RECOVERING FROM THE PROCEDURE AND HEADING TOWARD PUPPY BLUES? I felt like a slow-motion character upon returning home. I wanted to play, run about and tussle but my wants were not transformed into physicality. It was not that I wanted to sleep mind you. I really couldn’t finish what I started and lost interest andContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RECOVERING FROM THE PROCEDURE AND HEADING TOWARD PUPPY BLUES?”
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RKS 2026 International Film: “A Poet”: A Titanic Disaster or The Poseidon Adventure with a Poet on Board?
“A Poet” is the official submission of Columbia for the Best International Feature Film for the 98th Academy Awards in 2026. A co-production between Columbia, Germany and Sweden. Oscar Restrepo (Ubeimar Rios) is a Columbian poet inching toward 60 having won several poetry prizes early in his “poetry career” never making the leap to prominenceContinue reading “RKS 2026 International Film: “A Poet”: A Titanic Disaster or The Poseidon Adventure with a Poet on Board?”
Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: WHY IS BOB MUTTERING LIKE COLONEL KURTZ IN APOCALYPSE NOW?
WHY IS BOB MUTTERING LIKE COLONEL KURTZ IN APOCALYPSE NOW? Aside from scoring human food like bits of bagel or today’s blueberry I live in anticipation of the next walk. After suffering puppy quarantine for not being fully vaccinated for the last three months it is 3-5 walks a day in mushy slush, powdery snow,Continue reading “Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: WHY IS BOB MUTTERING LIKE COLONEL KURTZ IN APOCALYPSE NOW?”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”
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””
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”
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