Rebooting the Robots
News broke late last week that a companion television series is in the early stages of development as both an accompaniment and lead up to 2015’s Terminator franchise reboot, and I for one couldn’t be more thrilled. I think. Thrilled, right? No, that’s not it; this is a different feeling. Cautiously optimistic? Unsure of how this plot could work? Hungry? Let’s try that again – news broke late last week that a companion TV series...
Breaking Breakdown: Turkey, Football, and Walmart Fights
Here at Rookerville, we are astute observers of the news. But while most periodicals, radio shows, and TV programs focus on the gloom and doom of the national and local headlines, we get more of a kick out of the overlooked oddities found buried several pages deep. Enter our series, “Breaking Breakdown”, a closer look at the everyday silliness of the not-so-breaking news stories that make us shake our heads. Today’s article comes to...
Finding Petronella
When I was 19 years old, I met a girl. This wasn’t in a romantic sense, but it was a moment that left an impression nonetheless. It was August, the beginning of an academic year, and my teammates and I were attempting to herd a group of freshmen who had expressed interest in joining our club teams down to our first joint practice. The catch: this practice was off-campus, and unfortunately, we did not have nearly enough vehicles to...
Unplugged, Unparalleled
One of the strangest things I’ve experienced in the year 2013 was not a tangible event, but a revelation about our current chronological place in time. It wasn’t about how we’re just months away from the flying-cars-and-hoverboards tomorrowland that Back to the Future Part II promised us; conversely, I was thinking about the past. Jurassic Park happened to be on television, and in the midst of quoting scenes of the movie verbatim...
If The Playoffs Were Food and Drink, Autumn Edition
Last spring, in attempts to trump the playoffs predictions of so-called experts by using non-sports-related metrics, I turned to local food and drink in lieu of win-loss records and statistics. My completely subjective signature dish bracket called for the Memphis Grizzlies to stand atop the NBA (they lost in the conference finals), but my math-based, mostly-objective breweries bracket accurately crowned the Chicago Blackhawks...