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“She’ll be lookin’ to hook up tonight with someone dude.” “What is this? An Officer and A Gentleman?” “You said it, not me.” As Kurt Russell would deliver it, “Ah, shit.” Fiction by https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/06/24/military-aka-mixers-cocktail-parties-with-hors-doeurves-and-laughter

It’s fun to be 58. https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/06/23/brexit-wrecksit

“Having It All; A History of Global Consumption” Book Reviewed by Victoria de Grazia: Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, From the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First by Frank Trentmann. Harper, 2016, 880 pp. https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/06/23/havingitall-place-the-consumer-at-economic-core-price-of-goods-to-reflect-carbon-imprint-foreignaffairs-book-review-at-187

Read Foreign Affairs, July/August 2016, vol. 95, no. 4 at 70, “The Case for Offshore Balancing” by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt. https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/06/23/delegating-management-in-the-wake-of-brexit-vote

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/06/23/he-wanted-me-to-be-his-slut-but-then-said-this-town-is-full-of-sluts-its-slutsville-how-do-you-think-that-made-me-feel-why-does-he-say-that

1974 Sundown, you better take care…I get feeling better when I’m feeling no pain. “You don’t have Richard Nixon to kick around anymore!” https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/06/23/shame-when-i-get-feeling-better-when-im-feeling-no-pain-1974-billboard-top-30-u-s-hit  

“I’m sorry.” “How you doing today?” asked the son, two gold earrings, one bright one in each ear. “Not that bad, not that good.” I didn’t want to give up my two dollar croissant sandwich at Burger King, the raison … Continue reading →

Who did they learn to flirt from I wonder? https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/06/22/i-learned-how-to-flirt-from-young-women

Don’t believe the Brexit premise, but have noticed Britains [sic] are often verbose and wandering like a country road. The computer and twitter, like the Gutenberg press before it, have standardized American prose into shorter, less Alfie-like digressions. Perhaps being … Continue reading →

“It’s not where you’ve been, but where you are.” “It’s not where you are but where you’re going!” –Leonardo DaVinci “Be here now.”–Ram Dass “What we have here, is a failure to communicate.”–Country Joe “Diversity is overrated?” “Be here now.” … Continue reading →