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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Medscapades, Vol. III
Aug21

Medscapades, Vol. III

I work in hospital settings. Sometimes wacky stuff happens. Names and details have been altered to respect privacy. Volume III: The Perils Of Upright When a person has sustained a severe injury – I’m not talking torn ACL, I’m talking fractured spine – the rehab process is a long, difficult journey, to say the least. The physical pain and effort required to ‘get better’ can at times seem like nothing short of torture, and...

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Inside Outside Lands: Sunday
Aug16

Inside Outside Lands: Sunday

Our sunny, fun, and rocking Saturday begot a sunburnt, sore, and dehydrated Sunday morning. I entertained the idea that maybe I was starting to get to be too old for this, a notion that seemed more real as I stood inside a packed train with young Californians pontificating about the psychotropic principles of the molly-absinthe combo that had put them in such a good frame of mind the previous night. Fortunately, the slate of bands...

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Youthinkyouknowme
Aug15

Youthinkyouknowme

  You think you know me as you sit across from me in the subway your bored gaze sliding up from the floor to my perfectly manicured toes festooned in a brilliant shade of Mai Tai Pink. But you don’t. You don’t know how often those toes have curled in frustration, straining out of towering heels with an unyielding desire to be back on solid footing, running through grass or jumping off piers into water and feeling nothing below,...

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#tbt: Five Lessons Grosse Pointe Blank Will Teach You About Attending Your Ten Year Reunion
Aug15

#tbt: Five Lessons Grosse Pointe Blank Will Teach You About Attending Your Ten Year Reunion

Tony Soprano was a professional killer, but he was also just a man with anxiety issues, and who dealt with said issues by visiting weekly with a therapist. Since Tony was a mobster first and a person second, the therapy sessions on The Sopranos were just a device—what we really wanted was to see the inner-workings of a killer, so having him, say, write in a diary would have been just as effective. Conversely, Martin Blank is a man...

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