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RABBIT HOLE UNIVERSITY
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Rabbit Hole University is dedicated to getting deep into something and/or ending up someplace where character, conflict, and plot are irrelevant and/or somewhere in between the whole then and now. Rabbit Hole University RHU was founded sometime after 1900 and before 2024 BC, AD, and Common Time (CT). RHU is under an open term system, the academic year is divided into many terms: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer and Whatever. Each term lasts …
VAGABOND BROADCASTER GYPSY TV GUY
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Recalling a turbulent career in television broadcasting, questioning fate, chance, and coincidence; little did G L Rockey know when he switched majors at Michigan State University from Restaurant Management to Communication that it would be the beginning (1963) of a career in television broadcasting that would last some thirty plus years.
THE FISH HOUSE
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Rick Carlson, abandoned at a young age, is skeptical of life’s absurdities, lies, and deception. Feeling hoodwinked by fate’s lucky shysters, battered by bad relationships, and wandering through regrets and fate, he finally finds the security he seeks.
Observations In The Television Newsroom:
Preparing The Newscast – A Thesis
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Using Participant Observation science, this is a copy of a thesis written in 1993 for a master’s degree at Cleveland State University. Seemingly more relevant in 2022, the findings reveal how television news is prepared for broadcasting.
Jim’s Steak House Photo Album
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CLEVELAND, Ohio – The culinary scene in Cleveland, in the last 20 years, burgeoned and blossomed with no end in sight, with creative eateries opening in all pockets of the city and surrounding burbs. One would close, and others would pop up. It took a virus to put the brakes on what some would call a saturated restaurant market. But there was a time when classic restaurants, without the trappings of artistic plating, rock-star chefs, or other sizzling attention-grabbing draws pulled people through their doors and into seats.
MAKES THE WORLD GO ‘ROUND
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The sting of lust in all the wrong places, WHAT MAKES THE WORLD GO ‘ROUND is an earthy tale of love, hate, greed, and blackmail that unfolds in mystery and suspense as different motives for murder are as mysterious as the motives themselves.
BOOLEAN TRAVELER
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“…we find from the record in the rocks that [on Earth] there have been long periods of expansion and multiplication when life flowed and abounded and varied, and hard ages when there was a great weeding out and disappearance of species, genera, and classes, and the learning of stern lessons by all that survived.” H. G. Wells, The Outline of History.
Memories of a Steak House Clan
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Located in the celebrated Cleveland Flats, Jim’s Steak House was the place to go for people from Cleveland to London and beyond. Thousands of patrons from boat captains to movers and shakers celebrated anniversaries, weddings, birthdays, graduations, special memories, and more at JIM’S.
Five-Star Review
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Cloistered walls not for her, twenty-six-year-old dropout nun, Heather Lynn Lucas, is following her passion as an aspiring novelist. Penname H. L. Lucas, a first novel written, having no luck finding a publisher, Satan shows up with an offer for publishing fame and fortune. Pondering Satan’s offer, Heather has her novel published as an e-book. Certain a review in the local newspaper will boost sales, she attempted to contact the prestigious book editor of the top local newspaper, Joseph Hartman.
Truths Of The Heart
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GL Rockey’s Truth’s of the Heart, a contemporary romance, published by Books We Love.
A university professor newly married to an ex-football star turned sportscaster finds herself drawn towards a young art student who shares her intellectual …. and ultimately her physical passions.
The Journalist
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Taking FAKE NEWS to a higher level, with the U.S. in a state of increased terrorist threats, the Media Director for the President of the United States fabricates a gruesome fake video.
The purpose of the fake video is to create chaos so POTUS can establish martial law and begin a “new world order.” Posing as a concerned citizen who videotaped a horrific murder/rape, the fake video is presented to a local Miami TV station’s news director. The news director immediately begins televising the video as exclusive Breaking News. Zack Stearn, owner/editor of a small Miami weekly newspaper, watches the video, contacts the TV station to ask the source of the video. He is told it is from a “confidential source.” The video is quickly picked up by national cable news and other television.
FROM THE BACK OF THE HOUSE
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Located in the celebrated Cleveland Flats, Jim’s Steak House was the place to go for people from Cleveland to London and beyond. Thousands of patrons from boat captains to movers and shakers celebrated anniversaries, weddings, birthdays, graduations, special memories, and more at JIM’S. While dining on their favorite choice cuts of beef and famous hash browns, they ogled the fabled Cuyahoga River, the Terminal Tower, and giant oar boats easing around Collision Bend.
TIME AND CHANCE
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A tangled tale of missing persons, lies, greed, and murder.
Jack Carr believes in two kinds of time: his and real. He also believes in two kinds of chance: good and bad. Not sure who is writing the larger “script,” Jack weaves his way through a host of unsavory characters involved in kidnapping and body part trafficking, falling for an undercover agent in the process and setting both of them up for death.
Bats in the Belfry, Bells in the Attic
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“These vignettes, of ordinary lives, glimpsed through the eyes of unforgettable, often quirky characters probe the complexity of what it is to be human while giving an extraordinary and entertaining read. The stories range from a twin sister’s bus ride encounter to a 10-year-old girl’s diary, shifting gears to explore the mind of a pregnant schizophrenic trying to escape her past and present, to my very favorite, Ms. Collette, which could easily outshine any Twilight Zone or Outer Limits.