SKYSCRAPER HEAVENS Introduction: The title of the book is Skyscraper Heavens. Those two words came to mind before dawn the morning of December 31, 2014. The skyscraper is a male-dominant image, a phallus, a challenging conception of engineers, developers and … Continue reading
The guy with Michelle Tuzee. https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/04/30/littleanimals-and-god-i-know-im-one-abceyewitnessnews-abc-2
Near the opening of movie Blade Runner, Harry Bryant, who portrays a Captain in the Rep-Detect Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, coaxes Deckard, a blade runner played by Harrison Ford, to rejoin LAPD’s Rep-Detect unit with the ultimatum, “You’re … Continue reading
I buy Vietnamese shirts. I buy Korean hardware. I buy Sunni and Shiet controlled oil. https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/09/26/patronizing-speech-inside-out
Immigration is inevitable, part of the human fabric. Mine as well free Jeff Skilling too. Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution; Commerce Clause: “Consumers”–Secretary of State, General Colin Powell during #43 reign. Maybe not a paradise of people after … Continue reading
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
Reality shows have standardized acting and raised the bar on an actor’s on and more often, off-screen persona. One cannot expect to exercise one’s prerogatives and still get hired and kept on for on-screen turns when others play well in … Continue reading
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Neither wickedness nor good can save us from time and opportunity, from the occasion of sin or enlightenment. Refinement benefits little when one chooses debauchery to mess up one’s soul. Like the non-smoker who takes a lighted fag into one’s lungs, it’s counted worse in drag damage than an habitual smoker who might puff a…
Dear Family of Humans: Re: Ecclesiastes and Joseph Mary Wolfe, M.F.V.A. Solomon, wise or wanton? Does it matter? Evil to others is patience to Solomon. My mother used to say, “No one is perfect.” A great excuse to relax and not be a fool or go mad. Work leads to pleasure, if only like the…
Budweiser Brewing Company APACMolson Coors Beverage Company re: Spec Ad: JV [COORS TV AD] MAN #1 [With a can of Coors pouring it from on high into a large tumbler, mug or glass stein]: #COORS is for POURING. MAN #2 [ON HIS THIRD COORS LIGHT, grabs one out of the ice and toasts the bartender;…
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