JOHN RUBENS is no Mother Teresa.

Break with convention and cum.

Ravel’s Bolero.

c/o Brian Lauritzen at KUSCFM

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/06/24/listen-to-the-whole-thing-then-you-get-the-eroticism-not-arthur-only-breakwithconvention-marcuse

credit: #Bo and #JohnDerek #10 circa 1980.

“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

“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 d’etre for my being there. Coupon $1.49.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/06/23/you-come-to-hollywood-and-are-met-with-a-man-carrying-an-electric-lime-sign-asking-for-donations-in-order-to-bury-his-dead-father-pictured

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 hung out to dry with one’s own words in the U.S. “Whatever you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.” 5th Amendment downside: when you do say something dumbshit, we’s gonna fry you wid it. NIGYYSOB: Transactional Analysis for Now I’ve Got You You Son of a Bitch. The Queen tolerates Brits and me too. Amazing land of freer speech. Aldous Huxley and George Orwell made a difference.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/06/22/a-brexit-from-eu-would-mean-u-s-uk-rapprochment