Hitchhikers Guide: San Diego
Sep09

Hitchhikers Guide: San Diego

  I have been in San Diego for the past week. It has been one of my favorite vacations. In general, Southern California has great weather. San Diego has the best weather. For most days in the year, it is between 70 to 80 degrees and sunny all year round. As there is only 9 inches of rain per year, you will rarely encounter rain or bad weather. At worst, there will be some clouds. In addition, it is very close to the Mexican border. As...

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Thick as Thieves
Sep09

Thick as Thieves

*spoilers for more or less every single film mentioned in this article* Last year, when Clint Eastwood showed up at the Republican national Convention and angrily debated America’s future with a chair, I don’t think I was alone in being horror-tained. The segment wouldn’t end, it made little conceptual sense (pretending your rhetorical opponent is there even though he’s not, without any other creative thought going into the bit), and...

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My Parents Have Bruises On Their Hands
Aug27

My Parents Have Bruises On Their Hands

The statement itself seems to beg an interesting story, likely about a fight.  To clear it up immediately, it’s not a statement about abuse. I think my father might have spanked me once as an adolescent, and if it meant that much to him, I likely earned it. In a sense, the statement is about a fight, one to the absolute last. It has nothing to do with punching though, or standing over fallen opposition. It’s the fight my parents are...

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Urban Camping, Huh?
Aug26

Urban Camping, Huh?

My wife works in home healthcare. In its most basic sense, this profession is exactly what it sounds like: a nurse or a therapist does home visits for patients who have recently been discharged from the hospital. Pretty simple. Things have the potential to get complicated when the whole “walking blindly into a stranger’s home” part gets introduced. You might end up in a standard, single family home. You also might end up in dusty...

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Hollywood Pitches: After (TV Series)
Aug23

Hollywood Pitches: After (TV Series)

The movie and television industry is stagnant. Sure we had some good movies this year, but we also had a lot of the same old crappy movies.  Sure we’ve had some great shows recently but a lot of them are ending soon or have ended already. So we here at Rookerville want to lend a helping hand by giving them some good ideas.  This is “Hollywood Pitches”.   After “After” is a show I thought of not too...

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Not Just a Whorehouse: Female Representation in Hell On Wheels
Aug22

Not Just a Whorehouse: Female Representation in Hell On Wheels

When we think of media representations of the Old West, we think of a hyper-masculine world filled with manly men like John Wayne and Clint Eastwood. It was in these same movies in which female characters were mainly found in the whorehouse or the saloon. The Old West woman was a one of loose morals, a feather boa, and a ribboned garter around her thigh. She was a characterture. There have been few substantial roles for women in the...

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