The cactus, for all intents and purposes, is my soap-box. It isn’t a way for me to push my morals and values of you, our reader, but it is a means for me to do that during the times I feel necessary.
This is one of those times.
I went to mail a letter today, and there […]

By CHRISTOPHER JOHN APPEL
chrisapps(at)gmail.com
That debate on Thursday, April 26 was so dull. For the most part it was all about getting eight men — excuse me, seven men and one woman — on stage campaigning against the current president.
They all spit the standard party-line attacks, some preformed better than others.
Here’s the official Appel rundown on […]

By LISA SOKOLOWSKI
cactusiv(at)gmail.com
Josie’s on a vacation far away… Come around and talk it over…
Call me pathetic. That wouldn’t be completely wrong.
I saw The Blue Man group last week, and Mike Relm opened. I haven’t been able to get “Your Love” by The Outfield out of my head since then.
Relm used it as a background sound […]

By DIZZ TATE
dizztate(at)hotmail.com
Ah, the many types of styles are like a huge closet full of hope and wonder. The tour begins with the flamboyants, the range of girls in tube tops and denim skirts, the air full of charming advice about plastic surgeons, and everyone bumping into each other with their inhumanly enlarged body parts. […]

By MICHELLE RICCARDI
mia8263(at)gmail.com
I was given a challenge a few weeks ago. A cute boy called and said, “Hey, I’ll be there in 15 minutes, and I’m starving…” Of course, it just happened to be a day I hadn’t cooked and there was barely any food in my kitchen. I brag about being such a good […]

Ok..so unfortunately sports was unable to take precedence in my life
this week…a great tragedy.  But I wanted to make sure you had
something fun to read this week.  So..with the 2007 NFL Draft beginning…here’s a possible mock draft from Peter Schrager at
MSN Fox Sports.  It will be interesting to see how the real draft
turns out tomorrow, so tune in […]