JOHN RUBENS is no Mother Teresa.

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 either one of us or you’re ‘little people’.” The Rep-Detect unit is tasked with hunting errant replicants [humanoid robots] who have thrown the city into chaos.  Once back on the force, Deckard deploys his tracking prowess to find and take out Rachel [Sean Young], a replicant-shrew whom the force has of yet been unable to subdue.  Rachel is neither ‘little people’ nor a push-over and can suddenly become alluring, intelligent, fierce, witty, vulnerable, and a dang dangerous acrobat.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/09/27/losangeles-youre-either-one-of-us-or-youre-little-people-bladerunner-a-film-by-ridleyscott

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 the initial outlays are spent, but workable with prayer.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/09/20/anecdotal-texas-and-the-australians-are-gaining

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 one of the best. I’m a futurist too. I was just looking up how often Clayton Kershaw throws a wild pitch and wouldn’t ya know it–he throws a wild pitch! Just a moment longer and I could have beaten Clayton to the punchline.

Ned Colletti: What Vin?  Wouldn’t the punchline have belonged to Clayton making you wonder if you jinxed or influenced that pitch?

Jerry Hairston Jr.: Yeah, if it’s wild, he didn’t control it.

Clayton Kershaw: Anyway WE won. WE controlled it.

John Rubens: I wish more Texans thought collectively. #CollectiveUnconscious

Carl Jung: “John, start with the man in the mirror–like Michael Jackson sang.”

John Rubens: Like Michael Jackson sang? He’s my age. So is Madonna and the artist formerly known as Prince–and Orel Hershiser. Oh, man in the mirror.

Orel Hershiser: Yeah, don’t name drop unless it’s good stuff.

John Rubens: The greater the divergence, accretion may absorb.–Herbert Marcuse

Jerry Hairston Jr.: I told you the Giants were coming and we were well to warm up our bats in Arizona.

Ned Colletti: Warm? It got a little heated in Phoenix I’d say. [On bench clearing confrontations/meltdowns: “Ya use it.”].

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/09/20/twitter-gov-you-want-ratings-why-turn-off-the-battlerap-with-the-mutebutton-regulation-icann

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 back.

VIN SCULLY: I’ll probably be here. We can climb together.

ARNOLD SCHWARTZENEGGER: No problemo.

VIN SCULLY: You don’t have the last word here.

ARNOLD SCHWARTENEGGER: Porque non?

VIN SCULLY: Oh boy.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/09/22/tweeterboy

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 cliques.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/09/22/thats-arenado

Dear Josh:

Too many Joshes I guess. John Ravin in the pen.

“You’d think you were in a Twilight Zone game.”–Vin Scully

I’m sure Vin means well. It’s good for my soul, how about YOU in the month of September!

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/09/22/httpsen-wikipedia-orgwikijuan_marichalwikipedia-willymays-and-paulgoldsmith

It’s the hormones & high blood pressure.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/09/22/ff-followfriday

Influence: Heads-Up Display