Monthly Archives: January 2017

1st Annual @TRADOC #MadScientistWritingContest #Deadline: The Ides of February.

Time management can be the difference. Or ancient languages. Ask kids BARRON’S age about the future they want and warn them of our past. I’m done for the 1st annual and am fittingly fatigued. I scheduled a few repeats to … Continue reading

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You done did good, but so did Troy, so did Troy.

Fences, a play by August Wilson (1983); a film by Denzel Washington (2016). Re: Umpires have potential. Potential means, “Ain’t worth a shit yet.”–Sports Commentator jargon 1987. WHITE GUY: I don’t like it…these cameras everywhere, and then they have other people … Continue reading

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#LedZeppelin #JimmyPage was there too! #TheHollywoodBowl circa 1998 #PageandPlant

@RobertPlant looked at me when I was looking at him. I was a CSC guard. He looked at me on the last pass with what are you looking here for? 1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2017/01/26/ledzeppelin-jimmypage-was-thre-too-thehollywoodbowl-circa-1998   Subjector ‏@raftofwater … Continue reading

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‘Man on the Moon’ did in ‘Man In the Moon’ or maybe I don’t believe like I used to–now I have facts. #TheLittlePrince

#MadScientistWritingContest: Know the difference between #fiction, #nonfiction and “other”, the anti-novel or @ times, the nightly MSM news. Subjector added, RichardNixonLibrary @NixonLibrary #OTD 1/26/1971 President Nixon, Pat Nixon, Prince Juan Carlos & Princess Sophia of Spain prior to state dinner. … Continue reading

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Watched #TheGetaway (1972) A Film by Sam Peckinpah last night.

I suppose it still is time to discuss womens’ “place[s]”.  Sally Struthers was used and ill-prepared for the Italian gunman.  Three years later, in Rollerball, A Film by Norman Jewison set in 2018, women were trophies and distractions. I have no … Continue reading

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Worse Than ‘Locker Room Talk’: Two Men at a Bar Talk About One of Their Wives.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2017/01/26/worse-than-locker-roomtalk-two-men-at-a-bar-talk-about-one-of-their-wives Happy birthday bloke! I’ve got skin in the game today. Yesterday it was “It’s the ‘now’ I don’t want to face so I lay.  I’ll face it tomorrow but today’s today.” Good on ya Mec! A sick society that … Continue reading

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The World is a Deadly Playground 03-02-2007. Notes From The Past and Somnabulent Present.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2017/01/26/the-world-is-a-deadly-playground-03-02-2007-notes-and-somnabulent-present Wrath of the Unrest Utley, they just couldn’t let him slide. “Did we shout your name out loud?” “No.” “Your mother did that.” If there are legal systems there are illegal systems. For Cheech & Chong: The law and … Continue reading

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Not the car! “Buy a yacht kid.”

“Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.” ― Miguel Ruiz #quote 1 reply 4 retweets 2 likes    Subjector ‏@raftofwater 51s51 seconds ago   @themovingroad Unless it’s 1’s car. #TheCars #Boston @simonandgarfun made it in #BostonMA. Sometimes the … Continue reading

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Let me think. Let. Let me converse. #WinningToday

And no one dared Disturb the sound of silence “Fools” said I “You do not know, silence like a cancer grows Hear my words that I might teach you Take my arms that I might reach you” But my words … Continue reading

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#Intensity #Duration #MadScientistWritingContest

#TRADOC #FictionWriting: #OffshoreBalancing: Too heavy a footprint [overshooting/overcompensating] can lead to blowback, #retaliation. https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2017/01/25/intensity-duration-madscientistwritingcontest    

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