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

By JAMES “TATTOO” CHAPRACKI
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You’re gonna have to wait until next week for the after.

By JAMES “TATTOO” CHAPRACKI
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By JAMES “TATTOO” CHAPRACKI
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By JAMES “TATTOO” CHAPRACKI
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By JAMES “TATTOO” CHAPRACKI
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By JAMES “TATTOO” CHAPRACKI
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By JAMES “TATTOO” CHAPRACKI
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If you are a loyal reader of the cactus, you’ve noticed something different — and I’m not just talking about how Jim Montana is full time ’round these parts.
I’m talking about the artwork.
The category, which has been a cactus staple since the very beginning, has moved to Wednesday. What does that mean, you wonder. Well, […]

By ROXY RETAIL
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Men have always been thrilled with breasts. I know, I know, I’m not telling you something you didn’t know. Because, ya know what, women know that. There’s a reason every girl who is bigger than a training bra wears low cut shirts.Yes, women — girls, females, whatever — want attention, and hanging your […]

By JAMES “TATTOO” CHAPRACKI
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By SOOZ
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Maybe it’s just me, but I am happy to see the Pros back on top.
In my last column, I talked about Chris Moneymaker and how he took the poker world by storm, creating a world where poker wasn’t the seedy game only played in the backrooms of bars. He helped create an image of […]

By BEN SZMANDA
I’ve talked about Orhan Pamuk here before, and I always kind of dread going over one of his books; they are so dense and intricate that it is very hard to describe it properly. There is no way, for example, that I could boil down what I think is happening his work […]

By SOOZpokerinac(at)gmail.com
It was five years ago this week that the poker boom as the world knows it began. Chris Moneymaker, a virtual nobody in the world of poker, won the 2003 World Series of Poker main event.
He had the perfect name to win such an event and his story was even better. Moneymaker, who took […]

By BEN SZMANDA
Last week I talked about JM Coetzee’s book Waiting for the Barbarians, suggesting that while it was a very good read, it was not my favorite work of his. My favorite would be his painful novel Age of Iron, and it’s one that I cannot recommend highly enough.
Where Waiting for the Barbarians was […]

By BEN SZMANDA
It’s maybe partly because of his country of origin that South African Nobel Prize winner JM Coetzee has always shown a strong interest in the destructive results of imperialism. His disturbing parable, Waiting for the Barbarians, is one of his more definitive statements on the topic. Set on the perimeter of an imaginary […]

By Cathy S.
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DAVID COOK!!!  Most of us were surprised and some of us were “shocked.”  Some of us have been rooting for David C. since this season began and we think this win is well-deserved.  David A. fans, of course, can’t believe the outcome.

Like Simon said, it really didn’t matter which one of the Davids […]

by Ty Freer
INT. ROSCOE’S BARBERSHOP. LOS ANGELES. DAY.
KOBE BRYANT, DEREK FISHER, LAMAR ODOM, AND PHIL JACKSON are sitting in barber’s chairs. KOBE is getting a shave, DEREK and PHIL are getting their hair cut and LAMAR is in the corner reading Mad Magazine and laughing hysterically.
PHIL: Big game we’ve got coming up tonight, guys. It’s […]

By CATHY S.
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I heard that one of our readers had a Ryan Seacrest sighting on Tuesday. Apparently he was sneaking out of work early (his day job as host of his radio show) because he was sick. I had to find out if he was as short as he appears on television. LP e-mailed me […]

By JAMES “TATTOO” CHAPRACKI
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By JAMES “TATTOO” CHAPRACKI
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…You’ll be happy that’s not your boyfriend’s leg.

By JAMES “TATTOO” CHAPRACKI
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By JAMES “TATTOO” CHAPRACKI
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…Others wear skulls.

By JAMES “TATTOO” CHAPRACKI
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All hail the head dress.

By JAMES “TATTOO” CHAPRACKI
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This is a lot better than that quarter behind your ear trick.

By JAMES “TATTOO” CHAPRACKI
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If you’ve never seen You, Me and Dupri you totally missed the headline.

By ATARI JAY
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            It was Saturday night and my bestest female r0c dweller insisted on hitting up the main bar strip in Rockland. I hadn’t been much for the bar scene in Rockland but I was always up for a reunion night. I feel as if I run into more people in one night at […]

By Melody 
Dear Melody,  
I work in a fairly large corporate building and have found myself dating a man in a different department. Its against company policy for us to be pursuing each other in a romantic relationship but, we have known each other for so long and are such good friends that it makes sense […]

By JAMES “TATTOO” CHAPRACKI
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You may recognize this arm. It’s Peter, our former poet.