“For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves, and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they wouldContinue reading “RKS Literature: Leisure, Security and the Stupefaction of Poverty (George Orwell)”
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“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: ON THE EIGHTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS HAS RORY BECOME A SMASH AND GRAB ARTIST? IS RORY HEADING TO PUPPY REFORM SCHOOL?
ON THE EIGHTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS HAS RORY BECOME A SMASH AND GRAB ARTIST? IS RORY HEADING TO PUPPY REFORM SCHOOL? On the eighth day of Christmas our dishwasher failed to drain despite valiant and creative attempts to make it by Bob. Matthew the repairman arrived on the eighth day of Christmas and while bendingContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: ON THE EIGHTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS HAS RORY BECOME A SMASH AND GRAB ARTIST? IS RORY HEADING TO PUPPY REFORM SCHOOL?”
RKS Literature: The High, The Middle and the Low of Society
“Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic stage, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative different numbers, as well as their attitude towards another, haveContinue reading “RKS Literature: The High, The Middle and the Low of Society”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RORY’S FIRST CHRISTMAS: A PERFECT DAY IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE
RORY’S FIRST CHRISTMAS: A PERFECT DAY IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE There has been a buzz of activity in the past few days before Christmas. Lots of chopping of vegetables and delicious baking smells. This must be related to the big tree in the living room from which I have grabbed a few dangling shinyContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RORY’S FIRST CHRISTMAS: A PERFECT DAY IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RORY CAUGHT UP IN A STICKY SITUATION REQUIRING EMERGENCY “SURGERY”
RORY CAUGHT UP IN A STICKY SITUATION REQUIRING EMERGENCY “SURGERY” I am perpetually curious having nothing to do with the film “I Am Curious Yellow”. Open door I’ll investigate or closed door I will try and push it open to investigate. Loose toilet paper hanging like a fish lure I will grab it and run.Continue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RORY CAUGHT UP IN A STICKY SITUATION REQUIRING EMERGENCY “SURGERY””
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RORY’S REALLY REALLY BAD DAY
I am almost 4 months of age and I experienced my first really really bad day. Bob and A (his son) took me to the veterinarian. At my last visit I received a sharp needle in my flank and yelped in pain. Bob tells me it is all for my own good as it preventsContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RORY’S REALLY REALLY BAD DAY”
RKS Literature: The Party’s View of Its Ideal Society and Reality (George Orwell)
“The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, monstrous machines and terrifying weapons-a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting-three hundred million people all with the sameContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Party’s View of Its Ideal Society and Reality (George Orwell)”
RKS CANADIAN Television: “Animal Nation” Premiers 8January2026 on APTN With “BEAR”
2Ducks Media and APTN announced on 17December2025 the launch of the sweeping docuseries Animal Nation, premiering January 8, 2026 on APTN (in English) and streaming on APTN+. This groundbreaking project, created in collaboration with Indigenous communities across Canada and the U.S., takes viewers deep into the heart of some of the continent’s most beautiful wild spacesContinue reading “RKS CANADIAN Television: “Animal Nation” Premiers 8January2026 on APTN With “BEAR””
RKS Literature: The Lottery and the Proles (George Orwell)
“The Lottery with its weekly payout of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention. It was probable that were some million of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive. It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectualContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Lottery and the Proles (George Orwell)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RORY AIN’T NO HOWLING WOLF: HE HAS A MISSION: The Puppy Potty Saga Continues
RORY AIN’T NO HOWLING WOLF: HE HAS A MISSION: The Puppy Potty Saga Continues Since we were just discussing Kurt Cobain let me continue this musical interface by stating I am no Howling Wolf, that legendary blues singer, nor a wolf with rabies. If I bark up a storm by the sliding door leading toContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RORY AIN’T NO HOWLING WOLF: HE HAS A MISSION: The Puppy Potty Saga Continues”
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