“People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed-a knife-a purse-and a dark lane. Design, gentlemen, grouping, light and shade, poetry, sentiment, are now deemed indispensable to attempts of this nature.” Thomas de Quincey, “On Murder Considered as One of theContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Composition of the Fine Art of Murder (Thomas De Quincey)”
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Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom: TALES FROM MY HOOD: THE LIGHTER SIDE OF ‘CRIME”!
TALES FROM MY HOOD: THE LIGHTER SIDE OF ‘CRIME”! We are on a bit of a “crime roll” here so let’s move from horrific to humorous. A few years ago when Dylan the Westie was the Westie of the house there lived B and W, backyard neighbours of Fay and Bob. W and B wereContinue reading “Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom: TALES FROM MY HOOD: THE LIGHTER SIDE OF ‘CRIME”!”
Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom: TALES FROM MY HOOD: DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE BY AN UNUSUAL MURDERESS
TALES FROM MY HOOD: DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE BY AN UNUSUAL MURDERESS Bob told me one of the great literary influences of his life has been the lurid and sensational “Allo Police” reeking with screaming headlines published in Montreal and now long gone. Sensational and grisly photos particularly murder victims. Rape, assaults, bank robberies, drugs,Continue reading “Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom: TALES FROM MY HOOD: DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE BY AN UNUSUAL MURDERESS”
RKS Literature: The Wild Vindictiveness of Captain Ahab Against the Accursed Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
“…suddenly sweeping his sickle-shaped lower jaw beneath him, Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab’s leg, as a mower a blade of grass in the field. No turbaned Turk, no hired Venetian or Malay could have smote him with more seeming malice. Small reason was there to doubt, then, that ever since that almost fatal encounter,Continue reading “RKS Literature: The Wild Vindictiveness of Captain Ahab Against the Accursed Moby Dick (Herman Melville)”
Lost in Puppydom Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN AND TIGER WOODS PICKED UP ON DUI CHARGE!
RORY DYLAN STEPHEN AND TIGER WOODS PICKED UP ON DUI CHARGE! Much to my humiliation I was picked up today after a DUI! You may have heard the great golfer Tiger Woods was also recently picked up on a DUI. I have watched this event unfold over the past day or two. Bloated and puffyContinue reading “Lost in Puppydom Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN AND TIGER WOODS PICKED UP ON DUI CHARGE!”
RKS Literature: The Burning Vengeance of Captain Ahab Against the Accursed Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
“Aye, aye!, it was that accursed white whale that brought me to this dead stump I stand on now. Aye, aye.” he shouted with a terrific, loud, animal sob like that of a heart-stricken moose. Aye, aye! It was that accursed white whale that razed me; made a poor pegging lubber of me for everContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Burning Vengeance of Captain Ahab Against the Accursed Moby Dick (Herman Melville)”
RKS Literature: A Decaying Palazzo (Robert Louis Stevenson)
“All morning I went from one door to another. Some rudely shuttered. Some receiving their full charge of daylight. All empty and unhomely. It was a rich house. On which Time had breathed his tarnish and dust had scattered disillusion. The spider swung there; the bloated tarantula scampered on the cornices; ants had their crowdedContinue reading “RKS Literature: A Decaying Palazzo (Robert Louis Stevenson)”
RKS 2026 Ontario Wine: Cave Spring 2024 Estate Grown Cabernet Franc from Niagara
Aroma: Blackberry, black cherry, raspberry with a pinch of strawberry jam. Very tight and high perimeter security encompass the fruit. A young wine with potential. Very clean and pristine. Palate: Broad and assertive tannins. Tight and secretive as the wine has not even reached puberty. Raw power. Cellarbility: I would boldly go where many aContinue reading “RKS 2026 Ontario Wine: Cave Spring 2024 Estate Grown Cabernet Franc from Niagara”
RKS Literature: Aristocratic Body but Degenerate Intelligence (Robert Louis Stevenson)
“The family blood had been impoverished, perhaps by long interbreeding, which I knew to be a common error among the proud and exclusive. No decline, indeed, was to be traced in the body, which had been handed down unimpaired in shapeliness and strength; and the faces of today were struck as sharply from the mint,Continue reading “RKS Literature: Aristocratic Body but Degenerate Intelligence (Robert Louis Stevenson)”
RKS Literature: Is Captain Ahab Nothing but a Poor Old Whale-Hunter? (Herman Melville)
“ But Ahab, my captain, still moves before me in all his Nantucket grimness and shagginess; and in this episode touching Emperors and Kings, I must not conceal that I have only to do with a poor old whale-hunter like him; and therefor all majestical trappings and housings are denied me, Oh, Ahab what shallContinue reading “RKS Literature: Is Captain Ahab Nothing but a Poor Old Whale-Hunter? (Herman Melville)”
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