Rooker-made: Space, Whether, and Why
Jul09

Rooker-made: Space, Whether, and Why

Originally published on MonkeyBicycle, a literary website.  Yet another good read by our resident author, Ted McLoof. (http://monkeybicycle.net/space-whether-and-why/) Space, Whether, and Why By, Ted McLoof You liked to talk, and so did I, but we always spoke in different ways: I am from the East Coast and liked to talk about the people I loved and the places I was attached to, but you are from the West Coast and liked to talk...

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Rooker-made: A Rooker Gets Published
Jul02

Rooker-made: A Rooker Gets Published

Rookerville is hometown U.S.A. to some really talented people.  It’s been a very fortunate situation to bring all these people together in one place.  With that we’ve been developing a way for our readers to see our creative types outside of captivity. In the next week we are adding a calendar of events you can use to see when  fellow Rookers perform in their varying capacities and a new section known as...

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Thirty Things I Learned by the Time I Turned Thirty
Jun25

Thirty Things I Learned by the Time I Turned Thirty

  Today I turn thirty. Some thoughts. Alcohol makes a lot of things better. It also makes some very important things much worse. The benefits of allowing yourself to be vulnerable far outweigh the risks. You risk way more by keeping yourself hidden. Women are perfect. There’s no quicker way to test a man’s character than by discerning whether he knows this fact. Likewise, there’s no quicker way to tell that he’s a shitty person...

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Before Midnight: Falling In and Out of Love Again
Jun24

Before Midnight: Falling In and Out of Love Again

At a time when the theatres are clotted up with A Good Day to Die Hard and Fast & Furious 6, here is a franchise that cares. It cares about its heroine Celine (Julie Delpy), it cares about its hero Jesse (Ethan Hawke), it cares about them as a couple—but most importantly, unlike those other franchises, it cares about you. Whether you’ve been following the relationship of the central duo for eighteen years will certainly have a lot...

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#tbt: 2003—The Weirdest, Wildest Year of Modern Music
Jun20

#tbt: 2003—The Weirdest, Wildest Year of Modern Music

“ What’s the most significant year of musical releases?” a friend asked me recently. I wasn’t sure how to answer. He’d already offered his opinion—1991, home to the release of Nevermind, Pearl Jam’s Ten, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Blood Sugar Sex Magik, and Tribe Called Quest’s Low End Theory. While those are certainly all not only great albums but milestones, three of the four are in roughly the same genre (my friend has the chin-length...

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What’s Love Got to Do with It?
Jun19

What’s Love Got to Do with It?

It’s not that it’s impossible to find somebody to love these days. It’s just that once you find someone, it’s hard to forget about all of the other people out there you could also have loved, and, more importantly, who could have loved you. In sociologist Barry Schwartz’s book The Paradox of Choice, he argues that, in our pursuit of absolute freedom, American citizens have paralyzed themselves in the face of too much autonomy. We’ve...

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