Benjamin Rubenstein's Storytells gives the audience an intimate listen into some of Rubenstein's personal stories about getting engaged, losing his appendix, and anything else. Rubenstein is the author of the "Cancer-Slaying Super Man" books.
I made believe I was an investigative journalist to uncover why I feel the Black Lives Matter symbol has come to mean something other than what it used to represent. What I discovered led me to want the Black Lives Matter sign removed at my apartment building.
Covid-19 had begun spreading in the U.S. Leaders of organizations were scurrying to get their computer-based staff able to telework indefinitely. This is about one of those thrilling times in a desk job when I did something that may have really mattered.
In March 2020, many public places around the U.S. closed to protect vulnerable people from catching Covid-19. Despite the pandemic, less vulnerable young adults cavorted around. They seemed either not to accept or care about their new labels as selfish, cold-hearted, and harbingers of death. However...what if the tables were turned on who the vulnerable really were? In this fictional story about the new Twenties/Thirties Respiratory Syndrome pandemic, the geezers can't stop cavorting around town and acting as harbingers of death for the youth.
I wrote this story and performed it for my girlfriend on "Valenday," which is one of many shortened words in Anie's lexicon I've adored and adopted, and they've now became a new language for us. Before Anie, I'd basically never had a girlfriend before. I'd always attributed that to me being unwanted because of my past diseases and their resulting effects. Who would want me? Nobody, and I accepted that and that was ok. And then Anie arrived, as did "din" consisting of steak and "brocc" and many other new words.
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