by Andrew Rose | Dec 3, 2013 | Andrew Rose, Pop Culture, Social
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....
by Andrew Rose | Nov 25, 2013 | All Featured, Andrew Rose, Books, Jennifer O'Connell, Rooker-made, Social
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...
by Andrew Rose | Nov 25, 2013 | Andrew Rose, Featured, Music, Pop Culture
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...
by Andrew Rose | Oct 3, 2013 | Andrew Rose, Featured, Pop Culture, Sports
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...
by Andrew Rose | Oct 2, 2013 | Andrew Rose, Featured, Featured Sports
In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, we learn the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything is 42. While the characters in the book are perplexed by this abstract response and spend the next several million years searching for the...
by Andrew Rose | Sep 26, 2013 | Andrew Rose, Television
10:00 PM On a Wednesday It was a weekday evening, and I was watching television. This was nothing out of the ordinary. It was an enjoyable episode of the particular program I was viewing, but again, this was nothing new. In the middle of a scene, a...
