Author Archives: rdavies

Our Ignorant, Egotistical, Disrespectful, Disgraceful Prime Minister (previously posted on November 27, 2015) who deliberately chose to walk through the Remembrance Day throngs in Ottawa back to his office only too happy to have selfies taken as the ceremony ended … Continue reading →

(WB DVD) Love seldom runs smoothly in Thomas Hardy’s novels; this one was one of his most engaging books released in 1874. Bathsheba (played by Julie Christie) inherits a farm and is courted by three suitors. Gabriel Oak, a knowledgable … Continue reading →

-“Wyatt, Shakespeare, and Pope’s Attitudes Toward the Courtly Love Woman” -“Keats’ Tennyson’s, and Yeats’ Poetic Statements about the Art/Life Split and the Artistic Process” -“Methods of Characterization in the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales” -“Death of a Salesman–Tragedy or … Continue reading →

of 1960s young people, world-wide, and mine as well I can remember hearing “She Loves You” back in ’63-’64 on the radio, followed by a succession of hits (“I Want To Hold Your Hand” and others, the legendary Ed Sullivan … Continue reading →

1. From 1951 to the early 1960s. My parents had a stand-alone radio/record player in a medium-sized cabinet. I listened to radio shows and listened to AM music stations during that time. I also played my parents’ and aunt’s 78 … Continue reading →

(politics in choices for child-raising) (the late Johnny Clegg: an example of politics via music) (the politics of relationships in movies–John Schlesinger’s classic homosexual embrace in mainstream film) (the political consequences of getting most of one’s information online or via … Continue reading →

(2006 Warner Bros./Turner DVD, 117 mins.) Ah, the inimitable Tennessee Williams at the height of his fame. Shannon (Richard Burton) is a womanizing defrocked minister turned Mexican tour guide (a wonderfully politically incorrect rendition of a male-chauvinist woman-magnet) who lands … Continue reading →

Buy a pair of those ubiquitous cheapo fabric gloves found in grocery stores or stores like London Drugs. Put them by the driver’s seat door. Use them when you gas up. These also make practical gifts for birthdays or Christmas.

Tear off an eraser head from a pencil. Stick the poppy pin into the eraser on the inside of your clothing.

The tv ad for “Shaw Blue Curve”. When I first heard the service advertised, I thought the speaker said “Frau Blucher” (as in the character from Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein).