JOHN RUBENS is no Mother Teresa.

Rationale: Assembly-line self-interest.

Ford’s Model-T: I don’t want so much to be a part of it anymore.

Jimmy Fallon: Then you’ll die!

I’ll die first Jimmy. I’ll die first.

[1] Performance Under Pressure™ with Michael Goode

When: Four-week workshop

2 – 4 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 11

2 – 4 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 18

2 – 4 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 25

2 – 4 p.m., Thursday, March 3

Where: SAG-AFTRA Plaza

James Cagney Boardroom – Lobby Level

5757 Wilshire Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90036

Parking will be validated.

“They go to church. Do you?”

Unlike 16 years ago, more wage-earners are living paycheck to paycheck or welfare check to welfare check is my anecdotally amassed estimate.

The stock market is not paying many dividends for most of the population so the spirit of gambling may switch to complaining about sour grapes and hiring lawyers to shake up the place settings.

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@StephenKing. What do you think that would do to the sales of your latest release? Here are a couple of his latest tweets:

As a fan of horror, I know that I’ve certainly bookmarked both of these recommendations in light of these tweets, as I’m sure many people like me will have done.

The author[s]/producers of tweets wrote most of above. John Rubens wrote:

Will Boycotts mean horror? #Iran #UK #Greece #Italy #UnitedStates #TheAcademyAwards #QuentinTarantinoFilms #StraightOuttaCompton and the title herein.

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Robinson Jeffers was a poet who lived in Big Sur, California in the 20th Century.  He wrote in one of his poems we are influenced by our experience.  He went so far as to say the locales in which Jesus lived became integral to who he was.

At the time, I didn’t agree with Jeffers, but Bob Farina helped me swallow it by saying something like, “Even Jesus was touched by his environment and was changed by it.”

‘Boy, ain’t that the truth.’ I thought to myself.

Sometimes I quote someone I don’t completely agree with in order to have others critique it.  Forty years later, I agree more with Jeffers and Farina than the seventeen-year old born-again John Rubens. I sincerely don’t know if that’s good or bad.

Jesus’ name means one who saves.  He gave his life.

Mash-up

TRUMP: What in the hell is going on?

HALEY OSMENT: I see dead people.

ZOMBIE WITH A SHOTGUN: [heads out, away from camera].

[INSERT JOE BIDEN SHOTGUN VIDEO]

HALEY OSMENT: I see black people!

MR. TIBBS: [Posing next to Joe Biden, Mr. Tibbs watches and readies his rifle appropriately for situation].

THE ACADEMY OF MPAS: White zombies leaving the grounds of the Academy main headquarters building in Los Angeles.

DANNY GLOVER: HUGH G. SHAFT

SHAFT: [Richard Roundtree or Issac Hayes character] You talkin’ ’bout me? [Glover points to zombies, of all colors and types] That’s all they are, just poles.

DANNY GLOVER: Polls?

SHAFT: Empty pipes [He picks up a shot gun] Transgenders in my pocket. [He remembers sex he had with a she/male] Trainy day [aims at a zombie and shoots off a round, almost crying now].

Source: Defensive fortifications at Victory Park Military Museum (Winter 2015)

Strict, I like that. %5, I mean 5%.  Brewed for good times alright.

Anheuser-Busch, Los Angeles, CA, Williamsburg, VA

Where liberty is lost, life grows precarious, always miserable, often intolerable ~ Cato’s Letters

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  @catoletters The Myth of #Sisyphus? #Slavery #ObamacareTaxes

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  @catoletters The insurance Co.’s finally went all in on the quasi-public, quasi-private tax insured by @Scotus and Credit Default Swaps @UN

   See also: #Spotlight
  

  Re: The Roman Catholic Institution

Maybe the #Iranians will help us. They don’t have a history of being warrior conquerors. Arn’t they more civilized like the #Phillipines?

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  @raftofwater Funny #IranianFunnel #intermediaries #networks Some trade is GOOD. The Q is: Does one trust #Frankenstein with a cigar? “Good!”

   Frankenstein hasn’t been a monster for decades.

  So it seems.  Did you see that Kevin Costner movie where he played an M.D. searching for his long lost wife?

  Yes, we keep the vultures away.

  Yes, we keep the vultures away.

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