Daily Archives: September 23, 2016

JONATHAN E: You can’t make me quit. https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/09/20/rollerball-bartholomew-you-can-be-forced-to-quit-jonathan-you-can-be-muted-you-can-be-blocked Rollerball, A Film by Norman Jewison; screenplay by William Harrison, a Texan who moved to the University of Arkansas to teach literature.

@OrelHershiser, futurist. Another thing Orel was onto in his @SportsNetLA broadcast was #RockEmSockEmRobots Why click on the #MuteButton? Usually staying at home doesn’t get ratings.  How level a playing field will twitter have in times ahead? #Regulation Vin Scully: He’s … Continue reading →

John Ravin, Ambassador John Gavin or Josh Ravin? Oliver Goldsmith, Lord Peter Goldsmith or Paul Goldschmidt? We won as a human team. International integration. “Did someone notice me yet? Yasiel Puig. PUIG!” VIN SCULLY: Oh boy. ARNOLD SCHWARTZENEGGER: I’ll be … Continue reading →

John Adams, by David McCullough, Simon & Schuster (2001). Special thanks to Steve and Melissa Rubens who gave me the hard cover First Edition as a scholarly gift for Christmas or my birthday. https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/09/22/infrequently-books-like-hermann-hesses-steppenwolf-circa-prewar-1943-germany-delight-the-reader-only-after-she-has-labored-ahead-doggedly-onto-the-visitors-forty-yard-line-only-then-on-the-f