Film: “Angela’s Shadow”: A Disgusting, Shameful and Disgraceful Chapter in Canadian History….and the Pages Continue Turning
Canadians have been hearing stories about residential schools akin to prisons for Indigenous children managed by various religious orders and blessed by the Canadian government. Residential schools no longer exist but the trauma inflicted by them on survivors and the Indigenous community continues. You might wish to summon up a plenitude of adjectives to describeContinue reading “RKS 2025 Canadian Film: “Angela’s Shadow”: A Disgusting, Shameful and Disgraceful Chapter in Canadian History….and the Pages Continue Turning”
RKS 2025 Film: “A Hardworking Robber”: Shining Greek Satire
Satire runs heavily through Greek cinema and it shines in a short film from 2013 “A Hardworking Robber” directed and written by Michael Felanis. Makis, owner of an Athenian jewelry and gift store is slothful, lazy and entirely ignorant about customer service and selling his wares. He spends his time drinking coffee, smoking, playing withContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “A Hardworking Robber”: Shining Greek Satire”
The Global Long-Legged Society Commissions Study on Cruelty and Discrimination by Airlines Directed Towards Long-Legged Passengers
Winnipeg, Manitoba: 5June2025 The Global Long-Legged Society headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba announced today it has commissioned a study to investigate if commercial airlines are discriminating against long-legged passengers in the cabin configurations of their aircraft, particularly seating. Melanie Mintwiky, President and Chief Happiness Officer of the GLLS stated at a press conference, “Commercial airlines haveContinue reading “The Global Long-Legged Society Commissions Study on Cruelty and Discrimination by Airlines Directed Towards Long-Legged Passengers”
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