FOREWARD My name is Rory Dylan Stephen. I am a West Highland Terrier. We are brave, loyal, curious, stubborn and knock you over cute. I am a late summer pup. If you query what is this smartass puppy doing writing his memoirs. For God’s sake he’s only a puppy! I am writing this masterpiece toContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom””
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RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Surgery is the Easy Part: No Worries as We’ve Seen it All Before!
Newbies to the Hernia Club are frequently barking up the wrong tree once they decide it is time for surgery and keenly focus on the surgery itself to the exclusion of the healing process. I will not review differing surgical approaches here as they are amply discussed on the internet. It is perfectly natural toContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Surgery is the Easy Part: No Worries as We’ve Seen it All Before!”
Toronto 2025 Hot Docs: “MAMA”: An Artistic and Creative Approach Chronicling the Nastiness of a Breast Cancer Experience
Ecuadorian Ana Cristina Benitez has crafted a creative if not poetic and hypnotic documentary about her battle with breast cancer. A late diagnosis of stage three breast cancer sets in motion an exhausting and debilitating round of chemotherapy and radiotherapy followed by a mastectomy. We are a fly on the wall spectators watching her receiveContinue reading “Toronto 2025 Hot Docs: “MAMA”: An Artistic and Creative Approach Chronicling the Nastiness of a Breast Cancer Experience”
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Documentary: “Anything for Fame”: A Delve into the Insatiable Desire for Rome is Burning Social Media Fame
Pardon my “Rocky Horror Picture Show” Dr. Everett Scott attitude here but the Canadian documentary “Anything for Fame” is a deep dive into the elusive chase for fame on social media channels we can label “internet fame”. Jamie Cohen holder of a PHD in Digital Culture notes the odds of being a super famous internetContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Documentary: “Anything for Fame”: A Delve into the Insatiable Desire for Rome is Burning Social Media Fame”
Statement by Mable Jolly Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs: Canada, Portugal, Mexico, Panama and Greenland: Trade Protection Pact (TPP): Spoof News Services: Gatineau, Quebec: 6March2025
“The Government of Canada is pleased to announce the imminent execution of the Trade Protection Pact (TPP) between Canada, Portugal, Mexico, Panama and Greenland. Canada and Mexico are acting in self defence to illegal tariffs imposed upon them by sham executive orders of President of the United States, Donald Trump or as we affectionately referContinue reading “Statement by Mable Jolly Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs: Canada, Portugal, Mexico, Panama and Greenland: Trade Protection Pact (TPP): Spoof News Services: Gatineau, Quebec: 6March2025”
The Penniless Pensioner: Misaligned, Maligned but Marvellous (The Final Version):Chapter 29: All Shook Up! The Fat Fox aka Don Lupara Backs Down
I mean how would you feel receiving a severed goat’s head via Fedex! Ginevra and I were all shook up. Ginerva requested we not talk about it until our Saturday “Discover New York Day”. She had a few calls to make and set somebody straight. And when Ginerva is mad, as I saw with herContinue reading “The Penniless Pensioner: Misaligned, Maligned but Marvellous (The Final Version):Chapter 29: All Shook Up! The Fat Fox aka Don Lupara Backs Down”
RKS 2024 Film: “Breakfast of Champions”: Back After 25 Years
“Breakfast of Champions” based on a Kurt Vonnegut novel of the same name has returned to the big screen 25 years later with a 4K restoration. Just about all “champions” in the film are a far cry from being champions of a normalcy. Characters here are champions of an eccentric otherworld. Dwayne Hoover (Bruce Willis)Continue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Breakfast of Champions”: Back After 25 Years”
RKS 2024 Film: “A Family Guide to Hunting”: The Consequences of an Explosive Orgasm
In this American short directed by Zao Wang, Eva (Kahyun Kim) and her boyfriend Peter (Craig Newman) are in the high-country hunting deer with Eva’s parents June (Maragret Cho) and Sam (Keong Sim). Peter is one of those self-sufficient as the world is ending believers so Eva killing and field dressing a dear carcass will,Continue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “A Family Guide to Hunting”: The Consequences of an Explosive Orgasm”
RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “A Mother Apart”: Rejection, Trauma and Mother Hunting
The documentary “A Mother Apart” chronicles the trauma suffered by Staceyann Chin as the result of abandonment by her mother Hazel who left her behind in Jamaica to be raised by extended family members when she departed for Montreal. Poet, actor, and performing artist Staceyann Chin is the author of the new poetry collection Crossfire: AContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “A Mother Apart”: Rejection, Trauma and Mother Hunting”
“Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog” : The Final Cut: Poofy the Poodle and Penny on Saltie Patrol: Chapter Sixty Five (65)
You may recall Poofy the Poodle we used for backup security at a Mr. Gordon Lightfoot concert in Toronto. Nicole Kidman was concerned about the safety of the multitude of dogs on the set considering the amount of Saltie attacks on and near the beaches of Darwin where the film “The Life of Dogs” isContinue reading ““Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog” : The Final Cut: Poofy the Poodle and Penny on Saltie Patrol: Chapter Sixty Five (65)”
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