cactus i.v.

By DA Southern
The Fall Season really got into gear this past week and if you are like me, you had the ‘ole DVR twirling…I know, it is all digital, but us writers find nothing attractive about saying the DVR silently recorded on a digital drive, OK? It really is not sexy.
So, as […]

So, truth be told, the cactus has been a little slim around these parts.
That’s not intentional, but life sometimes gets in the way.
DA Southern is back, posting his awesome television columns, and Ben and James are awesome cornerstones, but the rest of the staff has been given a little vaca by yours truly.
The cactus will […]

BY DA Southern
The Big Week of the Fall TV Season is here and as I told you before, this is THE week that things start to kick into high gear. With that begin said, I will not take a lot of time expounding on the virtues of various TV shows as […]

By JAMES “TATTOO” CHAPRACKI
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By DA Southern
The Fall TV Season enters it’s third week, albeit very light, but before we get to that let’s see what has hit the fancy of the TV viewing public so far.
The FOX network has done pretty decent promo of its season to-date and has cleaned up in the ratings so far. […]

By BEN SZMANDA
There was a huge freak out when AM Homes’ novel the End of Alice was published, and it’s easy to see why:  270 pages of listening to a pedophile child killer reminisce, fantasize, and keep up with his correspondences is pure controversy bait.  It’s also abusive reading. Really, a first person narrative?  And […]

By JAMES “TATTOO” CHAPRACKI
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By DA Southern
The fall TV Season rolls out ever so gently over the horizon as we get used to spending more times at night in front of our old friend.  With a few programs under our belt last week, this week promises a bit more fun as we get more of the new shows starting […]

By BEN SZMANDA
I don’t think there has ever been a time when I completely agreed with Christopher Hitchens.  Prior to 9/11 he was a Trotskyite; days after the attacks, Hitchens did a costume change and re-emerged as a military interventionist –one that used the same arguments as the neo-conservatives, only with far more skill, and […]

Jim Montana                                                                                           
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On Wednesday night America got it’s first real look at Sarah Palin. Now I want to be the first to acknowledge that McCain appeared to have made a wise choice for his running mate, but look past the smile and the “gee golly I’m just a small town girl” appearance and you see her […]

By JAMES “TATTOO” CHAPRACKI
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The crappy stuff is covered up.

 
Jim Montana                                                                                                                                                            
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It’s that time of the year again, time for coaches and owners to see if their offseason planning and praying have done any good. we are still a little older two days away from Kickoff Weekend and I am like a kid waiting for Christmas eve. so to pass the time I have come up with […]

It’s been a while since we had any sort of contest on this site, so guess what’s coming for September.
You got it.
Since we have some prizes left over from our old contests, this one will be sponsored by the lovely Michael J. Media.
The premise is simple: Post a link to the cactus anywhere on the […]

By LISA SOKOLOWSKI
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In my real life, I had a chance to interview Adam Siska, bassist of The Academy Is…
Super nice guy.
We chatted about the band’s new album, which was released on Aug. 19. We talked before the album’s drop date, and I found out something weird — the day of the album’s release didn’t exist […]