Mad About You
Jun24

Mad About You

Shut the door. Have a seat.   Also: What the hell just happened? It seems like only yesterday we were tuning in to see Don and Megan leisurely exploring the beaches of Hawaii, calm and carefree in direct contrast to the lifestyle that awaited them back in Manhattan. And yet, here we are in the wake of the Season Six finale, our favorite characters thirteen episodes older but seemingly none the wiser. Don? Still a self-sabotaging...

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Breaking Breakdown: Seven Jacket Snakes, None In Trousers
Jun20

Breaking Breakdown: Seven Jacket Snakes, None In Trousers

We here at Rookerville 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 tend to get more of a kick out of the overlooked oddities found buried several pages deep. Enter our new series, “Breaking Breakdown”, a closer look at the everyday silliness of not-so-breaking news that makes us shake our heads. This article comes to us...

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National Treasures
Jun18

National Treasures

  “I just write about whatever places I want.” This is what my friend – at the time, a writer and editor for a well-known travel guide company – told me when I asked how she decided what goes into the “best of”-type human interest articles we see in relation to restaurants, vacations, activities, etc.  For some reason I always assumed there was some sort of science or algorithm to selecting the subjects in these...

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Ditching The Reunion
Jun12

Ditching The Reunion

I was not cool in high school. Actually, let me phrase that: I was the antithesis of cool in high school. As a band geek and academic all-star with a penchant for putting my foot in my mouth, it really isn’t all that surprising that as my senior year was drawing to a close, the number of people who considered me a friend was hovering around single digits. After we graduated (and I was subsequently dumped by my girlfriend four days...

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Flying Here, Flying There
Jun05

Flying Here, Flying There

Over the course of ten consecutive days at the end of last month, I spent some part of six of those days on an airplane. If that sentence was confusing, think of it this way – sixty percent of the days, I was on the plane all the days. While this could make me sound as though I’m someone important, or at the very least busy, I can assure you I wasn’t jet-setting to Rookerville’s London offices or a bungalow in Bora Bora; it was...

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