JOHN RUBENS is no Mother Teresa.

“Original” in that Fox has taken an old Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, and adapted it to contemporaneous issues: oligarchs, virtue and of course, money.

Guy Pearce performed well, especially with Andy Serkis in demonstrating the business mentality of today with the Dickens/Poe echoes of yesteryear. One of Guy’s best performances. Inconsistent at times, as is the screenplay, editing and failure of the fourth wall, probably production scrunching and tight shooting schedules and/or script changes at the last minute.

John Rubens

December 23, 2019

MALE FLOBOT [MOBOT]: That Flobot bitch thinks she’s so merry. Take her wheels away and what is she?

HENCHMAN: Yeah, what has she?

MOBOT: Other Flobots at her beck and call.

HENCHMAN: Chinese parts won’t fit her, but other Flobots would defend her like her own.

MOBOT: You wouldn’t lend her wheels for a free charge?

HENCHMAN: Nothing’s completely free, not even me. Merry Christmas boss.

MOBOT: Be nice to your mother.

HENCHMAN: [Has no mother, begins to cry as Flobot rolls in to console the young adult].

speculative fiction by John Rubens

December 20, 2019

Constituency. The United States of America is only as good as it’s constituencies. Sodom and Gomorrah?

If Jesus said he was not good, who can say they have “integrity”. We depend on each other.

John Rubens@raftofwater·1m#LegalizeATeaParty! @HooverIns [sic] @Stanford#AmericaFirst “Who’s on Second, Israel or Great Britain?” #USMCA duties interact.

The Continents of Australia and Africa

European Union

OAS

Not Asia I guess.

https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Melania_TrumpMelania Trump (/məˈlɑːniə/; born Melanija Knavs; [mɛˈlaːnija ˈknaːu̯s], Germanized to Melania Knauss; April 26, 1970) is a Slovenian-American former fashion model and the current first lady of the United States, as the wife of the 45th president of the United States Donald Trump.

https://blogosphere45.blogspot.com/2019/12/winter-storm-finley-dashes-kansas-city.html

MUDDY WATERS: Get used to it. They repackaged our stuff, Chuck Berry and I, they packaged our stuff and the feel of Louis Armstrong and moved it offshore to London. Then they brought it out and we copied a copy, until Country Rock and Cat Stevens infiltrated. Then came rock/jazz fusion and punk rock at all times.

How big is my Escalade? 20–twenty of ’em. With snow tires. “A huh-huh-huh-huh.”

ZZTOP: “A hum-huh-huh-huh…well I might well be…mistaken?”

John Rubens@raftofwater·5m“Instead of being hunter/gatherers, our information is garnered and gathered.” “Not here.”–fictitious @JudicialWatch Fictitious #ChrisCuomo. “Dead dithers…diophiles dropped dextrose whereas #DonCarlos downed #DonJuanCasteneda#Tequila.” copyright John Rubens

https://blogosphere45.blogspot.com/2019/12/midnight-memories-meet-ides-of-december.html

“I don’t care, do you?”–Melania Trump, First Lady of the United States of America.

“I see what you mean. The Democrats could call me a ‘deplorable’ now but it wouldn’t hurt.”

Re: Impeachment Hearings while Representative Doug Collins spoke today.

December 12, 2019

https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Arimathea